Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 26: The Nightmare of the Craftsman

What would the scene be like if there were more than 100,000 people in a camp?

In fact, Luo Ming, Shi Qing and the other seven people could not even imagine it.

But they are all leaders, each in charge of a camp of hundreds of people.

They knew very well what a camp with a population of over 100,000 meant.

A huge amount of food, extremely high security costs, countless cold beasts’ flesh and blood...

"No, with more than 100,000 people, how can they find such a big cave?"

Shi Qing couldn't help but ask about his biggest confusion.

Humans cannot see the light, so a hundred thousand people will eventually have to hide.

Can you find such a big cave?

Summer insects cannot speak of ice, and well frogs cannot speak of sea.

These two sentences popped up in Yang Ning and Li Hu's minds and they shook their heads slightly.

"Not all humans can only live in the shadows. One day, if one of you is lucky enough to be qualified to enter Beishuo Town, you will know."

Yang Ning paused for a moment after he finished speaking, and then continued to himself: "Of course, for you guys, this possibility is basically non-existent."

When Luo Ming, Shi Qing and the other six heard these words, their faces suddenly became much darker.

Compared with Shi Qing, Luo Ming could actually understand Yang Ning's words better.

Rogue Camp is the only medium-sized camp around Redwood Ridge.

Almost all the other eight camps had previously expressed their desire to merge with him.

But he didn't dare to accept it, or rather, he couldn't accept it.

Although he also understood that the more people there were in the camp, the better.

But the prerequisite for expansion is strength.

Strength means being able to obtain more resources, feed more people, hunt more cold beasts and flesh, and provide more people with cultivation.

Unfortunately, the strength of the Rogue Camp is simply not enough to support its expansion.

There are a total of five Digging Territories and forty-seven Logging Territories in the Rogue Camp. The flesh and blood of the cold beasts hunted every month are not enough to feed their own people. If other small camps are merged, the cold beast meat will not be enough.

Moreover, once the merger occurs, it means that there will be more ordinary people and the demand for crystal fruit will increase rapidly. They will have to increase the frequency of going out to find more Bingshuo trees, and this process is also risky.

The most crucial thing is that the strongest person in the small camp is only at the logging level and has no hunting ability at all. In other words, their joining will not only fail to improve the hunting ability, but will also squeeze the original supply of cold beast meat in the camp.

So, when other camps proposed to merge, not only Luo Ming himself, but almost everyone in the Rogue Camp refused.

Therefore, the rule is that you can expand only when you have enough strength, and then use the population advantage to cultivate more strong people. Only by repeating this cycle can the camp become stronger and bigger.

Blind expansion will only make the camp out of control. Even if it is not slaughtered by cold beasts and strange monsters in the end, it is very likely to break out into internal strife and infighting.

Therefore, by analogy, the Beishuo Town mentioned by Yang and Li, although it has a population of over 100,000, will definitely not randomly recruit outsiders. The "qualifications" they mentioned must be extremely demanding.

There is no need to think about Shi Qing. Even if Luo Ming has the strength of the Digging Realm, Yang and Li are much stronger than him at such a young age. The strength of Beishuo Town is enough to get a glimpse of it, so I don't think they will look down on him.

What's more, the two of them are the leaders of their respective camps.

It is also impossible for them to abandon their families and companions and join other camps alone.

"Alright, there's no point in telling you all this. Didn't Chief Luo just ask about the wooden puppet? I'll explain it to you."

Seeing that Yang Ning was about to talk about something strange, Luo Ming Shi Qing immediately pricked up his ears.

"A long time ago, the Ice Abyss was not like it is today. Not only did the daytime last twelve hours, but the temperature was not as low as it is today.

Most of the cold beasts were not as cunning and powerful as they are now, let alone eating humans. At that time, almost 99% of the cold beasts were just food for us humans.

And there are those weird things that didn't exist before.

During that period, humans could move freely at any time of day or night.

It is said that at that time, the Ice Abyss had four seasons, cold and hot cycles, and a pleasant climate; at that time, humans controlled a variety of powerful tools and were the undisputed overlords of the Ice Abyss; at that time, the land was fertile, crops could be cultivated everywhere, and there was more food than could be eaten; at that time...

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are perfect, people live and work in peace and contentment, and civilization is prosperous.

During that period, there were many large gatherings of people, not to mention hundreds of thousands, but millions or even tens of millions.”

After hearing Yang Ning's description, Luo Ming, Shi Qing and others were stunned.

They have no concept of millions or tens of millions of people.

Day and night, do whatever you want.

For them, it was just a dream.

Ninety-nine percent of cold beasts are just food for humans?
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all perfect, and the people live and work in peace and prosperity.

What kind of dream scene would that be?
It is difficult for people to imagine things they have never seen or experienced, but this does not affect their yearning and pursuit for beauty.

In the eyes of Luo Ming, Shi Qing and others, the world described by Yang Ning was no different from the fairy palace and heaven.

“Corresponding to today’s Ice Abyss world, we generally call that period the Paleolithic Period, or prehistoric civilization.

No one knows what happened in the ancient Deep World, what happened to prehistoric civilization, and how our world has become what it is today.

Some say that humans have angered the gods, and Gu Yuan was punished by the gods; others say that it is because humans have done too many things they shouldn’t have done, which led to the appearance of cold beasts and monsters, and finally the climate and time have all changed. No one knows the specific reasons.

But what is certain is that since the end of the ancient abyss, when civilization fell, strange monsters and frigid beasts have become the nightmare of mankind. "

Although this long paragraph is just a prelude, what Yang Ning said was also very moving.

Apparently, even he had a strong yearning for the ancient Abyss Era that he had never experienced.

“No one knows exactly where these strange monsters came from, but we can be sure that they all originated from the Ancient Abyss, because only from them can we find evidence of the existence of the Ancient Abyss.

There are five kinds of weird monsters: craftsman, nightmare, fierce, god and demon.

The craftsman ghosts are one of them. They were all transformed from many professional craftsmen with superb skills in the ancient Abyss Period. They have strange preferences for killing and their methods of killing are also mysterious and unpredictable.

For example, the wooden puppet that appeared in Hongmu Ridge should be a puppet craftsman from the ancient Yuan Dynasty. He is good at making and controlling various puppets, and prefers to carve human-shaped wooden puppets to imitate humans and deceive their trust. He hides in the dark and controls the puppets to kill people. "

At this point, Yang Ning paused and added: "All monsters will evolve by constantly killing people.

Let’s use the wooden puppet as an example. The puppets he makes now can only exert the strength of a woodcutter. But as he kills more and more people, his own strength, including the puppets he makes, will become stronger and stronger.

Beishuo Town once hunted a mid-level craftsman ghost, which we named the tailor ghost.

It has a pair of scissors in its hand, which can cut dozens of Digging Realm humans into pieces in an instant;

It also has a set of needles and thread, which it used to sew up all seven orifices of a cold-resistant warrior in front of me.

Then, not long after, the Cold-Resistant Level warrior suffocated to death."

Cold-resistant level...

When they heard these three words for the first time, although Luo Ming and Shi Qing had some guesses in their minds, they still showed doubts on their faces.

"Above the Digging Realm is the Cold Resistance Realm. It's called that because when people reach this level, they can withstand the severe cold during the day and go out for activities."

(End of this chapter)