Chapter 1188: The Weasel on the Green Lantern Grassland

The next morning, Xia Qing took the planting plan she had written for the River Moss Grass on Mountain 26 and entered Territory No. 7.

Zhang San quickly read through the rough one-page plan, then looked at Xia Qing sitting calmly across the table. Having worked with her for a long time, Zhang San actually found her plan not so hard to understand. "How confident are you?"

"Eighty percent. Unless there are aquatic creatures in that stretch of water that the wolves can't handle. But we should keep the number of people who know about this planting project as small as possible."

Xia Qing gave a clear answer. Her idol's plan was to build a laboratory over there and send people to be stationed there permanently to guard it. Xia Qing felt the cost was too high and the risk too great, so she proposed cooperating with the southern wolf pack instead.

Humans would send a team over to plant the grass and install cameras, then hand it over to the wolves to guard the river where the River Moss Grass was planted. Once danger was spotted, the wolves would issue a warning. Then the human side would quickly assemble combat squads or troops carrying out missions in nearby Evolved Forests to rush over and handle the threat.

The kind of threat the wolves couldn't handle would be people sneaking in to steal this highly valuable, moss-like perennial small herb that grows underwater. That kind of threat, naturally, had to be dealt with by humans.

"Fine. Based on the growth characteristics of River Moss Grass, after autumn and winter water levels drop, the plants will bud and set seed. So we're now in the flowering period of River Moss Grass, and will soon enter the fruiting period. Take some time these few days and go with Zhang Tao to Mountain 26. Measure the specific area where River Moss Grass can be planted, install cameras, and... work out the cooperation with the wolf pack."

Although he had accepted Xia Qing's suggestion, Zhang San felt the words sticking a little on his tongue as he said them.

"Understood." After accepting the task, Xia Qing seized the chance to propose a trade. "Third Brother, the highest Domain-evolved individual in the southern wolf pack is Old Four. It's old now and needs its body conditioned. Just prescribe some medicine for it, and I'll bring a few more eggs. The deal will definitely go through."

Zhang San...

"Two days."

"Got it, Third Brother. Thanks, Third Brother."

During the two days her idol was preparing the medicine, Xia Qing certainly wasn't idle. She first went to the Hidden Valley and planted Green Lantern Oil Sunflower seeds in the fields that had been harvested for peanuts and then fertilized.

If all went well, before next year's first Devastation Rain, Xia Qing would harvest several hundred jin of oil sunflower seeds for pressing, improving the quality of cooking oil.

After helping Xia Qing plant the oil sunflowers, Zhang Shi handed over to Xia Qing the small bag of peanuts Ye Yiyi had dug up from the soil.

"Ye Yiyi, thank you so much for helping me gather the peanuts. This is a thank-you gift—do you like it?" Xia Qing sincerely thanked Ye Yiyi, who was hiding in a corner of the house.

Although Ye Yiyi didn't respond, she also didn't lose control and scream because Xia Qing had come close, which already made Zhang Shi feel quite relieved. She took the pretty hair tie from Xia Qing's hand and asked, "Is there something you want to tell me?"

Being around a Class C magnetoreception Evolved, it turned out there really weren't any secrets.

Xia Qing had indeed just been hesitating whether to tell her about the Fire Phoenix. Since Zhang Shi had asked first, Xia Qing just said it straight out.

She took out her phone and quickly typed: A few days ago I got a call from Fire Phoenix Deng Yufeng. She wanted to fish for information from me. Third Brother was afraid I'd fall for her tricks, so he told me some old stories and mentioned that you were rescued by Fire Phoenix and Xie Yu. You've heard about the fight between Blaze and Extinction over Hui Yi, right? After Extinction broke into Blaze Volcano, they got some of Blaze's internal information. All these years, Fire Phoenix has been looking for you.

Xia Qing hesitated a few seconds, then typed another line: If she contacts you, you'd better not easily believe what she says.

After reading Xia Qing's phone screen, Zhang Shi quickly typed a line on her own phone: During that period I was being injected with drugs the whole time and was in a confused state of consciousness. I don't know who rescued me from the lab. But inside the underground lab and in the hospital room after the rescue, I met Fire Phoenix several times. Every single time she was filled with an extremely intense killing intent and hatred toward me.

After typing those lines, Zhang Shi typed two more words: Thank you.

Thank you, Xia Qing, for showing goodwill and giving me a warning after learning this information; thank you, Xia Qing, for helping me rescue Eleven, and for letting Eleven smoothly enter No. 9 Central Primary School, make friends, and truly integrate into the human community.

Learning that Fire Phoenix was filled with hatred and killing intent toward Zhang Shi, Xia Qing wasn't surprised. She patted Zhang Shi on the shoulder, left the Hidden Valley, and went to check on the progress of Zhang He's soil remediation project.

It had been almost a year since Blaze's people used poison gas bombs in this mountain area. Since that incident, Zhang He had been leading a team of more than ten people, guarded by over twenty security team members, stationed in the danger zone to plant Red Ruin Grass and try every method to remove the residual toxins from the contaminated soil.

It took half a year for Zhang He's team to complete the first phase of the experiment, downgrading the high-danger zone on Mountain 50 to a medium-danger zone. If all went well, the second phase would be completed by the middle of next month, downgrading the medium-danger zone on Mountain 50 to a low-danger zone.

The next phase—downgrading the medium-danger zone to a low-danger zone—would take at least half a year.

In other words, the environmental damage caused by the few poison gas bombs released by Blaze's beast-hunting squad required a national-level top research team and nearly a year and a half to complete the cleanup.

Blaze, who used such weapons, is guilty beyond measure!

After finishing her tour of the experimental area, Xia Qing went over to the cave where the Plucker family lived and called out for a while, confirming the whole family had gone out.

Autumn is the season when animals hoard food or build up fat to prepare for winter, so it was perfectly normal for the Plucker family to have gone out hunting together.

Xia Qing stuffed four eggs into the entrance of their cave, turned, and headed down the mountain back to the territory.

Xia Qing hadn't driven today because she was going to the area of Mountain 49, Zone 6, that bordered Mountain 50, to collect Green Lantern Grass seeds there for planting pasture grass in the territory next year.

By quite a coincidence, at the edge of this Green Lantern Grass area, Xia Qing ran into the Plucker weasel, who was out hunting.

The Plucker weasel had of course also spotted Xia Qing, and was hiding behind a rock, watching her with a trembling wariness.

Xia Qing greeted it in a soft, gentle voice. "Plucker, out hunting? I just stopped by your place and left you four Green Lantern eggs. You hunt here, I'll go over there and get some grass seeds."

When high-quality grass seeds ripened, of course they attracted large numbers of seed-loving rodents and birds, so it was perfectly normal for weasels to come here to hunt.

Xia Qing was a human, and to these small animals her size was enormous and dangerous. So if she stayed here cutting grass ears, the birds and rodents would all flee.

Xia Qing moved to a spot farther away and had been cutting grass ears for less than five minutes when she saw several birds suddenly burst up from the Plucker weasel's side, accompanied by the shrill cries of birds that had been caught.

The Plucker weasel had made a successful hunt.

Half a minute later, Xia Qing received a plucked little bird.

The Plucker weasel was clumsy at its work, but Xia Qing didn't mind. She cheerfully accepted the prey, gave the fellow a few pieces of Green Lantern jerky, cut another handful of grass ears, and only then entered Mountain 49, preparing to return to her territory.

She had just walked near Wolf Valley when she heard the sound of small animals running fast. Xia Qing looked back, and her killing intent surged.