Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 579: Chapter 249: Secret Passage, Han Feng, One Step

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...

The flames emitted by the Cold Ruins Tripod illuminated the three sacred marks on Xia Hong’s forehead, making them shine brilliantly. His gaze was sharp. Even after Wu Xiong had completely gone silent, he did not approach but continued to shoot arrows incessantly.

The Divine Arm Bow came with a total of fifty specially crafted iron arrows. Xia Hong only stopped after he had exhausted all the arrows and then slowly walked over to Wu Xiong.

Wu Xiong’s head was pierced with iron arrows, resembling a hedgehog. The flames generated by the reaction with the solidified fire oil continued to burn.

Unlike a normal body, beneath Wu Xiong’s skin membrane were not usual human flesh and blood, but clusters of white dew pearls. After being melted by the flames, these dew pearls slowly condensed into a liquid form of azure blue.

Seeing these liquid substances, Xia Hong’s eyes instantly lit up. He quickly took out a wooden box he had prepared on himself.

One drop... two drops... three drops... fifteen drops...

By the time Wu Xiong’s body was entirely burned, a total of thirty drops had been produced.

”Just as expected, this White Dew Gu and the Cold Apple Jade Dew share the same origin!”

Xia Hong looked at the thirty azure blue liquid drops in the wooden box. He reached out to touch them, feeling their extremely high temperature, and his eyes were filled with joy.

He had seen the Cold Apple Jade Dew once in Zhaoyang. Now, the thirty drops lying in the box were clearly identical to it.

After the thick smoke passed, only the skeleton of Wu Xiong’s body remained.

Xia Hong surveyed the entire outer valley and, finding no one, directly headed towards the direction of the Inner Valley.

From his appearance to the slaying of the White Dew Gu, the whole process had lasted more than an hour. Therefore, all living beings in and out of the valley had basically fled. The entire Hanqiong Station was now deserted, utterly silent.

He had stayed in Hanqiong for a day or two before, so Xia Hong knew well which wooden houses were inhabited. But as he opened each wooden house, his expression grew increasingly somber. It wasn’t until he had searched through all the quarters in the station that he heaved a heavy sigh.

”At least more than half have died. The monstrous strength of this creature against ordinary people is simply too immense. Even without actively attacking them, it killed this many people merely by infecting with dew pearls. If it had lasted any longer, I’m afraid no one in Hanqiong would have survived!”

A shadow passed through Xia Hong’s eyes as he entered the main building of Hanqiong, walked up to the top floor, and found the largest room.

Seeing the room completely tidy, with no signs of disturbance, Xia Hong’s eyes gleamed with joy. He quickly started searching the room.

This room, even Hou Tong rarely entered. He had noticed it when he was here earlier. Coupled with the luxurious furnishings throughout the room, it was unsurprising that this was likely the room of the leader, Han Jiuli.

As the leader, Han Jiuli likely had several valuable items.

According to the news brought back from Yuan Cheng, Han Jiuli had supposedly died along with Wu Xiong on Yangyuan Peak. If so, all these valuable items would naturally belong to him now.

However, after searching the room for a long time, Xia Hong still found nothing.

It doesn’t make sense; a leader wouldn’t take everything with him when going out. Even he left quite a few valuable items in his room at the station.

After Xia Chuan took Wu Shuang by surprise, he also found many precious materials in Wu Xiong’s room, including a large silver ingot.

”Thud, thud...”

Continuing to explore the room, Xia Hong occasionally tapped his foot on the ground. It was not long before the sound beneath the main bed caught his attention.

Hollow!

Xia Hong stomped a couple more times and sensed that the inside of the bed was indeed hollow. With great interest, he exerted some force.

Bam...

The bed collapsed, revealing a deep dark passage leading downstairs. Xia Hong glanced at the messy footprints near the entrance of the passage, raised an eyebrow, and jumped directly inside.

The main building of Hanqiong was built leaning against the stone wall on the east side, standing fifteen stories tall and more than seventy meters high. After jumping into the passage, Xia Hong fell for fifty meters before landing on the ground and saw a tunnel leading eastwards.

The east stone wall was part of Twin Dragon Mountain, which meant this tunnel led into the mountainside of Twin Dragon Mountain.

Xia Hong’s eyes lit up instantly. He especially lit a torch and followed the tunnel, noticing that the entire passage consistently rose from low to high, making his gaze burn with excitement.

”Perhaps, it leads to the top of Twin Dragon Mountain...”

Woosh...

As Xia Hong sped through the passage, a gust of wind whistled past his ear. His expression tensed slightly. He abruptly halted, drawing his saber to block the top.

Clang... Crack...

What came down from above was a large saber.

The large saber had decent quality. Although it clashed violently with Xia Hong’s Dragon Sparrow Saber and did not break at first, Xia Hong’s subsequent deliberate upward force eventually broke it.

”With the power of Eight鬃, you’re Han Jiuli’s son, Han Feng, am I correct?”

The owner of the large saber was barely in his thirties, remarkably young compared to his strength. A thoughtful look appeared in Xia Hong’s eyes as he revealed the opponent’s identity with a straightforward remark.

Hanqiong Camp had three Cold Resistance Levels. The leader, Han Jiuli, and Wu Lin had both encountered incidents on Yangyuan Peak, leaving only Han Feng who had never shown up.

From the first day in Hanqiong Station, Xia Hong was puzzled as to why Han Feng had never appeared, though he later understood.

Hou Tong’s initial intention likely was not to cooperate with Hanqiong. Bringing fifteen hundred Earth-digging Realm individuals, plus five Cold Resistance Level individuals, effectively accomplished a hostile takeover of Hanqiong.