Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely-Chapter 275 - 158: Preparation, Arrival

First Year of the Great Xia, March 16th, around midnight

The mine on the south side of the valley.

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Forty to fifty people were scattered throughout the mine, wielding Chewing Teeth Chisels, the incessant sound of chisels striking Iron Ore creating a bustling scene.

Everyone was bare-chested, sweat dripping from their foreheads, sweat pouring down their upper bodies, their pants nearly soaked through.

"Lucky for us in the Great Xia now, no women have broken through to the Earth-digging Realm yet, if we had them mining with us men, that would be something!"

As soon as Tong Xinglong spoke, although everyone didn’t stop their movements, they instinctively turned to look at each other, and upon doing so, they all started laughing uncontrollably.

"Hahaha, Old Tong, your pants are soaked too."

"Hahaha, after a day’s work and you still have energy."

"We’ve been working since last night, whose pants aren’t soaked through?"

"Whew... mining is indeed tiring, I’ve only mined eleven pieces since last night, totaling over 400 pounds. I thought that Lords Xia Chuan and Luo Yuan could dig over a thousand pounds in a day with ease!"

"How can it be the same? Lords Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and Zhao Long have Basic Strengths of over twenty thousand, their mining efficiency being twice ours is normal."

"The leader is even more formidable, on the fourth night, he came to the mine to retrieve Iron Ore, I saw him, he only struck about twenty times, and a piece of Iron Ore came down, I estimate, if the leader mined personally, it could be more than five or six thousand pounds a day."

"Hiss, five or six thousand pounds..."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

The forty-plus people here had all broken through to the Earth-digging Realm in the past half month.

With their Basic Strengths just exceeding ten thousand, their daily Iron mining output could be at most around 400 pounds using the Chewing Teeth Chisels.

Five or six thousand pounds a day was indeed unimaginable for them.

"Actually, the ore mined previously is already sufficient, when the leader came to collect the Iron Ore last night, he also said it’s enough. Why did Lord Xia Chuan summon us to mine all of a sudden last night, and in such a hurry?"

Bai Wuting spoke somewhat confusedly, the others nodded in agreement after hearing him.

Since the mining competition started on January 27th, the income of various resources in the camp has been astonishing.

The wood is not even worth mentioning, with over five hundred Logging Realm individuals, every night they would bring back at least ten thousand pounds, and over the past fifty days, it has easily gathered close to 300,000 points of wood resources.

Judging from the ranking on the Wood List, it indeed looks about right.

In recent times, the large trees within five hundred meters around Redwood Ridge have visibly decreased, showing how intensely they were mining.

If not for the special methods of the leader, who could convert resources to other places, such an amount of wood would not even be able to be stored in the valley.

The same goes for the Coal and Iron mines.

Earlier, only seventeen people in the Hunting Team were mining, and since they had to follow Xia Hong to hunt Intermediate Cold Beasts, the mining time was insufficient, leading to a small initial extraction volume.

But with the implementation of the one-kilometer ban, their mining time increased, and as new Earth-digging Realms emerged daily in the following half month, more people started mining.

As a result, the intake from the Coal and Iron mines naturally rose.

"According to the rankings, there should be more than 30,000 points for Coal mines during this period, and more than 60,000 points for Iron mines, which translates to over 600,000 pounds, quite a lot indeed."

Since the mining competition started, the intake figures for each resource at the station have been clear through the rankings. Everyone roughly estimated in their minds and quickly confirmed Bai Wuting’s statement.

This made them even more puzzled.

The leader had said that the resources were already sufficient for breakthrough and that the camp’s daily need for Coal, Iron, and wood was certainly ample.

If that’s the case, why did Xia Chuan call them all to the mine last night to mine Iron so desperately?

"What else could it be? So many of us broke through to the Earth-digging Realm, just making big knives and bows already requires Iron Ore, it makes sense to hurry and mine Iron."

Xu An, from the side, couldn’t help but speak out at this moment.

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Exactly!

Those who broke through to the Earth-digging Realm still didn’t have matching weapons.

"But that’s not right, there are forty-six of us in total at the Earth-digging Realm, there should be more people breaking through today, a big knife and a bow together consume at most a thousand pounds of Iron Ore, even if you count fifty people, it’s just fifty or sixty thousand pounds at most."

"The Iron Ore stored at the Camp Supply Station is more than enough, there’s no need for us to strain ourselves mining so hard."

"There must be another purpose!"

Bai Wuting nodded, then turned to his uncle Bai Dongying and asked: "Uncle Dong, do you know what Lord Xia Chuan plans to do with it?"

Although they were talking, neither Bai Wuting nor the others stopped mining.

Thinking that Bai Dongying, as the head of the logging team, surely had more information than they did, everyone turned to him curiously.

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Bai Dongying furrowed his brows slightly, speaking with a hint of speculation while digging:

"I’m not too sure myself, but I’ve heard it’s related to the Cold Beast, and making weapons for us is one of the purposes."

From the other side, Cheng Feng, the Collection Team leader, couldn’t resist chiming in either.

"It seems to be for reinforcing the wooden houses, Mu Dong and a few people from the Craftsmen Workshop also broke through to the Earth-digging Realm, haven’t you noticed, they didn’t come mining?"