Chapter 1081: Negotiations Between Human and Wolf

What does it mean to strike it rich? This is it!

Xia Qing's trip to Mountain 26 for a mission was exhausting and dangerous, but the haul was incredible!

33 fresh evolved Bai Mao grass roots, 56 muzzle-loader bullets, 68 pistol bullets, two handguns in Professor Wu Cheng condition, thirty-three point cards, five high-grade Yishi fragments, and… fifty-eight Yishi!

"These 36 are high-grade Yishi, these 22 are mid-grade Yishi—we're rich, we're rich!"

"Broken-Waist, do you know how to tell the quality of Yishi? Look, these two kinds of rock are different colors. The bad guys' high-grade Yishi have a darker surface. Look closely—there are wavy patterns too. Once the lab is set up, we'll assay the surface composition. These should come from the same mountain range as the high-grade Yishi I seized on Mountain 37."

Xia Qing gave a Bai Mao grass root to Goat Boss, who had come over acting cute, and beamed from ear to ear. "Worthy of a wanderer living in the Evolved Forest—your skill at finding Yishi is incredible. Thanks for nature's gift. Broken-Waist, look—the Yishi fragments the wanderers wore are different sizes too. These three are the same size as the ones from the Mountain 37 squad last time, these two are two sizes smaller. I wonder what standard they used to distribute them…"

The last time she had such a haul was when Handsome Giant Wolf took her to dig up the Yishi pack the Suyufeng Squad had buried in the dirt. Handsome Giant Wolf was on this mission too—it's no ordinary wolf, it's the God of Wealth!

Her Majesty is also the God of Wealth.

Last time Xia Qing went on a mission to Mountain 37 with the Head Wolf, they harvested a total of 14 complete high-grade Yishi. Later, while Broken-Waist Wolf was away, Xia Qing told the Head Wolf—who had divided 21 prey among them at the time—about it. As a Yishi tycoon, Her Majesty just yawned to show she'd heard, showed no interest in the Yishi, so they all went to Xia Qing.

Broken-Waist Wolf stared at the supplies on the table for a while, then extended a big paw and raked both piles of Yishi toward itself.

Xia Qing, who had been talking nonstop, immediately shut up and turned to glare at this ugly, stingy wolf.

Broken-Waist Wolf, thinking Xia Qing didn't understand, used its paw to push the grass roots, bullets, point cards, and handguns back toward her: these are yours.

Xia Qing expressionlessly gathered all the seized supplies into one pile, pulled out paper and a pen, and started doing the accounts. "Broken-Waist, this is everything we seized on this mission. Now let's clarify how to split it."

Broken-Waist Wolf also put on a solemn face, staring at the blank paper Xia Qing had pulled out.

"Fourth came to me for help, then I invited you to team up and go to Mountain 26 to rescue Fourth's companion…" This stingy wolf is getting smarter and smarter—its IQ is no lower than an ordinary human's—so Xia Qing stopped trying to fool it. Following the rules humans use for teaming up on missions, she settled accounts with it.

The Head Wolf caught one wanderer, Broken-Waist Wolf killed one, Xia Qing killed three. She was the one who led the squad into the cave, she was the one who protected the wolf pack when the giant lizard triggered a beast tide, she was the one who rescued three evolved wolves and treated their wounds, and she was the one who brought in the Azure Dragon Squad…

Gesturing as she wrote, Xia Qing carefully analyzed each team member's contribution to the mission and finally concluded, "On this mission, I'm the captain, my contribution was the greatest, I should get seventy percent of the supplies."

Broken-Waist Wolf, face solemn, extended its left paw and strained to spread its toes.

Xia Qing grew even more solemn. "Right, you put up five wolves, I'm only one person, but we're calculating mission contribution…"

"Awoo-woo-woo!"

"You think calculating by mission contribution isn't fair? Then let's use another method. Consider this mission me hiring you five wolves—I'll pay you a fee."

There are two ways humans split earnings when teaming up for a mission: one is the contribution-based split, the other is the team leader hiring evolved ones with a fixed number of points. The team leader chooses between them based on the mission's risk and possible gains.

Xia Qing, the mission organizer, took out her phone and started digging through old records.

She pulled up today's photos of the three rescued wolves, then photos of the giant eagle she and the wolf pack had hunted together last time, and patiently reasoned with Broken-Waist Wolf. "On July 11th, Her Majesty gave me a Yishi and told me to go hunt the giant eagle that caught Little Four-Eyes. Do you remember this?"

Broken-Waist Wolf bared its teeth.

"Good." Xia Qing slowed her speech. "So that giant eagle hunt—Her Majesty hired me, the price was one Yishi. That's a hired team-up, I don't participate in the post-mission supply split."

Broken-Waist Wolf looked at Xia Qing's leg.

Xia Qing nodded. "Right, Her Majesty gave me the giant eagle's claws because you wolves don't eat giant eagle claws. Those two claws were installed on the helicopter by Her Majesty, so they don't count as given to me."

After Xia Qing explained twice, Broken-Waist Wolf bared its teeth, showing it agreed.

Good. Xia Qing continued, "You don't agree to splitting by contribution—thirty-seventy on these supplies—then consider it me hiring you five wolves. I can give you just two Yishi. Back then Her Majesty only gave me one Yishi to go rescue Little Four-Eyes—that price is very reasonable."

Broken-Waist Wolf looked at the two walnut-sized mid-grade Yishi Xia Qing had placed in front of it, then at the supplies beside them, its brain spinning furiously.

The living room was filled only with Goat Boss's cud-chewing and the air conditioner's hum. Xia Qing said nothing more, quietly waiting for this clever wolf to figure it out.

If they couldn't reach an agreement today, Xia Qing would go to Mountain 55 to negotiate with the Head Wolf.

Last time she went on a mission to Mountain 37 with the Head Wolf, they harvested a total of 14 complete high-grade Yishi. Later, while Broken-Waist Wolf was away, Xia Qing told the Head Wolf—who had divided 21 prey among them at the time—about it. As a Yishi tycoon, Her Majesty just yawned to show she'd heard, showed no interest in the Yishi, so they all went to Xia Qing.

Compared with the stingy Broken-Waist Wolf, Xia Qing preferred negotiating supply splits with Her Majesty.

After about five minutes, Broken-Waist Wolf finally raised a big paw, pushed the two Yishi in front of it back into the big pile of Yishi, and bared its little fang tips at Xia Qing.

"Broken-Waist, you agree to splitting the supplies by contribution?"

"Good, then I get seventy percent of the supplies, the wolf pack gets thirty percent." Xia Qing divided the supplies into two piles and kept calculating. "Besides mission contribution, the supplies used on this mission—nutrient solution, pollution-free spring water, medicines, the sniper rifle, and the handgun—were all provided by me. These costs have to be deducted from the supplies first…"

Broken-Waist Wolf had no objection and pushed the bag of bullets toward Xia Qing.

"No good—these are muzzle-loader bullets at 3 points each. My sniper rifle bullets are 330 points each, pistol bullets are 20 points each. This whole bag of bullets isn't even enough to buy me one sniper rifle bullet…"

"Why don't you want the point cards? You can use point cards to trade with me in the future. Your wolf den has Yishi, but do you have point cards?"

"Little Wolf Bro ate one of my eggs today, you owe me 150 points."

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After an hour and a half of wrangling, the supplies the human-wolf squad had seized today were finally split into two piles—the big one was Xia Qing's, the small one was the wolf pack's.

Broken-Waist Wolf, who had gotten 10 high-grade Yishi, 6 mid-grade Yishi, six point cards, and two Bai Mao grass roots, was about to ask Xia Qing to help it pack the supplies into a bag when Xia Qing, beaming like a flower, spoke up and started negotiating the next deal:

"Broken-Waist, do you want to trade protective suits for Little Wolf Sis and Little Wolf Bro? They've started taking missions, they need protective suits, right?"