Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

The human civilization of the Ice Abyss World, though fallen, is not completely so.

Xia Hong had already noticed this from the very beginning of his transmigration.

Although, to some extent, humanity has indeed regressed to a primitive era, this is mostly due to the pressure of extreme environments. From many aspects, one can actually see traces of a civilization that once existed.

From the family and marital views, surname culture, and funeral culture of the humans in the camps, even to the written language; down to basic manufacturing techniques, gathering tools, leather goods, and even the habit of eating cooked food and not drinking raw water…

Initially, Xia Hong thought that the reason so many civilized customs were preserved was that the disaster that led to the fall of civilization had not happened long ago. However, he overturned this idea based on the harsh, frigid environment and the evolution of creatures.

Even a few degrees of temperature change on Earth takes centuries. The extreme cold climate of the Ice Abyss World, the power of the cold beasts, and even the inexplicable strange entities—these three things clearly could not have formed in a short period of time.

According to Yang and Li, as told by Shi Qing, the Ancient Abyss Era may already be extremely distant from today.

With this deduction, the fact that humans have preserved so many civilized customs can only be attributed to the resilience of human civilization itself.

Extreme environments can cause a large-scale reduction in population, but completely obliterating a civilization, making it disappear without a trace, is not so simple.

Humanity's desire to survive is one of the most powerful forces in the world.

Xia Hong is not clear about what the camps in other places are like.

But after coming to the Ice Abyss World and being reborn in the Redwood Ridge area, he often feels fortunate.

In extreme environments, the magnitude of evil that humans can unleash is equal to the magnitude of kindness that can be fostered. This is the power of civilization, or it can be said to be the inertia of civilization.

All the camps around Redwood Ridge accurately confirm this point.

If civilization had truly completely fallen, there would be no such thing as Lumbering Realm adventurers going out to gather and support hundreds of ordinary people in the camp. Sharing cold beast meat with others would be even more of a fantasy.

Civilization can enhance people's wisdom. Mutual support, mutual assistance, unity and cohesion, responsibility and sharing—any behavior that resists selfishness can be said to be a manifestation of wisdom.

The core reasons why humanity's situation is so difficult are the extreme cold environment, followed by the cold beasts and strange entities.

The extreme cold environment makes food and travel problematic;

Cold beasts and strange entities deprive people of safety.

Completely solving these three problems seems almost impossible at present.

"Unite as one, increase strength, adapt to the environment, and constantly respond to the challenges posed by cold beasts and strange entities—this is humanity's only way out."

Faced with these three problems, Xia Hong pondered for a long time and came to this conclusion.

Changing the final "humanity" to "Great Xia," this conclusion, under the promotion of Xia Chuan and others, quickly became a well-known ideological guiding principle for the Great Xia camp.

Using "humanity" is certainly more appropriate, but with the current strength of the Great Xia camp, saying it so loudly seems a bit pretentious, with a hint of being grandiose and unrealistic.

Any collective organization cannot be separated from ideological guidance.

To put it simply, it is to let everyone in the camp know what they are doing and why they are doing it. Only in this way can they have motivation and can they work hard towards a goal.

With ideological guidance, coupled with Xia Hong leading the team to hunt frantically, and sufficient cold beast meat rations, everyone in the Great Xia camp became visibly busy in the following period.

Under Xia Hong's personal leadership, the hunting team returned fully loaded almost every night. Although there were occasional injuries, they were mostly minor.

When the system was officially implemented for a month, and cold beast meat was distributed to children under the age of thirteen for the second time, the cold beast meat reserves in the camp's mine had reached more than 30,000 catties, which was completely enough even if they didn't hunt for two months.

Xia Hong basically didn't care about the lumbering team's affairs, leaving it all to Cheng Feng and Mu Dong. However, judging from the increase in timber resource data in his system and the height of the wood piled up on both sides of the valley, the lumbering team's harvest during this period was also not small.

Mu Dong had already spread the plan for building new wooden houses throughout the camp, so the lumbering team mainly cut down Golden Frost Trees during this period.

It is worth mentioning that because cold beasts often perched on the Golden Frost Trees, the hunting team sometimes needed to cooperate. They would first kill the cold beasts on the trees, and then the lumbering team would cut down the trees.

Although the Rogue Camp had previously penetrated 1,000 meters into the Redwood Ridge area, Xia Hong still controlled the hunting and lumbering area of the Great Xia Camp within 500 meters of the periphery during this period, and did not lead people further in.

Firstly, he was not familiar with the inner area, and he had not been exposed to new types of cold beasts, so he was worried that something might happen. Secondly, the resources currently needed by Great Xia were completely sufficient within 500 meters of the periphery, so there was no need to go deeper.

The area where Great Xia currently collects resources in Redwood Ridge is no longer just the mere 500 meters from the beginning.

Rogue, Great Stone, Great River, Huang Zhao, including their previous territory, the east side of Redwood Ridge, starting from the position corresponding to the valley, four kilometers to the south, now all belong to Great Xia without any dispute.

With such a large area to collect resources, Xia Hong would naturally not advance rashly and go deeper. It would undoubtedly be more prudent to steadily improve his strength first, and then slowly go deeper when the resources in the periphery are not enough to support the development of the camp.

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The hunting team and lumbering team have heavy tasks, but no trace of fatigue can be seen on the faces of the thirty-six people. On the contrary, their enthusiasm when going out is higher each time, and the smiles on their faces when they come back are also brighter each time.

Of course, Xia Hong knows the reason, because these people, including himself, are rapidly improving their strength at a very alarming rate.

He didn't specifically understand the others, but he knew how amazing the improvement of the fifteen people who followed him out with the hunting team every night was during this period.

The daily consumption of cold beast meat for those in the Lumbering Realm is between five and ten catties. These fifteen people in the hunting team can get ten catties every night, with supply far exceeding consumption. Therefore, they are almost always absorbing and improving in a state of limit.

Moreover, Xia Hong's four sets of Long Fist have all been passed down. With the help of martial arts, their absorption efficiency has become faster, and their improvement is naturally faster.

According to Xia Hong's observations during hunting, Luo Yuan should be the first to break through to the Earth Digging Realm, followed by the Zhao brothers.

In addition, what surprised Xia Hong the most was Xia Chuan.

A month ago, when he first took a beast trap to hunt, Xia Chuan's strength was less than 7,000 catties. In just one month, he directly increased it to nearly 8,000 catties, and now he is on par with the Zhao brothers, only a little behind Luo Yuan.

Although Xia Hong didn't deliberately pay attention to the cultivation of the lumbering team and the reserves, he could guess a thing or two from their high enthusiasm for cultivation when they came back every day.

The overall strength of the camp is steadily and rapidly improving. With the same batch and equal supply of cold beast meat, Xia Hong understands that next, he only needs to wait for the arrival of the outbreak period.

Of course, while others are steadily improving, he himself cannot fall behind.

One month after the implementation of the new rules of Great Xia, Xia Hong gave the hunting team a night off for the first time. After the cold beast meat was distributed as usual after nightfall, he walked alone to the outside of the wooden house, to the location where the camp's strength testing piles were stored.

The people who were originally cultivating outside the house saw Xia Hong's actions and realized that he was going to test his strength. They all stopped and surrounded him with great interest.