Chapter 27: Rapid Progress [Please follow!]

Ice Abyss, Ancient Abyss Era, prehistoric civilization, Mo'ao Mountain Range, human Nine Towns, five types of strange monsters, Cold-Resisting level experts...

Due to limited strength, Luo Ming, Shi Qing, and others had only lived in Red Wood Ridge for decades, had never walked out, and had no opportunity to communicate with the outside world.

Yang Ning's words undoubtedly opened their eyes.

But at the same time, it also aroused greater worries.

All five types of strange monsters instinctively evolve by killing people.

An intermediate Artisan Strange Monster couldn't even be blocked by an expert at the Cold-Resisting level.

If that Wood Puppet Strange Monster that escaped really evolved to the intermediate level, there would be no way for humans around Red Wood Ridge to live, and these people would all be dead.

Luo Ming's expression was uncertain. He stood in place for a long time before gritting his teeth, kneeling directly to Yang Ning and the two, and pleading:

"Two lords, relying solely on the camps around Red Wood Ridge, it is absolutely impossible to deal with that strange monster. I hope the two lords, for the sake of being humans, will have mercy and help us. As long as that strange monster can be executed, whatever the lords want, as long as we can take it out, it's all negotiable!"

Shi Qing on the side saw this and realized that Luo Ming was seeking a way to live for all the camps around Red Wood Ridge, so he immediately led the four people behind him and knelt down.

Hearing everyone's request, Yang and Li looked at each other, and smiles appeared on their faces in unison.

But soon, the two put away their smiles.

Then Yang Ning walked up and helped Luo Ming up first:

"To tell Leader Luo, Li Hu and I are scouts of the Beishu Town Imperial Army. We came out this time under orders to draw a map around Beishu and arrived at Red Wood Ridge by coincidence.

Being of the same human race, meeting is fate, and we won't sit idly by.

But this Wood Puppet Strange Monster, you just saw it too; it is not only strong but also extremely cunning. If we don't think of a perfect plan, it is almost impossible to eliminate it. So if you want us to help, we can, but you must first agree to one condition!"

"As long as that strange monster can be eliminated, I will agree to any condition."

"Good, Leader Luo is straightforward. Then I'll say it directly: during this period of time, your Luo Ge Camp, and all the surrounding camps, must listen to our commands, how about it?"

Luo Ming's heart skipped a beat, but his expression didn't change, and he quickly replied:

"Luo Ge Camp, I can guarantee, but other camps..."

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Shi Qing.

Shi Qing on the side, having just heard Yang Ning's request, had already weighed the pros and cons. Seeing Luo Ming looking at him, he nodded and said: "Dashan Camp is also no problem. If that strange monster isn't eliminated, everyone won't be able to live."

Luo Ming gave Shi Qing a grateful look, and then turned to Yang Ning and continued: "Besides our two families, there are five other camps. I will go to them one by one. After explaining the pros and cons, I believe they won't refuse either."

"Leader Luo, it should be four!"

Hearing Shi Qing's words, Luo Ming was stunned.

There were originally nine camps around Red Wood Ridge. Not long ago, Tie Feng and Shen Ju's families were destroyed by that Wood Puppet Strange Monster. There were seven left. Excluding their two families, it should be five.

Shi Qing stretched out his hand and pointed to the corpses on the ground not far away.

Luo Ming saw those corpses and immediately understood.

"It's four. Does Da Xia should have also suffered the poison of that strange monster!"

All the logging team members of Does Da Xia Camp were made into puppets, and even Xia Ding couldn't escape the poison, so it could almost be concluded that they had been destroyed.

Yang and Li saw that the goal had been achieved and nodded, saying: "Since that's the case, there's no time to lose. Leader Luo should hurry up and notify the other four camps in these few days, let them come to Luo Ge Camp to listen to orders first, organize all Woodcutting Realm people into patrol teams, and ten days later, start searching for the whereabouts of that strange monster in the forest."

Luo Ming nodded in compliance and invited Yang and Li to rest in Luo Ge Camp first. Shi Qing had to return to his own camp to arrange things first, and after confirming with Luo Ge to meet at Red Wood Ridge in three days, he took people back first.

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Luo Ming and Shi Qing's judgment that Does Da Xia Camp had been destroyed was not without basis.

Small camps didn't have the ability to hunt, so to survive, they had to have two things: crystal fruits and wood, both indispensable.

To be precise, wood is actually more important than crystal fruits.

If crystal fruits are gone, you can still hold on for a few days on an empty stomach.

But if wood is gone, not to mention the day, you can't even survive the night.

Therefore, the importance of the logging team is self-evident. Xia Ding and all the logging team members under him were already dead, so the people of Does Da Xia Camp, even if they didn't die at the hands of strange monsters, were probably frozen to death long ago.

Of course, the only variable the two missed was Xia Hong.

Does Da Xia Camp was not only not destroyed but lived even better.

Even, compared to before, it was no exaggeration to describe it as rapid progress.

"Leader, I also broke through!"

Returning empty-handed at night, Xia Hong's mood was not very good.

But as soon as he returned to the inside of the cave, he heard good news.

Xu Ning also broke through.

Besides him and Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng, among the five who were allocated cold-beast meat in the first batch, Xu Ning was the last one to break through.

Looking at Xu Ning's excited expression, Xia Hong patted him on the shoulder, smiled, and said: "Finally don't have to look at your bitter face anymore. Alright, starting tomorrow, you can go out with me!"

Watching Yue Feng, Lin Kai, and others standing behind Xia Hong laughed loudly upon hearing this.

Xu Ning was a bit embarrassed by the laughter, and his face instantly turned red.

There was no way; among the five of them, Watching Yue Feng broke through first, followed by Lin Kai, Qiu Peng, and Lu Yang.

Seeing that people in the same batch were already following Xia Hong out, chopping down a tree every night, and occasionally bringing back a piece of prey, while he was slow to break through, he was naturally anxious in his heart, so for several days in a row, he indeed had a bitter face and only knew how to train.

"Leader, I'm embarrassed. Eating the cold-beast meat you risked your lives to hunt back every day, I can't help, and I'm slow to break through to the Woodcutting Realm. Isn't that just a burden who eats for free?

Fortunately, I've broken through now and can finally help."

Hearing this, Xia Hong frowned slightly.

"Do you mean that besides the eight of us in the logging team, everyone else in the camp who hasn't broken through to the Woodcutting Realm is a burden who eats for free?"

Xu Ning was stunned upon hearing this question.

Xia Hong didn't wait for him to answer, but turned to look at Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, Watching Yue Feng, and others behind him and asked again: "Are you all thinking the same?"

Everyone could hear the unhappiness in Xia Hong's tone, so they looked at each other for a few times and no one spoke, only using silence to answer this question.

It wasn't just them who thought so.

But, everyone in the camp thought so.

Ordinary people who couldn't break through to the Woodcutting Realm couldn't go out, couldn't obtain a shred of resources for the camp, and constantly consumed the crystal fruits and wood they brought back. If they weren't burdens, what were they?

Even now, the cold-beast meat they brought back was also being shared.

Since Xia Hong succeeded in hunting with small torches last time, he had succeeded four more times, totaling nearly five thousand jin of cold-beast blood and meat.

But Xia Hong still hadn't changed the camp's meat distribution rules, still distributing according to the previous 3-5-2 ratio, which had already made them have some opinions in their hearts.

The silence of the crowd was deafening.

Xia Hong understood what they were thinking.

He had originally planned to solve the problem in these two days, and now it was a good opportunity, so he was naturally unwilling to let it go.

"Chuan, you told me a few days ago that it was time to change the meat distribution rules. You say now, how do you want to distribute it?"

Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and others heard this and realized that Xia Hong might want to modify the meat distribution rules, and their eyes all lit up.

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