Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1601: Chapter 503: Proud Huang Shengyong, Black Concealing Hood and Infiltration

The twelfth year of Great Xia, December 28, second half of the night

Central Yang Camp, at the warehouse gate

“The warehouse is a restricted area, idlers keep out!”

Rumble rumble rumble… crack…

Ten massive Iron Wheel Cars loaded to the brim with Beast Meat rolled forward slowly under the escort of over a thousand men. At the sharp shout from the armored Soldier on duty, the convoy immediately halted.

At the head of the escort team was a young man in white, sword at his side, barely in his early twenties by the look of him. There was a sharp, cutting air between his brows. Seeing the thousand-strong armored garrison at the warehouse gate, a smile instantly appeared on his face. He stepped up to a man dressed like a commander, cupped his fists with a smile, and said, “I am Lu Yun from East Ridge, disciple of Beishuo Sword Master Lu Yang. May I ask, General, your honored surname and name?”

“Beishuo Inspectorate Dean, Huang Shengyong!”

Hearing the middle-aged commander’s name, Lu Yun immediately understood why, from the moment he arrived, the other man had been staring at him with that hostile look.

At this year’s Beishuo Martial Arts Competition, he had taken sixth place, and the person ranked right after him was named Huang Shengyu, eldest son of the current head of the Beishuo Inspection Office, Huang Tianxing.

Just from the names you could guess the rough outline. This Huang Shengyong was most likely Huang Shengyu’s full younger brother or a paternal cousin, and was probably bearing a grudge over the tournament.

“So it’s General Huang, I’ve long admired your name. I, Lu Yun, by order of my master, have specifically brought these ten carts of Beast Meat as provisions for your army. Just now Lord Yang Ping said we should deliver them straight here into storage…”

“The warehouse is a critical location, how could people just come and go as they please? Uncover all the tarps on the carts and we’ll handle the tally and storage.”

Huang Shengyong still showed Lu Yun no pleasant expression. After speaking, he walked to the first Iron Wheel Car, drew his Big Saber, and directly slashed open the black tarp on top.

As the tarp split open, bundles of blue Beast Meat immediately came into everyone’s view.

The East Ridge escort team, Lu Yun included, all had somewhat ugly expressions at seeing Huang Shengyong act so casually.

They had brought so much Beast Meat to aid Beishuo, and this Huang Shengyong not only didn’t say a single word of thanks, he then made such a careless gesture—clearly he didn’t put East Ridge in his eyes at all.

Only, what angered them wasn’t just this.

Noticing the expressions on their faces, Huang Shengyong’s lips tugged into a trace of a sneer. He then walked over to the second Iron Wheel Car and deliberately slashed open the tarp again, exposing the blue Beast Meat inside. After that he turned his head and smiled at Lu Yun, saying, “You people from East Ridge Village are actually quite sensible, hahahaha…”

“No matter how you talk it up, it’s still just a village. It should know its place!”

“Hahahaha, if it weren’t for us Beishuo helping out last year, East Ridge might’ve already been wiped out by Great Xia. Now that a great enemy is at the gates, Sword Leader Lu still knows the bigger picture in the end and can stand on the same side as us.”

“Hahahaha!”

……

The Soldiers guarding the warehouse could tell at a glance that their Commander, Huang Shengyong, was deliberately humiliating the East Ridge group, so they all laughed along. Their laughter was filled with disdain and pride.

When Heaven wishes a man to perish, it first drives him mad.

Hearing the wave of mocking laughter, Lu Yun’s expression naturally wasn’t good, but when his master’s words suddenly surfaced in his mind, he felt no anger at all inside.

The behavior of Huang Shengyong and the others was hardly strange. Setting aside this year’s Beishuo Martial Arts Competition, in recent years as East Ridge grew stronger and its say carried more and more weight in Jingxi and even the entire Beishuo territory, it was normal for the Beishuo People to find them an eyesore.

On top of that, last year his master had Director Luo cooperate in staging that “play”. In the eyes of the Beishuo People, they were the ones who had helped East Ridge resist Great Xia, yet Lu Yang had refused Yang Fa’s recruitment—practically textbook ungrateful-wolf behavior.

Beishuo’s hostility toward East Ridge was nothing new.

But at such a critical juncture, the fact that Huang Shengyong still dared to lead this bunch to deliberately pick a fight with them was something Lu Yun truly hadn’t anticipated.

To be this stupid was a wonder in itself!

Seeing that Huang Shengyong was heading toward the third cart, Lu Yun’s face darkened as he strode ahead and took the initiative to lift the tarp.

Unlike the first two carts, the Beast Meat on the third Iron Wheel Car was all packed in giant leather sacks.

Lu Yun directly pulled out one sack, untied the mouth, and after revealing the blue Beast Meat inside, said with a trace of anger, “These ten carts of Beast Meat were all hunted with no small effort by us in East Ridge. I must ask General Huang to show a bit of respect…”

After speaking, he paused, ignoring the gloom on Huang Shengyong’s face, and went on, “For your convenience in inspection, the first two carts are loose Beast Meat, each bundle weighing five hundred jin, four hundred bundles in total, for a sum of two hundred thousand jin; the rear eight carts are all pre-bagged, each sack weighing two thousand five hundred jin, ninety sacks per cart, eight carts make seven hundred and twenty sacks, for a sum of one point eight million jin. Since General Huang does not trust us in East Ridge, then take your time counting here. I’ll be taking my leave!”

With that, Lu Yun didn’t say another word and simply waved to the escort team.

The men of the escort team were clearly holding in their anger as well. At his signal they immediately abandoned the carts and followed behind Lu Yun, heading toward the perimeter of the warehouse.

“Wait…”

Huang Shengyong, who had been wearing a perpetually gloomy expression at the side, finally couldn’t resist. He called out to stop Lu Yun, then turned his head in a fit of pique and made a gesture to the Soldiers behind him.

Rip… rip…

The Soldiers immediately caught his meaning and, one after another, slashed open all the tarps on the rear seven Iron Wheel Cars.

All the Beast Meat on the ten Iron Wheel Cars was now laid bare before everyone’s eyes.

Seeing the stiff expressions on Lu Yun and the others’ faces, a rush of triumphant

pleasure surged up in Huang Shengyong’s heart. Putting on a show of apology, he said, “The warehouse is a critical location, so we can’t help but be more thorough in our inspection. Little Sword Chief, please don’t take offense…”