Chapter 1612: Staying at Mountain Sixty-Seven

Watching the little bear fly off, Xia Qing smiled, carried the struggling golden snub-nosed monkey, and continued walking toward the basin, pitching supplies to Does Daigua in her backpack. "Does Daigua, the Green Lantern honey you traded was all eaten by Xiong Wang and your greedy friends. I still have Green Lantern honey in my backpack—want to trade for some more?"

Does Daigua in the backpack answered immediately, "Yi!"

"Great. Pick whichever you want later—bagged, bottled, or canned. These are agricultural products from our Territory Three, and none of them charge a purchasing-agent fee. The supplies you just traded were points, and you haven't paid for those yet—shall we swipe the card together later?"

"Yi!!!"

"Does Daigua saw it, right? There are lots of bad humans lately, so you absolutely have to hide well…"

Xia Qing chatted with Does Daigua as she walked and noticed the blue-faced golden snub-nosed monkey in her hand gradually going quiet, no longer struggling.

Following the beast trail Xiong Wang had trampled, Xia Qing dodged poisonous insects, poisonous plants, and poisonous fungi, and entered the hot spring lake basin shrouded in mist, going first to check on the vegetables she had left inside the basin.

The vegetables were no longer in their original spot, but there were some scraps left on the ground from Xiong Wang gnawing on them. A group of brightly colored insects was scrambling over these exotic delicacies. A few poisonous frogs stood on the outskirts, using their long tongues to pick out the tastiest insects, while poisonous snakes hidden in the dense grass and tree branches had locked onto the poisonous frogs.

Xia Qing's arrival only startled away the birds in the trees that had been preparing to snatch snakes; the poisonous frogs on the small branches kept using their tongues to stick to insects and eat them, and the poisonous snakes flicked their forked tongues at Xia Qing with a hiss, trying to scare off this rival who had come to steal their food.

It's perfectly normal for these snakes to be bold, because what they usually see are beasts on Xiong Wang's level; they rarely encounter humans, so of course they wouldn't fear a tiny Xia Qing.

Xia Qing wasn't interested in the poisonous insects. Following Xiong Wang's footprints, she found the vegetables it had placed—bag and all—on a high rock.

This greedy big fellow's brain evolution follows the same path as Boss Sheep's—only the part related to food has evolved.

A few long-faced baboons were squatting on a nearby big tree, pointing and gesturing at the bag holding the vegetables, seemingly engaged in a heated discussion about whether to snatch Xiong Wang's food.

The leader baboon, seeing Xia Qing look up and stare at it, immediately grabbed the two little baboons that had been nestled in a mother baboon's arms nearby, held them in its hands, and glared at Xia Qing with aggressive momentum.

Xia Qing, holding the golden snub-nosed monkey, certainly wasn't going to compete with a stupid baboon over who had more monkeys. She snorted coldly, jumped straight onto the big rock, and opened the mouth of the bag.

"Wa—ao! Wa—ao!"

Seeing Xia Qing open the bag where Xiong Wang had stored its food, the leader baboon holding the two little baboons immediately let out a wailing howl, as if reporting to Xiong Wang. The golden snub-nosed monkey Xia Qing was holding seemed startled by the baboon and began struggling again, trying to escape.

Xia Qing, holding the monkey, couldn't be bothered to deal with the baboon, nor did she pay attention to the struggling golden snub-nosed monkey. She simply hoisted the big bag Xiong Wang had placed onto her shoulder and walked toward the lake.

After walking out of the baboons' line of sight, Xia Qing set the food bag down by the lake, opened the bag's mouth, and called out to the two gua in her backpack. "Does Daigua, Ergua, come on out. There's some food left from what you traded with points. While Xiong Wang hasn't come back yet, hurry up and pick out the food you like, stuff it into my backpack, and I'll deliver it back to your den later."

"Yi!" Does Daigua immediately darted out, handed the bag of steamed buns to Ergua, and while it itself held the bag of sweet potatoes, began stuffing them into Xia Qing's backpack.

Xia Qing, wearing her backpack, squatted by the hot spring lake and began washing the monkey.

She had already practiced this technique on Does Daigua. The golden snub-nosed monkey, squealing and shrieking in fear, was quickly soothed by Xia Qing's movements and voice. Because the water temperature here was neither too high nor too low, after being washed, the golden snub-nosed monkey clearly felt the burning pain on its face lessen considerably.

Xia Qing had just pulled a dry, absorbent towel from her backpack to wrap up the golden snub-nosed monkey when she heard the thump-thump-thump of running. Not only were the water droplets on the surrounding plants shaken off, but even the stone beneath her feet was trembling, causing the hot spring lake to ripple with unseemly fine waves.

"Bang!"

"Roar————"

Xiong Wang, weighing over two tons, landed beside Xia Qing and let out a furious roar at her. The surrounding birds and beasts fled, and the little monkey Xia Qing was holding cowered into a terrified ball.

Does Daigua and Ergua? Already up a tree.

Xia Qing's ears were ringing from the bear roar, and she instinctively felt fear. But she tried her best to stay calm, raised a hand, and pointed at the bag beside her. "My lord, your food is right here."

Then Xia Qing raised her hand to point at the big tree next to the rock where the food had been placed, and using gestures and onomatopoeia, communicated with Xiong Wang. "There's a group of baboons, the kind that go 'wao, wao' like monkeys, trying to steal my lord's food, so I brought it here."

Xiong Wang stared at Xia Qing with killing intent for a while before finally grabbing its food, lying down in the hot spring, soaking in the hot water while crunching away at cabbage.

Xia Qing sat on a rock beside Xiong Wang, drying the monkey's fur while chatting casually with it. "Brother Bear, what about that jar of honey? Why didn't you bring it back? Don't tell me the little bear ate it all? Or did it knock the jar over?"

If that were really the case, that greedy little bear truly deserves a beating—such a big jar!

Xiong Wang didn't understand, just kept crunching away at the cabbage.

With that sound震慑ing the area, the blue-faced golden snub-nosed monkey was very well-behaved, not daring to resist at all. Xia Qing used three towels to dry the golden snub-nosed monkey, then took out a comb and brushed its fur smooth. The more she combed, the more envious she became. "Brother Bear, you blue-faced ones, did you know? In the first few years after Blue Star evolved, I didn't have enough warm clothing, and every winter I especially envied you guys, because you have such thick fur—you don't need to spend points buying cold-weather gear, and you can still be nice and warm…"

Crunch, crunch…

Xiong Wang finished one cabbage and started gnawing on a radish.

Feeling more comfortable, the blue-faced golden snub-nosed monkey looked around with teary eyes, searching for an escape route.

After combing the little monkey's golden fur smooth, Xia Qing put eye drops in its eyes and applied ointment to its paws and face.

After dealing with the effects of the tear gas grenade, Xia Qing then treated the three wounds on its neck left by the weak-electricity collar刺针. This poor little monkey had dense刺针 wounds on its neck, some old and some new—no wonder it feared humans so much.

Finally, Xia Qing dusted it with insect-repellent powder, held it up, and asked, "Brother Bear, can this monkey stay in this valley? It eats leaves, small fruits, and lichen—it won't compete with you for food."

Xiong Wang extended a wet, big black paw in front of Xia Qing.

Xia Qing pulled a sweet potato that Does Daigua had hidden from her backpack and placed it on its big paw. "Brother Bear, the sweet potato is for you—can I leave this monkey here?"

"Roar." Having received food, Xiong Wang responded.

"Thanks, Brother Bear." Xia Qing, carrying her pack and holding the golden snub-nosed monkey, went to find Does Daigua, asking it to settle the account first, then asking it to help this newly arrived monkey pick a suitable big tree or rock to live on. Finally, Xia Qing was going to settle with this little monkey the救命 points and medical fees it owed her.