Chapter 41: Luo Ge Camp [Ask for collection and votes]

The station of the Luo Ge camp is located in a valley sandwiched between two high mountains in the due east of Red Wood Ridge.

Both high mountains are vertically long, rising two or three thousand meters from the ground. Like the Tashan where the Da-Shi camp is located, after years of freezing by cold air, the rock walls around the two mountains are covered with a layer of black frost crystals.

The mountains are higher than Tashan, so the crystals are naturally thicker than Tashan's.

However, what is strange is that the further down the mountain, the thinner those black ice crystals become, and the lighter the color becomes, until the lowest part, which is about to touch the ground, has turned into the color of ordinary stones.

Only after getting closer did they find that a layer of white mist was lingering around the stone wall, and with the rise of the white mist, those black crystals were constantly melting, turning into water droplets dripping down from the stone wall.

"The high temperature released by burning coal blocks can even melt these ice crystals that have accumulated over the years. The Luo Ge camp should never freeze anyone to death, right."

Although he had stayed in the Luo Ge camp for half a month, every time he came back, the outspoken Hong Gang still couldn't help but marvel.

The other three leaders, as well as Shi Qing, and the Woodcutting Realm personnel from their respective camps, hearing Hong Gang's words and looking at the white smoke on the stone wall, all revealed expressions of envy.

"Freeze anyone to death? What a joke. In my Luo Ge camp, not to mention that everyone has an animal-hide coat, with these coal blocks providing heating all year round, no one has frozen to death in nearly twenty years."

Luo Ming didn't speak, but the person he brought behind him couldn't help but speak.

From his rather proud tone, it was not hard to hear that as a member of the Luo Ge camp, he was very proud in his heart.

And hearing that no one had frozen to death in twenty years, the envy on everyone's faces instantly became even more intense.

Especially the leaders of the five small camps, who could most intuitively feel the power of this sentence.

In fact, strictly speaking, compared to cold beasts and 'Gui', cold is just the simplest one among the survival difficulties humans have to deal with.

But even so, the number of people who die due to cold every year is not small in each camp.

As small camps, they can only rely on cutting wood for heating. The problem is that cutting wood cannot guarantee a harvest every time. If they are unlucky and run into a cold beast, then not only is there no harvest, but their lives might also be lost.

The key is that Red Wood Ridge has been expanding faster and faster in recent years, and the growth of those trees has become more and more fierce. Sometimes, they can't even find a tree that can be cut down in a whole night.

Not only is it difficult to obtain wood, but the physique of the ordinary people in the camp is also a big problem, especially children. If they encounter a sudden drop in temperature, even if they hide in a cave and have a campfire for heating, they will still be frozen to death alive.

So, not freezing to death for twenty years might be ordinary for the Luo Ge camp, but for their five small camps, it is an unattainable dream.

There are people who envy, and naturally there are people who despise.

"Country bumpkins, making a fuss over nothing. Such a small thing is worth being proud of!"

Compared to the envy on Hong Gang and others' faces, Li Hu's face was full of disdain.

Clearly, the things that happened just now made Li Hu have deep opinions about everyone, so he directly used the four words "country bumpkins" to mock everyone for not having seen the world.

Yang Ning didn't speak, but the expression on his face was not much different from his.

"Not to mention my Bei-Shuo town, even slightly stronger medium-sized camps know how to lay coal stones, soften the ground, and transplant crops. You only know how to use it for heating, holding treasures without knowing how to use them, and still feeling complacent here. It's simply extremely stupid!"

Others heard this and had no reaction.

Only Luo Ming was stunned, then thought of something, and a look of joy appeared on his face instantly.

"Thank you for the guidance, adults. Luo only knows today that coal stones have such uses."

Li Hu's face stiffened. His original intention was just to take the opportunity to mock and laugh, not to guide Luo Ming at all, and he didn't expect to be counterproductive.

But he thought of something and quickly found a way to make up for it, sneering: "Don't be happy too early. The land needed for those crops is not small. The coal stones needed to soften the ground, relying on your five Earth-Digging Realm people, I estimate that even if you dig for eight or ten years, you won't be able to mine them out."

Luo Ming, who was just excited, was instantly splashed with a basin of cold water.

Although he didn't say anything, Hong Gang, Shi Qing, and the other five camp leaders already had obvious anger in their eyes when looking at Li Hu, clearly a bit unable to stand him playing with Luo Ming like this.

"Alright, stop talking nonsense, hurry in!"

Yang Ning noticed the anger of the five leaders that was not concealed at all, and was instantly a bit displeased, but didn't say anything, just glanced at Li Hu, signaling everyone to go in first.

"Everyone, let's go in and talk!"

Luo Ming didn't know whether he was born without a temper or had good cultivation of qi. Being played with by Li Hu, he acted as if nothing had happened and invited everyone in.

While everyone was talking, they hadn't forgotten to walk, and at this moment, they had already walked to the middle of the valley.

Although it was a medium-sized camp, like the Da-Xia and Da-Shi camps, the location where the Luo Ge camp was stationed was also very hidden.

The valley entrance was piled full of huge broken stones and trees. Normal people seeing this would definitely not think that there was a camp of more than a thousand people hidden behind it.

Luo Ming led the crowd around the pile of broken stones from the left. Several subordinates walked to his front familiarly, pulled out a giant round log with a diameter of more than five meters and a length of more than fifty meters from a pile of rotten wood.

Once that round log was pulled out, the broken stones and other trees piled on it should have all collapsed, but not only did they not collapse, they didn't even move at all.

A passage more than thirty meters long appeared out of thin air in the middle of a pile of giant stones and trees. Everyone wasn't seeing it for the first time, so they followed Luo Ming with calm expressions and walked in together.

Passing through the passage, the full picture of the inside of the valley was fully displayed.

The depth of the valley was unclear, but just the left and right sides were about three or four hundred meters. The most magical thing was that the two high mountains on top crossed and connected, just blocking the valley tightly, making it impossible for light to shine down.

Of course, just like this, it was not enough to resist the severe extreme cold.

Unlike the Da-Xia and Da-Shi camps, which relied on lighting campfires in a closed space to raise the temperature, the Luo Ge camp built five giant houses in the valley.

It couldn't be counted as houses; it was more appropriate to say they were boxes built with giant wood.

The five wooden houses were each square, about fifty meters wide, and he estimated that accommodating a few hundred people was no problem.

Fires were burning in all five houses, white smoke was constantly drifting out from the exhaust holes reserved above, and there were many people talking inside.

The wooden houses were illuminated by the firelight inside, all glowing with a faint golden light. One could tell at a glance that they were built with the sturdiest Jin-Lin trees.

"It gets warm as soon as you enter the valley. Burning coal is still good!"

Hong Gang reached out and sensed the temperature in the valley, and couldn't help but marvel.

People from the camp had already come to greet them. Luo Ming greeted them casually and led the crowd toward the wooden house at the very back.

Just as they were about to walk into the wooden house, Shi Dong, who had been following Shi Qing, suddenly moved and turned his head to look at the left side of the wooden house.

"Big brother, what place is that?"

Shi Qing followed his gaze and found that there was a small wooden house less than ten meters wide beside the wooden house at the very back.

Luo Ming noticed the two at this time, walked over, and explained: "That is my father's residence."

Hearing this, both of them were stunned.

Luo Ming's father, the previous leader of the Luo Ge camp, Luo Feng?

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