Chapter 45: My Name is Xia Hong, Leader of Does Does Da Xia [Here it comes, here it comes]

Just after nightfall the next day, Shi Qing found Luo Ming, preparing to say goodbye.

The leaders of the five camps had reached a consensus to cooperate with Yang and Li for the last time to go to Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge to see if they could lure out the Wood-Puppet 'Gui' and finally successfully kill it.

Luo Ming brought three Earth-Digging Realm and twenty-five Woodcutting Realm combatants, and the other four camps also brought everyone they could. Compared to the previous four times, this time everyone clearly made a greater determination.

But all this had nothing to do with Shi Qing.

The Da-Shi camp suffered heavy losses, and even if he had the heart to help, he couldn't provide people.

After wishing everyone success in killing that 'Gui', Shi Qing took his brother Shi Dong and returned to the Da-Shi camp via Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge.

Along the way, he also brought a bag of crystal fruits gifted by Luo Ming.

Camps rarely interacted with each other, so there were no big roads between them, and they generally walked from the outskirts of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge.

Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge was very large. Saying that these camps were located around Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge was not accurate. In fact, the nine camps were generally distributed on the east side of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge.

The Luo Ge camp was located in the due east, while the locations of the Da-Shi and Da-Xia camps were accurately in the southeast, but Da-Xia was a bit further south.

The territory occupied by each camp on the outskirts of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge was also roughly divided according to the location of the camp. The Luo Ge camp was the strongest, so the range it occupied was naturally the largest, with a north-south length of more than two thousand meters.

The other eight camps only had about five hundred meters.

South of the Luo Ge camp, there were four camps, which were Huang-Zhao, Da-Chuan, Da-Shi, and Da-Xia in order. So, coming out of the Luo Ge camp and entering Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge and then going south, it probably only took three kilometers to return to the territory area of the Da-Shi camp.

Shi Qing was worried about the safety of the three hundred people in the camp, so he took Shi Dong and rushed on the road at lightning speed. Three kilometers itself was not far, and the two soon arrived at their own territory area.

"Hu... finally arrived, hurry back!"

Although still in Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, stepping into their own territory area, Shi Qing's heart relaxed a lot, but thinking of telling the people in the camp that they had lost three brothers, his mood instantly became much heavier.

Since the last time they lost eight brothers on the Da-Xia territory, only half a month had passed, and three more died. One had to know that three months ago, the Da-Shi camp had a full sixteen Woodcutting Realm combatants. At that time, he even took the initiative to propose hunting cold beasts.

In just a few months, the change in situation could be called heaven and hell.

Shi Qing walked and walked, suddenly turned his head and looked at the bag on Shi Dong's back.

"Lao Er, wait."

Shi Dong stopped when he heard the sound and looked at him puzzled.

Shi Qing reached out and took the bag from his back, weighed it a few times, and his brows frowned slightly: "It's been more than half a month. The crystal fruits left in the camp must have been eaten by them. There are only a thousand jin in this bag. Bringing it back is estimated to be not enough. Let's go to the Bing-Shuo tree side first to see if we can pick some more."

Shi Dong nodded and stood still. Waiting for Shi Qing to take the lead and walk toward the Bing-Shuo tree, he followed behind.

Shi Qing, as the camp leader, naturally knew the locations of the six Bing-Shuo trees in his territory like the back of his hand, and soon walked to the nearest one.

But when he was more than thirty meters away from that Bing-Shuo tree, his expression changed suddenly, and he pulled Shi Dong beside him and quickly hid behind a tree nearby.

"Someone has broken in!"

Shi Dong beside him had also discovered it, and the two looked toward that side together.

They saw two young people on that Bing-Shuo tree, carrying bags and picking crystal fruits happily, and there were three guards below, a total of five people.

After carefully looking at the appearance of the five, Shi Qing's face was first shocked, and then turned into confusion.

"So young, which camp is this from?"

Being able to go out at night meant that they definitely had Woodcutting Realm strength.

The problem was that these five young people looked at most twenty years old.

He estimated that even the Luo Ge camp couldn't find five such young Woodcutting Realm combatants.

Could it be that they came from other large or even giant camps?

No, no.

Shi Qing quickly overturned this guess.

Because these six people were all wearing ordinary animal-hide skirts.

"Those five are people from the Da-Xia camp." Shi Dong suddenly said a sentence at this time.

Shi Qing was stunned when he heard this, and then a trace of fear surged in his heart, and the look he gave the five young people instantly changed

"Are you saying that those five might be..."

Shi Dong did not speak, only nodding lightly at him.

Shi Qing swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his heart skipping a beat, and his movements became stealthy, fearing that he might make a sound and alert the five people over there.

He had not forgotten that Xia Ding and his group were clearly all dead.

In any camp, if all the members of the woodcutting team were wiped out, the remaining people in that camp would basically have no way to survive.

Therefore, before going to Luo Ge's camp, Shi Qing had been certain that the people at the Does Does Da Xia camp had either all starved to death or had long since fallen victim to the monsters.

The scene before his eyes clearly gave him the answer.

Monsters!

Yes, that was it, it must be controlled by monsters.

Otherwise, how could there be such young Woodcutting Realm cultivators, and five of them at once?

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"Keep your voice down, don't alert them, let's go!"

Hearing Shi Qing's signal, Shi Dong nodded, a flash of dark color passing through his eyes.

The two of them retreated stealthily, soon walking twenty or thirty meters away.

Only then did Shi Qing let out a sigh of relief, turning around and preparing to head toward Tashan.

"Leader Shi, where are you two planning to go?"

However, a slightly mocking voice suddenly rang out from in front of them, and the expressions of Shi Qing and Shi Dong instantly stiffened.

The two looked up and discovered a burly young man holding a stone axe, standing on a large tree five meters ahead, watching them.

The young man's voice was not soft; the five people behind him who were picking crystal fruits stopped immediately upon hearing the sound and all ran over.

That was not all; there were actually two more people on each side, left and right, who also surrounded them.

Surrounded by ten people in an instant, despair immediately crawled across Shi Qing's face.

Ten monsters—there was absolutely no way he and Shi Dong could handle them.

"Leader Xia, picking crystal fruits is one thing, but do you also want to kill people?"

But just then, Shi Dong suddenly spoke up.

Shi Qing was stunned, looking up at the burly young man in the tree, a flash of familiarity crossing his eyes, and he asked in an uncertain tone: "Are you Old Ding's son?"

Xia Hong stretched, leaped down from the tree, the snow beneath his feet not sinking in the slightest, and walked slowly to the front of Shi Qing.

"That's right, my name is Xia Hong, the current leader of Does Does Da Xia!"

Not monsters?

Shi Qing suddenly realized this point, the relief of surviving a disaster instantly making him somewhat joyful, but the smile on his face lasted only a moment before being replaced by shock again.

"Are you all in the Woodcutting Realm?"

Xia Hong did not speak, but Yuan Cheng and Xia Chuan on his left and right, along with the other seven including Yue Feng and Lin Kai, could not help but let out soft chuckles.

They were young, after all; hearing the shock in Shi Qing's tone, they could not help but feel a bit smug, especially Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng, as the two had quite a few grievances against the Great Stone camp, given that the other side had crossed the boundary into Does Does Da Xia territory twice before.

Xia Hong certainly would not get cocky over such a small matter; his focus was entirely on the changes in Shi Qing's expression just now.

From the despair Shi Qing felt when he first saw him, to the joy that appeared when Shi Dong called out his identity—this change made him somewhat curious.

This curiosity even made him forget that he had originally stopped the two of them with the intention of settling the score from a while back and teaching the Great Stone camp a lesson.

"Leader Xia, I haven't been back to the camp for a long time and need to return first. When you have time to come to Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, we can gather again, how about that?"

However, Shi Qing clearly had no intention of satisfying his curiosity.

(End of chapter)