Don't Starve, my items can be upgraded

Chapter 97 Eight Times

"All of us...are experimental materials?"

Yang Chen frowned slightly.

Hu Erfang, who was listening on the side, turned pale. Is this black sand land so dangerous?
In the Wandering Gobi Desert, although they were also suppressed by the clans, at least the clans would not specifically target them.

But this clan in the Black Wind Sand Land actually specializes in capturing evolvers?
"Then why did the Black Wind Clan continue to bomb?"

Peng Min questioned this: "Since all of us are experimental materials, the Black Wind Clan should protect us instead of dropping artillery shells and bombing us everywhere."

“That’s because they want to select the best from the best.”

Zhou Erming sneered: "Ordinary people and low-level evolvers probably don't even qualify to become evolution materials."

"Is there any evidence to prove what you said?" Yang Chen asked.

"It's very simple, because after each successful bombing, the Black Wind Army will come out and take away the bodies of the Evolvers. They will also capture the living ones, but they don't take the bodies of ordinary people."

Zhou Erming said: "At least now they don't want the corpses of ordinary people. A long time ago, they even wanted the corpses of ordinary people. That's why the alliance guessed that they might want to improve the evolution potion and try to research the perfect evolution potion."

"Let's not talk about whether their research can succeed or not. Their research materials, which are us, are mainly Evolvers. This is intolerable."

He looked at Yang Chen: “Brother Hu Che probably doesn’t want to be sent to the test bench for dissection and research for no apparent reason, right?”

“After saying so much, are you trying to persuade me to truly join the alliance and fight against the Black Wind Clan together?” Yang Chen asked.

"Whether you join the alliance or not depends on your intention. The alliance never forces anyone, because those who are forced to join are difficult to trust."

Zhou Erming replied: "But as a member of Yinghu Oasis, protecting Yinghu Oasis is our duty and obligation. What do you think, brother Hu Che?"

“It should be so.” Yang Chen nodded.

He thinks this place is great, and if anyone dares to destroy it, he will definitely not stand idly by.

Zhou Erming smiled and said, "Brother Hu Che, rest assured. The Alliance will not let anyone's blood and sweat go to waste. There are rewards for protecting the oasis. For example, if you successfully intercept a shell, you can get a first-level infected blood crystal. If you can shoot down a bomber of the Black Wind Clan, you will get at least a hundred infected blood crystals. There is no upper limit."

"The Alliance has a lot of infected blood crystals?"

Yang Chen suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "Infected Blood Crystals should be obtained from the infected, right? This material should be a consumable, the more it is used, the less it will be. There are so many people in the alliance who have made contributions, will there be enough to share?"

"Brother Hu Che, do you know how many people there were in the Black Wind Sandland a hundred years ago? In the past hundred years, how many people and non-human creatures have been infected?"

Zhou Erming said with a complicated expression: "The Black Wind Sandland is vast, far larger than the Wandering Gobi Desert where you stayed before. It used to be rich in resources. Although it is not as prosperous as it was during the prosperous era, it is not as barren as it is now."

“You mean… infected blood crystals are not only found in the bodies of human infected people?” Yang Chen understood.

"As long as there is an infected creature in its body, there will be infected blood crystals. You have to know that infected creatures are still living creatures. They also have the urge to reproduce. In fact, their reproduction speed is only faster than that of us humans."

Zhou Erming nodded: "So, in theory, unless several clans join forces to strangle them, the infected creatures are endless. Infected blood crystals, to some extent, are also inexhaustible."

“This…” Yang Chen was secretly surprised.

They had never seen any infected creatures since they arrived at the Black Wind Sand Land, and he thought there were too few infected creatures.

But that's true. The Black Wind Sand Land is so vast, and Peng Min and I haven't been to very many places in total.

"The fourth-level evolver who was killed by Brother Hu Che before was named Cai Lun."

Zhou Erming only talked about this matter at this time: "His ability is to use his own ability to bless firearms, infinitely improving the power of firearms. The higher his own level, the more powerful the firearms are and the longer the range. He was originally one of the main forces of Yinghu Oasis to intercept the Black Wind Clan bombers."

As he spoke, he took out something that looked like goggles. "This is a man-made wonder, an eight-fold goggles. When you wear it, you can see farther. It's worth a million New Zealand dollars... which is equivalent to a hundred first-level infected blood crystals. Cai Lun also got one before."

Although he suspected that Cai Lun's piece was also obtained by Yang Chen, it was someone else's trophy.

The fact that he personally sent this man-made wonder out had a completely different meaning.

"Eight times goggles?"

Yang Chen was delighted, and after a moment of hesitation, he took it in his hand.

Taking over this expensive man-made wonder meant that he had also taken on the mission of intercepting the Black Wind Clan's bomber.

"Then, if there is another bombing incident by the Black Wind Clan in the future, I will trouble Brother Hu Che to take care of it."

Zhou Erming smiled and said, "I won't bother you any more. Brother Hu Che can come to my house when you have time."

“Manager Zhou, take care. Hu Erfang, please help me see Manager Zhou off.” Yang Chen looked at Hu Erfang.

"Yes, my lord."

Hu Erfang hurriedly led the way: "Manager Zhou, please."

After Hu Erfang took Zhou Erming away, Peng Min blocked the sound again and said, "I also found an eyepiece like this in Cai Lun's space folding bag. So Zhou Erming should not be lying."

Yang Chen nodded: "The clan's spies may have infiltrated the alliance. In any case, it won't be wrong to be cautious. To the outside world, we are the Hu family brothers and sisters. My name is Hu Che, and your name is Hu Hu. Don't let it slip." "Yeah, I know." Peng Min nodded.

the other side.

Zhou Erming, who had only walked a few dozen meters, was secretly surprised because he could not hear any sound from the location of the Hu brothers and sisters.

His ability is [Listening to the Wind], which allows him to hear sounds from far away in the wind, which is very convenient for monitoring the movements of the oasis.

This is also one of the reasons why he could become the manager of Yinghu Oasis.

'I was surprised before that I couldn't sense the evolutionary level of the Hu brothers and sisters. I thought their level was very high. Now it seems that it should be some kind of shielding ability.'

Zhou Erming thought to himself, looked at Hu Erfang beside him, and said with a smile: "Your name is Hu Erfang? What a fate, my name is Zhou Erming, I didn't expect that we are both from the second generation."

Hu Erfang said somewhat awkwardly: "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Manager Zhou. If you don't like it, I can change the name if my master agrees."

"No, that's a good name."

Zhou Er knew that Hu Erfang had misunderstood his meaning, so he smiled and said, "Our abilities doom us to not be the boss. The name of the second generation may help us gain some luck. It would be nice to be the second in command. Your master's ability is amazing. We will probably meet often in the future. You can come to my house when you are free."

Suddenly, Hu Erfang was somewhat flattered: "Thank you for the invitation, Manager Zhou. By the way, Manager Zhou, I want to ask my family about joining the alliance..."

"This is easy. Just bring them to my house. Originally, due to the long distance from the alliance, the procedure would take a long time, but with my guarantee, it can be approved on the same day."

Zhou Erming smiled and said, "As long as we can ensure that they are not spies of the Black Wind Clan, all other problems will not be a problem."

For the sake of 'Hu Che', he decided to give some preferential treatment to Hu Erfang's family and treat it as an investment. Anyway, he would not suffer any loss.

……

On the edge of the shelter bed.

Yang Chen held up the two goggles and compared them.

"They are all man-made wonders, and they all have different levels. They are different from the wonder shelter I got. Is it because the functional evolver of Kunwu clan cut corners, or because I gave him too little, so he only made the most basic version?"

He felt that the last possibility was more likely.

The original Sanctuary of Wonders had almost no levels. After he strengthened the data, he started from level one.

If he had not strengthened it, the original state of the strange shelter would probably have been very poorly integrated into the environment and the placement speed would have been very slow.

However, the two eight-fold goggles in his hands were actually second-level artifacts, which could clearly sense the level.

He had tried it before. When he put on the goggles, he could clearly see the scenery on the other side of the lake.

Although it was far from being able to see the faces of people on the other side of the lake clearly, it greatly improved his long-range attack capabilities.

"Do you want to strengthen it? It shouldn't have any bad properties, right?"

Yang Chen hesitated slightly, then chose to strengthen Cai Lun's piece first.

Because he is now a second-level evolver, even if this man-made wonder is of the second level, it didn't take long for data to be generated.

[Fresh · Eightfold Goggles lv.21: 0% (Can clean the air in the eyes, keeping the wearer's eyes comfortable at all times...)]

'Clean air?'

Yang Chen was stunned: "Fortunately, although it is not a particularly useful attribute, it is at least not a bad attribute."

With this spare one, he immediately strengthened the one given by Zhou Erming without any psychological pressure.

A few minutes later, new data was born:

[Comfortable 21x Goggles lv.0: % (The wearer can keep both eyes and the area around them comfortable. The higher the level, the higher the comfort and the larger the comfort range...)]

"…They are all useful, but not very useful."

He had some suspicion that this property might be a natural artifact of the man-made object, because these two properties just happened to fit the goggles.

The data of the previous rare armguard also inherited the original attributes of the armguard, and no new attributes were created.

Even the Sanctuary of Wonders did not seem to have any new attributes at the beginning, and new functions only appeared after the transformation.

Yang Chen felt a little regretful: "But they are not bad attributes. If I have extra resources in the future, I will choose to strengthen them. For now, forget it."

After taking a look at Peng Min, who was outside finding some dry wood to make a fire and cook food, he suddenly picked up the only sniper rifle among the trophies he had obtained this time.

'Although my nail gun is very useful, I like the sniper rifle very much. I wonder if it can derive useful properties?'

(End of this chapter)