Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 206: What is a shocking prisoner rule?
A total of five or six thousand people from the four families poured in one after another, and the outer wooden houses immediately became overcrowded.

"Look, what is that?"

One person was the first to notice the supplies piled on both sides of the wooden house. After he spoke with a shocked look on his face, everyone around him immediately turned their heads and looked in the direction he pointed.

When they saw this, they were stunned for a moment.

"There's a lot of meat piled up over there."

"A lot of iron ore, coal, fruit, and what is that..."

"Hiss... How much cargo can be loaded into these three large trucks?"

"So many iron tools. How can Daxia be so rich..."

"They were wearing full outfits, lots of different colors, and they had hairdos and accessories that I had never seen before."

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As this small group of people spoke, the more than 5,000 people who had just entered and were still in shock, began to look at everything in the wooden house.

The ground was covered with blue animal flesh piled up like a mountain;

On one side, white animal bones are arranged like a mountain range;
Blue, white, red, purple, green...all kinds of fruits are dazzling;
Shovel, chisel, saw, axe...all kinds of iron tools were randomly placed on the ground;
Knives, guns, swords, halberds, spears, sticks... one after another, weapons they had never seen before, were held in the hands of the people of Daxia;
On one side of the wooden house, there were two piles of iron ore and coal. What was even more exaggerated was that people were constantly filling them into bags, transporting bag after bag to the three iron trailers in the middle of the wooden house.

"Gudong..."

"That iron ore must weigh over a million kilograms, right?"

"I'm afraid there's more than that. There's more coal and rubble. The truck is almost half full of coal and rubble."

"How can Daxia be so rich..."

Looking at everything around the cabin, the four camps, totaling five or six thousand people, all widened their eyes, their faces filled with shock and emotion.

Listening to the voices of the crowd, Xiang Liang's face did not show the slightest surprise. After all, just now, his reaction was the same as these people's, and even worse than many people.

"What did you say? This place...isn't it Daxia's real base?"

But Xiang Ping here was different. The horror on his face was several times more intense than that of others, only because of the content of the conversation his son Xiang Liang had just had with him.

"Yes, father. This is just the Daxia camp, a station in Wuyuan Mountain. They named it Wuyuan. The lord Xu Ning is the person in charge here. I heard others call him the garrison lord. His position in Daxia should not be the highest. Above him, there is a Sicheng and a chief."

"Gudong..."

Xiang Ping turned his head and looked at Xu Ning who had just walked in from outside the wooden house. His pupils widened and his face was full of disbelief.

"How is this possible, how is this possible..."

Hearing his father's trembling question, Xiang Liang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

His father had just told him how Xu Ning and his men had defeated them with great ease.

The Digging Realm masters of the four families were all gathered in the Flying Tiger Camp, so they encountered the fifty people from the Black Arrow Squad led by Xu Ning.

"More than one hundred Diggers, plus more than two hundred Woodcutters in the Flying Tiger camp, couldn't even hold out for half an hour. Not only were more than twenty killed, the rest were all captured alive, and not a single enemy was hurt. How... how is it possible..."

Thinking of what his father had just said, Xiang Liang found it unbelievable. He couldn't help but ask, "Father, how strong is Lord Xu? You can't possibly be unable to defeat even one of the fifty men under his command, right?"

Xiang Ping turned his head and looked at his son with a bitter expression.

"It's not that I can't beat him, it's Wang Lie. Among those fifty people, only one man wearing black iron armor came out and defeated Wang Lie."

Gulp...

Xiang Liang's expression froze, but before he could say anything, his father Xiang Ping continued.

"After being defeated, Wang Lie was still stubborn and wanted to use his large numbers to resist by using the base as a fortress. However, the Flying Tiger base cave had a huge iron gate weighing more than 50,000 kilograms chopped open by Lord Xu Ning with four slashes. The fifty men pushed down the gate and broke in. We didn't resist for long before we were all injured and captured."

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Even though he had not seen it with his own eyes, Xiang Liang could imagine Wang Lie's despair at the time.

No wonder my father couldn't answer Xu Ning's strength. The garrison commander only made four attacks from beginning to end, chopping open the big iron gate of the Flying Tiger base, and then he didn't take any more action afterwards.

"Father, did you fight with those people too?"

Soon, Xiang Liang captured the key message in his father's words.

Seeing his father nod, his expression suddenly turned a little ugly.

It is definitely true that the Hefeng Camp was coerced by Wang Lie and others.

But when we fought with the people from Daxia, the nature of the situation was different.

"Have all 29 Diggers in our camp taken action?"

Xiang Liang was still unwilling to give up and asked another question.

Xiang Ping also understood what his son meant. His face turned a little ugly. He nodded and said helplessly, "We only attacked once. Wang Lie directed us to shoot arrows. All the Digging Realm from the four families, including some of the Logging Realm from the Flying Tiger Camp, took action."

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Xiang Liang's expression suddenly became gloomy and he didn't speak for a long time.

It's not that he blames them. His father and others were coerced into taking action. There was nothing they could do about it. The main reason was that he was not sure how Daxia would deal with these people.

"Father, don't worry, I'll go and ask them for mercy!"

Xiang Liang spoke in a deep voice and walked towards the north side of the wooden house, which was the other side of the cave entrance where the Daxia people were.

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"5321 people, 124 of them are from the Digging Realm, 821 are from the Logging Realm, and the remaining + are all ordinary people."

After Lu Yang reported the number of people in the four camps, everyone around him smiled immediately.

Lin Kai said excitedly, "Among the six camps that joined in the past six months, only two were medium-sized, and the other four were small camps, with a total population of less than 4,000. This time, more than 5,000 people came at once, and there are so many Digging Realm masters. If Lord Si Cheng knew about this, he would definitely be very happy..."

Thinking of something, he paused and continued:

"Hehe, the key is that the leader will be out soon!"

Hearing that the leader was about to come out of seclusion, Xu Ning, Lu Yang, Xu An, and a few others nearby, all smiled.

Lu Yang looked around at the more than 5,000 people in the wooden house, his face slightly gloomy as he said, "This group of people are indeed gathering together and preparing to attack us. If that's the case, we can't just give them the Daxia identity."

Everyone nodded after hearing this.

Xu Ning pointed at Wang Lie in the front row of the crowd and the group of Diggers behind him, and said with a smile, "This man is the main culprit. He is still stubborn even when facing death. He will definitely not be able to escape two years of corvee labor. The more than one hundred people behind him will also have to serve at least one year of corvee labor. When we return to the base tomorrow night, report the situation to the quartermaster department and let them handle it."

When they heard the word "corvée", Lin Kai and Lu Yang's faces were filled with regret.

"It's a pity that we were encountered by your Black Arrow Squad. 124 prisoners, one year of forced labor, tsk tsk... The Black Arrow Squad will not have to worry about the coal and iron handover targets for the next few years. Why didn't we encounter this..."

After Lin Kai finished speaking, he thought of something, and walked up to Xu Ning and said with a smile:
"Give us a few. Our team doesn't even have enough time to hunt, so where would we get the time to mine? Xuzi, give me a few, how about that?"

Hearing this, Lu Yang immediately followed up and said, "Yes, yes, our Dongyang team doesn't have enough time to hunt either. Old Xu, give me a few!"

"Ha ha ha ha…………"

Hearing the two people's request, Xu Ning was in high spirits. He laughed a few times and then said, "You want it? If you want, use contribution points to buy it. 15000 points for one prisoner. How about it?" Hearing the price, Lu Yang immediately looked up at Xu Ning and said, "You are too black. Make it cheaper..."

Lu Yang worked in the quartermaster department, specifically in charge of coal and iron mining in Wuyuan and transactions with other camps. He was most sensitive to these numbers and could easily calculate that they were a loss.

But Lin Kai can't do that, he calculates a little slower.

After he realized what was happening, he quickly called Gui a name, saying that Xu Ning was a black-hearted person.

The corvée labor in one year is 400 kilograms a day, which is 40 contribution points, and 360 points in 14400 days, calculated based on the amount of mining done with a toothed chisel in the digging realm.

Xu Ning actually quoted a price of 15000, no wonder they called it a rip-off.

"Black? Then I won't let you. I didn't want to in the first place. With more than a hundred prisoners, our team won't have to mine for at least four or five years in the future. With so much extra time, I will have to hunt so many cold beasts, hahahaha..."

Seeing Xu Ning's despicable look, Lu Yang and Lin Kai knew that he had no intention of giving in at all, and they immediately felt angry.

"No, no, we still have to find a new camp quickly. We must meet some blind people. If we can get a wave of Digging Realm prisoners, the whole team can be freed from the mine for several years..."

Hearing Lin Kai's words, Lu Yang nodded, his eyes full of desire.

The prisoner rules were newly formulated by Si Cheng Xia Chuan two months ago.

Two months ago, Yue Feng's Shanhe team discovered two new medium-sized camps in the northern part of Jinggu, which is the border of Pingxiyuan.

The hunting teams from the two camps coveted the weapons in the hands of the three lone members of the Shanhe team, and they united and took the initiative to attack them.

Although the other side had more people and more power, fortunately the three men had rich experience in the wilderness and finally escaped back to Mirror Valley.

At that time, Yue Feng's Shanhe Team had just been promoted to intermediate level. It was easy to imagine their reaction when they encountered such a group of short-sighted people.

The two camps were naturally integrated into Daxia.

But the way of integration is different from before.

The prisoner rules were formulated by Xia Chuan at the time. The general principle was that anyone who attacked a member of Da Xia should be convicted.

The so-called prisoner rules mean that if you enter the camp as a prisoner, you must perform labor service. The length of service depends on the severity of the crime, with the longest being lifelong and the shortest being only half a year.

Only after completing corvée labor can one obtain official status as a member of the Daxia camp.

This rule applies to any camp that takes the initiative to attack Daxia.

In fact, the first camps to apply this rule were Sanhu and Tongling in Wuyuan Mountain.

Although Liu Erhu and Liu Sanhu of the Sanhu camp, as well as other villains, had been executed, there was still Liu Dahu who was seriously injured but not dead. After Xia Chuan's investigation, he learned that Liu Dahu and Meng Yuan had both attacked Xia Hong, so he directly sentenced them to lifelong labor service.

These two people, as well as more than a dozen digging masters in the Tongling camp, are still mining in the dark mine. It is estimated that they will never get out in this lifetime.

Later, in order to use this rule to motivate everyone, Xia Chuan also advocated that the prisoners should be captured by hunting teams, and whoever captured them would own them. In addition, the coal and iron ore mined by the prisoners during their service could be used as the monthly quota for the hunting teams.

The two camps north of Jinggu were both taken over by the Shanhe Team, and the more than fifty Digging Realm captives naturally belonged to the Shanhe Team.

Thanks to the more than 500 prisoners, the Shanhe team not only earned contribution points per person every month, but also had more time to spend on hunting.

This made everyone go crazy.

Almost all hunting teams were frantically searching for traces of other camps.

This time, with the smart Wang Lie, Feihu and the other three camps are obviously also subject to this prisoner rule.

Xu Ning picked up more than a hundred prisoners for nothing. The team would not have to enter the mine for several years in the future. He was in a very happy mood at the moment.

"I can be considered to have gotten a good deal. If I hadn't been the garrison commander of Wuyuan, I probably wouldn't have been able to capture these one hundred prisoners. Hahaha..."

Thinking of this, Xu Ning looked at Wang Lie again and felt that he had become much cuter.

Suddenly, Xu An ran over from not far away and whispered in Xu Ning's ear:
"Brother, Xiang Liang wants to see you."

Xu Ning raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and looked back at Xiang Liang who was blocked by the team members. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said, "Let him come over!"

Xu An hurried over, said a few words, and came over with Xiang Liang.

"Sir, when I came here last night, I already reported to you that our Hefeng camp was coerced by Wang Lie and had no choice but to join forces with them. My father Xiang Ping and others should have only shot one arrow at the people of Daxia from beginning to end. Please show mercy and spare them, sir?"

After Xiang Liang approached, he knelt down in front of Xu Ning without thinking.

Xu Ning frowned, looked at Xiang Ping in the crowd, and said slowly: "After I go back, I will tell the person in charge about this situation. When it comes to punishment, I will give you Hefeng Camp a lighter sentence as appropriate."

"On the crime?"

Hearing this, Xu Ning immediately became anxious and said, "Sir, I risked my life to report the news to Daxia last night. It was also instructed by my father. No matter what, he should not be guilty!"

"Moreover, he probably only shot one arrow from beginning to end, and did not cause any casualties in Daxia."

"He also asked me to present the cold marrow iron to Daxia, sir..."

"So what do you think is considered guilty?"

Xu Ning suddenly spoke in a deep voice, interrupting Xiang Liang with a question.

Xiang Liang's face froze, and before he could react, Xu Ning continued speaking.

"The moment your father chose to take action, he was already guilty!"

He deliberately raised his voice and spoke in a sonorous and powerful voice, which not only made all the Da Xia people around him turn their heads and look at him with a hint of ridicule, but also made Wang Lie over there and the thousands of people who had just entered the wooden house all quiet down and look over here.

"You risked your life to come and tell us the news. I, as well as the twelve teams stationed in Wuyuan, are very grateful to you. We can even agree to some of your conditions. But if you want the entire Great Xia Camp to do you a favor, that would be too unrealistic..."

At this point, he paused, looked around, found Xiang Ping in the crowd, and continued: "From beginning to end, only one arrow was shot. It's not that your father has a change of heart, but that he doesn't have the ability to shoot the second arrow.

You should be thankful that he only shot one arrow!
If there were real casualties tonight, your father and the people below would not be like this now, just tied up and waiting to be tried."

Xu Ning sneered, stared at Wang Lie and his group in the front row, then turned his gaze back to Xiang Liang and said:

"You and the others will follow us back to Daxia's base tomorrow night. Before you go back, I have something to say. Please remember it well..."

At this point, Xu Ning put away the smile on his face and his expression became solemn.
"Anyone who attacks Daxia, no matter who they are or why, should be convicted!"

This sentence seemed to carry some kind of magic. As soon as Xu Ning finished speaking, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, Xu An, and all the people from Da Xia who were around him all became more solemn, with a hint of pride on their faces.

Taking action against Daxia is a crime, no need to argue!

Xiang Liang, who was kneeling on the ground, heard the arrogance implied in these words. He was inexplicably shocked in his heart, his mouth moved slightly a few times, and he dared not say another word.

"It's dawn, start packing up. Once it gets dark, we can set off back to Shuanglong Valley to celebrate the New Year!"

"After working so hard for several months, I can finally go back, haha."

"Iron ore, coal, fruit, animal meat and bones... there are so many things to pack up, hurry up."

"There are a lot of things in the cave. Come on, come on, move them all with me."

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Hearing Xu Ning's words, everyone in Da Xia immediately became excited and began to busy packing up the supplies in the wooden house.

Going back to Shuanglong Valley to celebrate the New Year obviously means a lot to them.

(End of this chapter)