Chapter 1247: Animals in the Evolution Forest Begin to Fall Ill

"Lao Er, go call the older brother over. I'm tired, I can't walk anymore."

At ten in the evening, after Xia Qing returned from the training ground to her own territory, she asked a companion to help carry her back—she didn't want to take a single step.

Wolf Lao Er stepped forward and sniffed, confirming Xia Qing wasn't injured, then raised its head and let out a soft howl, "Awoo—woo—"

Hmm? There's a wolf nearby, and one that can carry her?!

Xia Qing slowly raised her head and saw a giant wolf with ice-blue eyes, bathed in moonlight, running out from her house. Her eyes lit up.

The handsome giant wolf ran up to the Northern Buffer Forest and stood about three meters from Xia Qing.

Xia Qing, leaning against the big catalpa tree, was speechless. "Big wolf brother, I went to the strength-training camp, and now every muscle and every bone in my body hurts. Will you carry me home?"

The handsome giant wolf kept its icy face on, staring with ice-blue eyes at Xia Qing, who had curled into a ball, not moving at all. Wolf Lao Er walked over and nuzzled it a few times, but the handsome giant wolf still refused to come closer.

If the mountain won't come to me, I'll go to the mountain.

Xia Qing got up, walked over to the handsome giant wolf, leaped onto its back in one bound, and tossed out bait: "Thanks, big wolf brother, thanks, Lao Er. When we get home, I'll prepare a medicinal bath and delicious food for you both."

Wolf Lao Er grinned happily, and the handsome giant wolf was silent for a few seconds, then turned and carried Xia Qing downhill.

Back home, Xia Qing first greeted Sheep Boss, who was pedaling the power-generating bicycle, went upstairs to shower and change into clean, comfortable loungewear, rested a bit, then took parasite-killing and disinfectant medicine from the fridge, went downstairs to rinse the dirty handsome giant wolf's fur, and let it soak in a medicinal bath.

Over the past few months, Xia Qing had racked her brains trading with her idol for medicinal baths and oral medicines, and had already strengthened the handsome giant wolf's heart, lungs, muscles, and bones once over. Now this fellow's body was top-notch—it could carry Xia Qing for another twenty years without a problem. But it remained stubborn, insisting on a medicinal bath every few days, so Xia Qing could only give it one for coat-beautifying, disinfecting, and parasite-killing.

After admiring the handsome giant wolf's coat for a while, Xia Qing went to the kitchen to make a late-night snack. Once the extreme exhaustion had eased, she was so hungry she could eat a whole cow!

Boss, generating electricity inside the house, wanted extra food; Lao Er, patrolling the territory, wanted extra food; the handsome giant wolf that carried her home wanted extra food; and Little Feimao, who had worked hard selecting wheat seeds for her a few days ago, also wanted extra food.

Qiangzai?

Qiangzai was a red squirrel with extremely strong survival skills. Once treatment ended, it returned to its own territory and worked hard stockpiling food for winter.

Because all the food it had stored in a tree hollow had been smoked and ruined, the little fellow was very anxious. Worried it would venture farther away, into other animals' territories, due to lack of food, Xia Qing lent it one jin of peanuts, one jin of pine nuts, and one jin of chestnuts, telling it to hide them in a newly found tree hollow that was higher up and safer.

These foods would be repaid with the high-quality food it found next year. Qiangzai's brain wasn't developed enough to understand the principle of "borrow and repay, and borrowing again won't be hard," but that wasn't a problem, because Xia Qing would use practical actions to make up for the shortfall in its brain development.

After eating her fill together with her companions, Xia Qing brushed Boss and Lao Er, then went into the first-floor bathroom, sat leaning against the tub, and asked the big black nose floating on the water's surface, "Big wolf brother, have you had diarrhea recently?"

The influence of the anti-evolution anaerobic bacteria in the soil was gradually becoming apparent. Many people in the territory had developed symptoms of diarrhea and skin allergies, and some had already died from it. Anti-evolution anaerobic bacteria had also appeared in the soil of the Evolution Forest, affecting animals and plants.

The morning before last, Broken-Waist Wolf brought a weak bamboo rat into the lab, put it through its CT scanner for a checkup, found no cause, then called Xia Qing, who was at training camp, and asked her to send the bamboo rat to Territory Seven.

According to the cooperation agreement between the Azure Dragon Squad and the wolf pack, the wolf pack was responsible for treating the sick bamboo rat on Mountain Forty-Nine. Broken-Waist Wolf was the main undertaker of this task, Xia Qing was its assistant, and Zhang San was the outside support.

Before this, Xia Qing had communicated with Broken-Waist Wolf, wanting it to add her idol's contact info.

Unexpectedly, although Broken-Waist Wolf trusted Zhang San's medical skills, it didn't want to add him as a contact, because Zhang San and Yang Jin weren't its companions—it couldn't fully trust them and had to stay wary.

Broken-Waist Wolf was very smart, but in some ways also very stubborn. Even though it trusted Xia Qing and believed what she said was right, it still felt that putting Zhang San's and Yang Jin's profile pictures on its phone was a very dangerous thing.

Xia Qing, who was at training camp, couldn't leave. After getting her idol's permission, she called Er Yong and asked him to deliver the bamboo rat to Territory Seven and hand it over to Zhang Song.

Zhang Song tested and confirmed that the bamboo rat had developed diarrhea symptoms because it had eaten bamboo contaminated by anti-evolution anaerobic bacteria.

After figuring out the cause, Broken-Waist Wolf went to the bamboo-rat-raising greenhouse and very sternly roared at Dajiang and Chen Cheng. The two of them didn't dare talk back at all, because Broken-Waist Wolf's combat power was higher than theirs, and it also knew more medical knowledge than they did.

After finishing its roaring, Broken-Waist Wolf had Xia Qing call the human Yang Jin, demanding a reduction in the Azure Dragon Squad's share.

Over this matter, Yang Jin even made a special trip over, and with Xia Qing translating, negotiated with Broken-Waist Wolf for over an hour. The result was that the Azure Dragon Squad would purchase crab-shell fertilizer to improve the bamboo forest's soil, and the wolf pack would be responsible for security during the improvement process.

Broken-Waist Wolf's performance in handling the bamboo rat's illness greatly satisfied Zhang San. So, he called Xia Qing, who had been attending class, into his office and sold her three instruments at a high price: a blood routine analyzer, a urine routine analyzer, and a stool routine analyzer.

After paying the points without hesitation, Xia Qing took advantage of her idol's good mood and shifted the torment of learning chemistry onto Xin Yu. Back in her own territory, Xia Qing immediately contacted Broken-Waist Wolf and asked it to bring over a pigeon-egg-sized mid-grade Yishi stone, because her equipment had increased again and she needed to expand a laboratory.

After understanding, Broken-Waist Wolf directly sent Xia Qing a walnut-sized Yishi stone.

Broken-Waist really is an evolution wolf standing at the very top of Blue Star's taste pyramid!

Xia Qing turned her head happily, looked at the silver-gray giant wolf with closed eyes in the tub, and said, "Big wolf brother not speaking means no diarrhea. Very good. Have you been to the western wolf pack's territory recently? Is your brother having diarrhea…"

Xia Qing mumbled for a while, then got sleepy, set an alarm for the handsome giant wolf, and went upstairs to sleep.

Thirty minutes later, the bathroom alarm rang with Xia Qing's voice: "Big wolf brother, medicinal bath is over, time to come out. Big wolf brother, medicinal bath is over, time to come out…"

Half a minute later, the handsome giant wolf, submerged in the water, reached out a big paw to turn off the alarm, stood up, shook the water off its coat, then splashed its way to the living room and finished the food Xia Qing had prepared for it in a few bites.

This batch of medicine didn't sting at all, so the handsome giant wolf didn't need to rest under the eaves and left Territory Three directly. Xia Qing saw it leave through the surveillance camera, then turned over and went back to sleep.

The freshly washed handsome giant wolf ran freely through the Evolution Forest. Passing Mountain Fifty, it glanced at two leopards hiding in a tree. Passing Mountain Fifty-One, it stopped and fought two spotted leopards, then along the way beat up five wolves before finally running to Mountain Forty and standing in front of its brother.

The Western Wolf King stared at it for a few seconds, then irritably bared its fangs and roared, and pounced.

The howling reached Mountain Forty-One. An old wolf carrying a card reader paused to listen for a while, then continued on its way to the human territory.