Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Late at night, the wind howled.

At the entrance of a valley in the Great Xia Mountains, Xia Chuan led the thirteen members of the hunting team, returning from the outside, covered in dust.

"Xia Chuan, three prey? How is it getting more and more?"

Luo Yuan, who was outside the wooden house leading the children of the reserve force in practicing boxing, saw the hunting team carrying three prey from afar, his face filled with disbelief.

Now, the hunting team only needs to stay within the 500-meter boundary of Redwood Ridge, and Xia Hong doesn't even need to lead the team personally. His injuries haven't healed yet, so only Xia Chuan and the five Earth-Digging Realm members, along with the original eight Lumbering Realm members, went out.

In the past half month or so, Xia Chuan had already gone out four times, but each time he only brought back one or two prey. Tonight, he brought back three in one go, obviously his hunting skills were becoming more and more proficient.

As Luo Yuan spoke, the young people of the reserve force who had not yet broken through to the Lumbering Realm also stopped practicing boxing and turned to look at the people of the hunting team, their eyes full of envy and admiration.

The members of the hunting team, hearing Luo Yuan's praise, all lowered their heads and chuckled a few times, subconsciously turning their heads slightly to look at Huang Yong and Li Yun.

"Who told you to stop? Hurry up and continue practicing for me, each and every one of you. You haven't broken through to the Lumbering Realm for so long, and you still want to slack off? You're wasting the cold beast meat!"

Luo Yuan didn't notice the subtle movements of the crowd. Seeing the people of the reserve force stop, he immediately turned his head and roared at them a few times.

Ho… Ha…

Most of the adults in the camp have now broken through, and the majority of the reserve force are teenagers in their teens.

Luo Yuan's stern attitude was obviously very effective for them. Hearing the sound, they immediately started punching again, one by one.

"Luo Yuan, take it easy on the training, don't break these kids."

"Hahahaha, don't be afraid, just keep training them to death like this. These stinky kids have eaten cold beast meat and are full of energy. How can they become useful if they don't train?"

"Boys, your Big Brother Luo Yuan can't go out hunting recently and doesn't have contribution points to get, so he's holding his breath in his heart. Don't provoke him."

"Hahahahaha…"

The people of the hunting team, seeing this, spoke up to tease him.

Hearing Yuan Cheng tease him, Luo Yuan couldn't help but laugh and respond.

"Go away, Yuan Cheng, I have three or four thousand contribution points on my account. Even if you go out ten more times, you won't be able to beat me."

"That's not necessarily true. I already have more than a thousand on my account. Tonight, with two snow manes and one golden sheep, I can get at least close to a hundred points. I'll break the two thousand mark soon. Just wait, surpassing you is a matter of minutes."

… … … …

"Alright, stop chatting, go to the camp supply depot and hand over the prey!"

Seeing that the crowd was getting more and more interested in the conversation and there was a tendency to not stop, Xia Chuan couldn't help but interrupt.

The conversation between Luo Yuan and Yuan Cheng is a microcosm of the atmosphere in the camp where everyone is keen on contribution points.

The Mu Dong Craftsman Workshop is constantly innovating and developing more and more types of wooden utensils and animal skin utensils.

Especially the newly added hundreds of bows and arrows, the temptation to the Lumbering Realm and Earth-Digging Realm is even greater. Moreover, everyone can foresee that, with the abundance of coal and iron resources in the camp, more and more weapons and iron utensils will definitely appear in the camp supply depot in the later stage.

All of these things need to be exchanged for contribution points.

Contribution points are wealth in themselves. In addition, they can quantify an individual's contribution to the camp, so everyone naturally began to secretly compete with each other.

The impact of this competition is to make the Lumbering Realm and Earth-Digging Realm more enthusiastic about going out, and the motivation to acquire resources for the camp is also more sufficient.

Xia Chuan was happy to see such an atmosphere. Wasn't the purpose of formulating the contribution point rules the scene before him?

… … … …

On the second floor of the wooden house, after leading the hunting team to hand over the prey and register the contribution points obtained by everyone, the others left one after another, leaving only Xia Chuan in place, looking up at the third floor.

"The leader still hasn't come down today?"

Shi Ping, who was in charge of registration at the camp supply depot, shook his head and replied when he heard Xia Chuan's inquiry: "No, but when I went to deliver cold beast meat today, the leader was practicing boxing. Judging from the movements, his leg injury should have completely healed. He's not coming down, probably just wants to cultivate for a while longer."

Xia Chuan nodded and said softly: "That's good too. He usually leads us out hunting and has to take care of many things in the camp. Big Brother doesn't have any dedicated time to cultivate. It's good to take advantage of his injury to concentrate on cultivating for a while."

Shi Ping nodded in agreement upon hearing this, looking at the third floor, a hint of respect rising in his eyes.

Shi Ping is also one of the ninety-six Lumbering Realm archers. It can be said that Xia Hong was the decisive factor in successfully driving away the gnawing rat swarm that night.

Not to mention Xia Hong's own gains, even if it was just his calmness and composure in the face of danger, relying on his strong strength and wisdom to calmly force the Rat King to show himself at the end, Xia Hong alone would be worthy of the first功.

Great Xia is most fortunate to have such a leader.

"Judging from the fifteen people who showed up that night, the strength of the Mirror Immortal Camp must not be weak. The leader should be under pressure. In the end, it's still because our strength is not good, and we can't share the leader's worries. If there were a few more Earth-Digging Realm members, the leader wouldn't be so tired!"

Luo Yuan downstairs walked up at some unknown time.

Xia Chuan frowned slightly and said: "The strength of that Mirror Immortal Camp is indeed strong, but that's not a reason for them to be arrogant and domineering. They can occupy the Arrow Bamboo Forest if they want to, as long as they don't cross the border, and everyone is at peace, everything is easy to say. If they dare to cross the border to Redwood Ridge, we'll just… … … …"

"What, just fight them?"

A voice came from upstairs, directly interrupting Xia Chuan.

Hearing that it was Xia Hong's voice, the three of them immediately looked up with joy on their faces.

Xia Hong wore a beast-down cloak and stepped on a pair of black animal skin boots newly made by Mu Dong. He walked towards the three of them with a dragon-like stride and a tiger-like gait, with a smile on his face.

The three of them were slightly stunned when they saw Xia Hong for the first time.

It wasn't his outfit, nor was it the fact that his leg injury had healed.

Mainly, a blood aura was faintly emanating from Xia Hong's body, as if the qi and blood in his body were too full and overflowing. His movements also carried a very strong sense of power, bringing a very strong sense of oppression to the three of them when they approached.

"Big Brother, have you reached the 30,000-jin limit?"

Xia Chuan asked uncertainly.

Luo Yuan's face immediately showed a look of anticipation upon hearing this.

"Not yet, but it's only less than three thousand away."

Only less than three thousand away, that's more than twenty-seven thousand jin.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan both showed surprise on their faces;

Shi Ping, who had not yet broken through to the Earth-Digging Realm, showed a strong admiration.

"Leader, your speed is too fast. I've been in the Earth-Digging Realm for more than two months, and now my strength is only 14,000 jin, an average increase of only 1,000 jin per month."

After Luo Yuan finished speaking, Xia Chuan immediately nodded and said: "I'm about the same as you. At the current speed, it will take at least more than a year to reach the 30,000-jin limit."

"No!"

Xia Hong directly shook his head and denied Xia Chuan's estimate, smiling and saying: "It won't take that long. I probably broke through to the Earth-Digging Realm eight months ago. The initial rate of improvement was actually about the same as yours.

Your bodies should now be resistant to the meat of the three types of snow-maned cold beasts, so the rate of increase will slow down. Just switch to the meat of the Teng Snake and gnawing rats.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan both shook their heads upon hearing this.

"Leader, the Teng Snake and gnawing rat meat should still be reserved for you to use first. Our current rate of increase is still there. We'll use it when the reserves are a little more."

As soon as Luo Yuan said this, Xia Hong immediately understood the concerns of the two.

Some time ago, in order to make bows, Xia Hong hunted a lot of Teng Snakes. In addition, with the eighty-three gnawing rats harvested this time, to date, the camp's stockpile of these two types of cold beast meat should be almost 30,000 jin.

30,000 jin seems like a lot.

But the problem is, he also uses a lot.

He now needs fifty jin a day. Counting the days, from the first time he obtained gnawing rat meat to now, it's been about forty days, which means that he alone has consumed more than 2,000 jin.

The gnawing rat swarm has been driven away, and it will definitely be impossible to hunt gnawing rats in a short time. It won't work without him leading the team for the Teng Snakes, so Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan probably mean to leave these two types of cold beast meat to him as much as possible.

"No need, I won't need that much for the time being. Just leave me 1,500 jin per month based on my current usage. The rest will be open to everyone for exchange, but the price can be more expensive than those three types of snow mane."

Cold beast meat is not considered a scarce resource for Great Xia now, even the Teng Snake and gnawing rats are no exception.

At worst, he will personally lead the team out to hunt. Gnawing rats are difficult to find, but Teng Snakes are easy, and they produce a lot of meat. As long as he occasionally harvests a few, it will be enough for a long time.

As for the price setting, it's also simple. The hunting difficulty of Teng Snakes and gnawing rats is greater than those three types of snow mane. They are considered advanced cold beast meat, and the contribution points required for exchange are more expensive, which is also very reasonable.

"Understood, Leader!"

In addition to going out, Xia Chuan's most important task now is to manage the materials in the camp supply depot, including the contribution point prices corresponding to various materials. Hearing Xia Hong's suggestion, he naturally reacted quickly.

"By the way, Leader, there's good news that I haven't told you yet!"

"What good news?"

Looking at Xia Chuan's deliberately mysterious posture, Xia Hong immediately became interested.

Luo Yuan on the side obviously didn't know, and also turned to look at him.

"Huang Yong and Li Yun have successively broken through to the Earth-Digging Realm, and as far as I know, Hong Gang, Li Pingkai, Ying Xuan, and Yue Feng are not far from breaking through either. It's estimated that it won't take more than ten days."

Xia Hong's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

Luo Yuan's mouth was also wide open. Recalling the three prey that Xia Chuan had brought back tonight, and the expressions of everyone when they returned from the valley just now, he finally understood and couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle, "So that's how it is! No wonder you guys harvested so much tonight!"

Two more Digging Realm cultivators, and in the next ten days, four more will break through consecutively.

No, it should be more than four!

Huang Yong, Li Pingkai, and the four that Xia Chuan said might break through, are all members of the hunting team.

Apart from Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the Zhao Long brothers, the remaining members of the hunting team had roughly the same starting point.

Now that someone has started to break through, it means that everyone else is close.

"The eruption period of the Digging Realm should have arrived."

A surge of excitement flashed through Xia Hong's heart. If all fifteen members of the hunting team broke through to the Digging Realm, the camp would not only experience a qualitative leap in strength.

The key point is that the mining capacity would also increase exponentially.

He still had eighty-three gnawing rat teeth!

Two gnawing rat teeth can be made into a gnawing chisel, so eighty-three teeth would make forty-one chisels.

Fifteen Digging Realm cultivators, each with a gnawing chisel in hand.

The iron and coal production of the camp will be astonishingly high!

"For the hunting during the following period, the eight of you can come out with me. Let the seven who haven't broken through to the Digging Realm stay in the camp and focus on cultivation, seizing the time to break through."

"Yes, Chief!"