Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 164 Who told you that someone needs to light the stove?

The reason why humans can't withstand the low temperatures during the day.

The main reason is sunlight.

There is obviously something wrong with the sun in the Ice Abyss world.

The light it emits contains a biting chill.

The skin membrane of ordinary humans is simply unable to resist. As long as they stand in the sun, it will not take long for the skin membrane to be penetrated by the cold light, and the blood in the body will be frozen. The final outcome is to turn into an ice sculpture and face death.

Hiding during the day and coming out at night, applies to all humans who have not broken through to the cold-resistant level.

The strange monster behind the Mirror Fairy Camp chose to create this cold beast tide just as night was about to fall. Its intention was very clear.

Force them to put out the fire in the iron furnace, and then wait until nightfall, when the group of digging realm masters below the Jingxian camp can come over.

"If you know that the fire from the iron smelting furnace can attract cold beasts, then you probably also know the function of torches!"

Although the green bamboo fence was very effective and successfully resisted the attack of the first wave of low-level cold beasts, the problem was that the number of cold beasts was too large.

Not counting the dozens that climbed up to the second floor along the wooden wall, there were at least four hundred cold beasts rushing in from all directions on the first floor. At most fifty or sixty of them fell in front of the sharp thorns of the green bamboo fence.

With just a quick glance, Xia Chuan roughly deduced that there were at least three hundred cold beasts running towards him across the green bamboo fence.

When the number reaches this level, there is not much difference between low level and medium level.

With more than a dozen people at the Digging Level and more than five hundred people at the Logging Level, let alone blocking them, as soon as the two sides come into contact, this group of people will be crushed into pieces immediately.

Xia Chuan turned his head and looked around the wooden house, his expression extremely gloomy.

After the more than 500 loggers on the first floor loosened the chains, the entire wooden house and its four walls were already broken down by the cold beasts;

The battle between the four intermediate-level cold beasts and the wooden man destroyed the interior of the wooden house beyond recognition; the second floor was also riddled with holes due to the cold beasts that had drilled in earlier.

Right now, in the entire wooden house, only the staircase in the central hall and the surrounding space of more than ten meters in radius are still standing, but they are basically shaky and on the verge of collapse.

"Shi Ping, put out the fire first, then light it!"

At the critical moment, Xia Chuan raised his head and shouted to the upstairs.

On the second floor, Shi Ping, who was standing in front of a frost wolf, immediately changed his expression when he heard Xia Chuan's voice.

"You go up first, I'll hold the line here!"

A big knife slashed across from the right. Luo Yuan ignored Xue Zong who was still chasing him from behind, and slashed the frost wolf in front of Shi Ping with the knife. He spoke sharply, signaling him to go upstairs first.

"it is good!"

Seeing the danger of being outnumbered, Shi Ping knew that this was not the time to be soft-hearted, so he gritted his teeth and climbed up to the third floor directly on the broken wooden ladder.

Of the entire wooden house, only the middle part of the main hall on the third floor was still relatively intact, but the main structure was already crumbling. Even though it had not been destroyed by the cold beast, it began to shake constantly, and many parts had begun to break and collapse.

In the middle of the main hall on the third floor, four to five hundred children gathered together. Lin Wan, Shi Lu, and some of the women in the camp who were at the lumberjack level stood on the periphery to protect the children. When Shi Ping went up to the third floor, everyone immediately looked at him nervously.

"Brother Shi Ping, are we going to die?"

At the outermost edge, Luo An, who was only six years old, looked very nervous, but he was protecting the people inside like a little adult. When he saw Shi Ping, he couldn't help but ask a crisp question.

It was a pity that Shi Ping had no intention of paying any attention to him. He rushed to the stove in the center, took off his clothes, and quickly put out the fire.

Then he took out the iron bow that had been hanging on his back, and walked towards the west, shouting: "Don't be afraid, we won't die!"

When Luo An, Zouping, and the other children heard Shi Ping's voice, hope immediately appeared on their faces.

The adult women on the periphery, such as Lin Wan and Shi Lu, were not as innocent as them. They just forced themselves to smile, their eyes still filled with despair.

Many of those who were holding babies in their arms even began to sob.

………………

The moment the iron smelting furnace was extinguished.

The madness on the faces of all the low-level cold beasts in the entire wooden house disappeared in an instant.

"This cold beast doesn't seem as ferocious as it was just now!"

"It's night time now. They will become weaker at night."

"No, not only that, they seem to... not even look upstairs."

…………

Luo Yuan and others who were fighting with the cold beast in the main hall on the second floor felt it the most deeply.

Especially Luo Yuan, he had turned over and rode on the back of a frost wolf. Although the frost wolf was chopped several times by him, it still rushed to the stairs despite its injuries.

But just now, the frost wolf seemed to have crashed, and its upward sprint stopped abruptly. It then gave up going upstairs, turned around, and focused on fighting him.

"It should be the iron furnace, which has been put out!"

A glimmer of hope rose in Luo Yuan's heart. He chopped the frost wolf's back with his sword, turned his head and looked toward the west side of the valley, his eyes full of anticipation.

…………

"Go upstairs, go upstairs first!"

The moment the iron smelting furnace went out, Xia Chuan on the first floor also clearly felt it.

The reason was very simple. The more than 300 cold beasts that had already crossed the green bamboo fence suddenly stopped and froze for a while. The madness in their eyes was obviously reduced a lot, and their gazes all shifted from the roof to their group of people.

When the fire in the iron furnace went out, their target naturally became humans.

When everyone heard Xia Chuan's voice, they quickly went up the stairs. However, there were more than 500 people, and no matter how fast they went, it was impossible for them all to go up at once.

At this moment, the cold beast, which had just crashed, rushed towards them again.

"Separate, guard the stairs, hold out for a while, just a while!"

Xia Chuan gave orders to Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng and other twelve Digging Realm masters, and blocked the west side of the stairs himself.

The rest of the people also quickly dispersed, surrounding the more than 500 people who were going up the stairs in the middle, and resisting the few cold beasts that had rushed over from the outside.

You know, it was extremely difficult for Luo Yuan on the second floor, with more than fifty Digging Realm warriors, to guard only dozens of low-level cold beasts.

On the first floor, there were only thirteen people on Xia Chuan's side, including himself.

But there were three or four hundred cold beasts rushing towards them.

How can this be defended!
A snow-maned beast slammed into Xia Chuan's chest, and its sharp fangs pierced through his right shoulder.

Xia Chuan's eyes turned dark when he realized that Xue Zong was opening his mouth and sticking out his tongue towards him. He moved his hands slightly and a transparent silk thread instantly flew out from his hands, binding up the long tongue that Xue Zong had just stuck out and then pulling it to the side.

Although the snow mane was pulled apart, his right shoulder was no longer strong enough.

Xia Chuan gritted his teeth and moved the sword in his left hand, then slashed at Xue Zong's bloody mouth which had not yet closed.

Xuezong's mouth was cut open, and the wound extended to the back of his head. His body was also chopped three or four meters away by the powerful force of the knife.

After killing Xue Zong with one blow, Xia Chuan's expression did not relax, but became even more nervous.

It was because the cold beasts had surrounded them.

On the other side, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and ten other Digging Realm cultivators were surrounded by the cold beasts. Not only was his shoulder pierced by the snow mane, but the others also had injuries, and most of them were more seriously injured than him.

But of the more than 500 lumberjacks, only half went up the stairs.

Those people on the periphery who haven't gone up yet are already helping them deal with the cold beasts, but they are only at the lumberjack level, and the damage they cause to the cold beasts is minimal, at most they can only serve to delay the beasts.

The situation was critical, Xia Chuan raised his head and shouted angrily at the third floor:

"Why isn't it ready yet? Where's the fire? Where's the fire? Shi Ping, what are you doing!?"

boom………………

As he roared, a loud bang suddenly came from the west side of the wooden house, outside the entrance of the valley.

Outside the west side of the valley, a giant pillar of fire with a diameter of five or six meters suddenly shot up into the sky, soaring all the way up to a height of more than a hundred meters.

The moment the flames rose into the air, the pupils of all the low-level cold beasts inside and outside the wooden house suddenly contracted, and just like the way they looked at the iron furnace when they entered the wooden house before, their eyes all looked towards the flames in an instant.

"Roar…………"

On the second floor, a demon sheep that was fighting with Luo Yuan suddenly shook its head and pushed him away with its sharp horns. Then it turned its head and looked directly at the flames outside the valley. Its eyes instantly became bloodshot. Then, regardless of anything else, it jumped off the wooden house and rushed over there.

This demonic sheep was just a microcosm. All the cold beasts on the second and first floors instantly gave up fighting with Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan and the others, and all rushed towards the pillar of fire on the west side of the valley.

On the third floor, at the end of the west side, Shi Ping was still holding the bowstring in his hand, looking at the giant pillar of fire three or four hundred meters away. He noticed that all the low-level cold beasts in the wooden house were rushing out, and his eyes suddenly showed extreme ecstasy.

“Sir, your method really worked. Hahahahahaha. The cold beasts are gone. The cold beasts are gone!”

Taking the opportunity to speak loudly and inform everyone in the building, Shi Ping also completely vented his emotions.

Since the Cold Beast Tide, he has been the one in charge of the iron furnace. No matter if he was shooting arrows in the corridor with Xia Chuan or guarding the stairs with Luo Yuan in the middle, his attention was always on the iron furnace.

He had taken the initiative to remind Xia Chuan to put out the fire. He had indeed forgotten about the wooden man, but the more important reason was that he knew that there was a backup plan left by Xia Chuan on the big tree outside the west side of the valley.

Outside the west side of the valley, the pillar of fire more than a hundred meters away was a tree.

The difference is that the tree is filled with small torches produced by the system.

“Hahahahahahaha, okay, okay, okay!”

Xia Chuan, who was on the first floor, saw the ferocious cold beasts just now now rushing westward like a tide. He laughed heartily and said "good" three times in a row. His nerves, which had been tense for more than an hour, finally relaxed.

Three days ago, a large number of cold beasts disappeared. From the moment Xia Chuan sensed that the monster in Jingxian Camp was going to use the cold beasts to cause trouble, he had already started to make preparations in advance.

With Da Xia's current strength, there is no possibility of resisting a wave of cold beasts head-on.

Thickening the exterior with piled wood, reinforcing the wooden house with iron, moving the bamboo fence into the house...relying on these is also a fantasy.

The only feasible solution is to drive away or guide away the cold beast tide.

Just like the group of rodents on the north slope of the mountain wall, strictly speaking, the final method used was to drive them away rather than confront them.

Just at this time, Xia Chuan noticed a big tree with a diameter of more than five meters about a hundred meters outside the valley.

The Jingxian camp created this tide of cold beasts simply to force them to put out the fire in the iron smelting furnace. In this case, they would take advantage of the situation and, while extinguishing the flame of the iron smelting furnace, start another fire to lure all the cold beasts away.

More than 10,000 torches, almost half of the camp supply center’s inventory.

This fire is really worth it!

The cold beast retreated, and now it's time to...

boom!
Just as Xia Chuan was putting away the joy on his face and his expression was just becoming serious, a loud noise came from above his head.

He looked up and his expression suddenly froze.

Teng Jiao, Xue Zong, Mo Yang and Frost Wolf, four intermediate-level cold beasts, actually rushed up from four directions and surrounded everyone in the middle of the main hall.

"Forgot, these four intermediate-level frosty beasts are controlled!"

Just now, Xia Chuan noticed that the moment the flames in the iron smelting furnace were extinguished, the eyes of the four intermediate-level cold beasts clearly returned from the previous white fluid state to normal blood red.

At this moment, their eyes looked exactly the same as those of normal cold beasts, but these four intermediate cold beasts were not attracted by the flames outside the valley. They just stared straight at the people in the main hall.

"Shi Ping, light the fire!"

All the active cold beasts around the wooden house have retreated to find the big tree full of torches on the west side. It should be fine to light the iron furnace for a while.

Xia Chuan shouted to Shi Ping to light the fire, but was worried that Shi Ping didn't understand what he meant, so he quickly rushed upstairs.

"Once you put out the fire, it's not that easy to light it again!"

However, a wild voice suddenly sounded from upstairs.

Xia Chuan's expression froze instantly. Not only him, but also Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, and other members of the Great Xia Hunting Team, all had expressions frozen on their faces.

boom…………

"puff!"

Shi Ping's body fell from the third floor like a cannonball. The wooden house was already riddled with holes. Xia Chuan, who had just rushed up the stairs, caught him, but found that he could not withstand the force at all, and his body retreated six or seven meters.

Luo Yuan and others also rushed to his side and helped to lift Shi Ping up. When they saw the footprints on Shi Ping's chest, they immediately realized that it was the man who had just spoken, and kicked him down.

The Digging Realm warriors on the second floor looked up at the third floor. The rest of the people showed no reaction except for the 17 members of the hunting team, including Xia Chuan. Their pupils suddenly shrank and their expressions froze, as if they had seen a ghost.

There were two people standing next to the iron smelting furnace on the third floor.

It turned out to be He Meng and He Gang!

The seventeen members of the hunting team remembered it clearly: it was on the twenty-fifth of last month.

He Gang was cut into two pieces by Xia Hong with a single blow; He Meng was kicked in the abdomen by Xia Hong and then beheaded with a single blow.

Because they were seeking revenge for the eight loggers who were killed in the camp, the scene was quite satisfying and the seventeen people remembered even the details clearly.

Two people who were clearly dead appeared before his eyes.

No, not only that...

In the dark night, He Meng's skin even exuded a faint luster. Combined with the power he felt when he caught the stone just now...

Not only was he resurrected, he even broke through to the cold-resistant level!
Although he had already learned from Xia Hong that the monster in Jingxian Camp could resurrect the dead.

But knowing and actually seeing are two different things.

Xia Chuan and the entire hunting team felt extremely heavy-hearted at once.

Even though the other digging masters in Da Xia didn't know the specific situation, they could still feel He Meng's hostility from his expression at the moment.

"Brothers, you can all come out!"

He Meng gave an order outside the valley, and a large group of men in black armed with longbows and swords suddenly rushed in from the destroyed western entrance of the valley.

Xia Chuan only glanced back and immediately found many familiar faces in the front row. They were all people in the same group as He Meng and had been killed by Xia Hong.

The wooden house had actually collapsed completely, with only the staircase structure in the middle still barely holding up. Almost all the people in the Daxia camp were gathered in a small area in the main hall near the stairs.

More than 200 people from Jingxian Camp surrounded everyone in an instant, and all raised their longbows, put arrows on them, and aimed at Xia Chuan and other Digging Realm people on the second floor. Obviously, they all knew that only this group of people posed a threat to Daxia at present.

The joy of the retreat of the cold beast tide had not yet dissipated, but less than a few dozen breaths had passed and they were trapped in this dead end again.

Whether it was Xia Chuan and the other Digging Realm warriors, the five hundred Woodcutters Realm warriors, or the children huddled together on the third floor, all of them had despair in their eyes.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you, but..."

He Meng had a cruel smile on his face. He turned his head away from the children and stared at Xia Chuan and the others for a while before frowning.
"Where is your leader? Let him come out. As long as he accepts death today, we can spare the lives of the rest of the people in the Great Xia Camp. Not only that, you can all become part of my Jingxian Camp in the future!"

No one answered He Meng's words.

The hunting team and the digging masters who went up to the camp, as well as the children on the third floor, even the children who were only five or six years old, were all just looking at He Meng quietly. Although no one spoke, their hateful eyes said it all.

"Very good, very good. It seems that you are very loyal to that bastard. It's a pity that he acted like a coward today and didn't seem to care about all of you..."

The reactions of the crowd made He Meng laugh out of anger. He first belittled Xia Hong, then turned to look at the children closest to him, pulled out a dagger from his arms, and threw it at a child in the crowd who was glaring at him.

"Xia Hong, get out here!"

call out…………

"An'er!"

Luo Yuan on the second floor saw the direction the dagger flew, and his face was suddenly filled with fear, because the child glaring at He Meng was his son Luo An.

He subconsciously ran upwards, but that was just a drop in the bucket.

With He Meng's strength, he wouldn't be able to catch up even if it was just a casually thrown dagger.

In the world of Ice Abyss, death is always with human beings.

Luo An, who is nearly six years old, actually has an idea of ​​death.

Seeing the dagger flying towards him, although he was afraid, he still subconsciously blocked it in front of a child younger than him beside him.

clang…………

At the critical moment.

A cold light suddenly flew over from just above the valley.

It was a long sword, a long sword that everyone in Daxia was very familiar with.

The 1.5 meter long, narrow blade fell vertically in the air, with exaggerated force and speed, almost creating a snow-white airflow.

The air flow broke through the air and fell, hitting the dagger directly.

The tip of the dagger was nailed directly to the floor.

With the force of the falling sword, there was no way a mere floor could stop it.

There is only one explanation, that is, the person who threw the long knife used skill.

He just needs to nail the dagger's effect.

Everyone in Daxia raised their heads and looked up to the sky, their eyes full of hope.

He Meng and the others were different. They raised their heads and their expressions tensed slightly.

“Boom…Crack…”

After the long sword fell, it was followed by a huge explosion.

Above the valley, the two mountains that were originally cross-connected seemed to be breaking apart, with countless pieces of rubble falling down, as if they were about to collapse at any time.

“Uh…ah…”

A shrill scream came from the sky. Xia Chuan and others looked suspicious at first, but then they noticed that He Meng and others had worried looks on their faces. After quickly reacting, they suddenly became excited.

"With your strength...how could it be...how could it be..."

After the scream, the man spoke tremblingly, obviously having discovered something that he found hard to accept, his voice was filled with fear and horror.

"Didn't you come to the valley on purpose to tell me about the battle body? Low grade, medium grade, high grade, take a look at which grade my battle body belongs to."

Xia Hong's voice came from above, and everyone in the Great Xia Camp below had their faces suddenly filled with ecstasy and excitement.

Everyone raised their heads and looked at the sky, their eyes full of anticipation.

boom…………

Another sound of air bursting was heard.

A white figure fell from the sky above the valley like a cannonball.

The man smashed directly into the stone wall on the north side of the valley, at least three or four meters deep. The flying rocks were enough to penetrate the ground, which showed how terrifying the force the man had just endured was.

Although the dust and smoke from the explosion in the air completely obscured the scene above, the gazes of the people of Daxia below were still hot and expectant.

In everyone's sight, a right leg was the first to penetrate the dust.

Then, Xia Hong, dressed in a black cloak, emerged from the dust and smoke, panting, and fell directly from a height of hundreds of meters.

boom…………

"Big brother!"

"Chief."

"Captain, are you okay?"

………………

The moment they saw Xia Hong clearly, the expectation in everyone's eyes disappeared instantly, leaving only worry and horror.

Especially Xia Chuan, he couldn't help but rush directly towards Xia Hong.

Xia Hong's black cloak was already in tatters, and his entire body was almost soaked in blood. There were countless tiny cracks on his exposed left arm, like broken pottery or cracked earth after drought. The bright red blood exposed in the cracks was extremely conspicuous and looked extremely horrifying.

There were two wounds on his left cheek and more than a dozen bloody holes on his chest, all of which were oozing blood.

Even on the thigh, there was a large piece of skin and flesh that was turned inside out.

"I'm fine!"

Despite being so seriously injured, Xia Hong still turned around and looked at everyone. After giving Xia Chuan and the others an approving look, he suppressed his injuries and turned around to stare at the mountain wall.

“Hahahahaha…, you’ve found out, so what? How can you still light the fire in your furnace? You all must die, all must die!”

The man in white flew out from the mountain wall, but did not pay any attention to Xia Hong below. Instead, he jumped and ran directly to the stove on the third floor.

"Brothers, kill!"

The moment the man in white flew out, the worries on He Meng and He Gang's faces disappeared instantly, and were replaced by a fierce look. They spoke directly to the more than 200 people in the outer Jingxian camp.

The four intermediate cold beasts, who were watching with eager eyes, also began to move at this time.

"Who told you that I need someone to light my stove?"

Xia Hong asked a question, which made the man in white, He Meng, He Gang, the more than 200 people in Jingxian Camp, and even the four intermediate cold beasts, all stunned.

Sizzle…sizzle…sizzle…

Although the sound of the flames burning was extremely subtle, it caused the man in white, He Meng and He Gang to tremble violently.

The iron smelting furnace that had been extinguished suddenly started burning again out of nowhere.

A warm feeling quickly spread to a radius of 100 meters.

The flames instantly enveloped the man in white, He Meng, He Gang, the four intermediate cold beasts, and more than two hundred people from the Mirror Immortal Camp.

“Ah…ah…”

The more than 200 people in the outer Jingxian camp were the first to let out horrifying screams. Their eyes instantly turned into a silvery-white fluid, and even as the firelight shone for a longer time, they began to ooze silver liquid.

Next, four intermediate-level cold beasts also showed expressions of pain.

Following them were He Meng and He Gang.

Finally, even the man in white's expression began to distort, and his eyes underwent the same changes.

(End of this chapter)