Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

128: Chapter 112: Is It Real or Fake?

128: Chapter 112: Is It Real or Fake?

With previous battle experience, leading the encirclement this time, the three of Xia Hong were naturally adept.

Xia Chuan was the first to move his fingers, several threads flew straight towards two rodents, and with the cooperation of the other five, they first entangled their limbs.

The two rodents clearly sensed danger from the six people, their expressions slightly flustered, but their reactions were quick, each turning into silver light, constantly trying to break through the gaps between the six to escape.

Unfortunately, Xia Hong and the others wielded their blades to block, leaving them no gap, sparks flew as teeth clashed with blades, and after a dozen clashes, all hit the blades of Xia Hong and his team, showing no signs of breaking through.

And with these over ten headless charges, their range of movement increased, and their limbs were entangled even tighter by Xia Chuan’s white threads.

“Exert force, kill!”

Seeing Xia Chuan’s white threads were already taut, Xia Hong seized the opportunity when the rodents were exhausted, shouted fiercely, stepped on the long tail of one rodent with both feet, stomped hard, leaped with the blade, and struck towards its neck.

At the instant his shout echoed, Xia Chuan in the distance exerted force with both hands, white threads instantly tightened, both rodents stumbled, flipped sideways, and fell to the ground.

At the same time, Luo Yuan and the three Zhao brothers, seizing the opportunity, abandoned entanglement, gathered strength with their blades, and almost simultaneously with Xia Hong, slashed towards the back of the other rodent.

Crack…Crack…

The sound of bones breaking rang out consecutively, except for Xia Chuan in the distance, all five of Xia Hong’s blades cleaved into the bodies of the two rodents.

Although the four of Luo Yuan hacked at the spine, the blades reached nearly halfway into the rodent’s body, showing the strength of the four;

Xia Hong was even more extreme, hacking at the neck, though the rodent eventually avoided it, he still struck the back of the head.

With this strike, the rodent’s skull shattered directly, flesh and brains splattered everywhere, leaving not a single intact bone in the head except for those two teeth.

Not far away, Chen Ying and his son, as well as a few adults from Chen Ye Camp, were already dumbfounded, filled with shock in their hearts.

These two powerful Cold Beasts, capable of wantonly slaughtering humans, lasted less than three minutes in the hands of these six people before being slain.

Could these six, perhaps be gods?

At this moment, even Chen Ying, who had previously seen the Xia Hong brothers, couldn’t help but have this thought in his mind.

When they came to their senses, everyone looked at Xia Hong and his team with only deep admiration and awe in their eyes.

“Clean up and run quickly!”

Chen Ying and the others’ thoughts were unknown to Xia Hong.

He instructed Luo Yuan and the others to clean up the battlefield quickly, turned and saw Chen Ying and the others still standing in place, and couldn’t help but speak angrily: “What are you standing there for, run south quickly!”

Awakened by his words, Chen Ying and the rest immediately continued to flee south.

On their end, seeing Xia Chuan and the others tidying up the battlefield, Xia Hong said nothing, directly led the way south at full speed, with the five of them carrying the two wrapped rodent corpses, following closely behind.

Lighting the first torch and taking a detour from the south took over five minutes; watching the rodent swarm pass took over two minutes; just now, it took three minutes to kill the two rodents, which already exceeded twelve minutes.

Xia Hong roughly calculated the time in his mind, realizing that those torches would soon go out, hurriedly sped up his pace, catching up with the personnel from Chen Ye Camp at the front in just a few breaths.

Seeing Xia Hong approach, Chen Ying and the others, despite their injuries, immediately knelt down in excitement.

“Leader Xia, great kindness and virtue…”

“Leader Chen, time is tight, no need to say this, keep leading the people to run.”

Xia Hong helped up Chen Ying, directly interrupting him, and after pondering for a moment as he saw the slow-moving crowd, he turned and said, “Zhao Long, you three take them back to the camp as fast as possible, Chuan and Luo Yuan, stay with me to cover.”

“Yes, Leader!”

The three Zhao brothers immediately nodded in compliance, each carrying a child, then ordered other able adults to carry the children as well, urging everyone to leave quickly.

With the organizing of the three Zhao brothers and the assistance of Chen Ying and his son, the previously confused crowd quickly became orderly, and the efficiency of the southern retreat improved significantly.

Xia Hong and his team already found a tree, stood on it and watched everyone evacuate before breathing a slight sigh of relief.

Luo Yuan couldn’t help but shake his head with a sigh:

“Chen Ying and these people, they are really lucky!”

“Indeed lucky, I saw the faces of Chen Ying and his sons, they haven’t eaten for at least two or three days, must have been trapped too long, ran out of reserve food, and as they just escaped the cave, they probably intended a final desperate fight, stumbled upon us leading the rodents away, if the timing had been slightly different, none of them would survive…”

Hearing Xia Chuan’s words, Xia Hong couldn’t help but nod, internally marveled at the luck of the Chen Ye Camp people.

“Fortunately, elder brother suggested checking back on the rodent swarm’s movements, otherwise those two rodents might have slaughtered them all.”

“Tonight’s plan, up till now, should be considered a success, none of you six came to harm, there weren’t many Cold Beasts along the way, the likelihood of issues with others is low, by morning we’ll know, for now, just wait and see if the rodent swarm will return…”

Xia Hong spoke while keeping an eye on the outskirts of Redwood Ridge to the northwest, hoping the rodent swarm would never return.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan also looked towards Redwood Ridge, their expressions a bit tense.

Thud thud thud…

However, just three minutes into the watch, just when the torches were expected to go out according to Xia Hong’s calculations.

A loud noise came from the ground.

First sensing it, Xia Hong was the first to look up.

Seeing the endless silver rodent swarm returning swiftly towards the north slope of the mountain wall from the northwest edge of Redwood Ridge.

Xia Hong’s face instantly turned grim.

“They’re back, it seems there’s definitely something on the North Slope top that’s attracting these long-tailed rodents; we can’t stay here, let’s go quickly!”

After speaking, Xia Hong turned without looking back, running south.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan followed closely behind.

As the three ran south, their expressions didn’t look good.

The rodent swarm returning to the north slope of the mountain wall meant that tonight, their high-risk, manpower-intensive diversion plan was completely declared null.

Having exerted such effort, and the risk not reduced at all, equated to useless labor, and the three felt exceptionally heavy in heart.

With great speed, the trio soon caught up with Zhao Long and the others.

“Leader, the situation how…”

Zhao Long instinctively wanted to ask about the rodent swarm, but seeing Xia Hong’s face, realized things were awry and wisely held his tongue.

“Leader Xia, about a hundred meters up from the north slope on the mountain, there should be something attracting these rodents during the day.

I haven’t seen it myself, but hiding in the cave for over ten days, I can sense it.”

Chen Ye came over at this time, speaking with respect towards Xia Hong.

Apparently, during the escape earlier, he’d learned of Xia Hong’s plan from the three Zhao brothers, and seeing the grim faces upon the trio’s return, he realized the rodent swarm had come back, hurrying to explain what he knew.

Hearing this, Xia Hong nodded, this affirmation from Chen Ying reinforced his earlier suspicions.

To draw such vast numbers of rodents, whatever’s atop the North Slope is certainly not simple.

But whether it’s Xia Hong or others, realizing this didn’t spark any greed, instead only a deep worry.

After all, nothing is more precious than life.

The massive rodent swarm presents an overwhelming threat to Great Xia’s current capabilities; no benefit, no matter how great, is theirs to claim.

Rather, should the rodent swarm move slightly and discover the valley, it would be total disaster for them.

As long as they remain on the north slope, any hunting, logging, or gathering by Great Xia outside risks detection, it’s like a sword hanging over their heads, ready to fall at any moment.

The issue of the rodent swarm must be proactively resolved, and it can’t be delayed.

But the strength is insufficient!

What means are there to resolve them?

Xia Hong considered solutions for dealing with the rodent swarm as he headed alongside the team towards the valley settlement.

“Leader, we’ve arrived!”

A mere two kilometers distance, coupled with the rodent swarm’s scare, the group’s advance was swift, reaching the entrance to the valley settlement in no time.

After over half a year, seeing the gates of Rogel Camp again, the expressions of Chen Ying and his sons showed slight emotion, but upon looking at Xia Hong, their hearts filled once more with hope and longing.

On the return, Zhao Long told them not just about tonight’s rodent diversion.

Rogel Camp is now a thing of the past; the valley is now under the control of Great Xia Camp; Xia Hong is the sole leader; Da Shi, Huang Zhao, Da Chuan, and over a hundred from the former Rogel Camp have all joined Great Xia.

With a total of over eight hundred people, Great Xia Camp now boasts six Earth-digging Realm individuals, and over a hundred Logging Realm, a gathering of strong ones.

If these revelations were enough to leave Chen Ying dumbfounded;

Then upon hearing the current system of Great Xia Camp, especially the distribution system for Cold Beast Meat, Chen Ying was left even more astounded.

Hunting Team, Logging Team, Collection Team, Camp Supply Station, and Craftsmen Workshop, five major agencies, Earth-digging Realm ten pounds daily; Logging Realm five pounds daily; all above six years count as reserves, reserves with a daily quota of one to two pounds, even children under six receive five pounds per month along with Crystal Fruit as supplementary food …

If not for witnessing the divine presence of Xia Hong and his six, no matter who said these words, Chen Ying and his sons might have considered them mad.

How could this be possible?

Is Great Xia’s Cold Beast Meat falling from the sky?

Bombarded by such information, when Zhao Long mentioned Great Xia’s intention to take in the over two hundred from Chen Ye Camp, Chen Ying became completely numb, naturally unable to refuse.

He now had only one thought, to enter Great Xia Camp and personally verify whether what Zhao Long said was true or false.

“It doesn’t have to be all true, even if just one-fifth, no, even if just one-tenth is true, I’d be satisfied!”

As they entered the valley, this was the thought in the hearts of Chen Ying and his sons at the last moment.

After all, even if Zhao Long exaggerated, with just one-tenth truthfulness, they could still receive half a pound of Cold Beast Meat each day!

With such a mindset, the three, following behind over two hundred from Chen Ye Camp, slowly walked through the passage into the valley.

“It’s so warm in this valley, isn’t it?”

“This…

such a large house…”

“Is that canvas on the roof of that house?”

“So many people!”

“How come there’s so much wood, so large, so much…”

“Crystal Fruit, is that the scent of Crystal Fruit at the cave entrance?”

“There’s a smell of meat, I smell meat, it’s Cold Beast Meat, I’ve had it before…”

……

As they hadn’t fully entered, exclamations of surprise and admiration started to emerge from the front of the formation, the three of Chen Ying and his sons, hearing this, felt further curiosity and instinctively quickened their pace to reach the front of the crowd.