Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 8 The only hope

"Is that the Red Snail Camp?"

Liu Hen looked at the halo thousands of meters away and felt a little excited.

It’s finally here!
Traveling in the darkness without any light source, and knowing that there are monsters.

Even though he had adapted for more than a day, he was still nervous along the way, fearing that he would suddenly encounter a monster that he could not defeat.

Fortunately, we finally arrived without any danger!

Once you get here, you can exchange for food and don’t have to continue to endure hunger.

Because he drank too much water before, he was in a hurry to go to the bathroom, so he had to relieve himself on the spot and excrete the water that had almost no nutrients that the human body could absorb after filtering.

After finishing his business, he continued on his way.

According to the original owner's memory, the base camp of the Hongluo Camp was inside a stone mountain, and the inside of the stone mountain was likely to have been hollowed out.

But this is just speculation. Outsiders cannot see what is happening inside the camp anyway.

The area that the barbarians can see is just the venue for external transactions of Hongluo Camp.

Ordinary barbarians cannot even enter the venue for external transactions and can only buy tree cakes at the door.

According to the original owner's memory, the people in the camp had both love and hate for these barbarians, and generally they were more disgusted with them.

The people in the camp need the savages to find various supplies and trade with them, and they can obtain various supplies at almost zero cost.

But because the barbarians ate everything, no grass grew wherever they passed.

There weren't any weeds around here anyway; anything that had adapted to the darkness had been dug up and eaten.

Many trees had their newly grown bark gnawed away, leaving the twisted, low-lying trees bare.

Only the poisonous trees remained intact.

In particular, the savages eat everything, and despite their age, they almost never take a bath. There are a lot of bacteria on their bodies and they smell bad, which disgusts the people in the camp and makes them unwilling to contact them.

"I don't know what's going on in the world of eternal night. Has there ever been a sun in this world?"

Liu Hen thought about this problem.

Unfortunately, there is no relevant information in the original owner's memory. Anyway, since the original owner could remember, the world has been dark, and the Hongluo Camp has already existed.

Suddenly, two figures appeared in the field of vision.

As night fell again, visibility dropped to about ten meters.

The barbarians walked very quietly, so when he saw the two people, they were only about ten meters apart.

Liu Hen's heart trembled, and he looked at the two men vigilantly, ready to take out the iron ore and throw it away at any time.

The two barbarians also looked at this side vigilantly, and did not take it lightly because there was only one person on his side.

Because of the limited vision, who knows if there is another group of people hiding further away?

The two sides confronted each other for a few seconds, then each retreated a distance, out of each other's sight, and continued on their way without interfering with each other.

In fact, murder and robbery are very common in this area, because most of the people who come near here come back with supplies to exchange for food.

Those who walked out more or less carried some food with them.

So when he got here, Liu Hen not only did not relax his vigilance, but became even more nervous and tense.

When he approached to two thousand meters, he saw some inhabited caves.

Because there was light in the cave, it could be seen from a long distance that there were at least a dozen people inside. According to the original owner's memory, those people had firearms such as pistols, which could deter anyone who coveted.

When you get here, there is a cave every hundred meters.

The people in the cave seemed to make a living by raising poisonous creatures that could only survive on the surface, and exchanging them for food with the Hongluo Camp.

Unfortunately, not everyone can master that kind of breeding technique, and it may not be easy to learn.

"I might be able to dig a cave nearby and live there later...but that depends on how Gold Finger develops."

This thought flashed through Liu Hen’s mind.

Finally, he successfully arrived at the Hongluo Camp.

The first thing I saw was a thick city wall that was ten meters high.

The city wall is arc-shaped and more than 500 meters long, completely blocking the cliffs of the mountain in front of it. The length and width of the internal area should be more than 300 meters.

The inside of the city wall was not brightly lit, but at least there was light, not as dark as outside.

There are also some very bright night lights on the city walls to illuminate the outside, perhaps to be able to detect possible invading monsters and other dangers as soon as possible.

Below the city wall, there were a dozen or so barbarians lying scattered around, all of them alive; the dead had been dragged away and thrown away.

Those barbarians were either as thin as children, or were children themselves, or disabled, and each of them was as thin as a skeleton.

Most people didn't even have clothes on them. Some of their clothes were stolen from them, or they exchanged them for food. They could only withstand the extreme cold through their tenacity.

These are people who cannot survive in the night fog world on their own. They don't even dare to go far away from the walls of the Hongluo camp, for fear of being captured and eaten by the starving people.

Because of their various defects, other barbarians are unwilling to accept them, so they can only eat dirt and wait to die here, or produce and sell their own products.

However, self-production and self-sales also involve conversion and consumption, and sooner or later there will be "supply exceeding demand", and that is when they will starve to death.

Because there was light shining down from the city wall, Liu Hen saw the two people he had met outside before.

They were a man and a woman. Because their faces were too dirty, their features could not be seen clearly, and even their ages were difficult to tell. Their gender could only be determined by the outline of their bodies.

As the two approached the city wall, a naked, skinny little girl, who looked no more than seven or eight years old, suddenly approached on her knees. She stopped about five meters away and pleaded, "Give me something to eat..."

"roll!"

The two men yelled and made as if to hit him.

The skinny little girl knelt down hurriedly and moved away. When she saw Liu Hen, she hesitated and wanted to beg.

However, Liu Hen hurriedly quickened his pace and passed her.

'well……'

Liu Hen sighed in his heart. As someone who had just traveled through time, he couldn't stand seeing this situation.

But now he couldn't even eat enough, so he could only force himself to be a little cold-blooded. Perhaps because he saw someone approaching, the small gate on the side of the Hongluo Camp wall slowly opened. An old man wrapped in thick, tattered clothes walked out and looked at Liu Hen and the other two expressionlessly: "What do you want to exchange?"

The two people in front quickly took out a blood-red piece of wood and asked how much food it could be exchanged for.

Liu Hen keenly noticed that the old man's eyes lit up when he saw the wood, but then calmed down.

"The fragments of the locust tree wood are only that big, and can barely be exchanged for three pounds of tree cakes." The old man said lightly.

"Only three pounds?"

Both men frowned.

"Do you want to change it? If not, get out." The old man said coldly.

"Change, change."

One of the men handed the block of wood over with a pained look on his face, saying, "Then I'll trouble Manager Chen."

The old man...also known as Manager Chen, took the piece of wood and took out three black tree cakes and handed them to the other party.

After the two men left, he looked at Liu Hen: "What about you?"

"Hello, Manager Chen, I'd like to exchange for a pound of tree cakes."

Liu Hen immediately took out the only remaining magic crystal and handed it over.

"Poor guy."

Manager Chen took the magic crystal with a cold face, took out a piece of tree cake and threw it to Liu Hen, then slammed the door shut, as if venting his dissatisfaction with going out so late at night.

"..."

Liu Hen didn't dare to care about the other party's rudeness. He weighed the palm-sized, square tree cake and confirmed that it should be about 500 grams, then turned and left.

In fact, he was already very satisfied that he could exchange food without any trouble and without encountering any ridiculous difficulties.

"Brother, give me something to eat..."

At this time, the skinny little girl came over again on her knees, begging in a hoarse voice.

Liu Hen subconsciously sped up again, but after taking a few steps he suddenly stopped because he thought about finding a partner.

Your partner doesn't need a strong person, but a strong person will make you feel uneasy.

This little girl who is so weak that she can't even tie a chicken is the most suitable candidate.

Seeing him stop, hope suddenly flashed in the little girl's cloudy eyes.

Liu Hen turned to look at the little girl and asked, "Is your foot hurt?"

"Ah? No...no." Although the little girl was confused, she still answered truthfully.

"Stand up and take a few steps to see." Liu Hen spoke again.

Since you are looking for a partner, you definitely cannot look for a disabled person, otherwise he will become a burden to you when you encounter danger.

Although the little girl was confused, she still slowly stood up and took two steps.

But perhaps because he was too weak, and had been kneeling for too long, his body was almost frozen, so he walked unsteadily and staggered, as if he would fall at any time.

Liu Hen spoke again with satisfaction: "I can't give you food now, but if you are willing to follow me and absolutely obey my arrangements, I can guarantee that you will not starve to death."

Suddenly, the skinny little girl in front of him trembled, but she was not moved. Instead, she asked with fear: "How will he die?"

"...?"

Are all the barbarians in this world so cautious?

Even children know this kind of text trap.

Liu Hen patiently explained, "I need a partner to help me keep watch. I will not let you die, but will protect you."

A look of surprise and uncertainty suddenly flashed in the eyes of the little girl in front of him.

"I'll give you ten seconds to make a decision. I don't have that much time to waste with you."

Liu Hen said calmly: "Make a decision as soon as possible."

Although most of the savages are illiterate, they still know how long ten seconds is. This is common sense.

This world is just a wasteland, not a dark ancient time.

The other barbarians under the city wall were also tempted at first, thinking they had met a good person.

But when they saw that Liu Hen did not give them food directly but made this request, they all lay down again.

"Oh, that kind of talk is only for fooling children. Who would want to burden a useless child?"

In the distance, a disabled barbarian sneered: "People like us, if we leave the city walls, will only become meat in the pot."

Liu Hen glanced at the man indifferently and did not respond.

"Ten seconds are up."

When the little girl didn't give an answer, he turned and left.

Behind him, a fierce struggle flashed in the little girl's eyes.

"I really want to live, even if it's just a humble life... I might die miserably, but what if it's true?"

Thinking of this, she gritted her teeth and said quickly: "I am willing to obey all your requests, as long as you let me live!"

Liu Hen turned around and said with satisfaction: "Always remember what you said now. Come with me."

After saying this, he strode into the night fog again.

"Child, if you go out, you might end up in a pot of meat. The human heart is terrifying, even scarier than the monsters in the dark."

The disabled savage who had spoken before spoke again.

"If you don't try, how can you know it's fake? This is my only hope of survival!"

The skinny little girl gritted her teeth, her eyes quickly became firm, and she staggered to catch up.
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