Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Day Twenty-Two, Second Month of the Great Xia Era.

Second floor of the wooden house, at the entrance of the supply depot.

"This saber weighs over six hundred pounds, so powerful!"

"Sabers are for close combat, but this ten-stone iron-backed bow is even more formidable."

"My brother-in-law said that when hunting with the leader, we rarely have any close combat opportunities; we mainly use bows and arrows."

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Lin Kai and Xu Ning looked excited, constantly gesturing with the saber and iron-backed bow in their hands, occasionally whispering to each other.

The lumbering realm members who came to the supply depot to submit resources couldn't help but reveal envy in their eyes when they saw the two and the weapons in their hands.

Even Shi Ping, who had just distributed the weapons to them, occasionally cast envious glances at them.

Almost everyone in the camp knew that, of the three who simultaneously broke through to the Earth-Digging Realm the day before, besides Cheng Feng, who would continue to lead the harvesting team, Lin Kai and Xu Ning had both been promoted to the hunting team.

Supply Depot, Artisan Workshop, Hunting Team, Lumbering Team, Harvesting Team.

Although, on the surface, the five departments of Great Xia each performed their duties and there was no distinction between high and low, noble and humble, people always liked to compare, especially after the contribution values were quantified, the differences in treatment and status immediately became very obvious.

The members of the hunting team were undoubtedly the first echelon of Great Xia, and their status was even slightly higher than that of Cheng Feng, Bai Dongying, and Mu Dong, the leaders of the three other departments.

The reasons were simple: first, strength, and second, contribution points.

Take clothing as an example. Currently, only the entire hunting team in the camp had a full set of clothes, and even their families mostly wore them.

While in the other four departments, only a hundred or so people had clothes, and many of them benefited from the contribution points they accidentally obtained from driving away the gnawing rats last time. Proportionally, it couldn't compare with the hunting team.

Of course, there was the reason of numbers, but everyone knew in their hearts that the most important thing was that the ability of the other four departments to obtain contribution points was not as good as the hunting team.

Currently, the way to obtain contribution points in the camp was ultimately through harvesting and hunting. People in the other four departments could only rely on harvesting, and they could only harvest wood and crystal fruits. At most, they could earn a dozen contribution points a day, even at best.

But the people in the hunting team were different. They could earn up to fifty contribution points a day just from mining; daily forging of ironware, hunting low-level frost beasts, and collecting medicinal materials deep in the Redwood Ridge, and they were also often assigned to protect the lumbering realm members who went out to collect…

They had more ways to earn contribution points.

Not to mention that the amount obtained each time was much larger than theirs.

Of course, more importantly, they followed the leader to hunt and kill intermediate frost beasts.

Everyone in the camp now knew that an intermediate Snow Mane was worth 4,500 contribution points, and the leader didn't participate in the distribution. In the past half month, the hunting team could bring back three intermediate Snow Manes every night.

This also meant that the fifteen members of the hunting team could share 900 contribution points every night…

One night, 900 points!

What did 900 contribution points mean?

It meant that in one night, they could exchange for six sets of clothes, or a five-stone iron-backed bow, a saber, dozens of ordinary ironware, and not to mention other wooden and leather goods…

This alone was enough to drive everyone crazy.

Anyone in the camp with a bit of ambition was now working hard, thinking about breaking through to the Earth-Digging Realm as soon as possible and becoming a member of the hunting team.

Therefore, it was not surprising that Lin Kai and Xu Ning, who had taken the lead, aroused the envy of these people.

"Alright, your mouths are grinning to your ears. Stop showing off here. Have you applied the Fire Condensing Oil yet?"

The other members of the hunting team also arrived one after another.

Yue Feng smiled and joked when he saw the two looking so smug.

"Hahaha, brother-in-law, we applied it a long time ago."

"Hehe, it's not easy to go out with the leader. As soon as night fell, Lin Kai and I came here to prepare, just waiting for you and the leader!"

Yue Feng was Lin Kai's brother-in-law. In addition, Xu Ning and Lin Kai were originally the earliest batch of lumbering realm members in Great Xia, and the three had always been close.

"It's your first time going out, and you two rented the saber and iron-backed bow together. The rent for one month will add up to 100 contribution points. It's hard to say whether you can earn it back!"

"Plus the Fire Condensing Oil and torches, you two have spent more than one hundred and fifty points before you even started earning contribution points. Don't end up in debt!"

Luo Yuan and Zhao Long, who were on the side, couldn't help but join in the teasing.

"Ah, what should I do then? I don't have enough contribution points!"

Lin Kai pretended to be nervous, but the traces of acting were too obvious, and everyone couldn't help but chuckle softly.

"Don't try to fool me. I've already found out that following the leader out once can earn at least nine hundred contribution points. Don't say these things only cost one hundred and fifty points a month, even if it's one thousand five hundred points, I'm not afraid!"

"Hahahahahaha…"

Everyone laughed loudly, and Luo Yuan and Zhao Long, who were exposed for their unsuccessful teasing, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Xia Chuan, who came out of the supply depot, couldn't help but smile.

As long as they could steadily follow Xia Hong out, renting these supplies, even if it cost twice as much as one thousand five hundred points, they would rent them without hesitation, because even so, they would still have something to earn.

The contribution point rent currently charged for sabers and iron-backed bows is more symbolic, after all, there are not many Earth-Digging Realm members in the camp at present.

"Is everyone ready?"

However, as Xia Hong's voice came from the corridor, everyone's laughter stopped immediately, and they all turned to look towards the corridor.

Xia Hong, carrying a double-bladed giant axe, holding an iron-backed bow, and with the ceremonial saber hanging at his waist, was still wearing a black cloak and black animal skin boots, and slowly walked down from the corridor.

Strangely, Xia Hong's physique was actually not outstanding among the hunting team. Yuan Cheng, Luo Yuan, Zhao Long, and several others were much more burly than him.

But in everyone's eyes, Xia Hong, who was walking from the corridor at this moment, seemed to be several times larger than all of them, and there seemed to be invisible air currents surging around his body, giving a sense of inexplicable oppression.

And as the distance got closer, this sense of oppression became deeper and thicker.

It seemed to make people's breathing a little uneven…

"Are you all deaf?"

Xia Hong's thunderous voice resounded in their ears, and everyone was startled and immediately replied in unison: "Ready!"

Xia Hong nodded, his eyes slowly shifted to the edge of the crowd, looking at Xu Ning and Lin Kai, a smile appeared on his face.

"Let's go!"

"Yes, leader!"

All seventeen people nodded in agreement, fully armed, followed behind Xia Hong, left the camp, and plunged into the Redwood Ridge.

After entering the Redwood Ridge, Xia Hong led everyone directly to the north.

The faces of the seventeen people showed more or less excitement.

They all knew that the main purpose of this outing might not be hunting, but to inspect the northern territory and see if the people from the Mirror Immortal Camp had crossed the border during this period.

The gnawing rat swarm incident, the aggressive posture of He Meng and his group, was still vivid in their minds. The hunting team members in the camp had no good feelings for the Mirror Immortal Camp, and at this moment, they couldn't wait to run into them.

The territory previously demarcated by the Lu Shang Camp was actually only five hundred meters at the northernmost side. Xia Hong ordered everyone to spread out and take a look in this five hundred-meter area, and they quickly searched it all.

The people who came back one after another also reported their findings.

"In many places, there are traces of people's activities."

"The number of low-level frost beasts on the periphery has obviously decreased a lot, they must have been hunted."

"Many trees have also been cut down, it must be the people from the Mirror Immortal Camp."

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The content of everyone's reports was also within Xia Hong's expectations.

But realizing that the Mirror Immortal Camp people hadn't taken the words he had Yu Wentao bring back to heart at all, his face couldn't help but sink a lot.

"I found traces of a large group of people walking inside on the west side, very fresh, it should have been an hour or two ago!"

Until Luo Yuan, who came back last, finished speaking.

Xia Hong immediately turned to look inside the west side and said in a deep voice:

"Go, go in and see how capable these people are!"

Hearing the anger contained in Xia Hong's deep voice, everyone's expressions also became much more solemn, and they quickly followed behind Xia Hong and rushed towards the west side, which was the depths of the Redwood Ridge.

The traces of activity on the periphery were very clear, and it could be roughly judged that the number of hunting team members in the Mirror Immortal Camp was more than twenty, about the same as the last time they encountered.

But the further they went into the Redwood Ridge, these traces of activity slowly became blurred, and even disappeared completely later on.

"The snow inside is too thick, the temperature is too low, the density of frost beasts is also high, and they seem to have deliberately concealed their traces of activity, we can't find them!"

After going deep for more than 1,300 meters, and finding that they could no longer track each other's traces, Xia Hong looked at the deeper west side, his brows slightly furrowed.

Previously, when leading the team to hunt, except for the first time when he accidentally went deep four or five kilometers while chasing Snow Manes, he basically controlled the hunting area within a 1,500-meter range.

At the current location, the 1,500-meter range can basically be seen clearly.

Even if they can't see it, the size of the intermediate frost beasts is there. As long as the other party is hunting, with their ears close to the ground, they can hear a little movement.

But here, there is still no discovery.

Then there is only one possibility…

“The strength of the Mirror Immortal Camp is inherently stronger than ours. If they've been hunting here for the past two weeks, it's not surprising they've gone deeper. Big brother, let's search further in!”

Xia Chuan's tone carried a hint of ruthlessness, as if he wouldn't rest until he found the Mirror Immortal Camp.

The others nodded in agreement, clearly supporting Xia Chuan's words.

“Then let's continue searching deeper. Xia Chuan will be in the front, and the rest of you split into pairs and spread out to search. Be careful to conceal yourselves, and listen for movement on the ground. This should help us find them faster!”

With Xia Hong and Xia Chuan in the lead, the remaining sixteen people split into pairs and began searching deeper.

The area wasn't large, and with everyone spread out, it didn't take long. After only half an hour, one group heard movement.

“Northwest side, not sure how far, but we can hear the vibrations!”

It was Yuan Cheng and Luo Yuan, who had gone to the northwest.

Hearing the report, Xia Hong immediately blew a few soft notes on his bone whistle.

Xia Chuan, in the front, and the other six groups quickly gathered around.

“Where's the other group? Who's missing?”

Seeing that only seven groups had returned, Xia Hong frowned.

The group confirmed among themselves, and soon they knew who it was.

“It's Xu Ning and Lin Kai!”

Hearing these two names, the others' expressions immediately darkened.

“Those two fools, didn't they run off too far?”

“It's their first time hunting outside, they don't have much experience, they probably wandered off.”

“Split up, search the sides…”

Xia Hong subconsciously abandoned the idea of searching to the northwest and told everyone to split up and look for the two. However, before he could finish speaking, Lin Kai's voice came from the east.

“Leader, leader, quick, come with me, a big discovery!”

Lin Kai's face showed obvious elation. He even shouted at Xia Hong from ten meters away, without even walking over.

Xia Hong looked somewhat suspicious, but seeing that there was nothing unusual about Lin Kai, he followed him.

The others exchanged glances. Although they were also suspicious, seeing that Xia Hong had already gone, they immediately followed behind.

The group followed Lin Kai eastward for more than three hundred meters before they saw Xu Ning waving at them from a large tree in the distance.

The moment they saw Xu Ning, everyone's pupils shrank.

“There's a cold beast above Xu Ning's head!”

“That cold beast isn't moving, is it asleep?”

“A Magic Goat, it's a Magic Goat.”

“No, it seems like…”

… … … …

As everyone exclaimed in surprise, they quickly took out the bows and arrows on their backs. The Zhao Long brothers, being the fastest, even nocked their arrows and prepared to shoot.

“Wait, that Magic Goat is already dead!”

Xia Hong, who was at the front, interrupted the discussion. While his face showed joy, he also had some guesses in his heart. Then, he quickly rushed towards Xu Ning's location.

“Leader, this Magic Goat is already dead. It has many wounds on its body. It should be someone else's prey, temporarily stored here!”

In the tree, Xia Hong reached out and touched the knife wound on the Magic Goat's forehead. Seeing that the blood at the wound hadn't completely dried, his expression instantly became strange.

The others had also climbed up the tree by this time. Looking at the huge Magic Goat corpse, arranged to look as if it were sleeping, after thinking for a moment, their expressions became playful.

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“This… was it hunted by the Mirror Immortal Camp?”

“Definitely. Just like us, one beast isn't enough for a night. They hide the ones they hunt first here, and then take them back together after the hunt is over!”

“Hahahaha, this is really…”

“Would we consider this a freebie?”

“Hahahaha, let's see if they dare to reach out randomly again. This is going to be interesting. We haven't hunted a Magic Goat before!”

… … … … … …

The hunting team's tone suddenly became excited.

At this moment, Xia Hong put away his strange expression. After thinking for a moment, he looked back at Xia Chuan, pointed at the Magic Goat, and ordered, “Drain all its blood!”

“Leader, don't we want the meat?”

Intermediate cold beasts are mainly valued for their blood. The meat isn't much different from low-level cold beasts. However, an intermediate cold beast yields at least four or five thousand catties of meat. It was a little reluctant to just give so much meat to the Mirror Immortal Camp.

“It's precisely to leave the meat behind. Otherwise, how would they know that we drained the blood? Hahahahaha…”

Xia Chuan quickly realized and laughed a few times. He took out a soft leather pouch, directly cut open the Magic Goat's chest, and began to drain the blood.

The others were stunned at first when they heard Xia Chuan's words, but then they immediately reacted, and a mischievous smile appeared on their faces.

That's right, if they took the whole cold beast away, the other party might think it was done by other cold beasts. Draining the blood and leaving the meat was clearly man-made.

“They risked their lives to hunt a Magic Goat, but we drained all its blood, haha!”

In just a moment, all the Magic Goat's blood was drained. Xia Chuan put away the leather pouch and couldn't help but laugh a few more times.

Xia Hong also couldn't help but feel great. He looked back at Lin Kai and Xu Ning, his expression full of praise, and waved his hand generously: “Xu Ning and Lin Kai did a good job. This bag of Magic Goat blood will be counted as 3000 contribution points, split evenly between you two!”

Hearing that they could each get 1500 contribution points, Lin Kai and Xu Ning couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. After reacting, they bowed to Xia Hong with excitement:

“Thank you, leader!”

It was their first time out, and they hadn't even started hunting cold beasts yet, but they had already received 1500 contribution points.

Lin Kai and Xu Ning's faces were full of excitement, and even Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the others next to them couldn't help but feel envious.

“Alright, Luo Yuan, lead the way, let's go to the northwest and see if it's them!”

According to the traces they had seen on the periphery, the Mirror Immortal Camp had come here quite a few times in the past half month, and they didn't know how many intermediate cold beasts they had hunted.

These cold beast resources all belonged to the Great Xia Camp!

Just the blood of this one Magic Goat wasn't enough for them to repay their debt.

A cold light flashed in Xia Hong's eyes. He asked Luo Yuan to lead the way and led the group towards the location where he had just heard the movement.

The group followed behind Luo Yuan, walking about a kilometer to the northwest, and immediately felt the movement coming from the ground in the distance.

“It's on the west side. Judging by the movement, it should be about four or five hundred meters away!”

Even at night, the visibility in Redwood Ridge wasn't actually low.

The main problem was the trees. These large trees were often more than ten meters in diameter, and even thicker ones existed, so once you got far away, your vision was easily obstructed. You could only judge the direction and approximate distance by the movement.

After getting up from the ground, Xia Hong looked back at the others and said: “Still the same as before, Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan follow me, and the rest of you spread out behind us, using our position as a reference point. When you see someone, immediately prepare your bows and arrows, and watch my hand signals!”

The long-term cultivation of tacit understanding allowed the others to immediately understand Xia Hong's intention, and the fifteen people quickly dispersed around.

“Let's go, let's go take a look!”

Seeing that everyone else had dispersed, Xia Hong spoke, took Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan, and headed directly towards the location where he had just heard the movement.

Crack… Bang… Swish… Swish… …

“Keep shooting, don't stop!”

“This beast has entered the Kui Marsh and has no strength left, shoot arrows quickly!”

“Roar… … … …”

As the distance got closer and closer, the movement ahead gradually became clearer.

There was the sound of large trees breaking and collapsing, the sound of arrows shooting in rapid succession, the sound of people giving commands, and the roar of cold beasts… … … …

When the distance was reduced to about a hundred meters, everyone could actually clearly see the scene of a group of people hunting in front.

Below a giant Ice Shuo Tree, seven or eight people were wielding giant axes, constantly fighting with a Teng Serpent, and on more than a dozen large trees around, arrows were constantly flying out, shooting towards the Teng Serpent's vulnerable parts.

Behind that big tree, there was also a Golden Armor Thunder Kui lying on the ground, covered in wounds, completely still. Its body length was also nearly ten meters, about the same size as the Golden Armor Thunder Kui they had seen last time.

“This is, a Teng Serpent?”

“It's a Teng Serpent, but judging by the eye, it's sixty to seventy meters long, it should be intermediate!”

“No, there's another one over there!”

“That's the Golden Armor Thunder Kui we saw last time, it's already dead.”

“This group of people, their strength is so strong, they just killed a Thunder Kui and then started attacking the Teng Serpent?”

“Not just that, Thunder Kui, Teng Serpent, counting that Magic Goat, this group of people has actually hunted three different types of intermediate cold beasts in a row.”

… … … …

Xia Hong didn't feel anything when he heard the others' discussions before.

Only when he heard Xia Chuan's last sentence did his expression become much more serious.

After all, it was a giant camp, and its foundation was much stronger than Great Xia.

Hunting three different types of intermediate cold beasts in a row wasn't just about having strength, but also about having enough understanding of the habits, skills, and weaknesses of different cold beasts.

This valuable experience must be gained by predecessors risking their lives to try, and can be considered one of the most valuable assets of a camp, which cannot be obtained by simply hiding in the camp and cultivating.

“Watch carefully, it's a good opportunity to see where the Teng Serpent's weaknesses are!”

Hearing Xia Hong's words, Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan immediately realized that this was a rare learning opportunity, their eyes lit up slightly, and they quickly stared carefully.

“Intermediate Teng Serpent, doesn't it create poisonous mist like low-level Teng Serpents?”

“Impossible, that should be one of the Teng Serpent's special advantages, there's no reason for it to disappear after evolving!”

Hearing their confusion, Xia Hong also frowned slightly, but after carefully observing the battle scene of the Mirror Immortal Camp, he immediately had some guesses.

“They don't dare to touch Teng Jiao's body, and they have been intentionally or unintentionally leading Teng Jiao towards that swamp.”

After Xia Hong finished speaking, he carefully watched Teng Jiao's movements.

Coincidentally, Teng Jiao's body just happened to fall into the swamp. It opened its fangs, trying to use its tail to support itself, prop up its upper body, and twist around to attack the people behind it.

A magical scene occurred.

When Teng Jiao's tail exerted force on the swamp, it actually began to sink in, and the more force it used, the faster it sank.

Before long, more than ten meters of its tail were completely buried.

Moreover, after sinking in, it couldn't pull it out… … … …

“The habitat of Lei Kui can actually be used to hunt Teng Jiao!”

Seeing this, Xia Hong finally understood, and couldn't help but exclaim in his heart. Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan beside him had similar expressions.

Of course, amazement aside.

Xia Chuan didn't forget what the purpose was of spending so much effort tonight to come here to find the people from the Mirror Immortal Camp.

He saw very clearly that the leader directing everyone in the Mirror Immortal Camp was He Meng.

Seeing that nearly half of Teng Jiao's body had sunk into the swamp, he quickly turned his head and softly reminded Xia Hong:

“Big brother, it's almost time. If we don't take action, this Teng Jiao will die!”

Xia Hong had already surveyed the surrounding terrain. Seeing that Teng Jiao's injuries were constantly worsening, he realized that time was running out, and immediately turned his head and whispered a few words to Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan.

Hearing this, their eyes lit up slightly. Then, they took out a few prepared torches from their bodies, and directly split up, running towards the left and right sides, just in time to bypass the north and south sides of where He Meng and his group were hunting Teng Jiao.

Xia Hong turned his head and looked around, picked a large tree, and directly climbed to the top, seventy or eighty meters high, looking towards the left and right sides.

Soon, a torch was lit up one kilometer away to the south.

Immediately afterwards, a torch was also lit up about two kilometers away to the north.

Although it was very far away, and the light emitted by the torches was relatively weak, Xia Hong could still see clearly that on both the north and south sides, a behemoth was rapidly approaching the torches.

Bang bang bang… … … …

As the behemoth continued to approach, the movement gradually became louder.

He Meng and his group, who had not yet killed the Teng Jiao, suddenly changed color, and looked towards the north and south sides respectively.

“Help! Ah!”

“Save me, save me… …”

As two rays of firelight approached from the distant dense forest, panicked screams came from the north and south sides.

Although He Meng and others hadn't stopped using the bows and arrows in their hands.

Their faces were already ashen.

“Why is someone coming at this time!”

“And being chased by cold beasts… …”

“Bad, bad, these two dog bastards!”

“Get out, all of you get out, don't lead the cold beasts over here, run somewhere else!”

He Meng, in desperation and at a loss, even turned his head and roared at the people approaching from the north and south sides, trying to drive them away.

But his roar was destined to be in vain.

Although Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan pretended to be flustered, they were already overjoyed in their hearts. They were still a hundred meters or so away from He Meng and others, estimating that the cold beasts behind them were already very close and about to catch up.

The two directly threw the torches in their hands towards them… …

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