Chapter 117: New house, new rules, new starting point [Four-in-one long chapter]

In fact, the moment the gnawing rat pack appeared on the north slope of the mountain wall,

the significance of the new home was no longer as great as before.

Half a year of preparation, a total time of nearly seven months; massive amounts of Gold-Lin Wood; iron ore regardless of cost; nearly everyone in the camp participated...

Having invested so much manpower and material resources, if it were just to improve living conditions, Xia Hong would be purely out of his mind.

The new home, built at such a great cost, had the greatest function of resisting the cold beasts constantly expanding outward from Red Wood Ridge.

According to the design at the beginning of the wooden house's construction, the six-meter-thick Gold-Lin Wood walls, reinforced with iron fixtures at key parts, would not have any risk of collapse even if facing cold beasts with powerful impact like Snow Manes, as long as hundreds did not charge at the same time.

The cold beasts expanding outward from Red Wood Ridge currently only included Snow Manes, Frostwolves, and Golden Sheep. This meant that once the wooden house was built, even if cold beasts discovered them during the day, they could retreat into the wooden house and be self-sufficient; if discovered at night, they could even use the wooden house's defense to hunt the attacking cold beasts.

Improving living conditions was merely incidental; after all, compared to safety, comfort was not an important requirement at all.

It was a pity that with the arrival of the gnawing rat pack, Xia Hong's wishful thinking had all gone down the drain.

With the gnawing rats' abnormal ability to dig holes, Xia Hong had to put a question mark in his heart as to whether that large group on the north slope of the mountain wall could be blocked by this wooden house, let alone a house made of pure iron.

Before solving that group of gnawing rats, the safety guarantee brought by the new wooden house was definitely minimal. Of course, it was not just Xia Hong who understood this point; Xia Chuan and the five people of Luo Yuan also understood it.

The minds of the few single men and women present immediately became active.

After Xia Hong finished eating the cold beast meat and felt the long-lost massive heat in his body, joy appeared in his eyes. He quickly got up and started practicing long-fist.

Xia Hong's basic strength of over twenty thousand jin, combined with the long-fist routine that had reached the pinnacle of mastery, allowed him to exert strength that could overflow by thirty percent, which was over twenty-six thousand jin.

Such terrifying strength, accompanied by the crazy outpouring of his fists, caused continuous sonic booms. The outer walls of the entire wooden house began to tremble, and the powerful fist momentum caused the bonfire inside the wooden house to crackle.

Today was the last day of the new home's completion, and there was a lot to do. Almost all the adults in the camp had gone to help. In the temporary wooden house, there were only about a hundred young children.

The harsh environment made these children understand the importance of strength early on. At this moment, looking at Xia Hong's majestic fist momentum, their eyes were full of reverence and admiration. Some of the bolder ones also learned from Xia Hong's appearance and practiced in a decent way.

"As expected of the leader, the sound made by practicing fist is louder than others."

"Nonsense, the leader is our Does Da Xia's number one powerhouse."

"My father is in the hunting team. He said that the leader can hunt cold beasts by himself. In the future, I must become as strong as the leader."

"Luo An, stop bragging. You are not even six years old yet, and you can't even swallow big pieces of cold beast meat, yet you want to become as strong as the leader? Hahaha..."

"Hahaha, right, right, right, Luo An is bragging too much."

"Zou Ping, you were also stuffed eating cold beast meat yesterday. Don't think I don't know. You wait, when I can eat big pieces of cold beast meat, I will definitely be stronger than you."

"Hmph, alright, then let's compare and see who is better!"

Although the whispering of the children in the house was lowered, it could not escape Xia Hong, who was practicing fist. Hearing their childish arguments, he could not help but smile.

If he remembered correctly, the two who were arguing—Luo An was Luo Yuan's son, and Zou Ping was Zou Yuankai's son. Both little guys were not yet six years old.

Nowadays, the children in the camp were not like before. Since the last test showed that the age limit for eating cold beast meat was after six years old, the age standard for the reserve force was also directly relaxed to over six years old.

In other words, everyone in the camp over six years old was now included in the reserve force; and children under six, although unable to digest large pieces of cold beast meat, could still improve their physique by crushing crystal fruit and cold beast meat into mud as supplementary food.

These children under six had a quota of five jin per month, and their parents were at least in the reserve force, so their daily diet was basically supplementary food mixed with cold beast meat.

In just a few months, the changes in these children eating cold beast meat supplementary food had already appeared. Not only did they grow fast, but their physique also soared like calves, and they often followed other adults to practice fist in advance, changing their past withered and weak image, adding a lot of vitality to the valley.

Xia Hong knew very well that this was only a short-term change. Improving physique was a subtle process, and the current changes in this batch of children were just the beginning.

Being able to eat cold beast meat supplementary food before the age of six, when they reached the age of six and officially ate cold beast meat, with a physical foundation, their cultivation speed would definitely far exceed their predecessors;

and as this generation after generation multiplied, the physique of the population born in the Does Da Xia camp later would also climb to an extremely terrifying height.

Perhaps, one day, as long as they were descendants of Does Da Xia, their physique would far exceed other humans, even rivaling cold beasts, and fearing no strange monsters...

"Thinking too far ahead!"

Xia Hong laughed dumbly and shook his head. Just as the heat in his body had evaporated, he walked to the force-measuring pile beside the chair, tested it, and nodded.

"20,400 jin, an increase of more than 200 at once. As expected, the previous slow increase speed was because I was immune to the first three types of cold beast meat. I recovered after eating gnawing rat meat. I must find a way to hunt other types of cold beasts."

The speed of strength increase finally recovered, and Xia Hong was naturally happy.

He was not far from the limit of thirty thousand jin. After the Earth-Digging Realm, it was the Cold-Resisting Realm. Upon reaching this realm, he could walk freely in the sunlight.

As a normal human, only he knew how deep his longing for sunlight was. He had been in this world for almost a year, and he had not yet seen what the world looked like during the day.

"However, after reaching the limit of thirty thousand jin, I know nothing about how to break through to the Cold-Resisting Realm. Should I explore the arrow bamboo forest in advance so that I can be prepared when I go to the beehive camp?"

Xia Hong lowered his head and pondered for a moment, suddenly realized something, shook his head helplessly, and patted his head.

"The top priority is the gnawing rat pack on the north slope of the mountain wall; without solving that big trouble, everything is empty talk. Better not let my imagination run wild..."

Xia Hong did not know what kind of strength the Cold-Resisting Realm was.

But at least he could be sure that even if his basic strength broke through to thirty thousand jin, it was unrealistic to deal with that group of gnawing rats alone.

"The gnawing rat pack must be watched by special personnel, so as not to have any wind or grass movement that I don't know about. However, the people sent must be flexible. Let me think, who should be sent?"

Before he had thought for long, Xia Chuan's slightly excited shout came from the door.

"Leader, the wooden house has been completed!"

Hearing this, Xia Hong could not help but feel a little excited. He stood up from the chair and followed Xia Chuan out of the temporary wooden house.

"Make way, let the leader in!"

Inside the valley, the dense crowd was now all gathered at the entrance of the giant wooden house in the center. Hearing Xia Chuan's shout, everyone turned their heads to look at Xia Hong while separating to both sides, making way for a path.

Xia Hong walked through the middle passage, taking in the excitement and joy on people's faces along the way, and his heart could not help but look forward to the new home.

Walking to the front of the wooden house, the five-meter-high pale golden main body and the black iron-framed door came into view. Standing by the door was the excited Mu Dong.

Seeing Xia Hong approach, Mu Dong helped push open the door with force.

Behind the door was a five-meter-wide passage. When Xia Hong took the first step inside, Mu Dong followed closely behind and began to explain. The dense crowd behind them also followed the two inside.

"The two large doors are five meters high and two meters wide, both wrapped in black iron, with iron cards fixed at the bottom. People inside can hook them. Once hooked, no matter how hard people outside charge, at most they will smash the wooden part. It is absolutely impossible to make the two large doors collapse.

Next is the first-floor passage, five meters wide and seventy-five meters long in total. On the left and right sides are rooms partitioned by planks. Each room is ten meters by ten meters wide. There are three hundred and sixty in total, divided into four areas: east, south, west, and north, according to orientation, and aisles are left between them, marked with number plates;

at the end of the passage is the central hall, fifty meters long and wide, with four load-bearing pillars, and another eight scattered in the other four areas. This is specifically reserved for everyone's activities.

Leader, look, this iron smelting furnace."

As Mu Dong introduced while walking, Xia Hong had already walked to the central hall. In the center of the hall, an iron smelting furnace with a diameter of more than two meters hung a thick chain, and the chain led straight to the top.

Xia Hong looked up and realized that in the center of the second and third floors above the wooden house, a large hole with a diameter of more than five meters had been left, clearly for the lifting of the iron smelting furnace.

As expected, Mu Dong stepped forward and grabbed one end of the chain, pulled it gently, and the iron smelting furnace immediately rose slowly. He did not let go until it rose to the second floor, and he locked the chain.

The iron smelting furnace had clearly risen to the second floor, but the firelight still shone on the hall on the first floor, and the light sources around it were not reduced at all, as bright as before.

"The iron smelting furnace is now not only a light source but also for heating and iron smelting. Considering that all three floors have uses, and its weight can also be used to increase the stability of the wooden house, I made this device.

The chain of the iron smelting furnace is hooked together with the cast-iron roof beam, and the roof beam is associated with other key iron accessories. If it encounters any external force, it can greatly increase the stability of the house by adding weight to the iron smelting furnace."

Pulley device, elevator, associated structure, and the previous mortise and tenon, woodworking accessories...

How many new things has this Mu Dong tinkered with?

Truly a talent!

Xia Hong's eyes looking at Mu Dong even changed slightly.

Although Xia Hong knew these things, he could at most give an idea. If he were to make them out of thin air, he would definitely not be able to do it.

Mu Dong could tinker with so many things just by relying on the tools and ideas he gave, which was simply incredible.

Not only Xia Hong, but the large group of people who entered behind him were also like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden at this moment, looking at this and that, their expressions excited to the extreme.

Not to mention, although most of them participated in the construction, the vast majority were only responsible for a small part, and they knew less about the wooden house as a whole than Mu Dong. Therefore, hearing Mu Dong's introduction, their shock was no less than Xia Hong's.

"Leader, please this way..."

Mu Dong reached out to invite, leading Xia Hong and the crowd to continue to the left. On the left and right sides of the hall, there were two wooden stairs, clearly leading directly to the second and third floors.

Because the stairs were right in the middle, after going up to the second floor, the crowd went directly to the central hall. At the same time, Mu Dong also began to continue the explanation.

"The second floor is five meters high. Because it is to be the camp's deliberation hall, the space is left the largest. And the iron-making room, martial arts field, medicine-making room, craftsman workshop, and camp supplies office connected to the iron smelting furnace are also here, which can be considered a multi-functional floor.

There are fewer compartments on the second floor than on the first floor, only two hundred and eighty.

The first floor is underground, and no windows were opened for safety considerations. The second floor is different. A window capable of accommodating two people was opened every ten meters on all four sides. If there is an enemy invasion, whether it is observation, archery, or even throwing objects through the windows, there is no problem.

In addition, a giant warehouse was left on the second floor, right behind the camp supplies office room. The materials in the mine cave in the south have all been transported in. From now on, the distribution of cold beast meat will also be carried out here at the camp supplies office."

After introducing the second floor, Mu Dong led the crowd to the third floor.

"The height of the third floor is the same as the first floor, which is three meters, but the layout is different. Because it is the highest, it is relatively the safest, so a three-meter-wide outer corridor is left on all four sides, and the rooms partitioned inside are relatively large, with a side length of twenty meters, totaling only one hundred rooms.

Behind the central hall, a largest room was left, thirty meters wide. Leader, why don't you go in and take a look?"

Xia Hong raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Mu Dong, and nodded.

Clearly, this largest room was reserved for him, the leader.

Mu Dong walked to the back of the central hall and pushed open a large door.

Xia Hong followed in. Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Zhao Long, and many others clearly wanted to see, so they followed in.

Of course, it was impossible for a thirty-meter-wide room to have only one.

What Xia Hong saw when he entered the door was a hall of more than a hundred square meters.

Around the hall, more than twenty wooden racks were placed in turn. On the racks were iron basins, and in the iron basins, fire was burning at this moment, illuminating the entire hall brightly.

In the center of the hall were seventeen wooden chairs. The one in the north was the exclusive chair previously customized for him. The eight on the east and west sides were relatively ordinary, but they were also covered with animal fur cushions, clearly also specially made.

At the back of the main hall, there were even two large wooden screens, three to four meters long, carved with three types of cold beasts. Behind the screens was the bedroom, featuring a two-meter-wide wooden bed covered in animal fur, a large wooden tub filled with water, a recliner over a meter long, a wooden cabinet against the wall, and wooden smoke exhaust pipes densely packed above the room...

These novel and beautiful things, let alone other people in the camp, even Xia Hong himself was a little dazzled.

But soon, Xia Hong's brows sank. He turned to look at Mu Dong and asked with a serious tone:

"In the past half year, you just tinkered with these things?"

Seeing Xia Hong's slightly serious expression, Mu Dong was slightly nervous. He immediately arched his hands and explained: "Leader, rest assured. In this room, except for those twenty-four fire basins, the other objects are made of wood, and they were made by me taking time to lead people to make them in the past few days.

When making large accessories, there were thirty-seven jin of iron left over. I saw no other use, and the leader didn't ask me for it, so I privately asked Lord Xia Chuan to help make those twenty-four fire basins."

Like the last time he made chairs and clothes for himself, Mu Dong once again brought up Xia Chuan. Looking at the objects all over the room, Xia Hong turned to look at Xia Chuan, who was smiling at him. Xia Hong finally didn't say anything.

Mu Dong explained very clearly that they were all made of wood, and the only iron basin was made of the iron left over from building the house, and it was only thirty-seven jin.

Xia Hong did not reject comfort and enjoyment; this was a basic human pursuit.

The iron problem could be explained clearly, so he could accept everything before his eyes.

In the current Does Da Xia camp, timber was already in a state of overflow, and the popularization of wooden products was not a difficult thing.

This batch of things Mu Dong made for him was at most a little early. It was only a matter of time before the rest of the camp used these things.

The eyes of the others in the wooden house looking at these objects were full of envy and expectation. Clearly, they also realized that they would be able to use these things in the future.

After seeing the whole room, Xia Hong didn't say anything more, just nodded and led the crowd back to the deliberation hall on the second floor.

"Leader, can we move in tonight?"

"Can we choose any floor or room to live in?"

"How is that possible? The leader must have already arranged it."

"The rooms on the third floor are so big, clearly reserved for the leader and several lords to live in. It's not bad for us to live on the first floor."...

As soon as they returned to the deliberation hall, the people in the camp could not help but ask in a jumble, their eagerness to move in overflowing in their words.

After visiting the structure of the entire wooden house, everyone had a rough idea in their hearts.

Not to mention the third floor, the super-large space, plus the specially reserved luxurious large room, was clearly prepared for the leader. Those who could live on the third floor must also be the most important batch of people in the camp.

The second floor was planned the same as the first floor, but the difference was that the second floor left a deliberation hall, the space was slightly larger than the first floor, and it also partitioned out warehouses, iron-making rooms, martial arts fields, camp supplies offices, etc., clearly with more complete functions than the first floor.

Living on the second floor was definitely more comfortable than on the first floor.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were fixed on the rooms on the second floor, knowing that this floor was their main target, Xia Hong shook his head and smiled lightly, signaling Xia Chuan beside him with his eyes.

After Mu Dong notified that the wooden house was about to be completed yesterday, Xia Hong had pulled Xia Chuan and several others to discuss the room division method in advance.

Not to mention the one hundred rooms on the third floor, the rooms on the second and first floors added up to a full six hundred and forty, so it was impossible to let these people move in and live randomly.

Xia Chuan received the instruction and stood up directly. These rooms could also be considered one of the camp's resources. How to divide them naturally had to be announced by him, the camp supplies officer, in person.

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"Everyone, building a new house is not easy. The manpower, material resources, and time invested, and the coal, iron, and timber consumed are massive. You are not only members of Does Da Xia, but also participated in the construction of the wooden house to varying degrees. Moving in is naturally a matter of course..."

Xia Chuan paused, his tone changed sharply, and he said in a deep voice: "However, it must be said that as members of Does Da Xia, there is also a distinction in the size of contributions to the camp.

Like the leader, since he began to lead the camp from the dirt slope, all the materials for the camp's survival—timber, crystal fruit, cold beast meat, medicine, coal, iron, etc. —all originate from him, and he is also willing to share them with us for free.

If there were no leader, let alone breaking through to the Woodcutting Realm or Earth-Digging Realm.

We people would most likely not have survived.

Whether it is me or you people, saying that this life on our bodies was given by the leader is not an exaggeration. You say, is that right?"

Xia Hong stood at the back. Hearing this foreshadowing from Xia Chuan, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

Although objectively, he felt that there was nothing wrong with these words of Xia Chuan.

But he himself was standing here, listening to others praise him to his face. No matter what, he felt a strange feeling in his heart.

"Right!"

"Right, if there were no leader, let alone breaking through to the Woodcutting Realm, I would have been killed by the wooden puppet strange monster when I was on the dirt slope side earlier. How could I have lived until now."

"Xia Chuan is right. If there were no leader, I, Luo Yuan, would have died in the hands of the wooden puppet strange monster long ago, and there would be no chance to break through to the Earth-Digging Realm."

"Lord Xia Chuan is right. Without the leader, I, Shi Ping, would have died on the Tashan side long ago, and it would be impossible to live the life I have now."

In fact, slightly smarter people knew that Xia Chuan was foreshadowing.

But they couldn't help it; what he said was true.

Not to mention the first batch of people in Does Da Xia;

if there were no Xia Hong, the people in the first Luo Ge camp would have fallen victim to the wooden puppet strange monster long ago;

if there were no Xia Hong, the people in the Big Stone camp would have all died when Tashan was destroyed;

the leader of the Huang Zhao and Big River families had also received Xia Hong's favor, and the remaining ordinary people would not have been able to live the life they have now if they had not migrated here;

not to mention the two hundred or so people from the Chen Ye camp who had just moved over. If there were no Xia Hong leading people to rescue them, they would not have been able to survive either.

Just as Xia Chuan said, of the 1,095 people in the camp now, without Xia Hong, they would have a very high probability of not being able to survive.

Not to mention, after merging into Does Da Xia, they don't have to do anything, and they have animal hide skirts, crystal fruit, and even cold beast meat—things they couldn't even dream of before.

Survival, eating full, dressing warmly, and even having the opportunity to practice.

Of the more than one hundred people in the Woodcutting Realm and five in the Earth-Digging Realm now, who dares to say that they are not bearing Xia Hong's favor to have today?

Of the more than a thousand people below, no one disagreed with Xia Chuan's words at this moment. The continuous sound lasted for more than ten minutes. If Xia Chuan had not waved his hand to signal, it would probably have lasted for a long time.

"Good, it seems that the leader's contribution is obvious to all, and everyone is a person with a heart.

Since there is a distinction in the size of contributions, then all materials and treatment in the camp in the future should be divided according to the size of contributions. More work, more gain; less work, less gain. Everything is distributed according to the amount of contribution.

Today, taking the opportunity of the new house completion and the distribution of rooms, I also want to tell everyone about the new contribution value rules formulated by the leader. Everyone, listen first..."

Realizing that Xia Chuan had finally entered the main topic, everyone hurriedly pricked up their ears and listened carefully, because this concerned their life in the camp in the future.

"First, what is the contribution value rule? Simply put, from now on, except for the leader, everyone in the camp above the Woodcutting Realm will have a contribution value point exclusive to you at the camp supplies office.

This point is owned by you privately. You can spend points to ask the craftsman workshop to customize wooden products, clothes, hats, and all kinds of things; ask the camp supplies office to exchange for cold beast meat, animal hide, iron, coal, weapons..."

Xia Hong, of course, did not listen. This contribution value rule was proposed by him last night, and then discussed with Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the other five.

In short, people above the Woodcutting Realm can bring back all their harvests when they go out in the future, exchange them for contribution points at the camp supplies office, and then use contribution points to find other institutions to exchange for various wooden products, animal hide products, and cold beast meat, coal stones, and even iron ore and iron products.

Currently, the Does Da Xia camp has a population of only a little over a thousand. Too cumbersome rules are definitely not applicable, but it is also unreasonable to continue the extensive management like before.

So this new contribution value rule can currently only be considered a simplified version.

After Xia Chuan roughly explained the new contribution value rule, he added:

"Generally speaking, this new rule currently only targets camp members above the Woodcutting Realm. In a word, before reaching the Woodcutting Realm, the cold beast meat quota is the same as before. As long as you break through to the Woodcutting Realm, then from now on, cold beast meat, wooden products, animal hide products, clothes, ironware, and weapons—no matter what—must be bought with contribution points!"

Doesn't this mean that the higher the cultivation, the more tired people are?

Before breaking through to the Woodcutting Realm, you can do nothing and sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor?

After these words were finished, the ordinary people in the camp had no reaction, but many of those above the Woodcutting Realm showed some incredible expressions, and many clearly intended to open their mouths to question this regulation.

However, before they could speak, Xia Chuan had already added an explanation.

"Don't be anxious, listen to me first. First, those without contribution values only enjoy the basic cold beast meat and crystal fruit quota. Other wooden products, animal hide products, and ironware and even weapons are not eligible for exchange."

As soon as Xia Chuan said this, many people who reacted quickly immediately understood. It seemed to be just a difference in exchange qualifications, but those who possessed contribution values would clearly belong to the privileged class in the camp in the future.

Wooden products, animal hide products, clothes, ironware, and even weapons—these things would only be used by people in the privileged class in the future.

And this new rule was clearly still in its infancy. In the future, as the camp developed and grew, and the types of resources increased, the rights and resources enjoyed by this part of them would definitely increase more and more.

"Lord Xia Chuan, can you roughly say how to obtain contribution points and the prices of some items in the camp supplies office?"

Hearing this question, Xia Chuan's eyes lit up, and he secretly said that someone finally asked the point.

Turning his head to look, he found that it was actually an old acquaintance who asked.

It was Hong Mu, the son of Hong Gang, the leader of the former Big River camp.

Xia Chuan smiled at him. Seeing that everyone was looking at him curiously, he no longer sold the pass and said directly:

"Good, the hunting team is temporarily managed by the leader, so I will take the members of the woodcutting team and gathering team as examples first.

Going out once every night, one contribution point; two thousand jin of Gold-Lin trees brought back count as one point; four thousand jin of Zhu Shuang trees count as one point; every fifty jin of crystal fruit brought back counts as one point; every plant of Blue Condensing Grass exchanges for ten points; discovering a new Ice-Shuo tree counts as two points each; discovering a new Blue Jade tree counts as one hundred points each; discovering other new varieties of trees will be given discretion according to the appraisal results..."

Xia Chuan roughly explained the ways and quantities for members of the woodcutting team and gathering team to obtain contribution points. After letting everyone digest for a while, he continued:

"Here at the camp supplies office, the price of cold beast meat is two jin for every one contribution point; the prices of cold beast hides vary by layer. For velvet hide for making clothes, twenty contribution points for one meter; second-layer hide, ten contribution points for one meter; third layer, five contribution points for one meter; I will say so much first. You can come to understand beast teeth, beast bones, coal, iron, and Golden Sore Powder later..."

Xia Chuan paused and added: "However, let me explain in advance that the prices of materials will change with the camp's reserves. If the camp's materials become more and more abundant, these things will naturally become cheaper and cheaper, so everything depends on our joint efforts."

Having said this, most people in the camp could basically understand.

In essence, it was that they scraped raw material resources from the outside world, brought them back to the camp to exchange for contribution points, and then the camp unified the processing of resources to make finished products, and they then used contribution points to exchange for these things.

One point of contribution is two jin of cold beast meat. An ordinary Woodcutting Realm person goes out once a night and gets one point. According to their woodcutting ability, cutting a four or five thousand jin Gold-Lin tree in one night is not a big problem.

Converted, they can earn at least three contribution points in one night, which is six jin of cold beast meat. This is higher than the previous quota!

Not only the woodcutting team, but the gathering team, and even everyone in the Woodcutting Realm in the camp were calculating in their hearts. Without exception, according to the new rules, the cold beast meat they could exchange for every night in the future was one to two jin more than before.

In this way, almost everyone's face was full of joy.

This was within Xia Chuan's expectations. When discussing the rules with Xia Hong, it was established according to this standard.

If you want everyone in the camp to quickly accept the new rules, the fastest way is to let them realize that the benefits brought by the new rules are greater and better than before.

This new contribution value rule, in the final analysis, the most important point is that the camp must have hard currency. Coal and iron are currently scarce things for Xia Hong, so naturally, they will not be opened up now, but cold beast meat is definitely possible.

Hearing the new rules, everyone's first consideration was the price of cold beast meat, which was enough to prove its particularity. Using it as hard currency is most appropriate.

In addition, it is necessary to control the types of materials that can be exchanged and their unit prices. After all, materials are limited. If the price is set too low, they will be exchanged quickly, which will be embarrassing.

These things, as early as last night, Xia Hong had already told Xia Chuan in advance. The prices of various materials at the camp supplies office and craftsman workshop were also discussed by them overnight, which would definitely not be a problem for a period of time. It would be fine to adjust them if there were any problems later.

"Lord Xia Chuan, can you say roughly how many contribution points it takes to exchange for a set of clothes?"

Hong Mu asked the question he cared about most again, but many people, including those in the hunting team, turned their heads to look.

Clearly, this question was not just cared about by him alone.

"Good, then I will say it. Making a whole set of clothes requires about four meters of first-layer animal velvet hide, which is equivalent to eighty contribution points. This is just the material. After taking the material, you still need to go to the craftsman workshop to customize it. Mu Dong, you say it!"

Seeing Xia Chuan turn to look at himself, Mu Dong also stood up and smiled at the crowd: "Everyone, the price of customizing clothes here is not low. A whole set of adult clothes, including upper and lower linings, hats, trousers, and coats, is a four-piece set. According to the materials and workmanship, the prices are 20, 10, 15, and 30, which adds up to 75."

Raw materials 80, customization 75, adding up to a total of 155.

This price immediately made many people click their tongues.

According to the way ordinary Woodcutting Realm people obtain contribution points, they get three to four points every night without accident. This means that even if they don't exchange for a jin of cold beast meat and save it all, it will take at least two months to exchange for a set of clothes.

Is it possible not to exchange for a jin of cold beast meat?

Anyone who has enjoyed the process of basic strength improvement cannot resist the temptation of becoming stronger. Moreover, born in the Ice Abyss, everyone knows the importance of strength. Not exchanging for cold beast meat is impossible.

"Alright, the matter of the new rules is finished. Now let's start the matter of dividing the houses."

Xia Chuan turned to look at Xia Hong, and after receiving the signal, continued to speak.

"The reason why I explained the new contribution value rules first just now is to prepare for the matter of dividing the houses below. Including the leader, the total population of Does Da Xia is 1,096. A large part of you have formed families and have your own children. Considering this point, those with families will be divided first."

Hearing this, many people in the camp immediately showed smiles on their faces.

"Among all families, as long as one person has contribution value, they can choose a room on the second floor; those without contribution value can choose on the first floor. Partners and direct relatives can all live together;

those who are not married will be separated by gender, according to the number, ten people per room. Those with contribution value can be on the second floor, and those without contribution value will be on the first floor. The specific subdivision is my responsibility, and I will announce it later;

in addition, members of the hunting team can choose a room on the third floor."

The crowd was not surprised by the general result of this house division.

According to what Xia Chuan said earlier, those with contribution value must be members above the Woodcutting Realm, living on the second and third floors; ordinary people without contribution value could only live on the first floor.

The only thing they didn't expect was that it would be divided by family.

This meant that as long as there was one Woodcutting Realm member in a family, they could follow along and live on the second floor. No, not only could they go to the second floor, but Xia Chuan just said that those without contribution value were not qualified to exchange for materials, but he didn't say they couldn't use those materials.

As long as the family member is in the Woodcutting Realm, after exchanging for materials, they can use them just the same!

The benefits of forming a family were immediately embodied at this moment.

The few single men and women present immediately felt their hearts stir.

And seeing the changes in the expressions of these single men and women, Xia Hong, standing above, could not help but feel a little proud.

His design for contribution value and house division was intended to guide the single people in the camp to form families as soon as possible.

The difficulty of exploring the outside world was too great. Around Red Wood Ridge, only the Lu Shang camp had not been taken in yet. After this family merged, it was foreseeable that Does Da Xia might not be able to absorb any population for a long time.

In such a situation, if you want to increase the population, you can only rely on giving birth.

Currently, there are only more than three hundred women in the camp, and a small part of them are children. The ratio of men to women is extremely unhealthy. It is even more inappropriate for those of appropriate age to remain single.

The camp's living environment has improved a lot, food is not lacking now, cold is not a problem, plus this new rule, it is foreseeable that small families living together will definitely become more and more, and everyone's willingness to have children will definitely gradually increase.

Xia Chuan began to arrange the distribution of new houses in an orderly manner, and the entire camp began to move happily.

Although it was night, the crowd's enthusiasm for moving into a new home was high. The new wooden house was brightly lit, and almost everyone's face was filled with smiles.

Xia Hong only immersed himself in this relaxed and lively atmosphere for a while, then carried the cold beast meat alone to the third floor and returned to his small room.

"The gnawing rat pack is still there, the crisis has not passed. Whether we can hold this house is still a question. I don't have much time to waste!"

Xia Hong secretly said in his heart, took a deep breath, set up a stance, and began to practice fist in the wooden house, constantly absorbing the energy accumulated in his body.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 118 =====