Don't Starve, my items can be upgraded

Chapter 9: Level Nail Gun, Sense of Security
Yang Chen: "Why are you all gathered here? Why didn't you go into the mountain area?"

The man immediately explained, "We heard from other desert dwellers that the super-evolved person of the Huyan clan said that a catastrophe would break out in the Gobi Desert, so we all want to leave. As for why we gathered here, it's because it's said that the mountainous area is too dangerous, and we're not sure."

Yang Chen suddenly realized that it was almost the same as he guessed.

He asked again: "Can you confirm whether the disaster is true or not?"

"I'm sorry, we can't be sure, so we are temporarily stationed here." The man shook his head.

Yang Chen thought about it, and felt that there was no problem, so he winked at Peng Min.

Although Peng Min was a little reluctant, he still took about a pound of wild wolf meat and walked towards the man.

Without any surprise, Peng Min got the water smoothly.

Soon, she trotted back and handed the water to Yang Chen: "You drink this first, I'll drink the rest."

Yang Chen nodded.

Peng Min said again: "With your appetite, the remaining meat can only last for three days at most. But if we can find grass roots, I will eat the grass roots and you can eat for four days."

"I'll go hunting again tomorrow."

Yang Chen said: "We all need to replenish our nutrients quickly, don't save them."

As he spoke, he pulled out the stopper of the water bag, smelled it first, and unexpectedly found that it contained very clean groundwater without any peculiar smell.

It is worthy of being the reserve resource of the evolvers, and is completely different from the turbid water he got.

He immediately raised the water bag and took a big gulp.

Peng Min was suddenly touched. She didn't expect that Yang Chen, after becoming an Evolver, did not treat her badly at all.

But she still didn't eat too much and stopped when she felt a little full.

"You should take a nap first. You haven't rested for a long time."

Yang Chen said: "I slept for a whole day, and I'm not sleepy now."

"Yeah, then I'll wake up and it'll be your turn."

Peng Min immediately lay down next to the campfire and fell asleep in less than a few seconds.

The nights in the Gobi Desert are actually very cold. Even during the hottest dry season, the temperature drops to four or five degrees most of the time.

The temperature can even drop below zero on rainy days.

In the past, they could only endure the low temperatures.

But now, sleeping next to the campfire is so comfortable that it is simply a luxury.

Yang Chen continued to make the Qi-derived Enhanced Nail Gun, and every few minutes, he put a piece of barbecue in his mouth to replenish his food.

During this process, some scavenger teams came here and tacitly kept a distance of more than 30 meters before making fire and settling down.

As the night grew darker, more and more refugees rushed here.

During this time, two scavenger teams started fighting in the distance, apparently snatching food.

In the end, one team was completely wiped out, but three people from the other team also died, leaving only four people.

In response, everyone looked at it with cold and vigilant eyes.

As for the corpses, they were soon dragged into the darkness by the starving people.

Although everyone knew what the starving people would do with the corpse, no one cared.

They didn't have the energy or the time to stop it.

Those starving savages also knew that their behavior would disgust other savages, and they were worried about being killed by the evolvers who could not stand such behavior.

So they didn't dare to eat people openly and could only hide far away in the darkness.

And further away, there was also chaos.

Most of the chaos was caused by the scramble for food.

A very small part of it may be due to hatred.

With so many barbarians gathered together, something bad is bound to happen.

But everyone just keeps out of it and doesn't get involved, as long as they don't get mad at you.

As more and more scavenger teams arrived here, Yang Chen gradually felt a sense of urgency.

In theory, although there would be occasional contact between scavenger teams, it would definitely not be too frequent.

And the news about the disaster seemed to spread too quickly.

'Is there really some kind of terrible disaster about to happen? Or is there some conspiracy?'

He couldn't help but speed up his eating, speeding up the production of derivative Qi and strengthening the nail gun while ensuring that he would not overdraw his energy again.

Finally, in the second half of the night, the nail gun was upgraded again:

[Guaranteed Nail Gun lv.8: 0% (…effective range 49 meters, maximum range 147 meters; cannot be upgraded)]

"The guaranteed range is 49 meters, and the maximum range is 147 meters! It could probably shoot through an ordinary person's head."

'This power is definitely comparable to that of a fine handgun.'

Yang Chen thought happily in his heart.

Who would have thought that this powerful nail gun was just a crudely made nail launcher with a maximum range of only five or six meters just a day ago.

As a result, one day later, it turned into a powerful weapon comparable to a fine pistol.

Coupled with the magical property of assisted aiming, he can definitely kill ordinary people with one shot.

Even if it is an evolver, if the opponent's defense is not strong enough, he might be killed with one shot.

However, Yang Chen didn’t know what the other evolvers were like. Were they also like him, with fragile bodies but possessing magical abilities?
"No matter what, I must not slow down my pace of becoming stronger."

Yang Chen did not stop there.

He continued to eat and to strengthen his nail gun.

However, after reaching level eight, the strengthening speed becomes slower.

'The recoil of the nail gun should affect me now. I don't know if it will be optimized when the level is higher.'

After all, this is not a nail gun with only physical power, but a special item that has been enhanced by supernatural powers. If it is at a higher level, it may become even more magical.

He thought with a little worry and anticipation.

After all, the structure of a nail gun is different from that of a pistol, and the impact of recoil will be greater.

Because a nail gun is a straight steel pipe that is thirty centimeters long and as thick as a finger.

If the recoil is too great, the nail gun might bounce back and injure you.

"If it doesn't work, I'll find a way to fix it on my arm." Yang Chen pondered secretly in his heart.

time flies.

Chaos would break out from time to time in the distance, and it was almost always the starving refugees who were causing the trouble.

However, it was unusually quiet near the scavenging team with evolvers.

Perhaps everyone was worried that the noise they made would disturb the evolvers and they would be killed at will.

Just as a hint of paleness appeared on the distant horizon, suddenly a few furtive figures came towards this side from behind the tree trunk.

The other party was obviously a barbarian who had just arrived here. He didn’t know Yang Chen’s situation and thought that there were few people here and he would be easiest to bully.

Although Yang Chen's physique and strength have not changed much, his perception has become much stronger after becoming an evolver.

Especially when he was being directly targeted, he could feel the malice even from dozens of meters away.

He was now well-fed and well-drinking, not in the weak state he was in when he encountered the wild wolf before.

Sensing someone approaching, he simply turned his head, aimed the nail gun at one of them and fired nails.

With a "bang", the man was shot directly between the eyebrows and fell to the ground dead.

"Damn..."

The faces of the people who were further away changed drastically. They quickly squatted down and blended into the darkness and ran away quickly, using weapons and other items to block their vital points.

Yang Chen felt that he was not sure he could shoot through those people's defenses and kill them, so in order to prevent the nails from being taken away, he did not attack again.

Now he has no fixed channel to get more nails, so he has to use them sparingly.

Those who had seen Yang Chen take action before all showed expressions of gloating.

"Didn't you see that we didn't dare to do anything? You are such an idiot! Otherwise, would we be indifferent when a team of just two people was eating meat next to us?"

"They just got here, of course they didn't see it."

Many people sneered and whispered, happy to see others in trouble.

As long as there is someone more unlucky than yourself, you are not too unlucky.

At this time, the scavenger teams that came here later also showed awe and put away all their little thoughts.

Because Yang Chen seemed to have eyes on his back, this was definitely an ability only an evolver had.

At this time, Peng Min had been awakened. Seeing that the enemy had been killed, she hurriedly took out a dagger and touched the corpse.

But unfortunately, I still didn’t find anything good.

She cut open the man’s head, brought the nail back and gave it to Yang Chen, saying, “I slept so soundly. I didn’t expect it would be dawn.”

As she said that, she looked at Yang Chen: "Go to sleep quickly, I will keep watch from now on."

Yang Chen waited for the man he had beaten to death to be dragged into the darkness by other deserters, then he nodded.

However, considering that there are too many people here, safety issues must be taken seriously.

So he handed the nail gun to Peng Min at an angle that no one could see, and whispered, "Look, is there a point in your field of vision?"

"What point?" Peng Min took the nail gun, looking confused.

She saw nothing, no change in her vision.

"There's none?"

Yang Chen thought about it, stepped aside, and said, "Try firing nails at the tree trunk. Hold the nail gun with both hands and hold it tightly."

Peng Min immediately gripped the nail gun tightly, aimed at the tree trunk and pressed the fire button.

"boom!"

With a slightly greater recoil force, a nail was shot deep into the tree trunk.

She was immediately shocked, finding it hard to believe that such a small thing could have such a powerful force.

“Could it be that you rely on this…” She looked at Yang Chen in doubt.

"Of course it's not that simple."

Yang Chen said: “You can’t bring out the true power of this nail gun at all, but it doesn’t matter, you can use this to protect yourself when I sleep. If anyone with malicious intentions approaches, don’t waste time, just kill them directly, and be sure to wake me up as soon as possible.”

He felt a little regretful, but also secretly relieved.

It seems that although others cannot control the special properties of the items that I have enhanced, they can indeed use them, but they cannot exert the maximum effect.

In this way, his own 'trading plan' can indeed be implemented.

However, in order to prevent others from using his weapons against him, he decided not to manufacture weapons for trading.

"Uh-huh."

Peng Min assured: "Don't worry, I will never let anyone get close to us."

Yang Chen still trusted Peng Min very much. Although this girl was a girl, she was more ferocious than anyone else when she needed to be.

Just like when she had an internal fight with Huang Qing and the other two the night before, she dared to fight the three of them alone, and she was able to fight back and forth in a short period of time without getting hurt.

"I'll lend this to you first. When I become stronger, I'll get you a handy weapon."

Yang Chen said as he lay down against the tree.

"Yeah." Peng Min was delighted.

Although Yang Chen did not say it explicitly, she roughly guessed that Yang Chen's ability should be in the field of weapon manufacturing.

In other words, there are additional capabilities in terms of weapon manufacturing.

"Is this feeling of security... real? It feels like a dream."

She secretly sighed in her heart: "I never thought that I would have the opportunity to live a good life without having to worry about anything."

The most important thing is that maybe you won’t have to suffer from hunger and cold anymore in the future.

This was something we could never even think of before.

Thinking of this in her mind, she kept a vigilant eye on her surroundings while using a dagger to dig out the nails that had been shot into the tree trunk.

Maybe it was because the nail gun was too powerful, the nail was actually deformed a little.

But it's not a big problem. As long as you knock it straight, it should still be usable.

After an unknown amount of time, Yang Chen was suddenly awakened by a loud noise.

As soon as he woke up, he saw a huge migrating group approaching this side in the distance.

(End of this chapter)