Chapter 1474: The Three-Dimensional Reconnaissance System of Mountain Fifty

One person and one wolf scrambled over mountains, crossed ridges, and squeezed through cracks between rocks, quickly reaching the spot where the four bounty hunters had stashed their supplies.

Seeing that Broken-Waist Wolf had stationed two giant wolves to guard the four large backpacks, Xia Qing immediately understood what the fellow was scheming.

In this deal, Broken-Waist Wolf made a profit and she didn't lose out either. So she greeted the two giant wolves with great enthusiasm, "Big Guy, Second Guy, was Handsome Wolf Brother the one who told you to come guard the supplies? Handsome Wolf Brother really thinks of everything, and you two are doing a great job too."

After Xia Qing finished speaking, she took out two water pouches and poured them into a folding plastic bowl to make a little under half a bowl, let the three wolves drink some uncontaminated water, and gave each wolf a small packet of freeze-dried food.

Today she couldn't let them drink their fill or eat more freeze-dried food, because Xia Qing had come here riding a single-person flight device.

The single-person flight device's load capacity was only 250 jin, and her own weight already reached 138 jin; apart from the weapons, first-aid kit, and backup fuel she had to carry, she could only bring a small amount of food and water.

When the first Broken-Waist Wolf to drink water raised its head, Xia Qing pointed at the four snow-covered large backpacks and asked, "Handsome Wolf Brother, all the supplies you found are here?"

Broken-Waist Wolf shook off the water droplets freezing on the fur around its mouth, baring the tips of its fangs.

"Handsome Wolf Brother is really amazing, no wonder the Queen my lord likes you so much! Do you want to divide the supplies here, or take them back to my territory to divide them there? If we take them back to my territory to divide, we can also catch two rabbits on the way to roast, and after dividing the supplies, you can bring the points card and the roasted rabbits back to the Queen my lord together... Divide them back at my territory? Great! Handsome Wolf Brother truly deserves to stand at the top of Blue Star's Jin Zita, making the most correct choice every time."

Xia Qing beamed with joy and continued to negotiate with Broken-Waist Wolf, "Can you let Big Guy and Second Guy carry the backpacks? I can't run fast carrying this much supplies."

Why not fly back? The supplies had already been found and there was no rush to hurry, so of course letting the evolved wolves carry them back for her was more cost-effective. Broken-Waist Wolf had also sent the two giant wolves over with this very plan in mind.

Sure enough, after Xia Qing finished asking, Broken-Waist Wolf immediately extended a large paw.

"You want five-tenths just for transporting the supplies back?!" Xia Qing was speechless. A wolf tycoon sitting on a fortune of yi-stone mines being this stingy—was that reasonable?!

After one person and one wolf went back and forth negotiating for fifteen minutes, they finally reached an agreement. Xia Qing let the two giant wolves carry the four backpacks, while she herself carried the single-person flight device, and they set off on the return journey.

After Broken-Waist Wolf caught four rabbits, Xia Qing had Big Guy carry the four backpacks and Second Guy carry her, and they sped back to Territory Three.

An hour later. Broken-Waist Wolf, with its two companions, three roasted rabbits, and the just-exchanged supplies, happily left Territory Three.

Not long after they left, Xia Qing handed the territory over to Xiao Jiang and Chen Cheng, and brought green-light crabs, river snails, hot spring water, and roasted rabbits to Territory Eight, to have dinner with her good friend.

Steam the green-light crabs, stir-fry the river snails, tear up the roasted rabbit and stir-fry some garlic choy sum—it's a nutritionally rich dinner. Two good friends who hadn't eaten together for nearly a month sat at the table, watching footage filmed from above by an eagle owl while picking apart crabs.

Seeing Xin Yu, who was rich in aerial reconnaissance experience, pried open a crab shell and commented, "These four people's counter-reconnaissance ability is very strong; the routes they chose were all highly concealed canyons and dense forests."

"Thanks to you and Guagu and Xiaoxiao, otherwise I'd have been in danger today." Xia Qing easily disarticulated a crab leg, inserted the small tip of the crab's lower leg into the upper leg, pushed out the entire strip of crab meat, and placed it on the small dish on the table.

The brain-domain evolved raven perched on a tall stool by the table immediately hopped onto the table and pecked away the strip of meat. The eagle owl and the white-bellied sea eagle didn't trust Xia Qing enough, so neither of these two was inside the dining room.

The defense of Mountain Fifty couldn't rely only on the ring of cameras on the outer perimeter and the few humans on the Third Peak, so Xia Qing hired the trained birds of Territory Eight at a daily commission of 25 points, forming a three-dimensional reconnaissance system for Mountain Fifty together with the ground cameras.

To improve the efficiency of aerial reconnaissance and better protect the hidden valleys and the Zhang He squad that had previously remediated soil pollution on Mountain Fifty, Seeing Xin Yu had marked on the maps of Mountain Fifty and its neighboring Mountains Fifty-One and Fifty-Three the large trees or rocks that should be cleared, ensuring that no matter which route invaders used to enter Mountain Fifty's territory, they couldn't escape the trained birds' aerial reconnaissance.

Apart from Xia Qing and Seeing Xin Yu, only Zhang San knew about hiring trained birds to patrol the mountain. The expenses Xia Qing spent related to Mountain Fifty all went through the public account and required Zhang San's review and signature.

Regarding this expenditure, Zhang San not only had no objections but felt Xia Qing had offered too little.

Xia Qing explained to her idol that even if the three trained birds of Territory Eight didn't take on this mission, they would still patrol the surrounding evolved forest once every hour, day and night without interruption, guarding against trouble sent by Yu Dongming's family.

Although Seeing Xin Yu had retreated to Hui Three Territory, her covert struggle with that family had never stopped.

The four bounty hunters in the footage stopped outside the border monitoring zone at the boundary between Mountain Fifty and Mountain Fifty-One, quickly broke through the ice on the river surface and dove into the water, bypassing the surveillance to enter Mountain Fifty's territory.

To prevent anyone from sneaking into Mountain Fifty through the river channel, Xia Qing led a team to install several steel wire meshes as thick as fingers inside the channel. But from the time these people entered the river channel until they broke through the ice and crawled ashore, the wire mesh on the ice surface didn't move at all.

Seeing Xin Yu asked, "How did they get through the wire mesh?"

After Xia Qing had the four invaders eliminated, she had Wang Man, Wu Lianmin, Zhang Hongda, and Shi Du form a team to plug the surveillance loopholes, so of course she also knew how the invaders had gotten through the wire mesh.

She tore off a fragrant strip of roasted rabbit leg and handed it to Seeing Xin Yu before saying, "Pliers cast from a new material—the kind whose Vickers hardness reaches three times that of diamond."

Xia Qing, who had acquired a good pair of pliers, was in a very good mood and continued, "These four people who infiltrated from underwater couldn't conveniently carry supplies, so they hid their backpacks on Mountain Fifty-One. I had Broken-Waist Wolf find the backpacks and bring them back to the territory."

"I saw it, you rode back on a wolf." Seeing Xin Yu, who possessed trained birds, naturally possessed the broadest视野 in the northern first district. She took a big bite of meat and asked curiously, "Broken-Waist Wolf earned points this time—did it exchange supplies with you?"

Xia Qing nodded, "Exchanged for a ceramic heating pad for the water basin."

Broken-Waist Wolf had earned points today, part of which was the supply share, and 200 points were the labor fee for the two giant wolves transporting supplies and Xia Qing's labor. After getting the points, it proactively proposed to exchange for the ceramic heating pad Xia Qing kept inside the entry door, the one that kept the water in the basin for rinsing paws and hooves from freezing.

After learning that its purpose for exchanging the heating pad was to let the lead wolf and its pups drink warm water even in winter, Xia Qing was very moved and only charged the cost price—250 points.

Moved, and still charging points? That's just so you.

Seeing Xin Yu laughed out loud, "How many points did Broken-Waist Wolf charge you for selling this rabbit?"