Chapter 1740: The Tiny Human Hunter and the Giant Raptor Picking Up the Scraps

Evolved elk are a type of herbivore with high combat strength and an extremely stubborn temper.

How did Xia Qing come to this conclusion?

Because she had been lying beside two wolves who had rolled in mud back and forth five times, listening for over an hour, and the sound of antlers clashing in the dense forest of the basin still came in waves—sometimes dense, sometimes quiet—that group of evolved elk fought when tired, rested, then fought again, endlessly!

Fifteen minutes later, when the battle in the dense forest stopped again, Xiong Wang on her left and the Broken-Waist Wolf on her right simultaneously raised their mud-covered heads.

Xia Qing, who often hung around with the wolf pack, immediately pressed one hand to the ground, assumed a sprinting stance, and pressed the walkie-talkie to give orders, "Everyone get ready. Huo Zhun, Guan Tong, Shi Du, after I charge down, move forward to your positions in order and transfer the prey to a safe location. Huo Zhun, don't cross past where I am right now."

"Copy."

"Copy."

……

Before all the human team members had finished replying, Xia Qing's eyes lit up, because she saw today's prey walking out of the dense forest one after another, heading this way.

One, two, three… a full twenty-six male evolved elk with antlers like big tree forks on their heads, each estimated to weigh over four hundred jin. Although these defeated elk all had wounds—some had broken antlers, some limped as they walked—they hadn't lost their combat ability, and their formation held as they advanced.

This wasn't an easy windfall to pick up, but Xia Qing had to pick it up, and had to get at least two. Otherwise she wouldn't even recoup the team-up fees and fuel costs she'd already paid out!

Xiong Wang, who had seized the best attack position, waited quietly for the elk herd to approach, then shot out with a whoosh.

Two brown bears followed closely behind, then two wolves and one person, and after that, the leopard-wolf-lynx alliance in the distance also charged at the evolved elk herd from another direction.

Hearing the commotion, the evolved elk that had faced outward with antlers bared in a counterattack formation saw giant bears charging out and immediately scattered in all directions.

The high-grade speed-evolved Xiong Wang reached the largest elk in the blink of an eye and captured her chosen prey with a single swipe.

The three-year-old speed-evolved little bear sister who followed close behind also took down one; two elasticity-evolved leopards bit onto the same one; the Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Sister also bit onto the same one; three giant wolves and one giant lynx surrounded two; another non-giant brown bear chased one elk.

Ignored by the elk, the slow-running, slow-jumping tiny human Xia Qing sprinted at full speed toward the elk charging at her, leaped up, and landed a vicious punch on the head of this antler-broken elk.

"Bang!"

The punched elk collapsed with a thud, its four hooves twitching, and Xia Qing had already turned and sprinted at top speed toward the nearest one, taking it down with another punch—bang!

When the giant raptor dove from the sky to pick up the leftovers, Xia Qing had already grabbed her two captured prey and was sprinting up the slope at full speed.

Check the quality? No time for that!

The raptor that failed to snatch any leftovers screeched angrily in the air and beat its wings to attack Xia Qing, when Xiong Wang, mouth full of fresh blood, grabbed a rock and hurled it over with an earth-shaking roar.

The raptor rapidly beat its wings to gain altitude, circling and screeching high in the sky.

With Xiong Wang's cover, Xia Qing handed the two elk over to Huo Zhun, then charged down the slope again to pursue the elk.

She was lucky too—the elk herd was trapped in the middle by the hunters, so she still had a chance to hunt.

Seeing how efficient Xia Qing was, the Broken-Waist Wolf abandoned the throat-biting suffocation method and called Little Wolf Sister to team up with Xia Qing for the hunt. The two wolves were responsible for driving the prey, Xia Qing was responsible for taking them down.

Half an hour later, when the other beasts were full and lazily resting, Xia Qing—who had taken down ten elk—set down a one-jin jar of green-light honey in front of Xiong Wang guarding three prey as thanks, before shouldering the last two prey and withdrawing from the basin with the Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Sister.

After eating their fill was when the beasts' willingness to attack was at its lowest; the leopard-wolf-lynx alliance in the distance saw Xia Qing leaving with the prey and had no intention of pursuing.

An hour and a half later, the four human strength evolvers finally transported all ten prey packed in extra-large bags to the helicopter hidden on Mountain No. 87.

The location where Beard Feng hid the helicopter was the very spot where the invaders who had directed the blue-faced monkeys to invade Xiong Qun's territory last month had hidden their helicopter.

It had to be said, this location was extremely well-hidden and safe—otherwise Xia Qing wouldn't have dared leave only Beard Feng to guard the helicopter.

After hauling the prey into the helicopter cabin, the four human strength evolvers lay in the cabin, panting heavily.

Xia Qing and Huo Zhun each carried three, Shi Du and Guan Tong each carried two, the Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Sister stood guard—the human-wolf squad had finally brought all ten prey back safely.

On the 24th of last month, Zhang San conducted a physical examination on Xia Qing, who had finished one month of taking the body-conditioning medication.

After a month of all-green-light quality diet plus medication conditioning, Xia Qing's physique had noticeably improved: the Qiang element content in her body dropped by 2‰, the Yi element content rose by 0.1‰, and the most obvious improvement among her four-system evolution abilities was strength, rising from level six and a half to level seven, tying with Huo Zhun as the strength evolution king of Northern Zone One.

Even a king, after carrying over 1,300 jin of prey through an evolution forest full of rubble and mud for an hour and a half, was completely worn out.

The energetic Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Sister sniffed this bag and smelled that bag, beginning to pick out prey.

Beard Feng, holding the sniper rifle on guard duty, issued a warning, "Sister Qing, Brother Duan, there are two giant eagles and two giant vultures on the big trees and rocks outside—looks like they've got their eyes on us."

The Broken-Waist Wolf immediately jumped to the side window and stared seriously at the raptors up high.

Xia Qing sat up and took a look, saw it was one giant eagle and one giant vulture, and asked in a low voice, "Broken-Waist, do you recognize those two big birds outside?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf bared its fangs, revealing bone-white canines; Little Wolf Sister growled softly.

Looks like not only did they recognize them, there had been conflicts. Xia Qing continued, "Those two big birds aren't brain-domain evolvers, right?"

Xia Qing could confirm the giant eagle, but that giant vulture's head was too bald—Xia Qing hadn't had much contact with this kind of bird and couldn't judge.

The Broken-Waist Wolf bared its little fang tips again, indicating Xia Qing was right.

If they weren't brain-domain evolvers, there was no need to use firearms to kill them, because killing them might invite bigger trouble.

Xia Qing took off her protective mask and hood, wiped her sweat with an absorbent towel, and began making arrangements, "Back at the hunting ground, they wanted to steal our prey, followed us all the way here and still won't give up. As long as they don't attack first, we don't need to bother with them—when it gets dark they'll definitely return to their nests."

Neither of these two raptor species had night vision, so they would definitely return to raptor territory before dark.