Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 284 Yang Li's Frustration and Resentment
The 48th year of Longyou, the first day of June
On a snowy night, the Longshan Mountain is winding and undulating.

In addition, the vegetation in the mountains is diverse and intertwined, and the visibility in the snow forest at night is extremely low, especially with large shadow areas from time to time, giving the overall look a messy feel, unlike the neat and orderly Redwood Ridge.

The cold beast is a creature that comes out during the day and hides at night, and its habits are exactly the opposite of those of humans.

They also need a sense of security at night. For example, the cold beasts in Hongmu Ridge will climb up trees to rest at night. In this way, compared with the neat and orderly environment of Hongmu Ridge, the messy and shadowy Longshan is undoubtedly more favored by the cold beasts.

This is true.

"It seems like there are endless cold beasts in Longshan. There are more than 400 hunting teams in our camp now. We can't believe we ran into two Hyenas in such a remote place. We almost capsized!"

Ten kilometers deep in the dense forest of Longshan Mountain, a young man in white clothes was holding a big knife in his hand, stepping on the corpse of a white-skinned and black-spotted saw-toothed tiger. He was applying ointment to the claw marks on his chest and couldn't help sighing at the tree.

Bang...bang...bang...

As soon as he finished speaking, five people jumped down from the tree.

The five men were dressed in a similar style to him and were of similar age. Each of them held a strong bow and carried a sword. It was obvious at first glance that they were a hunting team.

The leader of the five was dressed in black and holding an iron rod about a meter long. He walked straight forward and squatted next to the hyena. While pulling out the iron arrow stuck in the tiger's corpse, he responded to the young man's sigh.

"It's not like there have always been more than 400 hunting teams. They have only grown in the last few years. The eastern outer side of Longshan alone is 50 to 60 kilometers long from north to south and more than 30 kilometers wide. Taking into account the rugged terrain, the total area is at least over 2,000 square kilometers. The number of cold beasts living in such a large area is already astonishing, not to mention the constant supply of cold beasts from the inner circle."

After hearing the words of the leading young man in black, everyone turned their heads to look towards the inner area of ​​Longshan Mountain on the west side, with some yearning and curiosity on their faces.

The young man in white remembered something and squatted down. While pulling out the arrow, he smiled at the leading young man in black and said, "Brother Zhong, when you and Brother Hu break through to the limit of the Digging Realm, can our team go 20 kilometers deep and try to hunt the intermediate cold beast?"

The young man in black had just pulled out the iron arrow from the hyena. He was stunned for a moment when he heard this question. Then he turned around and looked at the five people without saying anything.

"Xue Ping, forget it. There are only seven people in our team. Even if Li Hu and Yang Zhong have broken through, there is no chance of hunting the intermediate cold beast. Not to mention a full team, we need at least 20 people to have a chance."

In the team, a young man with an honest face spoke up and answered Dong Ping's question on behalf of Yang Zhong.

The other three people present had their faces slightly darkened when they heard the young man's words.

Yang Zhong lowered his head, and a hint of anger flashed in his eyes, but he quickly concealed it.

However, the young man in white, Xue Ping, immediately scolded the man:

"Yang Yue, I'm asking Brother Zhong, is it your turn to interrupt?"

Li Hu and Yang Zhong were the leader and deputy leader of their hunting team. As a member of the team, Yang Yue had no respect for the two of them. Xue Ping, who always respected Li and Yang, naturally couldn't help it.

But his scolding did not make the other party restrain himself.

"The master isn't anxious, why are you, a dog, anxious?"

When Xue Ping heard Yang Yue's ridicule, a hint of anger suddenly rose on his face, but he soon realized something. After his expression calmed down, he stared at Yang Yue and laughed.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Yang Yue was a little scared when he laughed. Xue Ping said sarcastically, "This evil man likes to judge others by his own standards and throw dirty water on others. I didn't believe it before, but now I finally believe it. I admire the strength of the captain and Zhong Ge, so I respect them. Is there any problem?

As for you, Yang Yue, you have been acting like a dog and begging for mercy for certain people in the camp. This is already known to everyone, hahahaha......"

After hearing these words, Yang Yue's face suddenly turned red, especially when he found that the other three people in the team were looking at him with strange expressions. He became angry and drew the long sword at his waist and rushed towards Xue Ping.

"I'll kill you, you bastard!"

Xue Ping's basic strength was comparable to Yang Yue's. Seeing that Yang Yue was about to take action, he was unwilling to be outdone and subconsciously drew his weapon.

boom…………

Seeing that a big fight was about to break out within the team, the deputy team leader Yang Zhong naturally could not sit idly by. He stepped forward and kicked Yang Yue away.

puff!

Yang Yue's basic strength was only 15,000, nearly twice that of Yang Zhong. He was kicked more than ten meters away. It took him five or six breaths to get up from the snow. After spitting out the blood in his throat, he looked at Yang Zhong. Although there was fear in his eyes, there was more resentment:

"Yang Zhong, do you dare to attack me?"

It was hard to imagine that someone who was so much weaker than me would dare to question me in such a threatening tone.

Yang Zhong tightened his right hand that was holding the stick, and suppressed the urge to kill Yang Yue. After calming down for a long time, he looked at Yang Yue and said in a deep voice:
"Yang Gan and Li Yuanqing sent you to join the team just to let you monitor me and Brother Hu, not to ruin my hunting team. Believe it or not, even if I cripple you here, they won't do anything to me. At most, they will just replace you with another dog to watch us."

Hearing the chill in Yang Zhong's words, Yang Yue's body trembled slightly. He stood there with an uncertain expression for a long time before finally retracting his sword.

"We have harvested enough for tonight. Let's pack up the prey and prepare to return. The captain's injury should be almost healed. Let's go find him!"

Yang Zhong put away the iron rod, gave an order, and led everyone back to the east.

Yang Yue sneered and waited for Xue Ping and the other three to carry the prey before he followed the four of them.

Yang Zhong turned around and saw Yang Yue's self-willed attitude, and his rage grew. But after thinking for a moment, he finally endured it and sighed slightly.

What he said just now about crippling Yang Yue was just a remark made in anger. If he really dared to cripple Yang Yue, there would be no need for Li Yuanqing and Yang Gan. The rules of the camp alone would be enough to make him stay in the dark mine for the rest of his life.

Killing Yang Yue is even easier. After all, they are in the same hunting team. They often go into Longshan to hunt cold beasts. There are too many such opportunities.

The problem is, they've done this before.

Before Yang Yue, the person sent by Yang Gan and Li Yuanqing to monitor them was a man named Liu Ming. After Liu Ming was murdered by him and Li Hu, the two sent Yang Yue.

This is the key point. Killing people will not help. Li Yuanqing and Yang Gan made it clear that they must always keep someone watching him and Li Hu.

Planning to kill one's own team members would be a capital crime once discovered by the camp. Rather than taking such a high risk, it is better to keep this idiot.

This was why he and Li Hu tolerated Yang Yue staying in the hunting team.

He, Li Hu, Xue Ping, the other three team members, including Yang Yue himself, all knew about this matter tacitly.

Before this, Yang Yue was fine and had never crossed the line.

But recently, they seemed to be watching him and Li Hu more closely, and their attitudes became obviously more impolite.

"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be because Li Hu and I have been improving our skills too fast recently, which has aroused the vigilance of those two people. That's why Yang Yue is watching us so closely!"

Yang Zhong, who was walking in front, noticed Yang Yue's eyes behind him, and a solemn look flashed in his eyes. He continued to speed up and walked towards the east. Using the mark left on the tree before, Yang Zhong led everyone to walk about four or five kilometers, and soon walked to a conspicuous big tree.

"coming!"

A voice came from the tree, and then a figure jumped down. Who else could it be but their captain Li Hu.

Li Hu's right arm was wrapped in a cloth strip with blood stains on it.

"Captain, are you healed?"

Hearing Xue Ping's question, Li Hu smiled and raised the big knife with his right hand. His movement was only slightly deformed, and it was obvious that his injury had almost healed.

"It's okay, go back!"

After Li Hu signaled everyone to continue their journey back, he looked at Yang Zhong calmly. Seeing Yang Zhong curl his lips, he immediately glanced at Yang Yue.

The two brothers had a great tacit understanding, and even without saying it, Li Hu knew that Yang Zhong meant that Yang Yue had just caused trouble again.

But he didn't say anything, just a slight sneer on his lips, then walked to a position side by side with Yang Zhong and patted him on the shoulder.

When he was patted on the shoulder, Yang Zhong's pupils suddenly contracted, his body shook violently, and then he looked up at Li Hu with disbelief in his eyes.

"We caught two prey tonight. It's a good harvest. Let's go!"

Li Hu signaled everyone to set off, and immediately walked forward with Yang Zhong.

The two walked side by side, and when they had opened up a distance of more than a hundred meters behind them, Yang Zhong couldn't help but be excited and asked in a low voice: "Hu Zi, have you made a breakthrough?"

Li Hu's face was full of smiles. He nodded excitedly and said in a low voice: "The effect of the beast spirit pill given by Si Cheng is really great. It has only been 20 days since the 10th. I have taken pills in total and I have broken through. Not only have I broken through the limit of the Digging Realm, I have just started to use beast blood to reshape my skin membrane."

Not only did he break through the limit of the Digging Realm, he also started using beast blood!
Yang Zhong's face was suddenly filled with joy, not only because of Li Hu's breakthrough, but also because of himself. Because when they went out hunting tomorrow night, it would be his turn to pretend to be injured and stay, and then go to the old place where the two of them stored their supplies, take the Beast Spirit Pill and practice.

"My progress is similar to Hu Zi's. Maybe I can break through tomorrow night!"

As Yang Zhong was excited, he thought of Yang Yue behind him and could not help but remind Li Hu in a low voice: "Yang Yue has been watching us closer and closer recently. It is probably because our cultivation progress is too fast and we have been noticed by the two in the camp."

Hearing Yang Zhong's reminder, Li Hu's face froze, then he turned around and glanced at Yang Yue who was hanging behind him, with a cold light in his eyes.

"It doesn't matter. I've already made a breakthrough, and you'll be there soon too. Just follow the plan and it's only a matter of time before we make a breakthrough to the Cold Resistance level. Once we make a breakthrough and become a council elder, all these won't be a problem..."

Moreover, after being promoted to council elders, they will be able to participate in Longshan council meetings with full justification, and will be able to provide more valuable intelligence to Daxia.

Although Li Hu did not finish his words, the tacit understanding that the two had developed over a long period of time was enough for Yang Zhong to understand what he meant next.

Yang Zhong nodded and continued walking side by side with Li Hu.

Both of them were holding back their anger, and their steps couldn't help but become heavier.

It's funny that they didn't dare to take back the animal blood, elixirs and salt that Xia Chuan had given them before. They were even afraid to hide them in the base. They had to hide them in Longshan to feel at ease.

Storing it is so troublesome, and taking it is even more troublesome. One must wait until one goes out hunting, and then secretly take it after leaving the team under the pretext of being injured.

There was no way out. Li Yuanqing and Yang Gan's surveillance and suppression of the two of them had simply reached a perverted level.

This can be seen from the number of people in the hunting team. If it is an ordinary hunting team, there are two members who are about to break through the limit of the Digging Realm, and the rest of the Digging Realm will basically be scrambling to join.

However, due to the suppression by Li Yuanqing and Yang Gan, their hunting team only recruited five people, among whom Yang Yue was sent by the two.

Thinking of the reasons why Li Yuanqing suppressed him, Li Hu felt both hateful and ridiculous.

Li Yuanqing was actually afraid that if he performed too well, he would steal his limelight and then be valued by Li Xuantian, and then even get the attention of Li Tiancheng.

To be fair, there was only one person that Li Hu hated from beginning to end, and that was Zhu Rou, who forced his mother to death. Not to mention Li Yuanqing, he couldn't even say he hated his father Li Xuantian, he just had no feelings for him. As for Li Tiancheng and even other people in Longshan, there was no need to mention them.

But Li Yuanqing was like a madman. Ever since he started practicing, he suppressed himself with all his might, fearing that his practice speed would be a little bit faster.

Coincidentally, Li Yuanqing was like this, and Yang Zhong’s half-brother Yang Gan was the same as him.

Li Hu and Yang Zhong sometimes find it unbelievable that these two people could be so narrow-minded.

But the fact is that there is nothing they can do except to find a way to deal with it.

"Fortunately, things are different now. We are already Da Xia people. With the resources given by Lord Si Cheng, it is only a matter of time before we break through the cold-resistant level. Revenge is also a piece of cake. In fact, if we can help Da Xia defeat Longshan in the future, the future of Yang Zhong and I will be limitless..."

Li Hu pondered inwardly, and soon walked out of Longshan and arrived at the camp.

The material control in Longshan is also extremely strict. They must first submit the prey to the camp warehouse before they can take away their portion. If they want to exchange it for other materials later, they must use their own portion to exchange it.

The ratio is ten to seven, which means that if a prey produces one thousand kilograms of meat, they can take away three hundred kilograms. If it is a single person, it would be a lot, but if seven people share it, each person would only get more than forty kilograms.

Tonight, he and Yang Zhong caught two preys, each of which received over a hundred kilograms, which was a good harvest.

Of course, this was before.

Ever since he had tasted Daxia's salt and elixirs, Yang Zhong had lost interest in ordinary animal meat.

Not to mention Li Hu, he just broke through the limit of the digging realm tonight. At the moment, he is thinking about the beast blood hidden in Longshan Mountain and is not interested in beast meat at all.

"Go back first, leave the meat here, and change your clothes later."

"It's boring. I'll keep it too. When there's more, we can exchange it for some healing medicine together."

After the two came out of the warehouse, they went straight home together.

The cultivation base of both of them is not low, and they both have their own houses in the base, which happen to be next to each other.

The two men walked out of the central area of ​​the camp and soon reached the outer area, next to their own houses. Whenever they saw their houses in the past, they both had smiles on their faces.

Today, something is clearly different.

When they were still hundreds of meters away from the house, their faces turned gloomy at the same time.

Because many people broke into their home at this moment, and many of their personal belongings were scattered at the door. Some people were even rummaging through boxes and throwing things out, obviously searching for something...

(End of this chapter)