Chapter 1669: Is Director Xia Free Today?

At six the next morning, amid swirling heavy snow, Xia Qing, who had just been defeated after ten minutes of combat with Yanlong, walked to the big pine tree, used her left hand to open her backpack, took out a towel with her left hand to wipe the sweat and mud from her head, put on a sweat-absorbing headband, and then donned a protective mask.

After completing her personal protection, she tilted her head and asked the Broken-Waist Wolf on her left, "Broken-Waist, have you looked at the testing and analysis report I sent you?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf, staring at Yanlong and Handsome Giant Wolf fighting in the heavy snow, bared the little tips of its fangs in a grin.

Xia Qing didn't disturb it further, turned her head to look at Fourth on her right, and found Fourth staring at her. Xia Qing asked, "I sent the samples Broken-Waist collected yesterday to Third Brother's side, and the test results are already out. Does Fourth want to see them?"

The old wolf nodded solemnly.

Xia Qing used her left hand to take out her phone and forwarded the compressed file her idol had sent her at five in the morning to the old wolf.

The old wolf hadn't brought its phone, so Xia Qing used her own phone to demonstrate how to open and view the compressed file. "That's all of it. There are 239 types of samples in total, which is why there are so many. You can just look at the last two testing and analysis reports."

The old wolf rubbed its claws against the pine bark, swiped at Xia Qing's phone screen, and carefully read the final report.

After Handsome Giant Wolf was defeated and the mid-session break arrived, Yanlong also came to the tree to take shelter from the snow, and heard Xia Qing discussing the evolution of soil anaerobic bacteria with a wolf.

Once again, Yanlong deeply felt the madness of evolving Blue Star.

Seeing Yanlong was interested, Xia Qing introduced to her, "The activity of evolved anaerobic bacteria in the Evolution Forest soil is clearly lower than that in human farmland. This year's first Harmful Rain will be a tough battle."

Yanlong didn't understand farming, but she knew this was the key challenge the various bases in Hui City were working hard to overcome. The lords of North Area One discussed this every day on the lord channel. "How many mu of overwintering wheat does the Ninth Center have?"

Xia Qing answered, "550 mu. We can only do our best to protect them. If we can't hold, we'll clear everything after the Harmful Rain ends and plant rice."

Blue Star is still evolving, and farmers who depend on the sky for their meals can only do their best and leave the rest to fate.

After the two chatted for a few sentences, Yanlong went back on the field and began special training the sub-adult wolves.

Xia Qing told Broken-Waist Wolf about Zhang San and Zhang He wanting to add it as a friend, and persuaded, "Broken-Waist, putting them in your phone's contact list isn't dangerous. If one day you have an emergency and can't reach me by phone, you can find Third Brother. Third Brother is my companion, someone who can be trusted, a human standing at the top of the medical pyramid."

Broken-Waist Wolf pressed its mouth shut, refusing to agree.

Wolves' thought processes are different from humans'. Since Broken-Waist Wolf refused to add more humans as friends, Xia Qing stopped persuading and brought up the second matter. "You need to study the sampling operation standards I sent you carefully. In a few days, Zhang He will test both of us. If we don't get a perfect score, we'll be fined. Broken-Waist, I'm counting on you."

Broken-Waist Wolf bared the little tips of its fangs in a grin, then let out a stern howl, reminding the little four-eyes not to quarrel with the little wolf sister and to train seriously.

Xia Qing turned to ask the old wolf, who had already finished reading the materials, "Fourth, do you want to add Third Brother's contact information?"

Neither of these two wolves had added Zhang San's contact information, so yesterday when the two wolves went to Mountain Thirty-One on a mission, they had to first rendezvous with Zhang Ten, then use Zhang Ten's phone to contact Zhang San before they could speak with him.

Unlike Broken-Waist Wolf, Fourth's phone already had Zhang Ten in addition to Xia Qing, so Xia Qing felt it would be less difficult to get it to add one more human.

Unexpectedly, Fourth also refused.

Xia Qing sighed. Fine. After the experts leave, when she delivers the phone to Daigua, she'll ask whether Daigua wants to add him. Her idol's petty-mindedness was acting up again. If she didn't let him add an animal's contact information, the next time Xia Qing went to Territory Seven, she definitely wouldn't get to eat fruit or mooch meals at the cafeteria.

Now, first discuss the important matter.

"Fourth, Broken-Waist, you've both finished reading the report. Now there's a very important matter we need to take care of as soon as possible..." Xia Qing used a pine branch to list dates and draw a terrain map on the ground, communicating with the two smart wolves about finding a new place for the Leopard Tiger.

Fourth nodded to indicate no problem. Broken-Waist Wolf extended a big paw toward Xia Qing. Mountain Fifty is the territory of the northern wolf pack. For the Leopard Tiger to move into Mountain Fifty for treatment, it must pay a fee.

Xia Qing pushed the big paw pointing at herself over to Fourth with the pine branch. "The Leopard Tiger's treatment fee will be paid by Fourth. Discuss the payment with Fourth."

The two wolves engaged in a battle of glares.

Special training ended, and the southern wolf pack returned to their territory through the snow. Xia Qing and Yanlong cleaned the scent off themselves, set up the tent to change protective suits, then fought another bout, and ran at full speed back to the territory. Yanlong had been staying with Tan Qi these past two days, so she went through the East Gate of North Area One. Xia Qing still needed to deliver medicine to the Blue-Face Little Monkey, then go through the Beimen to return to the territory.

Today was the seventh day since the Blue-Face Little Monkey had moved into the treehouse sickroom in Area Five. Because of the expensive special-effect medicine from Territory Seven, its condition had clearly improved, and its mental state was much better too.

Xia Qing had just walked to the big pine tree, trudging through calf-deep snow, when this little golden creature jumped down from the tree and landed on a pine branch in front of her.

This little monkey was indeed clever—its landing spot was well chosen, but it had overlooked that it was a heavy snow day. The thick layer of snow pressing on the pine branches and needles was shaken loose, dumping snow all over Xia Qing and the little monkey.

Seeing that Xia Qing, who had been hit by the snow, wasn't angry and was even smiling, the puffed-up Blue-Face Little Monkey's eyes lit up, and it quickly hopped and swayed on the pine branches.

Seeing the little monkey was having fun, Xia Qing didn't stop it.

On the stone steps of the North Buffer Forest of Territory Seven, Wu Huan, the evolved Border Collie covered in snow, heard the commotion and quickly ran upward.

An extremely fast figure charged over and blocked it. Border Collie Wu Huan stopped and looked up at the human blocking its path.

Zhang Jingwu, who often dealt with evolved military dogs, used his arm to block Wu Huan's forward path and said sternly, "Wu Huan, you can't go out on your own."

The evolved Border Collie Wu Huan stared at Zhang Jingwu for a few seconds, then lay down directly on the snow and continued listening to the movement in the north.

In a mountain hollow over 1,200 meters north of the evolved Border Collie, the little monkey shook all the snow off this big tree before landing again on the branch in front of Xia Qing, gazing at her with bright eyes.

Xia Qing opened her backpack, took out a small insulated bag, and handed it to the little creature that had buried her in snow. "This is today's food and medicine. Snow really is fun. I built a snow slide at the peak of the Third Peak of Mountain Forty-Nine. Lots of wolves, foxes, and humans like to play on it. Blue-Face, in a few more days when your body has recovered, you can go play there yourself. It's free, play as long as you want. If you don't dare go alone, I can provide pickup and drop-off, 100 credits per trip."

The Blue-Face Little Monkey didn't seem interested in this topic. It extended its little paw covered in snowflakes to take the food, quickly returned to the treehouse, and shortly afterward sent down the bag containing trash and droppings. After Xia Qing took it, the monkey ran up again, held out its furry, golden little paw in front of Xia Qing, and opened it.

In its paw were two clean pine nuts.

Xia Qing asked, "Are these pine nuts a gift for me?"

The little monkey nodded.

"These two pine nuts are very plump, they look delicious. Thank you, Blue-Face, I really like this gift." Xia Qing took off her glove, happily accepted the pine nuts, and gave it two green-light oil sunflower seeds in return. "These two oil sunflower seeds are for you to eat, green-light, also very delicious. I'm heading back to the territory, you go back and rest too."

Xia Qing turned and pressed forward through over a meter of deep snow. For a strength evolver, this much snow couldn't hinder her steps at all.

The little monkey squatting on the branch jumped over and landed in the snow beside Xia Qing, looking at her right arm, which hadn't moved at all.

This little monkey's observation was really sharp. Xia Qing pointed at her right arm and explained, "I got injured during this morning's special training, but it's not serious, I'll recover soon."

After saying goodbye to the Blue-Face Little Monkey, completing another trade with White-Eye Raven and its underlings, and giving the Flat-Top a beating, Xia Qing had just entered the Beimen of North Area One's territory when she received a call from an unknown number.

Wu Chengyu, a big shot from Lan City, asked in a gentle voice, "Is Director Xia free today? Wu Huan, Wu Le, and I would like to visit you."