Chapter 1588: Orders from

Xia Qing took the initiative to speak, "Lord Xiong Wang, did you see the giant eagle circling in the sky, or did you hear the helicopter?"

"Roar." Xiong Wang, still gazing up at the sky, opened his mouth, revealing enormous ivory tusks, and exhaled a great gust of hot air.

Bear… Bear King?!

This time, not only could Wu Lianmin not hold back—everyone except Huo Zhun wanted to turn and look. At this moment, the companions' admiration for Xia Qing reached an incomparable height.

After explaining the situation at Mountain Eighty-Six to Xiong Wang, Xia Qing asked, "Brother Bear, do you know the two giant snow leopards on the northern plateau of the Xiong Qun territory? Can you give them a call and tell them the humans are here to catch bad guys, not to steal their prey?"

Despite all of Xia Qing's explanations, Xiong Wang continued to stare solemnly at the giant eagle circling overhead, giving her no response at all.

Xia Qing couldn't tell whether the fellow simply hadn't understood or just didn't want to deal with her, so she changed tactics. "Does Daigua, translate for Xiong Wang—if Xiong Wang can call out to the giant snow leopards and tell them not to clash with the humans, I'll reward you with a bag of honey."

"Eh?!"

The freezing, shivering little monkey immediately perked up and began chattering to the great bear. It waved the phone screen gripped in its little black paw, and Xia Qing saw patch after patch of bear fur; the human companions inside the helicopter had exclamation marks popping up over their heads one after another.

Before Does Daigua had finished communicating with Xiong Wang, Xiong Wang turned his head to look south and opened his great jaws. Xia Qing immediately realized Xiong Wang had heard the roar of the helicopter Yang Jin was riding!

"Dai…"

"Roar————"

Before Xia Qing could finish her warning, Does Daigua, the little monkey perched on Xiong Wang's shoulder, leapt down and hid beneath the belly of its gluttonous good friend.

A strange helicopter had come—it had to hide, or the bad humans would spot it and capture it! Seeing the phone screen go black, Xia Qing knew Does Daigua had hidden. She breathed a sigh of relief, gave Does Daigua a few more instructions, and only after getting a response did she hang up and look toward the Mountain Eighty-Seven area.

The northern Bear King was howling, six giant raptors circled in the skies above the northern raptor territory, and two giant snow leopards hid motionless in the rock crevices of the northeastern highland. Without thermal-imaging radar surveillance, even Xia Qing, with her advanced visual evolution, would have had a hard time spotting them.

These two opponents, feared by the broken-backed wolves, were waiting for the right moment to hunt—either the giant eagles circling overhead or the humans inside the helicopter.

"Aoo—woo—"

Hearing the northern Bear King's howl, the northern Wolf King darted out of his den, scaled the peak of Mountain Fifty-Five as quick as lightning, and threw back his head to let out a long, majestic howl.

On the highest peak at the northernmost tip of the northern wolf territory, a silver-gray giant wolf immediately threw back its head and howled in turn, with the wolves of Mountain Sixty following suit; in the western wolf territory, another wolf of the same coloring also raised its head, proclaiming its status as the overlord.

"Aoo————"

The stirrings of the western wolf pack alarmed the western tiger pack. The Tiger King raced to the highest peak and, gazing toward the western Evolution Forest, let out a roar that shook the mountains and forests.

The stirrings of the western tiger pack reached the southern wolf territory. Old Four, who had been letting Zhang Shi brush its teeth, quickly left the cave, stood atop the broken cliff and listened quietly for a moment, then followed Lord Cui Yan's lead and let out a long, majestic howl. Hearing this clearly battle-inclined wolf howl, Zhang Shi, holding the toothbrush, grew a little nervous; Ye Yiyi beside her, who had been lying on the wooden desk doing homework, also raised her little head, her big eyes gazing out of the cave.

"Master, your friend Old Four is calling you on video. Accept the call?"

Xia Qing, who could already see the military helicopter, immediately accepted the call and quickly explained the current situation to the former southern Wolf King, who still had toothpaste foam at the corner of his mouth, then made her request: "If possible, have Old Four pass a message to the western tiger pack to tell the northern raptors not to attack the human helicopter—we're here to catch the bad guys from Liehuo, not to hunt."

Old Four stared solemnly at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing understood. "Can't pass the message? Okay. Old Four, you go ahead—I need to rendezvous with the human squad coming over, so it's not convenient to take calls. Once this mission is done, I'll get in touch with you again."

After hanging up, Xia Qing felt for the first time that she should create a Blue Star Lord Alliance group chat. Every time a major event happened in the Evolution Forest, she could post an announcement in the group so the animal lords wouldn't notice the disturbance and call her one by one. Of course, when something unusual happened within an animal lord's territory, it would be best to post a message in the group too, so everyone would know what was going on and not start howling along.

"Sister Qing, can you hear me?" Yang Jin's voice came through Xia Qing's earpiece walkie-talkie.

Xia Qing replied, "I hear you. Captain Yang, have your helicopter land in the area between Mountain Eighty-Six and Mountain Eighty-Seven—don't enter the airspace over the raptor territory. Hu Zi Feng will send you the coordinates. Don't startle the two snow leopard lords hiding in the mountain crevices—pretend you haven't spotted them."

"Copy that."

As Hui Three's two military helicopters landed, a large transport helicopter took off from the Hui Two Chuanglian Group factory compound and headed for the northern Evolution Forest of Hui Three. Inside the inner city of the Hui Two Safe Zone, Cao Ying and Yu Wenfei, escorted by two security squads, rode in an armored car out of the villa and headed for Chuanglian Hospital.

Inside Hui Three's Territory Eight, Xin Yu relayed the latest situation to Xie Yu, who was lying in ambush near the Yu family home, then leaned back in his chair and stared blankly at the parrot frolicking inside the glass sunroom.

A helicopter with a giant eagle's talons tied to it circled in the skies over the northeast of Hui Three's Mountain Eighty-Six area, together with one giant eagle and two ravens.

Seeing this scene through the camera, the captain of the Liehuo research squad, who was in a stone cave fifteen meters underground, two hundred meters west of the Sichuan pepper tree, was indignantly briefing the "Squad Leader" on the current situation: "Deputy Captain Qu says that raven carrying the pink pearl is a brain-domain evolver. If we don't kill it, it'll lure Bai Yan the raven and expose the basement exit."

Chang Li, the voice-evolver disguised as Fire Phoenix, asked in Fire Phoenix's grim tone, "Is it dead?"

The little captain inside the basement shut his mouth and dared not make a sound, his scalp tingling.

Chang Li picked up the goblet beside her, took a sip of water, and gave a decisive order: "Ground personnel retreat immediately. All critical data in the basement is to be destroyed. You lot go rest in Hui Three's safe zone for a few days. Keep your mouths shut, or don't ever expect to come out for the rest of your lives."

"Yes!" Hearing that they were only being told to surrender rather than perish together with the enemy, the sweating little captain immediately came back to life. "Captain, should the research data on that Sichuan pepper tree and the birds and terrain of the raptor territory also be burned?"

Chang Li, reclining on the sofa, tightened her grip on the goblet. Only after seeing Luo Pei nod did she ask in a grim voice, "Who exactly are you planning to leave it for?"

The research leader was so startled he jumped. "Yes! Burn it immediately!"

"Destroy this phone as well. Qu Fangzhou has betrayed Liehuo—do not carry out any more orders coming from her."

"Yes!"