Chapter 110: The Huge Danger on the North Slope of the Mountain Wall【Three-in-One Large Chapter】

"If I still can't find them in Seeing Hong Mu Ridge tonight, I can only go to the north side of the mountain wall to find them. This Chen Ye camp is hidden too well!"

On the north side of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, Luo Yuan, who entered the sphere of influence of the Chen Ye camp, although his brows were furrowed, he had to sigh in his heart that the concealment work of the Chen Ye camp was done too well.

Half a month ago, Xia Hong asked him to find the camps of Lu Shang and Chen Ye to discuss Does Da Xia's taking them in, and Luo Yuan readily agreed.

He thought he would be able to find the whereabouts of the two camps soon, but who would have thought that half a month had passed, and he had come here three times, and he hadn't even seen Chen Ying's face yet.

When small camps choose a station, the most important thing is concealment. After all, the higher the concealment, the safer it means.

Therefore, when Luo Yuan came for the first time, he didn't think about finding the station of the Chen Ye camp directly, but chose to be on the outskirts of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge to see if he could run into people from the Chen Ye camp's woodcutting team.

Small camps do not have hunting ability, but wood and crystal fruit are necessities, so they must come to the outskirts of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge.

It is said that his train of thought has no problems, but I don't know if it is because his luck is too bad or for other reasons, he came here three times in a row, but he didn't run into Chen Ying and the woodcutting team at all.

This is a bit strange.

It is no exaggeration to say that with the logging and gathering ability of a small camp, unless it is an accidental situation, they must go out every night.

The strength of the Chen Ye camp is not strong, even if they are lucky and have a lot of crystal fruit and wood reserves, it shouldn't be that he has been here for half a month and three times in a row, and he hasn't run into them once!

If the first three times were bad luck, then this fourth time, Luo Yuan, who had searched for two hours and still couldn't see a single person, had a bad guess in his heart.

Especially after checking the two ice-ripe trees he had marked earlier, he found that the crystal fruits on the trees were exactly the same as when he came to see them last time, and they were clearly not picked. Luo Yuan could basically conclude that he should have guessed right.

"For more than half a month, the woodcutting team has not come out of the camp. It is impossible. Either the Chen Ye camp has all moved away, or their camp has a problem. The possibility of the former is very small, so it can basically be determined that there is a problem!"

Looking at the surroundings of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, except for Does Da Xia, there is no other family capable of leading the Chen Ye camp to migrate, so the possibility of moving away is almost non-existent.

If the camp has a problem, there are many possibilities.

The woodcutting team was wiped out; the station was found by cold beasts, and everyone was killed; or new strange monsters appeared, etc............

Luo Yuan walked to the outside of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, staring at the mountain on the east side, with many thoughts in his mind, and his expression was hesitant.

Although he is not clear about the specific location of the Chen Ye camp, he can be sure that it is on the north side of Does Da Xia, to be precise, on the slope extending from the high mountain on the north side of the Does Da Xia valley.

The valley that Does Da Xia took over from Luo Ge is located in the gap between two high mountains. The Tashan where the original Dashan camp was located in the south, and the soil slope where Does Da Xia is located, are all branches extending from the mountain on the south side.

The slope extending from the high mountain on the north side is also several kilometers long. The camps of Chen Ye and Lu Shang are on this slope. The stations of the two families are actually very similar to the soil slope where Does Da Xia was previously located.

"Guessing blindly here is useless. Go over and take a look directly. If there is really any problem, help if you can, and go back to inform the leader if you can't. The camp is so strong now, there shouldn't be a big problem!"

Luo Yuan paused for a moment, the hesitation on his face gradually dissipated, and he touched toward the mountain wall slope on the east side cautiously.

In the worst case, the Chen Ye camp has all been killed; if they are lucky, it is just that their woodcutting team has a problem, and the others are still there; or they are facing some difficulties, and personnel cannot go out...

No matter what the situation, he should go and see, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain to the leader when he went back.

Not knowing the specific situation of the Chen Ye camp, Luo Yuan naturally didn't dare to make a big splash when approaching. Not only were his movements cautious, but he even had to stop for a while after walking a distance to confirm that it was safe before continuing to move forward.

There are still four or five hours before dawn, and time is abundant, so he is not in a hurry.

The distance from the outside of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge to the mountain wall is only seven or eight hundred meters. Luo Yuan was very cautious and spent more than half an hour finishing it. When he approached the mountain wall, he didn't rush to search, but first observed it carefully.

The highest position of the mountain on the north side of Does Da Xia is directly above the valley. The mountain wall slope extending to this side has a maximum height of only a hundred meters.

After looking around under the mountain wall and finding no obvious traces of a cave, Luo Yuan carefully climbed up a steep wall, wanting to see from a high place.

Small camps do not have strong people in the Earth-Digging Realm and can only choose natural caves to occupy. It is said that the station cannot be set at a high place, but there are always exceptions, and it does not exclude that natural caves will appear in high places of some mountains, such as the Tashan where the Dashan camp was previously located.

Luo Yuan, who had spent a lot of effort, finally climbed up the slope, gasped slightly, and looked toward the north side of the slope mountain wall.

At this look, in an instant, his scalp went numb, his whole expression froze instantly, completely in a posture of seeing a ghost, and his expression was terrified to the extreme.

"This…………"

What did Luo Yuan see?

On the north slope of the mountain wall, a large group of silver creatures were lying densely, and at a rough glance, there were at least hundreds of them.

Although it is dark night at this moment, silver is bright, and with the moonlight, Luo Yuan still barely saw their appearance.

This group of silver creatures all have sharp heads and strong bodies, about one meter long, and a two- or three-meter-long flesh-colored tail hanging behind them. The tail has dense barbs, which is extremely terrifying;

Two sharp gnawing teeth emit a chilling cold light under the moonlight, and although the four limbs under the abdomen are short, they are thick and powerful, and at the ends, there are sharp claws like steel knives.

At this moment, most of them are sleeping, and a few who are not sleeping, their two small eyes shoot out red lights, spinning around, occasionally baring their teeth at other companions beside them, full of ferocity.

Cold beast, a new cold beast that has never been in contact with before.

And there are so many, at least three or four hundred.

How could such a large group suddenly appear?

Luo Yuan swallowed his saliva, almost trembling, retracted his head, then carefully climbed down the rock wall, and ran away without looking back.

He is extremely fortunate at this moment for his previous caution.

No, he should thank the leader.

If it weren't for Xia Hong's strict requirements for the hunting team, which made them develop the habit of keeping vigilant at all times when going out, just now, if he had been a little careless and alarmed that group of things, he would definitely have died without a doubt.

No wonder he couldn't run into the woodcutting team of the Chen Ye camp for the first half month. Looking at the posture of that group of creatures, whether the people in the Chen Ye camp are dead or alive is not certain, let alone going out.

He still doesn't know if that group of creatures will lie on the side of the mountain wall during the day like they do at night. If they do, then the people in the Chen Ye camp wouldn't even dare to light a fire during the day. Even if they didn't starve to death, they would have been frozen to death long ago.

"Must go back and report to the leader immediately. The Chen Ye camp is only two thousand meters away from Does Da Xia. If this group of things stays here for a long time, it is hard to guarantee that they will find the valley one day, and we will suffer too!"

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Luo Yuan's expression became much more solemn, and the speed of returning to the valley also unconsciously became faster.

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Inner side of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge

Beside a blue tree with a diameter of only four or five meters, there are dozens of light blue plants, whose leaves emit a faint fluorescence in the dark night, adding a bit of beauty to this quiet and dead frozen jungle.

Sa-sa…………

There are slight footsteps in the snow. A burly figure walks to the side of the blue tree, looking at the light blue vegetation all over the ground, his face full of joy.

"The second Blue Jade Tree. Sure enough, the further in, the more treasures there are. I only came in more than a hundred meters and found two. Wouldn't there be more further in?"

The burly figure is naturally Xia Hong, who left the hunting team and went deep into Seeing Hong Mu Ridge alone to explore. Looking at the Blue Condensing Grass all over the ground, Xia Hong's expression is happy, and he immediately squats down and starts picking.

After picking, tying it with a rope, and carrying it on his back, Xia Hong stands up, looking at the blue tree, the joy in his eyes still undiminished.

Golden Sore Powder is now considered an essential item for the hunting team.

And as the main ingredient for refining Golden Sore Powder, the importance of Blue Condensing Grass is self-evident. The first time he learned that Blue Condensing Grass is a companion plant of this blue tree, Xia Hong attached great importance to this kind of tree. Because its main trunk is blue and its leaves are warm and moist like jade, he named it Blue Jade Tree.

It is a pity that this kind of Blue Jade Tree could not be found in the five-hundred-meter range on the outskirts of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge. The Blue Condensing Grass beside the first Blue Jade Tree had a total of forty-seven plants, all of which had been picked and refined into Golden Sore Powder.

During this period, the people in the gathering team searched the five-hundred-meter range on the outskirts again and again, but never found a second one. The Blue Condensing Grass beside the first one hadn't grown out yet. Xia Hong was worried that the Golden Sore Powder would run out, but unexpectedly, he found two in one night tonight.

"More than a hundred Blue Condensing Grass, the harvest tonight is enough. And I saw the Cloud Mist Teng Jiao with my own eyes. In another half month, I can officially expand the scope of activities and bring them here to hunt new cold beasts!"

Xia Hong carries the Blue Condensing Grass on his back and turns to look at the southwest.

More than a hundred meters away to the southwest, there is an area shrouded in clouds and mist, about fifty or sixty meters wide. The clouds and mist are too thick, causing the trees in that area to only see outlines no matter how big they are, and even the moonlight cannot penetrate, giving a sense of inexplicable danger.

That is the habitat of a Cloud Mist Teng Jiao.

Xia Hong just came from there just now.

The meat of the three cold beasts—Snow Mane, Frostwolf, and Demon Sheep—has played less and less of a role in his strength improvement. It may be that his body has developed antibodies to these three types of cold beast meat.

This thought was only Xia Hong's guess before, but just now, the moment he saw the Cloud Mist Teng Jiao with his own eyes, Xia Hong immediately realized that his guess was highly likely to be correct.

Because the moment he saw the Cloud Mist Teng Jiao, he clearly felt that both his body and heart had a strong craving for the flesh and blood of the Cloud Mist Teng Jiao.

Whether it is out of personal training needs, or for the richer vegetation and other various resources on the inner side, or even to seek a larger living space, expanding the camp's scope of activities is necessary.

The position Xia Hong is currently in is about two hundred meters deeper on the basis of the previous five hundred meters.

In such a small range, he found two Blue Jade Trees and a Cloud Mist Teng Jiao. If he restored it to the thousand-meter activity range of the previous Luo Ge camp, there would definitely be more new species and useful things found.

"But having said that, how big is Seeing Hong Mu Ridge..."

This thought pops into Xia Hong's mind, and he unconsciously looks at the deeper position on the west side of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge again.

All the camps around Seeing Hong Mu Ridge are only on the east side of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge. Merging the two camps of Chen Ye and Lu Shang, the outskirts on the east side of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, from south to north for nearly ten miles, basically belong to Does Da Xia.

It is said that this is already a very large area, but just looking at the volume of the trees in this world, this area is definitely just the tip of the iceberg for the entire Seeing Hong Mu Ridge.

In the five-hundred-meter range on the outskirts, the smallest trees have a diameter of three meters. Xia Hong only went less than two hundred meters deep tonight, and the largest tree he saw even exceeded twenty meters in diameter. What is this concept?

Xia Hong has climbed to the top of the big trees countless times, trying to peek at the full picture of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge.

But every time he climbed to the top and looked to the west, his sight was always blocked by larger and thicker trees. Some of them, even if they were visually estimated to be tens or even hundreds of miles away, could make Xia Hong greatly shocked and even feel fear.

"I am afraid that the east side we think we are in is just a small piece of the east side of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge. Not to mention the other end of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, we don't even know how far it extends to the north and south."

Thinking of this, looking at the depths of Seeing Hong Mu Ridge to the west, while Xia Hong is curious, a trace of awe rises in his heart.

One day, if he really figures out how big Seeing Hong Mu Ridge is, then Does Da Xia's strength at that time should be not much different from that Beishuo Town.

Xia Hong sighs and shakes his head, laughing at himself for thinking too far.

He marks the location of the second Blue Jade Tree, goes to the location of the first Blue Jade Tree, collects the Blue Condensing Grass he tied up earlier, and Xia Hong quickly returns to the valley.

"The wind and rain in all directions cannot compare to the rain in our Seeing Hong Mu Ridge."

"There is rain in Longmen Mountain, and the Snow Plain Tiger goes down the mountain."

In front of the gravel pile at the entrance of the valley, Xia Hong shouts the code, and there is an immediate response from inside.

Then, a log in the gravel pile slowly retreats, revealing a passage.

Today's Does Da Xia, although much stronger than before, still maintains a cautious style under Xia Hong's requirements, and the code convention has always been in use.

The description of the iron smelting furnace is very clear: it only has a deterrent and killing effect on primary strange monsters; and the dangers of this world do not only come from strange monsters. Who knows whether other humans who have not been in contact with are good or bad.

Before having absolute strength to ensure safety, Xia Hong firmly believes that caution is never wrong. Although the code convention for returning to the camp has not played a role once so far, it does not mean it is useless.

The seventy-two lives of Great Xia when they were on the soil slope earlier; the destruction of the Dachuan camp; the more than one thousand lives of the Luo Ge camp are all bloody lessons. Xia Hong does not want the tragedy to repeat itself.

The code convention is not troublesome, it is just a dialogue, but at some critical moments, the role it plays is irreplaceable.

To take a step back, even if it is just used to improve the vigilance of everyone in the Does Da Xia camp, it is good.

"See the leader!"

The gatekeepers are two young people from the reserve force. Seeing it is Xia Hong, they immediately bow respectfully, and after welcoming him into the valley, they immediately block the passage with logs again.

Then the two stepped forward, took the Blue Condensing Grass on his back, one of them moved it directly to the mineral cave warehouse on the south side, and the other continued to guard the entrance of the cave passage.

From matching the code to entering the valley, looking at the set of skilled actions of the two gatekeepers, Xia Hong nods slightly, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

All the people in the Woodcutting Realm in the camp have entered five departments and all have their own main tasks. Plus, Does Da Xia is not yet luxurious enough to let people in the Woodcutting Realm guard the gate, so the matter of guarding the gate is handed over to the people in the reserve force in turn.

Since Xia Chuan proposed half a month ago to include people over thirty in the reserve force, the number of people in the reserve force is now nearly four hundred. It is nothing to divide two people to guard the gate every day.

Xia Hong's point of satisfaction mainly lies in being able to cultivate the people in the reserve force in advance through this way, so that they can subtly develop a cautious character in everything before they go out.

As the teams of the gathering team and the woodcutting team become larger and larger, the number of casualties when going out is also repeatedly breaking new highs. As of now, seven have died and eleven have gone missing.

The most critical thing is that after Xia Hong's careful understanding, he found that these casualties were all unnecessary.

Those who didn't pay attention to exploring the surrounding environment when gathering and logging, and were killed by disturbing cold beasts;

Those who were panicked and lost their way in the dense forest when running away;

Those who were too far away from the team, didn't remember the way, and finally went missing;

There were even those who fell from trees and were injured; or accidentally fell into deep snow pits in the wilderness, and finally were not missing, but were rescued only after spending a lot of manpower and material resources…………

In short, the ways of casualties are various and strange.

Although this part of the people is not many, adding up to eighteen, but after all, they are all in the Woodcutting Realm, and they are raised by the cold beast meat he risked his life to get. How could Xia Hong not feel distressed?

Although those in the Woodcutting Realm do not have hunting ability, as long as there are enough people, they are familiar enough with the terrain, and multiple people cooperate, it is not too difficult to escape from the hands of low-grade cold beasts;

Being lost and missing because of unfamiliarity with the terrain, or falling into deep snow pits, is essentially carelessness and self-righteousness.

Cheng Feng has resigned from the position of captain of the woodcutting team and went to serve as the captain of the gathering team. The captain of the woodcutting team is now Bai Dongying. Both of them are people from the woodcutting team of the original Luo Ge camp, and their wilderness experience may be better than Xia Hong's.

Going out with these two people, as long as you are obedient and your character is more cautious, it is impossible for such things as getting lost and missing, or even falling into snow pits, to happen.

Xia Hong summarized that these casualties are fundamentally because this part of the people who have newly broken through to the Woodcutting Realm have problems themselves.

While their wilderness experience is insufficient, their character is not cautious enough;

Relying on their new breakthrough and a little strength, they are bold and aggressive;

They self-righteously think that gathering and logging are different from hunting and have no danger;

Even in the middle of this, there should have been situations where they didn't listen to the captain's orders.

Five days ago, because of this, Xia Hong had a big fire. Not only did he punish several typical figures in the woodcutting team and the gathering team, but he also severely reprimanded the two captains, Bai Dongying and Cheng Feng, which can be considered to have severely rectified the arrogant atmosphere that had gradually permeated the camp recently.

The hunting team is managed by him personally, so there is no sign of it yet. After he got angry, Xia Chuan immediately took the lead, took the two captains, Cheng Feng and Bai Dongying, and formulated several rules, including the matter of guarding the gate, which was also tinkered with at that time.

Living in a purgatory like the Frozen Abyss, if you want to survive, you must be cautious and careful, especially when you are still very weak.

Xia Hong's prestige and status are enough to make all eight hundred people in the camp unconditionally obey his orders, but it is certainly impossible to make everyone develop a cautious and careful character all at once.

It can only rely on the formulated dogmas and rules, plus the harsh requirements of Xia Hong, the leader, to subtly influence and even change everyone.

Inside the valley, the construction of the new residence has reached the final stage.

Thick walls on all four sides are erected high; the top is completely sealed; on the four-cornered pointed top, there are even people laying tarpaulins made of animal skin.

The gate has not been sealed yet, and people are constantly coming in and out. The three-layer structure has come out. Through the gate, you can see people going up and down, transporting cut boards and iron materials inside trip after trip.

Seeing that everyone is busy and having fun, Xia Hong didn't go up to disturb them and walked toward the temporary wooden house in front.

"See the leader!"

"See the leader!"

…………

In the temporary wooden house, there are not many people, and a small number of young children are playing and making trouble. Seeing Xia Hong come in, they also learn the appearance of adults and bow respectfully.

Xia Hong smiles and rubs their little heads, letting them go play by themselves.

Seeing Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the three Zhao brothers sitting cross-legged by the iron smelting furnace with solemn expressions, Xia Hong immediately realized that something had happened.

These five people, in the past, after returning from hunting, should have been with other people in the hunting team to help at the new wooden house.

"Leader!"

Seeing the five about to get up, Xia Hong hurriedly waved his hand to signal the five to continue sitting, and he walked to the chair, sat down, and then asked:

"What happened? Was there a problem with the hunting just now?"

Xia Hong thought there was a problem with the hunting. Luo Yuan immediately shook his head and recounted the things he had seen just now with a solemn expression.

"I went to the Chen Ye camp again tonight. I didn't run into Chen Ying and the woodcutting team for the first three times. This time I went directly to the mountain wall to find their station. As a result, on the north slope of the mountain wall, I saw…………"

With Luo Yuan's narration, Xia Hong's expression gradually became solemn, and even hearing the end, he couldn't help but stand up directly from the chair.

Strange cold beast, hundreds, on the north slope of the mountain wall...

At this moment, the Chen Ye camp located on the north slope of the mountain wall is completely out of Xia Hong's consideration. Only one thought remains in his mind.

Hundreds of strange cold beasts of unknown origin are entrenched on the north side of the mountain wall, less than two kilometers away from the Does Da Xia camp. As long as that group of cold beasts moves south along the hillside for one or two kilometers, they can break into the Does Da Xia camp.

Xia Hong turns to look at Luo Yuan again and asks in an extremely solemn tone:

"How many? Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"

Luo Yuan closes his eyes and recalls for a while, nods heavily, and replies: "I don't know if there are any in other places, but just on the north slope, there are at least three hundred. I can be sure that I didn't see it wrong."

One-meter body length, two or three-meter long tail with barbs, sharp head and strong body, silver fur, two sharp gnawing teeth, short and thick four limbs, small red eyes...

Excluding the body size, silver fur, and the barbs on the tail, the creature "mouse" instantly popped into Xia Hong's mind. Then, according to the body size, he magnified it, and instantly his whole body's hair stood on end, and the solemnity on his face increased a bit more.

Combining the three cold beasts—Snow Mane, Frostwolf, and Demon Sheep—although the cold beast species in the Frozen Abyss world are unique, they can obviously be connected with similar creatures in the previous life, and some habits are also very similar.

By analogy, this group of cold beasts like mice, the point of living in groups at present, can be matched. What about the others?

The mouse's ability to drill holes, gnaw, and spread diseases.

Even... reproductive ability?

Xia Hong shuddered and walked out of the wooden house directly.

Seeing this, the five hurried to get up and followed him out.

Xia Hong, who walked out of the wooden house, looked up at the high mountain on the north side of the valley, thinking of that group of cold beasts, less than two kilometers away from the valley, the solemnity on his face instantly rose to the extreme.

"How long until dawn now?"

The five also followed Xia Hong out of the wooden house.

Hearing his question, Xia Chuan immediately answered.

"There should be more than an hour."

"Good, there is still time. Luo Yuan, take me to see it, and Xia Chuan, come with me too. Bring weapons and torches, we will go and return quickly!"

"Yes, leader!"

The three broadswords were already on their bodies. They each took a bow and arrow in the wooden house, carried several torches on their backs, and immediately left the camp. Under Luo Yuan's leadership, they rushed toward the mountain wall where the Chen Ye camp was located.

After less than ten minutes, Luo Yuan took the two to the bottom of the mountain wall.

The three climbed up the mountain wall cautiously without making a sound. After climbing to the top of the mountain wall slope, Xia Hong and Xia Chuan slowly stretched out their heads and looked toward the north slope.

At this look, the reaction of the two was exactly the same as Luo Yuan just now.

"This, how can there be so many…………"

"Shh, be careful, don't make a sound!"

After Xia Hong signaled Xia Chuan to be quiet, he retracted his head, and his face instantly became extremely ugly.

It has only been half a year since moving to the valley, and not long after a peaceful life, the new residence is about to be built, and such a large group of cold beasts has appeared next to it...

What kind of world is this? It doesn't give people a way to live at all!

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 111 =====