Chapter 1036: The Seventh Person

"Big Wolf bro, hurry, faster, we're about to be caught by the tiger!"

Soon, the evolved tiger, its body clawed in several places by the evolved wolves, its eyes blood-red and on the verge of losing control and going berserk, wanting only to tear its target apart, pushed its combat power to the peak. Surpassing five giant wolves, it caught up to the Western Wolf King, and its two huge, sharp front paws lunged at the human on the Western Wolf King's back.

At this critical moment, Xia Qing, who had been gripping the wolf fur and crouching on the Western Wolf King's back, stomped hard with both feet, actually leaped up to grab the evolved tiger's thick front limb, flipped over, and landed on the tiger's back, her legs tightly clamping the evolved tiger's neck!

Between using a gun, a knife, or fists and kicks, Xia Qing chose the latter. Because this was a brain-domain evolved beast from the Hui-3 Western Evolution Forest, and killing it would do her more harm than good.

With her legs locking the evolved tiger, Xia Qing grabbed its ear with her left hand, and with her right fist used sixty percent of her strength to smash down on the "king" character on the top of its head.

Xia Qing really wasn't fast, but her fists packed enough force. If she didn't hold back, one punch could likely punch a hole right through this fierce tiger's skull.

"Bam!"

"Aoooo—"

The evolved tiger, on the verge of losing control, had already lost its sense of pain. With a furious roar, it shook its body and turned its head, trying to bite to death the human who dared to climb onto its back.

"Bam!"

Xia Qing used seventy percent of her strength and delivered another vicious punch.

Unlike the six Western wolf pack giant wolves watching from the sidelines, the Northern Wolf King that had rushed back slammed into the evolved tiger. After knocking it down, it opened its jaws to bite through its throat.

"Queen, don't bite." Xia Qing, with one leg pinned, raised her arm to loop around the Northern Wolf King's neck. "The medicine is taking effect; the tiger's almost out of strength."

Soothing Capsules are specialized medicine for relieving emotional loss of control caused by Shang elements. After taking them, one quickly becomes drowsy and weak all over, which can alleviate depression and agitation, and reduce bodily damage caused by loss of control and berserk rage.

In the spring of the tenth year of the Calamity, Xia Qing used one Soothing Capsule to take down the emotionally out-of-control Sheep Boss in five minutes.

She dared to ride onto this evolved tiger's neck because three minutes earlier she had shoved five capsules down its throat. Such a large dose was enough to put it down.

The lead wolf saw the evolved tiger had stopped moving, shook off Xia Qing's hand, turned, and signaled her to follow quickly.

"Coming right away. Queen, send two wolves to guard this tiger, don't let it get eaten by out-of-control animals." Xia Qing pulled her left leg out from under the evolved tiger's neck, quickly drew out an extra-large packaging bag from her waist, shook it open, wrapped up this eight-hundred-plus-jin heavyweight, carried it under a lush normal large tree, and turned to climb onto the Western Wolf King's back.

"Wooo—"

The Western Wolf King, which had just been yanked by the fur and kicked hard twice by Xia Qing, leaped aside, bared its fangs and roared furiously.

Won't let me climb on? Then forget it!

Xia Qing turned, ignoring the various out-of-control insects and snakes lunging at her, and sprinted at full speed after the Northern Wolf King ahead.

Five minutes later, the Northern Wolf King looked back at Xia Qing.

The Shang rain triggered by the Shang explosion had already weakened, and the sound of Xia Qing's running would be detected by the enemy.

Xia Qing immediately lightened her footsteps and caught up, lying down beside her companion to look down, and spotted six hundred meters away, in the Evolution Forest, the seventh wanderer fleeing on a giant lizard.

As expected of the Queen—she actually led her on a detour to the flank and cut off the last member of this squad!

Xia Qing raised her hand to take the sniper rifle off her back and quickly pressed the trigger.

"Bam!"

The wanderer running toward her took a bullet to the neck, fell onto the Shang grass, and the startled giant lizard immediately turned around and fled into the dense forest.

Xia Qing, panting, slung the sniper rifle on her back, ran with the lead wolf to a lush large tree, quickly drew out a disinfectant wipe from her waist and wiped her hands, then opened the satchel at her waist, took out the small medicine box her idol had prepared for her before departure, found the applicable injection according to the label, then tore open the packaging of a brand-new syringe and drew up a tube of medicine.

"Don't be scared, Queen. This is the antidote. That blue-skinned human you bit to death was poisonous; you need an antidote injection."

A wolf's means of attack are claws and teeth. The lead wolf killed the enemy sniper by biting, so the specialized antidote must be injected as soon as possible.

The lead wolf glanced at the needle tip and stood still without moving.

Xia Qing quickly pulled down the protective suit on its neck, parted the thick fur, injected the antidote, then quickly pulled the protective suit back up for it.

"Queen, you're amazing! There's still another blue-skinned human I wounded in the leg; he fled into that Evolution Forest over there. Is that the Western wolf pack's territory or the evolved tiger's? Can we chase over there and kill him?"

The lead wolf turned its head and roared twice at the Western Wolf King that had followed over, then looked at Xia Qing.

The aggressive Shang-evolved plants inside the Evolution Forest were getting more and more numerous. Xia Qing endured a needle-like stabbing pain between her brows, tore off the aggressive vines wrapped around her and tossed them aside, walked toward the Western Wolf King baring its fangs and roaring at her, and said softly, "Big Wolf bro, I only pressed down on you just now to attack the evolved tiger. Sorry about that."

"Wooo—" The Western Wolf King was murderous, continuing to roar. This guy's temper was even worse than Handsome Giant Wolf's; after calling out, it simply dropped everything and ran off!

The Wolf King ran, and the two giant wolves that had followed also ran after it.

"Queen, that guy's got way too bad a temper. This time we helped it clear out the enemies in its territory—we absolutely have to make Broken-Waist Wolf ask it for a few more Yi stones! It's wearing one of my Yi-stone necklaces around its neck; we definitely have to make Broken-Waist get it back for me."

The lead wolf looked at Xia Qing with a solemn face.

"... This is that evolved tiger's territory?"

"That fighting valley is the border between the Western wolf pack's and the tiger's territory?"

After receiving confirmation, Xia Qing sighed, quickly bagged and sealed the wanderer she had shot, placed it on a large rock, and said, "That tiger looks like it has an even worse temper; it'll be hard to negotiate a price. Let's go, we'll find that wounded blue-skinned human first."

The stench of corpses was indeed a good way to mask human scent, but this smell was stronger and more pungent than a human's, and easier to track. The lead wolf, having locked onto this scent, could easily find the direction of pursuit even during Shang rain. Not to mention that guy was wounded and couldn't run far with the smell of blood.

What slowed down the pursuit was Xia Qing, who only had two legs.

Half an hour later, Xia Qing called a halt. "Queen, stop."

On the ground outside that patch of dense, half-man-tall Shang grass ahead, there was a trail of footprints.

This trail of footprints—clear on the right foot, messy on the left—should have been deliberately left by the wanderer she had shot. Because unless on purpose, a human who had survived for years in the Evolution Forest could not possibly leave such obvious traces on the ground.

This wanderer squad had set up a trap in Hui-6 ten days ago and killed six soldiers. Right now, a group of wild boars was still trapped in the valley's pit.

Before the fight, one member of this squad responsible for spreading bugs had stayed in the cave sharpening a wooden stick.

This showed that wooden sticks were their commonly used weapon. In that dense Shang grass forest ahead, there was an eighty percent chance he had set up traps.

The third wave of Shang rain had already stopped. Water from the rain was dripping off the surrounding leaves and grass. Xia Qing listened carefully, looked around, and decided to call for reinforcements.