Chapter 104: The Stimulation Brought by New Clothes

It wasn't that Xia Hong looked particularly good.

It was mainly that this set of clothes was simply too much of a bonus.

The hat woven from the fine fur of the top layer of Frostwolf was decorated with two sections of white Snow-Mane fangs five or six inches long; the Demon Sheep's mane wasn't pure white, but a brownish-white, and the straight long pants made from it were also brownish-white.

The most eye-catching was the black overcoat made of Snow-Mane hide. Although Xia Hong was tall, his figure was on the thin side. Wearing this overcoat, he suddenly became much more burly.

Coupled with those black Snow-Mane hide boots, the whole person was full of dominance.

Especially compared with Xia Chuan and Mu Dong standing next to him, the whole person seemed to be a size larger. With the two white fangs on the brim of the hat, he looked both fierce and dominant.

"Leader, your temperament is much stronger than those two from some time ago!"

Yuan Cheng was clearly the most attracted to this outfit. After looking closely, he praised with envy in his eyes.

Hearing Yuan Cheng mention Yang and Li, a trace of coldness flashed in Xia Chuan's eyes, and he said disdainfully: "Those two pieces of trash, just relying on their good background, are they worthy of comparing with our Leader!"

Last time the Wood-Puppet Weird was destroyed, after Xia Chuan woke up, he knew that Yang and Li were shouting to kill him and wanted to take him away from Great Xia.

Even without mentioning this, the few kicks Li Hu gave him to knock him out at that time were not light.

Clearly, Xia Chuan still remembered those two in his heart.

Xia Hong didn't have a good impression of those two either, but he didn't follow Xia Chuan's words, just waved his overcoat and turned to sit sideways on the chair.

Looking at the large group of burly men wearing animal hide skirts in front of him, then looking down at his own attire, and the chair he was sitting on, the three words "Mountain King" popped into Xia Hong's mind, and his expression suddenly became strange.

He didn't know about the temperament Xia Chuan mentioned, but with him sitting sideways like this, plus the hundreds of people wearing animal hide skirts in front of him, the temperament of a Mountain King was definitely there, coupled with the ice and snow outside...

Forest of Snow?

These four words popped into Xia Hong's mind, and he lowered his head and laughed dumbly.

Shaking off the inexplicable thoughts in his mind, Xia Hong looked around in front of him and found that the eyes of the crowd looking at him were still full of envy. His heart moved slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he said loudly:

"Don't be anxious. Now that more and more cold beasts are being hunted back, animal hides will overflow sooner or later. Have you forgotten? When the camp just merged, many people could only wear dry grass clothes and couldn't even wear animal hide skirts."

Everyone nodded when they heard this. The situation was indeed as Xia Hong said. Animal hide skirts were truly fully popularized in the camp, with one for everyone, only half a month ago.

"When cold beast hides overflow, Mu Dong making a few more sets of clothes is just a matter of convenience. You people will all be able to wear them sooner or later."

After Xia Hong finished this sentence, everyone's faces suddenly had a few more spirits.

But just at this time, Xia Hong changed the subject:

"However, this clothes-making procedure is cumbersome. Not counting these decorations, it is estimated that a whole set will take several days back and forth, and cold beast hides are not easy to come by. So, who is qualified to wear them first needs to set a standard."

Everyone was immediately whetted by Xia Hong, and they all looked up at him intently, waiting for his follow-up.

Although they believed Xia Hong's words that everyone would be able to wear them sooner or later.

But who knew when that "sooner or later" would be.

Although cold beasts were large in size, the hides received from each one were not few.

But it couldn't stand that the camp's usage was also large!

Xia Hong's outfit used three types of cold beast hides: Snow-Mane, Demon Sheep, and Frostwolf, and added quite a few other materials for embellishment. It clearly also consumed quite a bit of effort. Everyone wanted to wear this kind, but now it was definitely impossible to do so, and they recognized that they weren't qualified.

But just calculating by the amount of animal hide used, a whole set of clothes required at least the hide and fur from two adult cold beasts to be made.

Furthermore, clothing actually didn't count as a very scarce supply. These people living in the camp had long been staying by the iron-smelting furnace, so temperature wasn't a problem. The greater role of animal hide skirts was actually to avoid being naked.

The amount of animal hide used for clothes-making was too large, and it didn't count as a scarce supply. Without thinking, one knew that when Xia Hong said everyone could wear them, it would definitely take a long time to arrive.

Being able to wear them one day earlier was of course the best.

So, everyone was looking forward to Xia Hong's follow-up.

"Mu Dong, I estimate it will take more than four months to finish driving the piles. During this period, you first take the time to lead people to make fifteen sets of clothes."

"Yes, Leader!"

Xia Hong first gave instructions to Mu Dong, then turned to face the crowd and said with a smile: "You all heard it. The first batch, a total of fifteen sets first. The first ten to break through to the Earth-Digging Realm, and the first five to break through to the Woodcutting Realm, each gets a set. Whether you can wear them depends on yourselves!"

Almost the moment Xia Hong's voice fell, the people who were originally surrounding them in a circle, whether they were from the hunting team, logging team, or reservists, immediately dispersed and went to cultivate.

In just a moment, continuous punching sounds came from inside and outside the wooden house.

Some who hadn't eaten cold beast meat yet also immediately got cold beast meat to eat, clearly intending to cultivate immediately after eating.

This sudden change made the smile on Xia Hong's face become more intense, and at the same time, he also had some new ideas in his heart.

Influenced by the inertia of his past life, Xia Hong believed that the most important thing in the camp was unity and cohesion. To create this atmosphere, he would even intentionally or unintentionally dilute the camp's hierarchical concept.

Although he also understood in his heart that because of the difference in cultivation level and the size of individual roles, class and hierarchical concepts would inevitably be born, and this concept would continue to deepen as the cultivation gap widened.

But Xia Hong believed that the existence and deepening of this concept would eventually lead to the camp being separated, affecting everyone's unity and cohesion, so he still chose to dilute it as much as possible.

Just like when Mu Dong took out the wooden chair and clothes he made for him, his first reaction wasn't acceptance, but resistance, which was also a manifestation of his dilution and resistance to this concept.

But at this moment, the scene in front of him made him realize that the existence of this hierarchical concept clearly wasn't all bad.

At least, it made the cultivation of these people more motivated.

There was a gap between the Earth-Digging Realm and the Woodcutting Realm, and there was also a gap between the Woodcutting Realm and ordinary people. People with different cultivation levels played different roles. Differentiation always existed. Since this concept was unavoidable, he could only accept it.

Xia Hong reminded himself again in his heart that this wasn't his past life. The cruelty of the Frozen Abyss World was far from enough to describe it as the collapse of rites and music. If he still stuck to the thinking inertia of civilized society, he would suffer a big loss sooner or later.

"A set of clothes can have such a stimulating effect. The wooden house about to be built, Golden Sore Powder, weapons, and the martial arts in my mind—it seems they can all be used to make articles..."

Looking at everyone's enthusiasm for cultivation, which was much higher than before, and thinking of the many things that could be utilized, Xia Hong's eyes suddenly had a few more spirits.

From the night the standard for the fifteen sets of clothes was set, everyone in the camp, from top to bottom, was almost forgetting to eat and sleep to cultivate. The whole camp fell into a cultivation frenzy.

Especially when Xia Hong returned from hunting every night, wearing that outfit and walking back to the wooden house from in front of the crowd, he clearly felt that everyone's punching energy became more sufficient and fierce.

The members of the hunting team and logging team went without saying.

The cultivation of the Woodcutting Realm and Earth-Digging Realm was originally through consuming energy and absorbing the essence contained in cold beast meat, and hunting and logging were themselves extremely effective means of consuming energy.

So when going out, they were clearly much more hardworking than before. As a result, the harvest naturally rose with the tide. The supplies hoarded in the camp's mine cave warehouse clearly became more and more, and the progress of driving piles also increased quite a bit.

Two months later, the first person to obtain the qualification to wear a whole set of clothes other than Xia Hong finally appeared.

Unexpectedly, this person didn't come from the hunting team, nor was he a member of the logging team, but a reservist.

Moreover, he was someone Xia Hong was relatively familiar with.

Shi Qing's son, Shi Ping.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 105 =====