Chapter 1104: New Combat Power for the Territory Alliance

"Huh?!!!"

Seeing Xia Qing jump down from the helicopter, the little dirty monkey that had been nervously clutching its backpack and hiding behind a rock came running over happily, backpack in hand, and stretched out one little black paw, tentatively trying to grab Xia Qing's protective suit.

Hmm?!

Hmm…

Huo Zhun, who was responsible for guarding the cabin door, stared wide-eyed. Xia Qing acknowledged kinship with this little monkey that looks so much like her? Then by seniority, he himself would be this little monkey's… uncle?

…For the sake of this hefty backpack, auntie it is, then.

Xia Qing reached out and took Daigua's little black paw, about to lead it onto the helicopter, when Wolf Lao Er jumped down from inside the cabin, faced toward Mountain 60, then looked back at Xia Qing.

"Wolf Lao Er wants to go to Mountain 60? Hold on a moment."

Xia Qing set the Daigua monkey down on the helicopter floor, took two packs of freeze-dried food from her backpack, tucked them into the side pocket of the canine-grade Level-3 field protective suit it was wearing, pulled out her phone to show it photos of the snakeskin protective suit, gestured patiently, and instructed, "When Wolf Lao Er returns to Territory Three, bring back the protective suit you left in that cave over here. Got it?"

The snakeskin protective suit needs maintenance, or its service life will be shortened.

Wolf Lao Er grinned happily at Xia Qing, then dashed toward Mountain 60. The broken-legged wolf was standing on the peak over there, leaping about joyfully in every direction.

Xia Qing returned to the helicopter and ordered, "Take off."

As Beard Feng stepped on the pedal and pulled up the control stick to lift off, Huo Zhun—who was on guard duty with Er Yong to the left and right—closed the cabin door and asked, "Sister Qing, aren't we waiting for Wolf Lao Er?"

"No need."

Mountains 49 through 60 are the territory of the northern wolf pack—Wolf Lao Er's home. Wolf Lao Er can stay home as long as it wants, visit whichever wolf it wants, and come back to Territory Three whenever it wants.

After the helicopter took off, Xia Qing glanced at Wolf Lao Er, who was running toward Mountain 60, then looked at the greedy little bear squatting beside Mountain 59, and her returning gaze landed on the filthy Daigua monkey beside her.

At this moment, she finally understood how Third Brother felt when he saw her house in a mess. This little monkey was dressed neatly, but its backpack, shorts, and hat were all so dirty you couldn't tell their original color.

The helicopter landed smoothly on the helipad of Mountain 49. Xia Qing paid each of the three teammates who had formed today's squad 100 employment points, then picked up Daigua's backpack and returned to the territory.

Huo Zhun immediately followed, "Sister Qing, will the wolf left on Mountain 26 come back?"

Xia Qing shook her head, "I don't know either."

After entering Zone Three of Mountain 49—Xia Qing's territory—Huo Zhun brought up another matter, "My teammate is retiring in the middle of this month, and then he can move into Territory Eleven. One of them is a dual-system evolver with speed and brain domain, the other is a dual-system evolver with smell and speed, and their overall combat power is higher than mine. Sister Qing, whenever you have missions in the future, the three of us will be on call."

Following Xia Qing on missions, the danger coefficient is low, you earn points, and it's very exciting.

Just like today's trip—setting out with Xia Qing and two wolves in the morning, first going to the evolved tiger's territory to dig herbs, then to the wolf pack's territory to treat the wolves' wounds, and on the way back, picking up a monkey. This mission didn't fire a single shot or throw a single punch, yet there was a chance to hold a wolf, and they still earned 100 points.

Such exciting and easy point-earning missions—only one shop on the entire Blue Star, no branch!

"Good, when the time comes we'll make up two tables to welcome them." Xia Qing agreed readily. The territory alliance had gained two more high-level combatants, and as the alliance's leader, Xia Qing was of course very happy.

"Great!" Huo Zhun answered happily.

After entering the territory through the north gate of Northern Zone One, Huo Zhun returned to Territory Eleven along the northern isolation belt. Xia Qing also swiped open the north gate and entered her own territory, pondering in her mind what hidden evolver ability Yanlong possessed.

Huo Zhun is a dual-system evolver. His two teammates claim to be dual-system, but they're very likely tri-system, because the vision of most high-level speed evolvers has also evolved.

Huiyi is the strongest of Hui City ten bases, the Flood Dragon Special Ops Team is Huiyi's ace squad, so naturally it gathers Hui City's elite talent. Yanlong, as the captain of the special ops team, certainly doesn't have only olfactory evolution as his evolver ability.

"Huh…"

Daigua, who had been squatting beside Shed No. 1 waiting for a long time, gazed longingly at Xia Qing standing motionless and called out weakly.

"Daigua wants cucumber and tomato? I'll go pick some for you."

Xia Qing entered the terraced greenhouse and picked a curled-up bulging cucumber and a wildly-grown tomato.

Don't look at how ugly these vegetables are—they're all grown from the high-quality seeds Xia Qing cultivated in the first half of this year, this year's second crop of vegetables, with the destructive element content already reduced to below three parts per thousand. The color is rich enough, and the taste is absolutely good.

Carrying the high-quality vegetables out, Xia Qing didn't just shove them straight into Daigua's dirty little black hands, but very seriously corrected its pronunciation, "My name is Xia Qing, Xia—Qing. Daigua, you say: Xia—Qing—"

Daigua, gazing longingly at the cucumber, opened its mouth and tried hard to call out, "Ya—"

……

You're a freaking primate, and your tongue is actually less useful than a raven's!!!

Xia Qing stuffed the cucumber and tomato to it, "Very good, Daigua is very smart, making progress—these are rewards for you to eat."

Daigua's paws were too small. After holding the big tomato with both little black hands, it couldn't grip the bulging cucumber. So this clever little monkey lay back on its haunches, stretched out its two hind paws to take the cucumber, and lay on the rock eating.

Looking at this unseemly monkey, Xia Qing laughed. Very good—this one, like the boss, has used its limited brain-domain evolution entirely on eating.

Xiao Jiang, who was driving the micro-tiller to clear the ruins where the lab was to be built, saw Xia Qing return, pressed the walkie-talkie, and asked with a grin, "Sister Qing brought Daigua back?"

Xia Qing pressed the walkie-talkie button, "Happened to run into it, so I brought it back. Everything normal in the territory?"

What a coincidence. After the destructive rain, whenever Beard Feng's squad flew the helicopter to patrol the northern evolution forest, they kept an eye on Mountain 58, but didn't spot this little monkey in three trips. Who would have thought that the moment Xia Qing went, it followed her back.

Dajiang reported the situation inside the territory, "An hour ago, Yu Wen from the Heavy Alliance barged up to the territory's south gate demanding to come in and visit you, and was turned back by Chang Li. Half an hour ago, Tang Huai said on the lord channel that the former Lord of Territory Fourteen, Yan Meng, is dead. Just now, Ram Boss got annoyed that Xiao Jiang was interfering with its bug-catching, and chased Xiao Jiang up a tree."

Before Xia Qing could respond, Ram Boss came charging over with thumping hooves, and Xia Qing immediately pulled a handful of green grass from her backpack's side pocket and went to meet it.

Seeing Xia Qing pacify that violent ram with just a small handful of grass, Dajiang turned to glance at his silly younger brother hugging a branch and swaying in the wind atop the big tree in the western buffer forest, and laughed unkindly.