Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 45 Brainstorming, Departure

"Boom boom boom..."

There was a huge commotion here.

Chen Ye and Zong Ni looked around nervously, worried that they might encounter danger.

However, with the psychic around, they felt at ease because they had seen Chang Xin's strength.

"Why so hard?"

At the foot of the iron ore hill, Chang Xin was full of confidence at first.

As a result, after bombarding for a long time, they only managed to demolish a few large pieces of iron ore, which made them feel a little upset.

Because this small hill of iron ore is made up of hundreds of large pieces of iron ore.

Even if it is not necessary to demolish everything and just blast a hole in it, at least twenty large pieces of iron ore will have to be smashed.

"Is he testing me?"

Chang Xin was a little unconvinced. If she was told that she was not doing as well as Liu Hen, she would accept it. After all, her ability was combat-oriented. If the environment did not allow it, she would not be able to do very well no matter how high her combat ability was.

After all, she is not the type of person who would burn, kill and loot when she becomes stronger, and she would never attack the weak.

However, now that his combat prowess was clearly being tested, he unexpectedly failed to meet the requirements and was unable to even open the 'seal' left by Liu Hen.

"I really don't believe it!"

She took a deep breath and burst out again. Silver light shone all over her body and she demolished the mountain here.

If Liu Hen saw this scene, he would be shocked, because he had never thought of any test at all. He just asked Zong Ni to take two women to dig up the ore and take away the horse meat underneath.

Soon, some monsters were attracted over, but they were all easily dealt with by Chang Xin.

Ordinary monsters pose no threat to her at all. Even with her current explosive state, she can easily kill a four-armed monster.

Finally, half an hour later, the ore hill collapsed, and the modified man inside was shaken to death.

"Although this seal was not weak, I was able to break it in the end."

Chang Xin gasped: "Drag that cyborg out."

"Yes, Sister Chang."

"OK……"

Zong Ni and Chen Ye hurried to move the iron ore debris away and look for the modified human.

"Wait, what is this..." Chen Ye suddenly exclaimed.

"what happened?"

Zong Ni and Chang Xin, who was gasping for breath, looked over quickly and saw a smashed and frozen horse head appear among the ore fragments.

There was not only the smashed horse head, but also some scattered flesh and blood.

Although the light was dark and the flesh and blood had frozen, they could clearly see the fur on the surface of the flesh and blood at such a close distance.

It was obvious that this was definitely not human flesh. Judging from the smashed horse head, it was definitely edible meat.

"Meat?!" Chang Xin lost her composure. She was already gasping for breath from exhaustion, and her breathing became even more rapid.

Zong Ni and Chen Ye were the same, with expressions of shock and ecstasy.

Chen Ye couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that what Master Liu Hen left for us wasn't a modified human at all, but this meat?"

Her way of addressing people changed subconsciously, and her breathing became rapid.

Even they didn't know how long it had been since they had eaten meat.

In fact, due to the limitations of the environment, even if there are people with special abilities, they find it difficult to get enough to eat, let alone meat.

That was why they had gone to Liu Hen to exchange for food before. Now there was no other way. Hongluo Camp had become a dangerous place and they could no longer go there to exchange for food.

"There must be more down here, look for it quickly."

Chang Xin didn't have time to be shocked. Regardless of her exhausted body, she quickly joined in and searched among the rubble.

As for the parts of the cyborg, they simply ignored them.

Because even if those parts are complete, we don’t know where to exchange them for food.

Ready-made food is more attractive to them.

It took them the entire night to finally find all the horse meat under the rubble.

As time gradually approached late at night, the three of them gathered together, looking at the horse meat on the ground, and they could no longer remain calm.

"About half a horse's worth!"

Chang Xin, the psychic, also felt her heartbeat quicken at this moment. "I've only eaten meat twice in my life, and yet he actually gave us so much. How bold is that?"

"Could it be that he couldn't take anything away and that's why he stayed here?" Chen Ye tried to question it, but he always felt that everything in front of him was too dreamy.

Zong Ni felt that this was a possibility.

However, Chang Xin shook her head slightly: "He has a special way of carrying things, it should be impossible that he can't take it away. Maybe he left it here specifically."

As she spoke, she was somewhat doubtful and surprised: "Perhaps all of this is just a test left by him. He may have set up this test a long time ago, waiting for someone like me to come."

"A test set up a long time ago?" Chen Ye was stunned.

Zong Ni was also stunned: "Liu Hen has such great foresight?"

To be honest, she and Liu Hen were quite familiar with each other, but she had never realized that he had such foresight. "Then, Sister Chang, what should we do now?"

Although Chen Ye was surprised to suddenly get so much meat, she didn't know why she couldn't be happy, because she always felt that the meat was not theirs yet.

Sure enough, Chang Xin said, "Now we have two choices. One is to give up the next test and keep all the meat for ourselves."

"Any more tests?"

Zong Ni and Chen Ye were stunned again.

"You are not psychics, so you don't know that in my perception, Liu Hen was just an ordinary person, but he was able to fight me on equal terms in my normal state."

Chang Xin said solemnly, "Also, his house appears too abruptly. Didn't you notice? His house is too neat. It doesn't look like it was built casually at all."

"Well... he has his men helping him, so... it should be understandable, right?" Chen Ye was surprised and doubtful.

"No, that house is not an ordinary house. My ability can detect the breath of living creatures through obstacles."

Chang Xin explained: "But after he entered the house before, he seemed to have completely disappeared. I couldn't sense him at all."

"You mean, that house might also have been created by his supernatural powers?"

The shock on Zong Ni's face has never disappeared since she met Liu Hen.

"It's very possible."

Chang Xin suddenly said, "Get ready to go. I've decided to continue his test."

Chen Ye and Zong Ni looked at each other.

"What is the content of the test he will set next?"

The two women looked confused because they had no idea.

"It would be unthinkable for anyone else, but this kind of test is not difficult for me, Chang Xin!"

Chang Xin resisted the urge to take the meat for herself and said confidently, "He must be trying to test our character. If we take the meat, we may never have the chance to work with him again in this life."

"Do you want to..." Chen Ye was shocked, looking reluctant.

Zong Ni didn’t know what to say. She really wanted to say, “Sister Chang, are you overthinking it?”

But thinking of the horse meat in front of her, she was not so sure anymore.

Because what Chang Xin said really sounded like the truth. Under normal circumstances, who would be willing to give up so much meat?
These pieces of meat may really be a test set by Liu Hen a long time ago.

If you let greed take over and take the meat, you may become rich temporarily, but the meat will be eaten up sooner or later.

But if you can hold back...

However, the premise of all this is that Liu Hen has a way to get a steady supply of food.

But it always feels unrealistic because of the limitations of the overall environment.

"Let's go, take this meat and go find him. Doesn't he want trust? I'll give him trust!"

Chang Xin took a deep breath and picked up the largest piece of horse meat. "Take the rest, and don't steal. Also, don't mention the word 'test' in front of him, it will hurt his reputation. Let's treat all this as our own independent behavior."

……

After practicing transformation for a whole night, Little Black Stone returned to the Death Mark to rest.

Liu Hen put away the campfire and workbench, and after making sure that nothing was left out, he pushed open the door and walked out.

Outside, the Wu brothers and sisters were already waiting at the door.

Last night, Liu Hen had given them four sets of warm clothing in addition to the head covers, and also gave each of them a black iron longbow and twenty-five iron arrows.

With the thermal suits, the once biting cold wind had almost no effect on them.

Now they are full of fighting spirit, as if they see a bright future.

Liu Hen first collected some large iron ores outside and filled his space backpack. Then he said to the Wu brothers and sisters, "Let's go to the place where you mentioned there is a copper mine."

"Yes, my lord."

Wu Yuanming immediately asked Wu Yuanbai and Wu Yuanxia to lead the way in front, while he and Wu Yuanguang walked behind, protecting Liu Hen in the middle.

Although people with special abilities should not need protection, they still feel they have to do what they should do as subordinates.

Liu Hen did not refuse this protection. After all, he had specially equipped these people with weapons last night.

He couldn't possibly support these people for nothing.

In the darkness, the five people strode forward against the cold wind.

After walking a distance, Wu Yuanming suddenly said, "Sir, those scavenging teams are following us."

"Ignore them."

Liu Hen said calmly: "Just don't affect us."

"Yes." Wu Yuanming nodded.

Suddenly, dense horse hoofbeats sounds came from afar, and even Wu Yuanming and others could hear it.

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