Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

24: Chapter 24 Wood Puppet Monster 24: Chapter 24 Wood Puppet Monster This sound, to Shi Qing and others who were frantically fleeing, was like the celestial music.

As the sound reached their ears, a breathtaking sword light also came into view.

Though the sword light was dozens of meters away, it arrived in an instant, fully demonstrating its speed.

The sword light sliced through the air, emitting a sharp shriek, signifying its sharpness.

Both hearing and seeing it all happened in a split second.

The sword light arrived abruptly like a streak of silver silk, also in just an instant.

The sword was truly too fast, so fast that before Shi Qing and the others could fully see, two of the thirteen men who were chasing them had been decapitated by the sword light.

Although it was night, this was the outer part of Redwood Ridge, where the trees were not as dense as in the inner layers, coupled with the white glow emitted by the snow on the ground, so Shi Qing and others’ vision was not significantly affected.

The sword light stopped, and naturally, the person behind the sword light was also seen by Shi Qing and his group.

At a glance, including the leader Shi Qing.

The first reaction of everyone was a bit of inferiority.

He was a youth appearing only in his early twenties, wearing a brown fur beast skin coat; around his neck was a smooth white fur neck warmer, evidently made from the tail of a Cold Beast; on his feet were a pair of glossy black beast skin boots.

The inferiority felt by Shi Qing and the others was not without reason.

The five of them were wearing just beast skin skirts, and even those were the kind full of holes, shabby beast skin skirts.

However, even such beast skin skirts, among the more than three hundred people in Da Shi Camp, fewer than fifty could wear them.

The vast majority of others wore Dry Leaf Clothes.

The so-called Dry Leaf Clothes were clothes pieced together from larger leaves collected and sun-dried.

Of course, it wasn’t just Da Shi Camp.

Around Redwood Ridge, aside from the slightly better-off Rogel Camp, other camps were in this situation.

No way around it, a complete piece of beast skin inherently represented proof of strength.

Even Rogel Camp couldn’t guarantee that they wouldn’t damage the pelts of prey during hunts, let alone these smaller camps.

So, the complete set of clothing the youth was wearing at this moment was enough to make these people feel ashamed.

Not to mention, the shiny silver longsword in his hand had wiped out two Deceitful Monsters in an instant.

Amidst the astonishment and suspicion, the youth moved again.

His swordplay was like a dance; in an instant, amidst sparks, the cold edge sliced through the darkness and brought out seven or eight sword lights in the air, almost with the speed of cutting through melons and vegetables, beheading all ten remaining Deceitful Monsters behind “Xia Ding”.

Recalling their own scene of escaping in disarray from the Deceitful Monsters, and then looking at the youth leisurely slaying the monsters, such a stark contrast made the inferiority in the hearts of Shi Qing and the five grow even stronger.

After beheading ten people, the youth did not immediately attack Xia Ding; he only looked at him calmly and slowly said, “The things you’ve done…”

Swoosh…

Before the youth finished speaking, that familiar sound suddenly rose again.

Shi Qing’s face changed dramatically, and he hurriedly shouted a warning.

“Be careful, sir!”

However, his warning was a bit superfluous.

Even before he spoke out, the youth had already turned to look behind him, his ears twitched slightly, quickly turning his gaze and locking onto the top of a large tree on the left side of the dense forest.

“In the tree, Li Hu, Luo Ming, attack together!”

As he shouted loudly, two figures swiftly came rushing from the right side, quickly heading towards the tree that his gaze was fixed on.

At the same time, the youth no longer concerned himself with “Xia Ding”, and with a mighty push off the ground, rushed towards the tree.

The speed of the three was incredibly fast; Shi Qing couldn’t even have a clear look before the youth had already cut the tree in half.

The entire upper half of the tree came crashing down with a roar.

This scene caused the expressions on the faces of Shi Qing and his group to freeze instantly.

Especially when they discovered that inside the broken tree was a glint of gold.

Their pupils trembled greatly, and they swallowed simultaneously.

“The toughest Golden Frost Tree, chopped with one slash?”

They only ever chose Red Frost Trees for logging.

It’s not that Golden Frost Trees can’t be chopped; they can.

But the problem is, a Golden Frost Tree would take them at least ten continuous hours of chopping to fell.

But what did they just see, the Golden Frost Tree was cut down with a single slash?

As they looked at the youth, their gazes instantly filled with reverence.

And after the Golden Frost Tree was felled, a shadowy figure leaped out like a ghost from its top, heading towards the inner layer of Redwood Ridge.

But the youth and the other two reacted extremely quickly as well.

The three swiftly formed a triangular formation, tightly enclosing the shadowy figure in the center.

“Think you can run?

It’s not easy to come across a low-tier Craftsman Deceitful Monster; I can’t let you escape just like that.”

“Don’t let your guard down; this is a Wood Puppet Monster, and those I just killed were probably crafted by it using wood and corpses, and it might have other tricks up its sleeve, so be careful.”

Shi Qing responded quickly, listening to the conversation and glancing at “Xia Ding”, who had been stiff and motionless since the shadowy figure appeared, he roughly understood now.

Craftsman Deceitful Monster, Wood Puppet Monster, both likely referred to the shadowy figure.

Xia Ding and those loggers were obviously controlled by it.

Moreover, among the two names shouted by the youth earlier, there was one that Shi Qing knew, and recognized.

Luo Ming, the current leader of the Rogel Camp and son of the former leader Luo Feng.

Indeed, Shi Qing looked carefully once more.

Among the three, the one on the far right with a slender figure, squinting eyes, holding a long spear was indeed Luo Ming whom he had seen a few times.

The one on the left called Li Hu was quite burly, with almost similar attire to the young man, holding a coldly gleaming Yanling Saber, watching the shadowy figure in the middle warily.

The thing referred to by the two as Wood Puppet Monster was also seen clearly by Shi Qing.

The Wood Puppet Monster, on the surface, looked like a decaying, slightly hunched old man in black.

In its left hand was a three-inch-long small knife, and in its right a loop of white thread, its pair of crimson pupils full of ferocity; looking at the three surrounding it, it was also full of bloodthirsty desire.

“Ah…”

Wood Puppet Monster suddenly let out a roar, and the loop of thread in its right hand rapidly shot out dozens of transparent threads, seemingly merging completely into the night, disappearing instantly.

However, the three surrounding it began frantically dodging left and right.

Seeing this, Shi Qing also understood that it was these transparent threads that had killed his companions earlier, but their own strength was too weak to see them clearly.

The three who could see them were constantly evading in mid-air.

Certainly not just evading, though.

A mere few breaths, and the youth holding a sword seemed to have found a flaw, twisting his body and lunging at the Wood Puppet Monster, his longsword clashing repeatedly with the threads in the air, sparking several flames.

The longsword could sever those transparent threads.

The Wood Puppet Monster, witnessing this scene, its face suddenly darkened, its gaze locked tightly on the silver longsword in the youth’s hand, as if realizing something.

Luo Ming and Li Hu’s weapons clearly were not as strong as the young man’s sword; continuing to dodge, while still advancing towards the Wood Puppet Monster, their speed was too slow.

The young man was already swinging his sword at the Wood Puppet Monster when they were still several meters away.

However, even if the two had not arrived yet.

The young man’s strength seemed unreasonably strong.

The longsword swept horizontally, bringing out a fierce sword light, almost clinging to the Wood Puppet Monster; though it retreated extremely quickly, the storm-like sword intent closely followed.

The young man’s sword movements were like tidal waves, one surge after another, quickly driving the Wood Puppet Monster back beneath a tree.

At the same time, Li Hu and Luo Ming finally broke through the layers of thread blockade, arriving behind the young man.

The three seized the opportunity, blocking all escape routes of the Wood Puppet Monster from three fronts: above, middle, and below.

The longsword sliced across the top, the spear thrust in the middle, the saber chopped down below.

With the combined attack from three sides, the Wood Puppet Monster had nowhere to flee.