Chapter 1117: Install a Door

After confirming the transaction time, Broken-Waist Wolf twitched its nose, walked straight to the first-floor bathroom, stared solemnly for a few seconds at the handsome giant wolf soaking in the tub, then turned and went upstairs to pry open its double-door refrigerator and started counting the potion bags it had hidden in the freezer drawer.

Xia Qing, who had followed it up, complained, "No need to count, all five of your potion bags are here, none missing. Handsome Giant Bro is soaking in its own potions."

Broken-Waist Wolf looked back at Xia Qing, thoughtful.

Xia Qing caught on to its train of thought at once and explained with gestures, "This January, Handsome Giant Bro gave me this big bag, eighty Yi Stones total. So it can soak in potions for free. Broken-Waist, if you give me this big bag of Yi Stones, you can soak for free too from now on."

Broken-Waist Wolf glanced at Xia Qing, went downstairs, turned on the TV, found the video it wanted to watch, and started studying.

Xia Qing felt the pressure. "Broken-Waist, you've already gotten this far? You've memorized everything before this?"

It's only been a few days, and the medical ethics course has twenty videos total — you've actually watched up to the eighteenth!

Don't you need to patrol your territory, teach the wolf cubs, hunt?!

Broken-Waist Wolf didn't even turn its head, just curled the corner of its mouth, and kept studying.

If Third Bro finds out during the exam that she scored less than a wolf, will he block her outright?

Xia Qing immediately got nervous, took out her notebook, and started taking careful notes while watching.

Daigua, perched on a branch in the living room corner, stared blankly at the TV. After playing with the power-generating bicycle for a while, Sheep Boss ran off to the sheep pen to chew cud with Little Yellow Ox.

Wolf Lao Er? Out on the routine territory patrol.

An hour later, Handsome Giant Wolf finished soaking in the potion and climbed out with great difficulty, shook the medicinal liquid off its fur, and went splish-splash past Xia Qing and Broken-Waist Wolf, out of the house to lie down under the eaves.

Broken-Waist Wolf jumped off the sofa, very naturally went into the bathroom and soaked itself in the medicinal liquid. Finding the water level in the tub insufficient, it even pried open the showerhead itself and started running water into the tub.

Xia Qing followed it in for a look, then returned to the living room, switched the video to episode eight, and kept studying.

At two in the morning, Handsome Giant Wolf under the eaves stood up, stretched, gave its fur a vigorous shake, and ran outside.

Wolf Lao Er in the first-floor living room, Broken-Waist Wolf, Daigua, and Xia Qing in the second-floor bedroom all opened their eyes at the same time.

After confirming it was the sound made by Handsome Giant Wolf, Xia Qing turned over and went back to sleep.

Wolf Lao Er went out to patrol the territory. In the first-floor tool room, Broken-Waist Wolf stood in front of its door, baring the little tips of its fangs.

When the roosters in the chicken coop started crowing, the freeloading red squirrel came to Xia Qing's windowsill, wagging its tail and waiting for water.

Xia Qing put out pollution-free spring water and a few mung beans for the red squirrel, washed up, went downstairs to cook green-light rice porridge, and started patrolling the territory.

When she reached the northern buffer forest, Xia Qing looked around, confirmed the red squirrel wasn't there, immediately climbed the tree, turned on her flashlight, and checked its stored food. After confirming there were no new varieties, she continued patrolling the territory.

Finding nothing new was normal, because the red squirrel's territory overlapped with hers.

The reason Xia Qing checked the red squirrel's nest every day was that she'd discovered red squirrels of this kind steal from each other's homes — meaning the high-quality food stored by nearby red squirrels might have been stolen by the big freeloading red squirrel living in her territory.

What she was looking for in the tree hollow was exactly this kind of food.

Not long after Xia Qing left, Little Feimao burrowed into its mother's nest, stole a delicious nut, and vanished without a trace.

Xia Qing carefully patrolled the farmland, checked the crops' growth, dug out more than twenty evolved mole crickets and grubs that were advancing from the soil toward the greenhouse, and only then went home to eat.

Then she handed her territory over to Peng Jian and Liangzi, carried the big cardboard box containing the automatic door, asked Peng Jian to help her carry two bags of cement and a pack of fittings, and caught a ride to Mountain Domain Fifty-Five.

Then Xia Qing carried the three-hundred-jin automatic door on her back, with two hundred jin of new-material cement and other fittings on her back, and followed Broken-Waist Wolf to a pot-shaped cave hidden behind dense shrubs halfway up the second peak — narrow at the entrance, spacious inside.

She set the door down, took off her protective mask and wiped her sweat, then asked, "Broken-Waist, install the door here?"

The cave entrance is fairly small, so installing the door isn't too hard — it's just that after installation, camouflage is needed, otherwise it'll reflect light.

After following the client into the cave and discussing for a few minutes, Xia Qing wanted to carry the door back and not sell it..

According to this conscienceless client's requirements, she had to first chisel open the cave entrance to move the door inside, then chisel out a space in the rock wall at the center of the four-meter-long narrow passage that would allow the automatic sliding door to open and close, before she could install the door.

Finally, she still had to restore the cave entrance to its original state!

Even though she was a Strength Evolver and had brought an electric drill fitted with a diamond bit, installing this door still took a full day's work.

If she didn't sell the door, she'd have to give Broken-Waist Wolf back two high-grade Yi Stones...

Xia Qing, who only took in and never let out, sighed and took her tools out of her backpack. "Broken-Waist, I'm going to use the electric drill on the rock. Does your storage battery still have enough charge?"

Broken-Waist Wolf grinned, baring the little tips of its fangs.

Xia Qing smiled too. "Enough is enough. Go get the battery, I'll widen the cave entrance first, then chisel the rock wall."

Watched by more than forty wolves big and small, Xia Qing went buzz-buzz, clank-clank from seven in the morning until four in the afternoon, and finally installed the surgical-room-style automatic sliding door according to Broken-Waist Wolf's requirements.

After installation, even Xia Qing, as a human, had to admire Broken-Waist Wolf's taste.

This not-large cave entrance passage, once fitted with the metallic automatic sliding door, was bursting with a sci-fi feel — at first glance you'd think it was some research institute's secret research base.

Xia Qing asked, "Broken-Waist, which wolf do you want to let into this cave? Call them over."

This is an automatic door — the images of the people/wolves allowed in and out have to be recorded into the system, then the door's infrared device can automatically open when it detects them.

When identifying humans, the automatic door relies on the position and shape of human facial features and the facial contour. When identifying wolves, besides facial features, there's another important one — the wolf's nose print.

Just like human fingerprints, a wolf's nose print is unique and stable, doesn't change with age, and can be used to identify a wolf's identity.

Contrary to Xia Qing's expectation, Broken-Waist Wolf brought not Little Wolf Bro and Little Wolf Sis, but seven very strong evolved she-wolves.

At this point, Xia Qing understood the cave's purpose: it was the northern wolf pack's breeding ground.

Xia Qing only scanned the seven wolves' features into the automatic door system, not her own. After scanning was complete, she even stood by the door and let Broken-Waist Wolf confirm that even with her standing there, the door wouldn't open automatically.

The place where a wolf pack raises its next generation is the most secret and hidden place in the pack.

It might have been because of the western wolf pack's cubs being killed this spring that Broken-Waist Wolf felt uneasy, so after finding this suitable door, it spent two Yi Stones to trade with Xia Qing, to protect the northern wolf pack's cubs that would be born next spring.

To meet the sterile and airtight requirements of a surgical room, this door's airtightness and stability are extremely high. Xia Qing's installation quality was also fine — without the password, it was impossible to open this door silently.

Any noise would alert the evolved wolves guarding the cubs nearby.

This time, Xia Qing felt complete trust from Broken-Waist Wolf.

She couldn't let the wolf pack's trust go to waste. Once back, she'd find out everything about this door's encryption methods and teach Broken-Waist Wolf to understand it.

Not today, though — she was tired and needed to head back to her territory to rest.

In just over an hour, it would be dark. That bit of time wasn't enough for her to retrieve the black knife she'd lost in the water pool — next time.

Unexpectedly, before Xia Qing had even left Mountain Fifty-Five, Broken-Waist Wolf darted out again, dropped an unconscious honey badger in front of her, and stared at her with a solemn face.