Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 99: Really Hidden

At the city gate, under the only tree, Hong Ming was still helping the cyborg recover.

A steady stream of green light poured down from the tree, nourishing the remains of the cyborg. The remains of a cyborg, whose metal parts had been removed, were slowly growing flesh and blood.

Compared with before, Hong Ming's complexion is much worse than before, and he is obviously very exhausted.

But this guy was also tough. He didn't say a word and persisted.

"You don't have to work so hard. Just because I ask you to work doesn't mean I won't let you rest."

Liu Hen came over and said, "We are not treating you as a slave. We are just looking for something for you to do."

"Can I really take a break?" Hong Ming cheered up.

This once high-and-mighty psychic actually showed visibly joy when he heard that he could take a rest.

"..."

Liu Hen glanced sideways.

When this guy was a ruler, he was like a tyrant and a tyrant, enjoying himself to the fullest.

As a result, after becoming a worker, he turned out to be so...'well-behaved', not at all dishonest or cunning.

"This guy should just be a worker and worry less."

With this thought in mind, he took out the piece of paper he had obtained at the Hongluo Camp, unfolded it for the other party to see, and asked, "Can you read? What does it say?"

Hong Ming looked at him in confusion. "'The surface belongs to you. I will retreat underground. The same goes for the copper dragon. I have asked it to leave the copper vein to you. From now on, we will not interfere with each other.' Where did the note come from?"

Liu Hen raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhang Mianmian again: "You can read too, right? What's written on it?"

Hong Ming's eyes were filled with resentment.

"Sir, what is written above is the same as what Hong Ming said." Zhang Mianmian replied.

She is now also half a superpower, and she no longer has the same awe towards her enemy Hong Ming as before, and now dares to call him by his name.

"Where did this note come from?"

Hong Ming asked again curiously, "Although the content is simple, what it says is not simple. Is the other party qualified to decide this matter?"

At this time, Chang Xin also came over and asked in surprise, "Was this note given to you by the demon behind the Hongluo Camp?"

"should be."

Liu Hen glanced at Hong Ming and asked, "Have you seen that demon?"

"Never seen it." Hong Ming shook his head.

Liu Hen couldn't help but smile: "Then you are really brave. There must have been quite a lot of demons near your Green Cloud City back then, right?"

"It's okay, not too many, just over ten." Hong Ming replied.

"Then have you ever considered that there are almost no other demons in this area? This time when I went to the Red Snail Camp, although I found traces of foreign demons, I didn't encounter any living demons. Now it seems that the Bronze Dragon should be the subordinate of the big conch, and he is the only living demon."

Liu Hen looked at Hong Ming with a half-smile: "Have you thought of anything?"

"..."

Hong Ming was no fool. After being exposed by Liu Hen, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "Impossible?!"

Chang Xin's expression also changed slightly: "Is the demon behind the Hongluo Camp very powerful?"

"Anyway, I was discovered before I even got close. They showed up as a phantom to greet me, and then the Hongluo Camp abandoned the surface. They must be really retreating underground."

Liu Hen asked Hong Ming: "What level of superpower are you? Can you estimate the level of that demon?"

"I am in the fourth realm."

Hong Ming said with a grim expression, "According to what you said, the other party can manifest a phantom. If it is not his original ability, then only the seventh level can have such a method. But how is this possible? Hongluo Camp is just a small camp!"

"How much do you know about Hongluo Camp?" Liu Hen asked. "...Not much. I only found out about Hongluo Camp after you showed me the way."

Hong Ming was a little embarrassed. "But there were only a few hundred people on the ground in that camp. Those guys tried to steal my elixir that time, but I killed seventy or eighty of them. The demon didn't react at all. I thought it didn't dare to mess with me."

"There are two possibilities. One is that the other party is really afraid of you."

Chang Xin analyzed, "But another possibility is that the population of the Hongluo Camp is very large, but those people all live in the underground world, and they don't care about a few deaths at all."

"I accidentally learned earlier that the demons behind the Red Snail Camp are marine creatures, but there is no ocean in this area. It's even very far away from the ocean."

Hong Ming also realized: "Then there is only one possibility. The Hongluo Camp has built an underground city. They are a true underground race. They may have dug through the earth's crust and connected to the sea. If this is true, the camp will never lack food, and the population will definitely increase rapidly."

"So the so-called underground human race really exists?" Liu Hen asked.

"Of course. The legend says that the underground people hid underground to avoid war. They have evolved the ability to adapt to the underground, and are already somewhat different from the surface people."

Hong Ming chuckled and said, "If the Hongluo Camp is just a small branch of the underground human race, it would be fine. But if it is the underground human race's main base camp, then it's not surprising that there are no other demons in this area."

Before he knew about it, he thought that if his Green Xia City was still there, he could destroy the Hongluo Camp with a wave of his hand.

As a result, he just wanted to run as fast as he could.

However, he felt a little surprised that the other party would give Liu Hen a note like that.

'Unless... Liu Hen is really a rule-based superpower, and not a pseudo-rule superpower with implanted external objects!'

When this thought came to his mind, he became more wary and concerned about Liu Hen's abilities.

"Avoiding war?"

Liu Hen asked curiously, "Has there ever been a major war? How long ago was it?"

"It's the battle recorded in ancient books where the Chaos Stone suppressed the Dark Demonic Tree. The time is no longer known."

Hong Ming replied, "During that decisive battle between the demons and humans, the demons' Dark Demonic Tree was completely destroyed, but the humans' Chaos Stone was also shattered. The outcome seemed to be a mutual loss. This was because some people avoided the battle, leaving the humans with a strong chance of victory. Of course, this is recorded in ancient texts, and it's unknown whether it has been altered since it was passed down to this day."

"Is the darkness of this world related to that war?" Liu Hen asked.

"I don't know."

Hong Ming shook his head. "The history of the Night Mist World is too ancient, and much of the history recorded in ancient books is fragmentary. However, as far as I know, the sun appeared again for a period of time after the war. However, the sun in that era was the 'Yang Stone' among the Chaos Stone fragments. Ancient books record that after the Chaos Stone collapsed, it turned into Yin Stone and Yang Stone. The Yang Stone once turned into the sun to illuminate the world, while the Yin Stone fell into the underworld, with only the function of granting the wishes of the dead."

After a pause, he said regretfully, "Some time ago, a remarkable person deduced that the Yin Stone might have fallen into this area. I was also attracted here by this news. If this is really the base camp of the underground human race, the Yin Stone must have fallen into the hands of those people."

Liu Hen asked calmly, "Can anyone figure out the whereabouts of the Yin Stone? Is it a method used by a superpower?"

"It's a Feng Shui exploration method. It's hard to say whether it's accurate or not."

Hong Ming shook his head. "I didn't believe it at first. I just came here with the mentality of giving it a try. As far as I know, this area is where the underground people once hid underground. I didn't expect that I would actually find it."

"If those underground people really dug through the earth's crust and connected to the ocean, I'm afraid they have already grown quite powerful."

Liu Hen sighed: "They are really good at hiding. I always thought the Hongluo Camp was very weak."

Unexpectedly, this turned out to be a super novice village!

Chang Xin had no idea about the ocean, but she also realized the seriousness of the situation: "Then we..."

"Leave immediately. Although the other party is not hostile to us at the moment, it is still better to leave first."

Liu Hen said with a serious expression: "Everyone, get ready..."

He calculated the sky and said, "Let's set off after nightfall. I'll go collect everything we can. If the Copper Dragon Camp is truly gone, we'll go there to rest and dig for copper first. After that, we'll look for silver."

He turned and left, preparing to get a bronze-level locker first so that he would have enough space to store his things.

"correct……"

He suddenly thought of something and turned to ask Chang Xin, "It seems the Bronze Dragon Camp took something valuable from the Red Snail Camp. Have you asked Tong Kun about this? What was the reason for their hasty departure that time?"

　Asking for a monthly ticket! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)