Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 195: The Beehive Dilemma, the Digging Realm Surges

Three days ago, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the first year of the Great Xia Dynasty
Ten miles away from the north side of Jing Valley, three slightly panicked figures finally stopped in the snow.

puff…………

Chen Yingyuan held on for a long time, and as soon as he relaxed his mind, the blood that had been held back in his throat for a long time spurted out immediately, and his body staggered. If Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing had not supported him in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

"Brother, how are you?"

"Chief, are you okay?"

Chen Yingyuan waved his hand slightly to indicate that it was okay, then turned to look to the south, with a hint of horror still in his pupils.

"I thought that with He Yuanhun in trouble, we could take advantage of the situation and reach out to the Arrow Bamboo Forest. Xia Hong is so powerful that I guess even if the three of us join forces, we may not be able to take him down!"

Chen Yingba lowered his head upon hearing this, with hatred and self-blame in his eyes.

Wu Tianxing, who was standing by, also had a serious look on his face when he heard this. He said, "That Xia Hong must have seen that the two of us were hiding behind him. Judging from his last reaction, I suspect he had just thought about keeping us, but he was not 100% sure, so he didn't make a move..."

Having said this, he paused slightly, looked at Chen Yingyuan and continued: "I don't think this man is stupid. He should know the leader's plan very well. This man looks more difficult to deal with than He Yuanhun. We have already made an enemy this time. I'm afraid we need to be more careful in the future."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yingyuan's face immediately showed a trace of regret.

Wu Tianxing's meaning was very clear. He was not stupid. He brought two cold-resistant-level soldiers with him and took action first. His intention of testing was so obvious that Xia Hong could not fail to see it.

From the moment he chose to test it, the two camps had become enemies and this could not be changed.

If I had known earlier, I should have apologized directly and shouldn't have been so greedy.

"After finally getting rid of a ruthless person, I thought I could feel better, but here comes a more ruthless one. I was confused. How could Xia Hong be so strong, and...?"

Chen Yingyuan talked to himself for a while, and finally thought of something. He turned to look at Chen Yingba and asked sternly, "What's going on with the Daxia camp? Didn't you say that they were just a medium-sized camp a year and a half ago, and the leader must have had some kind of opportunity to become so strong? You also said that there were only a few people in the Digging Realm. Is that true?"

There are not many people in the Digging Realm?

Just now in the six wooden houses in Jing Valley, Chen Yingyuan sensed at least a hundred auras of the Digging Realm, and six or seven of them had even begun to reshape their membranes.

This is just Jinggu, not the enemy's base camp.

None of the information Chen Yingba mentioned before matched.

How could Chen Yingyuan not be angry?

Chen Yingba also had a bit of anger on his face at this moment, and said in a deep voice: "Brother, I didn't lie to you, this information was told to me by a captain named Luo Ming in the hunting group.

Luo Ming was a new member of the camp last year. He claimed that he came from a camp east of Hongmuling and had a good relationship with the leader of the Daxia camp.

When I heard him say that Da Xia was so weak, I thought something must have happened in Jingxian Camp, and this Da Xia took advantage of it and came here on his own. "

There is no need for Chen Yingba to explain what happened next.

Chen Yingyuan did not say anything when he heard this, but just lowered his head and fell into thought.

Of course he could trust his younger brother Chen Yingba.

What’s quite coincidental is that he just happened to have an impression of this Luo Ming.

"Is it Luo Ming, the one who brought three Digging Realm masters with him last year, a total of twelve people, to join the camp? If I remember correctly, he said at the time that their Rogue camp was attacked by a monster and the entire army was wiped out. The twelve of them had a hard time escaping, right?"

Chen Yingba nodded and said, "That's right, big brother, it's him."

Wu Tianxing also interjected at this time, saying: "I know him too. This Luo Ming is quite powerful. He seems to be leading a hunting team. Among the eleven people who came with him last year, eight are already in the Digging Realm, and all of them are in his team."

Chen Yingyuan frowned even more tightly now.

No matter how strong Luo Ming is, he is just a squad leader under the Hive Hunting Group. It is very likely that the squad leader has not even reached the limit of the Digging Realm.

How is it possible that such a person could have such a good relationship with Xia Hong, who almost killed him just now?

Either this Luo Ming lied;
Or, this Xia Hong really had some extraordinary opportunity, to have become so strong from a digging realm in just one and a half years?
Thinking of this possibility, a strong desire arose in Chen Yingyuan's heart, but it only lasted for three or four breaths. As soon as the thrilling fight with Xia Hong just now emerged in his mind, he quickly extinguished it.

I almost lost my life just now, I can’t let my imagination run wild anymore.

"No matter what, we must not provoke this Great Xia. We must be more careful than we were with the Mirror Fairy Camp before. He Yuanhun was personally intimidated by the people from Longshan before, but not Xia Hong. Who knows if he will go crazy and attack us at this critical juncture..."

Seeing that his elder brother hadn't finished speaking, Chen Yingba's face suddenly showed some confusion.

But Wu Tianxing, who was standing by, obviously knew something and asked in a low voice: "Leader, is the situation in Longshan bad?"

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yingyuan nodded and said, "Only ten families came to the Longshan Alliance last month. The Zhaoyang camp went even further this time than last year. They didn't even send a single person. It's obvious that they don't take Longshan seriously."

Wu Tianxing's face was solemn when he heard this, and he said slowly: "The leader is old and doesn't have much time left. Zhaoyang Houhu is in his prime, and the camp is getting stronger day by day. It's normal for him to have such a mentality."

"It's not just about mentality. When I went to Longshan this time, I heard that Hou Hu, through coercion or bribery, has begun to secretly win over other camps, preparing to overthrow our old leader and set up a Zhaoyang League!"

"Hiss... this, the old leader didn't care about him?"

"How can we manage it? The eldest son has the final say in Longshan now. The old leader of the alliance has not shown up. If it weren't for the secret sentry, I even think that he might have already passed away."

Wu Tianxing's expression flickered slightly, and he whispered: "Leader, if this is true, then our camp must make plans early."

Chen Yingyuan frowned. Of course he understood what Wu Tianxing meant.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the Longyou Alliance was able to survive for the past fifteen years was that the old leader himself and the Longshan camp he led were strong enough to hold the fort.

When a person dies, his government disappears.

Once the old leader is gone, relying on a mere young master...

If the Longyou Alliance is gone and Chen Yingyuan fails to find a new home in advance, the ending of the Beehive Camp will definitely not be good.

There are powerful enemies in the north and west, and now there is a Daxia camp in the south, and the key is that it is not restricted by the covenant...

"Let me think about it first. Hou Hu is not a good person. The old leader lent him food and people to help him return to inherit the Zhaoyang camp. He was very kind to him. But only thirteen years have passed, and he immediately turned against us as soon as he became stronger. Who would dare to discuss cooperation with such a person? Let's wait for a while."

Wu Tianxing's face froze when he heard this, then he asked, "What about the order from the eldest son? Ten kilograms of jade bones, five million kilograms of iron ore, and a proton. Do we have to do all of them?"

This question made Chen Yingyuan's face darken instantly.

Chen Yingba also knew about the leader's order, and could not help but said angrily: "I think this young master is crazy. The old leader doesn't have much time left, and the Longyou Alliance is obviously on the verge of collapse. He still wants to make money and plunder. Isn't this forcing our ten families to rebel? Brother, in my opinion, we should just vote for Hou Hu!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yingyuan frowned.

Wu Tianxing on the side said nothing and glanced away.

"If only it were that easy, idiot!"

Chen Yingyuan cursed inwardly, but he had no intention of explaining to his honest brother. He could only sigh and say, "This order from the leader has a one-year deadline after all. Our beehive is the farthest from Longshan, so let's see what other camps do first, then we can decide..."

Having said this, he paused, glanced at Chen Yingba, and continued:

"Xia Hong is not someone you want to mess with. You and your hunting group should behave yourself and don't get close to Mirror Valley again."

"yes, Sir."

Seeing Chen Yingba nodded in agreement, he turned his gaze to Wu Tianxing and said:

"Old Wu, go contact Luo Ming and see if you can find out more information about Daxia. If it's appropriate, see if you can re-establish a trading relationship with them. Jingxian's territory has been occupied by them, and the Arrow Bamboo Forest must also be in their hands. Raw bamboo silk and snow bamboo are still good things in Longyou. Try to exchange as much as possible. Oh, and there are also iron ore and coal mines. They should also be in short supply of cold beast meat."

Wu Tianxing nodded to indicate that he understood.

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May 18, the first year of Daxia

There was another burst of noise in the wooden building in the valley.

"Who's getting married today?"

"This is the tenth one, let's go check it out."

"Today is Zhao Bao, the captain of the Golden Eagle Squad."

"This is the last one. You can get another bowl of salty meat soup tonight." "Tsk tsk... that broth smells so good. I'm drooling just thinking about it."

"That soup is all salted."

"No wonder it smells so good. I heard that salt is made by grinding medium-level animal bone powder and adding other medicinal herbs. At the Quartermaster Department, it costs 1 contribution points to buy one kilogram. The price is ridiculous. Except for the captains of the top hunting teams, no one else can afford it."

"It's expensive, but the benefits are amazing. I heard from several people in the Supply Department that eating salt for a long time can not only improve your cultivation talent, but also prolong your life!"

"longevity?"

"The aged wine is also delicious. I went to the Supply Department yesterday to ask. Can you guess how many contribution points are needed for one kilogram of aged wine?"

"How many?"

"It'll be 100 points."

"Hiss... this is too expensive!"

"It's expensive, but there's nothing we can do about it. Haven't you noticed these days that many people in the Digging Realm kept the aged wine they were given and gave it to their children or nephews in the Woodcutting Realm? I heard that it's because drinking aged wine can improve one's strength."

"what?"

………………

Ever since Xia Hong announced that night that the next ten couples would all marry according to Xia Chuan's wedding standards, Shan Gu Mu Lou has never been idle, with a couple getting married every day.

As a result, the person who was most distressed was Qiu Peng, the director of the quartermaster department.

"Ten weddings in ten days, plus yours, Sir Si Zheng, this is eleven days in a row. Our quartermaster department is bleeding a lot."

In the hall on the top floor of the wooden building, Xia Chuan put on his black cloak again. Upon hearing Qiu Peng's complaints, he asked, "Why, did you use up a lot of supplies?"

Qiu Peng nodded immediately, opened the account book in his hand, and said with a worried look on his face: "More than 30 people, except for children under one year old, everyone can have a sip of meat soup. After a wedding, salt alone is 1500 kilograms, animal meat is kilograms, plus ten bottles of aged wine. If we calculate it by contribution value, in these eleven days, the supplies spent by the Quartermaster Department are nearly ."

The meat is fine, salt is 1 points per pound, and aged wine is 500 points per pound. The supplies Qiu Peng mentioned are the prices for a single day, and multiplying by 100 is indeed more than .

"We only have about 400 kilograms of salt in the quartermaster department. We have almost used it up in the past half month. New salt has not been produced yet. Except for the salt left for the leader, no one else can even exchange it. The situation of the aged salt is almost the same."

Xia Chuan looked at Qiu Peng's worried look and couldn't help but chuckle:

"Salt and aged wine are so expensive, and there aren't many people who can redeem them. Recently, they've all been saving contribution points to build houses, so basically no one wants to redeem them. You're just keeping them anyway, so why not take them out and share them with everyone so they can have a taste."

Hearing this, Qiu Peng's eyes lit up and he smiled, "That's right. Currently, apart from the chiefs, no one else can afford to exchange the salt and aged wine. The key is that in the past half month, these two things have been thoroughly promoted. I see that many people in the hunting department are thinking about the aged wine. They come to ask if there is any every day, but they are reluctant to exchange it, hahahaha."

Aged wine is indeed a good thing!

A sip of the mellow wine will warm your whole body and improve your strength.

Who can resist this?
When Xia Chuan heard the people from the Hunting Department asking about the aged wine and being reluctant to exchange it, thinking of their embarrassment, he couldn't help but shake his head and chuckled a few times.

But then, he said seriously: "We have consumed so many resources recently, the improvement in the camp's strength should not be small, right?"

All resource consumption can be transformed into strength.

Not to mention aged wine, salt, and animal meat, these three things are all important resources that can improve strength. Eleven weddings have consumed so much of them, so by the same token, the strength of the camp must have increased significantly recently.

Qiu Peng's expression brightened when he heard this, and he nodded and smiled, "Of course, it has been almost two months since the more than 3,000 people from Jingxian came in, and it has been almost a month since the people from Wuyuan Mountain came in. In the past eleven days, with the help of these three things, the stamina seems to have been stimulated all at once, and more and more breakthroughs have been made..."

Speaking of this, Qiu Peng took out a list from his body, flipped through a few pages, and continued excitedly: "As of yesterday, there are already 792 Diggers in our camp, and even more in the Woodcutters, with a total of 6921 people.

And according to my observations at the martial arts hall during this period, in the next month, there should be more than 200 people breaking through to the Digging Realm, not to mention the Woodcutting Realm. The number will definitely continue to rise!"

In the next month, more than 200 people will break through to the Dao Jue Di realm.

Qiu Peng is the one who manages the martial arts hall. The 200 people who enter to practice every day have all been reviewed by him, so his words are naturally highly credible.

That is to say, before July, the number of people at the Digging Realm in the Daxia Camp will exceed one thousand, and the number of people at the Logging Realm may reach tens of thousands!
Xia Chuan's expression brightened up, with a look of both joy and worry on his face.

"No wonder Yuwen Tao came to me recently and said that he wanted to continue to relax the limit on the number of hunting teams. It seems that there are more and more people in the Digging Realm, and the current number of hunting teams is too small."

Qiu Peng also knew this situation and nodded, "Only 7 new hunting teams have been added recently, and there are only 30 in total. There are indeed nearly people who have not joined any hunting team. This problem must be solved."

Currently, the upper limit of the number of low-level hunting teams is 20, and a full complement of thirty teams is 600 people. There are only about 200 more at present, and there will definitely be more in the future.

Xia Chuan frowned. This problem was really difficult to solve.

It is definitely not possible to increase the upper limit of the number of people.

Hunting is not war, and the more people there are, the better. In fact, once there are too many people, not only will it become more difficult to coordinate and cooperate, but it may also attract a large number of cold beasts or even monsters.

He himself had led a team to go out hunting, so he knew very well that twenty people was basically the limit for hunting low-level cold beasts. Adding more people would not only waste manpower, but would also not be of any help to the hunting. Instead, it would become a burden. In serious cases, it would even reduce the hunting efficiency.

"Sir, how about we follow the leader's advice and set up a hunting-free team to patrol our Daxia territory?"

When Xia Chuan heard this, he was moved, but he quickly shook his head and said, "You are in charge of the camp supply department now, you should know the accounts better than me. Can the camp afford such a full-time team right now?"

Qiu Peng paused when he heard this, and after thinking for a moment, he shook his head helplessly.

"I am overthinking. To be honest, the meat supply in the camp is already insufficient. Especially with the increasing number of Digging Realms, the meat consumption is increasing every day. If it weren't for a few top hunting teams, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to keep up with the supply."

Xia Chuan's expression suddenly became stern when he heard this, and he asked, "What is the average daily consumption of cold beast meat in the camp now, and how much is in reserve at the camp supply department?"

"For the logging and digging realms alone, 35000 catties are exchanged every day, which is 105 million catties a month. If we add in the 1 or so reserve troops, the daily consumption is also around 15000 catties, which is 45 catties a month. The rest under the age of six are considered small fry and can be ignored for now. Just these two items alone, the total is 150 million catties a month."

A day of training at the Lumberjack level requires 3 to 5 kilograms, and a day of training at the Digging level requires 7 to 10 kilograms. According to the numbers just reported by Qiu Peng, if you take all the numbers into account, it is indeed around 35000. The reserve force has a quota of 1 to 2 kilograms per day based on the basic strength, so if you take all the numbers into account, it is around 15000.

So Qiu Peng’s calculation is basically correct.

150 million jin. Based on the meat yield of 1300 low-level cold beasts, the camp needs to hunt at least 1200 cold beasts in the current month.

There are only 30 hunting teams at the moment. On average, each team has to hunt 40 cold beasts a month to maintain the supply of meat.

This is almost three times the original minimum allowance of 15 heads set for the team.

After thinking it over in his mind, Xia Chuan frowned.

No wonder we have to rely on the top few teams to barely provide the supply.

This consumption is really shocking.

But there is no way. Animal meat is the key to the camp's continued improvement in strength. Unless the population is restricted, the demand for animal meat will inevitably continue to rise.

"It's unrealistic to reduce the meat quota, and limiting the population is even worse, so we still have to find a way to supply it. If there's not enough meat, then we can continue to add teams and relax the conditions for creating teams. Lower the basic strength limit of 20000 kilograms to 15000 kilograms, that should be enough."

Qiu Peng nodded immediately after hearing this and said, "This is more than enough. There aren't many people with a basic strength of over 20,000 jin, but there are many with over 15,000 jin. Many of the earliest people in Daxia had basic strength that met the standard. However, this will likely increase casualties during hunting."

Xia Chuan said in a deep voice: "There is nothing we can do about casualties. The camp is running out of meat, so we have to take some risks. They have been able to cultivate to this point thanks to the meat hunted by their predecessors. Now it is their turn to provide for the people below."

Qiu Peng nodded, with a hint of approval in his eyes.

He himself, in the beginning, relied on the cold beast meat brought back by Xia Hong, and practiced step by step to become stronger until now, and his basic strength has exceeded 20,000.

"By the way, kid, do you still want to stay in my team?"

Xia Chuan suddenly thought of something, turned around and looked at Qiu Peng and asked.

Qiu Peng chuckled when he heard this and said, "I was just about to bring it up!"

In fact, Qiu Peng had reached the basic strength requirement a few days ago and was qualified to create a hunting team. The problem was that the Yunjiao team that stayed in Xiachuan could earn more contribution points, so he never mentioned the creation of a team.

Of course, this is not possible at the moment. The hunting department is short of teams. After all, he is the director of the quartermaster department, so he naturally has to consider the camp. He can't continue to stay in Xiachuan to take advantage.

Xia Chuan nodded, but then he thought of something and stretched out his hand, saying, "Wait a minute, I have a big operation the day after tomorrow, you can leave the team after it's done."

Qiu Peng was stunned, but he immediately realized what the big operation Xia Chuan was talking about, and his expression was shocked.

"Yes, my lord."

(End of this chapter)