Chapter 1609: Speed-Evolved Tamed Beast

"Roar————"

Fearing for her foolish cub, Xiong Wang let out a roar that shook the mountains and forests as she ran. Xiong Wang's furious roar quickly spread throughout the bears' territory, and members of the Xiong Qun let out howl after howl in response.

Members of the northern wolf pack also heard the bears' unusual movement, and wolves out patrolling the territory or hunting scrambled up the Shanfeng one after another, letting out howls.

Xia Qing, who was sprinting at full speed, immediately realized what chain reaction Xiong Wang's roar would trigger. Running, she fished her phone from her pocket and held it up toward Daigua, who had burrowed into her backpack. "Daigua, post a message in our group chat. Tell the northern and southern wolf packs that there's unusual activity on Mountain 66 inside the northern bears' territory, and that we're heading over to check it out."

Daigua, who wasn't wearing any protective suit, couldn't withstand the cold outside the hot spring basin at all, but it obediently stretched out a little black paw to take the freezing phone, quickly tucked it back into the insulated pouch inside the backpack, skillfully opened the chat app, found the group chat, tapped out a message with a series of beeps, and @-tagged the three other group members besides itself.

The Blue Star Lord Alliance group chat had five members in total: the First Leader and Second Leader of the northern wolf pack, the Second Leader of the southern wolf pack, the proxy monkey of the northern bear pack, and the human representative of the northern Zone 1 human territory.

Originally, Xia Qing had wanted to pull her idol and Yang Jin into the group, but she was met with the silent opposition of the Queen my lord and the Fourth, and the vocal opposition of the Broken-Waist Wolf. All three of them agreed that letting two humans stay in their phones and contact them at any time was a very unsafe thing.

Daigua? Daigua had no objections whatsoever—it listened to Xia Qing.

"Awoo—woo—"

Standing atop the second peak of Mountain 55, observing the situation, the Northern Wolf King and the Broken-Waist Wolf heard their own cub's howl, immediately returned to the cave, and saw the message on the phone.

After a glance, the Northern Wolf King scraped the snow and dirt off its paws on the dry grass nearby and lay down in its nest lined with warm pink fabric. After reading it, the Broken-Waist Wolf sent a solemn emoji sticker.

Receiving the wolf's sticker, Daigua was a little scared and didn't know how to reply, so it simply set the phone aside and huddled with Ergua for warmth.

Mountain 66.

Hearing Xiong Wang's order, the greedy little bear hid behind a rock, bared its fangs at the little thing inside the tree hollow, and put on a fierce face.

Through the camera, the human directing the tamed beast spotted the brown bear retreating and immediately gave the order: "J3, leave the tree hollow at once, pull out of the bears' territory fast, and link up with me."

"Roar!" Hearing the unfamiliar human's voice, the greedy little bear roared again.

The tamed beast curled up inside the tree hollow immediately crawled out of the hollow—its cover already destroyed—and rapidly climbed up the trunk to the top of the big tree, fleeing at full speed.

Dajiang on the helicopter spotted the target and immediately reported, "Sister Qing, a monkey just climbed out of the big tree next to the little bear and is running away. It's very fast… and it's a tamed beast, because it's wearing a device on its neck!"

Running, Xia Qing asked, "Can it escape Xiong Wang's pursuit?"

Dajiang in the air observed Xiong Wang for a few seconds and replied, "Xiong Wang has already started to slow down. It doesn't look like it's going to chase."

It seemed Xiong Wang had determined that, since the target was a monkey, it posed no threat, and had given up the chase. Xia Qing immediately asked, "Which direction is the tamed monkey escaping in? Can it come within my firing range?"

The magnetic field in this area was chaotic. If a human could contact the tamed monkey, he must be within a five-kilometer radius. The enemy's numbers and weapons were unknown, and there were only Dajiang and Jingkuan on the helicopter. Xia Qing didn't dare risk having the helicopter descend to pick her up.

Neither Jingkuan nor Dajiang was a sniper, and from two thousand meters up they couldn't possibly hit a monkey darting away at high speed. So, if Xia Qing couldn't intercept the tamed monkey on the ground, they would have to let it escape—because nothing was more important than human life and the safety of valuable property.

Dajiang observed the monkey's escape direction and immediately answered, "Sister Qing, go full speed toward eleven o'clock and climb that snow mountain. You might be able to snipe the monkey from there."

"Copy! Keep me posted on the monkey's direction of travel." Xia Qing immediately changed course, reached the sniper position Dajiang had picked for her at her top speed, raised her sniper rifle, and looked at the tamed monkey leaping and sprinting across the treetops with a collar around its neck.

It was… a blue-faced golden snub-nosed monkey.

In the sunlight, its fluffy, thick fur looked like a golden cloak, and the distinctly metallic collar around its neck clashed so jarringly with the fur on its body.

This was a high-level speed evolver. If it didn't change direction, it would be within Xia Qing's firing range for only two seconds. She had a hundred percent certainty of killing the golden snub-nosed monkey. She had only an eighty percent certainty of shooting the collar off its neck.

Xia Qing decisively chose the latter. She had recognized that the collar around the golden snub-nosed monkey's neck was an insert-type low-voltage collar—in other words, this golden snub-nosed monkey was being controlled by humans via low voltage. If she removed the collar and captured the monkey alive, she could not only save it but might also be able to use it to track down the invading human hidden within a five-kilometer radius.

She immediately swapped magazines, replacing the soft-point hunting rounds with high-hardness, high-precision dedicated penetrator rounds, and aimed at the speed-evolved golden snub-nosed monkey, which was wearing a collar and sprinting diagonally at high speed.

"Bang!"

The bullet struck the metal collar on the golden snub-nosed monkey's neck dead-on. As the broken collar flew off the monkey's neck, the thin wires that had been inserted into its neck drew out droplets of blood that stood out starkly against the ice and snow.

Xia Qing swapped magazines at lightning speed and fired a second shot.

"Bang!"

Seeing that Xia Qing's second shot had hit a rock, Dajiang in the air was just wondering what was going on when he saw the tamed monkey, which had been fleeing at high speed, fall out of the tree and start rubbing its face with its front paws, coughing, and vomiting. Only then did Dajiang understand what the special rounds Xia Qing had used did, and he immediately reported, "Sister Qing, the tamed monkey has been affected by the drug and lost the ability to resist or flee."

"Copy. You two provide cover from the air. I'm going to pick up the monkey." Xia Qing shouldered her rifle, ran down the slope, pinned the golden snub-nosed monkey down, and said in a gentle voice, "Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you."

The golden snub-nosed monkey, with a patch of neck fur singed off and two bleeding puncture holes, struggled desperately while crying and coughing, trying to escape Xia Qing's grip.

The special rounds Xia Qing had used had an effect similar to tear gas, and the effect would wear off in ten minutes. Xia Qing carried it out of the gas's effective zone, confirmed there were no other monitoring devices on the monkey's body surface, and used instruments to verify that no electronic devices or micro-bombs had been implanted inside it either, before calling out to her companion.

"Daigua, come out and sniff this monkey. Tell me where it came from."