Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 15: Logging and Fruit Picking, Good News
Taizu Changquan is divided into four types:

Small battle, big battle, free-hand combat, and combined battle.

In Xia Hong's previous life, he majored in this set of boxing.

Small battles and short hits, mainly defense.

Taizhan combines fists, kicks, waist and body into one, concentrating strength to break one point and attacking mainly.

Sanshou is not restricted by boxing techniques, but only aims to inflict heavy damage on the enemy. Head, fingers, palms, fists, elbows, shoulders, knees, legs, hips and arms can all be used as weapons. Timing is important, and the main focus is on killing.

The combined combat method is a combined boxing method, which is suitable for multi-person siege.

There is a reason why Changquan was praised as the most practical boxing routine in the past.

Not only does it have the three aspects of attack, defense and killing, but all four tactics can be applied to weapons.

In his previous life, Xia Hong had already mastered the four routines to perfection, so it was easy for him to teach Yuan Cheng and the other six people.

After teaching for a while and through observation, Xia Hong had a general understanding of the situation of the six people.

Yuan Cheng and Yue Feng are the most muscular ones, both over two meters tall. Although they do not look that strong due to long-term hunger, I believe they will recover soon once blood and flesh are supplied.

The small battle fist routine has small movements and requires lower posture, which is obviously more suitable for two people.

Lin Kai, Qiu Peng and Xu Ning have more symmetrical bodies, long fists and feet, and are more agile than the first two. They are suitable for Taizhan boxing which combines fists, feet and waist.

Lu Yang, who is the smallest in stature, is agile and nimble, and extremely sensitive to timing, so he prefers free-hand fighting.

The six people who learned the boxing skills were very excited. They seized the opportunity and started practicing with the energy of the cold beast's flesh and blood in their stomachs.

After teaching the six people, Xia Hong walked out of the cave again with a stone axe after nightfall.

I was planning to go out to look for crystal fruits last night, but I accidentally ran into the hunting camp of Dashi. Although I brought back the snow mane safely, I didn't pick any crystal fruits.

Before acquiring the ability to hunt, the flesh and blood of cold beasts were just a surprise, and crystal fruit was the staple food, so Xia Hong still had to go to the Bingshuo tree to pick crystal fruit.

Secondly, the wood in the camp was almost burned out.

When they moved from the original cave, there were only 15 units of wood left.

Being able to hold on for more than ten days is actually quite rare.

The small fire consumes two units of wood every day. If the camp hadn't been thrifty and not lit at night, it would have not lasted until now with that little wood.

Compared to the first time, Xia Hong was much more familiar with the route this time when entering Redwood Ridge.

Relying on the memory from last time, he quickly found the location of the Bingshuo tree.

Xia Hong approached, observed the surroundings, and after confirming it was safe, he immediately climbed up the tree, took out a leather bag and started picking fruit.

The trees were full of ripe crystal fruits, each about the size of a fist and weighing about half a pound. Xia Hong quickly filled over a thousand pounds, and the leather bag in his hand became heavier and heavier.

Xia Hong stopped only when the bag could no longer be stuffed.

After picking the crystal fruits, the next step is to cut down trees.

Xia Hong walked back with the crystal fruit on his back, and when he was almost out of Redwood Ridge, he began to search around for suitable trees.

It sounds like just chopping down a tree, but it's actually not that simple.

The ice trees must not be cut down. Firstly, there might be cold beasts living on them; secondly, they are the source of food for the camp, and there are only a few of them. Cutting them down would be tantamount to cutting off one's own life.

The golden tree would not work either. First, it was too strong and he would not be able to chop it down with the stone axe in his hand. Secondly, the cold beasts liked to sleep on the golden tree at night. If he disturbed them, he would suffer the consequences.

The only target left was the Vermillion Frost Tree.

In the area outside Hongmu Ridge, the most common trees are indeed red frost trees, accounting for an estimated 90%.

But the problem is that these red frost trees are too big.

Everywhere you look, you see structures with a diameter of four to five meters, or even six to seven meters. Structures with a height of fifty to sixty meters can be seen everywhere. Even deeper inside, Xia Hong saw structures with a diameter of more than ten meters, or even more exaggerated.

Looking at these towering trees, Xia Hong didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

It can be predicted that as the camp system progresses, more resources will be needed to upgrade it, so these inexhaustible trees in front of us should be a good thing.

But the problem was that he couldn't take any of these trees with him. He wanted to pick a thick tree to chop down, but even if he did, he wouldn't have the strength to carry it back.

After searching for more than an hour, when Xia Hong's gigantic fear was about to erupt, he finally found a suitable red frost tree.

"It's more than three meters thick and more than twenty meters long. It's about the same as the one in the cave before. It should be no problem to move it back."

Xia Hong put down the leather bag full of crystal fruits, took out the stone axe from his waist, first scraped off all the ice crystals on the outermost layer of the bark, then spat on his hands twice and began the diligent task of chopping down trees.

Snap... snap... snap... snap...

three hours later

bang...

The huge tree collapsed, splashing countless snowflakes on the ground.

Xia Hong, who was already soaked and had sore hands and back, walked forward and looked at Zhu Shuangshu lying on the ground. His face was full of disbelief as he gasped.

Only now did he understand why Xia Ding and his thirteen-member logging team only brought back five or six trees at most every time they went out at night.

He had just broken through to the logging realm, and in three hours, he could only chop down one tree.

I chopped him until I was almost exhausted.

Moreover, he could clearly sense that his body would not be able to undergo such strenuous exercise again in a short period of time.

This means that a single lumberjack can only cut down one tree at most in one night.

This is still under the premise of ensuring safety.

And Zhushuang is the easiest tree to cut down on this side of the periphery.

Before going out at night, Xia Hong had thought about gathering the 200 units of wood needed to upgrade the small campfire at once. As for the other 50 units of iron, he would deal with it later.

But only after he actually cut down the trees did he realize how difficult it was to get those 200 pieces of wood.

The moment the tree was cut down, the resource bar of the camp system changed.

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After working hard for a whole night and being almost exhausted, I only managed to get five units of wood.

"We can only increase efficiency by increasing the number of people. Once Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng have made breakthroughs, the speed should be faster. Take your time. There is no rush."

Xia Hong comforted himself with a few words, rested for a while, then got up, tied the bag of crystal fruits to the tree, then carried the tree and returned to the camp.

After seeing the snow-mane and then seeing Xia Hong bring back a tree and over a thousand kilograms of crystal fruit, the people in the camp didn't even have much reaction.

Of course, the wood and food that had been running out were replenished, and everyone felt a lot more at ease.

Xia Hong knew that if the strength did not increase, there would not be much change in the camp.

So in the following days, in addition to using the remaining flesh and blood of the cold beasts to practice, he would go out every night.

Of course, not every success is achieved.

The Bingshuo tree, whose location was known, was empty after picking the fruits three times.

It is still unknown when the next time it will mature, so Xia Hong began to expand his search range.

Fortunately, after a period of time, he discovered two more trees, both of which were full of crystal fruits.

They picked the crystal fruits from the two trees in six trips in total, and the amount of crystal fruits in the camp suddenly reached more than 7,000 kilograms.

With more food, not only could everyone in the camp fill their stomachs, but they also had more smiles on their faces, no longer looking as dull as before.

In addition to crystal fruits, Xia Hong would cut down a tree and bring it back every night.

Twenty days later, timber resources soared from 5 to 87.

Although there was still no gold, silver, coal and iron, at least it was no longer difficult to obtain wood, so Xia Hong was still very happy.

Everything went according to plan until the 24th day. Xia Hong, who was dragging a tree back to the camp, heard good news as soon as he entered the cave.

(End of this chapter)