Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 767: Chapter 307: Silver Mine News, Uprisings Everywhere (Part 2)

Xia Hong thought of this, and immediately looked at Peng Bo with anticipation.

Peng Bo quickly waved his hand and smiled, “Leader, don’t look at me like that. I’ve never picked Zhu Yinhua. In the entire Longyou, only Long Mountain and Zhaoyang have the capability to harvest Zhu Yinhua. It’s likely that someone from these two families knows the location of some Silver Mines.”

If someone knows the location, that’s good!

Suddenly seeing a way out, Xia Hong felt much more comfortable at heart. He then thought of what Peng Bo had just said, that even if the Silver Mine was found, it would be difficult to use manpower for mining. After pondering for a moment, he guessed, “Is the difficulty in mining due to the Cold Beasts?”

Peng Bo nodded, saying, “Many people think that only rodents like to occupy the surroundings of Silver Mines. In fact, wherever there’s a Silver Mine, there are Cold Beast populations stationed, at least one or two, at most a dozen. These places are deadly for even those at the Cold Resistance Level, making it almost impossible to organize human mining.”

Cold Beast populations!

Hearing these four words, Xia Hong’s brows tightened, and he immediately recalled the rodents on the North Slope of the mountain before the first year, and even earlier, the Frost Wolves that blocked the way when he led the people of Great Xia from the Mud Slope to Twin Dragon Valley.

Until now, Great Xia had only encountered Cold Beast populations twice, but both times they brought considerable damage to the Camp, proving that solitary Cold Beasts and systematic Cold Beast populations are entirely different concepts.

A single Cold Beast population is definitely much more formidable than a Beast Tide of the same scale.

The reason is simple, judging from the two previous encounters, systematic Cold Beast populations have leaders commanding, adults charging, specialized scouts, and a rear guard holding the formation… almost indistinguishable from a human camp.

With more advanced organizational forms, naturally comes stronger combat power.

Moreover, the larger the Cold Beast population, the more it proves its king’s power and extraordinary wisdom, making it even more daunting to deal with when you think about it.

No wonder!

If that’s the case, obtaining Silver Mines is significantly more challenging than iron mines.

It was only now that Xia Hong realized and suppressed his desire for Silver Mines, then looked up at Peng Bo with a curious expression and asked:

“How do you know so much?”

Peng Bo replied with a smile, “Leader, you forgot, I was a hostage at Long Mountain for a few years. I had somewhat of a mentor-mentee relationship with Li Tianhua.”

Li Tianhua!

Since arriving at Longyou, Xia Hong had heard this name countless times, to the point that his ears were almost developing calluses.

Recalling Li Tianhua’s departure from Longyou, he felt both relieved and regretful.

If Li Tianhua were present, he could never have taken Longyou so quickly. Most likely, he would have had to hide and develop at Redwood Ridge for a few years before extending his influence into Longyou;

Regret, purely due to curiosity about Li Tianhua.

Looking at the entire development trajectory of Longyou, over two hundred Camps eventually merged into eleven, followed by the formation of the Longyou Alliance, with Long Mountain nominally ruling Longyou, all primarily facilitated by Li Tianhua.

In fact, if not for Great Xia’s sudden intervention, it was only a matter of time for Long Mountain to unify the whole of Longyou with the foundation Li Tianhua left behind.

According to Hou Hu, even at the Peak of Cold Resistance, his strength was already sixty-four zou, making his power almost unrivaled across Longyou.

Such a legendary figure, whose mind, foresight, talent, and strength have no discernible flaws, naturally aroused Xia Hong’s curiosity.

Moreover, he hasn’t encountered many evenly matched opponents for a long time.

“Nor should others be underestimated. Li Tianhua’s last appearance was in Longyou forty-five years ago. He probably left Long Mountain more than three years ago. If he’s not dead now, he might have broken through to the Visible Yang Realm. If he comes back now, and if we can’t deal with him, it would be disastrous!”

Xia Hong shook his head and was about to speak with Peng Bo when he suddenly saw Wu Tianxing and Hou Xing enter with angry expressions, one after the other.

“Report to the leader, there’s unrest in the garrison again!”

As soon as Wu Tianxing finished speaking, Hou Xing followed quickly:

“The prison is also in chaos. The Li family’s descendants refuse to settle down. Every few minutes, someone breaks open the prison door and riots. Just now, a Li family member at the Earth-digging Realm Limit managed to persuade over forty people to join him in sneaking into a secret passage to escape. If it weren’t for the secret post in the prison discovering and reporting it in time, they would have escaped.”

Hearing the report from the two, Xia Hong’s brow furrowed sharply. He first looked at Peng Bo and asked, “I just asked you to round up the Li family descendants and lock them in the prison. Didn’t you confiscate their weapons?”

Just now, he had given orders to all those at the Cold Resistance Level, assigning Peng Bo to lead Hou Xing, Zhang Ying, and Kong Fan, along with 300 Cloud Dragon Army, to imprison the top brass of Long Mountain and the Li family descendants in the prison. If there were problems, he naturally had to look to Peng Bo.

Peng Bo was evidently aware of the prison unrest, and with a look of helplessness, he said, “Leader, you don’t understand. These Li family descendants are very familiar with the garrison’s layout, knowing clearly where the weapons and secret passageways are in the prison. We can’t guard against them at all. If it weren’t for Commander Liu’s advice to plant secret posts among the prisoners, the prison would have been chaotic long ago.”

Xia Hong furrowed his brow, raised his head, and looked at Hou Xing, “No one was killed?”

Hou Xing also looked helpless and replied, “We have killed many. The prison rioted three times in total, and we have killed at least seventy people. But they seem fearless and refuse to settle down.”

After hearing this, Xia Hong furrowed his brows even tighter and then turned his head to look at Wu Tianxing.