Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Yue Yuan's birth added a lot of joy to this great victory.

Counting the days, from the disaster on the earthen slope to the subsequent relocation to the valley where Rogue Camp was located, Xia Hong had been in this world for a full year.

In this whole year, Great Xia had not seen a single newborn.

Xia Hong hadn't paid much attention to this matter before. Before the new wooden houses were built, the living conditions in Great Xia were really too harsh.

There was no roof to shelter them from the rain and no place to stand.

Under such conditions, he was too embarrassed to ask the people in the camp to have children.

He hadn't thought about increasing the population by encouraging childbirth before either.

But Yue Yuan's birth could be regarded as a sign that the people in the camp's willingness to have children was increasing, and Xia Hong also began to pay attention to childbirth.

Asking about the marital status of Lin Kai and others was certainly not just for gossip.

Xia Hong's deeper goal was to understand the number of people of childbearing age in the camp to see if he could stimulate fertility through some means.

Lu Shang's camp had already been merged into another family, so there were no other known camps in the Redwood Ridge area. According to Great Xia's current strength, it would probably not be able to leave the Redwood Ridge area for a long time, which also meant that the road to increasing the population by merging other camps was temporarily blocked.

Since this was the case, he could only stimulate fertility.

Looking at the little Yue Yuan, who hadn't even opened his eyes yet, a long-lost tenderness rose in Xia Hong's eyes, and a strong joy surged in his heart.

Suddenly, a strange idea rushed into his mind. Xia Hong turned to look at everyone and said with a chuckle, "How long has it been since the disaster on the earthen slope? Who remembers?"

"More than a year!"

"It should be about a year and four months."

"A year and five months."

… … … …

Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and the earliest members of Great Xia spoke up one after another.

Seeing everyone's vague and unclear memories of the passage of time.

Xia Hong shook his head slightly, and a helpless expression appeared on his face.

This was the sequelae of the extinction of civilization. Everyone had the concept of years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, but because there were no special tools and personnel to record them, everyone relied entirely on memory and impressions of the passage of time.

"If I remember correctly, the crystal fruits have ripened four times. When the fifth crop matures, we can determine roughly how much time has passed."

As soon as Xia Hong spoke, everyone's eyes lit up, and they all nodded.

Yes, remembering based on impressions was definitely not as stable as the ripening period of the crystal fruits.

It was a generally accepted fact that the Ice Shuo Tree bore fruit every four months. Four months per crop, then four crops would be sixteen months. When the fifth crop matured, it could basically be confirmed that it was about twenty months.

"Crystal fruits, blue congealing grass, green saliva fruit, and other vegetation, the picking period after maturity, including the age of newborns in the camp in the future, all require the coordination of years, months, and days. It's not okay for the time to be vague and unclear. Today, coinciding with the great victory of the camp, taking advantage of the birth of little Yue Yuan, let's just set it down!"

The others below were fine when they heard this, but when the people from the gathering team heard it, their eyes lit up immediately, and they nodded in agreement.

"Leader, if I remember correctly, the ripening period of the Ice Shuo Tree is in these few days. If we directly set the date, our gathering team and logging team can formulate outing plans according to the date in the future. This will be much more efficient."

Cheng Feng spoke directly. Obviously, leading the gathering team for a long time made him the most sensitive to the passage of time, and he also knew how important Xia Hong's proposal was.

"Since this is the case, then starting from today, the Great Xia Era will be officially implemented. Today will be considered the first year of the Great Xia Era, the first day of the first month!"

Xia Hong's tone was a little excited when he said this.

The others didn't understand, but he was a person with experience from two lifetimes.

He knew very well that the era name was the beginning of civilization!

With Great Xia's current scale and strength, it certainly couldn't be linked to civilization, let alone the grand goal of restoring human civilization.

But at the very least, this was a start.

Not to mention the many benefits that the era name actually brought, or how much it could help the future development of the camp, its significance alone was extraordinary.

It wouldn't be obvious in the early stages, but when the Great Xia Era was combined with the growth cycle of all vegetation in the outside world, the activity cycle of cold beasts, and even climate change, etc., that was when it truly had value.

"Yue Feng, Yue Yuan is your son. The matter of the Great Xia Era will be handed over to you to be specifically responsible for. In addition to improving the content of the era name based on the information brought back by the outgoing personnel, you must also record any major decisions and changes that have occurred in the camp before and will occur in the future."

"When a goose flies over, it leaves a sound. When a person passes by, they leave a name. Since we have lived in the Ice Abyss World, the Great Xia Camp must leave its traces here. In this way, one day, if Great Xia is really unlucky and perishes, it can also leave a few words in this world, not only for the convenience of future generations, but also so that we can all come here in vain!"

Xia Hong's words seemed to open a door for everyone.

Whether it was Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, and other earth-digging realm experts, or the remaining logging realm experts, or even many ordinary people, a trace of thought appeared on their faces.

Before, their world was very simple: find food, improve, and live.

But now, after hearing Xia Hong's words.

Some new ideas vaguely emerged in their hearts.

"When a goose flies over, it leaves a sound. When a person passes by, they leave a name!"

"Leave our traces in the Ice Abyss World."

"Leave traces together with the Great Xia Camp?"

… … … …

Xia Hong didn't bother to explain to everyone.

How to live is a grand proposition.

If he really talked about it, he wouldn't be able to explain it clearly.

But at the very least, the current Great Xia Camp could provide these people with more choices and give their lives broader possibilities.

If you really want to understand this question, you still have to do it yourself.

He himself was the same!

"Alright, everyone go busy with your own things!"

Eighty-three prey had to be processed, so many iron arrows had to be re-sharpened, and many injured people had to be healed and recuperated, so Xia Hong ordered all the camp's external activities to be suspended for three days.

Of course, the most important reason was to avoid someone from the abruptly appearing Mirror Immortal Camp coming to their door.

Being able to be reborn in the Redwood Ridge area after descending into the Ice Abyss World.

Xia Hong asked himself, and his luck was still good.

Not to mention the Great Xia Camp, although it was weak, it had basic conscience and ethics, and it was also very united. This was also the biggest reason why he could always stick to everyone after Xia Ding's death.

The subsequent encounters with Da Shi, Huang Zhao, Da Chuan, and even Chen Ye, who recently joined, whether they were leaders or the people below, regardless of their strength, were all of good character.

Not to mention Luo Ming, who was willing to give up the treasure land of the valley.

Although Luo Ming's starting point was to protect his son, before leaving, he was able to find a way to properly resettle the remaining people in the camp, which was still the duty of a good leader.

Xia Hong encountered very good camps and people all the way from the earthen slope.

He felt that he was lucky. The most important point was here.

In fact, according to the cruelty of the Ice Abyss World, Xia Hong had always felt that people like Yang Ning and Li Hu, who could treat human lives as nothing and use people as bait to attract strange monsters with confidence, should be the mainstream.

The more harsh the environment, the greater the good and evil that humans can unleash.

In fact, the previous statements of Yang and Li did confirm his idea. In some large, giant, and even larger camps, using human lives as bait should be the norm.

Since they ignored human lives, then the more terrible things that followed would not be surprising.

Therefore, the weaker the camp, the more it must hide its tracks.

This was not only to prevent cold beasts and strange monsters, but also to prevent humans.

"Any camp whose strength is above Great Xia's, before clarifying its camp's attitude towards people and its way of doing things, must not be contacted at will, otherwise, a careless move will lead to a disaster!"

Xia Hong returned to his room on the third floor. After sitting down on the chair, he looked at the big hole in the sole of his foot and shook his head slightly.

No matter how magical the Golden Sore Ointment was, such an injury would not heal in a short time.

"According to this recovery speed, it will take at least half a month."

Xia Hong turned to look at the chopping board next to the chair, which contained five pieces of cold beast meat.

His cultivation expenses did not need to be exchanged with contribution points like others.

Xia Chuan sent someone every day to put fifty pounds of cold beast meat in his room.

"Eighty-three rodents can produce an estimated 20,000 pounds of meat, plus the few Teng Jiaos that were hunted some time ago, the cultivation expenses are at least no problem. It's good to be injured. In this half a month, I will concentrate on cultivation and try to increase my strength as much as possible to see if I can reach the limit of 30,000 pounds!"

Although he hadn't tested it, Xia Hong estimated that his basic strength was almost 24,000 pounds. Judging from the previous increase, it should still be a bit difficult to increase by 6,000 pounds in half a month.

Moreover, his soles were now injured, and he couldn't punch normally, so the efficiency of absorbing the essence of cold beast meat would definitely decrease.

"I will increase as much as I can. That Mirror Immortal Camp must have cold-resistant powerhouses. I still have to break through as soon as possible. Even if I don't reach the limit, I should still find a way to pass through the arrow bamboo forest and go to Pingxi Plain to take a look!"

Until now, Xia Hong still didn't know how to break through to the cold-resistant level.

Looking at the words and deeds of He Meng and others, it was not difficult to guess the style of this abruptly appearing Mirror Immortal Camp. The other party had already occupied the arrow bamboo forest, and He Meng was even about to pass through the arrow bamboo forest and come to Redwood Ridge.

It was estimated that it wouldn't be long before the Mirror Immortal Camp's range of activities would expand to the north of Redwood Ridge.

At that time, Great Xia would inevitably confront them.

Breaking through to the cold-resistant level was the most important thing right now!

Chewing on the meat of a Cold Beast, Xia Hong also clarified his primary goal for the next stage.

One leg was injured and couldn't move, then he would use the other leg. If that didn't work, he would use his fist. Anyway, it was about exerting strength, so there would always be a way.

However, Xia Hong's high-intensity training didn't even last a day.

The next day, before it even got dark, Xia Chuan brought people up and interrupted him.

"Chief, there's an urgent matter!"

Xia Hong frowned slightly, stopped his training, and sat back down in his chair.

"Come in."

Xia Chuan came in first, holding a bundle of iron arrows in his hand. Behind him were two others, the brothers Tong Xinglong and Tong Xingsheng, who were in charge of handling prey at the supply depot.

The two were clutching their palms, sweating profusely, seemingly in great pain.

"What's the situation?"

Seeing the two's painful appearance, Xia Hong quickly got up and walked over.

"Big Brother, there's a problem with the Rat King's blood!"

Xia Chuan walked up and showed Xia Hong the bundle of iron arrows in his hand.

"Earlier, you lured the Rat King up a tree, and then wounded it with your blade. Subsequently, Zhao Long and the others shot a total of twelve arrows. When we came back last night, we recovered all the iron arrows, including the twelve from the tree."

"Continue."

Xia Hong had already taken the eight iron arrows from Xia Chuan's hand. Seeing the scarlet bloodstains on the arrowheads, he was first stunned for a moment, then prompted Xia Chuan to continue, and turned his gaze to the Tong Xinglong brothers.

"Last night, we collected all ninety-six five-thousand-jin iron fetal bows, as well as Zhao Long's three ten-thousand-jin iron fetal bows, and all the iron arrows, and had Tong Xinglong and the others responsible for re-cleaning and polishing them."

The Tong Xinglong brothers then showed Xia Hong their palms.

Both of their palms had small areas of burns, the wounds were already blackened, and wisps of light smoke were rising from them.

"These eight iron arrows must have hit the Rat King's body. The bloodstains on the arrowheads are also from it. The two of us were just about to clean these eight iron arrows, but as soon as we touched the bloodstains, our hands were immediately burned."