Chapter 1148: Another Source of High-Yi-Element Soil

After leaving the Number Seven leadership settlement, Xia Qing sent the skins of two giant pythons that had been soaked in medicament to Territory Eleven.

After making full protective suits for two giant wolves, two half-grown wolves, Xia Qing, and Yanlong, plus three pairs of gloves for the three bosses of the Azure Dragon, the remaining high-hardness evolved giant python skin—Xia Qing hadn't decided how to use it yet, so she chose to hold onto it for now.

The other giant python's skin was mostly traded to her allies, and then, inspired by Zhu Li, Xia Qing decided to use this python's skin to make herself two snake-skin medicine pouches and two snake-skin handbags.

Of course, all of this was handed to Lord Huo Lei to craft, and the processing fee was also paid in skin.

After returning to her own territory, Xia Qing changed her shoes at the laboratory entrance, then beep-beep-beeped in the password to open the door, went into the lab, washed her hands, put on a white coat and mask, entered the testing room, and carefully placed the palm-sized small cardboard box that Daya had given her on the workbench.

Then Xia Qing paused, because she had forgotten to disinfect the box……

Forget it, her idol wasn't here anyway, and the box looked pretty clean—no need to take it back out for disinfection. Xia Qing weighed the box directly, then used scissors to cut the tape, took out the small packaging bag inside, poured all the giant bee droppings into a small glass bottle, then weighed the box and packaging bag again to subtract the tare, confirming the weight of the bee droppings.

After confirming the weight, Xia Qing added high-efficiency compost bacterial powder in proportion, shook it well, then placed this small bottle of giant bee droppings into the smallest compartment of the artificial climate cultivation room, setting the temperature to 55°C.

Then, with her hands clasped behind her back, Xia Qing carefully observed the 37.2-gram pile of giant bee droppings inside the bottle, shaped and sized about like mung beans.

Although she didn't know how many times her idol had looked down on her to get this small handful of droppings, Xia Qing still didn't look down on them—instead she found them quite pleasing to the eye. She firmly believed that once the droppings from this high-Yi-element giant bee finished fermenting, they would definitely be excellent fertilizer. Using them together with Yi-stone granules to cultivate X-3 would surely raise the Yi-element content of the spinach!

The thing was……there was too little. This bit of droppings couldn't even fill one compartment—somewhat wasteful of equipment and electricity.

So, Xia Qing went to the breeding greenhouse, scooped the droppings and residue cleaned out of the mealworm trays from a bucket into a clear plastic bottle, then also gathered green-light chicken droppings, green-light sheep droppings, and green-light cow droppings, added compost bacterial powder by weight, and loaded them all together into the artificial climate cultivation room, in the small compartment she used for fermenting animal manure.

Xia Qing made labels for these four large and one small batches of droppings respectively and stuck them on, then made proper records in the experiment log inside the artificial climate cultivation room.

Then, wearing a white coat and mask, Xia Qing stood with her hands clasped behind her back, looking left and right, and nodded with great satisfaction. The laboratory she had spent over eight hundred thousand credits to build was finally being put to use. Once the migratory bird season ended, she would cultivate a crop of X-3 in this temperature- and humidity-controlled cultivation room, plant some fresh vegetables for winter, and move the strawberry pots in too—so she'd have fresh fruit to eat in winter.

To cultivate X-3, of course, she needed high-quality high-Yi-element soil.

However, Xia Qing didn't plan to dig soil from the terraced fields of her own territory—she was going to dig it from Mountain Fifty-Five. Xia Qing had carefully studied the flow paths of the unpolluted spring water on Mountain Fifty-Five; the unpolluted spring water there, like the one in Territory Three, was hidden inside the mountain body.

The difference was that Territory Three's unpolluted spring water was in a small Shi Dong on a slope, while Mountain Fifty-Five's spring water was inside a Shanfeng—harder for humans to discover.

There was no soil in the mountain body's crevices or in the wolves' dwelling caves, but a small tributary of unpolluted spring water flowed into a mountain-body crevice beside the python pool on Mountain Fifty-Five.

Under years of rainwater erosion, a layer of soil over twenty centimeters thick had accumulated inside the mountain crevice. Xia Qing took samples and tested them, finding that although the selenium content in the crevice soil wasn't high, it still qualified as high-Yi-element soil.

Moreover, the soil there contained large amounts of animal droppings—very fertile!

Xia Qing only learned after communicating with the Broken-Waist Wolf that during every period of harmful rain and harmful snow, many animals crowded into this mountain crevice to take shelter from the harmful rain, which was why so much animal droppings had accumulated there.

Wolves are carnivores and don't care about soil or plants, so when Xia Qing proposed digging the soil from the crevice to grow vegetables, the Broken-Waist Wolf agreed in exchange for just one pink mirror with a floral border.

As for why that place maintained a relatively low atmospheric harmful-element concentration during harmful rain, Xia Qing didn't need to ask—she knew it must be related to Yi stones.

Xia Qing planned to find time to make several trips carrying tools, dig some of the soil inside and bring it over, place it in the grooves of the shelves in this artificial climate cultivation room, and use it to cultivate high-quality crops. Along the way, she was going to dig out the black blade she had lost in another pool on Mountain Fifty-Five.

However, all of this had to wait until after the migratory bird season ended.

The next day, flock after flock of migratory birds flew over Territory Three, but they hadn't yet reached the level of blotting out the sky. After checking the anti-air troop deployment at Center Nine, Xia Qing returned to her own territory in the afternoon and took a nap, then at five o'clock boarded a helicopter together with the Azure Dragon squad's senior sniper "Night Heron," heading to tonight's mission location—a bird habitat fifty li south of Hui-Three's safe zone.

That place was a bird habitat inside Hui-Three's Evolution Forest, an important "resupply" stop during the migratory birds' journey. Every year at this season, large numbers of passing migratory birds gathered there, and Hui-Three would dispatch troops and squads to assemble at the location, hunting passing medium and large migratory birds to replenish the meat reserves of the base safe zone.

Xia Qing and Zhang Ling's mission tonight was to watch the high skies, preventing speed-evolved raptors and people from other territories from coming to snatch the humans' "prey."

Of course, Xia Qing had another mission: during the operation, to let the people here witness her top-tier sniping ability with their own eyes, and then let the entire Hui City base know that, besides Luo Pei, Hui-Three had produced another top-tier sniper.

So, for this mission, Xia Qing wasn't using Night Heron's code name, but her own real name: Hui-Three dual-system senior evolved one, Territory Three lord Xia Qing.

Tonight's Night Heron was Zhang Ling.

When Xia Qing and Zhang Ling jumped off the helicopter with their sniper rifles, they immediately drew everyone's gaze. Among those gazes were goodwill, curiosity, doubt, and jealousy—Xia Qing acted as if she had seen nothing, expressionlessly striding quickly toward the tall, upright figure standing at the very front of the crowd, and respectfully called out, "Brother Luo."

Luo Pei nodded gently. "Everything arranged over at the territory?"

Xia Qing nodded. "All arranged. Brother Luo, you've worked hard—please go back and rest. Leave this place to me and Night Heron."

"Good." Luo Pei patted his two disciples' shoulders with deep satisfaction, then strode toward the helicopter, hurrying back to Territory One. Although, apart from the period he spent recuperating from his injuries, he rarely stayed in the territory, Luo Pei had still developed a sense of belonging to that piece of land.

Because there, there was a warmth and hope that couldn't be felt anywhere else.