Chapter 1777: The Intruder's Goal

"Sister Qing, this is a clip of the intruders captured by our reconnaissance bird."

Inside a hidden cave on Mountain No. 87 in the Hui-3 region, Wei Wei Xianyi, the second platoon leader of the Hui-3 military's main combat regiment, handed a notebook to Xia Qing.

The information revealed in this video was the reason the base commander hadn't dispatched the combat team's snipers, but had instead called Xia Qing personally to make this trip—these intruders were well-equipped; they were either from one of the top two combat teams of a certain base or were an official combat unit of one.

Although combat teams are affiliated with a base, their interests do not entirely align with the base's official stance.

For example, the Hui-3 base and the Hui-1 base are currently rivals, almost to the point of being at each other's throats, yet the Hui-3's top-ranked combat team, Azure Dragon, and the Hui-1's top-ranked combat team, Frost, still maintain a cooperative relationship of intelligence sharing.

If a sniper from a combat team were sent to provide support, and the ones invading the northern evolutionary forest of Hui-3 happened to be from a combat team of another base that had a cooperative relationship with that team, then when the combat team's interests conflicted with the base's interests, that sniper would very likely prioritize the former.

Xia Qing is different. She is an official of the Hui-3 base's Agriculture Department and the lord of the Northern District 1 territory. Her interests align with the base's interests, and she will resolutely execute the base commander's orders.

"Alright."

Xia Qing took the laptop, examined it carefully, and only after confirming that the duration and content of this video were exactly the same as the one the base commander had sent her did she speak, "The base commander has already shown me this video. It has been confirmed that this intruder squad is the same one that piloted an armed helicopter to invade this mountain region on January 14th."

Huh?!

At this, not only Wei Wei Xianyi, but also his deputy squad leader, Xu Yuan, who was cleaning his gun nearby, were stunned.

They hadn't received this intelligence yet, which meant Xia Qing's source of information might not be the Hui-3 base military. Xu Yuan immediately thought of the golden monkey she had rescued some time ago from a large tree in the No. 67 basin while leading a squad, and he asked in a low voice, "Sister Qing, was it confirmed by that golden monkey?"

Xia Qing nodded, "The macaque in the video is not a tamed beast of the intruders, but a member of this intruder squad."

What?!!

Wei Wei Xianyi and Xu Yuan were stunned again. Wei Wei Xianyi asked, "Sister Qing, can you confirm which base these people are from?"

Xia Qing shook her head, "That golden monkey has been kept in a cage, so the information it knows is limited."

The blue-faced little monkey is illiterate. After Xia Qing showed it the video, she could only obtain limited information from its expressions and its nodding or shaking responses.

Wei Wei Xianyi nodded and further deduced, "If the macaque is a member of the human squad, then this squad shouldn't have come from Hui-6."

Judging by geographical location, the humans invading the Hui-3 base's evolutionary forest from the north are most likely from Hui-6, Lan-5, and Red-11. The humans from the Hui-6 base and macaques are at odds; it's impossible for the two sides to form a squad together, but one cannot judge that these intruders aren't from Hui-6 based on this alone.

Xia Qing reminded them, "If they are from Hui-6, then the goal of this squad invading the northern evolutionary forest again might be to find and eliminate the golden monkey, so it doesn't reveal important information. Regardless of where they are from or what they are here for, the base commander has personally ordered that not a single one of these people, birds, or monkeys can be let go. Capture them alive if you can; if you can't, eliminate them all."

"Yes!"

After Wei Wei Xianyi responded in a low, murderous voice, he began to introduce the combat power of the combat team he led to Xia Qing, "Sister Qing, our squadron has a total of 47 people: 4 high-level evolvers, 16 general evolvers, and 27 ordinary soldiers. I am the captain, a level-6 speed evolver, skilled in close-quarters combat; the first platoon leader, Xu Yuan, is a level-4 visual and level-5 endurance dual-type evolver, an intermediate sniper; the second platoon leader, Zhang Dong, is a level-5 auditory evolver, currently executing a surveillance mission in the northern stone forest..."

During the years of natural disasters, most evolvers are unwilling to join the army and be bound by the military's strict discipline, preferring instead to join combat teams or establish their own. Therefore, in situations where military funding is tight and military strength is insufficient, if used well, the combat power of combat teams can become an important force in protecting the base's safety; if used poorly, they become the greatest hidden danger to the base's safety.

Currently, the Hui-3 base has 33,000 enlisted soldiers, including 980 evolvers and over 32,000 ordinary soldiers. Evolver soldiers account for about 3%. Wei Wei Xianyi's squad belongs to the main combat force, so the proportion of evolvers is higher than the average.

In stark contrast to this is the Azure Dragon combat team, which has a total of over 600 people but possesses over 240 evolvers.

At the end of last year, the total number of evolver members in the Azure Dragon combat team was still over 260. How many there will be in half a month depends on how many people from the Luo Pei squad, who went to the ruins continent to pan for gold, can return alive.

After listening to Wei Wei Xianyi's introduction, Xia Qing began to report her own support combat power, "I am a level-9.5 visual and level-7 strength dual-type evolver, a top-tier sniper, with medium close-quarters combat power and the ability to protect myself."

After introducing her own combat power, Xia Qing opened the bag at her waist, and a beautiful, pitch-black raven flew out and landed on Xia Qing's shoulder, making Wei Wei Xianyi and Xu Yuan's eyes widen.

Xia Qing introduced, "This is my companion—the brain-domain evolution raven, Moli. It can communicate with humans through language and can execute aerial surveillance and bomb-dropping missions; its partner is called Bai Yan, the bird lord of the third peak in the western Mountain No. 86 region, a brain-domain and speed dual-type evolver. During tomorrow's battle, Bai Yan will be responsible for leading the team to capture the intruders' tamed barn owl and myna."

As for the Fortune Wolf hiding not far away, there was no need to introduce it. Because unless it was a last resort, Xia Qing wouldn't let it participate in the battle.

Bai Yan? Xu Yuan asked in a low voice, "Sister Qing, the leader of the raven flock that guards the large prickly ash tree married the tamed bird of the No. 8 territory lord?!"

"Xia Qing!" The raven Moli was unhappy, spreading its left wing to pat Xia Qing's head, signaling her to speak.

Xia Qing sternly corrected Xu Yuan's choice of words, "Moli and Bai Yan are together. Moli is Xin Yu's companion and the bird lord of the No. 8 territory and the third district of Mountain No. 49; it is not a tamed beast."

"It was my poor choice of words, my apologies." Xu Yuan immediately corrected himself and took out a green-light pine nut from his pocket to apologize, "Does Moli eat green-light pine nuts?"

Moli retracted its wings, squatted on Xia Qing's shoulder, and feigned sleep, ignoring Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan turned to look at Xia Qing. His usually very firm and serious face looked pitiful at this moment.

Xia Qing let Moli enter the bag to rest before explaining to Xu Yuan, "Moli doesn't eat food provided by people it isn't familiar with."

After hearing Xia Qing's words, Xu Yuan realized his actions were a bit abrupt, so he put away the pine nut and explained, "Apologies, the tamed birds in the military don't have this habit."

Xia Qing nodded, "The military's reconnaissance birds and military dogs are trained with many people, so they have a higher degree of trust in humans."

After both sides finished introducing their combat power, they began to lay out tactics.

Half an hour later, Xia Qing took the two ravens to a sniper position on the second peak of Mountain No. 87 and crawled into her sleeping bag to catch up on sleep, saving her physical strength and energy for the battle after dawn.

A silver-gray giant wolf led its four companions to a safe hiding spot before returning to the dense forest 200 meters from Xia Qing's sniper point, coldly staring at the beast on the snowy mountain. ===== CHAPTER 1778 =====