Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 120: Teng Jiao Saliva and Poison Source [Two in One]

Although Teng Jiao was dead, the poisonous fog did not dissipate for a while.

"No need to wait, pack up and go!"

Although the ulcer on Yuan Cheng's back was healing quickly, there was still no sign of recovery. Realizing that the discomfort in his body was getting worse, Xia Hong quickly ordered everyone to pack up and leave.

Xia Chuan carried Yuan Cheng on the ground, while Luo Yuan and the other three carried the three sections of Teng Jiao's body respectively, and followed Xia Hong back to the camp together.

"It should have taken less than 20 minutes. Teng Jiao is not that strong. The only problem is the poisonous fog. Without me, it will be very difficult for the six of you to lead the hunt. During this period of time, when you lead the team out hunting, you should stay on the periphery!"

"Yes, leader."

The five people who were on the road behind were all a little excited when they heard Xia Hong's words.

As long as the three types of prey, Snowmane, Frost Wolf, and Demon Sheep, are not in groups, it will not be difficult for the six of them to lead the hunting team to hunt them. Xia Hong had said before that he would let them do it.

When Xia Hong said this at this moment, it was obvious that the performance of the six of them had been recognized by him, and he was going to formally hand over the hunting team to them. The six of them were naturally excited.

"How did this Teng Jiao find us just now?"

Zhao Long, who was carrying a section of Teng Jiao's head, sounded a little confused.

Hearing his question, everyone began to think about it.

Xia Hong also had a frown on his face. He had been thinking about this question as well.

The world of Ice Abyss is freezing cold everywhere. The extremely low temperature makes it difficult for smell to spread. Whether it is cold beasts or humans, it is difficult to judge the enemy by smell.

Similarly, the extremely low temperature makes the body temperature of all objects, including humans, extremely low when they go out, making heat sensing impossible.

In addition, they have kept the noise to a minimum. Based on previous hunting experience, night is the dormant period for cold beasts, and they will not wake up unless they are provoked.

"It was the same when we were chased by a pack of rats last time. We didn't make any sound, but the Teng Jiao discovered us very early. Could it be that the area covered by the clouds and fog is the Teng Jiao's sensing area?"

Hearing Luo Yuan's guess, everyone's eyes lit up, including Xia Hong.

But then Xia Hong shook his head again and said: "The sensing area of ​​​​a radius of 50 meters should not be so large. If there is such a great magical power, then this Teng Jiao is not something we can deal with.

Moreover, if it had discovered us as soon as we entered the foggy area, then this hunt tonight would not be so easy!"

From entering the foggy area and discovering Teng Jiao to arranging everything, all seven of them climbed up the tree. The whole process took at least ten minutes. If they had really noticed it so early, Teng Jiao must have too many ways to deal with the seven of them.

"One thing is certain, whether it was the previous one or the one tonight, both Teng Jiao discovered them in advance without them noticing anything. If we think about what the two Teng Jiaos had in common when they were lurking, we should be able to know the answer."

After Xia Hong said this, Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan immediately began to recall that, apart from Xia Hong, they were the only two who had seen Teng Jiao twice.

"Tail!"

"Tail!"

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan said this in unison, obviously thinking the same thing.

Hearing the word "tail", Xia Hong was stunned for a moment, then a light appeared in his eyes and a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.

That's right!

When the two Teng Jiaos were perched on the tree, their tails were both stuck in the snow on the ground. Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan's guess should be correct. It is very likely that the Teng Jiaos relied on their tails to sense the vibrations of the ground to identify the enemy.

"It's almost certain. Let's test it before we hunt Teng Jiao next time. Xia Chuan will remember it after he goes back. After the next test, if it is confirmed to be true, be sure to record it in the Great Xia Frost Beast Records."

"Yes, leader!"

Hearing the seriousness in Xia Hong's words, Xia Chuan nodded seriously.

Xia Hong and his men spent a lot of time guessing Teng Jiao's methods and habits of fighting the enemy. Of course, he was not doing nothing. Every time he hunted, he would review the process with everyone, summarize their personal gains and losses, and the characteristics of different prey.

His main purpose in doing this was to compile a record of the cold beasts of Great Xia.

Ever since he last saw the scroll of the cold beast left by Luo Ming, Xia Hong started this project.

From the current perspective, most of the casualties that occur during hunting in the camp are caused by unfamiliarity with the prey. In this case, the task of collecting information on various types of cold beasts becomes particularly important.

There are only seven kinds of cold beasts recorded in the current Records of Cold Beasts of Daxia, namely Snow Mane, Frost Wolf, Demon Sheep, Gnat Rat, Teng Jiao, Thunder Kui, and Blue Moon Spirit. Moreover, we have never dealt with the latter two.

But as the hunting team's activities expand in scope and they come into contact with more and more cold beasts, there will surely be more and more records.

Those who plant trees will enjoy the shade. The current records may seem redundant, but they are absolutely precious to those who can participate in hunting in the camp later.

Reduce casualties among hunters, increase the success rate of hunting, and demystify creatures like the cold beast, making them less mysterious in people's eyes...

The compilation of the Records of Cold Beasts of Daxia is of absolutely extraordinary significance to Daxia.

Xia Chuan also understood this truth, so he responded to Xia Hong's instructions so seriously.

…………

The group quickly returned to the camp.

"There's a big snake!"

"so big."

"The leader hunted three?"

"It's not three, it's one, cut into three pieces."

“So scary…”

As soon as they entered the camp carrying the three parts of the dragon's body, they attracted a lot of onlookers.

The adults still didn’t care and just pointed at them;

Some children couldn't handle it. They were so scared that they hid behind adults, feeling afraid but also wanting to watch. Some who were too young were even scared to tears.

"Leader, let us handle it!"

Shi Ping walked through the crowd and came up. After getting a signal from Xia Chuan, he led his men to take over the corpse of Teng Jiao from Luo Yuan and the other two.

The prey brought back by the hunting team is now handed over to the camp supply office for unified processing.

Xia Chuan was the quartermaster, but he was also a member of the hunting team, so he left all these trivial matters to Shi Ping and others on a daily basis.

However, before Shi Ping could leave, Xia Hong called him again.

"Teng Jiao's body is very dangerous. I will deal with it when I arrive."

Shi Ping nodded immediately. Although the camp had rich experience in handling prey, Teng Jiao was a new prey after all. Xia Hong had also given him special instructions, so he should obey.

Xia Hong was not in a hurry to deal with Teng Jiao's body, but took Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan and others back to the second floor of the wooden house.

As soon as they reached the main hall on the second floor, Xia Chuan put Yuan Cheng down from his back.

Xia Hong came forward and took a look at his back, and found that most of the sores on it had scabbed over. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and took out a ball of Tengjiao saliva from the package on his back and smeared it on his back.

"Have someone take care of him here and wait for him to wake up!"

Xia Chuan nodded. There was no need for him to look for anyone.

Yuan Cheng's mother, Xu Lan, had been waiting by the side with a worried look on her face.

Everyone else was only focused on looking at the prey, but Xu Lan only saw her seriously injured and unconscious son. There were too many people downstairs just now, and she couldn't squeeze to the front. Now that she finally heard Xia Hong asking someone to take care of his son, she rushed up immediately.

"Aunt, don't worry, Cheng is fine. He should wake up soon."

Seeing Xu Lan gently stroking Yuan Cheng's festering back and wiping away tears.

Xia Chuan, who was standing by, hurriedly offered words of comfort.

On the other side, Xia Hong had already come to the pharmacy on the second floor alone, holding the ball of mucus.

The pharmacy was empty except for a medicine decocting pot in the middle and a long row of classified wooden cabinets against the wall.

Xia Hong walked to the medicine pot, opened the lid, scooped out a little mucus, and put it in.

[Unknown item, can be used as medicine, identification cost: coal 50]

Tsk…………

Seeing the appraisal price, Xia Hong couldn't help but click his tongue.

"Last time, Cheng Feng only spent 20 points to identify the blue condensing grass. The cost of identifying this saliva is surprisingly high!"

50 units of coal resources, converted into coal stone, is equivalent to one thousand kilograms.

[Camp: Daxia (Level 0)] [Lord: Xia Hong]

[Territory population: 1096]

【资源：木28275煤322铁120银0金0】

【已开启建筑4：炼铁炉（2级）木人桩（1级）煎药罐（1级）打磨石（1级）】

[Unopened Building 5: Green Bamboo Fence, Marking Stone, Yellow Soil, Small Wooden Table, Thick Iron Chain]

It’s not that they can’t afford it. With the increase in the number of people in the Digging Realm and the completion of new houses, the accumulation speed of coal and iron resources has increased a lot.

If it weren't for forging that giant axe yesterday, which cost 280 points, the surplus of iron resources would be a little more than coal.

"It's only been three days since the new house was built. Now I have two rat chisels. The coal and iron income will increase every day. 50 points is 50 points. The more expensive it is, the more useful it is. Besides, it may be the key to dealing with the rat swarm!"

Although it was painful, Xia Hong still readily invested 50 points of coal resources into the medicine pot.

As the coal stone was put in, the medicine pot burst into light. At the same time, information about saliva emerged in Xia Hong's mind.

[Name: Tengjiao saliva]

[Can be used as an auxiliary material for alchemy; can be applied to heal injuries caused by Tengjiao toxins; can be smelled to relieve the Tengjiao poison mist in the body]

As expected, the first and second effects of Tengjiao's saliva were both within Xia Hong's guess.

This saliva has a strange fragrance, so it is not surprising that it can be used as an auxiliary ingredient in making elixirs; when it was applied to Yuan Cheng's back, his ulcerated wounds healed immediately, which basically confirmed the second function.

Only the third one made Xia Hong frown slightly.

It can only provide relief, not a cure.

In other words, at most it is more effective than covering the face with a wet cloth, allowing people to stay in Teng Jiao's poisonous fog for a longer time.

It is still impossible to completely isolate people from the impact of poisonous fog.

"It seems that other auxiliary materials are still needed to refine it into a pill!"

Xia Hong's expression froze for a moment. He looked at the medicinal materials recorded in the medicine decocting pot. There were more than forty kinds of them, but the current formula still only had one, the Golden Chuang Powder. He immediately shook his head helplessly.

The medicine decoction pot automatically synthesizes the formula based on the identified materials.

"This is really bad luck. Cheng Feng has collected more than 20 kinds of medicinal materials during this period of time, but he can't even come up with a formula!"

Xia Hong didn't blame Cheng Feng. Judging from the fact that he had brought back more than 20 types of medicinal supplies during this period, the collection team definitely did not slack off. The biggest problem was that there were not many people in the collection team who had knowledge of pharmacology.

If you have some knowledge of pharmacology, you should be able to make connections and bring back related medicinal materials as much as possible. This way, the probability of synthesizing the formula should be higher.

Although he understood this principle, Xia Hong had no way to improve it.

He himself had no knowledge of pharmacology. The civilization of the Ice Abyss world was originally incomplete. There might be people with this knowledge, but they would definitely not be found in the Daxia camp.

"We can only wait for Cheng Feng to figure it out slowly, or for some talented player to appear. Otherwise, we can just rely on the crazy accumulation of coal stones and let the decoction pot constantly identify medicinal materials. This can also increase the probability of synthesizing the formula!"

At present, these are the only methods.

Xia Hong shook his head, stored all the Tengjiao saliva in the wooden cabinet against the wall, labeled it, and left.

After walking out of the pharmacy, Xia Hong went directly to the camp supply center.

In the camp, Shi Ping and three others were sitting around a giant wooden table, on the table piled with the Teng Jiao, the prey they had just brought back.

"Meet the leader!"

Xia Hong waved his hand slightly, walked in front of Teng Jiao, and looked back at the four people.

"Begin the process. Be careful. When this Teng Jiao was alive, its nose and mouth could emit poisonous mist. Be extra careful when handling the area near its head."

"Understood, Chief!"

The situation in Daxia is different now than usual. There are prey every day, and naturally there are people who specialize in dealing with the prey. All materials related to the cold beasts are under the management of the Barracks Supply Office, and those who are responsible for dealing with the prey are naturally the people of the Barracks Supply Office.

Judging from the actions of the four people, Shi Ping was obviously just here to inform them. The other three were the ones who were mainly responsible for handling the prey.
Skinning, pulling out tendons, removing bones, dividing the meat... the three people held butcher knives and cooperated with each other. The series of processes were smooth as flowing water.

Xia Hong was a little overwhelmed by what he saw. It was not until the three of them started to deal with Teng Jiao's head that he quickly focused his attention, stood up, and prepared to deal with any emergency.

The poisonous fog of Teng Jiao can kill people at the Woodcutters Realm if they inhale it. Although Teng Jiao is dead, who knows whether the poisonous fog has weakened? It would be a huge loss if several people at the Woodcutters Realm died while handling Teng Jiao's corpse.

Fortunately, the three people from the camp have plenty of experience in dealing with prey.

The three of them carefully cut open the head, especially the nose and mouth parts mentioned by Xia Hong, almost slowly cutting them open with a knife.

With such a careful process, the three men took out a fist-sized piece of meat from Teng Jiao's throat.

Inside the piece of meat, there was a pure white round bead that was emitting white air currents and continuously expanding outwards, making the piece of meat bulge up and down, like a living thing, which was quite magical.

The three of them wrapped the piece of meat in leather cloth and handed it to Xia Hong who was standing aside.

"Leader, this bead should be the source of the poison!"

Xia Hong had already stepped forward to take the piece of meat. In fact, there was no need for explanation. When he smelled the odor emanating from the piece of meat, he immediately realized that the bead inside was the source of the Tengjiao poisonous mist.

"What are your names, three of you?"

The three of them were stunned, then looked a little surprised and immediately answered.

"Captain, my name is Tong Xinglong."

"Captain, my name is Tong Xingsheng."

"Captain, my name is Ying Yi."

Hearing the names of the three people, Xia Hong raised his eyebrows slightly.

No wonder I didn’t recognize them. These three are all from the Xianrog Camp.

If I remember correctly, Tong Xinglong and Ying Yi should be two of the fifteen lumberjacks in the Rogue Camp when they were just merged; as for the last one, Tong Xingsheng, judging from his name and appearance, he is obviously Tong Xinglong's younger brother.

"How do you three calculate your contribution points at the camp?"

The three of them were slightly stunned, obviously not expecting Xia Hong to ask this.

After a while, Tong Xinglong answered again: "The three of us are responsible for processing prey. Lord Xiachuan said that no matter how big or small the cold beast is, every 500 kilograms of meat produced will be converted into a contribution point;
In addition to this, the distribution of cold beast meat to the reservists every night and to children under six years old every month also falls to the three of us, a little at a time;
In addition to these two, if you want to earn contribution points, you can also help the logging and gathering teams when the camp is not busy. "

Five hundred kilograms counts as one point, and the meat of a single cold beast generally produces more than a thousand kilograms, which is two points. If you add in one point for the distribution of the cold beast meat, the minimum contribution point every night is three points. If you add in the help in other places, the treatment of the camp supply station is actually not much different from that of the gathering team and the logging team.

"You did a great job. When handling prey in the future, even if no one reminds you, you must be as careful as you were this time, especially when handling unfamiliar prey. You must be cautious. If nothing goes wrong when we hunt outside, but something goes wrong when you handle it, that would be bad!"

"Yes, leader!"

Hearing the concern in Xia Hong's tone, the three of them were touched and quickly bowed their heads to accept the order, their expressions full of respect.

Xia Hong pondered for a moment, then said to Shi Ping behind him, "Give each of them three points of contribution."

Upon hearing this, Shi Ping immediately nodded and obeyed.

Tong Xinglong and the other two were immediately filled with excitement.

If Xia Hong hadn't stopped them, the three of them would have knelt down to express their gratitude.

"No need to do that. I thought it would be a little troublesome to deal with the corpse of Teng Jiao. I didn't expect you to do such a good job. Keep it up!"

Being asked by Xia Hong personally about his name, plus the three contribution points reward, was already a pleasant surprise;

After hearing Xia Hong's final verbal praise, the three of them were even more excited.

"Don't worry, Chief. The three of us will do our best from now on."

The three of them bowed their heads at the same time and saluted Xia Hong solemnly.

"Okay, you three continue to deal with it. Shi Ping stays here. After you are done, send all the Teng Jiao spines to the blacksmith room."

"Yes, leader!"

Shi Ping also nodded and obeyed. When he looked up again, he found that Xia Hong had left.

"You three are lucky to be rewarded by the leader himself."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Hearing Shi Ping's teasing, Tong Xinglong and the other two burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)