Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 948: Chapter 351: Lu Yang’s Plan, Drastic Change in Xia City, Sumeru Nightmare, His Highness’s Golden Words_2

As Xia Hong was about to get up, a thought suddenly crossed his mind. With a slight curiosity on his face, he smiled and asked Lu Yang, “That He Wuyang, he must have some leverage in your hands, right?”

Last night, Xia Hong had witnessed the scene where He Wuyang was angrily rebuked.

He Wuyang’s strength was indeed not as strong as Lu Yang and the others, but he was from the Beishuo Inspection Office. Even if he wasn’t as strong as Lu Yang, he shouldn’t be rebuked to the point where he didn’t dare to speak.

Normally, for Lu Yang to rebuke the Beishuo Inspector like that would be a blatant disrespect, as it harmed the prestige of Beishuo. If He Wuyang reported it to the Inspectorate, Lu Yang, even if he didn’t die, would probably get skinned.

The only explanation was that he had leverage in Lu Yang’s hands.

The fact was just as Xia Hong suspected.

Lu Yang chuckled and said, “That He Wuyang, his courage is too great. Two years ago, he secretly colluded with a giant camp along the North Mountain line to secretly mine the largest Meishan Silver Mine within Jingxi, accumulating a total of 1.47 million pounds. When the secret was exposed later, he even sent people to silence witnesses.

Unfortunately, the people he sent were greedy, and together with Zhao Hu, we acted quickly to rescue the leader and some members of that camp. Now they’re all kept at the East Ridge Base.

The ledgers of He Wuyang’s group secretly mining the silver mine, along with his correspondence with two Meishan Silver Mine managers, are all in my hands. Naturally, he dares not offend me.

In the past two years, Zhu Tong thought I was being ostentatious because I was currying favor with Gu Tianxiong. He never suspected that I had such a significant piece of leverage on He Wuyang, haha.”

As he finished, Lu Yang looked quite pleased with himself, starting to laugh.

“1.47 million pounds, He Wuyang, along with two silver mine managers, wouldn’t have had the nerve to do this, right? There must be others from Beishuo City involved too, right?”

Xia Hong keenly noticed something unusual and asked softly, seeing Lu Yang nod, he knew Lu Yang understood, so he didn’t say more.

“Alright, you all keep busy, I’ll head back to Xia City first!”

Hearing Xia Hong was leaving, Lu Yang quickly stood up, walked to the center of the main hall, and opened the entrance to the passage.

The East Ridge Secret Passage was so important, naturally, he had to place it in the safest location. What place could be safer than this main hall in the entire East Ridge Base?

As Xia Hong looked at the passage entrance, he shook his head: “I won’t take the secret passage. This is right within Beining Mountain’s territory, I’ll head south a bit to see the top of Twin Dragon Valley. Descending from there leads directly to Xia City, much faster.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang remembered that Xia Hong could already fly in the sky, unlike ordinary folk like them, and immediately nodded along with the other six, seeing Xia Hong off.

Xia Hong walked out of the hall, waved his hand indicating no need to see him off, and flew straight into the depths of Beining Mountain towards the south.

The East Ridge is located fifteen kilometers deep on the north side of Beining Mountain, only over twenty kilometers away from the west side of the Double Dragon Mountain Wall. Xia Hong flew south for a while, then changed direction west, all the way to the location of the Double Dragon Mountain Wall.

The Double Dragon Mountain Wall is over two thousand meters high. Normally looking up from below doesn’t seem tall, but looking down from the cliff is a different story.

Cloud layers are the birthplace of snowflakes. Large, thick cloud layers are the best condition for large-scale snowfall, and in an extremely cold, perpetually snowing environment like the Ice Abyss, the cloud layer’s thickness far exceeds ordinary imagination.

At the moment, Xia Hong stood at the edge of the cliff, the clouds beneath his feet, feeling the extremely low temperature within the clouds clearly.

The clouds had thickened to a different kind of gray, resembling the surface in snowfield areas, giving an illusion of being able to step on it.

Xia Hong gazed down at the clouds for a moment, a subtle expression flashing in his eyes.