Chapter 1508: The Weasel That Trades Eggs and the Evolution Wolf That Completes the Mission

After waiting over twenty minutes in place with Wolf Lao Er without receiving calls from Broken-Waist, Lao Si, or Zhang Shi, Xia Qing confirmed that the werewolf squad that had just set out had safely left the human activity zone and reached the deep Evolution Forest, then turned around to head back.

Sheep Lao Da was currently squeezed into the cattle shed with Little Huang Niu; if she and Lao Er didn't get back soon, the fellow would get so scared he'd stop chewing his cud, and then give her a scolding when she returned.

It was two in the morning now, and Xia Qing only wanted to sleep, not fight.

The moment she turned around, she caught the sound of a small animal moving; turning her head, she saw a pair of little light bulbs appear beside a big tree to the north. Xia Qing immediately adjusted her state and asked in a gentle voice, "Little Little Bai Mao, did you come out to hunt tonight?"

The plucked-fur weasel and Little Little Bai Mao's albino cub — Little Little Bai Mao — only walked over after hearing Xia Qing call it, placed a snake five meters in front of Xia Qing, and gazed at her eagerly.

Xia Qing went over for a look, and her heart skipped a beat. She turned on her flashlight and shone it on this little fire-red snake with a bulge on its head, asking, "Little Little Bai Mao wants to trade a Qiang Snake for eggs? Sure. It's so cold and you still managed to find a Qiang Snake — that's amazing! Where did you catch this snake, Mountain Forty-Nine?"

Little Little Bai Mao spun around in place and stopped facing the northeast.

"Caught it on the fourth peak of Mountain Fifty? That's amazing — Little Little Bai Mao's hunting range has expanded again." Great, it wasn't caught on Mountain Forty-Nine, so Xia Qing didn't have to call her idol in the middle of the night and drag everyone out of bed to launch an emergency disaster-elimination procedure to find the snake.

She dug out a green-light egg from her backpack, first put it into a small grass-woven net pouch, and placed it on the snow: "This is the biggest green-light egg I brought today. Take it home to eat, Little Little Bai Mao — it's too cold out here."

The speed-evolved Little Little Bai Mao shot over in a flash of white light, skillfully bit the grass cord, and ran off with its traded delicious food.

After Little Little Bai Mao left, Xia Qing had only walked a few more steps before trading a small egg with Red Da Mao for an ordinary snake and beating back the Little Flat-Top that came to steal food, then brought Lao Er back to her territory. Lao Er patrolled the territory; Xia Qing checked the animals in the breeding greenhouse, then went home to rest.

With the Little Huang Niu — already bigger than it in size — blocking the cold, Sheep Lao Da was comfortably settled in the cattle shed and didn't follow Xia Qing inside. After returning to her room and taking off her protective suit, Xia Qing took a medicine bottle from the fridge, carefully poured out one pill, washed it down with pollution-free spring water, then drank two more mouthfuls of water to make sure every bit of dregs was swallowed.

For the next sixty days, she had to take one pill from this bottle every day.

This pill, about the size of a soybean, contained the essence of over a dozen precious medicinal ingredients, the most essential of which Xia Qing and Lao Si had retrieved from a tree hollow on Huiyi Mountain Twenty-Eight.

How essential? So essential that when the Fire Phoenix lost this medicine, she couldn't maintain the balance between the toxins and abilities in her body, and the recovery factors in her blood decreased!

Such a precious medicine, each pill costing 40,000 — for Xia Qing to waste even a single dreg would be disrespect to her hard-earned points and to her idol.

Whether her four-system evolution abilities could be enhanced, and whether her latent brain-domain and speed-evolution abilities could be awakened, depended entirely on it.

After swallowing the medicine, Xia Qing burrowed into her warm quilt, closed her eyes, and silently chanted she wanted speed evolution, speed evolution…

Lao Si with super-strong hearing and smell, Earless Wolf, and Zhang Shi with super-strong magnetic sense had left, but downstairs were companions Xia Qing trusted — Sheep Lao Da and wolf-dog Lao Er — whose hearing and smell were also first-rate. Not to mention humans, even if a fox or a lynx jumped into her territory, the two companions would detect it.

Lao Da might hear something and pretend not to, but Lao Er would definitely go out to check and eliminate the danger, so Xia Qing still felt very safe lying in bed, and fell asleep after only a few chants.

Lao Er, patrolling the territory, heard movement inside Territory Four, sprinted quickly up the northern buffer forest, leaped high to leave Territory Three, crossed the northern isolation belt to the highest point of Mountain Forty-Nine's Zone Three, used the momentum to nimbly jump onto a branch of a big tree, and looked down.

The flashlight beams near the greenhouse in Territory Four were swaying; a human had lost a fight and collapsed, being dragged into the buffer forest by other humans. A few minutes later, an inspection team drove a patrol car over, paused at the north gate of Territory Four for a while, then drove off.

After Territory Four quieted down again, Lao Er jumped down from the tree, went home without going inside, and lay down in the nest Xia Qing had built for it on the roof. Hearing this familiar sound, Xia Qing turned over, hugged her bolster, and continued sleeping.

"Beep."

At half past five in the morning, the phone screen on the table lit up and beeped once; without even opening her eyes, Xia Qing gripped her handgun and instinctively used her hearing to probe the surroundings.

"Beep."

When the phone beeped a second time, Xia Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

"Beep."

When the phone beeped a third time, the corner of Xia Qing's mouth turned up. Without checking the message, she knew that a certain evolution wolf who liked playing with doors had completed the task it took from her, and was back to turn in the task and collect points.

When Xia Qing got dressed and came downstairs, Broken-Waist Wolf had already come inside; beside it were two packaging bags tied together with rope.

After running for over three hours through the icy, snowy dense forest at temperatures below minus twenty, hard, stiff grayish-white "ice whiskers" had frozen on both sides of its muzzle, a ring of ice crystals had formed along the edges of its ears, and the fine, dense fuzz inside its ear flaps was covered with delicate ice crystals that glittered with cold, starry points of light under the glow of the small night-light in the living room.

Before long, these ice whiskers, ice crystals, and frost were melted by the indoor temperature. Broken-Waist Wolf shook its head and body hard, shaking the snow and ice onto the dry hay Xia Qing had placed by the door, dipped its paws into a basin of warm water to rinse them clean, dried them on the hay, then bared its cute, snow-white little fang tips at Xia Qing.

"You got Tenth Sister and Ye Yiyi safely to Mountain Twenty-Two in the south this fast? Broken-Waist, you really are worthy of being an evolution wolf at the top of Jin Zita, worthy of being Queen my lord's favorite evolution wolf — so dependable!"

The corners of Broken-Waist Wolf's mouth stretched further, revealing four little fang tips, signaling Xia Qing to reach into its pouch and pull out the phone.

Xia Qing took the phone out of its protective suit pocket, casually wiped the dirt off the phone pouch for it, pulled the phone out and lit up the screen, and saw two big black noses and two small black noses. The tasteful Broken-Waist Wolf had changed its screensaver again — still a family portrait.

Xia Qing flipped through the photos Broken-Waist Wolf had taken and saw a group shot of Lao Si, Zhang Shi, and Ye Yiyi — Lao Si wearing a mask, Zhang Shi and Ye Yiyi posing with peace signs, one beaming with a bright smile, the other with bright, shining eyes.