Chapter 1397: Hui-1 Underground Experimental Subject B-3 Is Still Alive

After replying to Yang Jin, Xia Qing quickly video-called Lord Cui Yan, then stood up. "Third Brother, a large beast tide from Hui-1 and Hui-5 is charging toward our base. The officials will soon transfer me over to provide support."

Once a large beast tide breaks out of the Evolution Forest and reaches the human safe zones and outside the territories, even if it's intercepted layer by layer, the animal carcasses that can't be cleared in time may attract large numbers of out-of-control birds of prey.

Right now it's the Mang Snow period, when the Mang element content in the atmosphere is excessively high. Using heavy firepower weapons may trigger a Mang explosion, bringing greater loss of life and property. Therefore, humanity must do its utmost to intercept the beast tide within the Evolution Forest.

Among the echelons intercepting the beast tide, snipers who can use firearms that won't trigger a Mang explosion to kill fierce beasts at long range are the main force. The stronger a sniper's ability and the farther the distance from the beast tide, the more guaranteed personal safety. So the more high-level snipers who can rush over, the more confidence everyone has.

Currently, Hui-3's two top snipers are both in the Northern Zone-1 territory. Transferring them over is not only to raise the kill success rate, but even more so to boost the disaster-elimination personnel's morale.

Luo Pei is in a critical treatment period and cannot leave the territory, so the only top sniper Hui-3 can deploy is Xia Qing. Both officially and personally, she must go into battle.

Zhang San's expression also turned solemn. "Go. Pay attention to safety. The territory, the Ninth Center, and Number Fifty's side here will be my responsibility."

"Alright, thank you for your hard work." Xia Qing left her idol's office. Before she had even walked out of the South Gate of Territory Seven, she received a call from Base Commander Qi Zhongye, asking if she could take on a mission.

"According to frontline observation, two high-level speed-evolved lynxes and one high-level speed-evolved leopard are guiding the beast tide's direction of advance. Hui-1 and Hui-5's top snipers are both out on missions and can't rush back in time. Luo Pei also can't fight. Can you spare a hand? Shooting these three high-level evolvers will earn you fifty thousand points each."

Fifty thousand points sounds like a lot, but over the past two years, Xia Qing spent over three million points on sniper bullets alone to improve her sniping ability. Skills honed by spending so many points naturally need to be matched with commensurate missions to slowly recoup the cost.

Xia Qing is employed at the Ninth Center, receiving the base's salary and benefits, and is an official personnel directly deployable by the base. But the Base Commander didn't directly issue her an order. Instead, following the procedure for requisitioning non-official high-level evolvers, he offered compensation and asked her willingness, which raised Xia Qing's goodwill toward the Base Commander by several more points.

Of course, Xia Qing also understands how the world works. Since the Base Commander personally called, no matter how polite he was, Xia Qing had to go.

However, not giving compensation and ordering her to go versus calling to discuss it with her and offering compensation for her to go are completely different. The Base Commander's doing so is both an affirmation of Xia Qing's ability and recognition of her primary identity — a farming lord.

This affirmation and recognition, Xia Qing naturally had to accept. "I can. I'll complete the handover of duties within the territory within ten minutes, and arrive at the Southern Evolution Forest by helicopter with the Azure Dragon Squad within half an hour, to obey the commander's arrangements, intercept the beast tide, and defend the base."

"Good!" Qi Zhongye liked Xia Qing's crisp and decisive style of doing things. "The frontline commanders are An Hua and Yang Jin. They'll contact you."

"Understood." An Hua, a brain-domain and visual evolver, is Hui-3 Base military's senior disaster-elimination commander. The fact that even he has been sent to the frontline shows just how severe the situation with the two beast tides is.

Xia Qing hung up the phone, glanced with her peripheral vision at the two Red Eleven special-ops team members standing not far away, sped out of Territory Seven's South Gate, and drove back to her own territory to get her equipment.

On the helicopter, Xia Qing held up her phone talking with Old Wolf, telling it about the beast tide. "Fourth, Di Ming and Yang Jin interrogated the humans in the cave and confirmed they're the group that attacked Blind Tiger during the Mang rain at the end of August this year. I've already had Di Ming open the cave entrance. You can let Blind Tiger go take revenge. Don't let it damage the equipment inside — that's the spoils of war for me and Broken-Waist, and can be exchanged for points."

Yong Er, piloting the helicopter, silently envied Beard Feng who participated in this mission, and secretly resolved to boost his combat strength, determined to grab the next chance to go on a mission with Sister Qing's wolf pack!

Di Ming, holding up the phone, saw Old Wolf nod solemnly, and his brain started running at top speed.

So it's not just sea beasts like orcas, dolphins, and octopuses — animals on Blue Star's land have also evolved to a maddening degree. What's more important is that these land beasts, which frequently engage and battle with humans, are even lower-key than the ocean overlords, and better at hiding their abilities…

Receiving Old Wolf's stern gaze, Di Ming immediately restrained his emotions and emptied his mind, quietly serving as an emotionless phone stand.

Xia Qing told Old Wolf about the intermediate evolution fungi and the beast tide, then instructed it, "After Blind Tiger takes revenge, have it hide. Fourth, hurry back to your territory as soon as possible, and have the wolf pack hide too and not go out. I'm heading over right now to intercept the beast tide together with our Hui-3 human evolvers, and try my best not to let the beast tide charge into your and Lord Cui Yan's territory."

The Southern wolf pack, with only 33 wolves remaining, absolutely cannot stop a medium or large beast tide outside their territory.

Old Four, with a solemn face, nodded again.

Xia Qing asked one last question, "Does Old Four recognize the speed-evolved lynxes in Hui-5's Evolution Forest and the speed-evolved leopard in Hui-1's Evolution Forest? They're either Mang-evolved out of control, or controlled by bad people."

Old Four looked at Xia Qing on the phone screen, listened to the noise on the helicopter, and slowly nodded. Di Ming's eyes grew even wider.

Xia Qing also wore a solemn expression. "Old Four, the mission I've taken this time is to intercept the beast tide. If they charge into Hui-3's Evolution Forest, I must shoot them dead."

Old Four nodded to show he understood, directly raised his paw to end the call, and stared sternly at Di Ming.

Di Ming immediately put away the phone, which now bore a wolf paw print on the screen, pretended not to see the three miserable-looking mastiffs inside the cave, and with a perfectly serious expression discussed with this brain-domain-evolved old wolf, "Sister Qing and the others will arrive in fifteen minutes. I'll go throw the two bad guys into the valley now, and leave the four bad guys at the cave entrance. Fourth Brother, notify Blind Tiger and let it come take revenge?"

After Old Wolf nodded, before Di Ming had even walked out of the big cave, he heard Old Wolf's long howl. He returned to the cave where Liehuo's people were hiding, and had just thrown a blue-skinned vagrant and a Liehuo Squad member into the valley when a fierce tiger over four meters long sprang down from above the valley, directly pinned down that blue-skinned vagrant, and killed him with a single strike. Then it turned and pounced on the fleeing Liehuo Squad scumbag.

Di Ming gripped his gun, staring intently at the one-man-one-tiger battle in the valley.

This evolved tiger isn't the largest Di Ming has seen, nor the highest in combat power, but it's the most important one, because it's a member of Xia Qing's squad — his teammate.

After the tiger killed the Liehuo squad member, Di Ming raised his hand and threw down another researcher. The tiger roared and charged forward, bit straight through his neck, then strode on its powerful four limbs toward the cave.

The three researchers, who had no weapons or self-protection potions on them, were scared out of their wits. One of them rushed toward Di Ming, "I'm Hui-1's Chief Neurosurgeon Fan Chengping. I'm a protected special talent. According to regulations you must—"

"You sliced the cerebral cortex of over a hundred people and large fierce beasts. According to regulations, you must die!" Di Ming kicked Fan Chengping down the mountain with one foot and walked toward another researcher.

The two researchers from Liehuo went weak in the legs and collapsed on the ground, trembling as they crawled into the cave, "I didn't… didn't kill that many, I aaa—"

Chen Gong, the Hui-5 researcher splashed all over with blood, finally fully believed that Professor Fu Tianfeng, Yang Jin, and the devil in front of him weren't just threatening him, but really going to kill him. His gall bladder burst from fright, and he screamed, "I want to see Fu Tianfeng, I'll talk, I'll tell you everything, I aaa—"

Di Ming first kicked the other Liehuo researcher down, then raised his hand and grabbed Chen Gong's protective suit, "Want to confess? Too late!"

Chen Gong, suspended in midair, screamed, "Hui-1 underground experimental subject B-3 is still alive. She was released by Guo Hanmo."

Di Ming, retired from the Hui-1 special-ops team, naturally knew who Guo Hanmo was. He leaned forward slightly, "Where is B-3 now?"

"You send me back to the Hui-5 safe zone and I'll tell you aaa—" Before Chen Gong could finish, he was seen through by the brain-domain evolver Di Ming, who threw him straight to the cave entrance.