Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 91: So weak? (Happy New Year's Eve)
Something magic happened.

The hood of the Wanjinzhui suit actually merged with the suit he was wearing, just as he expected.

Immediately afterwards, the suit effect appeared, and it was the Wanjin Pendant.

'It's actually possible to quickly change suits by simply changing the headgear!'

This discovery surprised and delighted Liu Hen, because it meant that in the future, if he wanted to switch the suit effect, he would not need to change all his clothes.

You just need to replace the warm headgear. Although this will take some time, it is at least much faster than changing a whole set of clothes.

"The headgear is indeed the absolute core of the thermal suit. The module that determines the suit's effectiveness is the headgear, and the other modules can be replaced at will."

However, only set modules of the same level can be combined. Modules of different levels cannot be combined.

Liu Hen put away the sticky silk suit and continued to make more home cannons.

Because the battle could break out at any time, he dared not delay for even a second.

However, to his surprise, when he made the tenth home cannon, Hong Ming still did not launch an attack.

"I'm ready. If you don't do it, then I will!"

Liu Hen once again consumed four hundred copper ores and four hundred magic crystals to upgrade the workbench, and then quickly came to the outer camp.

At this moment, in the outer camp, many modified humans were practicing archery, trying to cram for the exam.

On the city wall, people were constantly patrolling back and forth.

The city wall that had collapsed before due to the demonic bronze dragon was also simply repaired and blocked with huge rocks brought from far away. Although it still leaked air, it could at least stop the enemy.

When Liu Hen arrived at the city wall, he found that Zhang Mianmian's eyes seemed to be spitting fire, and her face was full of hatred as she looked at the darkness outside the city.

The female mutant's fingernails on both hands now grew very long, like metal spikes, as if she would rush out at any time and tear the enemy to pieces.

Seeing him, Zhang Mianmian saluted quickly.

Liu Hen's heart moved, and he asked, "Is your enemy Hong Ming?"

"My status was too low at the time, so I wasn't qualified to know the truth. However, transplanting the demon egg into my body was such an important matter, it must have been his order!"

Zhang Mianmian gritted his teeth and said, "Although there is no evidence, I know that during that time, Lvxia City was mining silver, and then the war suddenly broke out."

Because Liu Hen had told her before that the demon egg transplanted into her uterus was called "Mithril Egg", so she thought of the silver mine near Luxia City.

Liu Hen thought of the astonishing quality of the demonic power emitted by the demon egg, and felt that only Hong Ming could get such a thing.

At this moment, Zhang Mianmian suddenly said something that greatly surprised him: "I was discovered by the people of Luxia City when I was very young and was taken into Luxia City. At a very young age, I became the most beautiful girl in Luxia City. But I am different from other beautiful girls. The men I receive are all high-ranking officials in Luxia City. I am always within the sight of the City Lord of Luxia City."

"What you mean is..." Liu Hen asked with raised eyebrows.

"I think the Lord of Green Cloud City probably knew about my pure Yin body from the beginning."

Zhang Mianmian continued, "I once saw the city lord from afar. He looked at me with a strange look, and I don't know how to describe it."

"Have you known about your pure Yin body for a long time?"

Liu Hen seemed to be thinking about something, but he quickly put the matter aside: "We'll talk about this later. By the way..."

He suddenly laughed and said, "Killing him directly would be too easy for him. Making him a prisoner should give you a greater sense of revenge."

Zhang Mianmian's eyes lit up: "Your Excellency means... However, Luxia City has been built for more than forty years. The other party has been in a high position for such a long time, I'm afraid he won't surrender easily."

"It's not too late to kill him if it really doesn't work." Liu Hen said.

"Thank you, sir!" Zhang Mianmian thought that Liu Hen did this because of her, and was secretly moved.

Because she is now half a superpower, and is also a very powerful mutant. Even if she is still a war slave, she is very important to this emerging force, so she has imagined a lot.

At this time, Chang Xin came over and asked, "Are you ready?"

"almost."

Liu Hen nodded: "How's the situation? Is there any movement from Hong Ming?"

"I'm also wondering why he stayed in one place and didn't move at all."

Chang Xin said, "But his modified subordinates have been moving around the camp, and no one knows what they are doing."

"He's probably planning some big move."

Liu Hen sneered, "But that ultimate move might take a long time to prepare. In that case, we can't wait any longer. Show me Hong Ming's location."

Chang Xin pointed to the front left: "It's over there, about 800 meters away."

Wearing a bronze-level thermobaric suit, she has a stronger perception ability due to the suit's effect, and can sense Hong Ming's specific location.

"This direction..."

Liu Hen immediately started the home construction mode and placed a large slag foundation on this side of the city wall. This temporary foundation was the turret for the home cannon.

The city wall was two meters thick, but he only left a one-meter width on the outer edge, leaving a one-meter-wide corridor.

He built the foundation of the fort to a length of sixty meters, and then placed a home cannon every six meters, with the barrels pointing towards Hong Ming's position.

The modified people patrolling on the city wall looked over curiously, and when they saw the bronze cannons appearing out of thin air, they were immediately shocked.

"Master Liu Hen actually made so many cannons..."

"That's great! I thought the upcoming battle would require close combat, but I didn't expect there would be so many cannons like this!"

Especially those modified humans who were assigned to the charge formation were surprised when they saw these cannons.

Even if a charge was still necessary in the end, after a few rounds of bombardment, the enemy numbers would surely be greatly reduced, and their chances of survival would be greater. Soon, ten artillery batteries were installed.

Liu Hen immediately asked Chang Xin to call the sixteen people who had been selected earlier, select eight of them as gunners, and enter their names in the permissions of the eight artillery batteries.

"You eight people are responsible for loading them with shells."

He took out eight boxes of artillery shells and pointed at the modified humans who had not been selected as gunners: "Move these shells over. One box for each artillery position, each containing a hundred shells."

Then he said to the eight gunners, "I will fire first. Please try to aim at where I want you to shoot. Don't worry about anything else. Just keep firing."

"Yes, my lord!"

The eight gunners were excited. The leader had said before that there was something very important and they needed people to volunteer. He said that those who made great contributions would be eligible for pardon.

At first they thought it was a life-threatening mission like the Suicide Squad, so in order to make a contribution, they gritted their teeth and signed up.

The reason why the Suicide Squad came to mind first was because they used to do this kind of thing.

As war slaves, even in Green Cloud City, their most glorious moment was when they only obtained assault rifles and other firearms, and the number of bullets was very limited.

As former war slaves, they have a pursuit of strength far exceeding that of ordinary savages. In addition, most of their limbs are made of metal modules, so their sense of pain is not that strong, so they are the most daring to fight.

Unexpectedly, this important task turned out to be to be a gunner and carry artillery shells.

Indeed, this mission is also very important. It would certainly be dangerous if the enemy targeted it, but it is far less dangerous than the suicide squad.

Liu Hen taught the eight modified humans who were responsible for loading the shells how to do it. After making sure there was no problem, he went to the back of a home cannon and prepared to go into battle himself.

"Everything is ready. When the first shell explodes, you must fire immediately and aim at the position where I will hit you."

He looked at Chang Xin: "Give me a blessing."

"Ok."

Chang Xin quickly used her temporary ability to appoint soldiers and generals to bless Liu Hen.

A silver-white illusory armor appeared outside his body, and Liu Hen immediately felt that his physical fitness, perception ability, etc. had been greatly improved.

Immediately afterwards, he also sensed Hong Ming's location.

Because he had seen the other person before and scanned him through the power of the earth, even though the other person's body was distorted and the biological force field was strong, making it impossible to scan the other person's appearance clearly, he was sure that it was Hong Ming.

"Before, I didn't know your exact location, so a home cannon couldn't do anything to you. But what about now?"

He sneered, turned the barrel to aim at that position, and fired without hesitation.

At the same time, eight hundred meters away.

Hong Ming suddenly felt a creepy feeling. He released a green halo almost as a conditioned reflex, and at the same time scattered a handful of plant seeds and controlled those seeds to grow rapidly.

However, before the seeds could grow, a red cannonball suddenly shot out quickly.

"Can he find my location?"

Hong Ming's face changed drastically, and he quickly released a green light barrier. At the same time, he controlled the seedlings that had not yet grown to turn into tough branches that intertwined and intercepted in front.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the branches transformed from the seedlings that had not yet grown were directly shattered.

Before he could make any remedial action, more shells were fired at him.

"Fuck..."

The once high and mighty Lord of Green Cloud City cursed and turned and ran away.

But how could he possibly outrun a cannonball?
"Boom boom boom..."

A large number of shells directly covered him, and the green light barrier on his body was crumbling.

Finally, after he ran more than a hundred meters, the green light barrier on his body collapsed.

"Liu Hen!!"

Hong Ming roared, and a dazzling green light burst out from his body, making the area as bright as day.

At the same time, some wood chips or seeds that had been frozen in the ground sprouted wildly and quickly turned into huge branches to intercept the shells.

However, these temporarily transformed branches were too fragile, and a single cannonball could shatter many of them.

After all, he was not a combat-type mutant, and he was soon seriously injured under the intensive artillery bombardment and was constantly blown away.

During this process, he kept vomiting blood and ran away while carrying dense artillery shells.

Finally, he ran out of the one thousand meter range, but at this time he had reached his limit.

Just when he thought he was doomed, he discovered that the shells would explode in mid-air when they flew not far away and could not be shot any farther.

At this moment, Liu Hen, who was standing on the outer wall of the campfire camp, suddenly stopped and looked surprised: "So weak?"

Although Hong Ming ran out of the range of the Homeland Cannon, he was still within the sensing range of his current state, and he could clearly "see" Hong Ming's condition.

Chang Xin was also stunned: "He doesn't seem to be as strong as I imagined, and he may be on the verge of death."

Liu Hen put away the home cannon in front of him without hesitation, suddenly gathered his strength and jumped up into the darkness: "Hurry up and catch up, we can't let him get away!"
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[I didn't go home this year, but I worked hard to update during the Chinese New Year. Happy New Year's Eve everyone, please vote for me! ! ]

　Thanks to 08a for the tip.

　　
　
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