Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 282: The Disappearing Army

Xia Hong originally thought that the greatest significance of annexing the three camps in Longyou was the gain of a massive population.

But after this hunt, he realized that there was much more to it than that.

Not only the population, but also hunting, picking, refining medicine, food, production... the three families have accumulated decades of survival experience, which is also an extremely valuable asset.

From the perspective of camp development, these experiences are even more important than population.

Danger often comes from the unknown, and absorbing the accumulated experience of predecessors is the lowest cost and fastest way for future generations to understand familiar and unfamiliar things.

Especially when Chen Yingyuan and Peng Bo respectively told him how to find and pick two or three precious elixirs, he became more certain of his idea.

“The red sun fruit tree is very small, but it likes cold light, so it usually grows in high places, blooms at night, and bears fruit during the day. The ripening period is very short, only lasting two hours, so you have to pick it at noon;

Cold beard grass and exquisite fruit are the favorite foods of high-level blue moon spirits. If you want to find these two kinds of spiritual medicine, you must first find a high-level blue moon spirit. "

"Ice Soul Liquid is the condensed milk formed when Ice Soul Stone absorbs cold air. Ice Soul Stone refers to a natural stone with an oval and smooth surface that is exposed and not covered by snow. This kind of stone is rare and can usually be found on mountain tops or in the nests of some high-level flying birds and cold beasts.

Yin-Yang flowers are considered a specialty of Longshan Mountain. They can be found in caves that never see light or in deep valleys and gullies. "

Red Sun Fruit, Cold Grass, Linglong Fruit, Ice Soul Liquid, Yin Yang Flower...

If we rely on ourselves or the hunting teams in the camp to explore, it will not only take a lot of time, but also cost a lot of lives.

But now, I learned it directly from Chen Yingyuan and Peng Bo.

Not only these, Chen and Peng are the leaders of their respective camps, and they must have mastered more than just these types of survival experiences.

"This is a big deal. I have to inform Xia Chuan when I get back and ask him to bring the six departments together to compile all the survival experiences of the three families. It would be best if we could compile them into a book..."

By the time Xia Hong had finished figuring it out in his mind, Yuwen Tao and Chen Yingyuan had already gathered all the injured together.

Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing were the most seriously injured and had already fallen into a coma; Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng and four others were slightly better and had regained some of their mobility after taking blood sore pills.

"Let's prepare to send everyone back to Xiacheng. Pengbo, I left a prey on that big tree, go get it."

Another prey?
Peng Bo was stunned, but immediately ran in the direction Xia Hong pointed.

Chen Yingyuan and the others were also somewhat puzzled, but soon, when they saw the prey that Peng Bo brought back from the big tree, their expressions all froze.

What Peng Bo brought back was a blue frost wolf that was more than one meter long.

The entire fur of the frost wolf was a clear blue, and apart from the eyeball that was pierced on the left side of its face, there were no other obvious wounds. Its body, which had not yet completely stiffened, was enough to show that it had been no more than ten minutes away from death.

In other words, this frost wolf died directly after its eyeball was stabbed through!
No, Yuwen Tao and the other seven people even suspected that the Frost Wolf was killed by Xia Hong with one sword before it even showed its combat form.

The leader just killed a high-level frost wolf?
The scene of Xia Hong killing the demon sheep swiftly and neatly was still fresh in their minds. The seven people had not yet recovered from the shock, and now they learned that Xia Hong had killed a high-level frost wolf before saving them. One can imagine the shock in their hearts.

"How much basic strength does the leader have now?"

"Ten times more than mine? Could it be more than that?"

………………

Xia Hong had no idea what the seven people were thinking. He picked up the body of the demon sheep, weighed it a few times, and immediately knew what was going on.

"The bones produced by the frost wolf should be only more than three kilograms; the bones produced by the demon sheep should be more, more than five kilograms."

Normally, the stronger the cold beast is, the greater the output of jade bones will be.

"Chief, not only the jade bones, but also the flesh and blood of high-level cold beasts are precious!"

Peng Bo had already taken out the leather bag and collected the blood of the Frost Wolf. Seeing that Xia Hong only mentioned the output of jade bones, he immediately reminded him.

"The blood content of a high-level cold beast is about ten to fifteen kilograms. It may seem to be only a quarter of that of a mid-level cold beast, but its effect is more than ten times that of the latter.

Meat is even more complicated. High-grade beast meat not only contains extremely huge amounts of energy, but also this energy can be stored in the human body and automatically evaporated according to the body's consumption!"

After Peng Bo finished speaking, Chen Yingyuan nodded and continued, "Moreover, the flesh and blood of high-level cold beasts can be regarded as two kinds of spiritual medicines. They can be used to make pills. We had a pharmacist in our hive before. He had many pill formulas that can be used."

Hearing the two people's hints, Xia Hong immediately showed a smile on his face.

He had chopped off the arm of a high-level snow-mane beast in Mirror Valley before, and he had long been aware of the special features of the flesh and blood of high-level cold beasts.

The reason for laughing was because Chen and Peng took the initiative.

After all, he was the leader of a giant camp, and Da Xia's march into Longyou and the means of conquering the two families were not very glorious. Therefore, Chen Peng and the other two, including Wu Tianxing and Chen Yingba, had no sense of belonging to the camp, and Xia Hong knew it very well.

Obviously, the strength he had just demonstrated had caused some subtle changes in the mentality of these two people.

This doesn’t mean that the four of them will be completely loyal to Daxia from now on.

The change in mentality will not happen overnight, it will inevitably be a slow process.

As long as there is a good start, there will always be a day when it will bear fruit.

"Okay, let's go back!"

At Xia Hong's command, everyone carried the unconscious Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing on their backs, packed up the two prey, as well as the picked double-liquid colorful fruits and panxiang leaves, and followed him on the return journey.

On the way back, they sensed the presence of many high-level cold beasts around them, and they couldn't help but quicken their pace, as if they would only be safe if they followed Xia Hong.

Xia Hong noticed everyone's actions, shook his head slightly, then glanced deep into the west side of Redwood Ridge and sighed softly in his heart.

"If we continue at this pace, it will take who knows how many years to complete the exploration of the entire Redwood Ridge. We must think of a solution!"

Before the Longyou War, the hunting department's exploration depth of Hongmu Ridge was only six kilometers. As the Longyou War broke out and a large number of elite troops went there, the exploration came to a standstill.

It is hard to imagine that Xia Hong has taken over the valley for nearly three years, and Da Xia's exploration of Redwood Ridge has only covered the outer six kilometers. Including the one kilometer explored tonight, the total exploration is only seven kilometers.

Of course, as Xia Hong becomes stronger and stronger, he observes more and more things and is no longer as ignorant about Redwood Ridge as before.

"It is now basically certain that the east side of Hongmuling is Shuanglong Mountain; the southern end is Yinghe River; the north side is Pingxiyuan; the west is Longshan Mountain. In the future, we just need to merge the exploration range with Yanglu and Fengchao, and then control the southern edge along Yinghe River. After that, we just need to explore westward. As long as we can see Longshan Mountain, we will have taken over the entire Hongmuling Mountain..."

Xia Hong had already conducted an exploration before. The total depth of Hongmu Ridge to the west was estimated to be more than 200 kilometers. Based on the current exploration efficiency of the camp, it is estimated that it would not be possible to explore the entire area even if another few dozen or even hundreds of years were passed.

"After all, the hunting team is too small and not strong enough. If we want to speed up the exploration, we still have to rely on the army. I hope the Yunjiao Army will not let me down!"

Xia Hong's eyes flickered slightly, he retracted his gaze, and continued to rush towards Xiacheng. The army, composed of thousands of well-equipped and well-trained Digging Realm Extremes, could not be stopped by any cold beasts, unless it was a large-scale beast tide of tens of thousands like the Arrow Bamboo Forest. Even a small or medium-sized beast tide could be completely resisted.

Once the Yunjiao Army has truly developed combat effectiveness, it will be much easier to explore Hongmu Ridge.

………………

Xia Hong brought nine people back to Xia City quietly. When the group of cold-resistant-level soldiers saw the injuries on the nine people, they were shocked.

They would also be hunting high-level cold beasts in the future, so they kept asking Yuwen Tao and others for information. Yuwen Tao and others would naturally not hide anything and told them everything.

Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing were seriously injured and had to stay in Xiacheng for more than a month to recuperate. The camp temporarily lost two high-end cold-resistant combat forces.

Fortunately, there has been no war in Daxia recently, so the impact is not that great.

Xia Chuan acted quickly. Although Xia Hong gave him five days, it only took him one day to finalize the list of a thousand men of the Yunjiao Army in the Hunting Department.

On the night of June 5th, the list was placed on Xia Hong's desk.

The army had probably already been organized. Xia Chuan also put on the pale golden hundred-forged armor and explained to Xia Hong, "There are currently 803 people at the Digging Realm limit, and 197 people are left. Their basic strength is above . With sufficient supply of beast spirit pills and beast meat, it is estimated that they will all be able to break through the Digging Realm limit in just three months."

After Xia Hong roughly scanned the list, he asked:
"Have all these people gathered in Xiacheng?"

Xia Chuan shook his head and replied, "There are 275 people scattered in Wushuang and Hanqiong, and the remaining 725 are in Xiacheng. I gave them one day to deal with all their personal affairs. After nightfall on June th, I will take them to Wushuang to meet up with the people there."

Before the martial arts competition, Wu Shuang and Han Qiong stationed a thousand Digging Realm warriors respectively, among which there were naturally some who were at the Digging Realm limit.

The army selected this time was originally intended to be stationed in Longyou. Instead of letting those two hundred people come back, it would be more convenient for Xia Chuan to take the seven hundred people from Xiacheng and go there directly.

Xia Hong nodded and continued to ask: "How many sets of weapons and armor did the craftsman's workshop prepare? It shouldn't be enough, right?"

The weapons and armor that the army will use must be of the hundred-forged level. If he remembered correctly, when Mu Dong came back at the end of April, he said that the workshop produced five hundred-forged weapons and two sets of hundred-forged armor every day. It has been less than forty days since then, and the quantity is definitely not enough.

Sure enough, Xia Chuan nodded with a helpless look on his face.

"The Artisans Department has only managed to gather 350 hundred-forged swords, 870 thirty-stone iron bows, and 140 sets of hundred-forged thunder armor. We are not in a hurry for weapons. Almost everyone in the camp who has reached the Digging Realm has a hundred-forged weapon. We can let them use their own first. The iron bows and their own are also complete. The main problem is the armor. I have ordered Mu Dong to speed up."

The hundred-forged iron armor forged by the Daxia Artisans' Workshop is mixed with Lei Kui's skull, so its appearance is light golden. The defensive effect is at least 30 to 50% stronger than the normal hundred-forged iron armor.

The forging process is more complicated and naturally takes more time.

"How long is it expected to take?"

Xia Chuan pondered for a moment and replied, "All fifty furnaces in the weapon forging workshop are used to forge armor. We can produce about four to five sets of armor every day. The fastest it will take is probably four to five months."

This is the problem of background!

After all, Daxia started too late. Things like the Hundred-Forged Armor have nothing to do with forging ability, it just takes a lot of time to make.

The reason why Longshan and Zhaoyang can come up with so much is not other than that they have spent a lot of effort in this area before.

If Daxia wants to catch up now, it will have to spend the same amount of time.

"It's too slow. Let Mu Dong find a way to increase the number of craftsmen. Hundred-forged armor and weapons, including iron-framed bows, are both necessary and consumable items. More and more of them will be needed in the future. The population has skyrocketed during this period. Let him work harder on this. Such a slow forging speed will delay things in the future."

"I know, brother!"

The problem of lack of armor will definitely not be solved in a short period of time.

Fortunately, there is no war coming soon. At worst, we can use the ten-forged level for a while. As long as there is no major war, it will not be a big deal.

In the next two days, Xiacheng began to move visibly.

Many of the Digging Realm Extremes said goodbye to their original hunting teams, explained things to their families, and went to the outer city to report to the barracks that Xia Chuan had built in advance.

The so-called barracks is actually a simple two-story wooden house. I don’t know if it is to maintain the mystery of the Yunjiao Army or for some other reason, but Xia Chuan made the entire wooden house completely closed, leaving only a few windows on the top floor, so outsiders can basically not see what’s going on inside.

After nightfall on the sixth day of June, almost all of the 725 people in Xiacheng entered the barracks, and after entering, they never came out again.

There were a lot of noises of fighting coming from the military camp, which made the residents of the outer city very curious. Many people wanted to get closer to see, but were driven away by the soldiers stationed outside.

This undoubtedly increased the mystery of the Yunjiao Army and aroused the curiosity of more people. It was a pity that no matter who came, the Yunjiao Army would not let them in.

"I heard that they were dealing with the disobedient people, and they beat them up badly."

"What nonsense! They are clearly selecting the captain and military attachés."

"No, no, they are dividing the camps. I heard that the Yunjiao Army is divided into ten camps. The strongest group of people have been assigned to the scout camp. The remaining camps one to nine are also divided according to strength. The stronger the camp, the higher the position of the camp."

"What is a scout camp?"

"You don't even know this. The scout battalion is the most elite group of people. They can follow the governor and are like his spies and personal guards. I heard that the leader of the scout battalion must be at the cold-resistant level to take up the position."

"A commander at the Cold-Proof Level, tsk tsk!"

…………

Some rumors soon leaked out, causing a lot of discussion inside and outside Xia City, and people became more and more curious about the Yunjiao Army.

It’s a pity that the military camp’s confidentiality work is too good.

Since the sixth day of June, the military camp has been closed, and no one can get close to it, not even the cold-resistant soldiers.

It was not until the ninth day of June, after nightfall, that people leaving the city suddenly realized that a huge military camp had disappeared out of thin air in the outer city.

"Disappeared, the military camp disappeared?"

"What's gone is gone."

"Where's the cabin? Such a big cabin is gone too?"

"It was demolished. I happened to see it at nightfall. More than 700 people directly demolished the house. It took only a few minutes to demolish it. The speed was amazing."

"Has the army left?"

"Gone. I heard he went to Longyou to change defense."

(End of this chapter)