Chapter 99: Crazy Hunting and Steady Improvement

The human civilization of the Frozen Abyss World, although fallen, was not completely so.

Xia Hong had discovered this from the very beginning of his crossing.

Although to a certain extent, humans had indeed regressed to the ignorant age, that was basically forced by the extreme environment. From many places, one could actually see traces of the existence of civilization.

From the big things like the camp humans' views on family and marriage, surname culture, funeral culture, and even language; to the small things like basic manufacturing techniques, collection tools, and leather products, and even trying to eat cooked food and not drink raw water, etc...

At first, Xia Hong thought that being able to retain so many civilized habits was because the disaster that caused the fall of civilization hadn't happened long ago. But from the harsh extreme cold environment and biological evolution, he overturned this idea.

It would take hundreds of years for the Earth's temperature to rise or fall by a few degrees. The extreme cold climate of the Frozen Abyss World, the strength of the cold beasts, and even those inexplicable weird monsters—these three things were clearly not something that could be formed in a short time.

According to what he heard from Shi Qing and the statements of Yang and Li, the Abyssal Era might already be extremely distant from today.

With this inference, humans being able to preserve so many civilized habits could only be attributed to the resilience of human civilization itself.

Extreme environments could cause a large-scale reduction in population, but wanting to completely erase a civilization and make it disappear without a trace was not that simple.

The human desire to survive was itself one of the most powerful things in the world.

Xia Hong didn't know what the camps in other places were like.

But coming to the Frozen Abyss World and being able to be born in the Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge area, he still often felt fortunate.

In an extreme environment, how much evil humans could erupt with was equal to how much kindness could be nurtured. This was the power of civilization, or it could also be called the inertia of civilization.

All the camps around Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge could accurately verify this point.

If civilization had really completely fallen, then there would be no such thing as people in the Woodcutting Realm risking going out to collect and support hundreds of ordinary people in the camp. Distributing cold beast meat to others would be even more of a fantasy.

Civilization could improve people's wisdom. Mutual support, helping each other, unity and cohesion, responsibility and sharing—any behavior that resisted selfishness could be said to be a manifestation of wisdom.

The core reason why the human situation was so difficult was the extreme cold environment, followed by cold beasts and weird monsters.

The extreme cold environment made food and travel a problem;

Cold beasts and weird monsters made safety lose its guarantee.

Wanting to completely solve these three problems seemed almost impossible at present.

"Unity, improving strength, adapting to the environment, and constantly responding to the challenges brought by cold beasts and weird monsters is the only way out for humans."

Facing these three problems, Xia Hong thought for a long time and reached this conclusion.

Changing the final "humans" to "Does Does Da Xia," this conclusion, under the propaganda of Xia Chuan and others, soon became the ideological theory guidance that everyone in the Does Does Da Xia camp was familiar with.

Using "humans" for this sentence was of course more appropriate, but with the current strength of the Does Does Da Xia camp, shouting this was clearly a bit high-profile and suspected of being empty.

Any group organization could not do without ideological theory guidance.

To put it popularly, it was to let everyone in the camp know what they were doing and why they were doing it. Only in this way would they have motivation and be able to strive toward a goal.

With ideological theory guidance, combined with Xia Hong leading the team in crazy hunting, and sufficient cold beast meat rations, for a period of time thereafter, almost everyone in the Does Does Da Xia camp became clearly busy.

Under Xia Hong's personal leadership, the hunting team returned fully loaded almost every night. Although personnel injuries occurred from time to time, they were basically minor injuries.

By the time the system was officially implemented for a month and cold beast meat was distributed to children under thirteen for the second time, the cold beast meat reserve in the camp's mine cave had reached over thirty thousand jin. Even if they didn't hunt for two months, it would be completely enough.

Xia Hong basically didn't care about the logging team's affairs, handing them all over to Cheng Feng and Hearing Mu Dong. But judging from the growth of timber resource data in his system and the height of the timber stacked on both sides of the valley, the logging team's harvest during this period was also not small.

The plan for the new wooden house had already spread in the camp, so the logging team mainly focused on Golden-Lin trees when going out to cut trees during this period.

It was worth mentioning that because cold beasts often lurked on Golden-Lin trees, sometimes the hunting team needed to cooperate—they would kill the cold beasts on the trees first, and then the logging team would cut them down.

Although the Luo Ge camp had already penetrated into the thousand-meter area of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, during this period, Xia Hong still controlled the hunting and logging area of the Does Does Da Xia camp within the outer five hundred meters and didn't lead people inward.

Firstly, he wasn't familiar with the inner area, and he hadn't come into contact with new types of cold beasts, so he was worried that something would happen; secondly, the resources Does Does Da Xia needed at present were already completely sufficient within the outer five hundred meters, so there was no need to go deep.

The area where Does Does Da Xia was currently collecting resources in Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge was no longer just the mere five hundred meters from the beginning.

Luo Ge, Da Shi, Da Chuan, Huang Zhao, including their own previous territory—the eastern side of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, starting from the corresponding position of the valley, four kilometers to the south, now indisputably belonged to the Does Does Da Xia family.

With such a large area to collect resources, Xia Hong naturally wouldn't rashly go deep without reason. Steady and steady improvement of strength, waiting until the outer resources were insufficient to support the camp's development before slowly going deep, was undoubtedly more secure.

The hunting team and logging team had heavy tasks, but there wasn't a trace of fatigue on the faces of the thirty-six people. Instead, their enthusiasm when going out was higher each time, and the smiles on their faces when they returned were more brilliant each time.

Xia Hong naturally knew the reason, because these people, including himself, were improving their strength at a very astonishing speed.

He didn't specifically understand the others, but for the fifteen people who followed him out every night in the hunting team, he was clear about how astonishing their improvement during this period was.

The daily cold beast meat consumption of the Woodcutting Realm was between five and ten jin. These fifteen people in the hunting team could get ten jin every night. The supply far exceeded the consumption, so they were almost absorbing and improving in a limit state every day.

Moreover, Xia Hong's four sets of long fist routines had all been passed down. With the help of martial arts, their absorption efficiency became faster, and their improvement was naturally faster.

According to Xia Hong's observations during hunting, barring any accidents, Luo Yuan should be the first to break through to the Earth-Digging Realm, followed by the three Zhao brothers.

In addition, what surprised Xia Hong the most was Xia Chuan.

A month ago, when he first took animal traps out hunting, Xia Chuan's strength was less than seven thousand jin. In just one month, he had directly increased to nearly eight thousand jin. Now he was on par with the three Zhao brothers, only slightly worse than Luo Yuan.

Although Xia Hong didn't deliberately pay attention to the cultivation situation of the logging team and reservists, judging from their high enthusiasm for cultivation when they returned every day, he could guess a thing or two.

The overall strength of the camp was steadily and rapidly improving. Under the same supply of cold beast meat in the same batch and situation, Xia Hong understood that next, he just needed to wait quietly for the arrival of the explosive growth period.

Of course, others were steadily improving, and he couldn't fall behind.

After the new Does Does Da Xia regulations had been implemented for a full month, Xia Hong gave the hunting team a night off for the first time. After night fell and the cold beast meat was distributed as usual, he walked alone to the position outside the wooden house where the camp stored the force-measuring piles.

The people who were originally cultivating outside the house saw Xia Hong's actions and realized he was going to test his strength, so they all stopped and gathered around him with great interest.

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