Chapter 146: Freebie, Making Trouble [Three-in-One Large Chapter]

Great Xia Year 1, February 22nd.

Second floor of the wooden house, entrance of the camp supply station.

"This knife, over six hundred jin, it's really powerful!"

"The knife is for close combat, this ten-stone iron-fetal bow is even more powerful."

"My brother-in-law said, when going out hunting with the leader, we basically don't have any close combat opportunities, we basically use bows and arrows."

Lin Kai and Xu Ning were excited, constantly gesturing with the big knives and iron-fetal bows in their hands, occasionally whispering a few words.

The Woodcutting Realm members who came to submit resources to the camp supply station saw the two of them and the weapons in their hands, and couldn't help but show envy in their eyes.

Even Shi Ping, who had just issued the weapons to the two, couldn't help but cast envious glances at them from time to time.

Everyone in the camp basically knew that the three people who broke through to the Earth-Digging Realm at the same time the day before yesterday, except for Cheng Feng who continued to lead the collection team, Lin Kai and Xu Ning were both promoted to the hunting team.

Camp supply station, artisan workshop, hunting team, logging team, collection team.

Although on the surface, the five departments of Great Xia perform their own duties, and there is no distinction between high and low, people love to compare, especially after contribution points are quantified, the gap in treatment and status becomes very obvious.

The members of the hunting team are deservedly the first echelon of Great Xia. The status of these people is even higher than the heads of the three departments, Cheng Feng, Bai Dongying, and Mu Dong.

The reason is also very simple: first is strength, and second is contribution points.

Take clothes as an example. Currently, in the entire camp, only all members of the hunting team wear a full set of clothes, and even their families mostly wear them.

As for the other four departments, adding up to over a hundred people, they wear clothes, many of whom benefited from the contribution points accidentally obtained from driving away the Gnawing Rats. From the proportion, they can't compare with the hunting team.

Of course, there is a reason for the number of people, but everyone knows clearly that the most important thing is that the other four departments' ability to obtain contribution points is not as good as the hunting team.

Currently, the way to obtain contribution points in the camp is basically logging and hunting. People in the other four departments can only rely on logging, and can only log wood and crystal fruit. At most, they can earn ten or twenty contribution points a day, which is the limit.

But the people in the hunting team are different. Just mining alone, they can earn up to fifty or sixty contribution points a day; daily forging of ironware, hunting low-level cold beasts, collecting medicinal materials in the depths of Red Wood Ridge, and occasionally being assigned to protect the Woodcutting Realm members who go out to log...

Just the ways to obtain contribution points are more than theirs.

Not to mention the amount obtained in a single time is also much larger than theirs.

Of course, more importantly, it is following the leader to hunt intermediate cold beasts.

Everyone in the camp now knows that one intermediate Snow-Maned Beast is worth 4500 contribution points, and the leader doesn't participate in the distribution. In the past half month, the hunting team could bring back three intermediate Snow-Maned Beasts every night.

This means that the fifteen people in the hunting team can share 900 contribution points every night...

One night, 900 points!

What does 900 contribution points mean?

It means that in one night, you can exchange for six sets of clothes, or a five-stone iron-fetal bow, a big knife, dozens of ordinary iron tools, not to mention other wooden products and animal hide products...

Just this point alone is enough to make everyone crazy.

Anyone in the camp with a bit of ambition is now exerting all their strength, thinking about breaking through to the Earth-Digging Realm as soon as possible and becoming a member of the hunting team.

Therefore, it is no surprise that Lin Kai and Xu Ning, who were the first to arrive, could arouse the envy of these people.

"Alright, you two, your mouths are stretched to your ears. Don't show off here. Have you applied the fire-condensing oil?"

The other members of the hunting team also arrived one after another.

Yue Feng saw the proud look on the two of them and joked with a smile.

"Hahaha, brother-in-law, it's already applied."

"Hehe, it's not easy to go out with the leader. As soon as night fell, Lin Kai and I came here to prepare. We're just waiting for you and the leader!"

Yue Feng is Lin Kai's brother-in-law. Plus Xu Ning and Lin Kai were originally the first batch of Woodcutting Realm members in Great Xia, so the three of them were originally very close.

"Going out for the first time, you two rented both the big knife and the iron-fetal bow. For this month, the rent alone is 100 contribution points. Whether you can earn it back is another matter!"

"Plus the fire-condensing oil and torches, you haven't started earning contribution points yet, and you've already spent over 150 points. Don't end up spending more than you earn!"

Luo Yuan and Zhao Long on the side also couldn't help but join in the teasing.

"Ah, what should I do? My contribution points are not enough!"

Lin Kai pretended to be nervous, but the traces of acting were too heavy, and everyone couldn't help but laugh softly when they saw it.

"Don't try to fool me. I've already inquired. Going out with the leader once, at the very least, you can earn 900 contribution points. Don't say these things only cost 150 points a month, even if it were 1500 points, I wouldn't be afraid!"

"Hahahahahaha..."

Everyone laughed out loud. Luo Yuan and Zhao Long, who failed to tease and were seen through, also couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Xia Chuan, who walked out of the camp supply station, also couldn't help but laugh.

As long as they can stably go out with Xia Hong, renting these materials, let alone 1500 points, even if it were double, they would rent it without hesitation. After all, even so, they still have profit.

The rent for the big knife and iron-fetal bow currently charged is more symbolic. After all, there are not many people in the Earth-Digging Realm in the camp currently.

"Are you all ready?"

However, with Xia Hong's voice coming from the stairwell, everyone's laughter stopped immediately, and they all turned to look at the stairwell.

Xia Hong, carrying a double-edged giant axe, holding an iron-fetal bow, and with that ceremonial blade tucked at his waist, was still wearing a black cloak and black animal hide boots, walking slowly down from the stairwell.

Strangely, Xia Hong's physique is actually not outstanding among the hunting team members. Yuan Cheng, Luo Yuan, Zhao Long, and several others all have more robust physiques than him.

But in the eyes of everyone, Xia Hong walking down from the stairwell at this moment seems to be several times larger than all of them, and invisible air currents seem to be surging around his body, giving a sense of inexplicable oppression.

And as the distance gets closer, this sense of oppression becomes more profound and thick.

It seems to make people unable to breathe evenly...

"Are you all deaf?"

Xia Hong's thunderous voice rang in their ears, and everyone was startled, immediately answering in unison: "Ready!"

Xia Hong nodded, his gaze slowly shifted to the edge of the crowd, looking at Xu Ning and Lin Kai, a smile appeared on his face.

"Let's go!"

"Yes, Leader!"

Seventeen people all nodded in agreement, fully armed, followed Xia Hong, left the camp, and plunged into Red Wood Ridge.

After entering Red Wood Ridge, Xia Hong led the group directly to the north.

Seventeen people, more or less, showed excitement on their faces.

They all knew that this outing might not be for hunting. The main purpose was to patrol the northern territory and see if the people in the Mirror Immortal camp had crossed the boundary during this period.

The time with the Gnawing Rat group, He Meng's aggressive posture, was still fresh in their memory. The hunting team members of the camp didn't have a good impression of the Mirror Immortal camp, so they were eager to run into them.

The territory originally delineated by the Lu Shang camp was actually only the northernmost five hundred meters. Xia Hong ordered everyone to disperse and look at this five-hundred-meter area on the periphery, and they soon searched it all.

People who returned one after another also reported their discoveries.

"In many places, there are traces of human activity."

"The low-level cold beasts on the periphery are obviously much fewer, they must have been hunted."

"Many trees were also cut down, it must be the people from the Mirror Immortal camp."

The content of everyone's report was within Xia Hong's expectations.

But realizing that the words he asked Director Yu Wen Tao to bring back were not taken to heart by the people in the Mirror Immortal camp at all, his face still sank a lot.

"I found traces of a large group of people walking inside on the west side. It's very fresh, it should be within an hour or two!"

Until Luo Yuan, who returned last, finished speaking.

Xia Hong immediately turned to look at the west side and said in a deep voice:

"Go, go in, let's see how capable these people are!"

Hearing the anger contained in Xia Hong's deep voice, everyone's expressions became much more solemn, and they quickly followed Xia Hong, rushing toward the west, that is, the depths of Red Wood Ridge.

The traces of activity on the periphery were very clear, and it could be roughly judged that the number of hunting teams in the Mirror Immortal camp was over twenty, similar to the last time they met.

But the further they walked into Red Wood Ridge, these traces of activity slowly became blurred, and even disappeared directly later.

"The snow inside is too thick, the temperature is too low, the density of cold beasts is also high, and they seem to have deliberately covered their traces of activity. Can't find them!"

After venturing about thirteen hundred meters deeper, finding that the traces of the other party could no longer be tracked, Xia Hong looked at the deeper part of the west side, his brow slightly furrowed.

Previously, when leading the team to hunt, except for the first time when chasing the Snow-Maned Beast, he accidentally ventured four or five kilometers deep. Most of the time, he basically controlled the hunting area within a 1500-meter range.

At the current position, the 1500-meter range is basically clear.

Even if you can't see it, the size of the intermediate cold beast is there. As long as the other party is hunting, if you put your ears on the ground, you can hear some movement.

But here, there is still no discovery.

Then there is only one possibility...

"The strength of this Mirror Immortal camp is already stronger than ours. In the past half month, if they have been hunting here, it's not strange to go deeper. Big brother, let's look deeper!"

Xia Chuan's tone carried a hint of ruthlessness, as if he wouldn't stop until he found the people in the Jingxian camp.

The others heard the sound and nodded, clearly agreeing with Xia Chuan's words.

"Then keep looking deeper. Xia Chuan, you are in the front. The rest of you, two people in a group, disperse and look. Pay attention to concealment. When you get to a place, listen to the movement on the ground first. This should be faster to find them!"

With Xia Hong and Xia Chuan in the front as the center, the other sixteen people dispersed in groups of two, searching while moving deeper.

The range was not large, and after everyone dispersed like this, soon, only half an hour later, a group heard movement.

"Northwest side, don't know how far, but can hear the vibration!"

It was Yuan Cheng and Luo Yuan who went to the northwest side.

Hearing the report, Xia Hong blew a few bone whistles lightly.

Xia Chuan in the front, and the other six groups, soon gathered around.

"There is one group left, who is missing?"

Seeing that only seven groups returned, Xia Hong frowned.

Everyone confirmed it with each other, and soon knew who it was.

"It's Xu Ning and Lin Kai!"

Hearing the names of these two, the expressions of the others sank.

"These two silly boys, they didn't run too far, did they?"

"Going out hunting for the first time, no experience, maybe they went far."

"Split up, look around..."

Xia Hong subconsciously gave up the intention of searching on the northwest side, and asked everyone to split up to find the two, but he hadn't finished speaking when Lin Kai's voice came from the east side.

"Leader, Leader, hurry, hurry and come with me, big discovery!"

Lin Kai's face was filled with obvious ecstasy. He didn't even walk over from ten meters away, and shouted directly at Xia Hong.

Xia Hong's expression was a bit suspicious, but seeing that there was nothing unusual about Lin Kai, he followed him over.

The others pondered for a while, their expressions were also suspicious, but seeing that Xia Hong had already walked over, they immediately followed behind.

Everyone followed Lin Kai and walked over three hundred meters to the east side, before they saw Xu Ning waving at them from a large tree in the distance.

The moment they saw Xu Ning, everyone's pupils shrank.

"There is a cold beast on Xu Ning's head!" "That cold beast is not moving, is it asleep?"

"Demon Sheep, it's a Demon Sheep."

"No, it seems to be..."

While everyone was exclaiming, they quickly took out the bows and arrows on their backs. The Zhao Long brothers, who were the fastest, had even nocked arrows and were ready to fire.

"Wait, that Demon Sheep is already dead!"

Xia Hong, who was walking in the front, interrupted the group's discussion. While his face showed joy, he also had some guesses in his heart, and then quickly swept toward Xu Ning's position.

"Leader, this Demon Sheep is already dead, there are many wounds on its body, it should be someone else's prey, temporarily stored here!"

On the large tree, Xia Hong reached out and touched the knife wound on the Demon Sheep's forehead. Looking at the bloodstains on the wound that hadn't completely dried, his expression instantly became strange.

The others had also climbed up the large tree at this time. Looking at the huge Demon Sheep carcass, posed as if it were sleeping, after pondering for a moment, their expressions instantly became playful.

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"This... was it hunted by the Jingxian camp?"

"It must be. Just like us, one is not enough for one night, so they hunt one first and store it here, and when the hunt is over, they will take it back together!"

"Hahahahaha, this is really..."

"Does this belong to us picking it up for free?"

"Hahahahaha, let's see if they dare to reach out again. This is interesting. We haven't hunted a Demon Sheep yet!"

The hunting team became excited.

Xia Hong put away his strange expression at this time, pondered for only a moment, looked back at Xia Chuan, pointed at the Demon Sheep and instructed: "Drain all its blood!"

"Leader, don't you want the meat?"

Intermediate cold beasts are mainly blood. The meat is actually not much different from low-level cold beasts. However, an intermediate cold beast yields at least four or five thousand pounds of meat. With so much meat, it's a pity to leave it so cheaply to the Jingxian camp.

"It's precisely to leave the meat, otherwise how would they know that it was us who drained the blood? Hahahahahaha..."

Xia Chuan reacted quickly, laughed a few times, took out a soft leather bag, cut open the Demon Sheep's chest, and started draining blood.

The others were stunned when they heard Xia Chuan's words, but then immediately reacted, and a bad smile appeared on their faces.

That's right, if they took the whole cold beast, the other party might think it was done by other cold beasts. Draining the blood and leaving the meat was clearly man-made.

"Hunted the Demon Sheep at the risk of death, but the blood was all drained by us, haha!"

In just a while, the Demon Sheep's blood was all drained. Xia Chuan put away the leather bag and couldn't help but laugh a few times.

Xia Hong was also in a great mood. He looked back at Lin Kai and Xu Ning, his expression full of appreciation, and waved his hand heroically: "Xu Ning, Lin Kai, you two did well. This bag of Demon Sheep blood counts as 3000 contribution points, you two split it!"

Hearing that they could each share 1500 contribution points, Lin Kai and Xu Ning were stunned for a moment. After reacting, they were excited and bowed to Xia Hong:

"Thank you, Leader!"

Going out for the first time, they hadn't even started hunting cold beasts, and they actually shared 1500 contribution points.

Lin Kai and Xu Ning were full of excitement and agitation. Even Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and others beside them couldn't help but feel a bit envious when looking at them.

"Alright, Luo Yuan, lead the way, go to the northwest and see if it's them!"

According to the traces seen on the periphery before, in the past half month, the Jingxian camp has come many times, and I don't know how many intermediate cold beasts they have hunted.

These cold beast resources all belong to the Great Xia camp!

The blood of this one Demon Sheep is not enough to pay off their debts.

A cold light flashed in Xia Hong's eyes. He let Luo Yuan lead the way, led the group, and leaned toward the position where he had just heard the movement.

Everyone followed Luo Yuan and walked about a kilometer to the northwest, and immediately felt the movement coming from the ground in the distance.

"On the west side, listening to the movement, it should be about four or five hundred meters away!"

Even at night, the visibility of Red Wood Ridge is actually not low.

It is mainly because the trees are in the way. These large trees have a diameter of more than ten meters, and thicker ones also exist, so once they are far away, the line of sight is easily blocked, and they can only judge the direction and approximate distance through the movement.

After Xia Hong got up from the ground, he looked back at the crowd and said: "It's the same as before. Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan follow me. The others use our three positions as a benchmark, disperse in the rear, prepare bows and arrows immediately when you see people, pay attention to my gestures!"

The tacit understanding cultivated over a long period allowed everyone to immediately understand Xia Hong's intention, and fifteen people quickly dispersed to the surroundings.

"Let's go, go over and take a look!"

Seeing that everyone else had dispersed, Xia Hong gave an order, took Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan, and leaned directly toward the location where the movement was just heard.

Crack... bang... swish... swish...

"Keep shooting, don't stop!"

"This beast has entered the Kui Swamp and has no strength left, hurry up and shoot arrows!"

"Roar..."

As the distance got closer and closer, the movement in front gradually became clearer.

There were sounds of large trees breaking and collapsing, sounds of arrows being fired in succession, sounds of command, and roars of cold beasts...

When the distance was pulled to about a hundred meters, everyone actually saw the scene of a group of people hunting in front.

Under a giant Ice-Shuo tree, seven or eight people holding giant axes were constantly circling with a vine dragon, while arrows were constantly flying out from a dozen large trees around, shooting at the vulnerable parts of the vine dragon's body.

Behind that large tree, there was also a Golden-Armored Lei Kui, covered in wounds, lying on the ground, completely motionless. Its body length was also nearly ten meters, similar in size to the Golden-Armored Lei Kui they saw last time.

"Is this, vine dragon?"

"It's vine dragon, but visually it's sixty or seventy meters long, it should be intermediate!"

"No, on that side, there is another one!"

"That's the Golden-Armored Lei Kui we saw last time, it's already dead."

"This group of people, their strength is so strong, they just killed a thunder beast and then attacked the vine dragon?"

"Not only that, thunder beast, vine dragon, plus that Demon Sheep, this group of people actually hunted three intermediate cold beasts of different species in a row."

The group's discussion, Xia Hong didn't feel much before.

Only when hearing Xia Chuan's last sentence did his expression become much more solemn.

It is a giant camp after all, and its foundation is still much stronger than Great Xia.

Hunting three different species of intermediate cold beasts in a row, this is not just about having strength, but also having enough understanding of the habits, skills, and weaknesses of different cold beasts.

These precious experiences must be obtained by predecessors risking their lives to try, which can be considered one of the most precious treasures of a camp, not something that can be obtained just by hiding in the camp and cultivating.

"Look carefully, just see where the vine dragon's weakness is!"

Hearing Xia Hong's words, Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan immediately realized that this was a rare learning opportunity, their eyes lit up slightly, and they hurriedly stared at it.

"Intermediate vine dragon, doesn't it produce poisonous mist like low-level vine dragon?"

"Impossible, this should be considered one of the special advantages of vine dragon. There is no reason for it to disappear after evolution!"

Hearing the confusion of the two, Xia Hong also frowned slightly, but after watching the battle scene of the people in the Jingxian camp for a while, he immediately had some guesses.

"They don't dare to touch the vine dragon's body, and they have been intentionally or unintentionally leading the vine dragon into that swamp."

Xia Hong said, watching the vine dragon's movements carefully.

Coincidentally, the vine dragon's body just fell into the swamp at this time. It opened its fangs, trying to use its tail to support the ground, raise its upper body, and twist its body to attack the people behind it.

A magical scene happened.

The vine dragon's tail, when exerted on the swamp, actually started to sink in, and the harder it exerted, the faster it sank.

In a short while, more than ten meters of its tail were all buried.

And after sinking in, it couldn't pull it out...

"The thunder beast's habitat can actually be used to hunt vine dragon!"

Seeing this, Xia Hong understood immediately, and couldn't help but exclaim in his heart. Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan beside him had expressions similar to his.

Of course, exclamation is exclamation.

Xia Chuan didn't forget the purpose of running here to find the people in the Jingxian camp tonight.

He saw very clearly that among the people in the Jingxian camp in front, the one leading and directing the crowd was He Meng.

Seeing that the vine dragon had already sunk a small half of its body into the swamp, he hurriedly turned his head and reminded Xia Hong softly:

"Big brother, it's almost time. If we don't make a move, this vine dragon will die!"

Xia Hong had already surveyed the terrain nearby. Seeing that the vine dragon's injuries were constantly worsening and realizing that time was running out, he immediately turned his head to Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan and whispered a few words.

The two heard this, their eyes lit up slightly, and then they took out a few prepared torches from their bodies, split up, and ran to the left and right sides, just bypassing the north and south sides of He Meng and his group who were surrounding the vine dragon.

Xia Hong looked around, picked a large tree, climbed directly to the top position of seventy or eighty meters, and looked to the left and right sides.

Soon, a kilometer away in the south, a torch lit up first.

Immediately after, nearly two kilometers away in the north, a torch also lit up.

Although they were far away and the light from the torches was relatively weak, Xia Hong still saw clearly that the two torches were moving rapidly toward the middle.

Of course, the torches were secondary.

What is important is that as the two torches approached, Xia Hong saw clearly that on the north and south sides, there was a behemoth approaching the torches rapidly.

Bang bang bang...

As the behemoth approached, the movement also gradually became larger.

He Meng and his group, who had not yet killed the vine dragon, also changed color suddenly and looked toward the north and south sides respectively.

"Help!"

"Save me, save me..."

As the two fires approached from the distant dense forest, screams of panic came from the north and south sides respectively.

He Meng and others, although their bows and arrows hadn't stopped.

But their faces were already iron-blue.

"How could someone come at this time!"

"Still being chased by cold beasts..."

"Bad thing, bad thing, these two bastards!"

"Get out, all get out, don't lead the cold beasts over, run elsewhere!"

He Meng, who was at a loss, even roared directly at the people approaching from the north and south sides, trying to drive the two away.

But his roar was destined to be in vain.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan, although pretending to be panicked, were already happy in their hearts. They were still more than a hundred meters away from He Meng and others, estimating that the cold beasts behind them were already very close and were about to be caught up.

The two threw the torches in their hands directly at them...

Why does everyone say I update less? Daily average 6000, occasionally 7, 8 thousand, really not less.

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