Chapter 1382: The Aesthetic Sense of Evolved Wolves

"Because you cut your hair short, they think you've gotten weaker."

Separated by a screen, the wolves can't use their sense of smell to check the other's condition and can only rely on sight. Seeing Yang Jin's head fur grow shorter, Fourth Brother would think he's gotten weaker, and the Broken-Waist Wolf would think he's not only gotten weaker but uglier too.

Because Yang Jin is a VIP student who paid Yishi as tuition, Xia Qing drops the second half of the sentence.

Shorter hair means weaker? Yang Jin thought about it from the wolves' perspective and immediately understood, praising, "Sister Qing's hair must look very healthy and warm to them."

No, Broken-Waist thinks her hair isn't even as good-looking as Daigua's fur. Xia Qing returned to the main topic, "I'll contact Watching Huo Zhun and Wang Man, Captain Yang contacts Brother Luo, and we gather at the mountaintop in fifteen minutes?"

"Good." Yang Jin immediately contacted Luo Pei, ordering Beard Feng and Er Yong to urgently assemble at the helipad, then sending two members of Beard Feng's squad to guard Territory Three, and dispatching additional personnel to guard Mountain Forty-Nine and provide aid to Territory Eleven when needed, among other matters.

Hearing that Yang Jin had obtained the chance to team up with the wolf pack for a mission so quickly, Luo Pei was envious, and really wanted to call Zhang San to get a special-effect medicine for instant recovery, then take down Beard Feng and snatch the sniper slot on the mission squad.

After Liangzi and Chen Zheng arrived at Territory Three, Yang Jin, wearing the same style of special protective suit as Xia Qing, handed his backpack to Xia Qing, then carried her on his back and sped toward the helipad.

Even carrying a person while speeding along, it was still easy for top-tier speed evolver Yang Jin, who could spare the energy to keep asking Xia Qing for guidance, "Sister Qing, what kind of human appearance looks more handsome to evolved wolves?"

Having accepted the Yishi, Xia Qing answered in detail, "Longer hair, thick and lustrous; broad shoulders and neck, sharp eyes, thick limbs, with tiger teeth and very even bite alignment. If Professor Wu Cheng were a bit taller, he'd fully meet the wolf pack's aesthetic standards."

Yang Jin understood, "Next time I deal with the wolf pack, I'll wear a wig."

Not cutting his hair was impossible, because Yang Jin had long noticed that Xia Qing liked watching the sideburns revealed after his haircut.

Xia Qing……

That wouldn't be necessary either, because even wearing a wig wouldn't help. "The wolf pack doesn't like brain-domain evolvers among humans; they prefer those with gentler magnetic field fluctuations."

Regarding this question, Xia Qing had discussed it in depth with Seeing Xin Yu. Actually, brain-domain evolvers' brainwave amplitude during thought isn't necessarily stronger than non-brain-domain evolvers', but their right temporal lobe erupts strong gamma waves more frequently and intensely at irregular intervals.

In plain language: brain-domain evolvers have more "aha moments" or what are called "epiphany instants" when thinking, and the strong magnetic fields released in these instants give Class C magnetoceptive evolvers quite a headache.

The rapidly running brain-domain evolver Yang Jin took the lesson to heart, "Understood, I'll try not to think deeply in front of evolved wolves from now on."

After the whole squad assembled, the helicopter took off from the Mountain Forty-Nine helipad and headed southwest.

Tang Huai asked over the walkie-talkie, "Didn't you say the orange-grade blizzard snow would start in fifteen minutes? Why is the Azure Dragon's helicopter taking off now? Is there something urgent?"

The allies currently fighting the disaster all stopped and listened carefully, afraid a beast tide might be coming.

Luo Pei answered mildly, "The squad took an urgent mission and needs Yang Jin to take charge."

"Brother Jin really is the capable one who does the most. He hasn't even been back in the territory for 24 hours before being called away again—no idea when he'll be able to return." After sighing, Tang Huai began volunteering himself to Xia Qing, "If Sister Qing's too busy, just give a shout, I'm on call anytime."

Patrolling the territory, cooking, petting wolves, sheep, and monkeys—can do anything, no pay required, brings his own green-light ingredients!

Chang Li pressed the walkie-talkie button and answered in Xia Qing's voice, "We can handle it."

Everyone: Hehe.

Qi Fu didn't let Tang Huai stay embarrassed for long, picking up the thread, "How tall has the blizzard grass in everyone's territory grown? Mine's already over 15 centimeters, looks weirder the more I look at it."

Shi Zhong also came online, "Same here. When does the weather forecast say the big temperature drop is coming?"

Kuang Qingwei answered, "They say it'll come before the blizzard snow ends—please drop the temperature soon, the snow-jumpers here are banging against the rainproof cloth on the greenhouse, scaring me out of my wits."

Wen Nengjie asked, "Are many of everyone's wheat seedlings evolving into blizzard grass? Mine's in huge patches, it's driving me to death!"

Tang Huai came online again, "Brother Qing, is Hearing Zhu Li there?"

Hearing Zhu Li came online, "Here."

Tang Huai, also an auditory evolver, detailed a quick way to earn points to Hearing Zhu Li, "Sister Li, later put on night-vision goggles and your protective suit, take a sturdy net bag and stand outside the shed, catch those snow-jumpers that make a very loud impact sound against the rainproof cloth. High-quality ones can sell for dozens to hundreds of points each. I can't promise anything else if you catch all night, but the wheat seedling evolution losses in the greenhouse can definitely be made up for."

Hearing Zhu Li got excited, "Great! Thanks, Brother Huai, can I bring what I catch to you? Old Kuang doesn't have this kind of connection—Brother Huai, would a twenty-percent middleman fee work?"

Tang Huai answered, "No need, ten percent is fine."

Wen Nengjie immediately came online, "Such a great way to earn points and Brother Huai still thinks of the allies—truly righteous. Brother Huai, how about this: I'll catch a batch tonight too, trouble you to help screen and sell them, and just give me whatever you think fair after converting to points."

Wen Nengjie isn't an auditory evolver and can't use hearing to precisely pick out the snow-jumpers with the highest impact force, but he doesn't want to give up this way to earn points.

Tang Huai, who likes playing with bugs, agreed, "Sure, if any can be sold, I'll give you fifty percent."

"Thanks, Brother Huai!" Wen Nengjie cheerfully agreed.

Immediately after, Shi Du, Zhao Ze, Yu Shou, Tan Qi and others all came online saying they wanted to catch snow-jumpers and send them to Territory Two, and Tang Huai happily agreed to all.

Zhang Shi heard his daughter would be catching snow-jumpers at night and wasn't too worried, because she grew up in the Evolution Forest and has more experience dealing with bugs than with people.

While the lords chatted enthusiastically about catching bugs to sell, on the helicopter that had left the territory, Xia Qing was explaining the mission to Watching Huo Zhun, Wang Man, and Beard Feng, "The three of you team up with Captain Yang and land at the spot where evolved wolves are waiting at the border between Mountain Zones Twenty-One and Twenty-Two. The evolved wolves will lead you on foot to the target in Mountain Zone Twenty-Four to rendezvous with squad leader Fourth Brother and carry out the mission to capture the wanderers. This mission's pay is split-based—you four get forty percent of the total haul, how you divide it is up to you to negotiate."

After hearing Xia Qing's words, the most excited wasn't Watching Huo Zhun but Beard Feng, because he'd participated in wanderer-hunting missions before and knew how generous the pay was after a successful mission.

Xia Qing continued, "I guess Fourth Brother will pick Brother Huo as vice-captain, in charge of commanding the human team members."

Huh? Me?!

Watching Huo Zhun, with his fierce, fleshy face, gaped, glanced at the higher-combat-power Man Snake and Iron Rooster, and immediately perked up, "Sister Qing, what should I do?"

He was the first human team member to join the Azure Wolf Squad, the second-most-trusted human team member by the wolf team members, and a well-deserved vice-captain.

Watching Huo Zhun really wanted to record this scene and take it back to loop-play for his old man!

Wang Man narrowed his eyes, feeling his fists itch uncomfortably.

Yang Jin figured that if Fourth Brother really picked Watching Huo Zhun, it wasn't because his appearance met the wolves' aesthetic standards, but because he was very easy to read—one look at his body language and expression tells you what he's thinking.

No wonder his old man always beats him—Watching Huo Zhun really does have a face that begs a beating. When he attends the Azure Dragon Squad's training camp again, Yang Jin decided to drop by and spar with him.