[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades":3,"chapter-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Endless Winter: My Camp Infinitely Upgrades",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2266470,4425,"Chapter 44: Luo Feng","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>“Dead, all dead, Father, nineteen people, all dead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Hongmu Ridge, Luo Sheng entered a cold, desolate cave, sealed the entrance completely, then walked to the campfire and spoke to his father, Luo Feng, who lay collapsed on the ground, his voice filled with panic and terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To outsiders, Luo Feng had always been confident and triumphant, but now his left arm was severed, blood continuously pouring from the wound, his breath reduced to the faintest whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his younger son’s words, Luo Feng’s pale face twitched with alarm, yet he gritted his teeth against the pain and said, “Don’t panic—we’re not far from camp. That thing can’t find us; it’ll leave soon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng never imagined that after years of smooth sailing, this night would bring such a catastrophic turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been just an ordinary hunt, yet the encounter with a malevolent entity turned it into a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The malevolent entity kept replacing members of the hunting party, assuming their most familiar forms, sneaking close, and picking them off one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than half a night, all twenty members of the hunting party—except his younger son, Luo Sheng—were wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself had been ambushed by a malevolent entity disguised as a hunting party member, losing his left arm and suffering multiple slashes across his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only him—his younger son, Luo Sheng, had also been slashed on the right arm during the ambush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng instinctively turned to check his son’s wound, glancing at his right arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he looked, his pupils constricted, his expression freezing solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The right arm that had just been slashed in front of him was now perfectly intact—not a single wound or scar to be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng realized what was happening. He closed his eyes, his face filled with profound grief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Luo Sheng crouched before him clearly noticed his gaze. Seeing his father’s anguish, the boy’s lips curled slightly, his expression instantly darkening into something utterly sinister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Found out, huh? You twenty-one took me a lot of effort—you almost slipped away, both of you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng opened his eyes. The pain on his face slowly transformed into terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice was like dry wood scraping together—raspy, unnatural, nothing like his son Luo Sheng at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luo Sheng” pulled a small knife from his robe, pressed the blade against the stump of Luo Feng’s severed arm, and slowly drove it in. Watching the blood gush faster as the wound widened, its smile twisted into something more grotesque and chilling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intense pain surged through his nerves to his brain. Luo Feng, once so proud and vigorous, could only scream helplessly, unable to resist even as agony consumed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching his own flesh being sliced away piece by piece, the white bone of his shoulder and chest clearly visible, his mind gradually shattered, his pupils reduced to nothing but the primal urge to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Spare… spare… hah… spare me…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t… want to… die… please… spare my life…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His agonized screams seemed to excite “Luo Sheng” further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It slashed faster and faster, ignoring Luo Feng’s pleas entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the overwhelming pain and terror, Luo Feng’s mental defenses finally collapsed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I… I can… help you… bring people for you to kill.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knife stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luo Sheng”’s expression suddenly went blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, an old man in black stepped out from the cave’s shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man held a ball of white thread in his left hand, walked to Luo Feng’s side, and took the small knife from “Luo Sheng.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then produced a half-meter-long piece of wood, carved it swiftly with the knife, and instantly shaped it into a lifelike arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the white thread, he stitched the wooden arm onto Luo Feng’s body, then gave it a light scrape—immediately, the arm changed color, blending perfectly with Luo Feng’s flesh, as if… as if it had never been severed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get up. Your body is restored. In ten days, you must bring me a hundred people—that’s the price of your life. Take your son back. I’ll use him to watch you. Don’t try to trick me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had saved his life, the old man’s price left no trace of joy on Luo Feng’s face—only a numb nod as he knelt on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man left. Luo Feng left the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With him went his younger son, Luo Sheng—expressionless, barely human anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng, barely holding onto his shattered mind, led “Luo Sheng” back toward camp, yet dared not return directly—he circled the perimeter endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until he saw his eldest son, Luo Ming, leading a search party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he struck out, smashing “Luo Sheng” beside him into fragments, then tore off his own wooden arm with brutal force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng was no hero—he feared death, yes—but he could never trade the lives of ordinary people from his own camp to save himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, once you started down this path, it led to an endless abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, whenever the malevolent entity came for him, he’d have to deliver more victims. Over time, not a single human would survive in Luo Ge Camp—or anywhere near Hongmu Ridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the moment he began deceiving the malevolent entity, Luo Feng had already decided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even knowing his son was controlled, when he crushed his own child’s body into pieces, the crushing grief, combined with the psychological torment inflicted by the malevolent entity, shattered him completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After giving his eldest son, Luo Ming, a few instructions, he slipped into a half-mad state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He often felt the malevolent entity was waiting outside camp, even now hiding among the people of Luo Ge Camp, ready to slice away his flesh again, piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He often saw his own son, the one he’d shattered, crawling up from the ground, weeping and accusing him: “Why did you kill me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under intense fear and guilt, Luo Feng’s mind remained taut for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For all these years, whether eating, drinking, defecating, or sleeping, he never left his small wooden hut, never spoke to anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the hut, his hair now white, Luo Feng lay on his bed, right hand dangling at his side, peacefully asleep with closed eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a blood-drenched hand shot up from beneath the bed and seized his right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng opened his eyes, turned his head—and his soul nearly fled his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the edge of the bed, Luo Sheng’s bloody, half-head emerged, staring at him with a monstrous, hateful expression:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, Father, why did you kill me? Look at me—I can’t find a single piece of good flesh. Help me put my body back together, Father…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“AHHHH!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng screamed awake, bolted upright, scanned the room, even checked under the bed—confirmed it was only a dream, just like before. Only then did the terror in his pupils fade, returning to its usual vacant haze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It was a dream, hehehe, just a dream, hehehehe…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mentally broken man’s thoughts are impossible for a sane person to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Feng sat on the bed for a long while, his emotions finally calm, then began laughing again—hysterically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he laughed, he pointed at the wall, muttering softly under his breath:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You won’t find me—I’ve got no wood left on me, hehe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can’t find me. You just can’t find me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahahaha, I won’t send you anyone—come find me, then…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet two low, slightly cheerful voices suddenly cut through the room, interrupting Luo Feng’s muttering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can’t find me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve owed me years of payment for your life—time to pay up!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting on the bed, Luo Feng froze as if struck by lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These chapters aren’t detached from the protagonist—they serve the protagonist and the camp. The story can’t unfold all at once in a new book’s early stage. My writing skills are still developing; please be patient. Current follow-up numbers are steadily rising. Thank you all. Still seeking all support—the second round is about to begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1327,"2026-06-19T20:30:15.201Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9cffc56c96898dbcedad816cf7c77a5cce384a5053a8b9d9cf57b718644cde2c","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-45","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-43",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fendless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-cover.jpg"]