Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 87 Attitude Change
"Cultivating plants?"

Liu Hen was really surprised this time.

This ability is definitely very welcome in this famine-stricken world.

Because plants definitely include crops.

If the other party's cultivation ability is strong enough and can produce food quickly, it will definitely attract most people to follow it actively.

"I've observed your abilities. They're related to rapid construction, right?"

Hong Ming said: "Although this ability cannot support many people, it is still very useful. If you follow the right person, you will never have to worry about food and clothing, and you will enjoy wealth and glory."

"So you are the right person?" Liu Hen asked with a smile.

"I rarely brag about myself, but I really do think so."

Hong Ming said confidently: "I can give you better treatment, far better than that Chang Xin."

"So you know her existence. Aren't you afraid of offending her?" Liu Hen asked curiously.

"She's just a newcomer to the second realm. It would be easy for me to kill her."

Hong Ming's expression remained unchanged: "Have you thought it through?"

"I haven't thought it through."

Liu Hen smiled and said, "Why don't you follow me? When I become rich in the future, I will give you a city. You also know that I am a person with the ability to quickly build a city, so it is not difficult for me to build a city for you."

Hong Ming smiled and shook his head, saying, "Your abilities make it difficult for you to take a leading position. You can only assist others. My ability to cultivate plants can quickly produce food, which will attract countless people to follow me. It will be easy to convince them. You can't do that."

"Oh? Then how fast can you make food?"

Liu Hen was really curious about this.

Hong Ming may really want to recruit this talent, so he directly demonstrated his abilities.

A green halo appeared from his body, rapidly enlarged, and soon expanded to a radius of 100 meters.

Then he scattered some seeds.

After absorbing the green light, these seeds grew rapidly and became small trees at an astonishing speed.

Liu Hen thought Hong Ming would demonstrate the flowering and fruiting of crops in front of him.

However, when the small trees grew to more than one meter tall, they stopped growing.

"See? This is my ability."

Hong Ming said: "I can make plants grow quickly regardless of the season and environment. These tender green trees, if ground into powder, are enough to feed many people."

"..."

Liu Hen was stunned.

He originally thought that Hong Ming would make crops blossom and bear fruit, and create food out of thin air.

As a result... the other party did produce food, but this food was actually trees that could be digested by the wastelanders.

In his original concept, this kind of thing was not food.

Seeing Liu Hen's stunned expression, Hong Ming was very satisfied and said with a smile: "Have you thought it through? You may not understand the importance of my ability now, but it doesn't matter. I can explain it to you. As long as I have enough magic crystals, I can create small trees like this continuously..."

"Can you make these trees grow bigger?" Liu Hen asked.

"Of course you can, but that would consume more magic crystals, which wouldn't be worth it."

Hong Ming said, "This plant can only be used as food in its early stages. As the trunk ages and becomes hard, it becomes difficult for even the inhabitants to digest. Furthermore, the consumption of magic crystals will increase significantly."

"If you have a hundred magic crystals, how much food can you make... well, how many small trees like this?" Liu Hen asked.

"The one here was born from one hundred magic crystals."

Hong Ming pointed at the one hundred one-meter-tall saplings within the green circle of light and said, "As long as I have enough magic crystals, I can continuously produce such saplings. Tens of thousands of them can be produced in a day. After grinding them into powder and mixing them with a little insect meat, I can make a large amount of tree cakes. As long as you follow me, I can make you have endless food!"

"..."

Liu Hen couldn't help but ask, "You seemed to have bought a lot of food from the campfire camp not long ago, right? Since you don't lack food, why did you buy more?"

"I certainly have my uses."

Hong Ming said, "I will tell you if you join my forces."

"Based on what you have shown now, it's not attractive enough."

Liu Hen smiled and said, "Where I'm staying now, there's food and drink, and the carbohydrate porridge is much more delicious than the tree cake."

"No matter how delicious that vegetarian food is, how good can it be?"

Hong Ming continued to offer an olive branch: "I can get horses and let you eat horse meat. You haven't eaten meat in a long time, right?"

Indeed, although there were two or three hundred kilograms of horse meat in the space backpack, Liu Hen kept it and was reluctant to eat it.

Liu Hen didn't pick up the topic and changed it, saying, "You were the one who led the attack on the Hongluo camp, weren't you? Are those cyborgs yours?"

"Those cyborgs were once my subordinates' war slaves, but now they are all free men."

Hong Ming said, "I just released the information that there is Extreme Yang Grass in Hongluo Camp."

"Does the Hongluo Camp really have Jiyang grass?" Liu Hen was curious.

"There should be." Hong Ming said.

Damn, this is an old bitch.

"Have you thought it through?" Hong Ming asked again. The green halo on his body converged, and at the same time, the small tree that had grown before began to change and become tough.

He was very envious of Liu Hen's abilities. Now that he had lost Lvxia City, he wanted to rebuild a huge city, which would consume too much manpower and resources.

If Liu Hen could help him, he could be worth tens of millions of people and could help him build the huge city quickly.

Liu Hen said coldly: "Are you going to take action?"

"Not really. It would be of no benefit to me to hurt you. I am only showing you my methods and letting you know when to go astray."

Hong Ming raised his hands, and hundreds of small trees grew rapidly, turning into tough branches and shooting towards Liu Hen.

"Fuck you!"

Liu Hen took out a box of fragmentation grenades and threw them with all his strength, then turned around and ran without hesitation.

"What is that?" Hong Ming was stunned and subconsciously controlled ten branches to wrap around the box.

"Boom boom boom——"

The next moment, the box exploded, and the fragmentation grenades inside exploded at the same time, breaking off a large number of branches.

A green barrier appeared out of nowhere, blocking the incoming metal fragments.

Hong Ming's face turned cold, and the hundreds of small trees around him grew wildly, transforming into towering giants in an instant. Then, countless branches stretched out wildly and shot towards Liu Hen. "Bang..."

Liu Hen immediately charged up his strength and ran wildly, his speed instantly soaring to two hundred meters per second, while continuously throwing out boxes of fragmentation grenades.

The thousands of branches extending from the hundreds of towering trees in the back continued to grow larger and longer, and in the blink of an eye they turned into giant dragons that chased them all the way.

"Fuck, this guy is so perverted?!"

Liu Hen, who sensed this scene through the power of the earth, was shocked.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom…”

He kept detonating the boxes of fragmentation grenades he threw out, but those fragmentation grenades only managed to break one or two giant branches and had little effect on the densely packed giant branches.

Finally, he ran more than a thousand meters in one breath and finally got rid of the branches.

"Although I didn't sense any killing intent, and the other party might just want to capture me, this grudge has been established!"

Liu Hen's eyes were cold, and he directly took out the bonfire and placed it on the spot. Without lighting the bonfire, he started the home construction mode and laid the foundation.

When the first foundation was laid, he directly took out the home cannon and installed it.

Soon, the home cannon was installed. He took out a shell and loaded it into the cannon, then turned the barrel to aim at the approximate location of Hong Ming.

A thousand meters away, Hong Ming looked regretful and confused.

"Isn't he a construction-type mutant? Why is he so fast?"

Just as this thought flashed through my mind, a red sphere suddenly shot towards me at high speed.

'what? '

His face changed and he subconsciously controlled the giant branches to intercept.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, one of the giant branches was directly blown off.

'He still has this kind of trick?'

Hong Ming was quite surprised: "But this should be his all-out attack, right?"

Just as this thought flashed through my mind, suddenly another red sphere shot out from the darkness a thousand meters away.

He quickly controlled the giant branches to block again.

"boom!"

Another branch was broken.

Hong Ming frowned: "There are still some? Where did he get the cannon?"

……

"Reloading the shells one by one is too slow. Can it be faster?"

As this thought flashed through Liu Hen's mind, he suddenly discovered that his space backpack and home cannon could actually be directly linked.

Although this binding is temporary, after binding, he can reload the shells in a moment.

“There’s actually this function…”

He was delighted and immediately started loading and then bombarded that direction.

……

"boom!"

Another shell came and shattered the third branch.

"This should be the last time, right?"

This thought had just flashed through Hong Ming's mind when another shell came the next moment.

And this time, the shells suddenly became very dense.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!!”

Dense shells continued to shoot from the darkness, breaking his giant branches one after another.

At first Hong Ming didn't care, but gradually, he found that he was struggling.

"Is this person...really just a construction-type psychic?"

At first he thought Liu Hen was just carrying heavy artillery with him, but the intensive rate of artillery fire made him a little uncertain.

……

Liu Hen fired all ninety-nine shells in his space backpack in one breath, then packed up his home cannon and bonfire and ran away.

Because the distance was a thousand meters, he was not sure whether he hit the target.

However, with Hong Ming's means, this level of home cannon would most likely not be able to hurt the opponent.

"You actually tried to take me back by force. I'll make you suffer the next time we meet!"

He snorted in his heart. Although the other party did not show any murderous intention, perhaps he was just envious of his abilities, and his intentions were similar to Chang Xin's.

But he was very unhappy with the other party's strong behavior.

In other words, his golden finger level is still low, otherwise, with his personality, he would directly blow the opponent into pieces.

……

Seeing that the shelling had stopped, Hong Ming breathed a sigh of relief. If the other side had continued to bomb, he would have run away.

"Brother Liu Hen, I was wrong before. Your ability is indeed beyond my expectations."

His attitude changed drastically, no longer condescending as before, and he said loudly: "I was not thoughtful enough before. I can promise that as long as you come to help me, you will be the second city lord, and I will not control you in any way."

After saying this, he waited patiently there.

Because Liu Hen had heavy artillery, he didn't dare to go over to be on the safe side, and he also used giant branches to protect himself.

He was really envious of Liu Hen's ability to build quickly.

If he had the other party's help, his huge city could definitely be rebuilt quickly.

Yet he waited and waited, and waited and waited.

There was dead silence in the darkness, and there was no response except the howling cold wind.

Hong Ming: “…”
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