Chapter 189: Bai Pi, Shanhe Squad, Stranger

First Year of Great Xia, April 30th.

"Roar..."

Deep in the Arrow Bamboo Forest, a cold beast with a completely white body was roaring angrily at the sky.

The cold beast stood upright like a human, about four meters tall, covered in snow-white fur, with an exceptionally thick body. Its huge palms had steel-hook-like sharp claws over ten centimeters long, which were exceptionally terrifying.

Only at this moment, an iron arrow was stuck in its left eye, and dark green blood was spraying out from it. Its remaining right eye was bloodshot and red, roaring endlessly.

Not only the left eye, but the two palms of the cold beast were each stepped on by a half-meter-long ring-shaped beast trap. Although the serrations on the trap did not pierce the flesh, they were firmly embedded in its palms.

The two beast traps were also tied with ten ropes, which were pulled straight, extending more than ten meters in all directions. At the end of the ropes, ten people dressed in animal-skin clothes were gritting their teeth and pulling hard.

"Almost there, switch to one side, pull together!"

On a big tree on the left side of the cold beast, Watching Yue Feng roared.

The ten people pulling the ropes heard the sound and moved immediately.

They all quickly changed their standing positions, gathered together, and then gritted their teeth and exerted force, pulling the ropes backward violently.

"Roar..."

The beast trap was pulled in one direction, and the cold beast's body instantly tilted. Although it was still roaring and trying to stand firm, it only lasted less than three breaths before its body fell.

*Boom... *

With a loud noise, the cold beast's body collapsed and fell onto the snow, instantly stirring up a snow mist group over ten meters high.

The moment the cold beast fell, Watching Yue Feng, who was ready to fire on the big tree, locked his gaze on its right eye and suddenly released the bowstring in his hand.

*Whoosh... *

The iron arrow pierced through the heavy snow mist in mid-air and *pfft*—it accurately shot into the cold beast's right eye.

"Roar..."

With both eyes shot by iron arrows, the cold beast's roar became increasingly hysterical. Its ferocity was completely stimulated. Its huge palms slammed into the ground, and the area within dozens of meters instantly trembled.

*Boom... boom... *

"Let's see how hard you are to kill!"

Watching Yue Feng held a long sword, jumped down from the tree, and jumped directly onto the cold beast's head. Taking advantage of the fact that its roar had not yet dissipated and its mouth was not fully closed, he exerted force with both hands and thrust it straight into its mouth.

*Pfft... *

Dark green blood sprayed out. Watching Yue Feng's face was full of ferocity. He held the long sword with both hands and stirred it violently in its mouth.

At the same time, a steady stream of iron arrows was still shooting toward the cold beast's pupils. The ten people who had just pulled the ropes also rushed over with big knives, hacking and killing at the weak parts of the cold beast's body.

The cold beast's struggle before death was even more intense. Its huge palms were slamming indiscriminately in front of it. Watching Yue Feng and the other ten people were dodging constantly while hacking and killing.

But even so, three people were still accidentally hit by the cold beast's palm. The three who were hit flew backward like cannonballs for more than ten meters.

If it weren't for the snow on the ground to cushion them, this distance would have been even further.

*Pfft... *

Watching Yue Feng caught a gap and looked back, finding that the three were all vomiting blood and hadn't stood up from the ground for a long time. His face instantly flashed with anxiety.

*Boom... *

The cold beast's giant palm whistled over. After Watching Yue Feng lowered his body to dodge, he noticed the two iron arrows stuck in the cold beast's eyes. He gritted his teeth, turned his hands tightly on the sword hilt, turned his body suddenly, turned his legs suddenly, and stepped violently on the ends of the two iron arrows.

*Pfft... *

The 75-centimeter iron arrow, which had originally only been inserted about halfway, was completely buried in the cold beast's eyeball after Watching Yue Feng stepped on it with both legs.

"Roar..."

The cold beast felt pain. After a violent howl, its body bounced violently. This move directly knocked everyone, including Watching Yue Feng, away.

*Boom... *

Over ten people were knocked away and fell onto the snow. Except for Watching Yue Feng, everyone else vomited blood.

"Don't get close, use bows to shoot from a distance! It's already at its limit!"

Watching Yue Feng suppressed the *Qi* and blood surging in his chest, shouted to the others, and took the lead in pulling out his long bow, shooting continuously at the cold beast that was already staggering and fleeing toward the depths of the bamboo forest.

The others heard the sound and didn't dare to delay. They stood up strongly, dispersed, and all took out their long bows, shooting arrows crazily at the cold beast.

The cold beast was blind, and its fleeing movements were completely deformed. It kept hitting the big trees along the way. It only lasted for less than ten breaths before it was lived-to-death by Watching Yue Feng and others with iron arrows.

*Boom... *

The huge body fell onto the snow, making a loud noise.

"Phew..."

Watching Yue Feng's solemn face finally relaxed, and he let out a long breath.

"Captain, are you okay?"

"Finally dead. Hurry up and save people."

"Director Director Yu Wen was right. This white bear's vitality is too strong."

"That skin membrane is also scary. Just now, my big knife hacked at the same place at least five times before breaking a hole."

"If it weren't for shooting its eyes, it wouldn't necessarily have been taken down."

"The captain's last move was critical. Those two iron arrows were inserted deep into its skull, and it was still able to explode with such strong power, knocking all of us away."

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Watching Yue Feng stood in place and gasped for more than ten breaths. He didn't pay attention to everyone's discussion and quickly walked to the side of the three people who had just been hit by the white bear's giant palm.

"Yuankun, how are you guys?"

The three were all sitting barely. Li Yuankun, who had the lightest injuries, was applying Gold Sore Powder himself, and the other two with serious injuries each swallowed a Blood Sore Pill.

Li Yuankun was the first to recover. After gasping for a long time, he looked up at Watching Yue Feng, waved his hand and smiled: "It's okay. I just accidentally got hooked by its claws on my shoulder, and a hole was opened. It's not a big problem."

The other two swallowed the Blood Sore Pill and felt weak for a long time before opening their mouths:

"My bones are cracked. It should take three or four days to get better."

"I'm more serious. Two ribs are broken. It is estimated to take ten days."

Hearing that the two were so seriously injured, Watching Yue Feng's expression became low, and he apologized: "It's my fault. I shouldn't have been so reckless!"

"Captain, don't say that. Reclaiming land and drawing maps can earn contribution points, not to mention hunting cold beasts. We are all here voluntarily, and it has nothing to do with you."

Li Yuankun was the first to refute Watching Yue Feng, and the others also spoke up one after another.

"That's right, we are all here to earn contribution points."

"It has nothing to do with the captain. Everyone agreed to come."

"What's reckless? Arrow Bamboo Forest is our Great Xia's territory. It's good that we came a step early to act as scouts for others."

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Hearing everyone's words, Watching Yue Feng's eyes moved slightly.

As the second hunting squad created in the camp, Watching Yue Feng knew very well that the strength of the Shanhe Squad was not strong. But nine days ago, when he heard Xia Chuan say that he wanted to select the person in charge of the Mirror Valley station, he was still moved.

As one of the earliest members of Great Xia, having followed the leader Xia Hong for the longest time, Watching Yue Feng naturally had extremely high requirements for himself.

When the Hunting Department was reorganized last month, his basic strength didn't exceed 20,000 jin, so he didn't catch up with the first batch of squads created. He could only join Xia Chuan's Cloud Dragon Squad. He blamed himself for a long time at the time.

Later, he cultivated desperately. As soon as he passed the 20,000-jin threshold, Watching Yue Feng immediately told Xia Chuan his intentions, came out of the Cloud Dragon Squad, and created the Shanhe Squad.

The Shanhe Squad had been created for less than a month. There was no need to compare with the twelve squads created in the first batch. Even among the eleven hunting squads created in the same period, their strength was not strong.

In normal competition, the possibility of Watching Yue Feng wanting to win was very low.

After thinking about it, Watching Yue Feng could only choose to take a risk and discuss with the nineteen members of the squad to advance rapidly at a progress of one kilometer per day.

He didn't hide it and told everyone directly that he wanted to compete for the position of Mirror Valley person in charge. Unexpectedly, everyone really agreed.

Li Yuankun and several other early Great Xia people agreed, and Watching Yue Feng wasn't surprised in his heart. After all, he had feelings for these people. But other Earth-Digging Realm cultivators in the squad also agreed, which really surprised Watching Yue Feng.

These Earth-Digging Realm cultivators were all newcomers who had merged from Five Ape Mountain. He couldn't talk about having any feelings with them, and they didn't even know each other before. Just listening to his words, they decided to support him. Watching Yue Feng was definitely very moved in his heart.

Being moved brought pressure, and behavior was inevitably more reckless.

Originally, they had explored to a depth of twenty-nine kilometers today.

According to this progress, they should be able to win steadily.

But Watching Yue Feng was still worried, fearing that other squads had explored deeper, so he decided to take everyone two kilometers deeper.

This reckless move really brought problems.

White bear.

The white bear that Director Yu Wen Tao had mentioned before was bumped into by them.

That is the cold beast lying on the ground at this moment.

Director Yu Wen Tao said that there were not many cold beasts in Arrow Bamboo Forest, and 90% of them were white bears. The Jingxian camp lacked cold beast meat before because this kind of white bear was too difficult to hunt.

Low-level white bears required him to lead the team personally to hunt, and intermediate white bears even required cold-resistance-level powerhouses like Director Yu Wen Hu and He Yuanhun to take action.

With Director Yu Wen Tao's words in front, when Watching Yue Feng led the team to encounter the white bear, his first reaction was naturally to withdraw. After all, exploration is not hunting, and the Shanhe Squad's minimum quota for this month had already been completed. If they really wanted to hunt cold beasts, there was no need to pick the most difficult white bear.

The problem is that this white bear had its eyes on their squad.

After one encounter, the white bear followed their squad all the way. Watching Yue Feng led the team to circle around, but couldn't shake it off, and finally it even followed them to the periphery of Arrow Bamboo Forest. In this way, Watching Yue Feng had no choice.

Arrow Bamboo Forest is now one of Great Xia's resource areas. Every night, many Woodcutting Realm cultivators come here to pick bamboo silk. If this white bear were brought to the periphery and hurt people, it would not be good.

Thus, Watching Yue Feng decisively led the squad to take action.

The result is what it is now.

Although the white bear was successfully hunted, the team also had casualties.

The ones who were injured just now were not only Li Yuankun and the three who were hit away, but the other sixteen people, including Watching Yue Feng himself, also had injuries, just not serious.

"This white bear, according to Administrator Director Yu Wen, is still a low-level cold beast. No wonder they say intermediate white bears require cold-resistance-level powerhouses to take action. It is indeed very strong!"

Li Yuankun stood up at this time, walked to the side of the white bear, sighed slightly first, and then thought of something, his eyes lit up and asked Watching Yue Feng:

"Captain, the contribution point price of the white bear hasn't been set yet, right? I haven't seen people from other squads bring it back before. Could this be the first white bear hunted by our camp?"

If it was the first one hunted, the value would be high!

The Camp Needs Department has a rule: any first kill of a cold beast, whether low-level or intermediate, will receive a ten-fold contribution point reward after appraisal.

Hearing this, everyone's expressions instantly became excited.

*Please... you... collect_(!)*

"Seven days ago, the Deputy Administrator's Cloud Dragon Squad hunted an intermediate Blue Moon Essence. I heard they were rewarded with 35,000 contribution points at once, and everyone in the squad got over 1,000 points."

"I know about this. And five days ago, the Administrator's Dragon Martial Squad also hunted a low-level Frost-Electric Ape, earning over 3,000 points at once. This is enough to catch up with the contribution points of an intermediate cold beast."

"If this white bear is really the first one, it should be worth at least three or four hundred. Wouldn't we be able to earn three or four thousand points at once?"

"Hahaha, that's great!"

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Seeing everyone talking more and more excitedly, as if the contribution points were already in hand, Watching Yue Feng shook his head and finally couldn't help but speak:

"What are you thinking? First one? Does our squad have this strength? If it weren't for knowing enough today, do you think we could kill this white bear head-on just by relying on our squad?"

Everyone was stunned. Recalling the hunting process just now, Watching Yue Feng clearly had a certain understanding of the white bear, and the excitement on their faces instantly disappeared a lot.

"At the beginning of this month, Luo Yuan's Tiger Leopard Squad had already brought back a white bear. At that time, our Shanhe Squad hadn't even been created yet!"

Tiger Leopard Squad, Luo Yuan.

Hearing this, everyone's expressions were shocked, and they all nodded slightly.

Great Xia currently has a total of twenty-three hunting squads. Looking at the entire camp, these squads, no matter which one, are bound to be highly concerned;

But in their Earth-Digging Realm circle, everyone's focus is basically on the three squads of Cloud Dragon, Dragon Martial, and Tiger Leopard.

The reason is also very simple, because in the past month or so, the total hunting achievements of these three teams have steadily occupied the first echelon, that is, the top three.

"The Tiger Leopard Squad is now ranked third. I remember their contribution points for this month have already reached over 13,000. Calculating by an average of 300 points per low-level cold beast, they have already hunted more than 40. Tsk tsk..."

"Not only low-level cold beasts, but also a first-kill reward."

"Our squad has only hunted seventeen this month, including this white bear."

"The first and second are even more powerful. I looked last night. The Deputy Administrator's Cloud Dragon Squad has already accumulated over 52,000 contribution points. Even if you subtract the 35,000 from that intermediate Blue Moon Essence, there are still 17,000 points. Calculating that, it's also over fifty low-level cold beasts. Isn't this too exaggerated?"

"The Administrator's Dragon Martial Squad..."

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Hearing everyone's discussion, Watching Yue Feng felt a strong sense of urgency while sighing.

"The Administrator and Director Yu Wen Tao have been working hard recently, aiming to impact the name of Great Xia's first intermediate hunting squad. It just depends on who can take the lead!"

As a captain, he naturally knew more about what happened in the Hunting Department than ordinary team members.

It had been less than a month and a half since the Hunting Department was reorganized, and an intermediate hunting squad was about to appear. And his Shanhe Squad had only hunted seventeen cold beasts so far. How could Watching Yue Feng not feel a sense of urgency in his heart?

"Clean up, return to Mirror Valley to rest first, and return to the camp tonight!"

Hearing that they were going back, everyone's expressions instantly became excited.

"Finally can go back."

"Haven't been back for three days."

"There are seven pieces of prey at Mirror Valley, plus this white bear. We should be able to get a lot of contribution points when we go back this time."

"After sleeping in the open for so many days, we must have a good rest when we go back."

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In order to explore Arrow Bamboo Forest more efficiently, Watching Yue Feng lived directly in Mirror Valley with the nineteen members of the squad during this period, returning once every three days.

Only after living outside did everyone realize how good the valley station was.

It is said that Mirror Valley is actually not bad. Houses, coal stoves, utensils... all kinds of supplies were not finished moving when the Jingxian camp people merged before, and basically everything is available. But living here, it is not as comfortable and reassuring as the valley.

Knowing that they were going back tonight, everyone was naturally in a good mood, and the speed of withdrawal became much faster.

Before leaving, Watching Yue Feng climbed to the top of a bamboo, roughly observed the surrounding terrain, took out an animal-skin scroll, outlined it with a charcoal pen for a while, and then jumped down with satisfaction.

"Thirty-one kilometers. Arrow Bamboo Forest is over seventy kilometers long from east to west. We have already explored nearly half. If we continue step by step like this, it shouldn't take long to explore the entire territory!"

The Jingxian camp had previously explored twenty kilometers, and the map brought back by Director Yu Wen Tao also recorded it in detail, so their starting point was from a depth of twenty kilometers.

In these nine days, Watching Yue Feng led the team to explore eleven kilometers to the east.

The results are indeed remarkable!

Li Yuankun's injuries were almost healed. Hearing this, he said excitedly: "Eleven kilometers, other squads cannot explore so deep. If nothing goes wrong, the person in charge of the Mirror Valley station should be you, captain."

Watching Yue Feng's face showed a hint of hesitation: "Not necessarily. I basically don't fear others, but I am a little worried about the four squads of Hong Tian, Zhu Ling, Zhu Yuan, and Meng Yi. Their strength is much stronger than ours. If they also focus on exploring forward, it's not necessarily that they won't be as good as us."

Li Yuankun's face tightened, and he nodded slightly.

These four are all at the limit of the Earth-Digging Realm and have started using beast blood. In terms of strength, they are much stronger than Watching Yue Feng. If they are also aggressive, it's not necessarily that they won't lose.

"Do your best. I consider myself hard-working enough. If I lose in the end, there is no way. Mirror Valley was originally their old home. It is also appropriate to let them be responsible for this station."

Watching Yue Feng said, his brows slightly tightened. Clearly, his heart was not as calm as he said on the surface.

A group of people soon walked out of Arrow Bamboo Forest from the north and walked toward Mirror Valley, which was one kilometer away, that is, the original Jingxian station.

The great battle last month mainly focused on people in the Jingxian station, and the damage to buildings and camp furnishings was actually not serious.

Except for the main building where He Yuanhun lived before and two wooden houses that were completely destroyed, the other buildings were basically intact, and even the furnishings inside were still there.

Having lived here for two nights, everyone was naturally familiar with the road. After coming down from the south channel, they walked directly toward the wooden house they had lived in before.

But before walking halfway, Watching Yue Feng, who was at the front, looked down at the snow and frowned, stopping immediately.

"Carry them to the house, everyone else disperse, prepare torches and fire-condensing oil, look and see if it's a person or what..."

The others behind heard the sound, looked at the footprints on the snow along Watching Yue Feng's line of sight, their pupils tightened, and they acted according to the deployment immediately.

The Frozen Abyss World is constantly snowing, and footprints will soon be covered by snow, leaving no trace. Being able to leave such clear footprints means the person definitely hasn't gone far, and it is even very likely that they are hiding in the camp.

"Hehehe..."

"Made a fortune, so much beast meat, picked it up for nothing."

"Hurry back, so many things, picked up a bargain, hahahaha!"

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A burst of laughter came from the front, and Watching Yue Feng and the others who were planning to disperse all stood in place.

"No need to look, all come back!"

The sound came from the house they had lived in before, and the reason why the other party was so happy was naturally not difficult to guess.

"Damn things, dare to touch our prey."

Watching Yue Feng hadn't moved yet, but Li Yuankun and several others couldn't help it and rushed toward the wooden house directly.

"All go over, leave one person here to watch the two wounded."

Watching Yue Feng didn't stop them. If it's a person, then everything is easy to talk about.

Seventeen people approached the wooden house and saw people walking in and out of the wooden house, lifting cold beasts out one by one. Their faces instantly turned cold.

"What are you lifting?"

"What kind of person!"

Watching Yue Feng gave a low drink, making the group of people on the other side instantly vigilant.

The seven people outside the house immediately put down the cold beast in their hands and grabbed their weapons.

At the same time, sixteen people rushed out of the house, each holding a weapon, glaring at the approaching Watching Yue Feng and his party.

"I ask, what are you lifting!"

The second inquiry, Watching Yue Feng's tone became increasingly low. While asking, he also raised the iron-fetal bow in his hand, put on an iron arrow, and aimed directly at a middle-aged man at the forefront of the crowd.

Of course, as soon as he moved, Li Yuankun and the remaining sixteen people also completed the action of pulling the bow and setting the arrow in an instant, all aiming at the group of people on the other side.

On one side were seventeen people, and on the other were twenty-three.

Obviously, Watching Yue Feng's side had fewer people, but their posture was much higher than the other side, and even the eyes of aiming with arrows carried obvious contempt.

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Even though Watching Yue Feng's side had fewer people, their posture was much higher than the opponent's, and even the eyes with which they aimed their arrows carried obvious contempt.

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