Chapter 1578: Bidding Against the North Wolf Pack

Deng Yufeng, captain of the Blaze Squad, precious recovery-type Evolver, and criminal suspect in the Hui City 1223 Major Explosion Case, has fled with her guard squad.

What she took with her, besides the Blaze One Squad ranked first on Hui One's combat power leaderboard, was no less than three hundred million in Blaze core assets and a large amount of research results.

This matter has already become a hot topic of discussion in Hui City, and even across the entire Hua Nation—not only exploding online, but also sparking heated debate offline.

Those online forming teams to capture the Fire Phoenix are all righteous and high-minded, with lofty goals; those offline looking for this squad aren't entirely after points either—there's also the person of the Fire Phoenix herself. As long as you have the Fire Phoenix in your hands, you hold the recovery factor that grants immortality.

You tell me—is that tempting or not!

Xia Qing doesn't know what the situation is like in the Safe Zone now. Here in North Area One territory, everyone has been discussing this matter plenty on the lord channel and in phone group chats. Tang Huai was clamoring to invite Xia Qing to team up with him, seize the initiative, and swallow this windfall. Then open a green-light ranch in North Area One territory—it would definitely make a killing.

Xia Qing chose to ignore Tang Huai, because Yang Jin has already teamed up with Lao Si to swallow this windfall. Now, Yang Jin is secretly setting up a trap, making everyone think Deng Yufeng has been hiding in the Hui Eight Evolution Forest during this time.

After that? You'd have to ask Yan Tian, the leader of Hui Eight's Doomsday Sect. Because it was his people who "found" the Fire Phoenix's hiding spot in the Hui Eight Evolution Forest. If the Fire Phoenix can't be found anywhere, she must have been hidden away by the Doomsday Sect!

Now, the first step of this plan—packing up the supplies in the underground chamber of Hui One Mountain 33—has been completed. It's time to carry out the second step—transferring the supplies and setting up a fake chamber.

Whether this plan succeeds or not concerns the safety of North Area One territory, and even more so concerns the safety of Zhang Shi and her daughter. There can be no room for carelessness.

Without Yang Jin having to urge her, Xia Qing has been continuously following up on this plan's progress and has already made substantial headway. "I met with Lao Si this morning. Lao Si has already picked the location."

Yang Jin exclaimed, "Lao Si really is a living map of the Evolution Forest! Where did it pick?"

The water in the kettle had boiled. Xia Qing took the rose Seeing Xin Yu had given her from the jar, unhurriedly placed it into the teapot, and only then gave the general location. "Hui Eight Mountain 67."

This distance isn't close. Secretly transporting these supplies without anyone noticing is no small difficulty for the Azure Dragon Squad.

The maps of Hui One and Hui Eight appeared directly in Yang Jin's mind. He quickly locked onto the location. "From Hui One Mountain 33, the straight-line distance is 150 kilometers. Cutting through the Evolution Forest, the distance exceeds 250 kilometers. Sister Qing, Mountain 67 in northern Hui Eight is the territory of a group of Evolution Mountain Apes. When they get noisy, it's absolutely maddening. Does Lao Si have a connection with that group of mountain apes?"

If there's no way to pacify that group of Evolution Mountain Apes, when Yang Jin and the others carry supplies into the mountain apes' territory, those guys will definitely holler loudly, alerting the humans near Mountain 67 and causing the plan to fail.

Xia Qing explained, "No connection. Lao Si has actually had a run-in with that group of mountain apes. But Lao Si says that when you're transporting the supplies, it can lure the mountain ape group away. Once you've set up the trap and contacted it, it can go over again and rush over to lure those guys away, letting you withdraw safely. These two tasks together cost 200,000 points."

While listening to Xia Qing's first half, Yang Jin couldn't help wanting to praise Lao Si for thinking things through so thoroughly; but after hearing the second half, he only wanted to complain. "Sister Qing, this fee is way too unreasonable. How about you ask the North Wolf Pack and get Broken-Waist to bid on the task?"

The Azure Dragon Squad's task with the South Wolf Pack to search for Blaze has already ended. Using the supplies from the Fire Phoenix's cave to trap the Doomsday Sect is a new task.

Yang Jin, who proposed this task, gave two options: First, Lao Si, Xia Qing, and Zhang San join the new task and go with him to trap the Doomsday Sect, with the points earned divided according to task contribution; second, the supplies in the Fire Phoenix's chamber are appraised and bought out by the Azure Dragon Squad, then the Azure Dragon Squad goes to trap the Doomsday Sect, and the points earned belong to the Azure Dragon Squad.

After watching a video introducing human religions, Lao Si is very wary of human cults, and it has no grudge against the Doomsday Sect, so it doesn't want to get involved in this mess.

Zhang San and Xia Qing are also both very busy and said they wouldn't cooperate again. So now this task of transporting supplies and setting up the new chamber belongs to the Azure Dragon Squad.

The Azure Dragon Squad needs to find Evolution Wolves to lead the way and lure away the mountain apes, so of course they have to pay points.

In all fairness, Lao Si's fee is indeed a bit high. Iron Rooster's brain spun fast enough to immediately think of a second wolf that could take this task—his sworn brother with a different father and mother.

But this time, his calculations were wrong.

The wolf-human agent Xia Qing blew on her tea and asked unhurriedly, "Are you sure you want me to ask the North Wolf Pack for a quote? The South and North Wolf Packs spent points to invite Sister Yan to give special training to their sub-adult wolves. The South Wolf Pack spent 160,000, the North Wolf Pack spent 200,000. Also, Broken-Waist Wolf's range of activity isn't as wide as Lao Si's. It hasn't been to the Hui Eight Evolution Forest side."

Yang Jin rejected another application in the system, leaned back in his chair and laughed. "The wolf packs paying to join Sister Yan's special training program—that was Sister Qing actively playing matchmaker for both sides, right?"

Only Xia Qing could come up with such a brilliant idea to disperse Yan Long's energy and attention.

The wolf-human agent Xia Qing calmly took a sip of tea and asked again, "Does Captain Yang need me to ask the North Wolf Pack for a quote?"

"No need. 200,000 it is. Lao Si is more steady—it's the best wolf choice for this task. Please help me set up a specific action time with Lao Si, Sister Qing." After closing the deal, Yang Jin quietly listened to Xia Qing drinking tea, his eyes scanning through documents in the system ten lines at a time, tapping the keyboard every now and then.

Xia Qing didn't hang up either. She just sat in her own living room, drinking tea and listening to Yang Jin tapping the keyboard and Sheep Boss chewing cud, while running her hand through Wolf Lao Er's fur stroke by stroke, enjoying the rare leisure after a busy day.

Little Feimao used its little paws to gather the wolf fur Xia Qing had brushed off, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it into the luxurious wooden nest on the wall.

Chatting idly until the tea was finished, Er Yong came over to pick up the spinach plants.

When Xia Qing hung up the phone, Yang Jin asked, "Have this batch of spinach seeds been screened? How many cultivable optimized seeds are there?"

Xia Qing replied, "Not yet. I'll have Little Feimao screen them when I get back in a bit."

Yang Jin asked, "Can we open a video call after Sister Qing gets back? I want to witness this historic moment too."

"Sure." Xia Qing hadn't hung up the phone just now—subconsciously, she just wanted to find someone to share her current joy with.

Her idol was busy with experiments, Seeing Xin Yu was busy killing Yu Dongming, Does Daigua was taking care of the bear—Yang Jin was the only candidate.

After delivering the spinach plants to Er Yong, Xia Qing patrolled the territory, finished the evening training regimen, and was just about to head home with Wolf Lao Er to screen the spinach seeds.

Wolf Lao Er suddenly turned toward the direction of the North Buffer Forest, gave its tail a happy wag. Seeing this action, Xia Qing knew a member of the North Wolf Pack was about to enter her territory.

Twenty seconds later, a silver-gray giant wolf bathed in moonlight leaped over the tall iron-net wall and entered Territory Three. Then, as if it hadn't seen Xia Qing and Wolf Lao Er at all, it headed straight for the two-story small building where Xia Qing lived.

No need to ask—this guy was here for the strengthening medicinal bath.

When Xia Qing got home, she saw a trail of muddy paw prints on the floor leading to the first-floor bathroom, and heard the sound of water pouring into the bathtub from inside.

Very good.

This slovenly家伙's level of playing dumb has leveled up again—it's evolved to the point of not asking its lord's opinion and just taking matters into its own paws.