Chapter 1917: Spring Sowing

Xia Qing and the allies worked on the Fifty-Ninth Mountain until the sun went down before collecting the team and returning to the territory.

Except for Xia Qing, only Territory No. 12 completed the soil transportation mission in one day, and the remaining five territories had to form a team to come over for at least another day tomorrow.

Because they were reluctant to spend points to hire strength-type evolvers or mechanical dogs at a high price, they wanted to rely on the strength of the personnel in their own territories to carry the soil up.

Xia Qing would also come over tomorrow, but she was leading another group of allies to harvest hard bamboo-wood on the first and second peaks of the Fifty-Ninth Mountain.

Hard bamboo-wood is a high-quality building material and also an aggressive death-evolutionary plant; no one dared to plant it in large areas in their territory. To meet the demand for materials, during the period from thawing this year to the first rain of death, the Territory Alliance members formed teams to go out four times, digging up bamboo roots on the Fifty-Ninth Mountain and burying them in the new planting area, expanding the hard bamboo-wood planting area to 85 mu.

During the 50-hour rain of death, the territory lords protected their respective territories and could not, and dared not, go out to cut down death-evolutionary bamboo. Now the rain of death period had ended, and the important farm work in the territory had been mostly done, so the allies couldn't wait to cut bamboo to build greenhouses, especially those territories that had suffered heavy losses in the strong winds and hail.

These bamboos of course couldn't be cut for free, each selling for 10 points.

Who were these points paid to? Of course, Territory No. 7. Because the Fifty-Ninth Mountain was the experimental area of Territory No. 7, and it was Territory No. 7 that hired personnel and protected the area including the bamboo forest.

Each territory couldn't cut bamboo without limit, and each territory could cut at most 80 bamboos. This quantity didn't sound like much, but red-leaf bamboo was tall and sturdy, and 11 bamboos split into bamboo boards could build a greenhouse with a planting area of 1 mu.

If the territory lords felt that these bamboos were not enough, they could plant more red-leaf bamboo in their own territories, or they could cut more red-leaf bamboo from the Fifty-Ninth Mountain at a price of 20 points per bamboo.

As for trivial matters such as how many people each territory sent out, how many bamboos were cut, and what time to gather, Xia Qing didn't need to arrange them personally; Tang Huai had already taken the initiative to arrange them.

Xia Qing's mission tomorrow was to lead the team and execute a warning mission to protect and escort the allies cutting bamboo. After completing this mission, she would go to the hidden valley under the third peak of the Fifty-Ninth Mountain to plant peanuts, purple sweet potatoes, and spinach.

After driving the off-road vehicle into the territory range from the East Gate, Xia Qing parked the car directly outside the South Gate of Territory No. 7.

Subsequently, 13 people from Territory No. 6, Territory No. 10, and Territory No. 15 drilled out of the off-road vehicle.

Overloaded? There were no traffic police in the years of natural disasters, so as many people as could be stuffed into the car were stuffed in.

The allies who had worked hard for a day returned to their respective territories. After Xia Qing entered Territory No. 7 through the security check, she first went to the disinfection area of the experimental building to wash off the soil on her protective suit, then rushed to the impeccably clean office of her idol, and handed over the equally clean memory stick with her washed and clean hands.

Zhang San quickly finished watching the video, looked up at the new human opposite who was happily gnawing on dragon fruit, didn't mention the three minor mistakes in her operation during the Bear King's dressing change, but asked, "Is Little Broken very busy lately?"

Thinking she had passed perfectly, Xia Qing gnawed on the dragon fruit happily, responding, "Hmm. Your Little Broken has been busy patrolling the territory, catching snakes, and plugging loopholes lately, so busy that it hasn't even had time to open the special training class. I estimate it will be about the same after the day after tomorrow."

Zhang San continued to ask, "Will it still open in the future?"

Xia Qing nodded, "Open, it collected a month's special training fees, it has to open for 30 days, I estimate it will be about the same after the day after tomorrow."

That is to say, this new human whose face had become clean again was going to be beaten again the day after tomorrow. Zhang San was satisfied, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, "Tell Little Broken to catch a few live death-snakes and send them over, I need to verify whether there is a symbiotic relationship between death-snakes and Yi-snakes."

"Good." Xia Qing took a tissue and wiped her mouth, asking, "Third Brother, the golden snub-nosed monkey sent over is related to the Blue-Face little monkey?"

When Xia Qing was carrying soil on the Fifty-Ninth Mountain, Zhang San sent her a message, asking her to go directly to Territory No. 7 after returning to the territory. Although her idol didn't say the reason, Xia Qing knew it must be related to the Blue-Face little monkey.

Zhang San nodded, "Zhang Song confirmed that the golden snub-nosed monkey that invaded the Fifty-First Mountain is H5 from the Hui Seventh Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Research Center, a medium-level brain-domain and medium-level speed evolver, who went missing after being snatched by a bird of prey in January this year."

Xia Qing understood, "It is also one of the twelve golden snub-nosed monkeys that this research institute reported as accidentally lost or dead within three years?"

After the Blue-Face little monkey invaded the Northern Bear Group territory of Hui Third and was captured by Xia Qing, Zhang Song released a video on the internet, publicly condemning the act of illegally taming golden snub-nosed monkeys. Shortly after, the Hui City official sent an investigation team to the Hui Seventh Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Research Center to investigate the incident where the golden snub-nosed monkey J3 became an invading tamed beast.

The investigation results showed that due to backward defense equipment and insufficient guard strength, a total of twelve golden snub-nosed monkeys had escaped or been snatched by birds of prey from the Hui Seventh Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Research Center in the past three years, and their whereabouts were unknown. J3 was one of them.

Zhang San snorted coldly.

Hearing that H5 came from the same base as the Blue-Face little monkey, Xia Qing asked, "Third Brother, were all the twelve golden snub-nosed monkeys reported by Hui Seventh female?"

The Blue-Face little monkey, its mother H2, and H5, which was caught today, among the lost golden snub-nosed monkeys, were all female golden snub-nosed monkeys.

Zhang San took the memory stick back to Xia Qing, took a disinfectant wipe and carefully wiped his computer while answering, "Nine females, one male, and the remaining two were cubs less than one year old, whose gender was not disclosed in the investigation report."

Xia Qing asked, "They sell female golden snub-nosed monkeys to the outside world because females are easier to tame?"

Zhang San leaned on the soft back of the chair and explained in detail, "Golden snub-nosed monkey groups are family-based group-living animals dominated by females. The core that maintains the group is the stable kinship network and mutual aid system formed among females. Therefore, female monkeys tend to obey group decisions and are more easily induced by familiar signals. And they maintain a high degree of vigilance or even rejection toward signals from outsiders or strangers."

Seeing Xia Qing listening very seriously, Zhang San took out the last box of pineapple cubes from the refrigerator and handed it over, continuing the introduction.

"Male golden snub-nosed monkeys enter puberty and will be driven out of the group. Most will form all-male monkey groups with other driven-out male monkeys, and a few will survive alone. These male monkeys will take the opportunity to challenge the male monkeys of other family-based golden snub-nosed monkey groups and compete for the leader position. Therefore, male monkeys are naturally more independent, more aggressive, and uncontrollable, and the cost and difficulty of taming are higher."

Xia Qing opened the clean glass box, used a toothpick to insert two pineapple cubes and handed them to her idol, before continuing to ask for advice, "Third Brother, you just said that female monkeys are more easily induced by familiar signals, what signals are you referring to?"

Zhang San took the toothpick, explained, "They are signals such as calls, actions, and scents. Simply put, female golden snub-nosed monkeys will trust and follow the group members they identify with, and listen to the signals issued by the main members of the group, especially the group leader. And they maintain a high degree of vigilance or even rejection toward signals from outsiders or strangers. The Hui Seventh Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Research Center isolates cubs from mother monkeys and lets humans raise the cubs, which is to make these cubs develop trust and follow humans, reducing taming costs and improving taming success rates."

After listening to her idol's explanation, Xia Qing ate the pineapple cubes silently, and what flashed in her mind was the slow-motion video Zhang Song forwarded of Xia Qing using a sniper rifle to break the collar on the Blue-Face little monkey's neck, and the collar and blood beads flying away from the little monkey's neck, and the paragraph written on it:

After the natural disaster, human survivors lost their homes, relatives, order, and most technology... but some things were not lost, for example: how to use the habits of animals to make them serve themselves. Brain-domain evolutionary animals are both sharp weapons for human survival and the Sword of Damocles hanging over human heads. ===== CHAPTER 1919 =====