Don't Starve, my items can be upgraded

Chapter 7: Is a major disaster about to happen in the Gobi Desert?
[Guaranteed Nail Gun lv.7: 0% (…effective range 33 meters, maximum range 99 meters; cannot be upgraded)]

"This range is almost as good as my old pistol."

Yang Chen thought happily.

If I encounter a wild wolf again now, I might be able to kill it one with one nail gun.

Even if a nail cannot kill an enemy, it can definitely cause serious injury and make it lose its fighting ability.

"Over there... there seem to be a lot of scavenger teams. I don't know what's going on. Should we still go over there?"

Because of his usual caution, Peng Min was a little hesitant.

Yang Chen looked up.

I saw bonfires at the foot of the mountain about seven or eight kilometers away, in an area of ​​about one kilometer in radius.

There are probably two or three hundred bonfires.

If nothing unexpected happens, a bonfire should be a scavenging team.

But why are there so many scavenger teams gathering here?
"Get closer and take a look. If something doesn't seem right, evacuate immediately."

Yang Chen said: “It’s unlikely that they are all Evolved Teams. If even an ordinary scavenger team dares to stay there, we should be able to do so too. Let’s wait and see.”

The two of them continued on their way.

“It seems like there are more and more plants.”

Peng Min said in surprise: "We may really be able to get out of the Gobi Desert."

Yang Chen nodded seriously. Although there would be more food if he walked out of the Gobi Desert, it would also be more dangerous.

Therefore, the strengthening of the nail gun cannot stop.

However, as the level gets higher, the upgrade speed will become slower and slower.

If I can stay up late tonight, maybe I can only level up two more levels in the whole night, or maybe just a little more than one level.

About an hour later, the two arrived at the foot of the mountain, about a thousand meters away from the campfire.

It was then that the two were surprised to find that the mountain they had seen from afar before was actually quite large.

"There are so many trees, but unfortunately there are no grass roots."

Peng Min said with surprise and regret: "The grass roots should have been dug up."

"No more grass roots, eat meat."

Yang Chen smiled: "Let's also experience the feeling of eating meat every day. By the way, if everything goes well later, we can also make a fire and cook food."

Upon hearing this, Peng Min subconsciously licked his lips.

She also couldn't remember the last time she had cooked food.

Cooked food, and meat at that, what a luxury! I couldn’t even imagine it before.

Even in that small safe zone, the food they ate was flour made from tree roots and certain plants, which was barely enough to fill their stomachs.

"Whoosh..."

Suddenly four arrows shot from the left, one of which was aimed directly at Yang Chen.

"careful!"

Peng Min's face changed and he quickly knocked it away with a wooden spear.

Yang Chen suddenly looked in the direction where the wooden arrow came from, and found that only twenty meters away, there were several figures lying on the ground, almost blending into the ground.

With a cold face, he raised his left arm, aimed at one of the men's heads and pressed the button.

"boom!"

The man screamed with a slight recoil, and then there was no movement.

"Damn..."

"It seems to be the man from this morning!"

"Quickly retreat..."

The faces of the remaining three people changed drastically, they quickly got up and turned around to run.

At this time, Yang Chen also recognized that the four people who attacked them were actually the four people who escaped in the morning.

"You want to run away this time?"

He sneered, aimed at someone and pressed the button again.

"boom!"

The nail pierced the back of the man's head and he fell to the ground and died.

"How is that possible? He wasn't that strong this morning..."

"Did he really dig out a treasure that can improve his strength this morning?!"

The remaining two people were so frightened that they dropped all their weights and ran in different directions at the same time.

Yang Chen didn't pause at all, and fired a nail at one of them.

"puff!"

The man was shot in the temple by a nail and fell to the ground dead.

At this time, the last person had already run out of the range of the sure hit.

But it doesn’t matter, the maximum range of today’s nail guns is over 90 meters anyway.

Yang Chen moved the nail gun, aimed at the man's head and pressed the fire button.

"puff--"

The flash of steel nail flew out of the range and then quickly fell under gravity, directly shooting into the area just below the back of the man's neck.

The nail pierced his spine, paralyzing his body and causing him to fall forward due to inertia.

"Spare my life..."

The man fell to the ground in an abnormal posture and screamed in fear: "Spare me, I will tell you a big secret!"

“Yang Chen, don’t be fooled.” Peng Min said hurriedly. She was surprised and happy at the moment.

I didn't expect Yang Chen to be so strong. He defeated one with one move, much stronger than this morning.

Yang Chen naturally wouldn’t be fooled. He didn’t get close, but asked loudly from nearly forty meters away: “What big secret?”

"Promise to spare me first..." the man said loudly. "Then forget it."

Yang Chen said, and took a few steps forward, making sure that the other party was within the range of his attack, and then he would end the other party's life.

"Wait, I said..."

The man shouted hurriedly: "There is news from the Huyan Safety Zone that a great disaster will occur in the Gobi Desert, so now all the deserters are fleeing the Gobi Desert. You can also see the bonfires in the distance. They are the scavenging teams that have escaped."

"What disaster?" Yang Chen didn't believe it.

"I don't know, but it is said that this was said by the super evolver of 'Huyan clan' himself, so it shouldn't be false."

The man shouted, "Please spare me. I am the only one left now, and I don't think I will live long in my current condition. Let me die in peace."

The people of the wilderness have a strong will to survive. They want to live no matter how difficult it is, and rarely would they take the initiative to end their own lives.

"Maybe it's true as you said, but unfortunately, I don't like leaving any trouble behind."

After Yang Chen finished speaking, he directly pressed the button.

"You..." The man's face changed drastically.

"boom!"

A flash of steel nail instantly shot into his temple, ending his life.

"Hu Yanshi?"

Peng Min came over and said in doubt, "When I was in that small safe zone before, I vaguely heard that this is a very powerful clan. There are rumors that wherever they are, there is a safe zone. If this news was really released by the Huyan family, it might be possible."

"I went to the Huyan Safety Zone to buy bullets when I was wandering."

Yang Chen half believed and half doubted: "In my impression, the Huyan clan is high and mighty, and they look down on the people of the wilderness. They don't care about their lives at all. Why would such news spread?"

"Is there any conspiracy?" Peng Min frowned.

"It's hard to say. There's no point in worrying about it now."

Yang Chen glanced at the large number of bonfires in the distance: "Let's see if there are any spoils of war first."

"Okay, leave these chores to me from now on. Just pay attention to your surroundings."

Peng Min hurried to touch the corpse.

'The Great Disaster... could it be real?'

Yang Chen looked at the moon slowly rising in the sky, feeling confused and uncertain.

Because the inhabitants are scattered throughout the Gobi Desert, this kind of news will definitely not reach all of them.

If it weren't for this coincidence, they wouldn't have known about it.

If this is true, who knows how many people will die.

But this has nothing to do with him. What he really cares about is whether the so-called possible disaster will only occur in the Gobi area?
"Yang Chen, I found a very useful knife."

Peng Min came back and took out a dagger with a handle that was only 20 centimeters long. He said, "It's very sharp. It will be much easier to cut meat in the future. I was so tired today when I used your knife to cut meat."

Yang Chen took the dagger and examined it, and found that it was indeed a good knife. Although it was a bit crudely made, the materials used were very good.

Suddenly, he had an idea and input a little derivative energy into it.

Because of the food supply and the fact that the dagger was only level zero, it was quickly upgraded to level one and attributes were born.

[Sharp Dagger lv.1: 1% (sharpness increases by % from the previous level; cannot be upgraded)]

"Sharp? Does it mean that it only increases by 1% per level?"

He shook his head and did not keep it. He gave it back to Peng Min: "Keep it for yourself, you may need it."

One is that they look down upon this attribute, and the other is that they do not have any extra energy to use on other items for the time being.

"Okay. Oh, and your nails."

Peng Min put away the dagger and handed a few bloody nails to Yang Chen: "The real good thing is this knife. I didn't take the wooden bow. I only took all the wooden arrows, a total of more than fifty."

She said regretfully, "It's a pity that they don't even have water bags on them. They may be hidden somewhere. Should we look around for them?"

"It may not be hidden somewhere. Maybe it's not there at all. They may have relied on robbing."

Yang Chen glanced around, then turned around and walked towards the bonfire area in the distance: "Let's go over there and take a look first."

Peng Min hurried to follow.

Before they had gone far, they suddenly saw seven or eight people rushing towards the four corpses from different directions.

The two of them changed their expressions slightly, and hurriedly moved away from here. Yang Chen subconsciously aimed at those people.

However, those people ignored them and rushed towards the four corpses regardless of everything, pounced on the corpses and bit them madly.

Several people even fought over the corpse, and then they hugged each other and bit each other.

For a moment, screams and gnawing sounds that made one's scalp tingle were heard.

"They are the starving barbarians!"

Peng Min frowned: "Is there no food here? Isn't this close to the mountains?"

"To obtain food in the mountains, you should have strength."

Yang Chen and Peng Min quickened their pace again.

Soon, the two men arrived two or three hundred meters away from the nearest campfire.

"It looks like most of them are ordinary scavenging teams. In that case, let's go over there too."

Yang Chen said: “Pick up some dry firewood and rotten wood for starting the fire along the way.”

"Okay, leave it to me."

Peng Min started working immediately.

Soon, they reached the edge.

Many of the barbarians looked at them with cold eyes, many of which were filled with malice, perhaps because they thought that there were only two of them and they were easy to bully.

But no one acted rashly, because such a small team might also be a team of evolvers.

After all, if only two people could survive in the Gobi Desert, their strength must be very strong.

Because there are many loners here, and those loners look difficult to deal with at first glance, and they should be evolvers.

However, the sloppy attire of these two people made them look nothing like evolvers. Instead, they looked no different from ordinary wastelanders.

(End of this chapter)