Chapter 1742: Sister Qing Must Have Had a Brain-Region Evolution

After soothing Little Wolf Girl, Xia Qing continued discussing the task contribution points with Broken-Waist Wolf.

"Broken-Waist, you and Little Wolf Girl took on the responsibility of surrounding the prey, and during the escort you two also handled the defense mission. Watching Huo Zhun, Shi Du, and Guan Tong were the team members carrying the prey, and Captain Hu was the driver. I wasn't just the main force in capturing and carrying the prey—I also built ties with Xiong Wang and successfully formed a hunting alliance with three evolved bears. Without me, you and Little Wolf Girl would never have been able to team up with Xiong Wang and enter the valley to hunt; when the giant bird attacked us, Xiong Wang wouldn't have thrown stones to protect us either, right?"

The four humans on the helicopter heard Xia Qing's words, and their admiration and respect for her rose another huge notch.

Broken-Waist Wolf raised a paw and gestured, aowu aowu.

"You're right, you were the guide for this mission, and I agreed at the time to give you one prey animal as a guide's fee. To complete the mission smoothly, I gave Xiong Wang seven packs of freeze-dried meat and a one-jin jar of honey—that also counts as mission expenses…"

Broken-Waist Wolf raised his paw again, aowu aowu.

Xia Qing's attitude was firm. "I know you want to bring meat back for my lord the Queen and your companions in the northern wolf pack, but I also have over nine hundred human companions waiting for meat…"

"Aowu aowu…"

"The situation with soil anaerobic bacteria evolution is more severe inside human territory than in the Evolution Forest…"

Everyone…

At 8:30 in the evening, after circling a large portion of the northern Evolution Forest, the helicopter first landed on Mountain Fifty-Four.

After Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Girl jumped off the helicopter, Xia Qing carried down the prey allocated to Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Girl, then discussed with Broken-Waist Wolf, "Broken-Waist, can I let Wolf Lao Er have a few more bites of green-light meat?"

Wolf Lao Er takes care of the wolf pack and the pups—it's very hard work.

Broken-Waist Wolf bared his fangs in a grin, indicating it was fine. The impatient Little Wolf Girl had already thrown back her head and howled, calling her companions to come carry the prey.

Seeing a silver-gray giant wolf charging over bathed in moonlight, Xia Qing returned to the helicopter and, with her human companions, brought the remaining prey back to Mountain Forty-Nine.

After the helicopter landed on the pad, Xia Qing distributed mission benefits to the four human team members.

The purpose of this team outing to hunt—picking up leftovers—was to increase the meat supply for the employees of Center Nine. So when Xia Qing recruited team members, she proposed that this time payment would be a fixed reward rather than a task split.

In other words, regardless of whether the hunt succeeded, the mission pay for Watching Huo Zhun and the other three was fixed.

Returning fully loaded this time, the amount of edible prey harvested far exceeded expectations, so of course Xia Qing wouldn't be stingy. "You all completed the mission exceptionally well. Each of you gets a reward of two jin of green-light venison and one set of yellow-light deer intestines."

Hearing they could get so much meat, Watching Huo Zhun's fleshy face broke into a grin. "Thanks, Sister Qing. If I bring this back, my dad will be thrilled to death."

Beard Feng, Guan Tong, and Shi Du all beamed with joy.

Xia Qing nodded and continued distributing benefits. "Do you want deer blood? Green-light is 400 points per jin, yellow-light is 250 points per jin. Each person can exchange up to half a jin of green-light and one jin of yellow-light."

Watching Huo Zhun spoke up immediately. "I'll take one and a half jin. Thanks, Sister Qing."

In a year of disasters, everyone worked this hard—wasn't it all for better food, warmer clothes, and better shelter? Watching Huo Zhun would never pass up any chance to get high-quality food.

The price Xia Qing quoted was the public market price, but deer blood bought on the market at that price wasn't freshly killed. Beard Feng and Guan Tong also took the maximum—one and a half jin of fresh deer blood each.

Shi Du only took half a jin of green-light deer blood. Shi Zhong needed long-term medication to treat an immune system disease, and they still had to save points to build a house and buy fertilizer, so the Shi family always lived frugally. If green-light deer blood weren't so nutritionally valuable, Shi Du really couldn't bear to buy it.

After distributing the deer blood, Xia Qing pointed at the antlers piled beside them like dry firewood and said, "That pair of hardness-evolved antlers—Brother Huo, take them back and give them to your dad, see if they're useful."

Watching Huo Zhun cheerfully agreed. "Sure thing, thanks Sister Qing. Once my dad makes some handy tools from the antlers, I'll bring them over to you."

After distributing the benefits, Xia Qing asked, "Is there anything else you want to exchange for?"

Beard Feng spoke up first. "Sister Qing, can I exchange for one yellow-light deer hide?"

"Sure." Xia Qing picked up a bag. "This is the most intact of the four yellow-light deer hides—it only has three small cuts no longer than ten centimeters."

"Thanks, Sister Qing." Beard Feng took the hide and handed Xia Qing a points card worth 1800 points. According to the Territory Alliance rules, supply exchanges between alliance members must be settled at market price—that's the price for deer hide.

After the captain exchanged for supplies, Guan Tong asked a little sheepishly, "Sister Qing, can I exchange for a pair of antlers? My father-in-law is an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project of bone and horn carving—he loves carving things."

Guan Tong's girlfriend, Zeng Xiang, is a Level-3 olfactory evolver on the Azure Dragon Squad.

Last August, after Zeng Xiang's sister and brother-in-law died in the Deadly Rain, her father took his three-year-old granddaughter and left the safe zone's outer city, entering Territory One to work in the greenhouse maintenance group.

Most of the greenhouses in Territory One have been replaced with hardness-evolved bamboo materials. Zeng Peiyan used to carve bone, now he repairs bamboo—it's still working in a related field.

Xia Qing nodded. "Sure. Third Brother took a pair of green-light ones. From what's left, pick the nice-looking ones—any you like, you can take them."

Of the ten deer hunted today, two had their antlers completely broken off—no one knew where they'd fallen—so there were eight pairs of antlers on the helicopter. Zhang San took the most intact pair of green-light antlers, Lord Huo Lei got a pair of hardness-evolved ones, leaving six pairs.

Hearing Xia Qing tell him to pick freely, Guan Tong's eyes lit up. "Thanks, Sister Qing!"

After distributing the supplies, Beard Feng and Guan Tong stayed on Mountain Forty-Nine to clean the helicopter. Shi Du and Watching Huo Zhun each helped Xia Qing carry a yellow-light sambar deer on their shoulders, while Xia Qing herself carried a green-light deer on her back down the mountain, returning to Territory Three.

At this moment, Shi Du's admiration for Xia Qing reached an incomparable height. "Sister Qing, when Third Brother has time, have him check your brain—you must have had a brain-region evolution!"

Watching Huo Zhun immediately nodded. "Definitely evolved!"

This hunting mission captured a total of two green, four yellow, and four red—ten evolved sambar deer in all, with a gross weight close to five thousand jin.

Inside the helicopter cabin, after hearing Xia Qing finish explaining the contribution points for the two wolves, Shi Du and Watching Huo Zhun both thought she would give the two wolves at most one green and one yellow—two prey animals. They never expected her to give away one green, two yellow, and four red—seven in total!

Besides that, Xia Qing also gave the northern wolf pack the livers, kidneys, and two yellow-light hearts from the one green and two yellow edible prey animals she had been allocated.

Although the seven prey animals belonging to the wolf pack had all been skinned by Xia Qing, and the intestines, stomachs, and lower legs of the three edible prey animals went to Xia Qing, how much did those bits amount to?

Broken-Waist Wolf and Little Wolf Girl were both very satisfied with this distribution method, so happy they couldn't close their mouths. Shi Du and the other three, meanwhile, were full of awe.

Why? Because Xia Qing traded four red-light sambar deer with a total weight of 1870 jin to Broken-Waist Wolf in exchange for 1670 jin of yellow-light crocodile!

Why did Broken-Waist Wolf agree to the trade? Because these four deer, with Deadly Element content between 15-19‰, are red-light food for humans but yellow-light food for wolves. Compared to crocodile, wolves prefer to eat sambar deer!

If she hadn't had a brain-region evolution, how could she have come up with such a brilliant distribution method?