Chapter 1328: The Medicinal Value of Juvenile Yi Snakes

Territory Seven, the Lord's office. Zhang San paused the video and carefully examined the macaque that had been scared off by Xia Qing's sniper rifle.

"This Broken-Brow Macaque is the one that, back in January this year, took advantage of the Western Wolf Pack launching a beast tide to exact revenge on humans, and led its troop to try and seize the Western Wolf Pack's territory. After that failed, it led the troop to invade the Southern Wolf Pack's territory, where it was defeated by Lao Si. But the Southern Wolf Pack, including Lao Si, got infected with a high-grade evolved Aspergillus fungus as a result, causing a sharp drop in the pack's combat strength."

Eating the dragon-fruit chips her idol had provided, Xia Qing briefly introduced the Broken-Brow Macaque to her idol, then couldn't help but praise him, "If you hadn't quickly researched and developed a pesticide to kill this pathogenic fungus, the consequences would have been unthinkable. You..."

Zhang San cut off Xia Qing's rambling, "How do you know about the macaque invading the Southern Wolf Pack's territory?"

Xia Qing answered truthfully, "Lao Si told me. It remembers this macaque and wants revenge on it."

How does a wolf convey such complicated information to you? Did you ask it to nod, or did you ask it to write?

Whichever the answer, it was already beyond the scope of normal human behavior. Zhang San pressed his forehead and decided not to ask anymore.

Seeing her idol's headache acting up again, Xia Qing quickly steered the conversation to a professional topic to ease his symptoms. "Third Brother, look—when I pulled out my gun, the macaque troop immediately hid, but the baboon troop didn't follow suit. Doesn't that prove macaques are smarter than baboons?"

Xia Qing's footage was shot by the camera on her head, so the view Zhang San saw was all from Xia Qing's perspective; he couldn't see her drawing her gun, so she needed to add supplementary explanations.

The rigorous big shot naturally wouldn't draw such a simple conclusion. "'Smart' is a complex and vague concept, with entirely different evaluation standards in different contexts. If you mean 'human-like intelligence'—the ability to learn symbols and use tools—then macaques are indeed superior to baboons; but in terms of natural survival wisdom, baboons' social complexity may be superior."

"These comparative conclusions are drawn from human laboratory research data and field observations of macaques, and field observations of baboons. Baboons lack laboratory data on complex tasks. If you want more precise comparative data, you can go ask Zhang Song."

As expected, the idol's headache got much better when discussing academic knowledge.

Holding her dragon-fruit chips, Xia Qing wore a look of being taught, and only after the idol finished did she continue to voice her own view. "You're right. Vague terms like 'smart' and 'cunning,' which are based on human moral views, aren't suitable for describing the animals of Evolution Forest."

Regardless of whether this knowledge came from Zhang Song telling her or from her own learning through other channels, it proved that Xia Qing was studying seriously.

Zhang San's expression turned kindly again. "It's no big deal for non-researchers to mix up terms, but as professional researchers we really should pay attention to distinguishing them."

Then Zhang San began to state his own view. "'Morality' has a biological basis; it evolved as a cooperative mechanism that helps groups survive. So morality isn't unique to humans. This point is especially important for you and for me."

Xia Qing immediately caught her idol's point. "I understand. The research group made up of you, Song Ge, me, the Head Wolf, Broken-Waist and Lao Si needs to formulate moral standards for post-evolution Blue Star that are based on biology, not standards based on human morality."

Xia Qing's memory really wasn't as good as a brain-domain evolver's, but she wasn't stupid—in fact, in many ways she was very sharp, catching on immediately. She was good material.

Zhang San grew even kinder, taking individually packaged sour jujube cakes from the fridge behind him and placing them in front of her. "Right. Different biological groups have different cooperative survival mechanisms, so the rules we formulate shouldn't force uniformity, but should seek common ground while reserving differences."

After saying that, Zhang San continued playing the video.

Xia Qing took a sip of the drink her idol had provided, then silently took the sour jujube cakes her idol had given her and began eating without a word.

In the past, whenever Xia Qing came to Territory Seven she had to pack plenty of homemade treats to coax her bristling idol into a good mood; now it had changed to her providing the idol with quality ingredients, and the idol providing her with processed food.

Because after the idol visited her territory and saw her "terrible" living environment and hygiene conditions, he refused to eat her processed food. Because the idol had a weak stomach that couldn't take the strain, and since the idol wouldn't eat it, Xia Qing stopped offering it and switched to mooching snacks from the idol.

Blissful.

Across from her, Zhang San watched Xia Qing feed Yi Snakes to a group of wolves, tigers and leopards, and couldn't help wanting to crack open her skull to see how she so naturally accepted this group role.

Next, the baboons' fishing tools, the macaques and black pythons that knew how to dodge human weapons, the Northern Wolf King not killing the black pythons, and the Southern Wolf Pack seizing the moment to attack the macaque troop—scene after scene plunged Zhang San into deep thought, his face growing uglier and uglier.

After finishing the sour jujube cakes, Xia Qing drained the last of her drink and decided to take her leave before the idol could open his mouth to chase her away. Territory Three, Center Nine and Hill Fifty all had a lot of things that needed her attention.

Zhang San temporarily stored the large amount of valuable information from the recording, let his emotions settle, and asked, "After drinking the Yi Snake soup yesterday, how did you feel?"

Xia Qing shook her head. "I didn't feel anything. The wolf pack took the pups to hunt this kind of small snake because eating it keeps the pups from getting diarrhea. Third Brother, would this kind of snake help improve your stomach function?"

"Yes. Last night I took a juvenile snake and tested it. I found that the unusually active Yi-7 element in the juvenile snake activates the high-content flavonols in its body, giving the juvenile Yi Snake extremely high medicinal value—it can substitute for mast cell stabilizers like sodium cromoglycate and nedocromil."

Zhang San handed Xia Qing a brief research report, gave a concise explanation, and then offered his conclusion. "After simple processing, the juvenile snake can be made into a natural, highly effective anti-allergy medicine, and it also has very obvious therapeutic effects on Qi-element allergies. In other words, this juvenile snake is a natural anti-allergy medicine; even without purification and processing, eating it directly can deliver over 80% of its efficacy."

Zhang San's reports were always simple and clear—laymen could understand them.

After quickly scanning the report's data comparison table between juvenile Yi Snakes and adult Yi Snakes, Xia Qing understood why only juvenile Yi Snakes had this effect. "Once Yi Snakes grow up, the flavonol content decreases."

Zhang San answered rigorously, "Not only does the content decrease, the activity decreases as well."

Xia Qing raised her head. "Third Brother, that means with this little snake, even without the recovery factor Yi-6 extracted from the blood of recovery-type evolvers, we can repair the damage the Qi element has done to your body, right?"

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