[{"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-97":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},2266523,4425,"Chapter 97: New Wooden Hut","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-97",97,"\u003Cp>As soon as the cold beast meat was distributed, everyone, regardless of it being daytime, eagerly began their cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was called cultivation was essentially just eating the cold beast meat and absorbing its energy through evaporation to enhance basic strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong also didn’t hold back; he ordered Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and others to teach all four forms of the Long Fist style, and soon, the wooden hut echoed with rhythmic punching sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wooden hut, only thirty meters on each side, already housed the smelting furnace and various supplies; with over nine hundred people in the camp all crammed inside, the overcrowding was unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a small portion could even practice punching—accurately speaking, mostly members of the hunting and logging teams; a few reserve troops who managed to secure open spots could join as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smelting furnace’s radiation range extended a hundred meters in all directions; the seventy-meter zone surrounding the hut had temperatures not much different from inside, allowing ordinary people to move freely at night, differing only in wind presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But during the day, it was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the attack by the Golden-Eyed Demon Sheep, Xia Hong had already tested this—he, with his Digging Earth realm strength, couldn’t withstand the chill embedded in the sunlight, let alone anyone else in the camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivation was normally done at night; today, since everyone had received cold beast meat for the first time, they didn’t care about day or night and began cultivating immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the current wooden hut was far too small, and the lack of personal space was undeniable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong furrowed his brow, scanning the crowd, and noticed Mu Dong sitting in the corner, deeply engrossed in carving a wooden board; after a moment’s thought, he didn’t go over to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the next several days, Xia Hong led the hunting team out every night, returning with two or three prey each time, and even once brought back four in a single night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold beast meat was distributed daily as previously stipulated, and although the initial excitement among camp members had faded, their enthusiasm for cultivation grew stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Xia Hong led the hunting team out at night, the reserve troops were already outside the hut practicing punches; by the time they returned, dawn was nearly breaking, yet the reserve troops were still almost entirely outside cultivating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With ample cold beast meat and such intense cultivation fervor, Xia Hong eagerly anticipated the day when the Xia Army’s Woodcutting realm combat power would surge dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong no longer personally oversaw the logging team; each day he only listened to Team Leader Cheng Feng’s reports and monitored the system’s timber resource numbers rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This quiet, fulfilling routine continued for six days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the sixth day, as Xia Hong returned to camp with the hunting team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Feng and Mu Dong immediately approached him together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as they caught up with Xia Hong, Cheng Feng spoke first:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leader, over these past few days, I’ve thoroughly surveyed the eastern perimeter of Redwood Ridge—we’ve identified thirty-seven Ice-fruit Trees, all with identical growth cycles, all just bearing fruit, with some fruit still unharvested; I’ve sent people to collect them all, totaling 140,000 jin of Crystal Fruits.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong instructed the hunting team to process the prey first, then sat cross-legged beside the smelting furnace, gesturing for Cheng Feng and Mu Dong to sit as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, with cold beast meat now abundant, Crystal Fruits had lost much of their significance—after all, only a hundred or so people in the camp still didn’t receive cold beast meat, and even at two jin per person per day, their annual consumption would be minimal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality was different: as a cultivation resource, Xia Hong could never replace staple food with cold beast meat; the current abundance was only possible because the Xia Camp’s population was small; when more people arrive, the ordinary base will still rely heavily on Crystal Fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even just for reserve food supplies, Crystal Fruits must continue to be harvested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More crucially, Xia Hong had tested them with the decoction pot—he confirmed Crystal Fruits not only filled the stomach but also had medicinal value; in fact, over these past few days, using the decoction pot, he identified over a dozen medicinal materials: Snowmane Tongue Powder, Frost Wolf Back Bones, Black Thorn, Coal Stone, Iron Powder, Golden Frost Tips, Zhu Shuang Stems, and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These dozen medicinal materials consumed over twenty units of coal resources, leaving Xia Hong deeply pained; worst of all, no recipes had yet been generated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They solved the problem of monotonous food; served as reserve rations; possessed medicinal value; were easy to store; and for the current camp, their harvesting difficulty was low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All these factors combined meant Crystal Fruit harvesting must continue without pause—including surveying Ice-fruit Tree locations and monitoring their growth cycles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So far, we’ve only surveyed a five-hundred-meter radius; keep observing this area during future logging expeditions to check for any missed trees; once our hunting range expands inward, your survey range can widen too—Ice-fruit Trees remain vital to us; don’t be careless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Feng nodded respectfully and replied: “Yes, Leader.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, as soon as Cheng Feng finished speaking, Mu Dong eagerly handed over a wooden board, his expression excited: “Leader, the new wooden hut concept you mentioned—I’ve drawn it up. Take a look—is this how you imagined it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong looked down at the schematic carved into the board with a knife, and immediately felt intrigued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him, Mu Feng hurried forward, pointing at the schematic as he explained to Xia Hong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As you instructed, the hut’s exterior is square, two hundred meters long and wide, fifteen meters high, with three levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle level, five meters high, serves as the camp’s main hall—no rooms needed; daily meetings, camp assemblies, and storage of shared items like the smelting furnace all occur here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bottom level, three meters high, has only one entrance\u002Fexit corridor and the central hall; the rest is divided by wooden panels into ten-meter-wide rooms. I calculated: with a two-hundred-meter side length, subtracting wall thickness, a five-meter-wide, seventy-five-meter-long corridor, and a fifty-meter-wide square central hall, we can fit over three hundred such small rooms—plenty for all ordinary camp members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The top level, also five meters high, mirrors the bottom: retain the central hall and corridor, add one large warehouse, and divide the rest into twenty-meter-wide rooms. I calculated roughly ninety rooms—more than enough for current logging and hunting team members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three levels are separated by one-meter-thick wooden planks; the roof is built into a four-cornered pyramid shape as you described, then covered with beast hides to shield against snow, rain, and frost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Dong spoke with animated enthusiasm, his excitement unmistakable—he clearly held Xia Hong’s original wooden hut concept in high regard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong wiped sweat from his brow; he wasn’t a professional architect—he’d only proposed the idea based on vague memories, and told Mu Dong just to see if he’d get lucky; he never expected Mu Dong had actually made it real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he knew the wood here differed from that of his past life, since it was meant for human habitation, Xia Hong asked seriously: “Mu Dong, do you think this hut can actually be built?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mu Dong paused, then immediately nodded: “Of course it can.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he hesitated slightly, adding: “But there are several difficult problems that are hard to solve.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Say them—I’ll see if I can solve them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s thought, Mu Dong replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Massive timber demand, many different tools required, significant iron consumption, and finally, driving the foundation piles takes a very long time—and some spots may require you to personally handle them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1287,"2026-06-19T20:30:15.201Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1573656e596149479ebcae32afa89ecae1795b2e3edcf939f770709e1176f976","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-98","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-96",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fendless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-cover.jpg"]