Chapter 1681: Locking Down the Aurora Squad Three Spy

"I just looked it up online and found that Qiang-18 is also a Class One permanent biotoxin." On the Northern District One lord channel, Lord Six Kuang Qingwei came online to speak, deeply worried.

Last year, on December 23 of the eleventh year of the Calamity, the bombing attack that occurred in the inner city of Hui-Three Base was classified as an especially major bombing case precisely because the explosive used by the criminals contained the Class One permanent biotoxin Qiang-13.

The Minister of Hui City Agriculture and the Deputy Director of the Hui-Three Agriculture Department who were injured in the bombing are still in the hospital ICU right now. The investigation team set up by designated personnel from the highest state authority is still investigating in Hui-Three, and the report hasn't come out yet, but Qiang-18 has now been discovered in Hui-Three's Evolution Forest!

Lord Ten's Shi Du also came online, fuming, "These two toxins have one thing in common: they're both synthetically produced!"

In Calamity years, with one disaster after another, just surviving is already this hard, yet there are still some rotten bastards researching synthetic toxins that do nothing but harm!

Lord Four's Zhao Ze also spoke indignantly, "Qiang-18 is even more vicious than Qiang-13. Qiang-13 attacks skin cells, making a person wish they could die from the pain, but it can be suppressed with lifelong medication. Qiang-18 causes progressive multi-organ damage, producing severe abdominal pain and neuralgia, and the damage is irreversible—it tortures a person to death. Mountain Thirty-One is deep in the Evolution Forest; humans don't go there, and the evolved tigers don't come to human territory either. Neither side gets in the other's way. Which bastard is so lacking in conscience that he went over to poison a tiger? Did the tiger provoke him or offend him?"

Tan Qi came online to ask, "Could the poisoner have set his sights on the large herbivores or the valuable herbs within the evolved tiger's territory?"

Di Ming, who hadn't managed to get a chance to go out on a mission, came online, "Poisoning would pollute the environment, so their goal probably isn't to obtain prey or herbs."

Kuang Qingwei listened for a while and found that no one understood what he was worried about. Just as he was about to speak, Lord Seventeen Wen Nengjie came online, "Our base has had two cases of Class One permanent biotoxin poisoning discovered in succession—who should bear the responsibility for this?"

Kuang Qingwei sighed, "The top leader will definitely have to bear a certain amount of responsibility."

Will the seat of Hui-Three Base Commander be given to someone else?

Early last year, after the two great tumors—Deputy Base Commander Tang Zhengrong and the Sufeng Squad—were purged, all the work at Hui-Three Base made good progress under the push of Base Commander Qi Zhongye.

If a new base commander is brought in, will he push the territory policies forward with the same full effort as Qi Zhongye? Will the protection and benefits the lords receive be cut?

Tang Heng noticed that the topic everyone was chatting about was getting a bit sensitive, so he came online to change the subject, "The adult evolved tigers in the western tiger group seem to number six or seven. If there are brain-evolved individuals among these tigers, they will very likely launch a beast tide during the coming Calamity and attack human safe zones or territories."

Shi Mu came online, "Fortunately, our place here is far from the tiger group. Thank the Divine Wolves for their protection."

Zhao Ze was also worried about a beast tide, "One tiger can't beat a pack of wolves. If the tiger group drives a beast tide charging over, the wolf pack will definitely run."

While everyone was worried, the vice leader of the Territory Alliance, Qi Fu, came online, "We can't do anything about the base's affairs, and even if the tiger group launches a beast tide, it won't reach our area. This afternoon, everyone get the H-12 rice seeds ready. Tomorrow morning, we need to rent a truck to haul fertilizer and rice seeds up to Mountain Fifty. Shi Du, Yu Shou, Old Wen, and I will carry the rice seeds and fertilizer up the mountain. We still need four people to mix soil, set up racks, fill the trays, and sow the seeds. Whoever among you is free tomorrow, sign up."

Wen Nengjie, a Class Two strength evolver, was not a core member of the Territory Alliance and hadn't been allocated a plot in the hidden valley, but through his persistent efforts, he finally got the chance to breed seedlings in the valley together with everyone else.

If the seedling breeding goes smoothly, the five mu of land in his territory will be able to have rice seedlings transplanted after the first Qiang rain. With these five mu of rice, even if the dozens of mu of overwintering wheat in his fields are all destroyed by the soil anaerobic bacteria in the first Qiang rain, he and his brothers will still be able to see hope of surviving.

So as soon as he heard that people were needed to go over and work, Wen Nengjie immediately put himself forward eagerly, "Wu Zhang from my territory can go. He's strong and quick at work."

Tan Qi immediately followed up by coming online, "Liu Shu and I will go set up the racks."

Raising seedlings is a big deal. The members of Territories Four, Five, Six, Ten, Eleven, Fifteen, and Seventeen, who are breeding seedlings in the hidden valley this year, are all scrambling to sign up.

Once the personnel were confirmed, Tang Heng, the agent for Territory Twelve, was just about to come online and tell his allies that they could use Territory Twelve's truck to haul the fertilizer, when Lord Eight Xin Yu, who rarely came online, did so: "Captain Hu, are you there?"

Hu Zifeng immediately came online, "I'm here."

"Xia Qing has already prepared the rice seeds and fertilizer for raising seedlings. The fertilizer is the eight bags tied with red rope in Greenhouse One. The rice seeds are in the meeting room, and the rope tying the bag is also red. At seven in the morning, I'll have someone drive the truck to the south gate of Territory Three. Please trouble Captain Hu to send someone to load the cargo."

Territory Eight also has standardized greenhouses, so Xin Yu doesn't need to breed seedlings in the valley. She's providing the truck because Xia Qing is not in the territory, and the seeds and fertilizer in Territory Three need to be moved over by the allies for soil mixing and seedling raising.

Hu Zifeng immediately agreed, "Alright, I'll be waiting at the south gate at seven tomorrow morning."

Xin Yu called out to Qi Fu, "Brother Qi, you all can use this truck for a day tomorrow."

Qi Fu immediately came online, "Good, we'll pay you the rent at the market rate."

Before Xin Yu could respond, Disaster Mitigation Commander Zhang San came online, "Xin Yu, bring your trained bird to Territory Seven to participate in disaster mitigation."

Xin Yu immediately replied, "Understood, I'll be there within ten minutes."

The commander gave another order, "Tang Heng, Mountain Thirty-One needs four additional sample testing personnel. Can the Soil Research Lab send support?"

Tang Heng immediately answered, "Yes."

Zhang San's voice was gentle, "Alright, the helicopter will arrive at the south gate of Territory Seven in thirty minutes. The participating personnel need to wear Level Three or above field protective gear and do not need to carry testing instruments."

An hour later, the Territory Alliance sample testing team—composed of Kuang Yuanxiong, a former agricultural college teacher from Territory One; Zhu Li, Lord of Territory Six; Yu Zhongshen, a microbiology research expert from Territory Eight; and Qin Ziping, a former agricultural college professor from Territory Twelve—arrived at Mountain Thirty-One and immediately threw themselves into the disaster mitigation work.

At six-thirty, the four left the testing tent, passed through the disinfection channel into the adjacent rest tent, each collected a vial of X nutrient solution, took off their protective face shields, sat down on chairs to rest and replenish their nutrition.

Zhu Li drank her nutrient solution while listening to the sounds around her. She listened for a long time but still couldn't find Xia Qing and the other four who had come over that morning.

At this moment, Tang Huai and Yan Long were still on the helicopter carrying out the alert mission, and Zhang Hongda and Huo Zhun were still carrying out the mission of protecting the top sniper. Only their and Xia Qing's mission location had changed from the Mountain Twenty-One zone to the Mountain Thirty-One zone.

Their locked target is the Aurora Squad Three olfaction evolver, Huang Ju, who stole the Qiang-18 toxin source from the large pine tree on Mountain Thirty-One.