Chapter 1402: Execute the Next Mission Immediately

"Sniper Xia Qing, in position."

Xia Qing and Zhu Wei arrived at the designated sniper position and pressed the walkie-talkie to report to the squad leader.

They had taken a helicopter and arrived ahead of the beast tide. The ground had not yet begun to tremble, and the roars of the wild beasts had not carried over either.

"Disaster Relief First Echelon Sniper Squad One, Squad Leader Ma Jun, welcome Sister Qing." The voice of Ma Jun, a senior sniper and member of the Azure Dragon Battle Team's first main squad—Yang Jin's Squad—came through the walkie-talkie.

"Azure Dragon Night Heron, welcome Sister Qing!" Immediately after, Azure Dragon Battle Team senior sniper Zhang Ling came online. She often trained with Xia Qing at the sniper range and was an old acquaintance.

"Doom Yama, welcome Sister Qing." Doom Battle Team senior sniper Mo Shaozhi came online.

"Hui Three Special Ops Squad Three sniper Lynx, welcome Sister Qing." A military sniper also came online—this was a voice Xia Qing had never heard before. The enthusiasm in this voice was no less than that of the three senior snipers before.

Because Xia Qing had just shot and killed the three most threatening high-level speed evolvers in the two beast tides, noticeably weakening the beast tide's advance speed and attack power. This meant the disaster relief personnel at Hui Three Base could end the battle faster and with a lower casualty rate, so of course everyone was happy.

"Thanks." In just this short while, Xia Qing could already hear the roars of the beast tide.

Squad leader Ma Jun began introducing the mission content. "The beast tide will enter sniper range in one minute. Our squad's mission is to shoot and kill the evolvers within the beast tide. The commander requests that when shooting large animals, try to take them out with a single headshot, leaving the beast hides intact."

"Copy."

The cost of removing the ultra-high Qiang elements from the bodies of out-of-control animals is too high, and the meat loses its edible value after removal. So after the Qiang-evolved animal corpses are recovered, they can only be used to make fertilizer or beast-lure agents; the most valuable part is actually the beast hides that can be made into cold-resistant clothing.

After the beast tide is wiped out, the beast hides cleaned up and recovered will be given to snipers a certain amount of reward based on their value. The more intact the hide, the higher the reward. Snipers who frequently take on missions know this well. Ma Jun was afraid Xia Qing didn't know, so he specifically reminded her.

Xia Qing had long known this, so when shooting large animals from the helicopter earlier, she always waited until these animals ran to the edge of the beast tide before taking them out with a single headshot.

Points that can be earned must be earned!

After Xia Qing replied "Copy," she divided the work with Zhu Wei. "Sister Zhu, once the beast tide enters sniper range, I'll be responsible for searching out and shooting medium-sized high-level evolvers, you handle the small ones, and I'll clean up the large ones along the way."

Why "along the way"? Because earlier on the helicopter, she and Peng Jian had already cleaned up one wave, and there weren't many large animals left in the beast tide.

"Understood." Zhu Wei, lying next to Xia Qing, raised her binoculars and quickly searched for targets.

The trembling of the earth grew stronger and stronger. The beast tide, composed of over four hundred animals, came roaring. Xia Qing raised her sniper rifle, searching for targets and shooting.

From the moment the beast tide entered Xia Qing's sniper range until it left, a total of fifteen minutes, Xia Qing sniped 25 animals. The largest was a wapiti, and the smallest was a speed-evolved squirrel.

The fur color and size of this out-of-control squirrel were very similar to the big squirrel that freeloads in Territory Three. Watching it vanish into the beast tide the instant it was hit, Xia Qing put away her gun, expressionless.

In the walkie-talkie channel, the voice of sniper squad leader Ma Jun rang out. "Disaster Relief First Echelon mission complete. Thanks for your hard work, everyone. You can join Squad Three's mission, or you can return to the command post now. Sister Qing, the commander requests you return to the command post as soon as possible to execute the next mission."

Squad Three's mission is to quickly recover the animal corpses sniped by the First Echelon. Although this mission doesn't give many points, when there are no other missions, snipers will all participate, to prevent the smell of blood from spreading over a wider area and attracting more danger.

Xia Qing's four-person squad, having other missions, was hurrying back to the disaster relief command post when they saw the Third Echelon currently in combat.

The Disaster Relief First Echelon consists of two sniper squads: Squad One, composed of top-tier and senior snipers, and Squad Two, composed of intermediate snipers. Their mission is to snipe large animals and evolvers in the beast tide from long range, eliminating the greatest threats in the beast tide.

The Second Echelon is composed of machine gunners. Their mission is to use the suppressive firepower of machine guns to maximize the destruction of the charging animals, reduce the beast tide's speed, and disrupt its clustered formation.

The Third Echelon is composed of evolvers skilled in close combat or specially trained ordinary soldier warriors. Their mission is to intercept and annihilate the beast tide at close range. The combat of this echelon is the most intense and the most dangerous.

Now is a red-grade Qiang snow period, and machine guns are banned because they might trigger a Qiang explosion, so the Third Echelon has stepped up directly. Over thirty evolvers skilled in close combat and over forty ordinary soldier warriors, led by Commander Yang Jin, charged at the beast tide and engaged the fierce beasts in bloody combat.

This was the first time Xia Qing had seen Hui Three's top combatant, Yang Jin, go into battle.

His speed was so fast it didn't look like running, but like flying just above the snow. The twin blades in his hands looked like silver wings extending from his limbs. Every one of his movements was pared down to the extreme, and fast to the extreme.

Standing on the hillside, Xia Qing could even hear, amid the roars and wails of the wild beasts, the sharp whistling of his blades cutting through the air and dismembering the beasts.

Worthy of being Hui Three's top combatant!

Xia Qing watched, her blood boiling. If she didn't have a mission on her, Xia Qing truly wanted to put down her sniper rifle and backpack, grab her black blade, and charge into the beast tide, using real combat to hone her close-combat abilities.

After Xia Qing led her team to the command post tent, Disaster Relief Deputy Commander and Azure Dragon Battle Team Level Six auditory evolver Li Xuanyu conveyed the order.

"Sister Qing, Third Brother from Territory Seven wants you to head to Danger Zone Five in the southern experimental area immediately after completing the sniper mission, collect Qiang-evolved fungus samples on site, and send them back as soon as possible. Third Brother says to use the No. 4 sampling tube in your backpack."

In Li Xuanyu's view, there was absolutely no need to have a top-tier sniper who had just finished a dangerous mission and hadn't even caught her breath, and who wasn't good at running, carry out such a mission.

If this order had been issued by someone else, Li Xuanyu would have sent an Azure Dragon Battle Team speed or elasticity evolver to run the errand in Xia Qing's place. But it was issued by the big shot personally, and Li Xuanyu didn't dare to act on his own. Because if the big shot wanted Xia Qing to go, there must be his reasons.

The two speed evolvers who had come in with Xia Qing also, for the same reason, didn't speak up to compete for the chance to execute the mission in Xia Qing's place.

Xia Qing nodded calmly. "Alright, Eryong and I will set off right away."

Actually, this mission was one Xia Qing had contacted her idol by phone on the way back to the command post, asking her idol to issue to her. Her going to the wolf pack's territory was certainly not to collect samples, but to deliver medicine.

Fourth Brother and Lord Cui Yan led their teams out to fight during the Qiang snow period. The wolf pack members not wearing Yishi necklaces must have inhaled excessive amounts of Qiang elements, and urgently need to take Qiang-reducing agents, otherwise they might Qiang-evolve and lose control.