Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 40 New Food: Carbohydrate Porridge

"Want to settle down near here?"

Liu Hen was surprised: "They just want to settle down, and didn't mention anything else?"

"Yes, sir." Wu Yuanming nodded.

Liu Hen originally didn't want to care about this, as long as he was not disturbed.

But considering that the reason why those people want to live here is probably because they want to get their own asylum or want to build connections.

So he said, "Tell those people that if they want to live here, they need to cut down a tree weighing at least 100 kilograms and bring it back."

After this order was given, there would definitely be people who were unwilling to do so, but he didn't care. Now he just had the idea of ​​building power, but he had no plans to execute it immediately because he didn't have enough foundation.

"Cut down a tree and bring it back?" Wu Yuanming was stunned.

“Those trees are useful to me.”

Liu Hen said calmly, "Just give the order. Each person will be assigned one tree, no matter how big or small, and no branches are allowed to be cut off... Of course, if a tree weighs about 200 kilograms, it can be counted as two people. If two trees weigh 300 kilograms together, they can also be counted as three people, based on weight."

After a pause, he suddenly added, "If there are children under... ten years old, they don't have to pay anything and are eligible to live nearby for free."

He looked at Wu Yuanming and said, "The four of you will personally supervise this matter. Once it's done, I'll give each of you a bow for free."

bow?
"Yes, my lord!"

Wu Yuanming cheered up.

Although the bow is not easy to use in the dark, he feels that the bow given by the master with superpowers must be unusual.

Even if the four of us can't use it, we can sell it to someone who needs it.

"correct……"

Liu Hen suddenly asked, "Are you Wu brothers and sisters real siblings?"

"of course not."

Wu Yuanming replied, "My name is real. The others didn't have names originally. Their names were given by me. We were just an ordinary scavenging team that came together."

So that's how it is. Liu Hen wondered how there could be people in this kind of world willing to have so many children. It turned out they were not their biological children.

"Go and do your work."

He said, "Also, give orders that anyone who can bring flint can exchange one pound of flint for one pound of food worth no less than tree cakes."

"Flint? Sir, but there seems to be no such thing in this area." Wu Yuanming said.

Liu Hen: "Just give the order."

"Yes, sir." Wu Yuanming nodded respectfully.

After sending Wu Yuanming away, Liu Hen returned to the house and walked towards a small pile of sawdust in the corner.

During this time, he collected all the wood from a complete log, leaving behind a lot of small sawdust.

He collected the wood chips and wanted to see if he could put them into the fuel tank as well.

However, when he was about to open the fuel tank of the campfire, he suddenly had an idea and opened the campfire's cooking interface instead.

The next moment he was refreshed because in the campfire cooking interface, he actually saw the wood chips that he had just collected.

"This sawdust can actually be used as a cooking ingredient?"

Liu Hen was shocked: "Give it a try."

He placed a small portion of wood chips into the cooking box and selected Cook.

The countdown is one minute.

A minute passed quickly, a special recipe appeared, and a strange food was made:
[Organic carbon: During the cooking process, toxins in wood chips are burned away, leaving behind organic carbon that is easily digestible and absorbable, and can be used to satisfy hunger.]

'Organic carbon?'

Liu Hen took out the piece of organic carbon, and on the surface it looked like a piece of charcoal.

But the amazing thing is that this charcoal does not have any normal charcoal smell, but instead has a light wood fragrance.

After a moment's hesitation, he put it in his mouth and took a bite.

"..."

At first, it had no taste, but as he chewed gently, his expression gradually became dull. He felt like he was eating starch, and after swallowing, a faint sweetness remained in his mouth.

That would have been fine, but after swallowing it, the organic carbon was actually absorbed by the stomach and intestines at a noticeable speed, and not a single bit was left behind.

"...!"

At this moment, Liu Hen suddenly felt that he might have the foundation to build a power.

Because of this thing, the world seems to have a lot of it.

Although it’s not particularly much, it’s at least much more than normal food.

You have to know that this is a rocky mountain area with not much soil. You can find a tree every few hundred or thousands of meters. What about other places?

Although there is no sun, no photosynthesis, and few plants in the night fog world, there are always some plants that have adapted to the darkness, mutated, and grown rapidly in the darkness.

Some plants even become spirits because of this.

It is obvious that in the world of night fog, there are mysterious substances floating between heaven and earth that ordinary people cannot see.

The mutated plants absorbed that mysterious substance and grew at a rate no less than some normal plants in the previous life.

"But it seems a bit wasteful to just eat them like this. After all, the number of plants is relatively limited, and it will take many years for them to grow again after they are cut down."

After all, those trees are not crops, it is impossible to grow them once a year, and their growth rate is very slow.

Liu Hen suddenly thought of the method of making tree cake paste, and immediately put the piece of organic carbon in his hand back into the space backpack.

As he expected, this piece of organic carbon can be used as an ingredient in cooking.

So he put a piece of organic carbon and three ice cubes in each of the four cooking boxes.

Cooking begins and the countdown is still one minute.

"I hope there won't be any bad food." He prayed silently.

Finally, a minute passed.

He quickly looked at the cooking interface again and saw a new food recipe appeared.

[Carbohydrate Nutritious Porridge: This nutritious porridge is made with organic carbon as an ingredient and can be perfectly absorbed by the human body without leaving any residue.]

Liu Hen couldn't wait to take out the so-called "Carbohydrate Nutritious Porridge" and found that it was just a bowl of inky black porridge weighing about three pounds.

At first glance, it looks no different from tree cake paste.

However, the taste is completely different.

The tree cake paste has almost no taste, and only extremely hungry people can smell the aroma of food that is not even a fragrance.

But this [Carbohydrate Nutritious Porridge] actually has a light sweetness, which makes people's appetite open just by smelling it.

"It feels familiar... Why does it look a bit like the sesame paste I drank in my previous life?"

Liu Hen was a little dazed.

He tried taking a sip, and his eyes immediately lit up.

Because this carbohydrate porridge is really sweet. Although it is far inferior to the sesame paste I drank in my previous life, it does have some similarities.

To put it in an analogy, the taste is equivalent to sesame paste diluted about ten times, and you can barely taste a little bit of sesame paste.

And this is just the taste. As for the nutritional value... maybe it's because the trees in this world have mutated, or maybe it's because a special transformation has occurred during the cooking process.

Therefore, the nutritional value of this bowl of carbohydrate porridge is at least three times that of the same amount of tree cake porridge.

Triple...what does that mean?
This means that even if people in their previous lives ate three meals a day as normal, they only needed one kilogram to be full at each meal.

If the inhabitants of this world only need it for survival, a bowl of this would be enough for them to survive for half a month or even longer.

"It's rich!"

Liu Hen was excited because with the appearance of [Carbohydrate Nutritious Porridge], he would never lack food again.

Moreover, the foundation for building a power is laid.

This kind of thing is my own exclusive formula, and others can't imitate it even if they want to.

(End of this chapter)