Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

The four families, totaling five to six thousand people, poured in one after another, and the surrounding wooden houses immediately became extremely crowded.

“Look, what is that?”

One person was the first to notice the supplies piled up on both sides of the wooden house. After opening his mouth in shock, everyone around him turned to look in the direction he was pointing.

At this sight, they were instantly dumbfounded.

“There are so many beast meats piled up over there.”

“So many iron ores, coal stones, preserved fruits, and what is that…”

“Hiss… these three large carts, how much cargo can they hold!”

“So many iron tools, how can Da Xia be so rich…”

“They are all wearing full sets of clothes, so many different colors, and the hair buns and accessories, I have never seen them before.”

… … … …

As this small group of people spoke, the more than five thousand people who had just entered and were still in shock also looked at everything in the wooden house one after another.

The dark blue beast meat piled up like a mountain on the ground;

The森 white beast bones were displayed like continuous hills on the side;

Blue, white, red, purple, green… all kinds of fruits dazzled the eyes;

Shovels, chisels, saws, axes… all kinds of iron tools were casually placed on the ground;

Knives, spears, swords, halberds, spears, clubs… one after another, weapons they had never seen before, were held in the hands of the Da Xia people;

On one side of the wooden house, there were also two piles of iron ore and coal stone piled up like mountains. Even more exaggerated was that people were constantly putting them into bags, one bag after another, and transporting them to the three iron trailers in the middle of the wooden house.

“Gudong…”

“That iron ore, must be at least a million catties, right?”

“I'm afraid it's more than that, there's even more coal stone, the coal stone is almost half a cart full.”

“How can Da Xia be so rich…”

Looking at everything around the wooden house, a total of five to six thousand people from the four families' camps all widened their eyes, their faces full of shock and emotion.

Listening to the rising and falling voices of the crowd, Xiang Liang's face did not show the slightest surprise, after all, just now, his reaction was the same as these people, even a little inferior to many people.

“What did you say, this… is not Da Xia's real base?”

Xiang Ping on the other side was different. The horror on his face was several times stronger than others, only because of the content of the conversation between his son Xiang Liang and him just now.

“That's right, Father, this is just a Da Xia camp, a base at Five Ape Mountain. They named this place Wuyuan. The adult named Xu Ning is the person in charge here. I heard others call him Guard Commander. His position in Da Xia should not be the highest. Above him, there is a Sicheng and a chieftain.”

“Gudong…”

Xiang Ping turned his head, looked at Xu Ning who had just walked in from outside the wooden house, his pupils widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

“How is that possible, how is that possible…”

Hearing his father's trembling question, Xiang Liang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Just now, his father had already told him how Xu Ning had led people to defeat them in a crushing manner.

The Digging Realm cultivators of the four families were all gathered at the Flying Tiger Camp, so they encountered the fifty-man Black Arrow Squad led by Xu Ning.

“More than a hundred Digging Realm cultivators, plus more than two hundred Lumbering Realm cultivators in the Flying Tiger Camp, couldn't even hold on for half an hour. Not only were more than twenty people killed, but the rest were all captured alive, and not even one person on the other side was injured. This… how is this possible…”

Thinking of what his father had just said, Xiang Liang couldn't help but find it incredible. He couldn't resist his curiosity and asked: “Father, how strong is that Lord Xu? You couldn't even beat one of the fifty people under his command, could you?”

Xiang Ping turned his head, looked at his son, and his face was full of bitterness.

“It's not that I couldn't beat him, it's Wang Lie. Among those fifty people, only one person wearing black iron armor came out and defeated Wang Lie.”

Gudong…

Xiang Liang's expression froze. Before he could say anything, his father Xiang Ping continued.

“After Wang Lie was defeated, he was still stubborn and wanted to rely on the large number of people to resist with the base as a fortress. But as a result, the five thousand jin iron gate of the Flying Tiger base cave was cut open by that Lord Xu Ning with four knives. The fifty people pushed down the gate and broke in. We didn't resist for long at all, and we were all injured and captured.”

… … … …

Even without witnessing it with his own eyes, Xiang Liang could imagine Wang Lie's despair at that time.

No wonder his father couldn't answer Xu Ning's strength. That Guard Commander only made four cuts from beginning to end, cutting through the iron gate of the Flying Tiger base, and then didn't make a move.

“Father, did you also fight with those people?”

Soon, Xiang Liang captured the key information in his father's words.

Seeing his father nodding, his face suddenly became a little ugly.

It must be true that the River Edge Camp was coerced by Wang Lie and others.

But the nature of fighting with the people from Da Xia is different.

“All 29 Digging Realm cultivators in our camp made a move?”

Xiang Liang was still a little unwilling to give up and asked.

Xiang Ping also understood his son's meaning, his face became a little ugly, he nodded, and said helplessly: “We only launched one wave of attacks throughout the whole process. It was Wang Lie who directed us to shoot arrows. All the Digging Realm cultivators of the four families, including a part of the Lumbering Realm cultivators of the Flying Tiger Camp, all made a move.”

… … … …

Xiang Liang's expression suddenly became low, and he didn't speak for a long time.

It's not that he's blaming him. His father and others were coerced and had no choice but to make a move. There's no way to avoid that. The main thing is that he can't figure out how Da Xia will deal with these people.

“Father, don't worry, I'll go and plead for them!”

Xiang Liang said in a deep voice and walked towards the Da Xia people on the north side of the wooden house, which is also the entrance of the cave.

… … … … … …

“5321 people, 124 Digging Realm prisoners, 821 Lumbering Realm cultivators, and more than 4,000 people are ordinary people.”

After Lu Yang reported the population situation of the four families' camps, everyone around him suddenly showed smiles.

Lin Kai said with an excited expression: “Of the six families that joined in the first half of the year, only two were medium-sized, and the other four were small camps. The total population was less than 4,000. This time, more than 5,000 people came at once, and there are so many Digging Realm cultivators. Sicheng will definitely be very happy when he finds out…”

Thinking of something, he paused and continued:

“Hehe, the key is that the chieftain is about to leave seclusion soon!”

Hearing that the chieftain was about to leave seclusion, Xu Ning, Lu Yang, Xu An, and several others on the side all showed smiles on their faces.

Lu Yang glanced at the more than five thousand people in the wooden house, and his expression sank slightly: “This group of people did gather together and prepare to attack us. Since this is the case, we can't directly give them Da Xia status.”

Everyone nodded upon hearing this.

Xu Ning pointed to Wang Lie in the front row of the crowd, and the group of Digging Realm cultivators behind him, and said with a smile: “This person is the main culprit. He is still stubborn when death is imminent. He definitely can't escape two years of corvée labor. The more than one hundred people behind him will have to serve at least one year of corvée labor. After returning to the base tomorrow night, report the situation to the Camp Needs Department and let them handle it.”

Hearing the word corvée, Lin Kai and Lu Yang's faces were full of regret.

“It's a pity that you Black Arrow Squad ran into them. 124 prisoners, one year of corvée labor, tsk tsk… The Black Arrow Squad won't have to worry about the coal and iron submission quota for the next few years. Why didn't we run into them…”

After Lin Kai finished speaking, he thought of something, leaned in front of Xu Ning, and said with a smile:

“Give us a few, our squad doesn't even have enough time for hunting, where do we get the time to mine? Xu Zi, give me a few, how about it?”

Lu Yang immediately followed suit upon hearing this: “Yes, yes, our Dongyang Squad doesn't have enough hunting time either, Lao Xu, give me a few!”

“Hahahaha… … … … ”

Hearing the two people's requests, Xu Ning was in a very happy mood, laughed a few times, and then said: “Want it? If you want it, buy it with contribution points, 15,000 points for one prisoner, how about it?”

Hearing this price, Lu Yang immediately looked up at Xu Ning and said: “You are too dark, make it cheaper…”

Lu Yang has a position in the Camp Needs Department, specifically responsible for the coal and iron mining on the Wuyuan side and transactions with other camps. He is the most sensitive to these numbers and calculated that it was a loss at once.

But Lin Kai couldn't do it, he calculated a little slower.

After realizing it, he also quickly called out that it was expensive, saying that Xu Ning was black-hearted.

One year of corvée labor, calculated based on the mining volume of a Digging Realm cultivator using a gnawing chisel, is 400 catties a day, which is 40 contribution points, and 360 days is 14,400 points.

Xu Ning actually quoted 15,000, no wonder they called him black-hearted.

“Black? Then I won't let it go. I didn't want to anyway. With more than one hundred prisoners, our squad won't have to mine for at least four or five years in the future. With so much extra time, how many cold beasts can I hunt, hahahaha… … … … ”

Seeing Xu Ning's cheap look, Lu Yang and Lin Kai knew that he didn't want to give it away at all, and they immediately gnashed their teeth in hatred.

“No, no, we still have to quickly go find a new camp, we must run into some short-sighted people. As long as there is a wave of Digging Realm prisoners, the entire squad can be liberated from the mine for several years… … … … ”

Hearing Lin Kai's words, Lu Yang nodded, his eyes also full of desire.

The prisoner rules were newly formulated by Sicheng Xia Chuan two months ago.

Two months ago, Yue Feng's Mountain River Squad discovered two new medium-sized camps in the northern part of Mirror Valley, which is the Pingxi Plain area.

The hunting teams of these two camps were greedy for the weapons in the hands of the three Mountain River Squad members who were separated from the group, and they joined forces to take action against them.

Although the other party had the advantage in numbers, the three of them were experienced in the wilderness, and they finally escaped back to Mirror Valley.

At that time, Yue Feng's Mountain and River Squad had just been promoted to intermediate level. When they encountered such a group of clueless people, their reaction was predictable.

Naturally, the two camps were smoothly integrated into Great Xia.

However, the way they were integrated was different from before.

The prisoner rules were established by Xia Chuan at that time, and the overall principle was that anyone who attacked a member of Great Xia should be convicted.

The so-called prisoner rule meant that entering the camp as a prisoner required serving corvée labor. The service time was determined based on the severity of the crime, with a maximum of life imprisonment and a minimum of only half a year.

Only after completing the corvée labor could one obtain the official status of a member of the Great Xia camp.

This rule applied to any camp that took the initiative to attack Great Xia.

In fact, the first camps to which this rule applied were the Three Tigers and Tongling camps of Five Ape Mountain.

Liu Erhu and Liu Sanhu of the Three Tigers camp, as well as other evildoers, had already been executed. However, Liu Dahu, who was seriously injured and not dead, remained. After Xia Chuan's investigation, he learned that both Liu Dahu and Meng Yuan had attacked Xia Hong, and he directly sentenced them to life-long corvée labor.

These two, along with more than a dozen Earth Realm cultivators from the Tongling camp, were still mining in the dark and sunless mines. They would probably never get out in this lifetime.

Later, in order to use this rule to motivate everyone, Xia Chuan advocated that the captives should belong to whoever captured them, based on the hunting squad. Moreover, the coal and iron ore mined by the captives during their service could be used to offset the monthly quota that the hunting squad needed to turn in.

The two camps north of Mirror Valley were taken care of by the Mountain and River Squad, so the fifty-odd Earth Realm captives naturally belonged to the Mountain and River Squad.

Thanks to these forty-odd captives, the Mountain and River Squad not only earned an average of 500 contribution points per person per month while lying down, but also had so much more time to spend on hunting.

As a result, everyone went crazy.

Almost all hunting teams were frantically searching for traces of other camps.

This time, with Wang Lie, this great fool, the Flying Tigers and the other three camps were obviously subject to this prisoner rule.

Xu Ningbai picked up more than a hundred prisoners, and the team would not have to enter the mine for several years to come, so he was in an extremely cheerful mood at the moment.

"I can be considered to have picked up a bargain. If I hadn't become the Five Ape Mountain Garrison, I'm afraid I wouldn't have gotten these hundred-odd prisoners, hahaha..."

Thinking of this, Xu Ning now found Wang Lie much more lovable.

Suddenly, Xu An ran over from not far away and whispered in Xu Ning's ear:

"Brother, that Xiang Liang wants to see you."

Xu Ning raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, looked back at Xiang Liang, who was being stopped by the team members on the periphery, pondered for a moment, and nodded, "Let him come over!"

Xu An hurried over, said a few words, and brought Xiang Liang over.

"Lord, when I came last night, I already reported to you that our Hefeng camp was coerced by Wang Lie and had no choice but to join forces with them. My father, Xiang Ping, and the others should have only shot one arrow at the people of Great Xia from beginning to end. I beg you to be merciful and spare them?"

As soon as Xiang Liang approached, he knelt down directly to Xu Ning without thinking.

Xu Ning frowned, looked at Xiang Ping in the crowd, and said slowly: "After we go back, I will tell the person in charge of this situation. When the crime is judged, your Hefeng camp will be given leniency."

"Judge the crime?"

Hearing this, Xu Ning immediately became anxious and said, "Lord, I risked my life to report to Great Xia last night, and it was also at my father's instruction. In any case, he should not be guilty!"

"Moreover, he should have only shot one arrow from beginning to end and did not cause any casualties to Great Xia."

"He also asked me to offer the Cold Marrow Iron to Great Xia, Lord..."

"Then what do you think is called guilty?"

Xu Ning suddenly said in a deep voice, interrupting Xiang Liang with a question.

Xiang Liang's expression froze, and before he could react, Xu Ning continued.

"The moment your father chose to attack, he was already guilty!"

He deliberately increased his volume, and his words were sonorous and powerful, not only making a group of Great Xia people around him turn their heads and look over with a bit of teasing, but even Wang Lie and the thousands of people who had just entered the wooden house all quieted down and looked over here.

"I am, including the members of the twelve squads stationed in Five Ape Mountain, very grateful to you for risking your life to report to us, and we can even agree to some of your conditions, but if you want the entire Great Xia camp to owe you this favor, then it is too wishful thinking..."

Speaking of this, he paused, glanced around, found Xiang Ping in the crowd, and continued: "Shooting only one arrow from beginning to end is not because your father discovered his conscience, but because he did not have the ability to shoot a second arrow.

You should be glad that he only shot one arrow!

If there had really been casualties tonight, then your father and these people below would not be like they are now, just being tied up waiting to be judged."

Xu Ning sneered, glanced at Wang Lie and his group in the front row, then retracted his gaze and placed it on Xiang Liang, saying:

"You, and these people, will be returning to the Great Xia station with us tomorrow night. Before you go back, I have a sentence here, you all remember it well..."

Speaking of this, Xu Ning put away the smile on his face, and his expression became solemn.

"Anyone who attacks Great Xia, no matter who or for what reason, should be convicted!"

This sentence seemed to carry some kind of magic. As soon as Xu Ning finished speaking, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, Xu An, and all the Great Xia people around them all looked a bit more solemn, and a hint of arrogance appeared on their faces.

Attacking Great Xia is a crime, no need to argue!

Xiang Liang, who was kneeling on the ground, heard the domineering contained in this sentence, and his heart trembled inexplicably. His mouth moved a few times, and he dared not say another word.

"It's dawn, everyone start packing up, and as soon as it gets dark, we can set off back to Shuanglong Valley for the New Year!"

"We've worked hard for several months, and we can finally go back, haha."

"Iron ore, coal, fruits, beast meat, beast bones... There are so many things to pack up, hurry up."

"There are also a lot of things in the cave, let's go, everyone come with me to move them."

.........

Hearing Xu Ning's words, the Great Xia people immediately became excited and began to pack up the supplies in the wooden house in full swing.

Returning to Shuanglong Valley for the New Year was obviously of great significance to them.