Chapter 1365: Is Your Position as a Lord a Bit Low?

Zhang San nodded. "Although I haven't found any connection between Shi Jiaran and B-3 on my end, being cautious is always wise. Zhang Ten wants to keep her daughter in this territory, so she would never betray you or leak the secrets of Territory Three to outsiders. She trusts you, and you can trust her too. However, if she doesn't bring it up herself, don't ask about her past."

Xia Qing agreed. "Understood. My relationship with Zhang Ten is mutually beneficial cooperation. I won't pry into her affairs."

Zhang Ten placed her daughter in Territory Fifteen and brought Ye Yiyi to stay in Territory Three herself, which indeed showed her trust in Xia Qing. Xia Qing had her own reasons for keeping her as well. Though each was taking what she needed, their goals didn't conflict. The stronger Xia Qing became, the safer Zhang Ten and Ye Shiyi were; the better Zhang Ten's medical skills, the more stable Xia Qing's cooperative relationship with the wolf pack.

Moreover, neither would leak the other's secrets. Because if Xia Qing revealed that Zhang Ten was with her, she'd gain no benefit; if Zhang Ten revealed that Xia Qing had dealings with the wolf pack, she'd gain no benefit either.

This kind of mutually beneficial cooperation was the most stable.

Zhang San silently looked at Xia Qing for a few seconds, then asked, "Your cooperative relationship with her—does it mean you provide her with shelter and food so Ye Yiyi can receive treatment with peace of mind, and in return she helps you look after Little Four whose teeth are growing back?"

Seeing Xia Qing's eyes light up again, Zhang San raised his hand to stop her, indicating he understood. This new human had only set her sights on Zhang Ten's medical skills and had never thought of exploiting Zhang Ten's restorative evolution ability.

Zhang San didn't need to ask her why, because she would surely answer: With you here, I don't need any restorative factors at all!

So Zhang San directly skipped these meaningless conversational steps and moved straight to the next stage. "Many people in Hui City tolerate Deng Yufeng's misdeeds mainly because her evolution ability is special, and secondly because they want to obtain the data from the underground experimental projects she controls. Their pursuit of Shi Jiaran—especially the Blue Blood Alliance's pursuit of Shi Jiaran—is also related to the latter..."

After a pause, Zhang San slowly revealed more bloody truths to Xia Qing. "The reason these people care so much about the data from the Hui-1 underground experiments is that the Hui-1 underground experiments were the only super-large-scale illegal experiments in our country after the catastrophe supported by a provincial-level research institution, with advanced experimental conditions and instruments, over a hundred expert-level researchers, and over two thousand human experimental subjects. The experimental results have high reliability and validity."

Xia Qing's eyes went wide again. H-how many? Wasn't it said to be over three hundred people!

Xia Qing's reaction was completely within Zhang San's expectations. "If it hadn't involved so many people and the experimental projects hadn't been so cruel, the higher-ups wouldn't have been furious and conducted a strict investigation, nor would they have carried out a major reshuffle of Hui City's upper echelons, formulating over twenty direct and effective measures to strictly prohibit all base research institutions from engaging in illegal research. After that, no official or private illegal experiments at any base could reach the level, conditions, or scale of the Hui-1 underground experiments..."

Xia Qing understood. "That's why that data became especially precious and especially valuable for reference."

Zhang San nodded, quietly drank half a cup of tea before continuing. "Guo Hanmo is a top-tier talent in the field of Blue Star evolution ability research. He's extremely imaginative, boldly hypothesizes in his research, rigorously verifies, and has produced abundant results. Under his leadership, the underground experiments made phased progress in several projects related to evolution abilities, especially projects to stimulate ordinary people's evolution abilities and to accelerate the advancement speed of ordinary evolvers. These results made Hui City's upper echelons at the time see infinite possibilities and gave Guo Hanmo strong support, which led Guo Hanmo to grow increasingly frenzied until he completely lost his humanity."

There really were phased results? Xia Qing leaned forward slightly, listening intently.

Zhang San began giving examples. "Lie Huo's modified human project, Hui-2's Chonglian Group's fetus project, and the blood-exchange experiments on relatives secretly conducted at various bases—including Hui-3—are all related to leaks of the Hui-1 underground experimental data..."

Daddada—

Xia Qing, who had been listening to her idol with full concentration, suddenly used her hearing to catch the sound of Sheep Boss running at high speed. She immediately stood up. "Third Brother, something's happened on Sheep Boss's side. I need to go check. You rest first!"

After saying that, Xia Qing swiped open the door and rushed out. She had to hurry—if she didn't, Sheep Boss charging back might scare her idol and startle Little Ye Yiyi who had just finished surgery in the basement.

Zhang San was very curious about what kind of accident could happen to a green-light fat sheep. He finished the tea in his cup, put on his protective mask, and followed her out.

Before she had even rushed out of the abandoned village, Xia Qing saw Sheep Boss kicking up a trail of dust as it charged over, bristling with rage. She immediately went to meet it and asked loudly, "Boss, what's wrong? What happened?"

"Moo!"

"Bang!"

"Crack—"

Sheep Boss charged over at top speed and sent Xia Qing flying, then under inertia crashed into and snapped a tree as thick as a thigh.

Apart from food, nothing could make the Boss lose its temper this badly. Xia Qing flipped in mid-air and landed steadily on her feet. "Boss, is it the pasture shed, or the big Chinese toon tree?"

Sheep Boss pawed the ground and charged at full speed again.

Xia Qing grabbed Sheep Boss's horns with both hands, twisted with all her strength, and threw it six or seven meters away, then sprinted outward at full speed. She couldn't fight here—this was too close to home and to the basement.

"Bang!"

"Moo!"

Sheep Boss hit the ground, scrambled up, shook the dirt off its body, let out an angry roar, and charged outward. Wolf Lao Er, who had been feeding fish by the reservoir, heard the commotion and immediately ran over to see what was happening.

When Zhang San walked out of the abandoned village, he saw Xia Qing and her fat sheep locked in a fierce fight, with a wolfdog ineffectually trying to mediate between them. He took out his phone, filmed a short video, took a few photos of Xia Qing being sent flying by the sheep, then strolled northward to wait for Zhang Jingwu's squad.

"Xia Qing, what's the situation? How did you two end up fighting again?" The walkie-talkie carried Tang Huai's inquiry.

Xia Qing pressed the walkie-talkie button, mainly to explain to her idol. "The little yellow cow wasn't tied properly. It kicked open the fence and ate Sheep Boss's green-light grass, so the Boss got angry."

Zhang San stopped and looked at the little yellow cow chewing grass in the pasture shed. So, since you discovered the problem, why didn't you go solve the problem instead of fighting with the sheep?

Also, you didn't tie up the cow properly, causing it to eat the sheep's grass. The sheep didn't discipline the cow but came home to beat you up instead. Your position and authority as a lord in your own territory—are they a bit low?

Tang Huai asked in surprise, "Your sheep is beating up your cow?" A sheep and a cow fighting could really make this much commotion?

Xia Qing stopped answering, quickly threw Sheep Boss outward, and had Wolf Lao Er hold it back. Then she rushed into the pasture shed to tie up the little yellow cow, and ran to the northern buffer forest to escort her idol out of his territory.

Zhang San, already walking up the hillside, looked back at the wolfdog licking the sheep, then at the scruffy, bizarre human charging over. He didn't even have the heart to complain anymore.