Chapter 1119: Injured

When the wolves, bears, and pythons went to war, Xia Qing rushed to Mountain No. 60 — why didn't she bring Lao Er?

Because the moment Lao Er heard the wolves howling, he vaulted over the wall and raced to the battlefield, so fast that Xia Qing could only be grateful she'd put a protective suit on him to deal with the python crisis.

This is an emergency disaster-clearing period, and Beard Shanfeng's squad has to defend Territory No. 3 and the third sector of Mountain No. 49, so they can't spare hands for outside missions. That's why the team members Xia Qing recruited this time are dual-system advanced evolver Huo Zhun and tri-system evolver Zhang Hongda.

She brought Zhang Hongda because he's trustworthy, his combat power isn't bad, and Territory No. 15 has plenty of people who can be pulled out to handle other tasks.

Although Territory No. 11 only has six people inside, after Xia Qing called Huo Zhun out, No. 11 has no pressure at all. Because besides Wang Dashan, the other four people in this territory are all evolvers. And three of them are retired Navy Marine special forces, with combat power off the charts.

Forget dealing with pythons — even that 17-meter-long black loach in the python territory, suspected to have evolved its brain domain, would have to disguise itself as an earthworm and burrow into the soil to hide if it charged into Territory No. 11 and saw these three.

Zhang Hongda, on his first such mission, sat in the passenger seat with his back to one person, one wolf, and one monkey, gripping a machine gun and pretending to be calm as he glanced at the submachine pistol holstered at the waist of Huo Zhun, who was piloting the helicopter.

The night before last, Huo Zhun took his two good brothers, drove Tang Huai's luxury car, and pulled off a highway robbery to score a batch of weapons and supplies. This gun should be one of the weapons he captured.

Truly... not bad...

Twenty minutes later, the Broken-Waist Wolf, looking out through the cabin window, raised a big paw and nudged Xia Qing, who was rummaging through supplies with his head lowered.

Xia Qing looked up and glanced outside, then ordered, "Brother Huo, land the helicopter at the old spot on Mountain No. 59."

"Copy." Huo Zhun piloted the helicopter down and set it down steadily on the flat-topped mountain peak in the northern part of Mountain No. 59's domain, close to Mountain No. 60.

"Brother Huo, Da-zi, you two guard the helicopter and don't get out. If you spot anything abnormal, take off immediately. Don't get into conflicts with the animals here." After Xia Qing finished giving instructions, she slung on her backpack, jumped out of the helicopter, took the Daigua monkey hanging around her neck, and pointed toward Mountain No. 61.

"Daigua, go back and check on the Xiong Qun's situation, then come back here and wait for me. We'll head back to Territory No. 3 together."

Daigua, carrying a bulging little backpack, stared at Xia Qing blankly for a few seconds, then swung through the tree branches and vanished into the dense evolved forest to the northwest in the blink of an eye.

After confirming Daigua was heading toward Mountain No. 61, Xia Qing and the Broken-Waist Wolf turned and ran north, quickly disappearing as well.

Zhang Hongda, who had never seen anything like this, had a book of ten thousand whys stuffed into his head, but according to the rules for teaming up on missions, he could only keep his mouth shut.

Silence — not even a single bird in the sky above the evolved forest here. This is eerie, the silence before a storm.

"Big Wolf Bro, you're hurt?!"

Following the Broken-Waist Wolf over two mountain peaks, Xia Qing reached the second peak of Mountain No. 60, near a cave in the core territory of the wolf pack. The moment she saw the handsome giant wolf standing at the cave entrance with blood dripping from its belly, her heart clenched.

As Xia Qing rushed toward the handsome giant wolf, the Broken-Waist Wolf howled a few times at the cave, then bounded off and vanished into the dense forest in a few leaps.

Xia Qing glanced into the cave and saw five more injured wolves inside — the Alpha Wolf, Lao Er, and the Broken-Leg Wolf were not among them. Her heart relaxed halfway. She took out a syringe. She planned to use local anesthesia to treat the wound on the handsome giant wolf's flank.

Its flank had three slash wounds nearly twenty centimeters long, deep enough to see the ribs — clawed by the sharp hook-claws on the front paws of an evolved bear. Fortunately, no internal organs were injured.

The injectable anesthetic Xia Qing brought was a long-acting local anesthetic she traded with her idol. It takes effect within half a minute, much faster than oral anesthetics, and of course it's more expensive. But right now Xia Qing couldn't be bothered to calculate the price — she just wanted to stop the handsome giant wolf's pain and treat the wound quickly.

The handsome giant wolf, blood on its face, dodged the syringe in Xia Qing's hand by turning its body, and fixed a pair of icy-blue eyes on the side pocket of Xia Qing's protective suit, radiating killing intent.

Xia Qing understood: this number-three combatant of the northern wolf pack didn't want to be anesthetized. It had come over wanting to drink nutrient solution to replenish its strength, then head back to keep fighting.

"Handsome Wolf Bro, fifteen minutes and you'll be done." Xia Qing didn't give it the nutrient solution, because once it drank that, this guy would definitely run. She directly held down the handsome giant wolf and injected the anesthetic, then quickly treated its wound.

Stop the bleeding, shave the fur, clean, disinfect, debride, suture, apply medical tape with the best breathability and toughness...

After finishing, Xia Qing took out the nutrient solution she'd prepared with freshly squeezed spinach juice from her backpack, mixed it into pollution-free spring water, and held it out to the handsome giant wolf. "Big Wolf Bro, drink up."

The handsome giant wolf, who had long been growing impatient, drank the nutrient solution in big gulps, nudged Xia Qing's protective mask with its big nose right on the nose area, then turned and rushed back to the battlefield.

This was the first time this proud, play-acting fool of a giant wolf had used an action to convey a friendly message to her.

Xia Qing pulled out a disinfecting wipe, cleaned the sticky wet mark off her protective mask, then went into the cave to give first aid to the other wolves.

Without exception, all these wolves were fed anesthetic by Xia Qing. Because none of them were wolves she was close with. If she used local anesthesia to treat their wounds, these guys might get startled and turn around to bite her.

Two of the injured wolves refused to drink the anesthetic. Xia Qing simply roared twice at them, held down their heads, and made them drink.

Oral anesthetic is cheaper than injectable general anesthetic, so whenever oral anesthetic will do, Xia Qing doesn't use the injectable kind.

The two wolves guarding the injured wolves watched Xia Qing hold down their companion's head and only bared their fangs in low roars — unclear whether they were growling at Xia Qing or at the injured wolves.

Among these five wolves, two were clawed by bears just like the handsome giant wolf. The wounds on the other three — skin tears, muscle damage, and internal organ injuries — were left by battles with pythons.

External wounds Xia Qing could treat, but internal organ damage required X-rays to confirm the condition before treatment. So Xia Qing only fed them some anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and painkilling medicine, and planned to discuss follow-up treatment with the Broken-Waist Wolf after the battle ended.

After treating these wolves' injuries, Xia Qing packed up her backpack, fed the two wolves guarding the cave the freshly squeezed spinach juice nutrient solution, then left the cave and headed for the battlefield.

Her most important wolf companions were all fighting up ahead, so she had to get there. Anyway, the black loach in the python territory and the Xiong Qun on Mountain No. 61 had both seen her acting together with the wolf pack, so Xia Qing had nothing to worry about.

On her way northwest, Xia Qing encountered two groups of wolves.

One group was below the second peak — these wolves weren't strong enough, their main task should be early warning rather than fighting the enemy. The second group was in the northern part of Mountain No. 60's domain, by the stream near the python territory. This group of wolves stood in a line, their main task being to prevent pythons from invading.

Behind the wolf pack were seven honey badgers, and among them, the little flat-head with a round belly from eating so much was conspicuously in the lineup.