Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

48th Year of Longyou, June 1st

On the snowy night of Long Mountain, the mountain body winds and spirals, the terrain undulates unpredictably.

Coupled with the mountain's diverse plant species intertwining and growing, the visibility in the Snow Forest at night is extremely low, especially with large shadowy areas now and then. The overall perception is chaotic and disordered, unlike the orderly and structured Redwood Ridge.

Cold Beasts are creatures that come out during the day and rest at night, their habits exactly opposite to those of humans.

They also need a sense of safety at night. Like the Cold Beasts in Redwood Ridge, they all crawl onto trees at night to rest. As such, compared to the orderly environment of Redwood Ridge, the chaotic and shadow-plagued Long Mountain is undoubtedly more favored by Cold Beasts.

This is indeed the case.

"These Cold Beasts in Long Mountain seem unending. We now have over four hundred Hunting Teams at the camp, yet in such a peripheral area, we unexpectedly encountered two Striped Tigers at once, almost capsizing in the gutter!"

Deep in a dense forest, ten kilometers into Long Mountain, a young man in white held a large knife, standing on a corpse of a toothed Fierce Tiger with white skin and black spots. While applying balm to the claw marks on his chest, he couldn't help but lament to the tree.

Bang... Bang... Bang...

As his words fell, five people jumped down from the tree one after another.

The five were dressed similarly to him, of similar age, each holding Strong Bows and bearing weapons, clearly adorned like a Hunting Team.

Among the five, the leader wore black clothes, holding a rod over a meter long. He directly approached, squatted beside the Striped Tiger, pulled out the Iron Arrow stuck in the tiger corpse, and responded to the young man's lament.

"There haven't always been over four hundred Hunting Teams. It's something that has developed in the camp over the recent few years. On the eastern edge of Long Mountain alone, the north-south length is fifty or sixty kilometers, and the width is over thirty kilometers. Considering the rugged and undulating terrain, the total area is at least over two thousand square kilometers. With such a vast territory, the living Cold Beast population is astonishing. Moreover, there's a continuous supplement of Cold Beasts from the inner areas."

Upon hearing the leading youth in black's words, everyone turned their heads towards the inner area of Long Mountain on the west side, revealing some yearning and curiosity.

The young man in white remembered something and squatted down too, pulling out arrows while smiling towards the leading youth in black: "Brother Zhong, once you and Brother Hu break through to the Earth-digging Realm Limit, can our team venture twenty kilometers in depth and attempt hunting Intermediate Cold Beasts?"

The youth in black had just finished pulling out the Iron Arrow from the Striped Tiger, was first stunned upon hearing this question, then turned to observe the five people with a glance, saying nothing.

"Xue Ping, stop dreaming. Our team consists of only seven people. Even if Li Hu and Yang Zhong break through, hunting Intermediate Cold Beasts won't work. Without a full team, there needs to be at least 20 people to even have a chance to try.

In the team, a young man with an honest face spoke up, helping Yang Zhong answer Dong Ping's earlier question.

The other three present showed a slight dimness upon hearing the young man's words.

Yang Zhong, with his head bowed, had a flash of anger in his eyes, but he quickly concealed it.

The young man in white, Dong Ping, immediately angrily rebuked him:

"Yang Yue, I asked Brother Zhong, who are you to interrupt?"

Li Hu and Yang Zhong are the leaders and co-leaders of their Hunting Team. Yang Yue, being a member of the team, showed no respect towards the two. Xue Ping, who always respected Li Yang, couldn't hold back naturally.

Yet his angry rebuke did not make the other restrain himself.

"The master isn't anxious, what makes you, a dog, anxious?"

Upon hearing Yang Yue's ridicule, anger rose on Xue Ping's face, but he quickly realized something. Once his expression calmed, he stared at Yang Yue and laughed instead.

"Hahaha..."

Only after laughing did Yang Yue feel somewhat uneasy, so Xue Ping sarcastically said: "These wicked people love projecting themselves onto others, throwing dirty water on others. I never believed it before, but now I finally do. I admire the skills of our captain and Brother Zhong, so I respect them, any problem with that?"

Instead, it's you, Yang Yue, who have been known by everyone to wag your tail pleadingly to some people in the camp, hahaha..."

After hearing these words, Yang Yue's face turned beet red, especially noticing the inexplicable gazes from the other three in the team. He was furious and drew his Longsword, charging towards Xue Ping.

"I'll kill you, mutt!"

Xue Ping's Basic Strength matched Yang Yue's. Seeing him ready to strike, he was not willing to show weakness and instinctively prepared to draw his weapon.

Bam...

Seeing an internal team conflict about to erupt, Yang Zhong, the co-leader, naturally couldn't sit idly. He directly went forward and kicked Yang Yue away.

Splatter!

Yang Yue's Basic Strength was only fifteen thousand, nearly double the difference with Yang Zhong. He was kicked more than ten meters away, only got up from the snow after five or six breaths. After spitting out the blood surging from his throat, he looked at Yang Zhong, though there was fear in his eyes, more was resentment:

"Yang Zhong, dare you lay hands on me?"

It's hard to imagine someone so much weaker could dare question him with such a threatening tone.

Yang Zhong tightened his grip on the rod, forcibly suppressing the impulse to kill Yang Yue. After calming down for a long time, he looked at Yang Yue and said in a low voice:

"Yang Gan and Li Yuanqing sent you to join the team probably to monitor me and Brother Hu, not to ruin my Hunting Team. Believe it or not, even if I disable you here, they won't do anything to me. At most, they'll just find another dog to watch us?"