Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Bang… … … …

Inside the valley, a hundred-meter-tall wooden puppet giant had appeared at some point.

The giant's body was extremely small, with its limbs taking up almost eighty percent of its body.

Its legs were like two擎天 giant pillars, and each step it took caused the valley floor to tremble incessantly, with the surrounding vegetation swaying precariously.

Its arms were long and narrow, nearly forty to fifty meters in length, almost half of its body. Although its hands didn't have discernible fingers, they were clenched into fists, resembling two meteor hammers with a diameter of over ten meters, which were frantically smashing down on the crowd on the ground.

It should be known that the valley was only three to four hundred meters wide, and with the wooden giant standing in the middle, there wasn't much room to dodge on either side. All the people from the six camps who had stayed outside were now fleeing in a disheveled manner.

There were a total of fifty-four people who had remained outside.

Xia Hong stepped out of the wooden house and glanced around, quickly counting that more than a dozen were missing. His expression tightened, and he hurriedly searched for Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the others among the fleeing figures.

“Leader, we're here!”

Yuan Cheng's voice came from the left. Xia Hong turned his head and a hint of relief appeared on his face.

Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the other six were all on the stone wall on the right side of the valley.

However, the relief on Xia Hong's face vanished instantly as he saw the six people's predicament.

The six of them were stuck in a crevice in the stone.

Outside the crevice, the wooden puppet giant's enormous right fist was frantically pounding. Although the crevice was one or two meters thick, cracks were appearing on the surface under such heavy blows, and it was clear that it wouldn't be able to withstand many more strikes before it completely broke apart.

The wooden puppet giant didn't have fingers and couldn't pull the six people out of the crevice, so it could only attack with brute force. Moreover, it knew to strike the only exit of the crevice, making its speed faster and faster, obviously not giving Yuan Cheng and the others a chance to escape.

Even more outrageous was that the wooden puppet giant was multitasking. It was only using one right arm to attack the six people, while its legs and left arm were targeting the other three groups of over forty people in the valley.

“Leader Xia, catch the knife!”

“Thank you.”

Xia Hong rushed towards the six people without hesitation. Luo Ming threw a broadsword over, and without turning around, he reached out and caught it, quickly rushing towards the stone crevice where the six were located.

With each strike of the wooden puppet giant's limbs, the ground trembled, and Xia Hong's running figure wobbled, his expression becoming increasingly solemn.

The ground in this world was different; the Digging Realm wasn't just talk.

Being able to create such a commotion on the ground, the wooden puppet giant's strength was definitely stronger than imagined. Not to mention himself, even Luo Ming probably couldn't withstand it.

While pondering, Xia Hong had already arrived at the edge of the stone crevice. Taking advantage of the giant's hammer blow to the crevice, he stepped on the stone wall to borrow strength, raised the broadsword in his hand, and slashed at the hammer-shaped giant fist.

This wooden puppet giant, as expected, was transformed from the other four wooden houses in the camp and should also be made of Golden Frost Tree. If he were empty-handed, Xia Hong wouldn't dare guarantee that he could split it, but now that he had a knife in his hand, there was no problem.

Crack… … … …

The blade struck the wooden fist. As Xia Hong expected, the sharpness of the metal weapon was beyond doubt, and it cut a crack more than a meter long without any suspense.

However, Xia Hong, who was facing the crack, had a stunned expression.

Beneath the crack, there was a dense layer of transparent white silk threads.

Before he could react, the giant puppet's right hand, which he had struck, not only lifted up as if nothing had happened, but also ignored him and continued to smash at the crevice where Yuan Cheng and the others were hiding.

Bang… … Bang… … Bang… … … …

The stone crevice where Yuan Cheng and the others were hiding wasn't big to begin with. After being smashed more than a dozen times, it was already crumbling. Yue Feng and Yuan Cheng, who were standing in the front, were even being squeezed by the rocks, blood spilling from their mouths.

If the giant puppet continued to smash like this, the six of them would surely die!

Xia Hong raised his head and saw that the crack he had just cut on the giant puppet's right hand was slowly healing. He didn't dare to hesitate any longer and took out the solidified oil from his pocket, directly smearing it on the blade.

The giant puppet's right fist had a diameter of over ten meters. With his previous strike, he hadn't intended to defeat the opponent, but only to attract the wooden puppet's attention and help Yuan Cheng and the others out of their predicament. However, he didn't expect the giant puppet to not fall for it.

Xia Hong gripped the long knife, aimed at the moment when the giant puppet was about to strike again, and suddenly leaped up, inserting the blade into its right hand. Then, he exerted force with his arms, tightly gripping the hilt.

As the giant puppet raised its right hand, Xia Hong was carried up along with it.

The moment the blade pierced into the giant puppet's right hand, the solidified oil had already begun to work. The white silk threads mixed in the wood were instantly ignited and then spread continuously in other directions.

It worked!

Xia Hong secretly said in his heart, but the relaxed look on his face had just appeared when his expression changed drastically the next second.

The knife he had inserted into the giant puppet's arm was actually falling out.

No, it wasn't the knife falling out, but the part that the knife had cut open, or rather, the part that the solidified oil had ignited, was falling off.

The giant puppet had actually separated a small part of its fist that had been burned by the solidified oil from its body.

Xia Hong realized that he was about to fall down with that part of the fist, his expression tightened, and he gritted his teeth and directly pulled out the knife. Then, with a leap, he rushed along the giant puppet's right fist, all the way up its right arm.

Although the giant puppet's fist was large, its right arm was thin and narrow, like a hammer handle and hammerhead. Taking advantage of the gap while rushing upwards, Xia Hong smeared another layer of solidified oil on the blade and continued to rush to the thinnest part of the giant puppet's right arm. Only then did he raise the long knife and slash down with a ferocious expression.

The giant puppet's target seemed to always be Yuan Chuan and the others on the ground, and it only thought that Xia Hong, who had climbed onto its right arm, was distracting it. Therefore, it still raised its fist and smashed at the stone crevice where Yuan Cheng and the others were hiding.

Xia Hong used almost all his strength for this strike.

There was no other way, because even the thinnest part of the giant puppet's right arm looked to be two or three meters in diameter. If he didn't use force, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to cut it off at all.

Tear… … … …

Fortunately, this strike worked!

Although it didn't directly cut it off, it had almost cut into more than two meters of the right arm. The white silk threads that had been touched by the solidified oil instantly ignited, and the remaining few centimeters that hadn't been cut were also ignited by the flames, directly breaking off.

Bang… … … …

The huge inertia of the right fist still smashed onto the stone crevice above Yuan Cheng and the others' heads, but after all, without the giant puppet's control, the force was already minimal when it landed.

Boom… … Crack… …

Even so, the stone crevice where Yuan Cheng and the others were hiding still broke apart.

Pushing away the rocks, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and the other six who escaped from inside all had a hint of relief on their faces after surviving a disaster.

If Xia Hong hadn't cut off the giant puppet's right arm, this punch would have landed normally, and the six of them would have been smashed into mincemeat on the spot.

Seeing that the six had escaped, Xia Hong lowered his head and glanced at the solidified oil in his hand. He raised his head and looked at the giant puppet's other three limbs still attacking Luo Ming and the others. A trace of struggle appeared on his face, and finally, he bit his lip and threw it towards Luo Ming, who was not far away.

“Leader Luo, catch it, this is the last piece, cut off its arm!”