Chapter 1804: Rescuing the bullfrog

The leeches sprayed by the medicine, as if they had been electrocuted, immediately curled their bodies and detached from Xia Qing's protective suit, falling to the ground.

The water birds that had been waiting for a long time swarmed up, grabbed the leeches on the ground, and flew away quickly.

Seeing Xia Qing clean up the difficult leeches so easily, the Big Gray Wolf hiding in the bushes revealed an expression of surprise, its pair of yellowish-brown eyes staring tightly at the thing in Xia Qing's hand.

The Broken-Faced Little Wolf jumped to Xia Qing's side, pointing its claw at her head. Xia Qing understood immediately, sprayed a few times at the head of the protective suit, and sure enough, several leeches fell off in balls.

Xia Qing turned around and asked, "Broken-Faced one, are there any leeches on my back?"

The Broken-Faced Little Wolf closed its mouth, looking serious.

"None? Okay. Many thanks to the Broken-Faced one for the reminder, otherwise I wouldn't have known there were still several leeches this big on top of my head." Xia Qing thanked the Broken-Faced Little Wolf and then asked, "Where is Crooked-Headed one?"

The Broken-Faced Little Wolf turned its head and looked at the position where the Big Gray Wolf and the Crooked-Headed Little Wolf were hiding.

Xia Qing looked over and found that there were carrion-eating birds circling above that area, so she understood that the Broken-Faced Little Wolf had already given the prey it caught to the Crooked-Headed Little Wolf, and only then ran over to help her guard the shelter and backpack.

Broken-Faced one, truly the most loving and warmest little wolf in this world.

Xia Qing burrowed into the shelter, took off the diving suit, changed into a protective suit, then put away the shelter, rewarded the Broken-Faced Little Wolf with a green-light egg, and then packed up her things, preparing to go to reunite with her companions and continue to carry out the sampling mission.

Before leaving, she took photos of the bullfrog in the water box and the leech in the bag respectively, sent them to Fourth Brother, and then dialed Fourth Brother's video call.

The call didn't go through. Xia Qing guessed that either the other party didn't have a phone with them, or it wasn't convenient to answer now. Just as she put away her phone and prepared to set off, she saw this gray-furred Old Wolf walk out of the evolutionary forest by the stream.

"Fourth Brother, when did you come over?" Xia Qing greeted enthusiastically and then let it look at her harvest, "I caught a bullfrog and a giant leech. After Third Brother tests the quality and sets the price, I'll transfer the points to you. Also, just now I used the special ointment to treat the external wounds on the Crooked-Headed Little Wolf's hind paws; you have to pay me 880 points."

The Old Wolf's gaze fell on the satchel at Xia Qing's waist.

The second-hand dealer Xia Qing understood immediately, took out spare medicine from her backpack, and asked with a beaming smile, "Fourth Brother wants to exchange for the medicine that can spray leeches into balls and make them fall off? This is a special evolutionary forest anti-insect medicine, 440 points per bottle. Does Fourth Brother want to exchange?"

The Old Wolf nodded again and raised its claw to write an "8".

"Okay, Fourth Brother, you truly have foresight and vision. Only you could raise such great little wolves as Broken-Faced and Crooked-Headed..." After Xia Qing praised this big client with vision enthusiastically, she explained, "I only brought two bottles today, I'll give you one first, and the remaining seven bottles, I'll give them to you when you go to deliver food to Pian Hu tonight?"

The Old Wolf nodded, indicating agreement.

"Alright, the treatment fee plus the spray totals 4400 points. After Third Brother gives the price for the bullfrog and the leech, we'll settle the account." Xia Qing plucked a few blades of grass, deftly wove a net bag to hold the spray bottle, handed it to the Broken-Faced Little Wolf beside her, and then instructed, "Fourth Brother, after Crooked-Headed eats its fill, remember to carry it to a safe and dry cave, let it rest for two days, and its hind paws will recover."

Fourth Brother nodded in agreement. Xia Qing said goodbye to the Broken-Faced Little Wolf and shouted goodbye to the Crooked-Headed Little Wolf and the Big Gray Wolf in the bushes, then rushed at full speed toward Mountain No. 28.

After arriving at the door of the cave laboratory next to the No. 5 danger zone, Xia Qing immediately handed over the water box, "Brother Song, this is a green-light bullfrog bitten by a leech in the water box. Please treat it and try your best to save its life."

After the leech bit the prey, it would secrete hirudin with strong anticoagulant function. Therefore, after the leech was removed, the bullfrog's wound kept bleeding, and the water in the sampling box turned red. If she couldn't still perceive the Yi-element magnetic field, Xia Qing would have suspected that the bullfrog lying motionless in the sampling box was already dead.

Zhang Song immediately entered the working state and asked, "Sister Qing, what part of the bullfrog's body is the wound on? Did you bring back the leech that bit it? Did you bring the original water sample?"

Xia Qing replied, "The wound is on the left hind leg and abdomen. I brought back the remains of the three leeches, and I brought 1 liter of water from the water pool."

"Okay, Sister Qing, disinfect first, then test the leeches; Zhang Zhang, prepare the testing instruments; Brother Dazi, after I take the bullfrog out, you clean the water box." Zhang Song, who had already put on rubber gloves, assigned tasks and then fished the bullfrog out, checking the wounds on the bullfrog's body.

The bullfrog weighing more than four pounds was startled and kicked its hind legs, but the force was soft and it couldn't break free from Zhang Song's hand, "Hirudin is playing a role, the bullfrog's coagulation function has been destroyed." Zhang Song instructed, "Zhang Zhang, 0.5% sterile saline and diluted povidone-iodine, measure the bullfrog's heartbeat and body temperature."

"Okay." Zhang Zhang took medicine bottles and instruments out of the storage cabinet inside the cave.

Xia Qing, who had fully disinfected, entered the laboratory and walked toward another operating table, taking out the leeches she had cut off from the sample bag.

Because the time of death wasn't long, the suckers of this leech were still wriggling slightly.

Xia Qing, inside the transparent tent, picked up the scalpel on the operating table, deftly cut the leech for testing, and then reported, "Brother Song, the jaw valves of the three leeches have no toxic components, and the Qi-element content is 9.4‰."

"Okay." Zhang Song responded and reported the situation of the bullfrog, "The bullfrog's heartbeat is slow, its body temperature is slightly low, there is no obvious foreign matter in the wound, and no signs of infection spreading are seen. It only needs preventive medication. Sister Qing, go rest for a while, leave it to me and Zhang Zhang here."

Xia Qing responded and went outside the laboratory, opening the other bag she brought back.

After seeing what kind of thing the ball that was two sizes bigger than a basketball was, Shi Du's scalp went numb, "Giant leech?!"

Zhang Zhang Hongda estimated, "If unfolded, the length of this leech would be two meters, right?"

Yu Shou observed more carefully, "The fishing net is wrapped so tightly that it couldn't break its skin; it should be an evolutionary hardness of mid-level or above."

Xia Qing nodded, "It should be. I'll test the quality first."

This leech weighed at least forty or fifty pounds. If it was green-light quality, it could be sold for quite a few points after being skinned.

The three of Zhang Zhang Hongda stared at the Qi-element detector and issued a regretful sound when they saw the red light turn on. It was a pity.

Red-light leeches couldn't be used as medicine, so only this hard-evolution leech skin was valuable.

Xia Qing didn't kill the leech and skin it directly, but asked, "I'll take the leech back and let Third Brother see if it has research value. If not, do you guys need leech skin? 20% off."

The three of Shi Du took this sampling mission with Xia Qing and received fixed remuneration. All the harvests during the mission process belonged to Xia Qing. According to the team rules, Xia Qing could take out a portion of the harvest and exchange it with team members at a price 10-30% lower than the market price, which was equivalent to the benefits of this mission.

If the captain did this, it represented that she was very satisfied with the performance of the team members during the mission and hoped that there would be opportunities to carry out missions together in the future.

This kind of hard-evolution skin had many uses, but Xia Qing already possessed two high-level hard-evolution snake-skin clothes and two sets of special protective suits, so she didn't need this kind of skin.

The three of Shi Du exchanged glances, and Shi Du opened his mouth to ask, "Sister Qing, if Third Brother doesn't want it, the three of us will take it." ===== CHAPTER 1805 =====