Chapter 1027: Preemptive Deployment

Returning to her territory and soothing the eldest who wanted to fight her, Xia Qing negotiated with the old wolf resting on the ruins of the house at the south side of her courtyard, "Lao Si, would you do me a favor?"

Waiting for the old wolf to slowly poke its head out, Xia Qing held up the photos of the head wolf and the broken-waist wolf, and negotiated with this brain-evolved old wolf in a friendly manner, using gestures and demonstrations, "Lao Si, go call the Queen my lord or the broken-waist one over, I have something very important to discuss with them. If Lao Si can call them over, I'll roast you a green-light chicken tonight, how about it?"

The old wolf stared at the large photos of the head wolf and the broken-waist wolf for a while, then shrank back again.

Xia Qing gritted her teeth and raised the price, "I'll add two more eggs and a handful of green-light mealworms!"

Still not enough?

"Tomorrow you don't need to catch bugs to feed the fish or the chickens, I'll feed them myself!"

The old wolf poked its head out, and after Xia Qing repeated the trade conditions, it stood up, stretched lazily, and slowly walked down the ruins, heading north.

If Wolf Lao Er were here, just watch if I'd bother with you! Xia Qing cursed inwardly, but urged it on with pleasant words, "Lao Si, come back early, the roast chicken won't taste good once it's completely cold."

Watching through the surveillance camera as the old wolf left the abandoned village, sped up onto the northern buffer forest, and easily leaped over the wall she had built for 200,000 points, Xia Qing glanced at the lively flock of chickens before carrying her backpack into the house.

Guan Tong and Xiao Jiang, who were working by the farmland, saw the old wolf run out and exchanged uneasy glances—Xia Qing had already had a busy enough day today, surely nothing else was happening?

Can she hold up?

Back inside, Xia Qing set down her backpack and secured her weapons, took off two layers of protective suit and entered the second-floor bathroom, removed her quick-dry clothes, and confirmed that the places on her abs and thighs hit by bullets only had large patches of subcutaneous bruising with no broken skin. Relieved, Xia Qing took a shower, changed into a clean, comfortable summer protective suit, and went downstairs.

Thanks to the High-Yi elemental spinach, and thanks to Third Brother for developing the nutrient source, at noon she drank a special-grade nutrient liquid made from spinach juice and nutrient source. Although her stomach kept reminding her she should eat, she still felt full of energy.

She could eat in the evening.

Seeing Xia Qing walk over looking no different from usual, Xiao Jiang immediately reported to her what had happened in the territory today, "Around nine in the morning, Zheng Kui drove the patrol car over. Brother Tong and I exchanged all the red-light fish in the fishpond net for salt, vinegar, and toilet paper."

Guan Tong also said, "We cleared the drainage ditch by the greenhouses. Except for Greenhouse 3, the mature green bean pods in the other four greenhouses have all been picked."

The drainage ditch by the greenhouses had to be cleared before the Butcher Rain, so the Butcher Rain wouldn't flood into the farmland and damage the crops. After thanking them, Xia Qing saw them out of the territory, and while it was still light, took a bag to pick the mature green bean pods in Greenhouse 3, and checked on the cuttings of green-light fig branches that had already sprouted new buds.

These branches were crops that needed key protection during the Butcher Rain starting the day after tomorrow. Xia Qing measured the distance, stuck in the stakes for placing the Yi stones, and only then began patrolling the territory.

After making a round, she arranged the farm work that had to be done tomorrow, then picked the vegetables she wanted to eat in the evening and went home. The packed meals from Territory No. 7 from yesterday were already finished; tonight she would cook for herself. Although her cooking wasn't as good as Territory No. 7's, the ingredients were top-notch and nutritionally sufficient!

Xia Qing had picked a fat rooster from the chicken coop and was plucking its feathers when the old wolf brought back the head wolf and the broken-waist wolf. It seemed it still didn't quite understand the difference between "or" and "and."

This was the pre-Butcher-Rain period, and the northern wolf pack should be busy too. If the old wolf could accurately understand and convey Xia Qing's meaning, these two wolf leaders wouldn't have come together.

The old wolf smelled the chicken blood, drank a few sips of spring water, then returned to the ruins. The head wolf and the broken-waist wolf wiped their paws and entered the house, watching Xia Qing.

After warmly praising the two hygiene-conscious wolves, Xia Qing raised her gloved hand, which was stuck with chicken feathers, "Queen my lord, this afternoon I discovered suspicious humans in the western evolution forest, so I called you over to take a look. Broken-waist, you turn on the TV and just play the video."

The broken-waist wolf loved doing this kind of thing. It lay down on Xia Qing's sofa, pressed the remote's power button and the video play button, then casually reached out a paw to turn on the air conditioner.

"Broken-waist, it's quite cool today, no need to turn on the air conditioner."

The broken-waist wolf retracted its big paw, lay on the sofa, and watched the video Xia Qing had recorded together with the head wolf, who was lying on the rocking chair.

Xia Qing had already cut out the first half where she was begging the handsome giant wolf and running after it in a very disheveled manner, leaving only the second half of the combat video.

When they saw the two humans in the tree hollow who looked dead suddenly open their eyes and attack Xia Qing with guns, both wolves grew serious, jumped down to the floor, and stared intently at the video.

The video wasn't long. By the time Xia Qing had cleaned the chicken and put it in the oven and entered the living room, the two wolves were already watching it for the second time. Xia Qing sat nearby to rest, and when they started watching it a third time and the image of two blue-faced humans appeared on screen, Xia Qing pressed pause.

"These two blue-skinned humans had applied a chemical agent, so their bodies could emit the stench of corpses. Because the outer layer of their protective suits had dropped to 30 degrees, and they were wearing breathing devices that cut off any exchange of air with the outside world, the handsome giant wolf and the western wolf pack determined these were dead humans..."

What Xia Qing told the two wolves was the preliminary results of the detection and autopsy from Territory No. 7.

After explaining it once along with the video, Xia Qing explained the purpose of inviting the two northern wolf pack leaders over, "Queen my lord, Broken-waist, if blue-skinned humans playing dead like this appear in the northern wolf pack's territory, you must carefully avoid them, then quickly come notify me, and I'll go clean them up. The chemical agent they applied is poisonous, don't go near them, don't come into contact with these blue-skinned humans..."

Some time ago, while the broken-waist wolf was recovering from injuries in Territory No. 3, Xia Qing had used color test cards with numbers to give it a color recognition test.

The results showed that although its color vision wasn't as delicate as a human's, the broken-waist wolf could clearly identify six colors: black, white, gray, blue, purple, and pink. The remaining colors appeared to it as shades of gray.

The head wolf wasn't interested in the color cards or the test, but Xia Qing guessed that the colors they saw were probably about the same.

After finishing the serious talk, the chicken in the kitchen was also roasted.

When Xia Qing carried out the small basin containing the roast chicken, boiled eggs, mealworms, and spinach leaves, both wolves looked up at her. Xia Qing explained, "This is Lao Si's food. I asked it to invite you over, and the trade condition was roasting it a chicken, two eggs, and a handful of mealworms. Broken-waist, you want some too?"

The broken-waist wolf immediately grinned, revealing two cute, snow-white little fang tips. The head wolf lazily turned its eyes and continued watching the video.

Xia Qing laughed too, "This is Lao Si's, I can't give it to you. If you want to eat, you can trade Yi stones with me for green-light chicken, or you can go catch a wild boar in the valley and bring it over, and I'll roast it for us."

The broken-waist wolf immediately stopped grinning and turned to study the video.

Xia Qing had long expected this result. She cheerfully carried the food basin to the courtyard gate and called the old wolf down to eat. She didn't deliver it up there because this wolf had already claimed that patch of ruins as its personal wolf territory. Even the king platform Xia Qing had built for it out of wood had been dragged up there by the wolf itself.

The head wolf and the broken-waist wolf pushed open the security door and walked out of the house. The old wolf, who was eating at the courtyard gate, immediately guarded its food basin and let out a majestic roar.

The head wolf and the broken-waist wolf only glanced once, then leaped over the east courtyard wall and left Xia Qing's home and territory.

After crossing Mountain No. 49, the two wolves didn't return to the northern evolution forest, but raced along the beast trail all the way to the spot where Xia Qing had clashed with the two blue-skinned humans, carefully sniffing the scent there, and slowly bared their fangs.

When they reached the spot where Xia Qing and the handsome giant wolf had killed the second human, they met the Western Wolf King. The three wolves sniffed each other, then ran together deeper into the evolution forest.