Chapter 1524: The Evolution Wolf with the Most Points on the Entire Blue Star

Time: 21:40, December 25, Year 11 of the Calamity

Location: Cave beneath the Third Peak of Mountain No. 49, Evolution Forest, Northern Hui-Three

Beings: Two humans and one wolf

Purpose of gathering: To take stock of spoils and divide them

Targets: Four corpses, three captives, one tin shack, half a bag of poison, and a large bag of supplies.

"Waist-Breaker, look—the fighting style of the leg-breaker, the leg-breaker girl, and the big guy was way too brutal. The protective suit on this one's been clawed to shreds and can't be salvaged. This is a special-grade protective suit—each set costs hundreds of thousands." Xia Qing pointed at the badly damaged protective suit on a corpse and instructed Waist-Breaker, "When you get back, teach them properly. Next time we take a job, their moves have to be clean and decisive."

If Xia Qing had known the protective suit on this corpse was damaged this badly, she wouldn't have had Huo Zhun recover the body—she would have left it in the basin as evidence and let Xiong Wang flatten it with one slap.

Waist-Breaker nodded solemnly.

After thoroughly stripping the first corpse, the two humans and one wolf moved on to the second—the body of Huo Lin, captain of Blaze Squad Two and a modified human. The protective suit peeled off this one looked better and better to Xia Qing. "This suit is completely intact. Nice work, Jin-ge."

Battle-hardened Iron Rooster Yang Jin beamed. "That's because Jie first broke the buckle on the suit, which let me stab my blade through this hole and preserve the suit as much as possible."

Waist-Breaker raised a paw and nudged Xia Qing's arm, wanting her to look at the one it had killed.

After checking and confirming that Waist-Breaker had stomped straight through the opponent's cervical vertebrae and the protective suit was perfectly preserved, Xia Qing immediately praised it. "This special-grade suit isn't damaged anywhere—it's the most intact suit we've gotten today. Good job, Waist-Breaker! In terms of value, 250,000 for this set, right?"

Yang Jin nodded. "No problem!"

Waist-Breaker grinned, revealing four little sharp fangs.

"The one the Queen killed was clean too—only the neck guard got damaged. It should sell for at least…" Xia Qing looked at Yang Jin. Yang Jin picked up the thread, "An eighty-percent-new special-grade protective suit—at least 234,000."

"Jin-ge, write it down quick."

"Awooo!"

"Got it."

……

After finishing the cleanup, Yang Jin began quoting prices. "The three suits we stripped are worth 724,000; the three we couldn't strip are worth 1,076,000; twelve points cards totaling 4,567,900; weapons worth 815,600; backpacks worth 67,800… Tonight's total haul is 14,815,300. Jie, Brother Breaker, does that look right to you?"

Waist-Breaker pulled the handwritten list over from Yang Jin, took out its own phone, and checked it over with a series of beeps. It bared two little fang tips, looking so cute that Yang Jin couldn't resist reaching out to ruffle its fuzzy big head.

Waist-Breaker had no objections, but Xia Qing did. "Huo Lin's squad isn't on the bounty board? What are your plans for the three live ones, Jin-ge?"

The value of a living person and a dead one isn't the same.

Sniper Feng Ziyu only had a broken leg—his combat ability could still recover. Smell-evolver Wang Sen's protective mask was damaged, and he got hit with a direct dose of yellow weasel gas and passed out from the stench; it's unconfirmed whether his smell-evolution ability has been impaired. Liao Wen was taken down directly by anesthetic and wasn't injured.

After hearing Xia Qing's words, Waist-Breaker immediately tucked its fangs away and stared solemnly at short-haired Yang Jin.

Yang Jin explained, "The 1223 massive bombing attack is still under investigation, and we haven't confirmed whether Huo Lin's squad was involved, so their squad isn't on the bounty board right now—the whole team has no bounty. Liao Wen is nominally already dead, so he has no bounty either. I'm planning to bring these three back to Mountain No. 49 for a secret interrogation, and once we're done interrogating them, kill them all, so they don't leak Jie's territory or our secret cooperation with the wolf pack."

Trading these three people for points is obviously less important than the territory's safety. Xia Qing had no objections. What she cared about was the subsequent points distribution. "Of course they have to die. How do we split the points you squeeze out of them during interrogation, Jin-ge?"

When Xia Qing got serious, she was even cuter than Waist-Breaker. Iron Rooster Yang Jin once again volunteered to pluck his own feathers. "The six members of Blaze Squad Two brought all their belongings with them. Wang Sen and Feng Ziyu probably won't yield much. Liao Wen manages Blaze's finances—he must have stashed away plenty of private savings. If we can dig it out, shall we four-way split it?"

The "four parties" referred to the three humans and the wolf pack who took part in tonight's mission. He and Xia Qing counted as one household, taking half. Yang Jin was secretly delighted.

Waist-Breaker disagreed and had just raised a big paw when Xia Qing grabbed it. "Fine. Let's split it evenly."

These three live captives were spoils from this mission, and the supplies on them would be divided according to the rules set before the job. As for anything further dug out of them, how to split it would need a separate agreement. As the one doing the digging, Yang Jin was entitled to the lion's share under the rules, so his agreeing to an even split was already him voluntarily plucking his own feathers.

Xia Qing had long ago explained these distribution rules to Waist-Breaker. This shrewd creature raised its paw not because it had a bad memory, but because its bargain-hunting instinct was acting up. Xia Qing was in a hurry to finish dividing the loot and get back to the territory, and didn't have time to listen to two iron roosters haggling, so she used force to put a stop to it.

Yang Jin continued asking, "Alright, then let's start distributing supplies. Jie, Brother Breaker, what do you want?"

Waist-Breaker pulled its paw free from Xia Qing's grip and pressed it down on the points cards.

"Alright, Brother Breaker wants the points cards. You can take eighty percent of the supplies, totaling 11,852,240 points." Yang Jin handed all the points cards to Waist-Breaker, then pulled three more points cards from his own backpack and passed them to Waist-Breaker. "Brother Breaker is now the evolution wolf with the most points on the entire Blue Star. Now whatever the Queen wants to buy, Brother Breaker's points will be enough. The Queen must be very happy."

Solemn Waist-Breaker couldn't hold it together any longer. It couldn't help but split its mouth open in a grin, teeth fully showing, and raised a paw to signal Xia Qing to transfer all its points onto a pretty points card.

That grin gave Xia Qing the creeps. She didn't need to think to know this guy wanted to buy the pink sparkly helicopter it had long had its eye on.

Xia Qing absolutely refused to agree to that!

But this wasn't the time to discuss it. Xia Qing took the points cards Yang Jin handed over and stuffed them into Waist-Breaker's pocket. "Not now. We just pulled off a big job, and transferring over ten million points right now would attract the attention of the relevant human agencies. I'll transfer it to you little by little later."

Precisely because of this, many people carry a thick stack of points cards on them, with balances ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions. During transactions, they use the cards directly like paper money, to avoid the Calamity-era banking system tracking their actual transaction amounts.

Later, slowly transferring points from one card to another—like the former Wolf King Lao Si used to do—the banking system, upon seeing this power-hungry and time-consuming behavior, would just assume some rich person with too much free time had nothing better to do, and wouldn't pay it much attention.

Waist-Breaker now has over ten million points, so it needs to change how it stores its points. It can't keep all of them on one card and carry it around—that's too dangerous. Xia Qing decided that once they got back to the territory, she'd sell it a few pretty points cards, let it carry one with a few tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of points on it, and hide the rest in the wolf den.

After finishing Waist-Breaker's share, it was Xia Qing's turn. According to the distribution rules, Xia Qing could take a ten-percent cut as mission broker and a 0.3-percent cut for mission contribution. She took Feng Ziyu's sniper rifle, crossbow bolts, night-vision goggles, three sidearms from the other squad members, the tin shack, some bullets, and 1.4 million points.

As for how Yang Jin and Huo Zhun split the supplies, the two of them could work it out between themselves—Xia Qing wasn't going to interfere.