Chapter 1234: Losing Face for Every Reseller on Blue Star

"Awooo—wooo—"

At two in the afternoon, wolf howls echoed from the woods two thousand meters from the cliff of Mountain Twenty-Two.

Seeing the two evolved wolves in the nearby wild grass turn and leave, Watching Huo Zhun in the tree let out a small breath of relief.

"The message in that howl should be calling these two wolves back." Zhang Song, lying on Watching Huo Zhun's back, was wide awake and quickly jotted down the exact time in his notebook, along with his inference about the meaning carried in the wolf speech, then told his teammate, "Sister Qing is coming back."

Why?

Before Watching Huo Zhun could ask, he saw Xia Qing appear in the wild grass a few hundred meters away, carrying her signature big backpack and sniper rifle.

"Sister Qing, over here!"

After squatting in the tree for over three hours, Watching Huo Zhun had finally waited for his squad leader.

Xia Qing sped up to the big tree and asked, "Not hurt?"

Watching Huo Zhun, carrying Zhang Song on his back, jumped down from the tree, grinned and shook his head. "Nope, the two wolves guarding us had pretty good tempers. Sister Qing, mission done?"

"Mm, completed smoothly." Xia Qing answered in a good mood.

Xia Qing's mood had actually been terrible.

Damn, she had hauled a door, carried battery panels and a laptop, and run for over three hours through the evolved forest to reach the old wolf's den. She had gone to its door to install everything, taught it hands-on, and even left that sly old bastard four credit cards worth a total of points—truly the most trustworthy existence at the very top of the pyramid among all the resellers on Blue Star. Not only did that guy not feel grateful, he even complained about her poor medical skills and tried to haggle down her mission share.

Over this, Xia Qing spent an hour making that muddled wolf understand that the main cause of Broken-Face Little Wolf's wound worsening was Lord Cui Yan not letting her take the little wolf back to the territory for treatment—if Xia Qing hadn't sutured the little wolf on the spot, Broken-Face Little Wolf wouldn't have survived until now!

After reaching consensus on this point, the human and the wolf signed a cooperation agreement: when the old wolf went to take revenge on the blue-skinned wandering humans and needed Xia Qing's help, it had to give Xia Qing thirty percent of the seized supplies.

Besides assisting with revenge, Xia Qing was also responsible for treating the wolves injured in this mission. Those she could treat, she treated; those she couldn't, she could bring back to human territory for the experts in Territory Seven to treat, with the medical fees paid by the old wolf.

Having failed to negotiate the expected forty percent share, Xia Qing was in a foul mood when the old wolf proposed using points to trade for her card reader and air toxin detector.

Xia Qing had thought she'd make a killing, but she hadn't expected this wolf to insist on paying with points!

So reseller Xia Qing only earned a 10% buy-sell spread plus 3000 points for the door-to-door delivery service.

Why charge a service fee? For the delivery, she had hired Watching Huo Zhun and even used her own helicopter to fly several hundred li, so of course she had to charge.

3000 points, just enough for fuel.

All in all, today's income for Xia Qing was only 380 points from selling two supplies. So Xia Qing was completely deflated. While stuffing the supplies the old wolf didn't want into her backpack, she complained about how much of a failure she was, losing face for every reseller on Blue Star, and that she never wanted to see that white-haired, shameless wolf again.

Unexpectedly, after hearing her out, a certain old wolf with 2.15 million points actually fished out a yi-stone and paid her errand fee!

Although it was only a pigeon-egg-sized mid-grade yi-stone, Xia Qing instantly went from gray to bright, beaming as she thanked this big spender, and gave it a free copy of Broken-Waist Wolf's supply exchange catalog to help it improve its taste quickly. Then Xia Qing took the giant wolf's special car, personally escorted by the old wolf through that dark evolved forest, to rendezvous with her two teammates.

Number Four, truly worthy of being the brain-domain evolved wolf standing at the very top of Blue Star's pyramid!

Although the half of Xia Qing's face visible behind her protective mask was still expressionless, Zhang Song judged from her tone that this transaction had gone smoothly, and immediately seized the chance to ask, "Sister Qing, can I watch the recording when I get back?"

Xia Qing, leading the way up ahead, answered, "Didn't record video today."

After Xia Qing met up with the old wolf, its very first demand was for Xia Qing to turn off the camera on her protective mask.

Truly worthy of being the brain-domain evolved wolf standing at the top of the pyramid—truly so cautious, no wonder it has lived so long.

If every time she came over to trade, she could get a yi-stone for her trouble, that would be wonderful.

Expressionless Xia Qing was secretly delighted. She led the team to Mountain Eighteen to rendezvous with the sampling group, then took the helicopter back to the territory, and gave Chang Li, who had been guarding her territory for her, a jin of green-light hawthorn.

Chang Li took the hawthorn, briefed Xia Qing on how the lords had contacted her through the lord channel today, then asked for instructions: "Brother Luo will stay in the territory to be in charge of this winter's squad training, so I will also stay in the territory this winter. May I go to the Alliance's Soil Research Department and do research with everyone?"

How rare this opportunity was, Chang Li knew better than the lords of this territory.

Xia Qing had already learned last night that Luo Pei was staying. For the next two months, he needed to soak in unpolluted spring water to flush out the residual toxins in his body.

"Of course. Tell Tang Heng, Sister Li, you can go over to join the research whenever you're free." Xia Qing welcomed Chang Li's wish to go to the Soil Research Department with open arms. Besides that, she had another request: "Sister Li, when you handle serious external wounds for the injured in the future, may I come over and learn?"

She had to improve her surgical skills and make a certain wolf look at her with new eyes!

"You're already holding down several jobs and still this eager to learn—no wonder Brother Luo kept praising you after he came back last night, telling us to learn from you." Chang Li smiled and nodded. "Come over whenever you're free. When you can't come over, I'll record the surgery videos for you."

"Thank you, Sister Li."

After seeing Chang Li off, Xia Qing gave the elder brother who came out to greet her a handful of bright red green-light grass, praised Does Daigua who was seriously picking cotton, then fed the household's living things together with Wolf Lao Er.

While there was still time, Xia Qing went to Territory Six to trade for some supplies. After coming back, she happily ate dinner, gave medicine to Qiang Zai, and cleaned the house from top to bottom.

Does Daigua, perched on a tree branch watching Xia Qing bustle about, also jumped down from the branch, pulled a clean backpack out of the cabinet it had bought from Xia Qing, and began sorting its supplies.

After Xia Qing finished cleaning, she was doing strength training with stone rings under the eaves when her phone emitted a rhythmic beeping.

A clever wolf that loved playing with doors had arrived at her territory.

The Broken-Waist Wolf, done playing with the door, trotted in carrying two bamboo rats tied with rope, and flashed its cute little fang tips at her.

Xia Qing smiled too. "Broken-Waist, did you go to the bamboo rat shed? One of these bamboo rats roasted to take back for Her Majesty, and one for me?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf flashed its snow-white, cute little fang tips again.

"Broken-Waist, you really know how to do things right!"

As the wolf pack's number-four combatant, Xia Qing had no say in the distribution of the pack's supplies. Like the other wolves, if Xia Qing wanted to eat bamboo rats from the Third Peak, she needed the alpha wolf's and the Broken-Waist Wolf's approval, and the Broken-Waist Wolf had to go to the cage to fetch it for her. So the bamboo rat the Broken-Waist Wolf had brought her was a delightful surprise gift.

Xia Qing took off the stone rings, picked up the two bamboo rats, and was about to head inside when the Broken-Waist Wolf turned its body sideways, signaling Xia Qing to reach into the side pocket of its protective suit and pull something out.

Xia Qing pulled two large walnuts out of the Broken-Waist Wolf's side pocket and asked delightedly, "Broken-Waist, are the walnuts ready to pick?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf closed its mouth.

"Not yet. Have to wait until November? These two you specially picked up to give me? Handsome wolf brother, you really are the handsome wolf standing at the top of Blue Star's pyramid—you're so thoughtful, no wonder Her Majesty likes you so much…"

Amid Xia Qing's praises, the Broken-Waist Wolf held its head high, rinsed its paws clean, went inside, and sat down on the sofa, looking very satisfied.

Xia Qing? Busy processing the green-light bamboo rats.