Chapter 1187: Take Her Out

"The 'belly-splitting, skinning, flesh-carving' she described did actually happen—her teeth and small feet were indeed surgically extracted and amputated by the lab staff. As a rare regenerative evolver, even as a second-tier experimental subject, the researchers treated Deng Yufeng far more 'mercifully' than the others, and did not completely destroy her body."

As the one who exposed that major atrocity and handled its aftermath, Zhang San was extremely unwilling to recall those experimental subjects he had treated.

He sank into the soft chair back, stared blankly at the snow-white ceiling for a long while, then continued, "That's why Deng Yufeng had the stamina and energy to cooperate with Xie Yu, who had voluntarily entered the underground lab to rescue the Azure Dragon team members, and got hold of a large amount of criminal evidence from the underground lab."

"That day, a lot of researchers died, human experimental subjects, animal experimental subjects, and… life forms somewhere between human and animal." Zhang San fell silent again at this point, a long silence.

Xia Qing asked, "Third Brother, did Deng Yufeng take advantage of the chaos to go find Shi Jiaran?"

"Shi Jiaran is a first-tier experimental subject, and her room had the highest protective performance of any subject's. Deng Yufeng used armor-piercing rounds from a sniper rifle, firing over thirty shots at a single point, to break through the bulletproof glass, and together with Xie Yu rescued Shi Jiaran."

That's why the photo of Shi Jiaran taken right after the rescue had so many scratches on it. Xia Qing asked, "Third Brother, do you think Deng Yufeng went to rescue Shi Jiaran?"

"If you want to know the answer to that question, go ask Xie Yu. Over these years, besides the officials, Deng Yufeng has never given up searching for Shi Jiaran either."

After telling Xia Qing that Deng Yufeng's words couldn't be trusted, Zhang San solemnly warned her, "Deng Yufeng is skilled at beguiling people's hearts and playing power games—she'll stop at nothing to reach her goals. She will definitely contact you again. No matter what she says, don't get entangled with her in any way, don't make any deals or cooperate with her. Otherwise, you'll become the next Li Si, Wang Wu."

The next one—wouldn't that be… Xia Liu? Xia Qing felt that, with her current knowledge reserves, she didn't yet qualify.

Zhang San shot Xia Qing a look. "Deng Yufeng's brains, glib tongue, and scheming mind are all far above yours, and her methods are far more ruthless. As long as she doesn't invade Northern Zone One's territory or make a move against your pack of fair-weather friends, just act as if this person doesn't exist. Do your own work, walk your own path."

Xia Qing's killing intent flared. "Understood! If she plans to invade our territory or make a move against my companions, I'll take her out before she can act."

"If taking her out were that simple, she'd have died hundreds of times over already!" Zhang San looked at Xia Qing and felt irritated, wanting to shoo her away.

Xia Qing spoke up before her idol could. "Third Brother, I have one more question…"

"Speak!"

"The blood of regenerative evolvers contains a recovery factor—namely the Yi synthetic element Yi-6. Why can't I use my Class-A magnetic-sense ability to detect this element inside them?"

Only just now thinking of that?

Zhang San shot Xia Qing a look and explained in detail, "According to Red One's test results, all the Class-A magnetic-sense evolvers discovered so far indeed cannot use their magnetic-sense ability to identify human regenerative evolvers. The reason is still under investigation, and there are currently two hypotheses."

"One is a property of the recovery factor—besides Yi-6, the Yi-10 found in animals also cannot be detected by Class-A magnetic-sense evolvers. The other is that the Class-A magnetic-sense evolvers' perception ability is too weak."

"I hope it's the former." If it's the latter, Little Shiyi's situation would be far too dangerous.

Zhang San shot Xia Qing a look. "If he hadn't made any preparations, would Zhang Shi dare let his daughter enter human society?"

Xia Qing had just opened her mouth when Zhang San started shooing her away. "Don't ask me, I don't know!"

Xia Qing left Territory Seven empty-handed. She hadn't managed to trade for the new soil disinfectant—her idol told her to place an order with Seeing Xin Yu.

What does this show?

It shows that although her idol's hands are full of big projects, he still keeps the territory's safety in his heart, and found time to develop a higher-quality soil disinfectant, which has passed product certification and is already in production.

The idol—he really is that reliable!

She has to work hard too!

Xia Qing first went to Territory Five and spent over an hour moving adobe bricks with Qi Fu and Yuan Yan.

Xia Qing was partnering with Territory Five to fire bricks. Although she hadn't gone along to haul yellow clay, she had taken part in two tasks—pressing the clay into adobe bricks and digging the brick kiln—and had also hauled three big cartloads of timber over as firewood for the kiln.

Firing the kiln was Territory Five's responsibility. If this batch of bricks came out successfully, Xia Qing would get 10% of them.

After placing the adobe bricks into the kiln, Xia Qing took Yuan Yan with her to Territory Twelve to trade for WM-3 wheat seeds, then returned to her own territory.

In the evening, after Broken-Waist Wolf brought its two cubs over to take their test and learn the new language, math, and evolutionary biology lessons, Xia Qing copied the teaching videos for these new courses into its computer, then asked, "Broken-Waist, do you still remember the content of the 'Medical Ethics' course we studied before?"

Broken-Waist Wolf stared at the recording—playing for the third time—of Xia Qing sending Blindy the Fourth Tiger's territory to gather herbs that morning, without moving a muscle.

Although it didn't answer, Xia Qing knew it definitely remembered, so she went on, "Broken-Waist, I'm going to quiz you now."

The test-loving Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Brother immediately turned their heads to look at Xia Qing. Little Wolf Sister? She had already fallen asleep in the hammock chair.

Xia Qing immediately closed the recording and opened the 'Medical Ethics' video folder. "Little Wolf Brother hasn't studied this, so he doesn't need to answer. Student Broken-Waist, which of these videos covered artificially synthesized urine?"

Xia Qing wasn't sure what term the video used, so she added, "That is, humans using technical means to synthesize human or animal urine."

Little Wolf Brother didn't know and looked up at his father. Broken-Waist Wolf thought for a few seconds, stood up, walked to the TV screen, and accurately pointed at the thirteenth video with its big paw.

"Broken-Waist, you're amazing! You really do remember what you've learned!"

Xia Qing praised Broken-Waist Wolf warmly for a few moments, then rewarded it with a piece of jerky. The spacing-out Does Daigua and the sleeping Little Wolf Sister immediately opened their eyes and looked at Xia Qing.

After giving each student and Wolf Lao Er a piece of jerky, Xia Qing continued playing the recording that Broken-Waist Wolf had requested to study repeatedly.

Sheep Boss? It wasn't in the house—it was in the sheep shed with its cud-chewing buddy, chewing cud together.

Little Feimao? Tonight it was staying in the tree hollow in the northern buffer forest, guarding the food it had gathered today. Winter was almost here, and after stuffing its luxury wooden cabin full of food, Little Feimao had started hiding food in the tree hollow.

Storing food was its instinct, though the big red squirrel's teaching also played a part. Not only Little Feimao—its mother and sister were also busy storing winter food.

These three not only searched for food up in the trees and on the ground every day, they also stole from each other. Of course, Xia Qing also went to check their tree hollows every day to see if there were any new kinds of food.

Unfortunately, there were no new discoveries. That was normal, because her current range of activity was much larger than the red squirrel family's.

After Broken-Waist Wolf left with its two cubs, Xia Qing opened Lesson 13 of 'Medical Ethics' and looked for the knowledge point about artificially synthesized urine.

But the course was really too boring. Less than twenty minutes in, Xia Qing had fallen asleep on the sofa.

Seeing that Xia Qing had fallen asleep, Wolf Lao Er walked over, lay down on the floor beside her, and closed its eyes to rest as well. In the living room, only Does Daigua the monkey remained, staring blankly at the video still playing.