Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

210: Chapter 140: Mining Competition, The Hunt Begins [3-in-1 Mega Chapter]_3 210: Chapter 140: Mining Competition, The Hunt Begins [3-in-1 Mega Chapter]_3 Zou Yuankai can’t come for now, and Zhu Shun, dragging his injured leg, also came to the mine.

If not for Xia Chuan and the others strongly refusing, insisting he recover fully before returning, Zhu Shun would likely be mining with his injured leg.

The entire Great Xia Camp was either logging or mining.

From nightfall, everyone was bursting with immense enthusiasm for extraction.

This extraordinary enthusiasm seemed not enough for Xia Chuan, as he discussed with Shi Ping the next day and organized a mining competition.

During the time before Xia Hong breaks through the Cold Resistance Level, all materials logged and mined by both the Logging Realm and Earth-digging Realm across the camp will be recorded, forming a leaderboard.

The leaderboard is divided into three categories: wood, coal stone, and iron ore.

The top thirty in wood, and the top five in iron ore and coal stone will be recorded.

The first place for wood can earn 800 Contribution Points; the rankings for iron ore and coal stone will earn 2000 points respectively, decreasing sequentially.

As long as one enters the list, there are high Contribution Point rewards, and the higher the rank, the higher the Contribution Points received.

When the mining competition was announced and people heard about the high Contribution Point rewards, all members above the Logging Realm in the camp were immediately ecstatic.

Apart from the focus on Xia Hong’s breakthrough, just the Contribution Point rewards alone were enough to drive everyone into a frenzy.

Take the Hunting Team as an example, they rely on hunting outside, at most, they can only hunt low-level Cold Beasts, and it even requires coordination among four to five people.

The Contribution Point value for a low-level Cold Beast generally ranges from 200 to 400, split among five people, with each person getting around 40 points.

Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan personally led the team, capable of hunting at most two per night, which means, at best, they could earn 80 to 120 Contribution Points in one hunt.

They can’t hunt outside every day, and hunting itself carries considerable risk; Golden Healing Powder now also costs Contribution Points to exchange, Iron Core Bows are only owned by Luo Yuan and the Zhao Long brothers, while others still need Contribution Points to rent them, and consumables like Iron Arrows also need Contribution Points to exchange.

The Hunting Team calculated that in a full month, considering hunting outside fifteen times, deducting costs for renting bows and arrows and Golden Healing Powder, they could at most earn about 1000 Contribution Points.

But in this competition, the first place can earn 2000 Contribution Points, which is almost equivalent to two months of their earnings.

Even the Hunting Team is like this, not to mention the Collection Team and Logging Team, as well as the Craftsmen Workshop and Camp Supply Station, for whom earning Contribution Points is even more difficult.

A one-time reward of 800 points is a rare stroke of luck for them.

With a highly incentivized mechanism and the connection with leader Xia Hong’s breakthrough, these factors combined instantly amplified everyone’s enthusiasm for mining several folds.

The entire atmosphere of the Great Xia Camp immediately transformed.

Every day, the most discussed topic was the day’s volume of extraction;

By nightfall, everyone would swarm out in batches, and Cheng Feng and Bai Dongying, for safety reasons, began planning to split the logging areas to avoid too many people gathering together, aiming to spread them out as much as possible.

To improve logging efficiency, people started brainstorming, and gradually, new inventions appeared in the camp.

The first to appear was the wheelbarrow.

A significant reason for low logging efficiency was the low transportation efficiency; though Redwood Ridge is less than a mile from the valley, the trees were too large and heavy, requiring several people to carry them, consuming considerable time just returning.

After someone raised this issue with Mu Dong, the Craftsmen Workshop developed a manual wheelbarrow within a few days.

Initially, the version was crude, just a wooden plank with a single wheel, but it kept improving as more issues were raised, making the wheelbarrow more functional.

Then came the two-wheeled cart, and several people even cooperated to create more wheels, increasing load capacity, but requiring more manpower for the cart.

To enhance efficiency, efforts were not only focused on transportation but also on logging tools, leading to the emergence of flexible saws, two-person saws, and three-person saws.

As logging efficiency increased, the Hunting Team also put in full effort in mining, fearing they might fall behind.

Even Xia Chuan himself stayed in the mine for four to five days straight, with Cold Beast Meat being delivered by others.

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The changes happening in the camp were naturally unknown to Xia Hong, who stayed upstairs for training.

It wasn’t until the first of February in the First Year of the Great Xia when Xia Chuan went upstairs to inform him that Zhu Shun’s injury had fully healed, and upon going downstairs to receive a batch of resources through the system, did Xia Hong learn about the series of activities Xia Chuan had organized.

[Resources: Wood 11200 Coal 580 Iron 1220 Silver 0 Gold 0]

The order for the entire camp to accelerate resource extraction was issued on January 27th, and in just three days, such a significant increase in resources was achieved.

The extraction progress of coal and iron was still within Xia Hong’s acceptable range.

With the Chewing Teeth Chisel, an individual in the Earth-digging Realm, whether extracting coal or iron, could extract more than 40 units a day.

With Zhu Shun and Zou Yuankai injured and unable to mine, the remaining thirteen people extracted a total of 1800 units of coal and iron in three days, showing their hard work, but nothing too excessive.

But the wood was a bit absurd!

With over three hundred in the Logging Realm, pushing their limits, each could fell two trees a night, equating to about eight thousand jin.

The system converts one thousand jin of wood into a unit.

Even calculated this way, the camp’s daily wood resources should at most amount to 2500.