Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 1 Hardwood Pickaxe, Upgrade
[Impractical Pickaxe Lv.0 (No Entity)]

Liu Hen was woken up by the cold.

After waking up, apart from the data that seemed like an illusion in his mind, his first feeling was cold.

It was so cold that I almost lost consciousness from being frozen all over.

It's like being stuffed into a refrigerator.

This was followed by an intense feeling of hunger.

It felt like fire was burning in my stomach, as if internal friction had occurred and my stomach was digesting itself.

This is a symptom of the body's organs consuming energy such as fat stored in their own flesh and blood to maintain body activity.

Just then, he suddenly felt someone touching his body, and he was so startled that he subconsciously opened his eyes.

In the dim light, I saw—

A guy in ragged clothes was taking a fist-sized yellow stone from the pocket of his equally ragged clothes.

Seeing him wake up, the man's face changed slightly, and he suddenly hit him on the head with something.

Under the strong threat of death, Liu Hen raised his left hand reflexively and used the object in his left hand to block the attack.

With a "bang" sound, his arm, which was almost numb from the cold, completely lost sensation.

"Pyrite?!"

Suddenly, a slightly hoarse female voice sounded, and then the person who attacked him was kicked to the ground.

The man quickly got up and turned to run, but was soon caught up by a petite woman.

The two men started fighting, and every move was fatal. Several times they almost stepped on the confused Liu Hen.

'What happened? Where is this place?'

Liu Hen struggled to get up, but he was extremely weak and completely frozen, so he couldn't get up at all.

'I remember I was quarrying before, how did I get here?'

He makes a living by collecting stones from the rocky mountain area, crushing them and selling them.

"Oh, right, while quarrying, my pickaxe hit what I thought was an underground cable. I started convulsing and then lost consciousness. Was I electrocuted?"

But what kind of cable would pass through the interior of a stone mountain?

Putting this aside, that is in the past. The most important thing now is to figure out the situation at hand.

"So, this isn't Earth anymore? Have I traveled through time? My soul has traveled through time?"

Liu Hen looked around at where he was in confusion.

Although the light was very dim, perhaps because this body had long since adapted to this dark environment, he could easily see the scenery within ten meters.

This turned out to be an underground mine, very narrow, with traces of excavation everywhere.

'Mine?'

As I was wondering, familiar yet unfamiliar information came to my mind, along with fragmented fragments of memory.

Darkness... cold... frozen earth... rare and twisted plants... monsters of all kinds...

Fragments of memories surfaced in his mind, Liu Hen was stunned, and then a serious look flashed in his eyes.

"A world of eternal night? And a world of famine?"

That would be fine, but this world is actually full of monsters.

There is a kind of monster called "Demon", which has varying strengths and can be found almost everywhere. It is the biggest enemy of the wasteland people.

"Huang Hu, leave the pyrite behind..."

At this time, a slightly hoarse female voice came from my ears.

The two men fought even more fiercely.

"Don't think about it!"

The man named Huang Hu sneered and fought while retreating.

"Yellow Tiger..."

Related memories came to mind again.

Liu Hen remembered that the original owner of this body and these two people formed a temporary team and came to this abandoned mine to look for pyrite.

Pyrite is also a very important industrial raw material in this world and can be sold to people in the camp.

A piece as big as a fist can be exchanged for at least ten kilograms of food coupons.

Ten kilograms of food coupons, in this world, is enough for a deserter to eat for a month. Not long ago, the original owner was lucky enough to discover a piece of pyrite.

As a result, due to excessive emotional excitement, hunger, cold and long-term malnutrition, she died suddenly and was transported here by him.

According to the original owner's memory, he also knew the girl's name - Zong Ni, who seemed to be only seventeen years old this year.

"Come to think of it, I'm only twenty-two years old in this body, a full ten years younger than in my previous life... Now isn't the time to dwell on these things."

Liu Hen didn't dare to waste any more time. He tried to get rid of the cold by shivering and tried to quickly control his almost unconscious body.

At the same time, he searched around, looking for anything that could save his life.

His biggest problem now was that his body was frozen, he was almost unconscious and unable to move.

In this world, due to the extreme shortage of food, some starving people even eat human corpses.

Liu Hen didn't want to become someone else's food as soon as he came here.

Suddenly, when his eyes fell on the worn hardwood pick in his left hand, a message appeared in his mind -

[A worn hardwood pickaxe, bindable.]

Suddenly, he was refreshed: "The data in my mind is not an illusion? Is this my golden finger?"

He grabbed a life-saving straw and chose to bind without hesitation.

There was no strange phenomenon, and the binding seemed to be completed instantly.

The next moment, the shadow of the hardwood pickaxe in his hand appeared in his mind.

This hardwood pickaxe seems to be able to be put away at any time, so that it can overlap with the phantom in the mind and return to its place.

And the data in his mind that he had previously thought was an illusion, turned into—

[All Things Pickaxe (Wood) Lv.0: None (Upgrade Requirements: One pound of iron ore, one magic crystal)]

'Is this my cheat code? A pickaxe upgrade? Does this help my situation?'

Liu Hen pondered for a moment and decided to upgrade first.

Because now he has no other choice.

The tools used by these savage mining teams are almost all hardwood pickaxes.

Hardwood pickaxes are made of special wood. This material is as hard as iron in extremely cold environments of minus twenty degrees Celsius. The quarrying effect is no worse than that of ordinary iron pickaxes. It is cheap and durable.

The only drawback is that it becomes blunt easily and the mining process is laborious.

'Two upgrade materials...'

The most valuable ore in this mine is pyrite.

The pyrite had long been mined out by the campers, and the entire mine had been abandoned, allowing the inhabitants to enter.

But ordinary iron ore can be found everywhere here.

As for the other material - magic crystal, it is the energy crystal dropped by the monsters that can be seen everywhere in the Night Fog World after their death.

Coincidentally, the original owner had killed a weak monster not long ago and obtained one.

Liu Hen did not dare to delay. He struggled hurriedly and took out the only magic crystal with trembling hands. Then he tentatively put the hardwood pickaxe and the magic crystal together, placed it on the wall of the cave next to him, and chose to upgrade.

Something magic happened.

The magic crystal turned into light and enveloped the hardwood pickaxe. At the same time, some of the iron ore on the cave wall suddenly disappeared, and dust fell down.

During this process, Liu Hen only felt a faint heat deep inside his body.

Suddenly, his frozen body quickly regained consciousness, and his originally extremely weak body's physical strength recovered quickly.

He didn't feel any increase in strength or power, but the heat dispelled the cold, allowing his body to move.

However, the feeling of hunger was not eliminated. On the contrary, perhaps because his body regained consciousness, the feeling of hunger became even stronger, making his eyes glow green.

The upgrade is completed in just a few seconds.

When the light faded, the hardwood pickaxe seemed to become heavier.

"Upgrading the pickaxe also counts as me upgrading it? So that's what binding means?"

Liu Hen was surprised and happy.

At this moment, the data in my mind has completely changed.

Not only did it change from a hardwood pickaxe to an iron pickaxe, but it also added some very useful special functions.

(End of this chapter)