Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely-Chapter 206 - 139 Resource Gap, Camp Changes [3 in 1]_3

From the two interactions with them, one can see.

He Meng’s group consisted of fifteen people, who should have only been active in the Arrow Bamboo Forest, but they were startled by a group of rodents and came out;

Yuwen Dao’s group had a bit more, over twenty people, but the problem was, to hunt down that Demon Sheep, they lost quite a few.

From these two times, it’s clear the Mirror Immortal Camp is unfamiliar with the situation on Redwood Ridge, so every time they deploy very few people, and all are elites from the Earth-digging Realm hunting team.

Moreover, the two camps don’t have any deep-seated hatred; the rodent incident was clearly He Meng’s provocation, and the only existing dispute is over the ownership of the land from Lu Shang Camp.

"The best scenario is that the harsh words I had Yuwen Dao bring back have an effect, and they behave for a while, not venturing to Redwood Ridge. But the likelihood of this..."

Xia Hong shook his head, the likelihood of this is almost none.

"Barring any surprises, the Mirror Immortal Camp will ignore my words, and their people will continue to hunt in Redwood Ridge, and judging by He Meng’s previous behavior, it’s likely they’ll keep crossing boundaries and provoke conflicts to extract greater benefits from Great Xia.

After all, their strength is evident..."

The strong rule supreme, and this supremacy refers not just to status.

Xia Hong frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and quickly made a decision in his heart.

"Avoid them, don’t bother with Lu Shang’s territory yet, concentrate on extracting resources and upgrading buildings, at least to ensure the safety of the camp. Secondly, I need to accelerate my breakthrough progress."

Upgrading buildings can at most ensure the safety of the camp, but we can’t just hole up inside and not venture out. To drive the Mirror Immortal Camp completely out of Redwood Ridge, we’ll still have to speak with strength.

Clarity in his thoughts, Xia Hong turned around to find that, except for Xia Chuan, everyone else had left.

"Where is everyone else?"

"Stimulated by you, big brother, they’re either cultivating or mining, all busy with their own tasks."

"Hiss..."

Xia Hong was about to reply with a smile when a piercing coldness suddenly spread across his skin.

He glanced down at his skin, which had begun to turn blue, and hurriedly shut the window, then draped on more clothes.

Failing to break through to the Cold Resistance Level, he naturally couldn’t stay in the sunlight for long. It seemed like a long time had passed since opening the window, but actually only five or six minutes had gone by.

With a 2% progress in Reshaping Skin, under this calculation, when skin progress reaches a hundred percent, one can stay exposed for the full four hours of daylight.

Xia Hong calculated this in his mind, glanced at the sky outside through the yet-to-be-closed window, and a peculiar expression appeared on his face.

Why does this feel like it’s calculated? Could there be some connection between the sun and the human body?

This complex issue certainly couldn’t be figured out with his current strength, and since he couldn’t understand it, he stopped thinking about it and instead asked Xia Chuan:

"By the way, how are Zou Yuankai and Zhu Shun’s injuries?"

While hunting that Intermediate Snow Mane, it feigned death and shot out spines from its back, injuring everyone, but Zhu Shun and Zou Yuankai were unlucky enough to have spines pierce their bodies, causing them to pass out immediately.

Three days have passed since then, and he didn’t know about their current condition.

"Zhu Shun is slightly better; he was pierced in the leg and is still having trouble walking. It might take another three or five days; Zou Yuankai was pierced in the waist, which is more severe, and he’s still bedridden, unlikely to get up before half a month."

Xia Hong’s face grew heavy. Though humans in the Ice Abyss World have bodies far superior to those of common people, and after reaching the Logging Realm and Earth-digging Realm, their self-healing abilities greatly enhance, they’re still no match for the stronger Cold Beast’s power!

Any expedition always results in injuries, and it’s especially severe for the Hunting Team, not to mention the Collection and Logging Teams.

Key to note is the current camp only has Golden Healing Powder for treatment, no other remedial means. Regardless of how serious the injury is, applying Golden Healing Powder followed by self-healing is the only option.

Even for himself, the scar left by a rodent’s tail on his face hasn’t completely healed yet, and it’ll probably take some more time.

"Right, notify Cheng Feng: the Collection Team can go within five hundred meters past Redwood Ridge to search for more medicinal materials. As we currently have sufficient coal stone, all the hunted game retrieved should be analyzed by the Medicine Decoction Pot to see if we can synthesize more medicinal formulas. Relying solely on self-healing after injuries just won’t do!"

Xia Chuan nodded thoughtfully, then added: "By the way, big brother, I’ve already begun expanding both the Collection Team and Logging Team."

Only then did Xia Hong recall his previous decree: the Logging Team was limited to 80 people, the Collection Team to 40. With more and more people reaching the Logging Realm in the camp, and with both the Craftsmen Workshop and Camp Supply Station unable to accommodate so many, expansion was indeed necessary.

"By the way, how many people do we now have in the Logging Realm at the camp?"

Upon hearing this question, Xia Chuan immediately grew spirited, answering with enthusiasm:

"312!"

Hearing this, Xia Hong instinctively felt surprised.

If he remembered correctly, around the 20th, while forging the Ten-stone Iron Bow in the Blacksmith Room, he heard there were 283 people, and now, in just seven days, 29 more have leapt forward.

"The pace is still accelerating; the Logging Realm doesn’t have much of a threshold, and most of the first batch to break through were around twenty years old. Basically, this whole batch has now broken through as well;