Chapter 1274: Finding the Female Yi Snake

"This is a female Yi snake!!! Handsome Wolf Bro!!! You and the Queen are truly the evolved wolves standing at the top of Blue Star's pyramid!" After finding a hidden snake in the black bag stuffed with dead grass and rotten leaves that Broken-Waist Wolf had brought back, Xia Qing went wild with joy.

Broken-Waist Wolf bared its snow-white little fang tips, grinning happily. The Head Wolf walked around Broken-Waist Wolf and Xia Qing, then sat down on the hanging chair.

"Handsome Wolf Bro, yesterday when you and the Queen ran into the raptors' territory, was it to look for Yi snakes?" Seeing Broken-Waist Wolf bare its little fang tips while the Head Wolf lay calmly on the hanging chair, Xia Qing was truly in awe of these two wolves.

Yesterday, the western tiger group moved south to reinforce the southern wolf pack. Several giant eagles from the northern raptors of Hui San took the chance to fly south into the tiger group's territory. The northern wolf pack and bear group of Hui San seized the opportunity and ran into the raptors' territory. Xia Qing wasn't sure whether the bear group had any gains, but the wolf pack's gains were huge!

Xia Qing continued to ask, "Handsome Wolf Bro, why did the monkey troop and the raptors both run into the western tiger group's territory?"

She had wanted to ask this question yesterday. Her intuition told her there must be something good in the western tiger group's territory.

Broken-Waist Wolf shut its mouth—Xia Qing couldn't tell if it didn't want to say or simply didn't know. Xia Qing changed the subject. "Can I send this snake over to Third Bro? It's too cold now. If we don't send it over and keep it warm right away, I'm afraid it won't survive long."

Broken-Waist Wolf immediately shut its mouth, ran over to the Head Wolf, rummaged through its protective suit pocket, pulled out a points card, and carried it to Xia Qing.

Xia Qing understood. "Handsome Wolf Bro wants to sell this Yi snake to me? …Not to me, to Third Bro? How many points do you want for it?"

After a few seconds of thought, Broken-Waist Wolf raised one paw and tried hard to spread its toes.

"Five?" Xia Qing thought for a moment, then held both of Broken-Waist Wolf's front paws and discussed it seriously. "Handsome Wolf Bro, one paw is five, two paws is ten. I'll give you 100,000 points to buy this snake, then send it to Third Bro so he can do research on it. Deal?"

Although Xia Qing and Zhang San are allies, they also have prices when exchanging supplies between them. If the supplies have a market price, they usually trade at the market price. If the supplies have no market price, whoever owns them sets the price. The price of the potions Xia Qing buys from Territory Seven is set by Zhang San, and the price depends on Zhang San's mood at the time.

Yi snakes fall into the category of supplies with no market price, so when Xia Qing trades them to Zhang San, she sets the price.

In September, Xia Qing went to Mountain Sixty as the wolf pack's Number Four combatant to take part in the Yi Snake Grab Battle. She kept part of the Yi snake meat strips she received and traded part of them to Zhang San at 1,000 points per jin.

On the market, ordinary Green Lantern meat is 180 points per jin. The high-grade evolved Green Lantern python meat Xia Qing got last year was 500 points per jin. High-quality Green Lantern Yi snake meat with 2‰ Carnage element content and 7? Yi element content—if put up for auction, one jin could go for over ten thousand. So Xia Qing's price of 1,000 points is not high at all.

But those four live Yi snakes, Xia Qing didn't charge points for. Instead, she treated them as an investment and gave them directly to Zhang San for him to research. If the research fails, it's Xia Qing's investment loss; if it succeeds, the business of mass-breeding Yi snakes naturally falls to Xia Qing to arrange, with part of the profits going to her and part funding Territory Seven's expenses.

So for this Yi snake Broken-Waist Wolf brought over, Xia Qing won't sell it directly to Zhang San. Instead, she'll buy it herself and send it to Territory Seven as an "investment."

Broken-Waist Wolf lowered its head to look at Xia Qing's hairless paws for a few seconds, then raised its head and bared its little fang tips.

"Handsome Wolf Bro truly lives up to being an evolved wolf at the top of the pyramid. No wonder the Queen likes you so much. Alright, it's settled!" Xia Qing put down Broken-Waist Wolf's paws, brought over the card reader, transferred 100,000 points to Broken-Waist Wolf, then called her idol.

Zhang San, who was eating, saw that Xia Qing had made a video call and guessed that an animal had come to visit her. He took his phone back to his office, closed the door properly, and only then pressed answer.

Seeing Xia Qing and Broken-Waist Wolf squeezed together in the same screen, beaming with sunshine, Zhang San—who was already getting a headache—couldn't be bothered to think about why these two oddballs were so happy. He listlessly spat out one word: "Speak."

Xia Qing immediately spoke up. "Third Bro! Broken-Waist caught a female Yi snake, alive! It stuffed the Yi snake in a bag full of leaves and brought it over!"

Zhang San's expression visibly turned benevolent, and his voice grew so kind it was practically crumbling. "Snakes are already hibernating this season. Where did Little Broken catch a hibernating Yi snake?"

Broken-Waist Wolf immediately shut its mouth and stared seriously at the very hairy Zhang San on the screen.

Xia Qing answered for it. "Third Bro, this is the wolf pack's secret. We can't tell humans."

Zhang San didn't press the question of whether, in that oddball wolf's eyes, Xia Qing counted as a human. He just answered amiably, "Alright. I'll send Zheng Chen to pick it up. What supplies does Little Broken want?"

Xia Qing quickly explained, "Broken-Waist sold the Yi snake to me. The supplies it needs, I'll trade to it myself. Did you have pork ribs for dinner tonight? Were they any good?"

Zhang San didn't want to know how the human and wolf in Territory Three conducted their transactions, so he answered amiably, "Not bad. I'll have Zheng Chen bring you a portion. Broken-Waist, I'll have Zheng Chen bring you a pack of Green Lantern freeze-dried."

"Alright, thanks a lot, Third Bro."

Broken-Waist Wolf grinned and flashed its little fang tips, then skillfully leaned close to the phone screen and ended the call with its nose.

Xia Qing……

Zhang San, holding his phone, was stunned for a few seconds, then burst out laughing.

Xia Qing stuffed the Yi snake into the snake-hibernation insulated box Zheng Chen had brought over, then carried a food container and hoisted a bag back home. The Green Lantern potato stewed pork ribs and the steaming big steamed buns in the food container were hers; the 20 jin of Green Lantern freeze-dried was for Broken-Waist Wolf and the Head Wolf.

With her own meal sorted, Xia Qing only made food for the Boss and Wolf Lao Er, then prepared Green Lantern boiled eggs mixed with Green Lantern freeze-dried for the two guest wolves, and happily dug in.

Even with the same meat, the Territory Seven chef made it many times tastier than hers. Xia Qing ate to her heart's content. In Territory Seven, after examining the female Yi snake, Zhang San was also thoroughly satisfied.

After Xia Qing finished eating and washing the dishes, Broken-Waist Wolf immediately ran over to paw at her protective mask, signaling to her that it wanted to watch yesterday's mission recording.

Yesterday, the commotion in the southern wolf pack's territory had startled all the fierce beasts throughout the Evolution Forest. The two clever wolves had come over together precisely to figure out what had happened there after they left the southern wolf pack's territory and returned to their own.

"Watch the recording? Sure."

This was something Xia Qing had already agreed to. She had also gotten approval from Disaster Elimination Commander Zhang San to show the two wolves videos she had recorded herself. Per Disaster Elimination protocol, Xia Qing couldn't turn on her camera inside the command room, so what she showed the two wolves was footage from her mission execution.

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