Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 310: Silver Mine News, Mutinies

"How is it possible that there are no silver mines in Longshan?"

In the warehouse on the west side of the Longshan base, Xia Hong was holding an account book in his hand and looking at Peng Bo in surprise.

Seeing the astonishment on Xia Hong's face, Peng Bo was stunned, but he quickly realized that Xia Hong must have misunderstood something, and nodded to explain: "Leader, silver mines are extremely precious things. It is normal that there are no silver mines in Longshan."

"Without the silver mine, where did the sword of Li Xuanling, this Yan Han, and the silver used to rescue people in Longshan during the outbreak of the Dew Plague come from?"

Xia Hong deliberately showed off the silver ghost-head sword on his waist. That was Li Tiancheng's sword, named Yan Han. After Li Tiancheng put down his weapon and surrendered, the Yan Han sword naturally fell into his hands.

Not only the Yanhan Knife, he had seen many silver weapons in Longyou, such as Hou Hu's silver Pan Chi pattern long stick, Li Xuanling's silver long sword, Hou Tong's silver eight-sided giant hammer...

Without silver mines, where did all these weapons come from?

"Captain, you don't think that this Yanhan Knife is made of pure silver, right?"

Xia Hong was stunned, his face full of confusion.

"This Yanhan Sword weighs at least 20,000 jin. If it were made of pure silver, it would probably be enough to hollow out the entire Longshan Mountain. It is made of silver-clad iron. The main material is Wanduan-grade iron, but it is coated with a layer of silver.

Of course, the silver coating is not light in weight. I have heard from people in Longshan before that the silver coating on the outer layer of the Yanhan Knife weighs more than 500 kilograms, making it the second most precious weapon in the entire Longyou area. "

"The most precious thing is Li Xuanling's sword?"

"That's right. Li Xuanling's Tianhua Sword is covered with silver. I heard it weighs more than 800 kilograms. There is no better weapon in the entire Longyou area."

The main material is forged iron, but it is covered with a layer of silver...

Xia Hong looked at the Yanhan Knife in his hand, his brows slightly furrowed.

He could understand the practice of wrapping the outer layer of weapons with silver. Not to mention its effect in suppressing monsters, compared to iron, silver was much more ductile and hard, and its melting point was also higher. Its structure was obviously more stable. Wrapping it on the outside would not only make the weapon sharper, but also less prone to wear and tear, and its durability would be greatly improved.

"There are no silver mines in Longshan, so where does all this silver come from?"

"Li Tianhua!"

Xia Hong roughly guessed the source, but continued to listen to Peng Bo.

"Li Tianhua is the only person in Longyou who can cross Longshan. Li Xuanling's Tianhua Sword, this Yanhan Knife, the long stick with蟠螭纹 used by Hou Hu, and the silver in Longshan's inventory were all obtained by him."

Seeing the confusion on Xia Hong's face, Peng Bo knew what he was curious about, and hurriedly said, "I don't know where Li Tianhua got it from. I guess even the Li family may not know."

Silver in stock: 1215 catties

Xia Hong looked at the amount of silver in Longshan's inventory in the account book, frowned, and was unable to speak for a long time.

Every 5 kilograms of silver can be converted into 1 system resource point, which means that the entire Longshan inventory of silver can only be exchanged for 243 points. Among the current nine major buildings in the system, except for the black soil wall and the yellow soil wall, the other seven upgrades all require silver. The lowest requirement, the Monument to the Heroes, also requires 3000 points, which is equivalent to 15000 kilograms of silver.

With such a small amount of silver, he didn't even need to convert it.

It seems that I still have to rely on myself to find silver mines. If I can't find silver mines, all buildings can only be upgraded to level 3 at most, and even the small wooden table and the thick iron chain cannot be clicked on at all.

Xia Hong took a deep breath and flipped through the account book carefully. Even though he saw the astonishing amounts of iron, coal, meat, skins, blood, etc. in Longshan's inventory, he became less interested.

Peng Bo was obviously very excited about the collapse of Longshan, the former overlord. He didn't notice Xia Hong's lack of interest at all, and said with great joy: "Longshan is too rich. There are 12 iron mines alone, 5 of which have not yet been mined, and 21 coal mines..."

Xia Hong did not interrupt him. Defeating Longshan was indeed of great significance to the old people in Longyou. It was understandable that Peng Bo was excited. Not only Peng Bo, but last night he saw Hou Jing, Dong Zhong, Yu Bin, Wu Ningyuan and other cold-resistant players in Longyou all had strong reactions. It was obvious that they had long-standing grudges against Longshan.

After Peng Bo finished talking about all the important industries in Longshan, he finally noticed Xia Hong's worried expression. He realized that it was about the silver mine. He immediately said with a strange look on his face, "Let alone finding a silver mine, even if we find it, it's difficult to mine it manually. Could it be that the leader doesn't know about it?"

Xia Hong was stunned and immediately asked, "What's going on?"

Seeing Xia Hong's reaction, Peng Bo reacted instantly. Although his leader was powerful, he was only in his early twenties. Moreover, it had only been less than two years since the rise of the Great Xia Camp. Let alone the silver mine, it was normal that Xia Hong didn't know about many other things.

"The leader knows Zhu Yinhua, right?"

Zhu Yinhua is one of the eleven medicinal materials used to make the Jade Bone Medicine. Now in Daxia, it is one of the four most important main ingredients for refining the Yang Yuan Pill. It is also the main ingredient for refining the Yu Yang Pill. Xia Hong is certainly aware of this.

But he soon remembered something and quickly realized why Peng Bo asked him this.

Red silver flowers usually grow in two places, either near silver mines or where rats live. Although the methods of making the jade bone medicine in Longyou are backward, they also have a fixed demand for red silver flowers, so they must have picked them a lot. Since they have picked them, they probably know the location of the silver mines.

When Xia Hong thought of this, he immediately looked at Peng Bo with anticipation.

Peng Bo waved his hands and said with a smile, "Chief, please don't look at me like that. I have never picked red silver flowers. In the entire Longyou, only Longshan and Zhaoyang have the ability to pick red silver flowers. If nothing unexpected happens, someone in these two families should know the location of some silver mines."

If anyone knows the location, that's easy!
Xia Hong felt relieved immediately. He then recalled what Peng Bo had just said, that even if a silver mine was found, it would be difficult to mine it manually. After thinking for a moment, he guessed, "Is mining difficult because of the cold beast?"

Peng Bo nodded and said, "Many people think that only rats like to stay around silver mines. In fact, wherever there are silver mines, there are groups of cold beasts, ranging from one or two to more than a dozen. Even cold-resistant level warriors will die if they break into these places, so it is almost impossible to organize manual mining."

A population of cold beasts!

Hearing these four words, Xia Hong frowned, and immediately thought of the group of rodents on the north slope of the mountain before the first year, and even earlier, the group of frost wolves that blocked the way when he led the people of Da Xia to migrate from Tupo to Shuanglong Valley.

Up to now, Daxia has encountered groups of cold beasts only twice, but both times they caused considerable damage to the camp. This is enough to prove that cold beasts acting alone and organized groups of cold beasts are two completely different concepts.

A single group of cold beasts is definitely much more powerful than a beast tide of the same size.
The reason is very simple. Judging from the two previous encounters, the organized population of cold beasts, with a leader in command, strong men charging into the battle formation, special scouts, and rear guards... is actually not much different from a human camp.

With a more advanced organizational form, there will naturally be stronger combat effectiveness.

Moreover, the larger the population of cold beasts, the more it proves that it is the king, with powerful strength and extraordinary wisdom. Thinking this way, it makes it even more difficult to deal with.

No wonder!

If this is the case, then obtaining silver mines would be much more difficult than iron mines.

Xia Hong suddenly realized what was going on, and immediately suppressed his desire for the silver mine. He then looked up at Peng Bo and asked curiously:

"How do you know so much?"

Peng Bo smiled and replied, "Captain, you forgot that I was a hostage in Longshan for a few years. So, Li Tianhua and I had a master-disciple relationship."

Li Tianhua!
Since coming to Longyou, Xia Hong has heard this name countless times, and his ears are almost callused.

Thinking of Li Tianhua leaving Longyou, he felt both relieved and regretful.

If Li Tianhua were here, he would never be able to take over Longyou so quickly. He would probably have to stay in Hongmuling for a few years before he could extend his hand into Longyou.

Unfortunately, it was simply out of curiosity about Li Tianhua.

Judging from the entire development context of Longyou, more than 200 camps were finally merged into eleven, and the Longyou Alliance was subsequently established. Longshan dominated Longyou and became the nominal leader, which was basically facilitated by Li Tianhua.

In fact, if it weren't for Daxia's sudden intervention, relying on the family fortune left by Li Tianhua, it would only be a matter of time for Longshan to unify the entire Longyou.

According to Hou Hu, when he was at the peak of his power of resisting the cold, his strength reached sixty-four manes, and his strength was almost unmatched in the entire Longyou.

Xia Hong was naturally curious about this legendary figure whose mind, vision, talent, strength... were almost flawless in every aspect.

Moreover, he hasn't encountered an opponent of equal strength for a long time.

"We can't underestimate him. Li Tianhua last showed up in Longyou forty-five years ago. He has most likely been away from Longshan for more than three years. If he's not dead now, he might have broken through to the Xianyang realm. If he comes back now and we can't deal with him, it will be a disaster!"

Xia Hong shook his head and was about to talk to Peng Bo when he suddenly saw Wu Tianxing and Hou Xing running in from outside one after another with angry looks on their faces.

"Report to the leader, there is another riot in the garrison!"

As soon as Wu Tianxing finished speaking, Hou Xing followed up and continued:
"The dungeon is also in chaos. The Li family's disciples refuse to calm down. Every few minutes, someone breaks down the prison door and mutinis. Just now, a Li family member who has reached the Digging Realm Limit persuaded more than 40 people to follow him into the secret passage and try to escape. If the dungeon's secret agents hadn't discovered and reported it in time, they would have really gotten away with it."

After hearing the two's report, Xia Hong frowned and looked at Peng Bo and asked, "I just asked you to select the Li family members and put them in the dungeon. Didn't you confiscate their weapons?"

He had just given orders to all the cold-resistant soldiers. Peng Bo, with Hou Xing, Zhang Ying, Kong Fan and three hundred Yunjiao soldiers, was responsible for locking up the Longshan leaders and Li's descendants in the dungeon. If anything went wrong, he would naturally look for Peng Bo.

Peng Bo obviously knew about the commotion in the dungeon. He said helplessly, "Captain, you don't know that these Li brothers know the situation in the garrison very well. They know exactly where the weapons and secret passages are in the dungeon. We can't defend against them at all. If it weren't for Commander Liu's advice to plant secret stakes among the prisoners, the dungeon would have been in chaos by now."

Xia Hong frowned, looked up at Hou Xing and said, "Didn't you kill anyone?"

Hou Xing also looked helpless, and replied: "We killed them a long time ago. There were three mutinies in the dungeon, and we killed at least seventy people, but they were like they were not afraid of being killed, and they just refused to stop."

After hearing this, Xia Hong frowned even more tightly, and then turned to look at Wu Tianxing.

Wu Tianxing quickly cupped his hands and replied, "This time it's the South District, with a total of more than 700 people involved. The main culprit's surname is Song, and his name is Song Ning. He is the nephew of Song Kang, one of the Eight Vajra of Longshan."

"Did they kill him?" "He, along with the ringleaders who participated in the riot, a total of 37 people, were all killed, but I don't think it's any use. There will definitely be more riots later."

After hearing this, Xia Hong's face immediately darkened.

The dungeon is so big. The population of Longshan is as high as 130,000. During the siege in the first half of the night, not everyone participated in the resistance. It was naturally impossible for Xia Hong to lock everyone in. So at this moment, except for the digging officers in Longshan and all the descendants of the Li family, there are at least 70,000 to 80,000 people in the garrison.

Among these people, there must be many who are die-hard Li family members. Worried that they might cause trouble, Xia Hong asked Wu Tianxing to lead more than 3,000 Digging Realm to patrol various places in the base.

However, he obviously underestimated the number of die-hard Li family members. In just over an hour, eight riots broke out in the base, and the number of people involved in each riot was in the hundreds or even thousands.

This was the ninth time Wu Tianxing had come to report the riots to him.

Don't underestimate these riots. Even Bingyuan, who is at the lumbering level, has a basic strength of more than 5,000 kilograms. Once the scale of the riot expands to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, it will be difficult to control. It is very likely that fighting will break out again, which will result in a large number of casualties.

Those who caused the riots were obviously not afraid of death and were not afraid of being killed.

And, after all, the purpose of conquering Longshan was to gain population. Killing too many people would not only be putting the cart before the horse, but would also be detrimental to the subsequent rule of Daxia.

Hou Jing was still leading his men to search for the rebels hiding in the garrison; Chen Yingba's two thousand men were repairing a gap in the north wall; it was obviously still a bit difficult to control more than 100,000 people with more than 300 Yunjiao soldiers and 3,000 Digging Realm.

After Xia Hong stood there thinking for a long time, a cold light flashed across his eyes. He was about to speak when Liu Yuan rushed in again.

"Leader, there is a riot in the North District. A man named Cheng Yu has gathered a large group of people and rushed west. It seems they are heading for the dungeon. More and more people are joining them along the way. There are now more than 6,000 people."

More than 6,000 people mutinied!

Xia Hong didn't even think twice and rushed outside.

Liu Yuan hurriedly followed him, and Peng Bo and others followed closely behind.

"I was inspecting the city wall and notified Hou Jing immediately when I found out about the situation. He sent 4,000 people and asked Dong Zhong to lead them to suppress the rebellion. Unfortunately, they were a little slow. By the time they arrived, the crowd had expanded to more than 6,000. I sent the Yunjiao Army over but they still couldn't stop them. I had to ask the leader to make the decision!"

By the time Liu Yuan finished speaking, Xia Hong had already led everyone to the top of a tall building near the entrance to the North District dungeon.

"Brothers, Daxia is deceiving us. Patriarch Tiancheng and others have laid down their weapons and surrendered, but they are still killing people everywhere in the garrison. They are doing nothing and will kill us soon."

"We can't let them do whatever they want in Longshan. Our lives are at stake. If we fight them, I don't believe that Daxia can kill us all."

"If you don't let Patriarch Tiancheng come out to uphold justice, we will fight Daxia!"

"Charge into the dungeon and release the old man and the others, then we have a chance to survive."

………………

Liu Yuan just said there were only 6,000 people, but it is obviously more than that.

Near the entrance to the west dungeon, there were at least 15,000 people gathered, and most of them were young and strong. They were excitedly attacking the human wall composed of more than 600 Yunjiao soldiers and more than 4,000 Digging Realm soldiers.

With occasional instigation and jeers, the crowd's movements of charging forward became more and more frequent and violent, and they were about to engage in a fight with the more than 4,000 defenders outside the dungeon entrance.

"Everyone stop, or I'll have my army kill people!"

Dong Zhong’s voice was loud, but how could he compare with more than ten thousand people?

"Go ahead, kill us all if you dare!"

"Longshan is our home. If Xia Gou wants to take it away, we will never agree."

"Tiancheng Patriarch and his men have clearly surrendered. Why is Daxia holding them captive and killing people everywhere in our base? Release Tiancheng Patriarch."

"Release the Tiancheng Patriarch!"

"Release the Tiancheng Patriarch!"

………………

Dong Zhong's words not only failed to stop the surging crowd, but instead intensified the conflict, making the more than 10,000 people even more violent.

"Leader, if it doesn't work, let the brothers do it!"

Seeing the crowd rushing into the dungeon again, Liu Yuan couldn't help it anymore. With a fierce look in his eyes, he directly made a proposal to Xia Hong.

Even though there are more than 15,000 mutineers at the moment, almost 99% of them are ordinary people. There are no more than 300 people at the Digging Realm, and very few of them have weapons. The rest are almost unarmed.

There are six hundred Yunjiao soldiers and more than four thousand defenders guarding the entrance to the dungeon. If a fight really breaks out, it will be no problem to disperse them or even kill them all.

But the question is what happens after the killing?

Xia Hong waved his hand to reject Liu Yuan's proposal. If he killed people directly, there would be endless troubles for the more than 7,000 diggers in the dungeon and the remaining population of more than 100,000 in the garrison even if they were brought under the rule of Daxia in the future.

Obviously, the people who instigated this mutiny were sure of this and knew that Daxia would not dare to send a large army to kill people directly.

Xia Hong glanced at the mutinous crowd, his expression slightly tense, and asked Liu Yuan: "Who started this mutiny first? Have you found out?"

Liu Yuan immediately shook his head and said, "It happened too fast. We didn't have time to check."

When Xia Hong heard this, a hint of darkness flashed in his eyes. Then he jumped up and jumped directly towards the dungeon entrance.

boom!
Xia Hong deliberately increased the force on his feet. He jumped from a height of only a dozen meters, and the ground within a radius of hundreds of meters shook several times.

The crowd that was attacking the defenders suddenly staggered to and fro. When they finally steady themselves and looked up at Xia Hong in black, they all became quiet in an instant.

"The man who bent the wall last night!"

"He was the one who cut off the left arm of Patriarch Tiancheng."

"Is it the leader of Daxia?"

"It's him, his name is Xia Hong, the most powerful person in Da Xia."

"Was he the one who caused the ground shaking just now?"

………………

“I don’t know how many of you are the leaders, but I can give these people a chance. Come to me and make your demands in front of so many people. As long as they are reasonable, I will agree.

But if you dare to continue charging, then…"

After Xia Hong said this abruptly, he paused and then signaled with his eyes to Dong Zhong and Liu Yuan behind him.

"Prepare!"

"Prepare!"

The two men understood what he meant, and shouted to the 4,000 Digging Army and more than 600 Yunjiao Army soldiers to get ready.

Swish swish swish…………

Upon hearing this, the soldiers of both armies drew their weapons one after another, and their eyes suddenly became sharp as they looked at the more than 10,000 mutinous people.

At this moment, Xia Hong continued to speak, but compared to just now, this time his voice was much deeper and there was an obvious murderous intent in his tone.

"Every time you charge, I will kill one-tenth of you, until you dare not charge again. So think clearly about what you are going to say and do next."

As soon as Xia Hong finished speaking, the scene fell into deathly silence.

Everyone looked up at him, and no one dared to speak.

After dozens of breaths, a few voices finally came from the crowd.

"I come!"

"I come……"

"And I."

………………

After hearing five consecutive voices, Xia Hong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he slowly nodded and smiled at the crowd: "Come over! The rest of you, make way for them to come out."

(End of this chapter)