Chapter 1025: Blue-Skinned Humans

Handsome Giant Wolf didn't turn its head, but its four large paws stopped, tail rigid, clearly in the midst of an intense internal struggle.

Seeing there was a chance, Xia Qing immediately upped the ante. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, come try this quick—it's the latest spinach I planted, energy level upgraded! Drink this kind of nutrient solution and you'll get even stronger, definitely able to swat that broken-waisted guy off the tree and pin him to the ground!"

Handsome Giant Wolf was indeed tempted. With a big icy face, it turned back, didn't even look at Xia Qing, and buried its head in drinking.

After it finished the water, Xia Qing immediately eagerly poured in a packet of green-light freeze-dried meat, cracked open a raw egg. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, try this green-light pork freeze-dried mixed with green-light egg—this is the green-light food every wolf king loves."

When Handsome Giant Wolf licked the basin clean and prepared to leave, Xia Qing spoke up again. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, my companion says there are two stranger humans' scent over there. They killed my human companion and fled here. They're bad people. Big Brother Giant Wolf's sense of smell is so amazing, you definitely smelled them. Will you tell me where they are?"

Too complicated a sentence and Handsome Giant Wolf might not understand, so Xia Qing simplified it. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, will you tell me where the two humans who broke in here are?"

Handsome Giant Wolf's face was expressionless, its ice-blue wolf eyes full of wild savagery, looking exactly like an ordinary evolved wolf. But Xia Qing knew it could understand some human language, so she kept pleading. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, will you tell me where those two are hiding? If I can't find them, I won't even feel like planting spinach, raising chickens, or feeding wild boars anymore."

"If I don't work, Big Brother Giant Wolf won't have anything good to eat; and I won't be able to keep exchanging for the strengthening medicinal baths for Big Brother Giant Wolf either." Xia Qing kept lobbying. "In a few more days, it'll be time for our medicinal bath again. Big Brother Giant Wolf, to get stronger, you'll definitely tell me where they are, right?"

Handsome Giant Wolf ignored Xia Qing and turned to leave. Xia Qing immediately packed up the basin and followed behind. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, the bad humans are over there? That's great, I'll go with you to catch them!"

"Big Brother Giant Wolf…"

After Xia Qing chanted along for a stretch, Handsome Giant Wolf stopped, was silent for a few seconds, then changed direction, heading toward the evolved forest to the southwest.

It worked!

Xia Qing followed with light steps. Handsome Giant Wolf, though deadpan-faced, was an impatient softie who couldn't resist a good nagging. That change of direction meant it had been annoyed by her chatter into deciding to take her there.

Just as Xia Qing was feeling pleased, Handsome Giant Wolf suddenly sped up and started running. Xia Qing, having drunk the nutrient solution, could barely keep up with it for half an hour before the distance between human and wolf began to pull apart. Before she could open her mouth, Handsome Giant Wolf also slowed down, and Xia Qing gritted her teeth, half-walking half-crawling as she followed behind.

When she felt a stinging pain between her brows, Xia Qing immediately glanced at the air toxin detector on her arm. There was no toxin in the air here, but the aggressive magnetic field was too fierce—there must be very dangerous aggressive evolved plants ahead. Just as Xia Qing opened her mouth to call out to Handsome Giant Wolf, it stopped, eyes fixed ahead.

This is… we've arrived?!

Xia Qing endured the headache, raised her gun, and with twelvefold caution walked to Handsome Giant Wolf's side.

Thirty meters ahead, inside a big tree hollow wrapped by several vines, there were actually two humans with half their faces inside protective masks showing an abnormal blue color, eyes closed. Xia Qing immediately aimed her sniper rifle at one of their heads, used her body to shield Handsome Giant Wolf, and rapidly retreated with it.

In these eleven years of natural disaster, Xia Qing had seen all kinds of poisoned skin. Abnormal skin doesn't mean death, and even the absence of breathing doesn't mean death. Any "corpse" with its head still attached to its neck might be a living person in disguise, the purpose being to confuse and counter-kill the opponent.

The needle-prick pain between her brows made Xia Qing even calmer. She had a very clear understanding of her own combat ability—her strength was sniping, not close combat. Only by keeping distance did she have a sure-win chance in a two-versus-one.

Handsome Giant Wolf's strength was close combat?

True. But those two disguised as corpses were clearly not normal humans, and that tree—or rather, that patch of plants—was not normal either. Who the hell knew what poison they carried on them, or what attack methods the big tree had. Xia Qing didn't want her money-tree wolf to take the risk.

From Xia Qing's movements, Handsome Giant Wolf judged that those two human corpses were very dangerous. It got angry, its ice-blue eyes instantly murderous, mouth slightly open revealing fangs, "Wooo—"

Not good! The moment Handsome Giant Wolf let out that roar, Xia Qing immediately used her body to block it and retreat, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Three gunshots rang out simultaneously. The instant Xia Qing pulled the trigger, she felt her abdomen and thigh get hit at the same time. If she hadn't been wearing a snakeskin protective suit underneath and a special protective suit on the outside, and the opponent had been using a pistol with insufficient penetration, she'd already be dead!

With a companion behind her, Xia Qing didn't dare dodge. She forcefully pressed Handsome Giant Wolf down behind a rock, and sure enough heard two more bullets strike the rock in front of them.

Xia Qing gritted her teeth against the pain, raised her hand, pulled a grenade and threw it.

"Boom!"

After throwing the grenade, Xia Qing quickly checked Handsome Giant Wolf, and breathed a sigh of relief upon finding it hadn't been hit. She flipped over and climbed onto Handsome Giant Wolf's back. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, over there, quick!"

Handsome Giant Wolf carried Xia Qing, and in a flash of white light darted out, quickly reaching the hillside Xia Qing had pointed to three hundred meters away. As a sniper, no matter where she went, Xia Qing would seek out the sniper position there at the first moment. The best sniper position in this area was that hillside.

"Awoo—"

"Awooo—"

The western wolf pack was startled, warning howls rising one after another.

The moment Xia Qing jumped down from the wolf's back, she wrapped her left arm around Handsome Giant Wolf's neck, making it hide behind the boulder cover with her. Then she fully opened her visual and auditory abilities, quickly locked onto the target, and decisively pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Eight hundred meters away, a figure leaping forward through the evolved forest was hit in the neck by Xia Qing's shot and dropped straight down.

Xia Qing rapidly changed position with Handsome Giant Wolf. Before she could find the target, she heard Handsome Giant Wolf let out a roar, and immediately shifted her gun muzzle toward the direction of Handsome Giant Wolf's roar.

"Bang!"

This shot failed to hit the target sixteen hundred meters away, but Xia Qing clearly saw the opponent's movements and equipment—that was a high-level speed evolver without a sniper rifle.

Xia Qing wasn't a high-level speed-evolution sniper, but beside her was a four-legged, brain-domain-evolved giant wolf that could understand human speech. She immediately pulled out the binding strap from the side pocket of her backpack, quickly tied it into a dog-leash loop, slipped it over Handsome Giant Wolf's two front legs to fix them, then flipped over and sat on Handsome Giant Wolf's back. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, have the wolf pack retreat, let's chase after and kill him!"

"Awoo—"

Handsome Giant Wolf raised its head and let out a majestic howl, suppressing the wolf pack, then charged toward the target with Xia Qing.

Xia Qing's legs, caught in the rope loop, hooked tightly around Handsome Giant Wolf as it ran. Both hands supported the sniper rifle, both eyes locked on the target. The trees brandishing their claws, the branches whipping her body from Handsome Giant Wolf's rapid running—none of it could make her blink.