Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 939: Chapter 349: Attempting to Cheat, East Ridge’s Strength, Lu Yang’s Tactics

The five people, including Zhu Tong, were all bowing their heads at this moment. Upon hearing these words, their expressions first showed a hint of surprise and then turned peculiar.

All eight families make a living along the North Mountain line. Not to mention hunting and gathering require entering the mountains, their coal mines and iron mines are also all in the mountains. If they truly could forbid them from entering the mountains, it would indeed be a harsh move.

The problem is, how could Lu Yang possibly seal off the North Mountain line?

East Ridge has twenty-nine at the Cold Resistance Level, and over four hundred at the Earth-digging Realm Limit, making them indeed the strongest among the eight families. But even wanting to blockade the entire North Mountain line, let alone East Ridge alone, even adding Zi Qiang and Hong Yuan, it would still be impossible.

Just Zhu Ling alone has fourteen at the Cold Resistance Level, and along with the other four families, the total number for the five families is at least over forty Cold Resistance Levels. This is just the Cold Resistance Level. As for the Earth-digging Realm Limit and Earth-digging Realm groups, the five families’ numbers are definitely not less than the three families of East Ridge combined. How could he blockade them?

“Everyone, come in!”

Lu Yang, as if he could see through the minds of the five, first let out a cold laugh, then turned his head and shouted toward the periphery of Zhu Ling’s base.

“Who’s there, daring to intrude Zhu Ling Village!”

“Stand still, all of you.”

“Enemy attack, there’s an enemy attack…”

A series of urgent cries suddenly came from the periphery of the base. Upon hearing the last enemy attack alert, Zhu Tong and other Cold Resistance Levels, including the people of Zhu Ling’s Camp below, instantly changed their expressions.

“Zhu Da, you go out…”

Zhu Tong was about to send his second brother out to take a look, but before he finished speaking, more than fifty people stormed in from the periphery of the base. Seeing the speed at which those fifty people moved swiftly on the ground, their expressions suddenly froze.

Fifty-eight people in total stormed in from the periphery of the base, led by Zhu Shun from East Ridge Camp Supply and Military Equipment. The fifty-seven people behind him all wore Black Iron Armor, with a dense array of silver forging patterns on the armor, almost competing with the black.

Bai Bo, Nie Ying, Wan Tianhe, and Yang Quan aside, even Hong Fan and Zi Jin, who had personally visited East Ridge Base, were somewhat numb looking at the more than fifty people behind Zhu Shun at this moment.

“Zhu Shun?”

“This…”

“Thousand Forged Armor, East Ridge has so many Thousand Forged Armors?”

“Gulp, where did these come from?”

“All… they’re all… all Cold Resistance Levels!”

“Are these East Ridge people?”

“How is it possible!”

……

“Zhu Shun pays respect to the leader.”

“We pay respect to the leader!”

Zhu Shun led fifty-eight people to Lu Yang, all bowing deeply together. With so much Cold Resistance Level blood energy fully unleashed, the other Cold Resistance Levels from the seven families including Zhu Tong all instantly quieted down.

“No need for formalities, rise all of you.”

After nodding to Zhu Shun, Lu Yang signaled the crowd to rise, then turned to face Zhu Tong and the others with a face full of mockery.

Luo An is the son of the Hunting Department Director Luo Yuan, Zou Ping is the son of Wushuang garrison Zou Yuankai, Zhao Yuanshan is the only daughter of the soon-to-be eighth army commander Zhao Long and the niece of Zhao Hu, Xiao Yan is the cousin of two Minister’s Wives, and Luo Cheng is the son of the Mirror Valley garrison Luo Ming.

The five juniors who came to compete tonight all have significant backgrounds. Bringing only Zhao Hu and three others over, how could he rest assured?

Of course, more importantly, Zhu Tong losing and refusing to admit defeat was something he had long anticipated. Bringing people over was to tell Zhu Tong and the rest that even if they wanted to deny it, it was now impossible.

In the past three years, although these more than five hundred people lived in Beining Mountain, they still enjoyed cultivation resources from Xia City, including normal quota spots from the Martial Arts Pavilion. They even obtained partial resource tilts from Xia City due to significant contributions from gathering information on Moao Nine Towns.

Twenty-nine Cold Resistance Levels, that’s old news. At the beginning of the year, when competing for that iron mine, he was worried about exposing East Ridge’s strength too much, leading to unnecessary trouble, so he only sent out such a small number. It wasn’t that East Ridge merely had twenty-nine Cold Resistance Levels.

“Brother Hong, Brother Zi, since Zhu Ling’s five families lost and refused to acknowledge it, our three families can join hands to blockade the North Mountain line for five years as their debt repayment. What do you two think of this idea of mine?”

“A deal’s a deal, it’s only natural!”

“Zhu Ling’s five families broke the trust first. Leader Lu’s idea, I think it works. Blockading the North Mountain line for five years is a rightful way to have the five families repay the debt. Even if it reaches Beishuo City, our three families need not fear.”

Seeing East Ridge so powerful, Zi Jin and Hong Fan had no reason to disagree.

Especially Hong Fan, who outright clarified Lu Yang’s intention.

On hearing this, Zhu Tong and the five appeared as if their loved ones had died, their expressions chaotic to the extreme.

Lu Yang had already proven that East Ridge had the capability to blockade the North Mountain line and, furthermore, had a legitimate reason to make the five families repay their debt.

As such, any route to file a complaint to Beishuo had been completely cut off for them.

They couldn’t win a fight, and now even playing tricks wouldn’t work.

It’s over!

This time, the five families were utterly trapped, and apart from bleeding heavily, there was no other outcome…

“Actually, I never intended to push Brother Zhu’s five families to this point!”

Just as Zhu Tong was about to admit defeat and back down, he suddenly heard these words, especially noting how Lu Yang addressed him, and his expression instantly turned agitated.

Bai Bo and the other four leaders, just like him, all jerked their heads up to look at Lu Yang.

Seeing the five leaders’ eyes all gathered on him, a faint gleam flashed in the depths of Lu Yang’s eyes. He shook his head and sighed lightly, continuing, “All of our eight families make a living along the North Mountain line. Why must it come to killing each other? I merely want to lead the people of the camp and live a stable life. If it weren’t for Brother Zhu’s pressing over the past three years, my East Ridge would have originally been able to befriend all of you.”