Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 262: Mission Inability Screening in Progress

In the second year of Daxia, on April 29th, at night.

Since May last year, when the Ministry of Supply began selling land, Daxia officially entered an era of separation as a family unit.

In the early days, land prices were relatively high and there were only a few people who could afford to buy and build their own houses, probably only high-ranking officials such as Xia Chuan, Yuwen Tao, Yuan Cheng, and Luo Yuan. But now, a year has passed, and the situation is naturally different.

With the main building as the center, the three wide main roads are lined with houses on both sides. Except for the differences in exterior decoration, the styles of these houses are basically the same, so they look clean, neat and orderly at first glance.

At the entrance of the inner city, the young Xiang Liang was leading a large group of people, slowly passing through the iron gate and entering the inner city.

"Don't push, just walk forward slowly!"

"There are still many people behind, come one by one, don't crowd."

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Xiang Liang walked beside the team, maintaining order. After entering the inner city, he saw the houses on both sides of the street with envy on his face. Then he thought of something and said loudly to everyone:
"You have been here for a few days and finally entered the inner city. You can take a closer look at both sides. The houses here are much better than those in the outer city!"

Sure enough, after hearing Xiang Liang's words, everyone looked sideways towards the houses in the inner city.

Upon seeing this, the team, which had been noisy just now, immediately became quiet.

“Why are so many of these houses gold?”

"Jin Linmu, this should be the house built by Jin Linmu."

"Hiss... Those houses are all made of golden wood!"

"Look at that building, why is there a blue blanket on the roof?"

"What blue blanket? It's made of a lot of frost wolf skins sewn together."

"It covers the entire roof. It's so big. How many sheets do you need?"

"What's the use of animal skins? Look at the building in front of you. Not only is the roof covered with a large piece of animal skin, but the door and windows are also made of iron."

"No, no, look over there. Not only the door and windows of that house, but even the eaves are made of iron. There is also a white sculpture of a cold beast on the eaves. It is carved out of animal bones."

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There were exclamations one after another in the team.

Hearing these people's exclamations, Xiang Liang was not surprised at all.

He had guessed it before bringing these Hive people into the inner city.

Because four months ago, when he first came to Daxia Valley and saw the wooden houses in the inner valley, his reaction was not much stronger than that of the Hive People in front of him.

During the first three nights, a total of 14,000 people came from the Beehive, and they were all accommodated in three temporary wooden houses in the outer city.

According to Xiang Liang's observation, this group of people who had just moved here from the beehive had actually experienced quite a bit of stimulation after staying in the outer city for the previous few days.

"It seems that even though they are all giant camps, their living standards vary. This can be seen from the clothes and things that the people in the Beehive wear. Father also said that there are only more than 700 people in the Digging Realm of the Beehive. Compared with our Great Xia, they are far behind!"

Four months ago, because of the merit of donating cold marrow iron, Xiang Liang's four relatives were exempted from corvée labor, and the five members of the family successfully became members of Daxia.

My father Xiang Ping has reached the level of Digging Earth Realm. He successfully joined a low-level hunting team four months ago. Just relying on the contribution points my father obtained from the hunting team, their whole family has no shortage of beast meat for cultivation.

Not to mention that he also joined the logging department, and could support his own cultivation expenses with the income from logging.

Originally Xiang Liang was very satisfied with such a life.

But ever since he tasted the Beast Yuan Pill and salt, he learned about the existence of the martial arts hall, and knew that the youngest person in Da Xia who had reached the Earth Digging Realm was a man named Hong Shaokang, who was fifteen years and one month old.

After learning all this, Xiang Liang's thoughts changed instantly.

He is almost seventeen years old this year, and his basic strength is only 5900 kilograms. According to the current progress, he has calculated that he will have to be at least nineteen or even twenty years old to break through to the Digging Realm.

Not to mention comparing with Hong Shaokang, after Xiang Liang's observation, the young people in the camp who have broken through the digging realm can be roughly divided into three echelons, namely under the age of sixteen, under the age of seventeen, and under the age of eighteen.

In other words, if I follow the routine, my qualifications won't even allow me to enter the third echelon of the camp.

This was extremely difficult to accept for the conceited Xiang Liang.

Therefore, he had to find a way to earn more contribution points in exchange for resources to increase his cultivation speed so that he could break through to the Digging Realm as soon as possible.

But the problem is that he is only at the level of Lumberjack. He can't get much contribution points by logging and gathering every night. Salt, aged wine, beast essence pills, and training places in the martial arts hall, these hot resources, if he relies on himself, it will take a long time to save them up.

Nine days ago, Si Cheng transferred a large number of troops to Longyou. Xiang Liang saw that the quartermaster department was short of people, so he immediately volunteered to help. Unexpectedly, he managed to sneak in by accident.

For three consecutive nights, the more than 10,000 people who came from the Beehive had to be received and arranged by the people from the Quartermaster Department. Xiang Liang happened to be one of them. At this moment, the team following behind him had about 500 people and he was specifically responsible for it.

Accepting newcomers into the camp requires more than just arranging temporary accommodation for them. It is also necessary to explain to them all the rules and regulations of Daxia, including the contribution value, as well as the things that need to be paid attention to in the camp.

To put it bluntly, the goal is to allow these newcomers from the beehive to integrate into Daxia as quickly as possible and return to their normal hunting and gathering life.

There are twenty-eight other people who have taken on the same task as him. They also have a captain above them. After this is over, the captain will reward them with different contribution points based on how they integrate into the team.

With contribution points as a reward, Xiang Liang naturally worked very hard. In order to make these 500 people quickly understand and adapt to the camp, he ate and lived with these people in the temporary wooden houses in the outer city for the first three nights, and he was already quite familiar with them.

Seeing that everyone was still staring at the various houses in the inner city, Xiang Liang coughed and said, "I told you last night that the price of land in the outer city is currently around 1500 contribution points. Can you guess how much contribution points the land was worth when the inner city was first planned?"

"3000?"

"It should be more than 3500, right?"

“I guess 4000.”

………………

These people were very familiar with Xiang Liang and began to make bold guesses.

But no one guessed correctly. Xiang Liang shook his head, denying everyone's answer, and then said, "The lowest is 4000, the highest is 7000!"

hiss…………

When everyone heard the sound, they immediately took a breath of cold air at the same time.

Xiang Liang had said before that if a logging level person didn't have any unexpected gains, he could only get 1 to 3 contribution points per night by logging and gathering.

When they heard the price of land in the outer city last night, they were already desperate.

When they heard that the lowest price for land in the inner city was 4000, they immediately became as depressed as eggplants hit by frost.

"Don't worry, you have basically no chance of getting into the inner city. All 4200 plots of land in the inner city are owned by owners, and they are already full of houses. Look around, is there any vacant land in the inner city?"

When everyone heard Xiang Liang's words, they immediately looked around and found that there was indeed no open space in the inner city except the streets. They were shocked.

"It is basically impossible for a person in the Logging Realm to buy land on his own. According to what Lord Xiang said last night, only by breaking through the Digging Realm and joining the Hunting Team can one hope to accumulate enough contribution points. All 4200 plots of land in the inner city have owners. What does this mean?"

"Daxia, there are more than 4200 Digging Realm people?"

"How can this be!"

…………Hearing the whispers below, Xiang Liang’s expression changed slightly, but he did not explain.

He entered the quartermaster department and found out the current number of Digging Realm warriors in Da Xia. The total number was probably over 3000, but less than 4200.

Without explaining, he still did it for his own mission.

Xiang Liang knew very well that people admire the strong, and the best way to get a group of newcomers quickly integrated into the camp was to let them feel the power of Daxia.

As long as they feel the power of Daxia, they will take the initiative to integrate into it.

Instead of telling them outright that Daxia is very strong, it is better to let them use their imaginations and guess randomly. The effect will definitely be better.

"Okay, stop looking at the house and keep moving forward."

Xiang Liang urged them forward, and everyone immediately sped up.

Soon, the majestic and solemn giant main building came into view. Everyone stopped and their breathing seemed to hold for a moment.

The three-story main building is about fifteen meters high and two hundred meters long, like a giant beast from the abyss lying in the valley.

Compared with four months ago, the main building is more dark, which is obviously due to the increase in the proportion of iron materials. Although the overall appearance is still gold and black, the black now prevails, making it more solemn and dignified than before.

On the top of the wooden building, a flag was fluttering in the cold wind. The flag was golden yellow, with a big black word "Xia" in the middle.

There are forty or fifty coal stoves hanging under the eaves of each floor of the wooden building. The corners of the eaves are carved with patterns of dragons and phoenixes, and there are animal bone sculptures as crystal clear as white jade. All of them are brought to life by the fire, making people dazzled.

All three floors of the wooden building were brightly lit, and human figures could be vaguely seen on the first and second floors. However, the third floor was too high and nothing could be seen clearly, but the brightness was the strongest.

“Heh…ha…”

In front of the wooden building, there was a group of teenagers, about 2,000 in number, who were boxing with their upper bodies bare. They shouted loudly every time they threw a punch, and the sound was majestic, especially with the main building behind them that looked like a giant beast lying on the ground, the momentum was even more magnificent.

"Am I seeing right? Those over a hundred people in the front row are all in the Lumberjack realm?"

"How old is he? At most eleven or twelve, right?"

"What do you mean eleven or twelve? He must be just over ten at most."

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The shock brought by the main building had not yet ended, and everyone was frightened by the young people of Da Xia who were practicing martial arts in front of the main building. There were not just one or two lumberjacks in their early teens, but hundreds of them.

The people of the Beehive are not ignorant!
They are also a giant camp, and they may have seen less than Daxia.

There are also beehives in the logging realm of the early teens.

There are hundreds of them, and they appear at the same time...

"Gudong..."

Seeing the stunned expressions of everyone in the team, Xiang Liang looked at the group of young men in front of the main building, especially the leaders Liu Peng, Lu Dong, and Zhao Yuanwu, and a complex look suddenly flashed in his eyes.

There is envy and jealousy, but more importantly, there is powerlessness!

Although he had never been to a martial arts hall, he was very familiar with what was going on inside.

These three people have all broken the breakthrough record of the logging realm. Liu Peng was eleven years old, Lu Dong was ten years and ten months old, and Zhao Yuanwu was ten years and nine months old.

If Xiang Liang remembered correctly, Zhao Yuanwu's record remained until November last year, when it was finally broken by his cousin Zhao Yuannu. He was ten years and six months old, and he hadn't been to the martial arts hall for four months. I wonder if the current record holder is still Zhao Yuannu.

In other words, Liu Peng in front of him is only twelve years old this year, and Lu Dong and Zhao Yuanwu are only eleven years old.

Thinking of the age gap between himself and the three people, Xiang Liang naturally had a deep sense of powerlessness. He was almost seventeen years old, and his basic strength was 5900, while the three people in front of him, who were four to five years younger than him, also had a basic strength of more than 5000.

Comparing one person to another is really infuriating!

Xiang Liang shook his head slightly, but still quickly led everyone around the group of young men and then came to the bottom of the main building.

Looking at the four-legged square tripod under the main building, Xiang Liang was stunned and subconsciously looked up at the hall on the top floor of the main building.

Four months ago, he went to the main hall on the top floor of the main building to present treasures. Although what he saw at that time was a three-legged round tripod, he could clearly sense that the larger four-legged square tripod in front of him should be the same thing as the one he saw at that time, but its shape had changed for some reason.

This square tripod should be placed in the main hall on the top floor, why is it placed here?
"Everyone, come over here and touch the Holy Cauldron in turn. After touching it, leave from the other end. Don't leave anyone out. Let's begin!"

The order Xiang Liang received tonight was to bring all his team members to the main building of the inner city. At first he thought it was only his team, but later he found out that all the more than 10,000 people from the Hive were coming. He thought it was to mobilize these more than 10,000 newcomers and announce that they officially joined Daxia.

But when he heard the words of the captain of the camp supply department, he realized that it was not what he thought.

"Touch the Holy Cauldron, what does this mean?"

Xiang Liang couldn't help but mutter in his heart, but when he thought of his mission, he still honestly arranged the personnel, and began to step forward one after another to touch the Holy Tripod.

After a team of more than 500 people, including himself, had all touched the Holy Cauldron, Xiang Liang realized that not only the more than 10,000 people from the Beehive, but all the people from Daxia in the inner and outer cities had come.

Everyone lined up on the main street, touched the holy tripod in turn, and then left through the passage next to it.

"What are you doing?"

"I don't know either. It was Master Si Zheng who notified me."

"Touching the Holy Cauldron, could it be a blessing?"

"Maybe. The leader just came back. It must have been his idea."

"That's fine. I've always wanted to see the Holy Cauldron. Now that I finally get my hands on it, I have to feel it for myself."

"Hahaha, that's right. The Holy Tripod is usually placed on the top floor. We can't see it even if we want to. We must seize the opportunity today."

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With Xia Hong's current prestige, almost all members of the camp will do as he says unconditionally. What's more, the Hanxu Ding has an extremely high status in the minds of the people of Daxia.

Qiu Peng deliberately turned this screening into a religious worship ceremony, obviously targeting the newcomers to the Beehive, so that they could form a preliminary impression of worshipping the Hanxu Ding. If there were any magical things in the future, they would be able to accept them more quickly, and they would probably be more respectful and fanatical towards the Hanxu Ding and their leader Xia Hong.

It's just a touch, it's not too cumbersome, and there's always someone maintaining order, so it's very efficient.

But even so, with more than 50,000 people in the camp, the screening lasted until the second half of the night.

"Take your men directly to the outer city gate. I'll place the Hanxu Ding over there. The people from Jinggu should be arriving soon. This will happen over the next few days. Anyone coming from Jinggu must touch the Hanxu Ding before entering the city."

In the alchemy workshop, Xia Hong was listening to Cheng Feng talking. Sensing that the screening work in the main building had been completed, he immediately interrupted Cheng Feng and gave orders to Qiu Peng first.

"Yes, Chief, I'll go right away!"

About 5,000 people can arrive in one night, and there are probably 50,000 more to come. It will take at least ten nights, or about the ninth day of May, to complete the migration.

After Xia Hong thought about it for a while, he immediately turned to look at Cheng Feng and said:
"Go on, tell me how many formulas you have synthesized in this period of time. Bring me all the pills."

Cheng Feng immediately took out four porcelain bottles from his arms and spoke excitedly.

"Chief, please look..."

(End of this chapter)