Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 610: Chapter 259: Tasks, Helplessness, Ongoing Screening (Part 2)

Like him, there are twenty-eight other people who took on this task. Above them is a captain who will reward them with varying contribution value based on how well they integrate their respective teams after this is over.

With contribution value as a reward, Xiang Liang naturally worked hard. To make these five hundred people quickly understand and adapt to the camp, he spent the first three nights eating and living with these people in temporary wooden houses in the Outer City, becoming quite familiar with them.

Seeing that everyone was still staring intently at the various buildings of the Inner City, Xiang Liang cleared his throat and said, ”As I told you last night, the land price in the Outer City is currently around 1500 contribution value. Can you guess how much the land in the Inner City was worth when it was just being planned?”

”3000?”

”It should be more, maybe 3500?”

”I guess 4000.”

.........

These people were quite familiar with Xiang Liang, and all boldly started guessing.

But no one guessed right. Xiang Liang shook his head, denying all their answers, and then said, ”The lowest is 4000, the highest is 7000!”

Hiss......

The crowd heard this and immediately took a collective breath of cold air.

Previously, Xiang Liang said that in the Logging Realm, without any unexpected gains, one could only earn 1 to 3 points of contribution value per night through logging and gathering.

When they heard the land price in the Outer City last night, they were already quite hopeless.

Now, hearing the Inner City’s land price, with a minimum of 4000, they all instantly wilted like a frost-bitten eggplant.

”Don’t worry, it’s basically impossible for you to relate with the Inner City. All 4200 plots of land in the Inner City have owners, and houses have already been built on them. Just have a look: is there any empty land in the Inner City?”

Upon hearing Xiang Liang’s words, everyone immediately started scanning the area and indeed found that besides the streets, there wasn’t a patch of empty land in the Inner City, which immediately left them quite stirred.

”It’s basically impossible for someone in the Logging Realm to buy land solely by themselves. According to what Master Xiang said last night, only by breaking into the Earth-digging Realm and joining a Hunting Team would there be hope of saving enough contribution value. With all the 4200 plots of land in the Inner City already owned, what does that imply?”

”There are more than 4200 Earth-digging Realm individuals in Great Xia?”

”This... how could it be!”

......

Hearing the murmurs below, Xiang Liang was slightly moved but didn’t explain.

He had been to the Camp Supply Department and knew that the current number of Earth-digging Realm individuals in Great Xia was about 3000, not yet reaching 4200.

Not explaining was still for the sake of his mission.

Xiang Liang was quite aware that people respect strength, and the best way to help a group of newcomers quickly integrate into the camp is to let them feel the might of Great Xia.

Once they sense the might of Great Xia, they will naturally seek integration.

Instead of plainly telling them that Great Xia is powerful, it’s better to let them concoct their own wild guesses, which definitely yields a stronger effect.

”Alright, stop just looking at houses, let’s keep moving forward.”

Xiang Liang urged, and immediately everyone sped up their pace to move forward.

Soon, a majestic and solemn massive main building appeared in everyone’s sight, causing them all to stop in their tracks, as if their very breaths had been momentarily suspended.

The three-story main building, about fifteen meters high and two hundred meters long, was like a giant beast crouching in the abyss of the valley.

Compared to four months ago, the main building had become darker, evidently due to the increased proportion of iron. Although it still displayed a mix of gold and black colors overall, the black now prevailed, lending it a few more degrees of majesty and solemnity than before.

At the top of the wooden building, a flag was fluttering in the cold wind. The flag was golden yellow, with a large black character ”Xia” in the center.

Under the eaves of each floor of the wooden building, there were forty or fifty coal stoves hanging. The eaves were decorated with dragon and phoenix patterns, and the white-jade-like translucent beast bone sculptures were vividly illuminated by the stove fire, making them extraordinarily mesmerizing.

All three floors of the wooden building were brightly lit, with faint human figures visible on the first and second floors. The third floor, being too high, revealed nothing clear, but its lights were the brightest.

”Huh... Ha......”

In front of the wooden building, there was a group of children around their early teens, numbering about two thousand, who were practicing punches with their upper bodies bare. Each punch was accompanied by a loud exclamation, their momentum mighty, especially paired with the main building behind them resembling a giant beast, making their presence even more grandiose.

”Am I mistaken? Those over a hundred in the front row, are they all in the Logging Realm?”

”At this age, at most eleven or twelve years old?”

”What eleven or twelve, barely over ten.”

.........

The shock brought by the main building hadn’t subsided yet when the crowd was startled by the young people of Great Xia practicing martial arts in front of the building. Early teens in the Logging Realm, and not just one or two, but over a hundred of them.

The people from the Beehive wouldn’t be ignorant!

They too are from a giant camp and wouldn’t have seen much less than from Great Xia.

Logging Realm in early teens, the Beehive also has them.

But over a hundred, appearing at the same time......

”Gulp...”

Seeing the expressions of awe and disbelief in the group, Xiang Liang looked at the youngsters in front of the main building, especially Liu Peng, Lu Dong, and Zhao Yuanwu, flickering complex emotions in his eyes.

There was envy, there was jealousy, but more so, a sense of powerlessness!

Although he hadn’t yet been to the Martial Arts Academy, he was familiar with affairs inside it.

All three of these individuals had broken records of the Logging Realm breakthroughs: Liu Peng at eleven years old, Lu Dong at ten years and ten months, Zhao Yuanwu at ten years and nine months.

If Xiang Liang remembered correctly, Zhao Yuanwu’s record had been kept until last November when it was finally broken by his cousin Zhao Yuan Nu at ten years and six months. It has been four months since he last went to the Martial Arts Academy, so he was uncertain if Zhao Yuan Nu remained the current record holder.