Chapter 1551: The God-of-Wealth Wolf That Leads the Way

"Boom!!!"

Xia Qing stood beneath the third peak of Hui-3 Mountain No. 48, cursing a pack of wolves playing dumb, when another explosion rang out from Hui-3 Mountain No. 35. The mountain shook, rolling rubble tumbling into its crevices and crashing outside the blast-opened cave mouth, as two black shadows slipped inside.

Inside the cave, two Fiery Fire team members, ears ringing from the blast, stared dumbfounded at Yan Long—the captain of the Flood Dragon Special Ops team—pointing a gun at them.

Their mission here was to lure the Green Dragon out of its den—how had they ended up drawing the Living King of Hell instead?

Why had the real tiger outside stopped roaring? It hadn't been taken out by this living tiger, had it…

"Beep."

Cursing as she rode on a wolf's back, Xia Qing heard her pocket phone chime and immediately shut up to listen to the smart voice announcement: "4:22 AM, your friend Broken-Waist Wolf has sent you a sticker."

Xia Qing pulled out her phone and saw Broken-Waist Wolf's grinning sticker—Mission Mountain No. 35 was a success.

The fellow had used the four-fang-tiny-points sticker, meaning the haul on this mission was substantial. Unsure whether the intruders over there had been captured alive or killed, Xia Qing didn't call Broken-Waist Wolf; she typed out a message explaining the situation on the western wolves' territory and asked it to take over.

Broken-Waist Wolf quickly sent back a big-wolf-paw sticker, indicating it wanted to take fifty percent.

Xia Qing replied: After deducting medical expenses, fifty percent of the profits can go to Handsome Wolf Bro. When you negotiate with the western wolf pack, ask for 4,000 points' worth of extra supplies—they carried off my four thermal sleeping bags and four thermal blankets!

Those supplies were worth 2,000 points, meant to keep her alive in extreme cold. Damn those wolves whose lives she'd saved—they'd stolen her supplies!

In an age of natural disasters, stealing someone else's supplies is tantamount to killing them. The western wolf pack didn't understand human rules, and Xia Qing didn't mind teaching them—from now on, all supplies traded with her by the western wolf pack would be marked up 10%!

After receiving another fang-tiny-points sticker from Broken-Waist Wolf, Xia Qing tucked her phone into her pocket, stopped paying attention to the western Wolf King couple on the mountaintop playing dumb and howling, and urged Big Guy to hurry along. She needed to return to the territory as soon as possible—Boss, Wolf Lao Er, and Third Brother were waiting for her there.

Handsome Giant Wolf? It was busy howling—Xia Qing hadn't spent points to hire it, so she couldn't boss it around.

Xia Qing hadn't called it, yet Handsome Giant Wolf voluntarily stopped its howling, let out two low aowu's, and charged toward Xiang Xinanfang. Big Guy immediately ignored Xia Qing's opinion on its back and ran toward Xiang Xinanfang with Handsome Giant Wolf, with Second Son and Black Second Son—who was carrying the pack—following right behind.

The western Wolf King lowered its head for a glance, then raised it again and let out a long howl.

Xia Qing didn't just fail to warn her companions that the direction was wrong—she immediately shouldered her sniper rifle and took up defensive positions on the front and left flank.

After running for a stretch, Xia Qing spotted the footprints left by Huo Ting's squad during their incursion. She quickly glanced back, confirmed the thieving wolves playing dumb from the west hadn't followed, and felt a bit more at ease.

Three minutes later, Handsome Giant Wolf stopped following the footprints toward Xiang Xinanfang and turned into the dense forest due west—Xia Qing knew they were almost there.

No human footprints on the snow due west? When hiding supplies in the Evolution Forest, one must erase any footprints left behind; if the supplies are important, one must also try to eliminate any scent of human activity—this was common knowledge in an age of natural disasters.

Handsome Giant Wolf was a scent-sharp God-of-Wealth Wolf—a secret only Xia Qing knew!

After advancing for five minutes, Handsome Giant Wolf stopped in a patch of dense forest and rolled around on the snow to clean its fur.

Xia Qing quickly scanned the area, found no sign of where the incursion squad had hidden their supplies, and pulled a folding plastic basin from her pack. She added pollution-free spring water and X-nutrient solution, then brought it to Handsome Giant Wolf. "Good work, Giant Wolf Bro. Have some water first to soothe your throat."

After Handsome Giant Wolf stood up and drank most of the basin, Xia Qing fed water to the other three giant wolves as well before returning to Handsome Giant Wolf's side and asking softly, "Giant Wolf Bro, where did those bad human invaders hide their supplies?"

Handsome Giant Wolf was in a good mood today—without Xia Qing having to urge it repeatedly, it stood up, shook its fur, walked into a patch of shrubs, and began pawing at the snow. Xia Qing immediately grabbed a shovel and rushed over. "Keep cleaning your fur, Giant Wolf Bro—leave this little task to me!"

"Clang—"

After pulling out the already uprooted shrubs and digging away more than twenty centimeters of rubble and soil, the shovel struck a stone slab. The sound instantly told Xia Qing—a Level-7 hearing Evolver—that there was a hollow space beneath the slab!

The more critical the moment, the more cautious one must be. Although detection equipment had confirmed there were no buried mines here, she still carefully cleared away the soil layer, pried up the large stone slab, and discovered a cave beneath large enough to hide a person!

After checking repeatedly and confirming there was no danger, Xia Qing used a hook to pull out the first supply pack. Opening it, she found a Yi-synthetic element detector, blood-drawing equipment, and blood bags—and the smile vanished from her face.

No need to ask—these devices were prepared for Little Eleven. Besides wanting to bomb the Northern Zone-1 territory, these people also planned to seize Eleven, verify that her blood contained Yi-Synthetic Element No. 6—the Recovery Factor—and then draw her blood immediately.

How much blood can a five- or six-year-old child give? Do they really need this many blood bags, and ones this large?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Fire Phoenix didn't want to be captured and turned into a blood bank and experimental subject, yet she schemed in every way to send someone with the same evolutionary ability as her to the experimental table.

Letting such a person live one more second is a disrespect to Blue Star's oxygen!

In the stone chamber beneath Hui-1 Mountain No. 33, after enduring the visceral pain brought on by the poisoned grape wine, Fire Phoenix sullenly dialed Qu Fangzhou's number. "What's the situation at Hui-3 Northern Zone-1 right now?"

At 4:45 AM, Qu Fangzhou's voice was no different from daytime. "At 2:23 AM today, an intense battle broke out beneath the second peak of Mountain No. 48, 3.6 kilometers in a straight line southwest of Hui-3 Northern Zone-1. The fighting stopped after 12 minutes. Hui-3 dispatched a platoon to reinforce the Northern Zone-1 territory. So far, no engagement has occurred within the territory."

"The combat situation at Hui-3 Mountain No. 48." Fire Phoenix tightened her grip on the glass in her hand—she didn't believe Huo Ting's 10-person squad could be wiped out in 12 minutes!

"The mission squad you sent to bomb Northern Zone-1 and capture Ye Shiyi was led by Huo Ting, with Huo Xia and Huo Mu as members, correct? Their bodies were already on the verge of collapse—even taking Yi Liquid couldn't keep them at peak combat power, let alone last another hour. The fact that they were intercepted at Mountain No. 48 means the mission can be declared a failure."

After a few seconds of silence with no response from Fire Phoenix, Qu Fangzhou asked, "Before contacting me, you'd already tried reaching Huo Ting, hadn't you? Was the phone destroyed and shut off, or just no answer?"