Chapter 171: Snow Bamboo, Longyou, Sudden Wealth

"Leader, those corpses just now have all disappeared. The entire encampment is empty. Except for us, we can't find a single person, and there is no movement."

"There is none on my side either."

"None here either, they are all empty."

By the bamboo building, as Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the others all returned one after another, Xia Hong also put away the mirror in his hand and stopped thinking.

"Leader Xia Hong, we have searched the warehouse, cellar, and all the houses. There is no one left. All those who believed in the Mirror Immortal and committed suicide once should have been taken away by He Yuanhun's different-dimensional space."

Director Yu Wen Tao soon returned with forty people.

Looking at Director Yu Wen Tao and his group, Xia Hong revealed a thought-provoking look.

Just now he only ordered the sixty-seven people, including Xia Chuan, to search the Mirror Immortal encampment.

But Director Yu Wen Tao, hearing the order, also took people to go.

What this means is very clear.

Director Yu Wen Tao clearly also noticed Xia Hong's look. He exchanged glances with Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan beside him. Seeing that all four nodded, he pondered for a moment and walked slowly in front of Xia Hong.

"If you don't abandon us, I hope Leader Xia Hong can accept us, as well as the remaining three thousand-plus people in the encampment. We are all willing to merge into Great Xia from now on, and for Leader Xia Hong, we will go through fire and water, and will not refuse!"

A look of request appeared on Director Yu Wen Tao's face. After finishing speaking, he bowed slightly.

Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan also bowed with him, and the other thirty-six Earth-Digging Realm experts behind them also bowed to Xia Hong together.

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the Great Xia crowd, seeing this scene, immediately revealed a look of excitement, their expressions extremely thrilled.

It was Xia Hong, who had expected this scene long ago, whose expression didn't change much.

Director Yu Wen Hu was dead, He Yuanhun was gone, there were still three thousand-plus people in the Mirror Immortal encampment, but the remaining Earth-Digging Realm experts were only forty-plus. Relying on such few people to continue occupying the arrow bamboo forest to support the others was impossible.

Not to mention Great Xia, even the Beehive encampment in the same Pingxi Plain, once they understood the situation, could not accommodate them.

Besides, Xia Hong bringing so many people here tonight was not just to eliminate the strange monster.

Director Yu Wen Tao is a smart person, naturally knowing how to choose.

"Get up. We are all one family from now on. It's not early, you take people to count the remaining valuable property in the encampment. Take the important ones away tonight, and leave the unimportant ones to be taken slowly later."

Although he knew in his heart, Xia Hong would most likely not refuse, but truly hearing his answer, Director Yu Wen Tao's heart still relaxed fiercely.

According to his understanding of Great Xia's current strength, whether Xia Hong would agree readily was really an unknown.

Great Xia's strength is mainly reflected in the leader, Xia Hong.

The strength of the people below is actually very average.

And wanting to support enough people, relying on one person is definitely not possible.

Furthermore, Great Xia has a total of only one thousand-plus people. Accepting their three thousand-plus people, how to manage and how to integrate will be a huge problem.

Whether Xia Hong has other plans, he couldn't be sure in his heart.

Fortunately, Xia Hong's confidence and decisiveness far exceeded his imagination.

"Hong Tian, you go notify Hong Guang, let him take those three thousand-plus people and wait for a while in the arrow bamboo forest. We will move directly to Great Xia tonight; Meng Yi, take people to move coal; Zhu Ling, take people to move iron; Zhu Yuan, go move raw bamboo silk, crystal fruit, and cold beast meat, make a quick decision."

With Director Yu Wen Tao's order, except for Hong Tian going to the arrow bamboo forest on the south side, the remaining thirty-nine Earth-Digging Realm experts immediately divided into three groups and began to move supplies.

"Leader, we'll go help too."

Of course, Xia Chuan and the others didn't idle either. Hearing that they were going to move supplies, their eyes lit up, and they all followed.

Last time Xia Hong killed He Meng and his group of twenty-five, he harvested such rich supplies; this time what they harvested was the supplies of the entire Mirror Immortal encampment.

A giant encampment of twelve thousand people, how rich the stored supplies are, no need to think to know.

Xia Hong didn't accompany the crowd to count the supplies, just walked to the side of the collapsed wall of the bamboo building and took out a section of snow-white bamboo, looking at it carefully.

The bamboo was about ten centimeters in diameter. Except for the snow-white color which was relatively special, it was actually not much different from the green bamboo in the arrow bamboo forest.

Of course, the most important thing was that on the outside of this white bamboo, a layer of dense sharp thorns of ten-plus centimeters grew.

Recalling the moment he approached the bamboo building earlier, these bristles shot toward him like they had come alive, Xia Hong's brows condensed slightly.

"This white bamboo is a bit like the green bamboo fence, it's just that the impact force shot out is slightly smaller, about eight or nine thousand jin. It's no problem to defend against low-level cold beasts, but I don't know if the yield is high."

The sharp thorns shot out by the green bamboo fence had an impact force of ten thousand jin, but the density of the sharp thorns was not as good as this snow-white bamboo. Xia Hong's mind couldn't help but become active.

If the yield of this snow-white bamboo is high, using it to arrange a circle around the encampment, the defensive power will definitely be impressive.

However, the hope shouldn't be high!

Xia Hong looked at the bamboo building and shook his head slightly.

This bamboo building was where He Yuanhun lived. The entire Mirror Immortal had only one, from which one could see that its yield should not be high, or the difficulty of obtaining it was too great.

"Leader, this thing is called Snow Bamboo. The layer of bristles on the outside can autonomously sense and attack enemies in front. It generally grows deep in the arrow bamboo forest. Every time a cold beast tide passes, a few will emerge. If not harvested in time, it will turn into ordinary green bamboo, so for so many years, we have only collected this little bit."

Director Yu Wen Tao, who returned, saw Xia Hong observing the bamboo and immediately came up to explain.

As expected, Xia Hong put down the Snow Bamboo, remembered the cold beast tide every four months in the arrow bamboo forest, and his expression moved slightly.

"How much do you know about the cold beast tide in the arrow bamboo forest?"

Director Yu Wen Tao was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted. After merging into Great Xia, the arrow bamboo forest would naturally become Great Xia's territory from now on. It was normal for Xia Hong to open his mouth to understand the situation.

Pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth: "I don't know the specific reason, only that it happens every four months, coming with the ripening period of the Ice-Shuo tree. The quantity is extremely huge, estimated to be more than ten thousand."

Hearing the quantity of more than ten thousand, Xia Hong's expression instantly stiffened.

No wonder he didn't know. A cold beast tide of more than ten thousand, let alone He Yuanhun and Director Yu Wen Hu, even him now, seeing it would have to go around.

Not to mention trying to probe, if one were accidentally swept into it, there would be no chance to escape, estimated to be directly crushed into fragments.

"More than ten thousand, how big is the arrow bamboo forest in total, they have never rushed to this basin side once?"

The body size of cold beasts is extremely terrifying. Medium-level cold beasts have a body length of seven or eight meters, not to mention high-level, or even more powerful ones.

More than ten thousand cold beasts gathered together, and it happens every four months.

That the arrow bamboo forest hasn't been razed to the ground is already outrageous.

That the Mirror Immortal encampment, just one kilometer north of the arrow bamboo forest, hasn't been discovered by the cold beasts is even more incredible.

Director Yu Wen Tao heard this and immediately took out a beast scroll from his bosom.

"This is the terrain map we drew earlier, Leader please look!"

As Director Yu Wen Tao unfolded it while explaining, Xia Hong also had a clear understanding of the arrow bamboo forest and the terrain on the Pingxi Plain side.

Generally speaking, the arrow bamboo forest should be located on the north ridge of the Twin Dragon Mountains, separated from Red Wood Ridge on the west side by only a mountain road;

This bamboo forest should be east-west oriented, which means the side near Red Wood Ridge is the west end of the bamboo forest;

The basin where the Mirror Immortal is located is one kilometer north of the bamboo forest, which is the east side of the Pingxi Plain. Further east, it is the north ridge of the Twin Dragon Mountains again.

"I heard He Yuanhun say that the arrow bamboo forest is east-west oriented and is about seventy-plus miles long. Except for the cold beast tide every four months, a very small number of cold beasts will be left inside. At other times, there are not many cold beasts entrenched inside, so our hunting difficulty was relatively high before, which is why......"

Speaking of this, Director Yu Wen Tao paused, and a look of apology appeared on his face.

This is why they wanted to snatch Red Wood Ridge from Great Xia so much.

Xia Hong naturally knew the reason and waved his hand slightly, indicating it didn't matter.

"Hunting difficulty is high, one is that there are few cold beasts, and two, the cold beast breeds in the arrow bamboo forest are extremely single. Almost ninety percent are a cold beast called Bai Pi. This cold beast is snow-white all over, has a very strong hiding ability, and its defensive power is also extremely amazing. Low-level ones are okay, medium-level ones, unless my father and He Yuanhun take action personally, there is basically no possibility of hunting."

Director Yu Wen Tao said while opening another scroll.

Xia Hong took the scroll and saw that the cold beasts recorded inside reached twenty-one, and his eyes instantly lit up.

Great Xia Cold Beast Record, so far, truly detailed records are Bone-Spike Frost Wolf, Long-Tongue Snow Mane, Gold-Eye Demon Sheep, Blue Moon Essence, Cloud-Mist Teng Dragon, Long-Tail Gnawing Mouse, Gold-Armor Lei Kui, a total of seven kinds.

Browsing through the scroll, sure enough, the seven kinds recorded by Great Xia were all inside.

The four medium-level cold beasts sent by He Yuanhun when he visited Great Xia before, Fire-Stone Tiger, Frost-Electric Ape, and Green-Thunder Roar, were also inside.

Except for these ten kinds, there were eleven kinds that Xia Hong had never seen before.

The Bai Pi mentioned by Director Yu Wen Tao was also among them.

Putting the cold beast scroll aside, Xia Hong continued to look at the map, listening to Director Yu Wen Tao's subsequent explanation.

"The arrow bamboo forest is seventy-plus miles long in total. Earlier, He Yuanhun personally led the encampment's only high-level hunting team, and the deepest time was twenty miles. That time he was also injured. I heard it was because he ran into a group of medium-level White Bears.

Too deep in the east, we couldn't go, so we could only explore from north to south. About six-plus months ago, we just finished exploring the ten-mile area on the west side of the entire arrow bamboo forest and discovered that small road, as well as Red Wood Ridge."

It's about to be dawn, today should be March 19th. The first contact with He Meng and the others was when solving the Gnawing Mouse group. Xia Hong still remembered that He Meng said at the time that the arrow bamboo forest had belonged to the Mirror Immortal three months ago.

Calculating this way, the time matched exactly.

Looking at the ten miles marked north-south on the west side of the arrow bamboo forest on the map, a strange look appeared on Xia Hong's face.

Ten miles north-south, this is still the west end of the arrow bamboo forest, the narrowest position. Adding the twenty miles He Yuanhun led the team to penetrate, this area accounts for less than one-tenth of the entire arrow bamboo forest.

He Meng actually dared to say at the time that the entire arrow bamboo forest belonged to the Mirror Immortal encampment.

This bragging is too much.

Judging from the depth of exploration, it can barely be justified.

Seventy miles in total east-west, He Yuanhun led the team to penetrate almost one-third.

His own strength is a line stronger than He Yuanhun's. Leading the team to continue penetrating should not be a problem. Calculating this way, taking the entire arrow bamboo forest as his own should not be too far away.

"That is to say, the resource land of the Mirror Immortal encampment, generally speaking, is this side on the west of the arrow bamboo forest, the area around the encampment is your activity area, your total territory is probably......"

Xia Hong framed the entire arrow bamboo forest on the scroll, and then circled the basin and the area nearby inside.

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"This piece!"

An area of twenty miles north-south and seventy-plus miles east-west was drawn on the scroll. Seeing Director Yu Wen Tao nod, Xia Hong's brows condensed, pointed his finger at the large plain on the west side of the basin, and opened his mouth in a low voice:

"Pingxi Plain, you never go there?"

The general situation of Pingxi Plain, before coming through the arrow bamboo forest to the Mirror Immortal encampment last night, Xia Hong had already observed it.

Although it is generally an endless ice and snow plain, there are also several high mountains and mounds in the middle. The ice-covered trees and vegetation are not absent, just not as many as Red Wood Ridge.

Just from the terrain, there is definitely no lack of cold beasts in Pingxi Plain.

Arrow bamboo forest is not easy to hunt, why not go to Pingxi Plain.

"Beehive encampment?"

Hearing Xia Hong's slightly guessing tone, Director Yu Wen Tao nodded helplessly.

"This basin of ours is generally located in the southeast corner of Pingxi Plain. To the west and north, it is the sphere of influence of the Beehive encampment. Before, we had a few dealings with the Beehive encampment. To be honest, just them alone, wanting to stop us from entering Pingxi Plain is impossible......"

Speaking of this, Director Yu Wen Tao paused and slowly said four words:

"Longyou Alliance!"

After a narration, Xia Hong finally understood.

Why the Mirror Immortal encampment dared not covet Pingxi Plain.

How big Pingxi Plain is in total, no one knows, but not very far from the Beehive encampment, there are eleven other giant encampments with a population of over ten thousand.

These twelve encampments united together and formed a Longyou Alliance, not allowing any other encampment to covet Pingxi Plain. If anyone violates it, they will jointly target them.

Longyou?

Hearing this name, a strange look appeared on Xia Hong's face. He didn't ask about the details of other alliances, but became interested in this name and asked:

"Why is it called Longyou Alliance?"

Director Yu Wen Tao reached out and pointed to the left side of the scroll, which is a position very far to the west of the Mirror Immortal encampment, where a high mountain was marked.

"This mountain is named Long. There is a Longshan encampment entrenched here. I heard my father say that this alliance has lasted for decades. It was first proposed by this Longshan encampment. Because the other eleven encampments are all located on the east side of Longshan, it is named Longyou Alliance."

Xia Hong nodded. After understanding, a look of thought appeared on his face.

It is not strange for multiple encampments to unite to circle land for self-preservation.

Before Red Wood Ridge, it was also divided by the Rogge encampment.

This Longyou Alliance is roughly equivalent to the situation in Red Wood Ridge before, but it is an enhanced version. They not only divided the east side of Pingxi Plain but also united to exclude outsiders.

"Leader should also have noticed that the north side of Red Wood Ridge should extend to the Pingxi Plain side. As far as I know, the Beehive encampment will also enter Red Wood Ridge from the north to hunt. Judging from the depth, after a long time, it will definitely bump into our encampment in the future!"

Subconsciously saying Great Xia, Director Yu Wen Tao hurriedly changed his words and changed it to our encampment.

Xia Hong didn't care either. After looking at the map, his expression condensed slightly.

Great Xia Valley is located on the east side of Red Wood Ridge;

The Pingxi Plain where the Beehive encampment is located is on the north side of Red Wood Ridge.

If the two encampments continuously expand the resource collection range into Red Wood Ridge, bumping into each other in the future is certain.

Xia Hong shook his head slightly, thinking of the Great Xia crowd, including himself, who had always regarded Red Wood Ridge as Great Xia's private property, which was a bit ridiculous.

Great Xia so far, the range of penetrating into Red Wood Ridge from the east side is only about three or four kilometers, and the north-south span is about ten kilometers. Such a small area is estimated to be a drop in the bucket for the entire Red Wood Ridge.

Earlier saying He Meng was bragging, he himself was also bragging.

"Hand the map to me. After going back, merge this map with Great Xia's existing one, and the sphere of influence of the encampment will be clear from now on."

Taking the map from Director Yu Wen Tao's hand, a look of excitement flashed in Xia Hong's eyes.

A map of course doesn't count for anything.

What is important is the meaning represented behind this map.

The area explored by the Mirror Immortal encampment for so many years, the territory occupied.

From tonight on, it belongs to Great Xia.

Consuming so much beast blood; using so many system resources; risking his life to break through to the Cold-Resisting Grade; passing that cold beast tide; risking such a big risk to eliminate the Mirror Immortal; driving away He Yuanhun......

Everything Xia Hong did, at this moment, finally ushered in the harvest moment!

However, the harvest is far more than these.

The people Director Yu Wen Tao ordered to go out have returned one after another.

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and the Great Xia crowd also followed back.

Over a hundred people, almost everyone had a huge leather bag on their back.

The Mirror Immortal encampment people are still okay.

The Great Xia crowd, the joy on their faces, almost couldn't be concealed.

If it weren't for worrying about the feelings of Director Yu Wen Tao and the others, I'm afraid the moment they saw Xia Hong, they would have shouted out excitedly.

Meng Yi subconsciously walked toward Director Yu Wen Tao, just about to open his mouth, seeing Director Yu Wen Tao's eye signal, immediately understood, and bowed to Xia Hong:

"Leader, the iron ore stored in the encampment, totaling over 1.9 million jin, has all been counted. It is difficult to move it back at once, so we can only bring people to move it later."

Zhu Ling also followed behind and bowed to Xia Hong:

"Leader, coal stone storage, totaling 2.7 million jin, can only bring back a part tonight, and let people move it later."

Zhu Yuan was the last to rush over and opened his mouth:

"Leader, there are over 90,000 jin of raw bamboo silk, 210,000 jin of crystal fruit, over 70,000 jin of beast meat, and 1,500 jin of beast blood. We have ordered people to pack them up, ready to set off at any time."

Killing and setting fire brings a golden belt, the ancients did not deceive me.

1.9 million jin of iron, 2.7 million jin of coal, this is just the reserve quantity.

Finished weapons, ironware that can be used, how much must there be?

This wave, really can be considered sudden wealth!

Xia Hong's sigh in his heart hadn't ended yet, Director Yu Wen Tao opened his mouth again at this time.

"By the way, Leader, there are two iron mines on the east side of the encampment, and there is also a coal mine in the arrow bamboo forest, which have not been mined out yet. The specific location is also marked on the map just now. You will know when you go back and look."

Director Yu Wen Tao and his group reported, and Xia Chuan and the others who had waited for a long time finally couldn't hold back and opened their mouths.

"Leader, a total of over 4,700 weapons were collected, over 700 over a thousand jin, over 700 iron bows with a pulling force of over ten thousand jin, and the remaining 3,300 pieces, there are over 1,000 iron bows with a pulling force of five stones, and the rest are all over five hundred jin."

Hearing this astonishing number of weapons, Xia Hong couldn't help but reveal a look of joy.

"Divide the weapons, take them all back, raw bamboo silk, crystal fruit, beast meat, beast blood, also take them back, put down the coal stone and iron ore, I will take them alone!"

Hearing Xia Hong's words, Director Yu Wen Tao and his group's expressions were instantly stunned.

1.9 million jin of iron, 2.7 million jin of coal, a total of 4.6 million jin of supplies,

Xia Hong alone, how to take it?

Soon, they understood.

When seeing the iron ore and coal mine in the entire warehouse disappear under Xia Hong's touch, Director Yu Wen Tao and the forty-one people were instantly stunned.

"Set off, go back first!"

Xia Hong didn't take it seriously at all. Seeing that everyone had divided the supplies to be moved, he directly ordered to set off and return to the valley.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 172 =====