Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

227: Chapter 144 Self-serving at the Expense of Others, He Meng’s Furious Rage [Sorry for Being Late]_3 227: Chapter 144 Self-serving at the Expense of Others, He Meng’s Furious Rage [Sorry for Being Late]_3 The long-prepared Zhao Long and the others initially thought they were going to attack the people from the Mirror Immortal Camp, waiting all along for Xia Hong’s command.

They had gone hunting with Xia Hong so many times, naturally forming a seamless tacit understanding.

Having observed for so long, they were clear about Xia Hong’s intentions in their hearts.

As soon as Xia Hong gave the order, everyone drew their bows and nocked their arrows without the slightest delay.

Fifteen Earth-digging Realm, fifteen Ten-stone Iron Bows.

All the more, knowing time was of the essence, they increased their shooting speed to nearly the limit.

Swish…

Swish…

Swish…

Swish…

Swish…

Swish…

Fifteen arrows at a time, in less than thirty moments, they had already fired more than a dozen volleys, totaling over two hundred arrows.

The Teng Jiao, already in a gravely injured and dying state, trapped under the Thunder Kui Swamp, had little chance to dodge, let alone escape, and could only helplessly stand on top of the swamp, becoming an easy target for them!

Over two hundred arrows directly submerged the head of the Teng Jiao.

After this nearly frantic bombardment of iron arrows, its facial features were blurred beyond recognition.

The entire head had been turned into a porcupine.

“Roar…”

By this time, the roar of the Teng Jiao had become extremely weak.

The surrounding Zhao Long and others suddenly stopped shooting.

The Teng Jiao, thinking it had a chance to breathe, immediately tensed its body, desperately twisting its lower body, trying to escape from the swamp.

Without the iron arrow attacks, and fueled by a strong will to survive, it really pulled its body out from the swamp.

Crack…

Unfortunately, just as it managed to pull itself out and was about to escape, Xia Hong, who had been hiding above in the Ice Tree, made his move.

With eyes wide open, he raised his Double-edged Giant Axe and leaped down from the tree.

Using the momentum of the fall, he swung the giant axe in a forward arc from behind, aiming at the bulge on the Teng Jiao’s forehead, and struck fiercely.

Swoosh…

As the giant axe cleaved down, many iron arrows embedded in the Teng Jiao’s head were instantly knocked off.

The friction between iron tools sparked several flames.

Whoosh…

Just the iron arrows being knocked off flew and directly penetrated the Ice Tree beside.

The strength of Xia Hong’s strike was evident from this.

Boom…

crack…

The axe cleaved down, splitting the Teng Jiao’s flesh, shattering the bulge on its forehead, and instantly crushing the bones inside with tremendous force, making it seem as if the bones in the Teng Jiao’s head were as fragile as tofu before the giant axe, unable to withstand even a bit.

The giant axe cleaved down two to three meters deep.

The large head of the Teng Jiao was split in two from the middle.

If Xia Hong hadn’t held back at the last moment, the entire upper body of the Teng Jiao might have been split in two.

“Hiss…”

“The leader’s strength!”

“How many pounds of force is that?”

…

Xia Hong didn’t have the luxury to listen to the exclamations of the people.

To avoid getting touched by the Teng Jiao, he didn’t even pull out the giant axe, jumping directly to the ground and quickly ordering everyone:

“Hurry up and clean up, take the Thunder Kui and Teng Jiao back, the Teng Jiao’s skin is poisonous, don’t touch it!”

This wasn’t the first time the group handled game, knowing time was limited, they immediately followed the order, chopped down a slightly thinner tree, worked on it for a while, and made a simple stretcher to tie up the Thunder Kui and Teng Jiao together.

While making the stretcher, Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan, who were responsible for luring the Cold Beast, also detoured back from the east side.

Xia Chuan returned first, looking anxious as he approached Xia Hong, and said with lingering fear:

“If I saw correctly, when I dropped the torch, a nearby Demon Sheep and two Frost Wolves seemed to be startled too, the Snow Mane probably felt it too, didn’t dare to chase me, grabbed the torch and ran.”

Luo Yuan, returning later, had a similar expression to Xia Chuan, and said in a deep voice:

“Before I could even run to the east side, there was a big commotion in the west too, probably from some Cold Beast deep inside being startled as well.

Lighting five torches at once, the power was unexpectedly so great!”

Xia Hong nodded, the Small Torch was indeed a system-made material, tested many times by him on many Low-level Cold Beasts.

In terms of understanding, naturally, others couldn’t compare to him.

Torches had an attraction to Cold Beasts because the beasts could heal and restore themselves using the firelight, enhancing their strength.

Given this, the bigger the firelight, the more attraction it had for Cold Beasts, so the flames became larger just as he instructed Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan to light five torches simultaneously.

Though thinking of something, Xia Hong still turned to warn everyone again in a deep voice: “Remember, be cautious when using torches!”

“Yes, leader!”

Hearing Xia Hong’s serious tone, everyone nodded quickly in agreement, remembering this matter earnestly.

“Alright, let’s hurry back!”

At Xia Hong’s command, he took the lead, clearing the path ahead, while the other seventeen people lifted the stretcher together, quickly following him back towards the outer east side.

Though heavy combined, the two game animals were nothing for seventeen Earth-digging Realm to carry together.

The group moved swiftly, soon exiting the Redwood Ridge, returning to the valley.

The first sight of an Intermediate Teng Jiao and an Intermediate Thunder Kui caused another outburst of amazement in the camp, with nearly everyone gathering around to see these two wicked beasts.

“Did the leader hunt two new Cold Beasts?”

“Weren’t the ones brought back previously all Snow Manes?”

“And they’re both Intermediate!”

“This is Thunder Kui, wow, it’s huge, how much meat will it yield?”