Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Small Bonfire: Greatly increases the temperature within a ten-meter radius. Possesses a deterrent and damaging effect on low-level Ghouls, but also strongly attracts Frost Beasts.

Daily Consumption: Wood 2 (Free initial ignition, no consumption for ten minutes)

Xia Honggen didn't have time to carefully examine the so-called campsite system. He was only focused on quickly searching for what he wanted from the long string of information.

Has a deterrent and damaging effect on low-level Ghouls!

This was what he needed.

Xia Hong turned his head to look at Xia Chuan, who was on the verge of death, and struggled to stand up, his eyes fixed on the impostor Xia Ding.

A spark suddenly appeared in front of Xia Chuan.

The impostor Xia Ding looked down at the fire in front of him, his brow furrowed, and he faintly sensed that something was wrong.

But the spark was weak and didn't seem threatening.

However, the next second, the spark suddenly exploded, and a three-meter-high crimson flame rose fiercely.

The flame seemed to have the potential to start a prairie fire, and the burning range quickly expanded. Not only was the impostor Xia Ding, who was strangling Xia Chuan, engulfed, but even two other impostor lumberjack team members who were not far from him were directly swallowed by the flames.

"Ah... what is this? What kind of fire is this? Ah..."

In an instant, the impostor Xia Ding, who was engulfed in flames, let out a terrified and miserable roar.

The other two impostor lumberjack team members didn't even have time to make a sound before they were directly burned into two clouds of black smoke.

The impostor Xia Ding's body twisted and moved constantly in the flames, obviously trying to escape, but the flames followed him like maggots on a bone.

His originally complete body was instantly burned into a crimson skeleton, and then even the skeleton was completely destroyed, turning into a cloud of black smoke like the two impostor lumberjack team members, and completely dissipated.

On this side, Xia Hong had already helped Xia Chuan up and turned to look at the bonfire still burning in place, his face suddenly filled with hope.

"Brother, what is this bonfire?"

"I don't know, but we're saved."

The impostor Xia Ding didn't die even when his head was split open.

But when he encountered this small bonfire, he instantly turned into ashes.

"Everyone, stop fighting! Come to the bonfire quickly!"

Xia Hong turned his head and shouted to the people in the cave who were still resisting desperately.

The scene of the impostor Xia Ding being burned to death had already been noticed by some people, and with this shout, the remaining survivors all gathered towards him.

Soon, the remaining one hundred or so people from the campsite all disengaged from the battle and gathered behind Xia Hong.

The campsite suffered heavy casualties, while the Ghouls, except for the three who were accidentally burned to death by the small bonfire, the remaining twenty-three were all unscathed.

Another Xia Ding led the remaining twenty-two impostor lumberjack team members towards the bonfire.

However, he stopped more than ten meters away from the bonfire.

Looking at the bonfire, the impostor Xia Ding's eyes were full of fear.

But he seemed unwilling to let Xia Hong and his group go. After a moment, he sneered and said:

"Little thing, how long can your fire burn?"

"For a long, long time!"

Xia Hong also sneered and turned to Xia Chuan and the others and said, "Move all the wood from the back over here and expand the fire."

The campsite's wood was just placed on the side靠墙by the wall.

Upon hearing this, everyone quickly moved the wood from the side of the wall.

As the wood was continuously thrown in, the fire of the small bonfire continued to expand.

Moreover, Xia Hong and others deliberately led the wood towards the impostor Xia Ding and his group.

Soon, the fire illuminated the entire cave.

The impostor Xia Ding and his group, as the fire spread, the fear in their eyes became more and more intense, and their bodies continued to retreat.

The impostor Xia Ding and the others were in a stalemate for a full hour.

Until they were forced to the entrance of the cave by the fire, and seeing that everyone was still continuously moving wood, a look of resentment finally appeared on his face. He stared deeply at Xia Hong and led the impostor lumberjack team members away.

At this time, it was already dawn. Xia Hong and others did not dare to leave the vicinity of the bonfire and could only look into the distance at the departing group.

When they finally couldn't see them and confirmed that the other party had gone far away, Xia Hong finally breathed a sigh of relief. A strong sense of exhaustion suddenly surged into his heart.

"Brother, this bonfire seems to have a problem."

"I know. It's only useful within a ten-meter radius. The light from the fire in other places is no different from the fire we lit before."

Xia Hong's back was already soaked in cold sweat.

He had already realized it when the fire exceeded the ten-meter range.

The fire in the cave was burned to fifty or sixty meters by them, but after leaving the ten-meter range of the original small bonfire, the temperature increase in the other places was no different from the fire they had lit before.

At that time, thinking of the system description of the small bonfire, Xia Hong roughly understood.

The small bonfire only works within a ten-meter radius.

Even if other means are used to expand the fire, it will not work.

Similarly, only the small bonfire has a deterrent and damaging effect on Ghouls. The other fires they lit are useless at all.

What he did later was just bluffing and scaring those Ghouls.

Fortunately, the other party was fooled.

After surviving the disaster, there was not a trace of joy in the cave.

Because disasters are often accompanied by endless pain.

At this moment, many people have realized that the real Xia Ding and his group have been killed.

Those twelve lumberjack team members are twelve families.

In addition to the massacre in the cave just now, at least seventy people were killed.

The entire cave was filled with wailing and crying.

"Is the leader really dead?"

"Is my family also dead?"

"My son was killed..."

"Mother, Mother, wake up!"

Besides the grief surging into his heart, Xia Hong felt an even stronger sense of frustration.

From beginning to end, he knew nothing about the Ghoul in Redwood Ridge.

He didn't even know what the other party's true face looked like.

After the first two impostor Xia Dings were exposed, the one who was leading was the one who was ambushed by Xia Chuan. The other one whose head was split open by himself was just acting muddleheaded and didn't seem to have intelligence.

After the first one was burned to death by the small bonfire, the muddleheaded one came out to lead and speak.

This is enough to prove that neither of the two impostor Xia Dings was the real body.

That is to say, the Ghoul in Redwood Ridge had not even shown its face and had already caused such a major blow to them.

Also, the two Xia Dings and the twenty-four impostor lumberjack team members, how did the other party create them and how did they control them?

He knew nothing about it.

The other party made a move lightly, and you suffered heavy casualties.

The key is that after sacrificing so many people, he didn't get even a little bit of useful information from the other party.

This sense of powerlessness made Xia Hong feel extremely frustrated.

Of course, more than that, it was fear.

Looking back and scanning the cave, seeing that most of the people were still immersed in grief, Xia Hong took a deep breath, walked to the entrance of the cave alone, picked up the stones and trees next to him, and began to seal the entrance.

After such a disturbance, the sky was already dawning, and the temperature was decreasing faster and faster. If he didn't quickly seal the entrance of the cave, people would freeze to death.

Even if he accidentally attracted Frost Beasts, it would be even worse.

Xia Hong's actions also reminded everyone.

Xia Chuan was the first to step forward to help, followed by the second and the third.

Finally, whether it was men, women, or even children, they all came to help.

Xia Hong turned back and looked at the people in the camp. Although it was freezing cold, a slight warmth rose in his heart.