Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

“咯咯咯咯咯………”

The wooden puppet eerily peered into the gully, discovering Xia Hong's beast-hide garment lying quietly at the bottom, surrounded by bloodstains.

Its laughter grew increasingly sinister and rampant, even laced with a hint of delight.

Huff……

It even lowered its head with interest and blew a breath towards the gully; the gust turned into a gentle breeze, fluttering the beast-hide garment open, clearly wanting to scrutinize Xia Hong's corpse.

But with this one blow, its expression changed drastically.

Beneath the beast-hide garment, it was empty, only a patch of blood.

Where was Xia Hong's corpse?

While the wooden puppet's eerie face underwent a shocking change, it abruptly turned its head, looking towards the large blade it carried on its right shoulder; its pair of crimson pupils suddenly contracted.

The previous slash had been too heavy, kicking up a lot of dirt; the wooden puppet hadn't paid any attention at all.

Never would it have thought that Xia Hong had actually dodged that slash, and furthermore, hidden himself in the dirt, constantly clinging to the blade, being lifted up together with it.

Bang……

Xia Hong, who had been clinging to the blade's edge all along, suddenly burst out from a clump of dirt, like a cannonball leaving its barrel, diving forward along the blade's body.

The large blade was already being carried backwards on the wooden puppet's shoulder; Xia Hong had reached its right shoulder in an instant, raising the blade and aiming it at the wooden puppet's head.

This sudden, shocking scene not only caused the wooden puppet's mind to shake violently, but also stunned everyone else present.

Xia Hong had actually dodged that previous slash.

But if he had dodged it, why did he still pretend to be dead?

And furthermore, cling onto the large blade, to get close to the wooden puppet's head?

The wooden puppet seemed to realize something; within its contracting crimson pupils, a hint of terror suddenly surfaced, frantically turning its head and waving the large blade in its hand, wanting to drive Xia Hong away from its shoulder.

But at this moment, the distance between the two was simply too close, too close!

As Xia Hong raised his blade to chop down, he hurled a fist-sized lump of black ink towards the front, his expression suddenly becoming ferocious, and brought the blade down.

Puchi……

This slash of Xia Hong's, almost gathering all the strength in his body, cut into the wooden puppet's head at the location of its temple, along with the ink lump, almost burying the entire blade's body inside, leaving only the handle outside.

The moment the wooden puppet saw that lump of black ink, the terror in its pupils had already completely transformed into fear.

And when Xia Hong hacked the large blade, along with the ink lump, into the right side of its temple, those ink lumps transformed into countless black fire oils, contaminating its head.

The white threads inside the wound were ignited the instant they touched the fire oil.

And that entire lump of ink, the fire oil that overflowed was far too much, and through Xia Hong's slash, the fire oil splattered everywhere, almost staining its entire head.

Chi……

Even the face, which had only touched a little bit of fire oil, emitted a burst of black smoke; and inside the head, where most of the fire oil had entered, there was even more blazing fire, instantly spreading out.

The wooden puppet's entire head was almost emitting raging flames from the inside out.

“Ah…ah……ah………”

The intense pain coming from within caused it to immediately let out a miserable scream.

“You little bastard, you tricked me…you tricked me…ah…ah……”

The wooden puppet's legs had just been injured by the torch and were unable to move, but the pain coming from its head caused it to constantly struggle and roar; the large blade almost indiscriminately slashed hysterically at the ground, its target naturally being Xia Hong, who had long been thrown flying out.

Bang…bang…bang…

It frantically chopped towards Xia Hong; each slash caused the entire valley floor to tremble unceasingly, while at the same time, it incessantly emitted painful, resentful roars from its mouth:

“Tricked me……you little bastard, you dare trick me……ah……”

The aura from the over ten-meter-long large blade that was slashed out almost plowed the entire valley floor; although its target was only Xia Hong, everyone else, whether it was Yang Ning, Li Hu, or Luo Ming's group of four, or even Yue Feng, Yuan Cheng, and the others who were far away, were all frantically scattering to escape.

The others were already like this, not to mention Xia Hong, who was being targeted.

Xia Hong staggered as he dodged and fled; although he didn't dare to turn his head to look at the wooden puppet, but sensing that the force of the other party's large blade slashing down was becoming weaker and weaker, a hint of a cold smile suddenly appeared on his slightly pale face.

Others might not understand the wooden puppet's madness, but he knew.

What the wooden puppet was talking about was Condensed Fire Oil!

Firstly, from the beginning when they entered the valley, Xia Hong had realized that their every move was likely under the other party's surveillance.

Therefore, he didn't take out the Condensed Fire Oil to fight the enemy immediately, but instead followed Luo Ming's group of three into the wooden house.

What happened later in the wooden house, as expected, was not beyond his expectations; the wooden puppet used those fake puppets mixed in with the real people, deliberately consuming his Condensed Fire Oil.

This undoubtedly further illustrated that the other party was very afraid of Condensed Fire Oil.

Thus, at that time, Xia Hong deliberately concealed that he had actually brought a total of four lumps of Condensed Fire Oil this time; he had given Xia Chuan one earlier, and he still had three on him, but he told Luo Ming that he only had two lumps of Condensed Fire Oil.

In fact, these words were deliberately spoken for the wooden puppet to hear.

And when they reached the outside world, after the giant wooden puppet had consumed those two lumps of Condensed Fire Oil, the wooden puppet showed itself.

At this time, Xia Hong had already realized that the lie he had told earlier had taken effect.

From the fact that the wooden puppet could simultaneously deal with the seven of them without falling behind later, it could be seen that the wooden puppet was deliberately entangled with Yang Ning and Li Hu on the mountaintop; what it feared wasn't Yang and Li, what it feared was the Condensed Fire Oil.

But it had to be said that this wooden puppet was indeed a bit too cautious.

Even after it showed itself, it didn't dare to be certain that Xia Hong really didn't have any Condensed Fire Oil on him.

Therefore, when it was surrounded by seven people and fell into a desperate situation, it chose to break through from Luo Ming and Li Hu's side, rather than Xia Hong's side.

But this also made Xia Hong even more certain of his previous thoughts.

The torch was Xia Hong's last attempt to probe.

When approaching the wooden puppet's legs, Xia Hong didn't take out the Condensed Fire Oil either, because he knew that the wooden puppet could control any part of its body to separate.

Therefore, he used the torch, in order to make the wooden puppet lower its guard.

Everything Xia Hong did was only to paralyze the wooden puppet, to buy himself the opportunity to get close to its head.

The wooden puppet used those transparent white threads to control the other puppets, and in the previous battles, including that giant wooden puppet, the threads in the head were the densest, and Luo Ming had completely resolved that giant wooden puppet by hitting its head with Condensed Fire Oil.

Therefore, the head should be the wooden puppet's fatal weakness.

“Ah……ah………”

As the flames on its head burned brighter and brighter, the wooden puppet's screams also grew louder and louder, and the movements of the black blade slashing at Xia Hong also began to distort, even pausing.

Xia Hong, who was fleeing in a sorry state, finally had a chance to breathe.

Taking in the wooden puppet's twisted and struggling appearance, and then looking back at the huge knife mark on his shoulder that almost revealed bone, a lingering fear still flashed in his eyes.

Dodging that previous slash, of course, wasn't that simple.

Although he had completely avoided that black blade, the aftermath of the black blade slashing down still smashed into him.

If that aftermath had moved an inch closer to his neck, he would have really lost his life just now.

Just as everyone thought that they could just sit and wait for the flames to completely burn the wooden puppet to death, Yang Ning over there moved at this time.

A flash of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he called out to Li Hu.

“Hu Zi, follow me, kill it!”

Li Hu on the other side was also like this, a hint of excitement also passed through his eyes, and he charged towards the wooden puppet with flames all over its body along with him.

Seeing the two people's actions, Luo Ming's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't say anything.

And Xia Hong on this side also showed a hint of intention on his face, but touching the wound on his shoulder and looking at the five people beside him, Yuan Cheng and Yue Feng, he hesitated for a moment and still didn't move.

“Those two got a bargain.”