Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 789: Chapter 313: Preparations for Migration, Population Surge, and Placement of Cold Resistance Level (Part 3)

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Second Year of Great Xia, July 8th

Creaaak... Creaaak...

An even more bone-piercing cold than the night gradually swept across the land. The furious wind and frost struck the western mountain slopes, colliding with all the wooden houses in the Long Mountain base, immediately producing a series of creaking sounds.

”It’s daylight now, right? Why do I feel it’s not as cold as before?”

”You just noticed? Last night, the temperature wasn’t as low as usual.”

”Didn’t you notice? Among the people gathering at the square last night, there were many children, even infants. Would they have held up like this at normal times?”

”What do you mean, are you saying the temperature has already risen?”

”Temperature started rising on the night of the 26th. It seemed like after the last wave of chaos in the camp, the temperature suddenly increased quite a bit. I felt it early on.”

”I heard that the new leader has an artifact that can make the base warmer.”

”The Minister mentioned last night, it’s called the Holy Tripod of Great Xia!”

”Right, the night before, I saw that Holy Tripod near the dungeon. It was carried in by ten people.”

”What’s this about the 26th? The Longyou Calendar has been abolished. The night before should have been July 6th, Second Year of Great Xia.”

”Yes, yes, haha, I forgot, forgot, today should be the 8th.”

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Long Mountain is not lacking coal, so staying inside the base makes the sensitivity to temperature less acute. Adding to that, Long Mountain had just changed leadership, and everyone was so anxious that they didn’t even notice the temperature had risen significantly.

After last night’s great assembly, everyone’s mood relaxed considerably. As soon as daylight came, they immediately noticed that the current temperature inside the base was much higher than usual.

Coincidentally during last night’s assembly, Xia Chuan had spoken about the Holy Tripod, so everyone quickly connected it, and out of curiosity, naturally sparked another wave of discussion focused on the Holy Tripod.

Setting aside this discussion for now, the main hall of Longshan Main Building became truly lively after dawn.

From the moment it was light out, people continuously entered the main hall. Some entered directly from outside, while others came up the stairs.

Upon entering, and seeing the main seat above was empty, everyone first saluted Xia Chuan, standing at the first position on the left, before slowly moving to the middle of the hall.

Their positions were astutely in accord.

Yuwen Dao, Yue Feng, Liu Yuan, Peng Bo, Chen Ying, and thirteen other Cold Resistance Level warriors of the Great Xia stood at the front; behind them were seven Cold Resistance Level warriors from the Hou Jing, Yu Bin, Dong Zhong, and Meng Ying families; further back were the eleven newly arrived Cold Resistance Level warriors from Long Mountain, including Meng Ying, Sun Yan, and Jiang Ping; the last row comprised five people: Li Hu, Yang Zhong, Yan Donghai, Wang Biao, and Liu Gu.

The expressions of the five in the last row were somewhat anxious.

Especially Li Hu and Yang Zhong. Since they had arrived earlier, the newly entering eleven, including Meng Ying, deliberately paused their gazes on them as they entered the hall.

Yan Donghai and the other two were likely just not used to seeing so many Cold Resistance Level warriors, coupled with their own cultivation not being high, leaving them inevitably nervous.

”Is everyone here?”

A voice suddenly came from the head position, and those waiting raised their heads to find Xia Hong had already slowly emerged from the back.

”Greetings, leader!”

Xia Chuan did not reply but was the first to bow in salute.

”Greetings, leader!”

Upon seeing this, everyone hurriedly followed him in bowing in the direction of the head.

”No need for formalities, rise!”

After Xia Chuan and the others stood up, he responded, ”Reporting to the leader, there are a total of forty-one Cold Resistance Level warriors in Long Mountain. Yue Qian, Song Kang, Cheng Guang, Xu Shicheng, Zhang Jiuling, Yuan Shan, Yuan Ning, Lu Yushan, Wang Tao, and Liu Chang are all in a seriously injured state and unable to move. Aside from these ten, the remaining thirty-one are all present.”

Having spent two days with Li Xuanling, Xia Hong had familiarized himself with the Cold Resistance Levels within Long Mountain, recognizing the ten names Xia Chuan mentioned.

The likes of Yue Songcheng were injured during last night’s assassination attempt on him.

Xu Shicheng, Zhang Jiuling, and Yuan Shan were three Cold Resistance Level warriors seriously injured during his takeover of the city the previous night. Yuan Ning, Lu Yushan, Wang Tao, and Liu Chang were four severely injured during the Beehive attack.

Originally, six were seriously injured in Long Mountain during the Beehive attack, but two were Li family loyalists who were executed last night.

Xia Hong’s gaze swept over the thirty-one present, giving special attention to the third-row individuals like Meng Ying, Jiang Ping, and Sun Yan among the eleven. Then he continued to ask:

”There should be more Cold Resistance Level warriors in Longyou, right? Have you done a tally?”

Of course, there are more!

This time, Great Xia annexed all the bases in Longyou. Except for Hou Jing from Zhaoyang, who brought all three Cold Resistance Levels with him, Xiling and Dongkang only had two leaders each: Yu Bin and Dong Zhong.

Xia Chuan had clearly done his homework and promptly replied, ”Yu Cheng and Long Mu from Xiling; Dong Si and Ying Wuji from Dongkang; plus Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing, who are notifying the seven outposts in Zhaoyang to prepare for relocation, making a total of six people.”

Forty-one plus six totals forty-seven.

”The Cold Resistance Levels from Beehive have returned to Great Xia for recovery, right?”

Hearing this question, Xia Chuan immediately realized what Xia Hong wanted to know, and quickly replied after a brief pondering: ”Reporting to the leader, this Longyou campaign added 34 new Cold Resistance Levels. With Xia City’s current 41, our total number of Cold Resistance Levels in Great Xia should be 75.”

In the end, Xia Chuan truly understands him!

Upon hearing this number, Xia Hong’s eyes lit up immediately.

He remembered that when he came with the army to Longyou at the end of June, there were 37 Cold Resistance Level warriors in Great Xia. The problem was that 3 fell during the Beehive battle. Subtracting those, it should be 34. However, Xia Chuan reported 41, meaning seven more had broken through to Cold Resistance Level in the meantime.