Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 10: Long Tongue Snow Mane
At first glance, this ice tree looks no different from other nearby trees.

The tree trunks are covered with white snow, and the treetops are also wrapped in silver. Thousands of icicles hang from the forked branches like curtains.

But if you look closely, you will find that on a thick branch, there are dozens of icicles more than one meter long, standing upright in a strange way.

Xia Hong stared at the tree trunk carefully and immediately identified it.

That wasn't some icicle; it was clearly a giant snow-white creature resting on the tree trunk.

A tongue that was about four or five meters long hung down from its mouth.

Its tongue is also white, and there is a layer of ice on the surface, so if you don't look carefully, you might think it's just a particularly long icicle.

Those "icicles" standing upright are actually the barbs on its back.

It was dark at night, and if you didn't look carefully, you would definitely not be able to see it.

Fortunately, it was Xia Hong's first time going out and he was extra careful, so he was able to discover it.

In the darkness of the night, it was hard to see the exact size of the creature, but Xia Hong had already recognized it from its long tongue and the barbs on its back.

"Long-tongued snow-mane, only two meters long, it should be a juvenile!"

There are not many kinds of cold beasts on the outskirts of Redwood Ridge.

Two of the most common are the Spurred Frostwolf and the Long-tongued Snowmane.

According to what I heard from the logging team members before, the long-tongued snowmane is probably a low-level cold beast that looks like a wild boar.

The body of the long-tongued snow-mane is extremely large. Even the young ones weigh three to four hundred kilograms; the adults basically weigh over a thousand kilograms.

Snowmanes are extremely powerful and like to attack with the spikes on their backs and foreheads. More importantly, their tongues are several meters long. Not only are they long, pointed and sharp, but they can be hard or soft, making them hard to defend against.

"If you encounter a young snowmane, if you have a strong archer and a dozen good woodcutters to deal with it, you still have a chance to kill it. Otherwise, if you encounter it in the wild, just run away."

Thinking of what he had heard before, Xia Hong took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

Although I am tempted by Snowmane's good physique, I still have to face reality.

Fortunately, it was night time and Snowmane was asleep.

If you meet one awake during the day, it would be questionable whether he can survive.

"Be quiet and don't disturb him. Pick some crystal fruits and leave."

"The biggest characteristic of the Long Tongue Snow Mane is that it becomes extremely sleepy at night. As long as you don't attack it, it will basically not wake up."

Although the members of the logging team would not lie to him, Xia Hong naturally would not joke with his own life. He first picked up a stone from the ground, then climbed up the tree, and threw it towards a tree a hundred meters away.

The stone hit the tree and only caused a slight shake without causing much noise.

But the icicles on the tree fell down because of the vibration.

The sound of icicles hitting the ground was unusually clear in this silent forest. Xia Hong also held his breath and carefully observed the snow mane.

Snowmane ignored the loud noise and continued to sleep soundly.

This scene also made Xia Hong feel relieved.

"Pick the fruit gently, it shouldn't be a problem."

However, just as Xia Hong was about to come down from the tree.

whoosh...

The sound of an arrow cutting through the air suddenly came from the opposite side.

In the dark night, although Xia Hong could not see the sharp arrow clearly, judging from the direction from which the sound came, he could basically conclude that it was the Snow Mane on the tree.

"Roar…………"

Sure enough, as the sound of the sharp arrow disappeared, an angry roar suddenly came from the Bingshuo tree.

The sound was earth-shaking. The whole tree began to tremble, the icicles on the branches were shaken away, and the snowflakes on the ground were shaken and splashed everywhere.

Even Xia Hong's tree began to tremble violently.

"Are you crazy? Are these people from the Big Rock Camp?"

Xia Hong screamed in his heart, but he didn't dare to move his body at all.

In the early years, several camps around Redwood Ridge divided their respective territories under the leadership of Camp Rogge.

The west side of Daxia’s territory at Redwood Ridge is the territory of Dashi Camp.

At this moment, Xia Hong certainly didn't care about the Dashi Camp crossing the border.

He was just curious about where the people in Dashi Camp got the courage to attack a long-tongued snow-mane.

Although he was not clear about the specific strength of the Dashi Camp, he was sure that the other party was also a small camp like Daxia, and at most it had a few more lumberjack-level fighters than Daxia.

With such strength, can you hunt Snowmane?

Soon, Xia Hong found out that he was wrong.

Dashi Camp seems to have something special.

"Shi Dong, I shot its left eye. Follow me and aim at its right eye. The rest of you, quickly put a rope around it!"

A sharp voice came from the west side of the Bingshuo tree.

Seventeen people followed the sound, all wearing animal skin skirts and holding stone axes in their hands. Only the first one in the lead held a shining broadsword. "The ironware should have been bought at the Rogue Camp."

Xia Hong looked at the big knife with a hint of envy in his eyes.

In extremely cold weather, both stone and iron undergo great changes.

Daxia also originally had a semi-iron weapon, which was Xia Ding's axe.

The word "half" is added because only the sharp blade of the axe is made of iron, while the axe body is made of stone with a wooden handle.

But even if it is a semi-iron tool, its sharpness is far greater than that of a stone axe.

Xia Hong once used a stone axe to chop against an iron axe with his own hands. The stone axe was chipped, but the iron axe was intact.

The axe blade is made of iron and is so strong, let alone the shiny big knife in the opponent's hand.

Not to mention Xia Hong's envy, under the Bingshuo tree, everyone in the Dashi Camp had already started fighting with the snow-maned beast.

Snowmane's left eye had indeed been shot, and the black arrow was still stuck there.

Snowmane was probably in pain. After he came down from the tree, his roar stopped, but his breathing became unusually heavy.

The only remaining eye on the right side had already turned bloodshot and was staring at the group of people in the Dashi camp.

Its hind legs dug into the snow twice, then it made a sudden dash.

As fast as an arrow leaving a bow, as fierce as a collapsing mountain.

Looking at Snowmane's huge body, it is hard to imagine that its speed can be so fast.

The huge body combined with the extreme speed even dispersed the cold air. One can imagine the impact contained in this blow.

"Get out of the way, put the noose on, quick!"

That sharp voice sounded again, and Xia Hong turned his gaze behind a tree on the west side.

The person in charge should be an archer, and there is another one named Shi Dong who is also an archer, and he should be hiding on the other side.

The man was giving orders while he and another archer were shooting arrows frantically.

But none of those arrows hit Snowmane's vital points.

Although it missed, it successfully slowed down Snowmane's forward charge.

When Snow Mane was disturbed, the fourteen people under the Bingshuo tree all scattered, and while avoiding Snow Mane, they placed more than ten nooses on the ground.

The leader, who was holding a big knife, dodged and threw the noose directly on Xuezong's neck.

Snowmane couldn't control his strength and crashed into the ground covered with noose.

As expected, all of Snowmane's limbs and head were caught.

"Pull harder!"

A sharp command was heard from behind the tree, and the fourteen scattered people quickly gathered together, divided into five groups, grabbed the ropes on the ground, and ran hard in five directions.

roar…………

Snow Mane roared, but unfortunately he stumbled and was dragged over and fell to the ground with a loud noise.

At the same time, two arrows shot out from behind the tree like meteors.

Straight into Xuemang’s red right eye.

puff...

Both arrows hit the target.

Snowmane let out an even more painful and angry roar.

"It's done!"

"Hahahahahaha, boss is awesome."

"This evil beast, it will die of pain."

…………

The laughter of everyone in the Big Rock Camp formed a sharp contrast with Snowmane's angry and painful cries.

Although everyone in the Dashi Camp was happy, they didn't get close when they saw Snowmane was still tumbling.

The two archers in the distance did not come out either. They hid behind the trees and continued to shoot arrows to finish off the enemy.

As time passed, the sound of Snowmane's rolling became smaller and smaller, until finally it stopped.

Everyone in the Dashi camp seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The leader holding the knife hit Xuezong in the air several times with a stone, and only after confirming that Xuezong was dead did he finally speak to the Queen of the Forest.

"Boss, he's dead."

Sure enough, two middle-aged men came out from behind the tree on the west side and led everyone towards Snowmane's corpse.

Seeing everyone starting to harvest the prey, Xia Hong, who had been hiding in the tree, frowned slightly.

(End of this chapter)