Chapter 1718: Taking Guagua to the Matchmaking Meeting

After eating her fill, Xia Qing noticed her idol had no intention of eating, so she ladled out a bowl of chicken soup and brought it to his lips. "Third Brother, have some soup."

Zhang San, who had been looking at the documents, lifted his eyelids to look at Xia Qing. Seeing how resolute she was, he didn't waste any words and drank the chicken soup from her hand.

The warm chicken soup flowed down his esophagus into his stomach, and Zhang San felt a little more comfortable. Just as he was about to continue reading Guo Qingbin's treatment records, the new human across from him handed him a large steamed bun skewered with chopsticks.

Zhang San was silent for two seconds. He didn't mention that he had already drunk the nutrient solution and chicken soup, and that his caloric and nutrient intake was already sufficient. He simply pulled out a disinfecting wet wipe, carefully cleaned his still slightly trembling hands, took the chopsticks, and ate the vegetarian bun.

He had just finished the fist-sized bun when he saw the new human across from him start peeling a dragon fruit. Zhang San warned her coldly to know when to stop. "I didn't have a stomach-stretching surgery."

Xia Qing peeled the fruit and took a big bite herself, then asked, "Third Brother, what should I do next?"

Zhang San answered weakly, "Don't ask anything now, and don't say anything after you leave. Before nine in the morning, Zhang Song will send the key points for handling the investigation team's questioning to your phone in document form."

"Okay. Don't just sit there—get up and move around a bit." Xia Qing finished the dragon fruit, stood up, put the fruit peel along with the two unpeeled dragon fruits and two packs of jerky on the table into a bag, and prepared to take her leave.

She had been gone so long that the boss and Wolf Lao Er were surely worried. Xia Qing planned to bring these foods back for them to eat.

Watching her pack up the food on the table, Zhang San asked, "What are you doing during the day today?"

Xia Qing answered, "At ten in the morning, Seeing Xin Yu and I will take Molly to Bird Valley on Mountain Forty-Five for a matchmaking meeting, then go to Mountain Sixty-Seven to deliver a phone to Does Daigua, and finally stop by the territory of Bai Yan the Raven on Mountain Eighty-Six to see what that creature buried underground emitting a yi-element magnetic field is. If it can be moved, I'll dig it up and bring it back to you."

Zhang San asked coldly, "Did your stamina evolve?"

After everything that had happened, after standing guard for seventeen hours, did this new human's body and mind feel no fatigue? Did she not need sleep or rest?!

Xia Qing grinned. "No. So I cancelled the six a. m. plan. I'll go back to the territory, get some sleep, and then head out."

Taking Guagua to the matchmaking meeting had already been delayed too long; the time couldn't be changed again. She had promised yesterday to deliver the phone to Does Daigua, and putting it off until today was already breaking her word—she couldn't delay any further.

Besides the trips to those three places, Xia Qing also had to swing by the southern wolf pack's territory to pay them for guarding Third Brother. The northern wolf pack's payment, Xia Qing would settle tomorrow morning after meeting with Broken-Waist Wolf.

Zhang San's gaze returned to the laptop screen. "After Yan Long leaves, who's qualified to give you special training—Wang Man or Watching Huo Zhun?"

Xia Qing answered truthfully, "It's not training me. Hu Zi Feng Squad signed up for your Little Break's special training class. The original plan was to open camp at six this morning. I was going over to be its translator."

Xia Qing was tired and needed rest, so after using her phone to notify the Ninth Center and the Territory Alliance members that they could stand down and rest, she discussed it with Broken-Waist Wolf and Hu Zi Feng and moved the training camp opening ceremony to six tomorrow morning.

Hearing that Broken-Waist Wolf was opening a special training class and that the recruits were human evolvers, Zhang San was no longer calm. "Little Break is giving Hu Zi Feng Squad special training? Training what? Whose idea was this?"

Whose idea could it possibly be?

Xia Qing answered truthfully, "Your Little Break took a liking to Boss Wu's giant kun helicopter and is saving up points to buy one…"

Five minutes later, Xia Qing, who had been kicked out of the office, put on her one-way light-transmitting protective mask, left Territory Seven through the north gate, and jogged back to her own territory.

Although Hui Three Base Commander Qi Zhongye had already returned to the safe zone, the three tents outside the south gate of Territory Seven were still pitched. Until she received the investigation team response guide from Zhang Song, Xia Qing didn't want to meet those people.

After returning to the territory, Xia Qing hurriedly took a shower and found Sheep Boss, whose mouth was red from eating, and Wolf Lao Er, with meat crumbs hanging from its mouth—one fierce-looking, the other pitifully staring at her. She simply grabbed a sleeping bag and went downstairs, grooming their fur while explaining what she had been doing.

"Boss, Lao Er, Third Brother was attacked and was unconscious for seventeen hours. I've been at Territory Seven protecting him…"

After cleaning up Sheep Boss, Wolf Lao Er, and Little Feimao in her pocket, Xia Qing began reflecting on what had happened. "…I'll never give Third Brother any more random ideas. It scared me to death."

"Baa."

"Awoo."

Sheep Boss and Wolf Lao Er, who had already been carried onto the hanging chair by Xia Qing, responded in turn.

Xia Qing crawled into the sleeping bag and let out a big yawn. "While I was away from the territory, thank you Boss and Lao Er for protecting it. Let's sleep. When we wake up, I'll make you something good. Boss gets green-light cabbage mixed with Grade Three rations, Lao Er gets boiled pork liver and eggs, and Little Feimao gets hickory nuts."

"Baaa~~~"

"Awoo~"

Before long, Sheep Boss and Xia Qing were both asleep.

Wolf Lao Er jumped down from the hanging chair, swiped open the door to go out and eat the snow-jumping insects placed outside with their wings and legs pulled off, before leaving home to patrol the territory.

At eight-thirty in the morning, Xia Qing was woken by sparrows chirping softly outside. She quickly used her hearing to scan the surroundings, then turned her head to quietly look at two clean sheep hooves just fifteen centimeters from her head.

Sheep Boss was a herbivore with very little sense of security. It usually slept lying down on its stomach, because that position allowed it to stand up and flee at the fastest speed when it detected danger. Only in an environment it considered extremely safe, relaxed, and warm would it sleep lying on its side like this.

She guessed that before she came back last night, this fellow hadn't slept at all, which was why it could still sleep now.

Xia Qing reached out and gently touched its sheep hooves. As she stretched and crawled out of the sleeping bag to sit up, Sheep Boss stopped snoring and opened its eyes a slit to look at her.

Xia Qing, her hair a mess, spoke softly and gently to coax it. "Boss worked hard guarding the territory last night. Sleep a little longer. I'll make breakfast and patrol the territory first."

Sheep Boss closed its eyes and went back to sleep.

After getting dressed and washing up, Xia Qing went to the second-floor windowsill to feed the squirrels and birds.

After noticing that she exchanged food with the red squirrel at the windowsill every morning, Bai Yan the Raven, whenever it was within the territory, would bring supplies over to trade for food and water.

As a speed-evolved bird, Bai Yan the Raven was not short on food—its crop was always bulging. It came to trade with Xia Qing simply for a change of palate.

Having slept in by over two hours today, Xia Qing received a large snow-jumping insect brought over by Qiangzai, a large centipede brought by Bai Yan the Raven, three small scorpions brought by Bai Yan's three blue jay underlings, and the grumbling of the freeloading big squirrel. In exchange, she gave away six mealworms, three pine nuts, and six mung beans.

Four mealworms went to the pregnant big red squirrel and Qiangzai, the pine nuts went to the blue jays, and the last two mealworms and the mung beans all went to Bai Yan the Raven, who had been spurned in its courtship attempt.