Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 97 New Wooden House
As soon as the cold beast meat was distributed, everyone couldn't wait to start practicing regardless of whether it was daytime or not.

It is said to be cultivation, but in fact it is just eating the meat of cold beasts, and then absorbing the energy contained in the meat through evaporation to improve basic strength.

Xia Hong did not hide anything and asked Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng and others to teach them all the four routines of Changquan. So after a while, bursts of boxing sounds were heard in the wooden house.

The wooden house, which is only 30 meters long, has to house an iron smelting furnace and other supplies. There are more than 900 people in the camp now, and all of them are here. You can imagine how crowded it is.

Therefore, only a small number of people can fight. To be precise, they are basically from the hunting team and the logging team. A small number of reservists can also fight if they grab an open position.

The radiation range of the smelting furnace is 100 meters in radius, and the range around the wooden house extends outward for 70 meters. In fact, the temperature is not much different from that inside the wooden house. Ordinary people can move freely in this range at night, the only difference is whether there is wind or not.

But it’s not the same during the day, because the low temperature during the day comes from the sunlight.

Xia Hong had tried this before when the golden-eyed demon sheep attacked. Even his Digging Realm strength couldn't withstand the chill contained in the sunlight, let alone other people in the camp.

Cultivation itself is something that happens at night. Today, since it was the first time that everyone received the cold beast meat, they didn't care about day or night and just started practicing directly.

But it is also true that today’s wooden houses are too small and there is insufficient space for activities per person.

Xia Hong frowned slightly, looked around the crowd, and saw Mu Dong holding a piece of wood in the corner, thinking hard. He thought for a moment and did not go to look for him.

In the next few days, Xia Hong and his hunting team brought back two to three prey almost every night, and even one night, they brought back four.

The supply of cold beast meat was implemented every day as previously stipulated. Although the excitement of everyone in the camp had passed, their enthusiasm for cultivation became even higher.

When Xia Hong led the team out at night, the reserve troops in the camp had already been standing outside the wooden house practicing boxing. When they returned from hunting, it was almost dawn, but almost all the reserve troops were still practicing outside.

With sufficient cold beast meat and such enthusiasm for cultivation, Xia Hong was looking forward to the day when Da Xia's logging-realm combat power would experience a blowout.

Xia Hong no longer took actual responsibility for the logging team's affairs. He only listened to the team leader Cheng Feng's reports every day and paid attention to the rising numbers of timber resources in the system.

Such ordinary and fulfilling days lasted for six days.

On the sixth day, Xia Hong and the hunting team returned to the camp.

Cheng Feng and Mu Dong immediately went to find him together.

As soon as he caught up with Xia Hong, Cheng Feng spoke first:
"Captain, these past few days, I have led the logging team to explore all the ice trees on the eastern side of Hongmu Ridge. There are a total of 14 trees with the same growth cycle. All of them have just borne fruit, and some have not been picked yet. I have led the team to pick them all, and a total of kilograms of crystal fruit have been harvested."

Xia Hong ordered the hunting team to process the prey first, then walked to the side of the smelting furnace and sat down on the ground, motioning Cheng Feng and Mu Dong to sit down as well.

In theory, once the supply of cold beast meat is sufficient, the crystal fruit will not be of much significance. After all, there are only more than a hundred people in the camp who cannot get a share of cold beast meat. Calculated at two kilograms per person per day, they cannot consume much in a year.

But the actual situation is not like this. As a cultivation material, Xia Hong cannot use cold beast meat to replace the staple food. The current supply is sufficient. The biggest reason is that the population of the Great Xia Camp is small. In the future, when there are more people and the base of ordinary people is large, they still cannot do without crystal fruits.

Even for the purpose of food reserves, crystal fruits must continue to be picked. More importantly, Xia Hong has used the medicine decocting pot to identify that crystal fruits can not only fill the stomach, but also be used for medicinal purposes. In addition to crystal fruits, Xia Hong has used the medicine decocting pot to test out more than ten kinds of medicinal materials such as snow mane tongue powder, frost wolf bones, black thorns, coal stones, iron powder, golden thorn tips, and red frost stems.

These more than ten kinds of medicinal materials consumed more than twenty units of coal resources of Xia Hong, which made him very distressed. The most annoying thing was that he had not yet generated the formula.

It can solve the problem of food monotony; it can be used as reserve food; it also has medicinal value; it is also easy to preserve; and for the current camp, it is not difficult to pick.

Due to various factors, the picking of crystal fruits must not be stopped, including the location exploration of the Bingshuo trees and the detection of their growth cycles.

"At present, we have only explored within a range of 500 meters. When you go out to cut wood later, you should continue to pay attention to this area to see if there is anything you have missed. After a while, our hunting range will be extended, and your exploration range will be expanded. The Ice Tree is still very important to us, so we can't be careless!"

Cheng Feng nodded and replied respectfully, "Yes, Chief."

On the other side, seeing Cheng Feng finished speaking, Mu Dong quickly handed over a piece of wood and said excitedly: "Leader, I have already drawn the concept of the new wooden house you told me about before. Take a look and see if it is right."

Xia Hong looked down at the schematic diagram carved on the wooden board with a knife, and immediately became interested.

Mu Feng on the side hurried forward and started explaining to Xia Hong while pointing at the schematic diagram.

"According to the leader, this wooden house is built in a square shape, 200 meters long and wide, 15 meters high, and has three floors.

The middle floor occupies an area of ​​five meters and serves as the camp hall. There is no need to separate the rooms. Daily meetings, camp conferences, and the storage of public supplies such as iron smelting furnaces are all held on this floor.

The bottom floor occupies three meters. Except for an aisle and a central hall, the rest of the space is divided into rooms ten meters wide with wooden boards. I have calculated that based on a side length of 200 meters, excluding the walls, the five-meter-wide and seventy-five-meter-long aisles, and the fifty-meter-wide square central hall, there are probably more than three hundred such small rooms that can be divided, which is more than enough for all the ordinary people in the camp.

The top floor is five meters in size and is similar to the bottom floor, retaining the central hall and corridor, plus a large warehouse, and partitioning off small rooms that are twenty meters wide. I have calculated that it can probably be partitioned off into ninety rooms, which is enough for the current logging and hunting team members in the camp to live in.

The three-story wooden building is separated in the middle by a one-meter-thick wooden board, and the top is built with beams to form the four-cornered peak style you mentioned, and then covered with a layer of animal skin to prevent erosion by snow, water, wind and frost. "

Mu Dong was very excited as he spoke, and the excitement in his tone was extremely obvious. It was obvious that he highly approved of the idea of ​​building a new wooden house proposed by Xia Hong earlier.

Xia Hong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He was not a professional architect. He came up with this idea based on his memory. He told Mu Dong about it just to try his luck. He didn't expect that the other party could actually come up with it.

Although he knew that the wood here was different from the wood in his previous life, it was built for living after all, so Xia Hong still asked solemnly: "Mu Dong, do you think it is feasible to build a wooden house like this?"

Mu Dong was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded and replied, "Of course it's possible."

Then he showed a hint of hesitation and said hesitantly: "However, there are a few very difficult problems that are not easy to solve."

"Tell me, I'll see if I can solve it!"

Mu Dong thought for a moment before answering:
"It requires a huge amount of wood, a wide variety of tools, and a lot of iron. Finally, it takes a long time to drive the piles into the ground. In some places, you may need to lead the team and do it yourself."

(End of this chapter)