Chapter 1232: The Three-Person Team Rushing to Mountain Twenty-Two

At nine o'clock the next morning, Xia Qing's helicopter, tied with two large bird claws, landed on Mountain Twenty in the southwest of Hui Three. After the special ops team escorted the Zhang Tao group to collect samples, Zhang Song carefully stood up. "Brother Huo, sorry for the trouble."

Huo Zhun smiled foolishly. "No trouble at all, it's what I should do."

If it weren't for Zhang Song, who loved wrestling and ran slowly, needing someone to carry him, he wouldn't have had the chance to go on this mission with Sister Qing.

Xia Qing, who was packing up her gear, really wanted to tell Huo Zhun that her original reason for inviting him on the mission wasn't to carry Zhang Song, but to carry the power-generating bicycle. Because Xia Qing alone couldn't carry both the door and the power-generating bicycle through the Evolved Forest.

She hadn't expected that her idol had directly upgraded the equipment traded to Old Four last night, so now she didn't need to carry the power-generating bicycle to the cliff. But it had been nearly 10 PM then, and Xia Qing didn't feel right canceling the team mission, so she simply added a person and let Huo Zhun carry it.

Zhang Song was the lead researcher of the wolf pack research project. The information about the wolf pack obtained through cameras and electronic materials was one-sided and outdated, so Xia Qing wanted to bring him out to broaden his horizons.

Zhang San had no objections to this proposal whatsoever.

After the three-person team left, Hu Zifeng, Er Yong, and Jing Kuan piloted the helicopter to take off again, protecting the Zhang Tao group collecting soil and plant samples from the Evolved Forest from the air.

The Zhang Tao group had been going out to collect plant and soil samples from the Evolved Forest since the day before yesterday, conducting in-depth research on the impact of this soil microbe evolution on the Evolved Forest's ecology.

The day before yesterday, they went to the northeast Evolved Forest; yesterday, the western Evolved Forest; today, the southwest Evolved Forest. Xia Qing had deceived a few spies already detected in Northern Zone One, and led her team out with the sampling group to increase the mission's concealment.

The Fiery Flame team, having lost their supplies, were now biting at everyone like mad dogs.

Not only the Frost and Yan Lei teams from Hui One, but even the Aurora Zhou Baldy squad, who had been on a mission at Mountain Twenty-Five in Hui Three the day Xia Qing took the supplies, had been listed as key suspects by Fiery Flame. Zhou Baldy was so angry he cursed them out in the safe zone. This news was told to Xia Qing by Xu Juan, who was responsible for gathering intelligence for her.

Zhou Baldy was indeed innocent, but he dared to curse them out because Fiery Flame's strength had been damaged and was no longer what it once was.

Xia Qing, carrying the door, and Huo Zhun, carrying Zhang Song on his back, spent two hours traversing Mountains Twenty and Twenty-One. When they reached Mountain Twenty-Two, Xia Qing and Huo Zhun were still full of energy, but Zhang Song, who hadn't taken a single step, couldn't hold on any longer.

Although with Xia Qing's friendly sponsorship, Huo Zhun's equipment was upgraded, allowing Zhang Song to lie face-up on Huo Zhun's back in relative comfort. But being carried up and down mountain paths by an elastic evolver while being whipped by tree branches was even more thrilling than a roller coaster, and Zhang Song really couldn't handle the excitement.

Zhang Song took off his protective mask and threw up for a while, rinsed his mouth, drank a nutrient solution, ate a motion sickness pill, and lay on the ground without moving.

Xia Qing looked at the useless Zhang Song and deeply understood how the wolf pack felt when teaming up with her.

Wait, no—the wolf pack's mood should be a bit better than hers, because she didn't get carsick from wolves.

Fifteen minutes later, Zhang Song was back to full health. "Sister Qing, Brother Huo, I'm good to go again!"

"Good." Huo Zhun carried Zhang Song on his back again. The three-person team moved forward for half an hour and finally saw the wolf.

Huo Zhun immediately stopped, standing obediently behind Xia Qing. Zhang Song tried hard to suppress his excitement, but his mind couldn't help spinning rapidly.

Is this a wolf from the southern wolf pack?

A brain-domain evolver?

What does it mean by blocking the road?

……

"Brother Song."

"Got it!" Zhang Song immediately emptied his mind, pretending to be a wooden dummy.

Only then did Xia Qing step forward and greet warmly, "Old Four, have you been waiting long? I've brought the stuff, shall we keep going?"

The old wolf stood still, its stern gaze still fixed on Huo Zhun and Zhang Song.

"These two humans are my companions." Xia Qing turned and instructed Zhang Song and Huo Zhun, "Brother Song, Brother Huo, you two rest here and collect samples on the spot, wait for me to come back."

Ahead is the core territory of the wolf pack; Old Four wouldn't let the two of them in.

"Got it."

"……Got it."

Xia Qing followed Old Four, going around the river with its rushing currents below the waterfall, passing through the dense and deep Evolved Forest on the back of the cliff, and reaching Old Four's cave above the cliff. She panted breathlessly for a while before taking off her protective mask, sitting cross-legged on the ground, drinking a few sips of water, and starting to take things out.

"Old Four, do you still remember the human Zhang San from Territory Seven? The one who gave you medicine to treat your stomachache and treated the wounds on your scarred face?"

The old wolf bared its fangs in a grin.

"Old Four has such a good memory. The human Zhang San from Territory Seven, Third Brother, was the one who proposed growing grass in the pool below. He not only agreed to your trade conditions, but also upgraded the supplies traded to you. Look!"

Xia Qing took out a black notebook. "Old Four, this is your notebook! Although this notebook isn't as pretty as the pink one with the broken spine, it has better functions and is sturdier. One charge can play video for at least ten hours!"

Xia Qing took out the heat-dissipating wooden rack she had made and placed the notebook on it. After turning it on, she first used the notebook's camera to scan the old wolf's head as a startup verification method, then taught it how to use it.

The old wolf often watched Xia Qing fiddle with this thing, so after Xia Qing taught it twice, it could accurately use the stylus to find folders, play, drag, pause videos, and adjust the volume.

"Old Four, you're great. You've been playing with your phone quite a bit these past few nights, haven't you?" Xia Qing originally wanted to warn the old wolf not to stay up late, but wolves are nocturnal animals by nature, so being active at night was normal.

So Xia Qing shut her mouth. After confirming the old wolf had learned to use the notebook, she took out the latest portable solar panel, carefully demonstrated how to use it twice, and let it personally practice plugging and unplugging the charging data cables for the notebook and phone.

Then, Xia Qing began using the notebook to play the precautions for using the solar panel for it. As she played it, Xia Qing also explained, "Old Four, this solar panel is worth the same as twenty power-generating bicycles, you must take good care of it. The connected power bank will display the battery level……"

"Old Four, did you learn it?"

The old wolf's focused gaze shifted from the equipment to Xia Qing's face, and it slowly bared its fangs—this was its most beautiful smile.

Xia Qing also smiled. "Old Four truly deserves to be the brain-domain evolved wolf standing at the top of Blue Star's pyramid, its learning ability is top-notch! Old Four, there's another surprise for you. Ta-da-da-da—"

Xia Qing happily took out a black phone and held it in front of the old wolf. "This is a brand new phone, much better than the one I gave you before. Look, I've also switched to a new phone!"

This phone was also new equipment Xia Qing had only gotten from Territory Seven last night. It was no ordinary phone; it used a specially customized system, with security performance higher than open-source system models—an encrypted phone. Moreover, its phone number was different from those on the market.

This was a phone only core researchers of Zhang San's team could possess. Using this phone for communication, let alone the Hui Three base, even the technical personnel at Hui City headquarters had no right to intercept or monitor it, or they would face extremely severe sanctions.

Her idol gave Xia Qing three of these phones at once. Because only by using such phones could the communication between Xia Qing and the wolf pack be ensured not to be monitored by outsiders, ensuring the wolf pack wouldn't attract the attention of extreme organizations like the Blue Blood Alliance, and improving their safety.

Third Brother truly deserves to be the idol standing at the top of the entire universe's pyramid, his considerations are really so thorough!