Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 5, Small Fire [Please make a fire! ]

Small fire: can greatly increase the temperature in a 10-meter radius area, and has a deterrent killing function on primary monsters, but it also has a strong attraction to cold beasts

Average daily consumption: 2 pieces of wood (given for the first ignition, no consumption for ten minutes)
Xia Hong didn't have time to carefully check the so-called camp system. He just quickly searched for what he wanted in a large string of information.

It has the function of shocking and killing primary monsters!
This is what he wants.

Xia Hong turned his head to look at Xia Chuan who was almost dying, forced himself to stand up, and stared at the fake Xia Ding.

A spark suddenly appeared in front of Xia Chuan.

The fake Xia Ding looked down at the fire in front of him, frowned, and felt vaguely that something was wrong.

But the spark was faint and looked non-threatening.

However, the next second, the spark exploded, and a ball of red flame more than three meters high suddenly rose up.

The flames spread rapidly as if they were spreading across a prairie fire, not only pinching Xia Chuan's fake Xia Ding, but also two of the other fake logging team members not far from him were directly swallowed by the flames.

"Ah...what is this? What kind of fire is this? Ah..."

But in an instant, the fake Xia Ding, who was engulfed by the flames, let out a terrified and tragic roar.

The other two fake logging team members were burned into two balls of black smoke before they could even make a sound.

The body of the fake Xia Ding kept twisting and moving in the flames, obviously trying to escape, but the flames followed him like a leech.

The originally complete body was burned into a red skeleton in an instant, and then even the bones were burned to ashes. Like the two fake members of the logging team, it turned into a cloud of black smoke and completely dissipated.

On this side, Xia Hong had already helped Xia Chuan up. He turned around and looked at the fire still burning in the same place. His face was suddenly filled with hope.

"Brother, what is this fire?"

"I don't know, but we are saved."

The fake Xia Ding didn't die even after his head was split open.

But when it touched this small fire, it turned into ashes in an instant.

"Everyone, stop fighting and come to the fire!"

Xia Hong turned around and shouted to the people in the cave who were still fighting desperately.

Someone had already noticed the scene of the fake Xia Ding being burned to death, and with this shout, all the remaining survivors immediately gathered towards him.

Soon, the more than one hundred people remaining in the camp all withdrew from the battle and gathered behind Xia Hong.

There were heavy casualties on the camp side, but on the monster side, except for three who were accidentally burned to death by the small fire, the remaining twenty-three were all unharmed.

Another Xia Ding, with the remaining twenty-two fake logging team members, walked towards the campfire.

However, when he was still more than ten meters away from the fire, he stopped.

Looking at the fire, the fake Xia Ding's eyes were full of fear.

But he seemed unwilling to let Xia Hong and his gang go, and after a moment he sneered and said:
"Little thing, how long can this fire of yours burn?"

"A long, long time!"

Xia Hong also sneered, turned around and said to Xia Chuan and the others: "Move all the wood in the back here to expand the fire."

The wood for the camp was placed right next to the wall.

Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly moved the wood from the other side of the wall.

As more wood was added, the fire in the small fire kept growing.

Moreover, Xia Hong and others deliberately led the wood to the group of people who were pretending to be Xia Ding.

Soon, the fire illuminated the entire cave.

As the fire spread, the group of people who were pretending to be Xia Ding became more and more fearful in their eyes, and their bodies kept retreating.

The fake Xia Ding was in a stalemate with everyone for more than an hour.

It was not until the fire forced him to the entrance of the cave and he saw people still bringing in wood that hatred finally showed on his face. He stared at Xia Hong deeply, then turned and left with those fake logging team members.

It was already daybreak, and Xia Hong and the others did not dare to leave the vicinity of the campfire. They could only watch the group of people leaving from afar.

Only when he could no longer see the other person and confirmed that he had gone far away did Xia Hong finally breathe a sigh of relief. A strong feeling of exhaustion suddenly surged into his heart.

"Brother, there seems to be something wrong with this bonfire."

"I know that it is only useful within a range of ten meters. The fires in other places are no different from the fires we lit before." Xia Hong's back was already soaked with cold sweat.

He realized it when the fire spread beyond ten meters.

The fire in the cave was burned to a height of fifty or sixty meters. However, after leaving the ten-meter range of the initial small fire, the temperature of the rest of the place rose to the same level as the fire they had lit before.

Thinking of the system description of the small bonfire at that time, Xia Hong roughly understood it.

A small fire only works within a radius of ten meters.

Even if other means are used to expand the fire, it will not be effective.

Similarly, only small fires can have a deterrent and killing effect on monsters. The other fires they lit are completely useless.

What he did afterwards was just bluffing to scare those weird creatures.

Fortunately, the other party was fooled.

After surviving the disaster, there was no atmosphere of joy in the cave.

Because disasters are often accompanied by endless pain.

At this moment, many people have realized that Xia Ding and his gang have really been killed.

The twelve members of the logging team were twelve families.

Coupled with the massacre that just happened in the cave, at least more than seventy people were killed.

The whole cave was suddenly filled with wailing and crying.

"Boss, is he really dead?"

"My boss is dead too?"

"My son was killed..."

"Mother, mother, wake up!"

………………

In addition to the sadness that surged in Xia Hong's heart, what was even stronger was a sense of suffocation.

From beginning to end, he knew nothing about the ghost in Redwood Ridge.

He didn't even know what the other person's true appearance looked like.

At first, after the two counterfeit Xia Dings were exposed, the one who was ambushed by Xia Chuan was the leader, and the other one whose head was split open by himself was just acting in a daze, without any intelligence.

After the first person was burned to death by the small fire, the confused one came out and took the lead in speaking.

This is enough to prove that the two fake Xia Dings are not the real ones.

In other words, the monster in Redwood Ridge had not even shown up, but it had already dealt them such a heavy blow.

There are also two Xia Dings. How did the other party get those 24 fake logging team members and how did they control them?

He knew nothing about it.

If the opponent makes a light attack, you will suffer heavy casualties.

The key point is that after sacrificing so many people, we haven't obtained even a little useful information from the other side.

This feeling of powerlessness made Xia Hong feel extremely depressed.

Of course, more than that, it's fear.

Looking back around the cave, Xia Hong saw that most people were still immersed in sadness. He took a deep breath, walked to the cave entrance alone, picked up the stones and trees next to him, and began to seal the cave entrance.

After all this trouble, it was already dawn and the temperature was dropping faster and faster. If the cave entrance was not sealed quickly, people would freeze to death.

If you accidentally attract a cold beast, it will make the situation worse.

Xia Hong's actions also reminded everyone.

Xia Chuan was the first to step forward to help, followed by the second and the third.

Finally, men, women, and even children came to help.

Xia Hong looked back at everyone in the camp. Although it was freezing cold, he felt a slight warmth in his heart.

(End of this chapter)