Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 18 Attempt to Hunt
Why are the Dashi Camp so sure that Xuezong was picked up by Daxia?

The reason is simple, because the camps around Redwood Ridge are too weak.

There is only one camp that can truly hunt stably and obtain the flesh and blood of cold beasts, and that is the Rogue Camp, which has five digging-level warriors.

As for the other camps, if they want the flesh and blood of cold beasts, they can only rely on luck, except for using large amounts of wood, crystal fruits, or other scarce resources to buy them from the Rogue Camp.

To put it bluntly, the so-called luck is picking up the corpses of cold beasts in the woods.

Cold beasts like to eat living things. Generally, after defeating other cold beasts, they will stop eating until the other beast dies, so there is a high probability that as long as you can encounter one, you will definitely get something.

But how many opportunities like this are there?
Perhaps there are many corpses of cold beasts in the depths of Redwood Ridge, but the problem is that they dare not go in. On the outskirts, they are lucky if they can pick one or two corpses a year.

Moreover, as neighbors for many years and also a member of the same small camp, Daxia is very clear about its own strengths and weaknesses.

Generally speaking, the limited cold beast meat must be supplied to the members of the logging team first, and only the excess will be given to the younger ones.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the snow-white mane must have been picked up by Daxia.

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Xia Hong was naturally unaware of the resentment held by the Dashi camp.

After driving the other party away that night and leading Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng to cut down a tree each, the camp entered a relatively peaceful period of development.

As the three of them went out regularly every night, the camp's wood and crystal fruit reserves increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The price of crystal fruit increased from 7000 kilograms to 12000 kilograms.

Based on the 154 people in the camp, that is one kilogram of crystal fruit per person per day. Even if they do not go out, these crystal fruits will be enough to last them for more than two months.

As for wood, it increased from 87 units to 210 units.

Food and heating are guaranteed.

The vitality of the camp naturally gradually recovered.

Although the cave entrance still needs to be sealed at night, at least we don’t have to suffer from hunger and cold.

However, although others were happy, Xia Hong was very clear that the camp had only initially recovered to the state it was in before the logging team's disaster.

When Xia Ding was still there, the camp had no shortage of crystal fruits and wood.

For a small camp like Daxia, the most scarce resource is cold beast meat.

Without the meat of cold beasts, it is impossible to practice and become stronger.

If the status quo is maintained, eventually they will either be discovered by the cold beast or found by the monster, and the previous thing will happen again.

Moreover, crystal fruits are not inexhaustible. The crystal fruits on the three ice trees have been picked by them, and it is unknown when they will mature next time.

If the existing crystal fruits are eaten up and the three trees have not yet borne fruit, they will still be hungry. They may even starve to death without the crystal fruits as their only source of food.

There are certainly more than just those three ice trees in Redwood Ridge.

Xia Hong believed that there must be thicker and larger ice trees with more fruits deep in the dense forest, but the problem was that he didn't dare to go in.

So the crux of the problem still lies in the cold beast meat.

The thirty kilograms of cold beast meat for Yue Feng and his four companions have been used up.

The five of them have made great progress, but they are still far from breaking through the lumberjack realm.

Xia Hong's own 100 kilograms of cold beast meat were also gone.

Although his strength has increased a lot, it is still far from the digging level.

“If I can’t continue to become stronger, not only will I not be able to upgrade the small bonfire, I won’t be able to build any of the other buildings in the system.

We must find a way to hunt, even if there are some risks, it is worth it! "

The camp system currently only has one small campfire. It takes 200 wood and 50 iron to upgrade the small campfire from level one to level two.

Of course, there is no shortage of wood nowadays.

But without strength, even contact with resources like iron is wishful thinking.

"Chuan, Cheng, let's go out tonight and try hunting!"

One night before nightfall, Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng, who were preparing to go out, suddenly opened their eyes wide with excitement when they heard Xia Hong's words.

In fact, the two had seen the cold beast before on their previous outings.

Of course, it was the cold beast sleeping on the tree. The two had mentioned several times before that they wanted to try to hunt the cold beast, but they were rejected by Xia Hong because the cold beast was too strong.

Now, Xia Hong actually took the initiative to propose to try hunting.

"Don't get excited so early. I've told you that the cold beasts are very strong, so this time, it's just an experiment. Just like before, you must listen to me outside. You two are the only two people in Daxia who are at the level of woodcutters. I don't want anything to happen to you two, understand?"

The two of them could naturally hear the seriousness in Xia Hong's tone and nodded heavily.

After Xia Hong gave the two people instructions, he took out two small torches from behind him and gave one to each of them.

The two men took the torches, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they vaguely understood something.

"Chief, you want to use torches to attract the cold beasts like before, let them kill each other, and we will reap the benefits, right?"

Xia Hong had already told the two of them the function of the small torch.

Xia Hong had expected Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng to react so quickly.

"Yes, so it's just an attempt. It all depends on luck!"

Xia Hong felt a little helpless. Using a small torch to attract the cold beast was actually a bit of a waste of resources.

The function of a small torch, like a small fire, is to scare and kill monsters.

To put it simply, the small torch should be a high-end item, as can be seen from the cold beast's obsession with it.

But now the strength of the Daxia camp is too weak, and they can’t contact them at all, nor do they dare to contact creatures like monsters, so they can only use them to lure cold beasts.

Moreover, if a cold beast is attracted, it will be useless.

You have to lure both of them together, and make them fight to the death.

The fight is not over yet, one of them must be killed or seriously injured.

Only then will they have a chance to harvest prey.

This kind of hunting method has too harsh conditions and is doomed to be extremely inefficient.

But this is the only solution Xia Hong can think of at the moment.

It's the only solution!
As soon as night fell, Xia Hong took the two of them and quickly walked towards Hongmu Ridge.

After all, the area within the influence of the Daxia camp is only five or six hundred meters.

After so many days, Xia Hong and the other two have already figured it out clearly.

Generally speaking, there are not many cold beasts on the periphery. There are only four cold beasts that have been confirmed and witnessed with our own eyes.

There were two snow-manes, a frost wolf, and one that looked like a goat. Xia Hong didn't recognize them, nor did he remember Xia Ding ever mentioning them.

"We don't know the strength of that goat, so we won't touch it for now. Judging from the last situation, the Frost Wolf and Snow Mane are similar in strength, so our target this time should still be these two."

Xia Hong found the tree where the Snowmane and Frostwolf were perched respectively. He chose a spot between the two and inserted the torch there first. Then, he asked Yuan Cheng and Xia Chuan to dig a snow pit fifty meters away from the torch.

Just like last time, after lighting the torches, the three of them quickly dispersed, hid in their respective snow pits, and quietly observed the torches.

Xia Hong was still a little nervous, after all, the situation was different.

The last time, the Snowmane was a juvenile, and it was blind and seriously injured.

This time it's different.

They had observed before that the Snowmanes and Frostwolves on the two trees were both adults in size and in their prime, so he had no idea what would happen if they fought.

In sharp contrast to him, Yuan Cheng and Xia Chuan were not nervous at all. Instead, their eyes, exposed on the snow, were full of excitement.

After all, it was the first time for the two of them to see a cold beast.

Although the three people had different thoughts in their minds, time was always passing.

The effectiveness of the torch did live up to Xia Hong's expectations.

It had only been lit for two minutes.

From the west, there came a dull and heavy sound of animal hooves.

Bang...bang...bang...

(End of this chapter)