[{"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-5":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},2266431,4425,"Chapter 5: Small Fire Pile: [Please Add More Fire!]","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>Small Fire Pile: Significantly raises air temperature within a ten-meter radius, has deterrent and damaging effects on Chujiguiguai , but strongly attracts cold beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daily consumption: 2 wood (first ignition provided free, no consumption for first ten minutes).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong had no time to carefully examine the so-called camp system; he frantically scanned the flood of information for what he needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Has deterrent and damaging effects on Chujiguiguai !\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This—this was what he needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong turned his head toward Xia Chuan, who was nearly dead, forced himself to stand, and fixed his gaze on the fake Xia Ding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single spark suddenly appeared before Xia Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fake Xia Ding looked down at the flame before him, frowned, and sensed something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the spark was weak, seemingly harmless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the next second, the spark exploded violently, and a crimson flame over three meters tall surged upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flame spread like wildfire, rapidly expanding its reach—not only engulfing the fake Xia Ding who gripped Xia Chuan, but also directly consuming two other fake lumber team members nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahh… What is this? What kind of fire? Aahhh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the fake Xia Ding, consumed by flames, let out a terrified, agonized scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other two fake lumber team members didn’t even have time to cry out—they were instantly reduced to two clouds of black smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fake Xia Ding’s body twisted and writhed within the flames, clearly trying to escape, but the fire clung to him like a parasite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His once-intact body was swiftly burned to a crimson skeleton, then the skeleton itself was utterly incinerated, turning into a cloud of black smoke like the other two fake lumber team members, vanishing completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Xia Hong had already lifted Xia Chuan up and turned to watch the fire pile still burning in place—his face filled with hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, what is this fire pile?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know—but we’re saved.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fake Xia Ding didn’t die even when his head was split open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this small fire pile reduced him to ash in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone, stop fighting! Come to the fire pile right now!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong shouted toward the others still fighting desperately inside the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some had already seen the fake Xia Ding burn to death; combined with this shout, all remaining survivors immediately rushed toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the hundred-odd survivors of the camp all broke off combat and gathered behind Xia Hong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The camp had suffered heavy casualties, but among the Guiwu , aside from the three accidentally burned by the small fire pile, the remaining twenty-three were completely unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another Xia Ding led the remaining twenty-two fake lumber team members toward the fire pile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when they were still over ten meters away, he stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the fire pile, the fake Xia Ding’s eyes were filled with wariness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he seemed unwilling to let Xia Hong and the others escape; after a moment, he sneered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little brat, how long can that fire of yours last?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For a very, very long time!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong sneered back and turned to Xia Chuan and the others: “Bring all the wood from behind—expand the fire.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The camp’s wood had been stacked right against this wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At once, everyone rushed to drag the wood from the wall side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As more wood was thrown in, the small fire pile’s flames grew steadily larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Xia Hong and the others deliberately directed the wood toward the front of the fake Xia Ding’s group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the firelight illuminated the entire cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the flames spread, the fake Xia Ding’s group grew increasingly wary, their bodies retreating step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fake Xia Ding held his ground against them for over an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when forced to the cave entrance, seeing them still bringing wood endlessly, did he finally show a look of bitter hatred, stare deeply at Xia Hong, then turn and lead the fake lumber team members away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was now daylight; Xia Hong and the others dared not leave the fire pile’s vicinity, only watching the retreating group from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they could no longer see them, and confirmed the enemy had gone far away, Xia Hong finally exhaled—a wave of intense exhaustion washed over him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, this bonfire… seems off.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know. It only works within ten meters. Outside that range, the flame’s heat is no different from the fires we lit before.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong’s back was soaked in cold sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already realized it the moment the flames exceeded ten meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire inside the cave had spread fifty to sixty meters, but beyond the original ten-meter radius of the small fire pile, the temperature rise matched exactly that of the fires they’d lit earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, recalling the small fire pile’s system description, Xia Hong understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small fire pile only functions within a ten-meter radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you expand the fire by other means, it has no effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, only the small fire pile has deterrent and damaging effects on Guiwu —any other fire they lit is useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything he did afterward was just bluffing, scaring off those Guiwu .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, they fell for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After surviving the ordeal, there was not a trace of joy in the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because disasters are always accompanied by endless suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, many had realized: the real Xia Ding and his group were all dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve lumber team members meant twelve families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Add to that the massacre inside the cave—over seventy lives lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire cave erupted in wailing and sobbing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leader… is he really dead?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is my husband dead too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My son… he was killed…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother, Mother, wake up!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong felt not only sorrow, but a far stronger sense of suffocating frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From start to finish, he knew nothing about the Gui of Redwood Ridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even know what the real thing looked like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, when the two fake Xia Dings were exposed, the one attacked by Xia Chuan was leading; the other, whose head he had split open, merely moved mechanically, as if lacking awareness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the first fake Xia Ding was burned, the mechanical one stepped forward to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This proved that neither fake Xia Ding was the real body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the Gui of Redwood Ridge had never even shown itself—and still inflicted such devastating damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those two Xia Dings, those twenty-four fake lumber team members—how did it create and control them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made a single move, and you suffered heavy losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after sacrificing so many lives, they still hadn’t gained even a shred of useful information about the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This helplessness filled Xia Hong with unbearable frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even more than that, it was fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking around the cave and seeing most still lost in grief, Xia Hong took a deep breath, walked alone to the cave entrance, picked up stones and logs, and began sealing the entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all that chaos, dawn had broken, and the temperature was dropping faster by the minute—if they didn’t seal the entrance quickly, people would freeze to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse, if they accidentally attracted cold beasts, it would only make things worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong’s actions reminded the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Chuan was the first to step forward and help, then a second, then a third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, men, women, even children all came to assist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong glanced back at the camp survivors; though the cold bit deep, a faint warmth stirred in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1251,"2026-06-19T20:30:15.201Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6049331afb550a19c8eb0c845f1276c253d53270ad32d7aa441c8535c5dcba07","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-6","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-4",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fendless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-cover.jpg"]