Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 37 Constant Temperature Bonfire
The Wu siblings and the four uninvited guests had already fought more than 20 meters away.

Although the Wu brothers and sisters had the upper hand, they were unable to do anything to the four men for a while, because the four men seemed to be crazy and attacked without caring about their lives.

Seeing Liu Hen appear, Wu Yuanming hurriedly shouted: "Sir, they want to steal your food..."

"boom!"

Before Wu Yuanming could finish his words, the enemy in front of him had already flown out, his chest collapsed, and he was most likely dead.

He was stunned.

The other three Wu siblings were also stunned.

Even the remaining three barbarians were stunned.

"Making trouble on my turf?"

Liu Hen's voice was cold as he rushed towards the second person.

The man's face changed drastically, and he subconsciously raised the hardwood pickaxe to block, but as soon as he moved his arm, he was hit hard in the chest.

With a "bang" and the sound of broken bones, he flew backwards, spitting out blood and was about to die.

"How can it be?!"

The remaining two people's faces changed drastically, and they turned around and ran without hesitation.

However, Liu Hen kicked off and instantly caught up with the third man, swinging the axe and slashing down with the end of the axe blade: "Want to steal my food?!"

With a "puff", the man's shoulder was directly split open. The next moment, he was hit hard on the back and was kicked forward by Liu Hen. He was dead when he landed on the ground.

"Spare my life..."

The last person was horrified. Seeing Liu Hen rushing towards him, he rolled over subconsciously.

However, just as he dodged the fatal blow, he was suddenly kicked in the shoulder by Liu Hen.

With the sound of broken bones, his shoulder was deformed and flew sideways with screams.

Liu Hen, wearing a black iron-level thermal suit, was like a superman. Facing these ordinary savages, he kicked them one by one.

He chased after the man as soon as he landed on the ground, and stomped hard on his head, causing his head to sink into the frozen soil. His body struggled for a few times before becoming motionless.

After killing four people easily, Liu Hen's irritability finally dissipated a lot.

Considering that Xiao Heishi was not dead but just fell into a deep sleep, he felt a little better.

The reason for his irritability was mainly because he was not quite used to Xiao Heishi's identity change.

After making sure that the four uninvited guests were dead, he began to touch the corpses as if no one was around, completely ignoring the Wu brothers and sisters who were silent as a mouse.

However, there was nothing good on these four people, and only five magic crystals were found in total.

"Poor guy!"

With a grumble, he turned and walked away: "Their clothes are yours, don't bother me."

The Wu brothers and sisters woke up as if from a dream and bowed quickly.

"Thank you, sir."

Wu Yuanming was very happy because this was a good start.

If they work harder, maybe they can gain the acceptance of this great psychic.

……

Back in the house, Liu Hen sat down next to the campfire again, staring at the flickering flames in a daze.

"So... when she suddenly said that there are good spirits, she was referring to herself, right?"

Liu Hen reacted and realized that when he first heard Xiao Heishi say this, he was confused. The other party's father was just an ordinary barbarian, so how could he know so much?

Now that I think about it, those words weren't said by her father at all, but were her own words.

Memories of what he had seen before flashed through his mind, and he felt mixed emotions.

"If she has always been herself, and it was never the Wishing Stone that guided her, but her own obsession that guided her subsequent life, then perhaps my attitude towards her would not need to change."

I just don't know when she will wake up.

'She was always herself, even though she was possessed by the Wishing Stone. However, the Wishing Stone had no thoughts and would not interfere with her actions, so she survived in another form. Even though she was essentially a spirit, she was unaware of it and continued to suffer from hunger and cold like an ordinary little girl in the wilderness.'

Liu Hen sighed, not knowing whether he was relieved because Xiao Heishi survived by being parasitized by the Stone of Wishes, or because of Xiao Heishi's tragic life.

It was a pitiful life. He starved to death at the age of six. His last wish before death was just to have enough food and clothes.

What a humble wish.

However, such a humble wish should be the greatest wish in this world, and it is the common wish of countless wastelanders.

At this moment, I don’t know how many children of the same age are starving and freezing, and how many children are living in the cold and darkness, running around for a bite to eat, digging the hard frozen soil with their hands full of chilblains.

We don’t even know how many children were eaten by other people in the famine environment.

Liu Hen didn't feel anything for the adult desert dwellers. Whether they starved to death or were killed, it had nothing to do with him. But for the children... as someone who had traveled from a peaceful world, he felt a little sorry for them.

Especially since he had experienced the process of Xiao Heishi starving to death as if he were there himself, he was deeply touched.

For the first time, Liu Hen suddenly wanted to do something for the people in this world, and theoretically, with his magical golden finger, he should be able to do something.

It's just that he didn't know how to start.

Because the main problem of this world is that there is no sun.

Although my golden finger is magical, it is unlikely to create a sun.

'The sun is probably hopeless, but what about the bonfire?'

Liu Hen suddenly looked at the bonfire in front of him.

My bonfire is very magical. It has the property of warding off evil spirits and can drive away monsters in the dark.

Moreover, the range of driving away monsters seems to affect even the temperature.

It’s just that my level is too low now, so I can’t feel it clearly, and the profile data doesn’t explain it in such detail.

"Let's give it a try. There's nothing to lose anyway."

Liu Hen cheered himself up, got up quickly, took out a big piece of wood and started collecting directly.

A minute later, six hundred small pieces of wood were collected and he directly upgraded the campfire.

The upgrade time is still one minute.

While the campfire was being upgraded, he continued collecting and soon finished collecting all the large pieces of wood.

He did not stop there, but continued to take out the second big piece of wood and collect it into small pieces of wood.

By the time this large piece of wood was collected, the bonfire had already been upgraded to level six.

The radius of the level six bonfire to drive away monsters reaches six meters, and there are no other obvious changes.

Liu Hen once again consumed seven hundred pieces of wood and seven magic crystals to upgrade it to level seven.

The radius of the seventh-level bonfire for driving away monsters became seven meters, but there were still no other obvious changes.

He continued to collect small pieces of wood and continued to upgrade.

Because we collected a lot of big wood before, we now have enough materials in reserve.

So now, the upgrade speed of the bonfire is as fast as a rocket.

It only took half an hour, which included the time Liu Hen spent in a daze and collecting small pieces of wood. Finally, the bonfire reached level ten.

The radius of the level ten bonfire that drives away monsters becomes ten meters, and there are no other changes.

But at this time, the upgrade materials became a large piece of wood and one hundred magic crystals.

Liu Hen didn't hesitate and directly consumed a large piece of wood and one hundred magic crystals.

However, this time the upgrade actually took an hour.

It’s not too long.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Finally, the bonfire data changed—

[Constant Temperature Bonfire Lv.1: A bonfire with cooking, lighting, heating, evil-warding, and constant temperature effects. The bonfire itself does not consume energy, but requires fuel to maintain combustion. The light of the bonfire can drive away monsters in the dark.]

[Constant Temperature: Beyond two meters, the temperature within the monster repelling radius will be locked, fluctuating only within ten degrees. The current repelling radius is ten meters.]

[Due to the level limit of the All Things Pickaxe, further upgrades are currently unavailable.]

'constant temperature?'

Liu Hen was secretly surprised.

He moved away from the campfire and found that the temperature two meters away seemed to have not changed much.

'What about outside?'

He opened the door and walked out, trying to get away from the campfire.

As expected, the temperature outside was freezing cold, with temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius even in the early night, but it was now rising rapidly.

A few minutes later, the temperature within ten meters rose to around ten degrees Celsius above zero.

Once you leave within ten meters, the temperature suddenly drops sharply and returns to normal.

"This function... is very useful!"

Liu Hen was secretly surprised: "I just don't know how much the range of the constant temperature campfire will increase with each level upgrade?"
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