Chapter 1893

Inside the cave halfway up the mountain, twelve wolves and two otters were lying. The Black Wolf, Scar Wolf, and Frowning Wolf were among them, but Lao Er was not.

Xia Qing let out a slight sigh of relief, took out a dry towel to wipe the acid rain and wolf fur off her protective mask and gloves, took out a pair of sterile gloves, put them on, and began to check the situation of the wounded.

These wolves were all poisoned by snakes, without any torn skin or broken bones.

It seemed that the first combat echelon of the snake pack that invaded Mountain No. 55 consisted of small and medium-sized poisonous snakes, and the medium-sized pythons, large pythons, and giant pythons hadn't gone into battle yet.

During the first echelon's attack, the handsome giant wolf had already brought Xia Qing over, so this time during the battle with the pythons, there hadn't been any seriously wounded members with broken waists or broken legs.

Another reason why there were no seriously wounded members was that the bear pack didn't participate in the battle. As for the reason, she could ask the Broken-Waist Wolf later. Now the most urgent thing was to treat the poisoned members of the wolf pack.

This, Xia Qing was good at.

She quickly injected different types of antidotes into each wolf according to their poisoning symptoms and discussed with the Broken-Waist Wolf, "Broken-Waist, I only have four antidotes in my backpack. You go to the cave on the fourth peak of Mountain No. 50, and take our clinic..."

Before Xia Qing could finish, she heard movement behind her. She turned her head and saw Little Wolf Brother carrying an emergency medicine box, running in from outside.

"You brought all the antivenom serum from the hospital? Little Wolf Brother did well!" Xia Qing opened the emergency medicine box, injected the antidote into the poisoned wolves one by one, "Broken-Waist, call the members with external injuries over too, I'll treat them."

The Broken-Waist Wolf went out and howled twice. Little Wolf Sister, whose paw was injured, Little Four-Eyes, Big Guy, and other wounded members who were scratched by branches and stones during the battle all came over.

Still no Lao Er.

After finishing the treatment of the wounded, Xia Qing sprinkled snake repellent powder near the cave entrance and left all the medicine that could repel snakes in her backpack to the Broken-Waist Wolf before lowering her voice to ask, "Broken-Waist, Lao Er and the wolf cubs aren't hurt, right?"

The wolf cubs were the most important objects of protection. Lao Er was the evolved wolf that took care of and protected the wolf cubs. It didn't come over, so it should be with the cubs.

The Broken-Waist Wolf grinned, indicating that the wolf cubs and Lao Er were very safe.

The heart Xia Qing had been holding in her throat finally dropped back into her stomach, "Were the three giant pythons that fled killed?"

Little Wolf Brother kept his mouth shut, Little Wolf Sister, whose front paw was bandaged, roared angrily, and Broken-Leg Sister, who came to visit the Black Wolf, followed suit and cursed.

It was normal that the Head Wolf and the handsome giant wolf couldn't kill the three giant pythons even after going into battle. Rainy days were full of water everywhere, which was the pythons' home court, not to mention that the three giant pythons were coiled with acid snakes. If they didn't go ashore, the wolf pack wouldn't have a chance to kill them.

Xia Qing asked again, "Were the pythons driven away? Are we safe here now?"

Little Wolf Brother turned his head to look at his father, and the Broken-Waist Wolf turned to look at the handsome giant wolf howling at the sky outside the cave.

Finding that the handsome giant wolf had no reaction, the Broken-Waist Wolf shook the acid rain off its head and revealed two small, bloody fangs at Xia Qing.

Little Wolf Brother, standing next to his father, also revealed the same smile at Xia Qing.

"As long as it's safe." Xia Qing also smiled and discussed business with the Broken-Waist Wolf, "Brother Handsome Wolf, can I go to the cave where the Acid Wu Grass grows and harvest the Acid Wu Grass that was soaked in water? If it's soaked for a while longer, the leaves of the Acid Wu Grass might melt."

Last year, the Broken-Waist Wolf used the Acid Wu Grass from Mountain No. 55 and the medicinal herbs in the Python Pool to exchange for a pink mobile phone and a pink notebook. Therefore, the Acid Wu Grass in the cave below belonged to Xia Qing. Xia Qing wanted to pick the medicinal herbs, so the Broken-Waist Wolf certainly wouldn't refuse.

One person and one wolf left the recuperation cave, turned around in the dense forest, and entered a long, narrow cave Xia Qing had never been to before.

Although it was past eight o'clock in the morning, the location of this cave was very hidden, and it was pitch black inside. While Xia Qing turned on her headlamp and waited for the Broken-Waist Wolf to move forward, she found quite a few animal hairs on the stone walls at the low places on both sides.

At this height, the hairs weren't rubbed off by wolves; they should be from the otters living on Mountain No. 55.

Sure enough, after one person and one wolf walked another ten meters forward, the urgent shrieks of otters came from the depths of the cave. They issued a warning to Xia Qing, not allowing her to continue forward.

After the Broken-Waist Wolf let out a few low howls, the otters' shrieks stopped.

Xia Qing followed the Broken-Waist Wolf into the cave where the Acid Wu Grass grew and found that this originally very dry cave had indeed flooded. There were three nests built with branches and dry grass at the highest point in the cave. Six otters lay in the nests that had already been half-soaked in water, roaring angrily at Xia Qing.

This sound was a bit like a dog barking.

When the giant pythons occupied Mountain No. 55, this cave, which flowed with unpolluted spring water and grew Acid Wu Grass, was the place where the pythons shed their skin; after the wolf pack occupied this place, the python cave connected to this cave was filled in by Xia Qing, and this cave became the otters' residence.

Xia Qing had some friendship with the foxes, leopards, and honey badgers in the northern wolf pack's territory, but she had no friendship at all with the otters. These little guys with a very strong sense of territory made Xia Qing's head ache with their barking.

The Broken-Waist Wolf, blocking the front, flicked its tail, signaling Xia Qing to act quickly.

"Okay." Xia Qing put down her backpack, entered the cave, waded through water more than a meter deep to the stone wall where the Acid Wu Grass grew, bent down, and quickly scooped out the two clusters of Acid Wu Grass that had been submerged in water, together with the sandy soil at their roots.

This Acid Wu Grass, which looked very much like the succulent plant Echeveria, hadn't been soaked in water for long, and the leaves hadn't deteriorated or melted.

Xia Qing used the unpolluted spring water constantly flowing down from the stone wall to rinse the leaves of the 5 Acid Wu Grass plants clean, and with the help of the light from her headlamp, she carefully checked the Acid Wu Grass growing in the depressions and crevices of the stone wall above the water level, finding that 6 leaves had been cut off from 2 Acid Wu Grass plants.

When Xia Qing first entered this cave last year, there were a total of 6 clusters and 16 Acid Wu Grass plants growing on this stone wall.

Now Xia Qing had dug away 2 clusters, leaving 6 clusters and 15 plants.

The 2 Acid Wu Grass seedlings growing together and the 1 seedling growing alone were new ones that had grown this year.

Last summer, Xia Qing asked the Broken-Waist Wolf to scatter sandy soil mixed with Acid Wu Grass seeds here.

The very delicate and precious medicinal herb Acid Wu Grass wasn't hard to raise at all by the unpolluted spring in the northern evolved forest of Hui 3. Letting the evolved wolves scatter some soil and sow seeds by the spring water could also make them grow.

After exiting this cave, Xia Qing carefully put the 5 grass seedlings of different sizes into the sample box and asked, "Broken-Waist, did you come to cut the Acid Wu Grass before the battle started?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf tilted its head and grinned, revealing its snow-white, cute little fangs.

Being cute wouldn't work!

Xia Qing stretched out her hand, "The Acid Wu Grass here belongs to me. Each leaf that grows is worth 50,000 points, so 6 leaves are 300,000. Brother Handsome Wolf, will you pay with points or Yi stones?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf closed its mouth and looked at Xia Qing seriously.

"You think you shouldn't pay points?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf nodded.