Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely-Chapter 139 - 115: New Earth-digging Realm, Enhanced Mining Efficiency [Three in One]_4

Chapter 139: Chapter 115: New Earth-digging Realm, Enhanced Mining Efficiency [Three in One]_4

"I’m just waiting for the leader to announce it so I can hurry out to hunt and earn contribution points. Every day when I come home, the wife and kids just keep telling me they’re missing this or that, it’s annoying!"

"There’s no other way, Cold Beast meat certainly can’t run out, if you want to exchange for those things, you just have to earn more contribution points."

"Hahaha, there truly are a lot of things in the Craftsmen Workshop. Mu Dong somehow figured out how to make them; women and kids can’t stop looking, always coming back to trouble us."

...

Hearing the content of the four’s conversation, Xia Hong couldn’t help but chuckle a few times.

It’s funny, among the seven people in the Earth-digging Realm in the camp right now, only he, Xia Chuan, and Yuan Cheng aren’t married yet. Luo Yuan and the three Zhao brothers all already have wives and kids.

Besides Luo Yuan having an only child, Zhao Hu and Zhao Bao each have two sons, and the eldest Zhao Long is even more exaggerated, with his wife giving birth to four — three sons and a daughter.

Together with the new contribution value regulations, is the official division of households in the camp on a family basis. Accompanied by various wooden products, leather goods, and custom tools launched by the Craftsmen Workshop, and the exchange of supplies at the Camp Supply Station, these families have a huge demand for contribution values.

Because of the current scarcity of resources and the tight supply of craftsmen, the prices of various items are still set very high. Even for Luo Yuan and the four Zhao brothers, it’s a bit strenuous to exchange for them, let alone other families in the Logging Realm.

But as resources become more abundant and craftsmen increase, the prices of these materials will surely also gradually decrease. The time when everyone can use them will come sooner or later.

"Leader, you’ve arrived!"

"Greetings, Leader."

Upon seeing Xia Hong come in, Luo Yuan and the four others hurriedly stopped their conversation, put down the Sheep Horn Chisel, and bowed to him.

Xia Hong nodded slightly, took out the Sheep Horn Chisel in his hand, walked to a spot on the rock wall that hadn’t been mined, and began to dig.

Ding...

As soon as the first strike was made, Luo Yuan and the four others, along with Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng who followed Xia Hong in, were immediately taken aback, and then all six of their gazes focused on the Sheep Horn Chisel in Xia Hong’s hand.

"Why does the chisel give off such a crisp sound when mining?"

"That chisel isn’t made of iron?"

"It’s really not, it’s white, isn’t it..."

"It’s the teeth of a rodent!"

Sharp-eyed Xia Chuan was the first to notice.

The other five reacted immediately.

The body of the Sheep Horn Chisel in Xia Hong’s hand is still made of iron.

But the head is surprisingly made from the rodent teeth brought back earlier.

Ding... ding... ding...

Without disturbing Xia Hong, the six of them continued watching and noticed that Xia Hong had only chiselled over a hundred times before the iron ore on the rock wall started to wobble. Their faces immediately broke into wide grins.

Clang...

Half an hour later, as the piece of iron ore fell to the ground, Xia Hong breathed a huge sigh of relief and released the Sheep Horn Chisel in his hand.

"Leader, can this rodent tooth be used for mining?"

"With an ordinary iron pick, it takes us at least two hours to mine one piece; using this iron tooth, efficiency is directly doubled?"

After catching his breath for a while, Xia Hong picked up the iron ore on the ground, his face filled with joy.

Previously, when fighting with rodents, he noticed that the hardness of their teeth was even harder than iron, and he already thought they could be used for mining. But he didn’t expect the results to be so good.

It doubled the rate.

A single Earth-digging Realm could mine up to four hundred pounds of iron ore in one day. If it were coal, it could reach eight hundred pounds!

"Leader, can this rodent tooth be made into a weapon?"

"Too light, definitely won’t work as a weapon, and the bones of Cold Beasts are brittle, cannot be shaped at all. Once the tip wears down, it’s permanent, at best they can be used as disposable bone tools, only used for mining brings the greatest gain!"

Before Xia Hong could respond, Xia Chuan immediately answered Luo Yuan’s question.

Xia Hong also nodded. Up to now, the various types of Cold Beast bones they’ve encountered can only be used as disposable bone tools, or ground into bone powder for medicinal purposes. They haven’t run into anything that can be smelted like iron.

"A rodent has two chewing teeth, it takes four to make one chisel. We previously killed four rodents, enough to make another one. In the future, the camp will use these chewing teeth chisels for coal and iron mining."

Upon hearing this, Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the other four’s eyes lit up.

With a Sheep Horn Chisel, you can only mine about a hundred pounds of iron ore at most in a day, converting into contribution points is ten. But using this chewing teeth chisel, that can be forty contribution points in a day.

"Right now, there are only two, you all take turns using them. Once more long-tailed rodents are killed, make more and it’ll be good!"

Xia Hong naturally understood what they were thinking.

After speaking, while looking at the iron ore in his hand, Xia Hong let out a slight sigh.

"Unfortunately, the Logging Realm still can’t participate in mining!"

Although the chewing teeth chisel can enhance mining efficiency, it still cannot mitigate the rebound force from the ore. In other words, without basic strength exceeding ten thousand pounds, one still cannot endure the rebound force during chiseling, and naturally cannot mine.

Xia Hong slightly shook his head, he had always been trying to find a way to let the Logging Realm participate in mining.

"Is it the material rules, no wonder it’s called the Earth-digging Realm. As long as you haven’t reached this cultivation realm, you can’t extract underground resources."

At this moment, his hope for that idea was extinguished completely.

"Since you six are all here, prepare yourselves. Tomorrow night after dark, follow me to the inner region of Redwood Ridge to hunt the dragon!"

At these words, the six people’s expressions immediately brightened.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan had both seen Teng Jiao. Although its appearance is intimidating, they had some understanding of its strength, so their faces were not filled with fear, but rather with eager excitement.

As for Zhao Long and his two brothers, as well as Yuan Cheng, they belonged to the fearless out of ignorance group. They were not only curious about this new species, Teng Jiao, but also about the inner region beyond five hundred meters of Redwood Ridge that they had never ventured into.