Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 37: Digging the Earth [Seeking Tickets and Following]

Bang…………

The fire was lit again, and after the cave was sealed, it was warm again.

Everyone gathered around the campfire again, and Xia Hong walked to Xu Ning's side.

Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng and others also surrounded him, with heavy expressions on their faces.

"Boss, we got a big one this time, hehe."

Xu Ning opened one eye, pointed at the golden-eyed demon sheep lying on the ground, and forced a smile on his face.

Xia Hong did not respond, but walked forward to check his right eye. Seeing that it was empty, his face suddenly became heavy.

"Don't try to show off your bravery anymore. Be careful when facing a cold beast you've never seen before!"

After saying that, he turned to Xia Chuan and the others and added, "The same goes for you."

Xu Ning probably didn't want to make the atmosphere so heavy, so he smiled and said, "At least I'm still alive. It's just one eye, it's not a big deal. My cultivation is still there, and my body is fine."

Seeing that no one responded, Xu Ning remembered something and continued:

"By the way, Qiu Peng, your father used to be the only archer in our camp. He often closed one eye when shooting arrows. My right eye is blind. Maybe when the camp becomes wealthy in the future, I can be an archer."

Qiu Peng was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a strange expression.

"That's true. I heard from my father that in order to achieve high accuracy in archery, one usually only uses one eye to aim. Unfortunately, there are no bows and arrows in the camp right now..."

Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, including Xia Hong and others, all felt a slight movement in their hearts.

Losing an eye is not as easy as Xu Ning said.

Although it has no effect on cultivation, it has a great impact on vision and body coordination. For people like them who often have to fight for life and death with cold beasts, losing half of their vision and body coordination are extremely fatal.

Xia Hong's face looked heavy just now because he realized that Xu Ning might not be able to help much even if he went out in the future. He even decided to keep Xu Ning in the camp to watch over him when he went out in the future.

But Qiu Peng's words were a disguised reminder to him.

When archers fight, in most cases they really only need one eye.

And to some extent, because the other eye has completely disappeared, Xu Ning can focus more on his left eye.

This has become a unique advantage.

"Not now, but there will be some in the future!"

Xia Hong spoke in a serious tone, which was considered a promise to Xu Ning.

Upon hearing this, the others also began to encourage Xu Ning:
"That's right. The leader of the golden-eyed demon sheep was killed anyway. It's easy to get you a bow and arrow."

"We are not afraid of monsters now, so why should we be worried about not being able to get bows and arrows?"

"Xu Ning, you should take good care of your injuries. When the bows and arrows arrive, if you can't practice well, we will laugh at you."

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Hearing everyone's encouragement, Xu Ning's expression was moved, but he didn't say anything. He just remained silent and nodded heavily.

"I have something to do. Go and deal with the meat of the golden-eyed demon sheep first."

"Yes, leader."

Seeing that everyone was happily dealing with the golden-eyed demon sheep, Xia Hong walked alone to the force measuring piles in the camp.

The original camp's wooden stakes for measuring force were only a thousand pounds at most. Later, as more and more people broke through the logging realm, two five-thousand-pound stakes were added for convenience.

Xia Hong's expression changed slightly. He piled two 5,000-jin wooden stakes together, then held his breath, squatted on the ground, and hugged the two wooden stakes with both hands.

call…………

Exhaling a breath, Xia Hong clenched his teeth, exerted force with both hands, and lifted them up suddenly.

Two wooden stakes rose from the ground.

An expression of ecstasy suddenly appeared on Xia Hong's face.

"Really breakthrough!"

Just after killing the golden-eyed demon sheep, he felt that his internal strength had increased a little, but the monster came again, so he didn't care about it.

Now I tried it and actually made a breakthrough.

Basic strength exceeding ten thousand pounds is the sign of a breakthrough to the Digging Ground Realm.

God knows how distressed Xia Hong was during this period because of the digging realm.

Because he found that the closer he got to a breakthrough, the lower his efficiency in absorbing the cold beast meat became, and his strength increased slower and slower.

The problem is that his quota of cold beast meat has not changed at all. In order to break through, he even tried to increase the quota, but the improvement was still minimal. "It seems that only by experiencing this kind of life-and-death struggle can I break through the physical limit faster. The subsequent training in the Digging Realm still depends on cold beast meat. I wonder if it will be very slow."

Xia Hong gradually put away the excitement on his face and calmed himself down.

As your physical fitness improves, your demand for cold beast meat will increase.

But for him now, it is not a big problem.

When he was in the logging realm, he could lead people to hunt cold beasts, let alone now.

The key point is that breaking through the digging realm means that from today on, he is qualified to dig and mine.

Coal, iron, silver, gold, as long as he can find the ore veins, he can easily open the other eight buildings in the system.

"Starting tonight, expand the search area to see if we can find a mineral vein!"

Xia Hong looked very excited and put down the wooden stake.

Coincidentally, the golden-eyed demon sheep on the other side was also dealt with.

Yuan Cheng excitedly reported the amount of meat produced by the magic sheep to Xia Hong from a distance.

"Captain, the golden-eyed demon sheep has a total of 1,700 kilograms of meat, and a whole hide that can be made into five animal hide skirts."

One thousand seven hundred kilograms, based on the current distribution of cold beast meat in the camp, is enough for about twenty days.

"By the way, there's also this."

Yuan Cheng thought of something and threw something at Xia Hong.

Xia Hong reached out and caught it. It was the dagger that he had just used to kill the golden-eyed demon sheep.

Wang Ming's big knife, converted into the system's iron resources, is worth 60 points.

It took 50 points to upgrade the small campfire, and there were 10 points left, which Xia Hong used to make this small dagger.

It is called a short knife, but in fact it is less than five inches long, so it is more appropriate to describe it as a dagger.

Because it was too short and probably couldn't break the defense of the Golden-Eyed Demon Sheep, Xia Hong didn't use it at first. Until he wanted to attack the eye on its back, he realized that the stone axe was not suitable, so he used the dagger, which worked wonders.

Xia Hong put away the dagger and called together the six members of the logging team, including Xia Chuan, Yuan Chuan, and the reserve members who had been newly added to thirty-one.

"Just divide all the meat. Ten days later, we will go out as usual. Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and the six of you should improve your strength during this period.

In addition, the reserve personnel must also speed up and see if they can get a few more people to break through to the logging realm before going out."

"Yes, leader!"

Everyone answered in unison. Xia Chuan and the other six were fine, but the thirty-one reserve members had just witnessed Xia Hong and the other eight people hunting down the golden-eyed demon sheep. They were extremely envious and their desire to break through the logging realm reached its peak.

It is estimated that even if Xia Hong didn't say it, they would practice desperately in order to join the logging team as soon as possible and go out with him.

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Time goes back to just now.

Just as Wang Ping, who was controlled by the monster, was burned to ashes by the fire oil.

Five hundred meters east of the slope where the cave of the Daxia camp was located, a shrill scream was heard from a large tree on the outermost edge of the Redwood Ridge.

“Ah…ah…”

An old man in black, who was no more than 1.5 meters tall and hunched over, was holding a ball of white silk thread in his hand. One end of the thread was held in the old man's hand, and the other end extended far to the west.

The thread was originally white, and with the ice and snow all around, it was almost invisible to the naked eye. One could only judge from the direction that the other end was connected to the cave where the Daxia camp was located.

But at this moment, the silk thread spontaneously combusted out of thin air.

The old man screamed because the flame on the silk thread had burned his palm. He slapped his arms frantically, but still could not put out the domineering flame.

As if realizing that he could not put out the fire in his hands, the old man's red pupils suddenly became fierce. He stretched out his right palm, then raised his left hand.

Cut it down fiercely.

Click…………

It turned out that it was the small knife held in its left hand that cut off its burning right hand at the root.

Although his right hand was clearly cut off, the old man did not show any pain on his face. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After his right hand was cut off, it was burned to ashes by the overbearing flame before it fell to the ground.

Looking at the wisp of black smoke, fear flashed in the old man's red pupils. Then he turned his head to look at the cave where the Daxia camp was located. The fear in his eyes turned into resentment and hatred.

"Wait for me, you can't escape, you definitely can't escape, your lives are all mine, all mine..."

(End of this chapter)