Chapter 161: Victory

Stepping on broken glass, Xia Qing, covered in bird blood, replied calmly, "I'm not injured, no support needed. How are you all?"

Hu Zifeng's voice carried a smile, "No one injured, we've started clearing the battlefield."

No one injured — that was the best news.

"Copy."

Xia Qing looked at the broken glass beneath her feet, at Sheep Boss tied up and lying in the broken glass and bird blood, and at the two wolves in the corner untouched by the bird blood, and laughed, "Boss, wolves, we won."

Over the lord's walkie-talkie, Kuang Qingwei asked carefully, "Captain Tan, were all the raptors attacking Territory Six killed? Do we need to handle the corpses ourselves?"

Tan Junjie replied, "You can handle them yourselves, or let the inspection team handle them."

Kuang Qingwei answered immediately, "Please have the inspection team help handle them."

Yuan Yan followed up, "Please have the inspection team help handle the evolved bird corpses in Territory Five."

Zhao Ze's voice still held a sob, "Territory Four as well."

The vicious, brutal evolved raptors were all red-light animals, and many of them were carrion-eaters, carrying all sorts of bacteria on their bodies — very difficult to handle. So, although sealing the birds' corpses and sending them to the safe zone could earn points, the lords still didn't dare handle them themselves.

Shi Zhong asked, "Sister-in-law, how's Qi Fu doing?"

Yuan Yan replied, "He's been in the basement, wasn't affected. How's things on your end, Brother Shi?"

Shi Zhong replied, "Losses aren't big. If you need any help, sis, just say the word."

The voice of Hu Zi, the strength evolver from the inspection team, came through the walkie-talkie, "Sister Qing, two evolved birds shot down by Territory Three landed on the passage between Territory Two and Territory Three. Are you cleaning them up yourself, or should the inspection team handle it?"

Xia Qing, fighting off dizziness and nausea, pressed the walkie-talkie button, "Please clean them up, thanks."

In her territory, there were still quite a few evolved bird corpses.

Tang Huai asked, "Xia Qing, I heard heavy gunfire in your territory — did you hire people to guard your territory again?"

My business — is it any of yours to meddle in?

Xia Qing replied icily, "Looks like the ultrasound didn't affect you much."

Tang Huai, dizzy-headed and nauseous…

Tang Zhengpo pressed the walkie-talkie button, "Xia Qing, sorry. Tang Huai, guard Territory Two properly, and stop prying into or asking about other territories' affairs."

"Ugh—"

Tang Huai in Territory Two couldn't hold it in and threw up twice before pressing the button to reply, "Dad, I understand. Xia Qing, sorry, I wasn't prying on purpose — can't help it that my hearing's good."

The smell of blood and corpses would soon attract swarms of evolved insects and breed excessive evolved bacteria. In Territory Three, Xia Qing couldn't rest, forced herself to stand, and prepared to clear the battlefield.

Xia Qing, covered in blood, gripped the low wall of the attic, climbed onto the roof and jumped to the backyard, rolled on the ground to let the dirt stick to the blood on her body, then returned to the front yard and went into the bathroom, quickly rinsing off the blood, took equipment and sealed four evolved bird corpses near the house into the largest sealed bags, and cleaned up the nearby bloodstains.

Then she went into the tool room, lifted the straw mat, and hauled the chicken coop and goose coop up from the cellar.

Some of the chickens and geese wouldn't move anymore, but at least they hadn't been wiped out completely. Xia Qing quickly picked out the unresponsive poultry and put them in her back basket, then added spring water for those still standing.

While adding water, she got pecked by the black-feathered young rooster. Xia Qing didn't have time to deal with it, and quickly carried the big water bucket, straw mat, and rainproof cloth back to the attic. First she used the bucket to wash the bloodstains off the roof, then used the rainproof cloth to cover the broken window tightly, and only then untied Sheep Boss from the blood and broken glass, laid him on the straw mat, and removed the protective masks from the two wolves and one sheep.

"Baa~" Sheep Boss, tied up, was very uncomfortable, and his voice had grown weak.

Xia Qing soothed Sheep Boss, "Boss, wait here a bit. I'll carry the wolves downstairs first, then take you for a wash."

After moving the two wolves downstairs onto the tatami, Xia Qing ran back up to the attic, wrapped the blood-soaked Sheep Boss in the straw mat and rushed straight into the bathroom, only then untied him and used the showerhead to wash the blood off his body. Sheep Boss lay on the ground, so weak he didn't even have the strength to stand.

"Boss was amazing today — when you sensed danger, you even knew to carry the two wolves over to me." Xia Qing cradled Sheep Boss's head, washing the blood off him while praising him. "The ultrasound attack was so fierce just now, but Boss endured it and didn't hurt me — only banged his head on the ground."

"The ground cracking is nothing, and your protective mask breaking is nothing either. But this wound on your face is something — it needs to be treated right away." After washing Sheep Boss clean, Xia Qing lifted him up to shake the water off his wool, then wrapped him in an absorbent dry straw mat and carried him back to the living room.

Taking out the special hemostatic powder she had just traded from Territory Seven, Xia Qing covered Sheep Boss's wound thoroughly before securing it with bandages, then brought over a basin of spring water and set it beside him. "I'll go clean up the territory first, then come back and make you something good to eat."

Xia Qing turned around and saw the brain-domain evolved wolf watching her calmly, so she brought another basin of water and set it beside the two injured wolves' heads, casually wiping the dirt from around their mouths. "I know you two aren't feeling great either. Your anesthetic is wearing off soon — once you can move, have some water. I'm off to work."

Xia Qing didn't bother cleaning the attic, and went out of the village first to link up with Hu Zifeng's squad.

Because Hu Zifeng's squad didn't know Xia Qing was a hearing evolver, they didn't know the ultrasound attack had affected her too.

Seeing Xia Qing appear wearing a protective mask, Chen Cheng, the smell evolver, excitedly waved her over. "We took down thirty-four evolved birds — seven were Sister Qing's kills, only one less than Brother Jian. Awesome!"

Guan Tong added, "Plus the two that landed between Territory Two and Territory Three."

"I just got lucky with my weapon — one of those two was killed by Captain Hu." It wasn't that Xia Qing's marksmanship was better than everyone else in Hu Zifeng's squad, but that her sniper rifle was better than theirs, with a longer range.

Xia Qing asked about Territory One's situation, "How's Territory One?"

Hu Zifeng replied, "A few minor injuries, no major losses."

Hearing that Territory One had people injured, Xia Qing told Hu Zifeng's squad to head back right away. Xia Qing carried several sealed bags of bird corpses and escorted them to the edge of Territory One's buffer forest, handed the bird corpses to Guan Tong, then returned to check the damage her own territory had taken in this evolved bird attack.

Hu Zifeng's squad had excellent marksmanship and equipment. They had all been ambushed near the farmland, and the evolved birds attacking Territory Three were shot down before reaching the ground, failing to damage any facilities inside the territory.

Only three that fell smashed over twenty support poles of the greenhouse, crushing a patch of corn seedlings, a patch of mung bean seedlings, and a patch of cotton plants.

The farmland damage was smaller than Xia Qing had expected.