Chapter 1427: He... Already Belongs to the New Human?

Zhang Shi, who was cleaning the operating room, felt a strong magnetic field fluctuation and took the chance to glance back while throwing out the trash.

The old wolf on the dental chair had not yet woken up. Xia Qing stood on its left, and the big shot stood on its right. Xia Qing's magnetic field was as calm as always, while the big shot looked down at his phone with frequent magnetic field fluctuations—clearly weighing whether to save that weakened wolf.

Zhang Shi understood why the big shot was hesitating: restoring that wolf to health would certainly require quite a few medicinal agents, and during the Calamity years, medicinal agents were terribly scarce, with millions of humans waiting for them to save their lives.

Zhang San stared at the old wolf on his phone screen—trembling, moving slowly but firmly. He was indeed thinking, but what he was pondering was not whether to save this wolf, but his own changes.

Before meeting Xia Qing, he definitely would not have wasted precious medicinal agents and energy to save a gravely ill wolf; but now, he felt no particular resistance.

Because nearly half of the precious medicinal materials needed to save this wolf were propagated from mother plants that Xia Qing had the animals gather and bring back; the points spent on saving this wolf were provided by Wolf King Xiao Si.

The way Xiao Si earned points complied with the first article of the Blue Star Lord Code jointly established by him, Xia Qing, Zhang Song, Xiao Si, Xiao Duan, and the Northern Wolf King, making it legitimate income.

The evolved wolves using legitimate income to treat their companions with medicinal materials they gathered from the Evolution Forest was perfectly reasonable.

The emotional fluctuation now was because Zhang San had just realized: the four creatures who violated the first article of the Evolution Forest Lord Code, illegally entered wolf pack territory, and were jointly killed by the wolf packs and humans—though they were scumbags, their identity was his own kind—humans.

His current way of thinking and behavior, by his own definition, already belonged to the new human!

When did he become such a weirdo? How big was the gap between him and the weirdo standing right in front of him?

He left important experiments undone, braved the freezing cold to trek all the way to Territory Three, spent a full half day cutting apart a monkey's toes, pulling a wolf's tooth, and drawing blood, testing feces and urine, and doing a CT on another wolf—clearly these were things he could have sent Zhang Song to handle!

The reason he didn't send Zhang Song was not just that he didn't want Zhang Song to discover Zhang Shi and that little girl, but that he no longer felt resistant to being a veterinarian...

When did he start not feeling resistant?

The more he thought, the more something felt off!!!

Zhang San looked up and stared coldly at the wolfish fellow across from him.

Seeing her idol's expression sour, his gaze toward her seeming like he wanted to perform a craniotomy on her, Xia Qing felt a chill on top of her head and instinctively grinned a brilliant smile.

Zhang San's expression grew even worse. He handed over his phone and said viciously, "Give me 5.6 million points!"

Zhang Shi... h-how much?!

"... Understood." Xia Qing knew at once that her idol was in a foul mood, so he was lumping the equipment procurement budget together with the wolf-rescue points. She put on a pained expression hoping that seeing her suffer would improve his mood.

Seeing Xia Qing's pained look, Zhang San's expression indeed improved. He turned to check the data on the display screen. "Xiao Si will wake up in ten minutes. Take it outside; this place might trigger a stress response in it."

"Understood." Xia Qing carried Old Four out of the operating room and asked the broken-waist wolf guarding the door alone, "Broken-Waist, is Little Wolf Brother over at Lao Er's place?"

The broken-waist wolf nodded solemnly, gazing at Old Four in Xia Qing's arms.

Outside was a world of ice and snow, but inside the lab the temperature was 22°C, not cold at all. Xia Qing simply sat on the floor and briefed the broken-waist wolf: "Old Four's surgery was a success. It'll wake up soon."

Then what? The broken-waist wolf carefully observed the old wolf's mouth missing its fangs, waited a few seconds without hearing Xia Qing say anything more, turned around, and went to find Zhang San.

Zhang San, who was washing his hands and disinfecting, saw the broken-waist wolf come over and stare at him, so he patiently explained: "In Old Four's first-stage surgery, I extracted two lower fangs, two central incisors, and one left molar, and treated two left-side teeth that didn't need extraction. All residual tiny tissue fragments in the extraction sockets have been cleared. The sockets were rinsed with a gel-form bio-irrigant containing active stem cell chemotactic factors..."

Xia Qing watched the human and wolf in the distance and silently complained: One really dares to speak, the other really dares to listen—that broken-waist fellow definitely didn't understand a word!

Zhang San, watching the broken-waist wolf studying so earnestly, got into it: "Xiao Duan, open your mouth and let me see your teeth."

The broken-waist wolf immediately opened its mouth wide, revealing the most beautiful set of teeth on the entire Blue Star.

Zhang San bent down and pointed at one of its molars. The gesture made even Xia Qing nervous, afraid that the idol's incomparably precious finger would get its skin nicked by the broken-waist wolf's tooth.

"These few teeth have tartar on the inside. Find time to come over and have Zhang Shi give them a cleaning. Pay attention to oral hygiene from now on—ideally brush one to two times a week..."

Xia Qing...

The human idol standing at the pinnacle of the pyramid—he's lost his mind...

"I'll prepare a toothbrush and toothpaste for you. If you don't trust Zhang Shi, you can have Xia Qing brush them for you. It's not that difficult—Xia Qing can learn..."

Seeing the broken-waist wolf turn its head and look at her with sparkling eyes, Xia Qing expressionlessly hugged Old Four tighter, leaned against the wall, and said nothing.

She was a normal person; she needed to stay away from that abnormal master and disciple.

Feeling the old wolf's body twitch twice, Xia Qing looked down and saw it had opened its eyes. She immediately asked, "Old Four, you're awake? How do you feel now? Third Brother performed minimally invasive surgery on you—does the tooth hurt badly?"

You ask a whole pile of questions—how is a wolf supposed to answer?

Zhang San carefully dried his hands, walked over, squatted in front of Old Four, and extended one hand. "Xiao Si, look at my hand."

The broken-waist wolf that had followed over immediately raised a front paw. Aowu, aowu.

Old Four slowly rolled its grey eyes toward Zhang San's hand.

"Good—vital signs stable, consciousness clear." Zhang San entered the lab, put on gloves again, came out holding a sterilized pair of forceps. "Xiao Si, slowly open your mouth and let me see your teeth."

After the old wolf slowly opened its mouth, the broken-waist wolf saw its fangs were gone and several teeth were missing. Its eyes were full of shock.

Seeing its expression, Xia Qing snorted inwardly: I knew it—you were just pretending to understand earlier; you didn't grasp a single thing Third Brother said!

Zhang San used the forceps to gently remove the cotton ball from Old Four's gum, examined the wound, and unconsciously softened his tone, gently and tenderly giving instructions: "Good—no active bright-red bleeding from the wound, only pale red blood-tinged saliva. The situation is normal. I used a medicinal agent on you, so it's normal for Xiao Si to feel numbness in the tip of the tongue and lower lip now. Your face will swell in the next day or two—that's also normal, don't worry. Don't lick the socket frequently with your tongue, and absolutely don't bite hard objects..."

Old Four had just woken from anesthesia, and Xia Qing, afraid it wouldn't remember, listened carefully. The broken-waist wolf beside her also listened with a solemn face.

An hour later, after confirming Old Four had passed the critical period and could stand steadily on its own four legs, Xia Qing discussed with it: "Old Four, can you hold on? Can you call your companions over to drink some oral anesthetic?"

The old wolf, its fangs extracted, nodded solemnly.