Chapter 326: Gathering at the Hive, Where is the Arm-Strength Bow? Everyone Mobilizes

Second Year of Does Does Da Xia, December 29th.

Not long after nightfall, the main area of the Hive underground became lively.

The two thousand soldiers of the Cloud Dragon Army and Long Wu Army put on battle armor early, took strong bows and weapons, and quickly gathered at the exit of the main area iron gate.

On the top floor hall of the main building, more than two hundred people gathered together. Except for a few people sitting upright in the front, most people were chatting and chatting in high spirits.

"Hahaha, Old He, you broke through too?"

"Luck, luck, broke through half a month ago."

"Old Yang, you're not bad either. You broke through last night, right?"

"Considered catching up, otherwise this trip to the Martial Arts Academy would have been in vain."

"Hahaha, I broke through last night, one day late and I wouldn't have caught up."

In the front row, Xiao Kangcheng scanned the more than two hundred people around him, and from beginning to end, a look of disbelief hung on his face.

Of course, it wasn't just him who was incredulous, but also Xiao Yuan beside him.

Xiao Yuan was muttering and counting the heads. After counting, he turned to Xiao Kangcheng and said in shock: "210 people, a bit too exaggerated. So many people broke through in less than a month. When did the cold-resistant level become so worthless?"

Hearing this number, the shock on Xiao Kangcheng's face became even greater.

He remembered very clearly that at the beginning of the month, there were only a little over 100 cold-resistant levels in the entire camp. In less than a month, the number actually doubled, which was indeed too exaggerated.

"Zhu Xing pays respects to Master Xiao!"

While the two were surprised, the old acquaintance Zhu Xing leaned over, smiled and bowed to Xiao Kangcheng first, then continued: "Among the 260,000 people combined from Longyou in October, there are many Earth-Digging Realm limits. They were originally stuck on the edge of breakthrough. With high-level beast blood, Blood Spirit Pills, and the Martial Arts Academy, these three supports, it's not strange to break through in a concentrated manner."

Hearing this explanation, Xiao Kangcheng suddenly realized.

Indeed, if only counting Does Does Da Xia's own Earth-Digging Realm limits, there shouldn't be so many people breaking through, but it was relatively reasonable to count the batch combined from Longyou in October.

Xiao Kangcheng received the assembly order during the day and had just rushed to the Hive from Xia City. He didn't know much about the high-level cold beasts in the Yang Lu Realm. Thinking that Zhu Xing was a captain of the Cloud Dragon Army Scout Battalion, he took the initiative to inquire:

"Brother Zhu, I heard in Xia City that there are hundreds of high-level cold beasts near Yang Yuan Peak. The Lord summoned us here for this matter?"

Although he was ennobled with a ninth-rank title, Zhu Xing was a cold-resistant level like himself and an old acquaintance from Five Ape Mountain, so he naturally wouldn't be too arrogant.

Hearing his question, Zhu Xing's face suddenly became solemn, and he nodded:

"Indeed, around Yang Yuan Peak, counting the two populations of snow manes and frost wolves, there are a total of twelve cold beast groups, and there are nearly three hundred high-level cold beasts in total. However, the Lord led us to solve three waves on the periphery in the previous twenty-plus days. Now there are a total of seven cold beast groups left, each with a number of over twenty."

Xiao Yuan asked at this time: "Can't we use torches to attract them? No need to encircle and suppress, just use a large number of torches to lead these cold beasts away from Yang Yuan Peak, won't that be it?"

Zhu Yuan shook his head and said: "The attraction of torches to high-level cold beasts is not that strong. At the very least, those high-level cold beasts clearly value more what the Bai Lu Gui made at Yang Yuan Peak.

The Lord tried it before, using torches to control the distance to attract them, but it didn't have much effect. The three waves we solved in the previous twenty-plus days were all the Lord taking risks and personally leading them out!"

Xiao Kangcheng had broken through to the cold-resistant level, but hadn't tried to hunt high-level cold beasts yet, and still thought he could hunt them like hunting medium and low-level cold beasts, using small torches to lead the high-level cold beasts away.

Hearing Zhu Xing's explanation, he finally understood.

"So, the Lord intends to take us to go hard, forcibly driving away the cold beasts near Yang Yuan Peak. With more than two hundred cold-resistant levels, plus the Long Wu Army and Cloud Dragon Army, is there any certainty?"

Xiao Kangcheng asked, and after looking at each other with Xiao Yuan, both of their expressions were somewhat uneasy, clearly very bottomless in their hearts.

Actually, there was no need to think carefully. Not to mention the two huge populations of snow manes and frost wolves, just counting the more than two hundred high-level cold beasts, their strength was already far beyond theirs.

Cold-resistant levels wanting to hunt high-level cold beasts, unless it was the kind with very strong strength who could go alone, generally required at least three people to cooperate. This point was enough to prove that in a one-on-one situation, the strength of most high-level cold beasts was far beyond human cold-resistant levels.

Moreover, more than half of the two hundred-plus cold-resistant levels gathered here today had just broken through, and their basic strength was mostly under two bristles.

Even counting the Cloud Dragon Army and Long Wu Army, they wanted to successfully drive away so many cold beasts near Yang Yuan Peak, I'm afraid it was not that simple.

Zhu Xing clearly also understood this point, so he didn't answer this question directly, but frowned slightly, then said in a deep voice:

"Since the Lord summoned us here, there should be certainty. I heard that the Craftsman Workshop has been rushing to make arm-strength bows for the previous twenty-plus days. If we can all be equipped, maybe there is hope!"

"This... Brother Zhu's words also make sense."

Xiao Kangcheng's expression tightened slightly, but he still nodded in agreement.

Two hundred arm-strength bows, he had heard about them in Xia City.

The problem was, could this batch of bows make up for the strength gap between the two sides?

Xiao Kangcheng shook his head slightly. Seeing that the others around were still discussing the Yang Yuan Peak matter in high spirits, he didn't continue to ask Zhu Xing.

Clearly, this was not the time to question. This group of people who had just broken through to the cold-resistant level were all full of confidence at this moment. If he took the initiative to raise the worries in his heart, it would inevitably be suspected of disturbing the morale.

Tap...

Suddenly, a slight footstep sound came from the room behind the main hall.

Xiao Kangcheng immediately stood straight, facing the front of the main hall.

The more than two hundred people in the hall were all cold-resistant level cultivation. Xiao Kangcheng could hear the footsteps in the room behind, and the others naturally could too.

So not just him, the others who were chatting also shut their mouths immediately, stood in their positions, faced the upper part of the main hall, with solemn expressions and straight postures.

The originally lively hall immediately became quiet.

Tap... tap... tap...

With the sound in the hall coming to an abrupt end, the footsteps in the room behind also became unusually clear.

Soon, from the side wing behind the hall, Xia Hong, dressed in black, walked out slowly with a smile on his face. He scanned the crowd first, then walked to the main seat above and sat down.

Seeing him sit down, Xia Chuan and Yu Wen Tao and others in the front led the more than two hundred people in the hall to bow to him together and shout in unison:

"Greetings, Lord!"

"No need for more courtesy, all stand up!"

After Xia Hong signaled everyone to stand up, he directly opened his mouth to Xia Chuan: "Are all the existing cold-resistant levels in the camp here?"

Xia Chuan stood out half a body and bowed: "Reporting to the Lord, as of the eve of nightfall, there are a total of 214 cold-resistant levels in the camp. Except for Xiao Ning and Xiao Yu who are pregnant and inconvenient to come, the remaining 212 people have all arrived."

Xia Hong was stunned upon hearing this. Only then did he remember Xiao Ning and Xiao Yu, these two sisters-in-law were both pregnant, and if he remembered correctly, the day Xiao Ning was about to give birth should be next month.

"Xiao..."

Xia Hong originally wanted to ask about Xiao Ning's situation, but thinking that this was clearly not a good time, the words stopped when they reached his lips. Then he thought of something, turned his head to look at Li Ying Xuan Ling sitting on his left, and then faced the crowd and said with a smile:

"214 cold-resistant levels, our Does Does Da Xia today can be considered talented. You probably know the reason for summoning you here, so I won't talk too much nonsense and tell you the task directly..."

Xia Hong paused, then raised his finger to point at the map behind the main seat, and continued: "In the previous three months, I have already led the Cloud Dragon Army and Long Wu Army to clear the cold beasts in the Yang Lu Realm almost completely. Now the area covered by dense fog only has a circle of five kilometers around Yang Yuan Peak.

This area of five kilometers in radius is now occupied by a frost wolf population and a snow mane population, both with over five hundred. Besides these two populations, there are seven small groups composed of high-level cold beasts, all with over twenty. The Cloud Dragon Army and Long Wu Army have already been unable to clear them, so I can only summon you over."

Xia Hong used a coal pen to mark Yang Yuan Peak on the map first, then marked the specific locations of the frost wolf and snow mane populations, as well as the locations occupied by the other seven cold beast groups, all clearly.

"I have marked these nine locations with numbers according to their strength. 1 is the snow mane population, 2 is the frost wolf population, and 3 to 9 represent seven small groups composed of high-level cold beasts.

Tonight, I will try to put bait on the north side of Yang Yuan Peak, five kilometers away.

If we can smoothly lead those cold beast groups one by one, then tonight will be all right. You just need to follow me to annihilate the cold beasts, and basically there will be no danger.

However, I'm afraid of accidents. If those cold beasts are all hooked over by my bait at once, then the situation will not be good. Your task is to split all high-level cold beasts and lead them to different areas, so as not to cause too much destructive power when they gather together.

Dealing with high-level cold beasts, the Cloud Dragon Army and Long Wu Army can't play much role, and I still have to keep them to deal with the two cold beast populations of frost wolves and snow manes. So the main force at the beginning tonight is you two hundred-plus cold-resistant levels.

The Cloud Dragon Army and the Dragon Martial Army cannot play much of a role in dealing with high-level cold beasts, and I still need to keep them to deal with the two cold beast tribes, the Frost Wolves and Snow Manes. Therefore, the main force starting tonight is you two hundred-plus Cold-Resisting Stage experts.

There are 212 of you in total. Li Ying Xuan Ling, Li Tiancheng, Hou Jing, Xia Chuan, Director Yu Wen Tao, Chen Yingyuan, and Peng Bo will take the lead, dividing you into seven small teams of equal size.

If I can successfully lure out those cold beasts in batches, the seven teams just need to hunt them with me. If an accident occurs and all the cold beasts swarm in, you must follow what I just said: the seven captains will lead their own teams and lure all the cold beasts to different areas as much as possible.

The strength of these high-level cold beasts is too great. I don't expect you to succeed in hunting them; as long as you lure them away, with my assistance from the side, there will basically be no problem in successfully exterminating them in the end. What you need to do is lure them away and wait for me to come and support you. Do you understand?"

Luring them from five kilometers away can attract the cold beasts around Yangyuan Peak?

Most people's expressions were somewhat suspicious, but a small number, such as Xia Chuan, Director Yu Wen Tao, and others, had clearly guessed what Xia Hong's bait was.

"Understood, my lord!"

Although everyone was suspicious in their hearts, their natural trust in Xia Hong still led them to give the most firm response.

"Alright, divide into groups now. I said, luring is the priority; you don't need to hunt the high-level cold beasts, so try to distribute the strength of the teams as evenly as possible!"

After Xia Hong finished speaking, he sat back in his chair and quietly waited for everyone to group up.

No need to hunt, just lure the cold beasts away. This meant that everyone didn't need to fight too desperately, and keeping the strength of the seven teams balanced was beneficial for their survival.