Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

"Leader, all the corpses from just now are gone. The entire base is empty. Besides us, there's not a single person to be found, and not a sound to be heard."

"I don't have any here either."

"Nothing here either, it's all empty."

… … … …

By the bamboo building, as Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the others all returned one after another, Xia Hong also put away the mirror in his hand and stopped thinking.

"Leader Xia Hong, we've searched the warehouse, cellar, and all the houses, and there's no one left. Everyone who believed in the Mirror Immortal and committed suicide once should have been taken away by He Yuanhun's other dimension."

Yuwen Tao also quickly returned with forty people.

Looking at Yuwen Tao and his group, Xia Hong revealed a meaningful look.

Just now, he had only ordered Xia Chuan and the other sixty-seven people to search the Mirror Immortal's base.

But Yuwen Tao, upon hearing the order, also took people there.

The meaning was obvious.

Yuwen Tao clearly noticed Xia Hong's gaze. He exchanged glances with Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan beside him. Seeing the four of them nod, he pondered for a moment and slowly walked in front of Xia Hong.

"If you don't despise us, we hope that Leader Xia Hong can accept us, as well as the remaining three thousand people in the camp. We are willing to join Da Xia from now on and serve Leader Xia Hong wholeheartedly, without hesitation!"

A hint of pleading appeared on Yuwen Tao's face. After speaking, he bowed slightly.

Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan also bowed with him. The other thirty-six Digging Earth Realm cultivators behind them also bowed to Xia Hong.

When Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the others from Da Xia saw this scene, a hint of excitement immediately appeared on their faces, and their expressions were excited.

Xia Hong, on the other hand, had expected this scene and his expression didn't change much.

Yuwen Hu died, He Yuanhun left, and the Mirror Immortal still had more than three thousand people, but the remaining Digging Earth Realm cultivators only numbered forty. Relying on so few people to continue occupying Arrow Bamboo Forest and supporting the rest was impossible.

Not to mention Da Xia, even the Hive Camp in Pingxi Plain, once they understood the situation, wouldn't tolerate them.

Moreover, Xia Hong brought so many people here tonight not just to eliminate the strange creature.

Yuwen Tao was a smart man and naturally knew how to choose.

"Get up, we are all one family from now on. It's getting late, take people to take inventory of the remaining valuable property in the base. Take away the important ones tonight first, and leave the unimportant ones behind to be retrieved slowly later."

Although he knew in his heart that Xia Hong would most likely not refuse, Yuwen Tao still breathed a sigh of relief when he actually heard his answer.

According to his understanding of Da Xia's current strength, whether Xia Hong would agree so readily was really unknown.

Da Xia's strength was mainly reflected in its leader, Xia Hong.

The strength of the people below was actually very average.

And if they wanted to support enough people, relying on one person was definitely not enough.

Furthermore, Da Xia only had a little over a thousand people in total. Accepting their three thousand people, how to manage them, how to integrate them, would all be extremely difficult problems.

He wasn't sure if Xia Hong had other plans.

Fortunately, Xia Hong's confidence and decisiveness far exceeded his imagination.

"Hong Tian, go and notify Hong Guang to let those three thousand people wait in Arrow Bamboo Forest for a while. We'll move directly to Da Xia tonight; Meng Yi, take people to move coal; Zhu Ling, take people to move iron; Zhu Yuan, go and transport raw bamboo silk, crystal fruit, and cold beast meat, make it quick."

Upon Yuwen Tao's order, except for Hong Tian who went to the southern Arrow Bamboo Forest, the remaining thirty-nine Digging Earth Realm cultivators immediately split into three groups and began to move supplies.

"Leader, we'll go help too."

Of course, Xia Chuan and the others weren't idle either. When they heard that they were going to move supplies, their eyes lit up and they all followed.

Last time, Xia Hong killed He Meng and his group of twenty-five people and had already gained such rich supplies; now they were harvesting the supplies from the entire Mirror Immortal camp.

How rich the reserves of supplies were in a giant camp of twelve thousand people, one could imagine.

Xia Hong didn't accompany the others to take inventory of the supplies. He just walked to the collapsed wall of the bamboo building, pulled out a section of snow-white bamboo, and looked at it carefully.

The bamboo was about ten centimeters in diameter. Apart from its snow-white color, it was actually not much different from the green bamboo in Arrow Bamboo Forest.

Of course, the most important thing was that the outside of the white bamboo was covered with a layer of fine, sharp thorns more than ten centimeters long.

Recalling how these barbs had shot towards him like they had come alive when he approached the bamboo building earlier, Xia Hong's brow furrowed slightly.

"This white bamboo is a bit like the green bamboo fence, except that the impact force of the shot is slightly smaller, about eight or nine thousand pounds. It's no problem to defend against low-level cold beasts, but I don't know if the yield is high."

Although the sharp thorns shot out by the green bamboo fence had an impact force of ten thousand pounds, the density of the sharp thorns was not as good as that of this snow-white bamboo. Xia Hong's thoughts couldn't help but become active.

If the yield of this snow-white bamboo was high, arranging a circle of it around the base would definitely provide considerable defense.

However, the hope should not be great!

Xia Hong glanced at the bamboo building and shook his head slightly.

This bamboo building was where He Yuanhun lived, and it was the only one in the entire Mirror Immortal. From this, it could be seen that its yield should not be high, or the difficulty of obtaining it was too great.

"Leader, this thing is called Snow Bamboo. The layer of barbs on the outside can autonomously sense and attack enemies in front. It generally grows in the depths of Arrow Bamboo Forest. A few roots will emerge every time after a cold beast tide. If it is not picked in time, it will turn into ordinary green bamboo, so we have only collected so little over the years."

Yuwen Tao, who had returned, saw Xia Hong observing the bamboo and immediately came up to explain.

Unsurprisingly, Xia Hong put down the snow bamboo, and his expression changed slightly as he thought of the cold beast tide that occurred every four months in Arrow Bamboo Forest.

"How much do you know about the cold beast tide in Arrow Bamboo Forest?"

Yuwen Tao was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted. After they joined Da Xia, Arrow Bamboo Forest would naturally become Da Xia's territory in the future. It was normal for Xia Hong to ask about the situation.

After thinking for a moment, he opened his mouth and said, "I don't know the specific reason, I only know that it happens every four months and is related to the maturity period of the Ice Shuo Tree. The number is extremely large, estimated to be more than ten thousand."

Hearing the number of tens of thousands, Xia Hong's expression suddenly froze.

No wonder he didn't understand. A cold beast tide with tens of thousands of beasts, not to mention He Yuanhun and Yuwen Hu, even he himself would have to walk around it now.

Not to mention trying to probe, if he was accidentally caught in it, he wouldn't even have a chance to escape, and would probably be crushed into pieces.

"Tens of thousands of beasts, how big is Arrow Bamboo Forest in total? Haven't they ever broken into this basin here?"

The size of cold beasts was extremely terrifying. Medium-sized cold beasts were often seven or eight meters long, not to mention high-level ones, or even more powerful ones.

Tens of thousands of cold beasts gathered together, and it happened every four months.

It was already outrageous that Arrow Bamboo Forest hadn't been razed to the ground.

It was even more unbelievable that the Mirror Immortal's base, located one kilometer outside the northern Arrow Bamboo Forest, hadn't been discovered by the cold beasts.

Upon hearing this, Yuwen Tao immediately took out a beast scroll from his arms.

"This is the terrain map we drew earlier, please take a look, Leader!"

As Yuwen Tao unfolded it and explained, Xia Hong also had a clear understanding of the terrain of Arrow Bamboo Forest and Pingxi Plain.

In general, Arrow Bamboo Forest should be located on the northern ridge of Shuanglong Mountain, with only a mountain road separating it from the Redwood Ridge on the west side;

This bamboo forest should be oriented east-west, which means that the side closer to Redwood Ridge was the western end of the bamboo forest;

The basin where the Mirror Immortal was located was one kilometer north of the bamboo forest, which was the eastern side of Pingxi Plain. Further east was the northern ridge of Shuanglong Mountain again.

"I heard He Yuanhun say that Arrow Bamboo Forest runs east-west for about seventy kilometers. Except for the cold beast tide that occurs every four months, a very small number of cold beasts will remain inside. The rest of the time, there are not many cold beasts entrenched inside, so our hunting difficulty was relatively high before, which is why…"

Speaking of this, Yuwen Tao paused, with an apologetic look on his face.

This was why they wanted to snatch Redwood Ridge from Da Xia.

Xia Hong naturally knew the reason, waved his hand slightly, and signaled that it was okay.

"The hunting difficulty is high, firstly because there are few cold beasts, and secondly, because the variety of cold beasts in Arrow Bamboo Forest is extremely limited. Almost ninety percent of them are a cold beast called White Bear. This cold beast is snow-white all over and has a strong ability to hide. Its defense is also extremely amazing. Low-level ones are fine, but medium-level ones, unless my father and He Yuanhun personally take action, there is basically no possibility of hunting them down."

As Yuwen Tao spoke, he opened another scroll.

Xia Hong took the scroll and saw that there were as many as twenty-one kinds of cold beasts recorded inside, and his eyes lit up immediately.

So far, Da Xia's Cold Beast Records have only recorded Bone-Spiked Frost Wolves, Long-Tongued Snow-Manes, Golden-Eyed Magic Goats, Blue Moon Spirits, Cloud Mist Teng Jiao, Long-Tailed Gnawing Rats, and Golden Armor Thunder Kui in detail, for a total of seven kinds.

Browsing through the scroll, sure enough, all seven kinds recorded by Da Xia were there.

The four medium-level cold beasts that He Yuanhun sent during his visit to Da Xia earlier, Firestone Tiger, Frost Lightning Ape, and Azure Thunder Roar, were also there.

In addition to these ten kinds, there were eleven kinds that Xia Hong had never seen before.

The White Bear that Yuwen Tao mentioned was also among them.

Putting the Cold Beast Scroll aside, Xia Hong continued to look at the map and listened to Yuwen Tao's subsequent explanation.

"Arrow Bamboo Forest is more than seventy kilometers in length from east to west. Previously, He Yuanhun personally led the camp's only high-level hunting team. The deepest they went was twenty kilometers. He was injured that time. It is said that he encountered a group of medium-level White Bears."

"We can't go to the too deep places in the east, we can only explore from north to south. About six months ago, we completed the exploration of the ten-mile area on the west side of the entire Arrow Bamboo Forest and discovered that small road and Redwood Ridge."

Dawn was approaching, and today should be March 19th.

Xia Hong remembered that his first contact with He Meng and the others was when dealing with the rat swarm. At that time, He Meng said that the Arrow Bamboo Forest had belonged to the Mirror Immortal three months ago.

Calculating it this way, the timing was just right.

Looking at the ten kilometers marked north and south on the west side of the Arrow Bamboo Forest on the map, a strange expression appeared on Xia Hong's face.

Ten kilometers north and south was still the narrowest part of the western end of the Arrow Bamboo Forest. Adding the twenty kilometers that He Yuanhun's team had penetrated, this area accounted for less than one-tenth of the entire Arrow Bamboo Forest.

He Meng dared to say at that time that the entire Arrow Bamboo Forest belonged to the Mirror Immortal Camp.

That was too much bragging.

Judging from the depth of exploration, it could barely be justified.

The total east-west distance was seventy kilometers, and He Yuanhun's team had already penetrated almost one-third of it.

His own strength was a bit stronger than He Yuanhun, and leading a team to continue deeper shouldn't be a problem. Calculating it this way, taking the entire Arrow Bamboo Forest for himself shouldn't be too far off.

"That is to say, the resource area of the Mirror Immortal Camp, generally speaking, is this western side of the Arrow Bamboo Forest. The area around the base is your activity area. Your overall territory is probably…"

Xia Hong encircled the entire Arrow Bamboo Forest on the scroll, and then circled the basin and the surrounding area as well.

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"This area!"

An area twenty kilometers north-south and seventy kilometers east-west was drawn on the scroll. Seeing Yu Wentao nod in agreement, Xia Hong's brow furrowed. He pointed to the large plain on the west side of the basin and said in a low voice:

"Pingxi Plain, you never go there?"

Xia Hong had already observed the general situation of Pingxi Plain last night before crossing the Arrow Bamboo Forest to reach the Mirror Immortal Camp.

Overall, it was a vast snow-covered plain, but there were also several high mountains and hills in the middle. Ice-covered trees and vegetation were not absent, just not as many as in Redwood Ridge.

Judging from the terrain alone, there must be cold beasts in Pingxi Plain.

If hunting was difficult in the Arrow Bamboo Forest, why not go to Pingxi Plain?

"Honeycomb Camp?"

Hearing Xia Hong's somewhat speculative tone, Yu Wentao nodded helplessly.

"Our basin should be roughly located in the southeast corner of Pingxi Plain. To the west and north are the spheres of influence of the Honeycomb Camp. Previously, we had dealt with the Honeycomb Camp a few times. To be honest, they alone couldn't stop us from entering Pingxi Plain…"

Speaking of this, Yu Wentao paused for a moment and slowly said four words:

"Longyou Alliance!"

After some explanation, Xia Hong understood.

Why the Mirror Immortal Camp didn't dare to touch Pingxi Plain.

No one knew how large Pingxi Plain was overall, but not too far from the Honeycomb Camp, there were also twelve other giant camps with populations of over ten thousand.

These twelve camps united to form the Longyou Alliance, forbidding any other camp from touching Pingxi Plain. Anyone who violated this would be jointly targeted.

Longyou?

Hearing this name, a strange expression appeared on Xia Hong's face. He didn't ask about the details of the alliance, but became interested in the name and asked:

"Why is it called the Longyou Alliance?"

Yu Wentao pointed to the left side of the map, which was a very distant location west of the Mirror Immortal Camp, where a high mountain was marked.

"This mountain is named Long. There is a Longshan Camp entrenched here. I heard my father say that this alliance has lasted for decades. It was originally proposed by this Longshan Camp. Because the other eleven camps are located east of Longshan, it is named the Longyou Alliance."

Xia Hong nodded, and after understanding, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

It was not surprising that multiple camps united to protect their territory.

Before Redwood Ridge, the territory was also divided by the Rogue Camp.

This Longyou Alliance was roughly equivalent to the previous situation of Redwood Ridge, but it was a strengthened version. They not only divided the eastern side of Pingxi Plain, but also united to exclude outsiders.

"The leader should have also noticed that the northern side of Redwood Ridge should extend to Pingxi Plain. As far as I know, the Honeycomb Camp will also enter Redwood Ridge from the north to hunt. Judging from the depth, in the long run, they will definitely encounter Da Xia… our camp!"

Subconsciously saying Da Xia, Yu Wentao quickly changed his words to our camp.

Xia Hong didn't care. After looking at the map, his expression became slightly solemn.

Da Xia Valley was located on the eastern side of Redwood Ridge;

Pingxi Plain, where the Honeycomb Camp was located, was on the northern side of Redwood Ridge.

If the two camps continued to expand their resource collection range deeper into Redwood Ridge, they would definitely meet in the future.

Xia Hong shook his head slightly. He found it a bit ridiculous that the people of Da Xia, including himself, had always regarded Redwood Ridge as Da Xia's private property.

So far, Da Xia's range of penetration into Redwood Ridge from the east was only about three or four kilometers, with a north-south span of about ten kilometers. This small area was probably just a drop in the bucket for the entire Redwood Ridge.

He said earlier that He Meng was bragging, but wasn't he himself bragging?

"Give me the map. After I go back, I will merge this map with Da Xia's existing map, and the camp's sphere of influence will be clear in the future."

Taking the map from Yu Wentao's hand, a flash of excitement flashed across Xia Hong's face.

A map was of course nothing.

What was important was the meaning behind this map.

The area explored and the territory occupied by the Mirror Immortal Camp over the years.

From tonight onwards, it would belong to Da Xia.

Consuming so much beast blood; using so many resources from the system; risking his life to break through to the Cold Resistance level; surviving that beast tide; taking such a big risk to destroy the Mirror Immortal; driving away He Yuanhun…

All that Xia Hong had done finally ushered in the moment of harvest!

However, the harvest was far more than that.

The people Yu Wentao had just sent out had returned one after another.

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the others from Da Xia also returned.

More than a hundred people, almost everyone carrying a huge leather bag on their back.

The Mirror Immortal Camp people were okay.

The smiles on the faces of Da Xia and the others were almost impossible to hide.

If it weren't for considering the feelings of Yu Wentao and the others, they probably couldn't help but shout out excitedly the moment they saw Xia Hong.

Meng Yi subconsciously walked towards Yu Wentao, and was about to speak when he saw Yu Wentao's eye signal. He immediately understood and bowed to Xia Hong, saying:

"Leader, the camp's reserve of iron ore, totaling more than 1.9 million catties, has all been counted. It's a bit difficult to move it all back at once, so we can only bring people over to move it later."

Zhu Ling also followed behind and bowed to Xia Hong:

"Leader, the coal stone reserve totals 2.7 million catties. We can only take back a part of it tonight, and we will send people to move it later."

Zhu Yuan was the last to arrive and said:

"Leader, there are more than 90,000 catties of raw bamboo silk, 210,000 catties of crystal fruit, more than 70,000 catties of beast meat, and 1,500 catties of beast blood. I have ordered people to pack them up and we can set off at any time."

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1.9 million catties of iron, 2.7 million catties of coal, this was just the reserve.

How many finished weapons and usable ironware would there be?

This wave was really a windfall!

Before the exclamation in Xia Hong's heart was over, Yu Wentao spoke again.

"By the way, leader, there are also two iron mines on the east side of the camp, and there is also a coal mine in the Arrow Bamboo Forest, which have not been completely mined. The specific locations are also marked on the map just now. You will know when you go back and take a look."

After Yu Wentao and his party finished reporting, Xia Chuan and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, finally couldn't hold back and spoke.

"Leader, we have collected a total of 4,700 weapons, more than 700 of which are over a thousand catties, more than 700 of which are iron-胎 bows with a pulling force of over ten thousand catties, and the remaining 3,300 pieces include more than 1,000 iron-胎 bows with a pulling force of five stones, and the rest are all single pieces weighing over five hundred catties."

Hearing the astonishing number of weapons, Xia Hong couldn't help but show joy.

"Divide the weapons and take them all back. Take back the raw bamboo silk, crystal fruit, beast meat, and beast blood as well. Leave the coal stone and iron ore, I can take it all myself!"

Hearing Xia Hong's words, the expressions of Yu Wentao and his party suddenly froze.

1.9 million catties of iron, 2.7 million catties of coal, a total of 4.6 million catties of materials,

How could Xia Hong take it all by himself?

Soon, they understood.

When they saw the iron ore and coal in the entire warehouse disappear under Xia Hong's touch, Yu Wentao and the forty-one others were instantly dumbfounded.

"Let's go, let's go back first!"

Xia Hong didn't take it seriously at all. Seeing that everyone had divided the materials to be transported, he directly ordered to set off and return to the valley.