Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 804: Chapter 317: Wrapping Up the Migration, Great Xia’s Flourishing Scene, Star-picking Hall

Second Year of Great Xia, September 30, First Half of the Night

Bang......

From the northern city wall of Xia City, a slight rumble suddenly came.

”How impressive, this wall looks like it’s merely made of black soil, yet it can withstand the impact of even a tuft, and with such a large scale, even if I give it my all, I fear I’d only make a few small dents. Without enough time, achieving large-scale destruction is simply impossible.”

Below the city wall, Li Xuanling looked at the small dent she made with her punch on the wall and couldn’t help but marvel.

Although she only used the force of a tuft, that was equivalent to a full-force strike of most Intermediate Cold Beasts, this wall was five meters thick. Even if it were an iron wall of the same thickness, an Intermediate Cold Beast’s charge would cause some deformation, yet this wall only showed this tiny dent.

”It must not be ordinary black soil. Even if these three walls encounter a large-scale Beast Tide, as long as there aren’t too many Advanced Cold Beasts inside, they should be able to hold. It’s fortunate you were wise in July; had you brought the Longyou Army to attack Xia City then, you’d likely have suffered an even worse defeat!”

Li Tiancheng instinctively voiced his true thoughts, noticing the dimming of Li Xuanling’s expression he realized he mentioned what shouldn’t have been mentioned, immediately pointing towards the direction of the western city wall to change the subject: ”The migrating group should have all entered the city, let’s hurry over too and see what kind of scene Xia City has.”

Even before the battle started in July, Li Tiancheng had already scouted Xia City’s situation from Redwood Ridge, though he didn’t enter the city then. For the past two months at Long Mountain, he had listened to numerous stories about Xia City from those at the Cold Resistance Level of Great Xia, his ears almost callused from it, now finally able to glimpse its true appearance, his curiosity naturally piqued.

Li Xuanling nodded and went towards the western city gate with Li Tiancheng.

Since the completion of the five Direct Roads on the tenth of September, 260,000 people from Longyou had been migrating continuously towards Xia City.

The population being too large, and most inside being ordinary people, not trained like an army, and Xia Chuan having arranged migration in batches to lower safety risks, naturally causing the process to be astonishingly slow.

The over 10,000 migrating tonight were the last group from all of Longyou, comprised precisely of people from Long Mountain.

The uncle and nephew of Li Xuanling were somewhat reluctant to leave their homeland, unwilling to depart so soon, thus they waited until tonight to join the last batch.

Walking west for a while, Li Xuanling saw from afar the city gate with ten long queues; roughly estimating, he realized at least six to seven thousand people had yet to enter, causing his brows to tighten.

”Only about half entered, why does it take so long to enter the city?”

Li Tiancheng shook his head in confusion, seeing Li Xuanling stride up angrily, worried she might cause trouble, he quickly followed behind her.

”Next!”

”I am Zhou An, from Long Mountain, 23 years old, Logging Realm, married, these three are my wife Wang Yuniang, also 21 and at the Logging Realm in cultivation, son Zhou Shun, 7 years, and daughter Zhou Rou, 4 years.”

”Matched, your residence is in Outer City Building 48, temporary wooden building, Room 98 on the third floor, after entering the city, go 500 meters along the main road and turn right, follow the wooden building signs to find it.”

”Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!”

”Next!”

”I am Zhang Fan, from Yucheng, 19 years old, Earth-digging Realm, unmarried, and not registered in the census, just alone.”

”Matched, your residence is the same as the previous one, also in Building 48, temporary wooden building, Room 67 on the second floor, just follow the family of four ahead to find it.”

”Thank you, sir, for the directions!”

”Next!”

”I am Zheng Qing, from Long Mountain, 31 years old, Earth-digging Realm, married, this is my wife Liu Ying, 28 years old, Logging Realm, and my son Zheng Hong, 8 years old.”

”Matched, your residence is in Outer City Building 49, temporary wooden building, Room 12 on the first floor, just follow those ahead of you.”

”Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!”

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Over a hundred meters away from the city gate, Li Xuanling clearly heard the voices at the gate, finally understanding why it took so long to enter the city.

Turns out these guards were cross-referencing the information of those entering the city individually, but the scrutiny was too meticulous, from name, birthplace, household registration, age, to family members, nearly every aspect was thoroughly checked.

”Wasn’t there already a population registration at Long Mountain? Do they need to check again when entering the city? Great Xia is too strict!”

Li Tiancheng didn’t respond but continued listening for a while, then sighed softly, saying, ”Listen carefully, this is assigning accommodation by their household registration and birthplace, those with the same registration are essentially being dispersed to live with people from other areas.”

Li Xuanling, being intelligent, quieted down to listen again, finding it indeed as her uncle said, she immediately realized.

”They’re afraid of people from the same place clustering together, deliberately mixing them by birthplace. Xia Hong is overly cautious, humph!”

This act wasn’t about being overly cautious by any means; such measures not only significantly reduce management costs but also enhance the camp’s control over newly integrated populations, accelerate their integration into Great Xia, and even have great significance for the camp’s safety...