Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1260: Chapter 417: Yanze Lake and Blood Miasma Plain, Wang Yuxiu, the Xiang Family Turns the Tables

Five kilometers west of Xia City, snow mist filled the sky, and the cold wind raged.

Six figures stood tensely guarding a large tree.

A snowy landscape painting hung on the tree; if Hou Ming were here now, he would instantly recognize it as identical to the Redwood Ridge snow scene he just saw in the North Fifth District room.

Of course, if he were here, he would also immediately recognize the six people guarding this painting as none other than the ones he was to apprehend — Chu Dongning and his party.

Fwoosh...

The snowy landscape on the tree suddenly glowed, and two arms swiftly stretched out, followed by a beautiful woman in plain clothes jumping directly out of the painting.

"Little Princess!"

"Did the Xia people bully you, Little Princess?"

Seeing Chu Yan’er emerge, the four middle-aged men, Chu Dongning among them, immediately relaxed. However, Chen Yu and Chen Huang, noticing that Chu Yan’er had revealed her true form, instantly asked angrily if she had been bullied by people from Great Xia.

Rip...

After Chu Yan’er came out, she tore the painting apart without hesitation, turning her pretty face full of shame and anger, with no mood to pay any attention to Chen Yu or Chen Huang.

[With your current strength and status, you’re not qualified to come here and say those words to me. Have your lord come, maybe then.]

She constantly replayed Xia Hong’s words in her mind, unable to resist clenching her fists under her sleeves, her expression full of resentment.

"That hateful Xia Hong dared to say I, the Princess, am not qualified to speak to him like that and even had the nerve to treat me like a child! How infuriating!"

As a descendant of the Landgrave’s lineage and one of the most talented among them, Chu Yan’er was treated as a treasure by her great-grandfather, the Yanling County Governor. At thirteen, when she was titled the Yanling County Princess, the Landgrave himself gave her the title of Chen Cang Pearl...

Her esteemed position in the Chen Cang Feudal Town, how could it be equated with being treated like a naive child by a mere Xianyang Level lord of a town-level camp?

"Little Princess, how dare Xia Hong be so rude? Let’s report it to the County Governor in Yanling County and let him personally come to discipline Xia Hong..."

"The Prefectural Governor has many affairs to attend to, how could we bother him with such a trivial matter?"

Upon hearing Chen Yu’s angry words, the expressions of the four middle-aged men with Chu Dongning immediately turned serious, but as Chu Yan’er spoke, they eased up again.

Ultimately, the Little Princess understood the big picture more than others.

Despite her shame and anger, Chu Yan’er understood well why Xia Hong had just been enraged. In the end, she had no solid ground to stand on. Moreover, she wouldn’t trouble her distant great-grandfather for such a minor issue to come all the way to Xia City.

Besides, this Great Xia Town was clearly not an entity easily to be trifled with.

Chu Yan’er gazed eastward, barely making out the outline of the city walls five kilometers away. Her expression flickered a few times before she slowly spoke:

"This Xia Hong is hard to deal with; we should leave quickly!"

"Where do you intend to go?"

However, just as Chu Yan’er’s words fell, and before the six could pack up, a slightly mocking voice came from above their heads.

Chu Yan’er’s face immediately stiffened, and the other six people’s hair stood on end, instinctively drawing their weapons and looking up in panic.

When the seven of them looked up and saw Xia Hong standing in mid-air in a black robe, their faces showed not just panic and fear but also deep disbelief.

This is impossible...

How did Xia Hong know the seven of them were here?

Seeing the fear in the eyes of the seven, Xia Hong naturally understood what they were thinking and shook his head with a cold smile.

Xia City was built relying on the Twin Dragon Valley, with its main gate on the west side. The most recent expansion was in August of the third year of Da Xia; currently, the western city wall is 20 kilometers long, and the north and south walls are each 15 kilometers, totaling 300 square kilometers in area.

And the monitoring range of the Level 5 Ancestral Spirit Mother and Child Stele can extend up to 50 kilometers outward.

Therefore, not only Xia City, but any activity within a 30-kilometer area surrounding the city by foreign life forms can be clearly detected by the Mother Stele.

Other people need to look at the Mother Stele to determine the trajectory of those foreign life forms, but Xia Hong, as the host, doesn’t even need to look. He can directly operate the system.

Just when Chu Yan’er disappeared from the Prison Department’s side hall, the Mother Stele immediately gave feedback. He originally thought, since Chu Yan’er had such spatial superpowers, she must have escaped far away.

Unexpectedly, within moments, new life forms appeared within the Redwood Ridge five kilometers west of Xia City, and there were coincidentally seven of them.

Clearly, this Chu Yan’er’s skills hadn’t been fully developed. Her method of spatial travel using her paintings had distance limitations, most likely under 30 kilometers.

Of course, this "undeveloped skill" description is relative to Great Xia.

Great Xia has the Ancestral Spirit Stele, with a monitoring range that just exceeds 30 kilometers; other camps don’t have such magical things, and with this skill, no wonder Chu Yan’er dared to leave Chen Cang willingly and come to the Southern Slope Territory.

Xia Hong remained silent for quite a while, causing the seven below to grow increasingly apprehensive. Chen Yu, who had just been shouting to inform the Yanling County Governor to come and personally chastise Xia Hong, was now intimidated into silence, like a quail.

Of the seven, only Chu Yan’er managed a relatively composed expression, knowing she couldn’t escape, she put down her weapon, stepped forward, and directly cupped her fists, looking apologetically at Xia Hong as she spoke: "Yan’er today, indeed shouldn’t have acted against those kids in the city, I beseech Lord Xia Hong..."