Chapter 424: Where Is the Squad?

She hadn't expected Xin Yu to come online too. Xia Qing replied at once, "After trading them to Third Brother, there wasn't much left. I dug out a few squirrel burrows a couple of days ago. Luck wasn't bad — got over 40 jin of yellow-pine nuts. Want some?"

"Yes. I'll take some torreya nuts too, to round it up." Xin Yu responded, "I'll send someone over to pick them up now."

"Alright." Rounding it up meant a hundred jin. Like Third Brother, Xin Yu had come to back her up.

Zhou Xun was forced online again. "Xia Qing, how much torreya nuts do you still have, and how many points per jin?"

Xia Qing politely declined. "None left. I'm really sorry."

Zhou Xun listened to Xia Qing's unusually off tone and got a prickly feeling — he just knew this woman was about to cause trouble.

Xia Qing weighed out a hundred jin of snake meat, packed it into a carrying basket, and hauled it to the south gate of her territory. The hardness of the snake meat exceeded her imagination and raised her expectations.

They say you become what you eat. Xia Qing hoped that after eating several hundred jin of snake meat, it would promote the hardening of her muscles and bones.

Hardness evolution paired with strength evolution was a perfect match. By then, her combat power would directly double.

Going around the wild-grass wall and opening the iron gate, Xia Qing was surprised to see a roughly eighty-percent-new electric car parked outside the south gate.

The car door opened. A man about 1.6 meters tall, with greying short hair, wearing a brand-new suit that clashed with the territory, stepped out and bowed to Xia Qing. The two armed bodyguards in protective suits behind him towered over him by a good margin.

"Young Lady Xia, a pleasure to meet you. I'm Zhou Zhaoping, assistant to the Lord of Territory Eight. The Lord sent me to collect the supplies for the exchange with you."

Xia Qing hadn't expected Xin Yu to give her this much face. She hurried forward two steps. "Uncle Zhou, a pleasure to meet you."

Inside Territory Two's wild-grass wall, Xu Pin caught sight of half of Xia Qing's face behind her protective visor, and a glint flashed through his eyes.

This woman Xia Qing had actually gotten prettier. Good news.

Xia Qing set the carrying basket filled with opaque packaging bags on the ground. "There are pine nuts and torreya nuts in here. Please inspect the goods first, then I'll put them in the trunk for you. They're quite heavy."

"I wouldn't dare trouble Young Lady Xia." Zhou Zhaoping had the bodyguards load the carrying basket into the car's trunk and handed over an empty points card.

Inspect the goods? No need.

Xia Qing accepted it with both hands and thanked him.

"Young Lady Xia is too kind. It should be me thanking you." Zhou Zhaoping spoke with complete sincerity. "You are the first friend the Lord can actually talk to. When you're not busy, please come by Territory Eight and sit a while."

Hearing Zhou Zhaoping's words, Xu Pin's face fell. He glanced at Zhou Xun beside him.

Zhou Xun hung his head, wishing he could jump into the pit Tang Huai had dug and bury himself.

He was just a visual evolver, damn it. How would he know how two women who never even leave their territory became friends?

Xin Yu backing her up like this, Xia Qing certainly wouldn't undermine her own act. "Uncle Zhou, just call me Xia Qing. I've been busy these days fencing the walls and building greenhouses. Once the vegetables are planted, I'll come over."

Hearing Xia Qing mention the walls, Zhou Zhaoping laughed. "That day, the plane carrying our supplies was about to take off when the Lord suddenly called and said we had to add iron mesh. I said the helicopter really couldn't carry any more. The Lord called the chairman directly, added another helicopter and a construction crew, and specifically requested Squad Deng Yuhui. I was puzzled at the time. It wasn't until I got to the territory that I realized it was to fence the walls for you."

Zhou Zhaoping spoke so sincerely that not only Xu Pin in Territory Two, but even Xia Qing herself felt that she and Xin Yu really were very good friends. The more they talked, the happier they got.

It wasn't until people from Territory Seven walked over that Zhou Zhaoping raised his hand to wave at them from afar, got in the car, and left.

Xu Pin saw Zhou Zhaoping wave, then turned and actually saw Yan Long walking over. He instinctively straightened up and held his breath.

Yan Long's insight was extremely sharp. Her gaze locked onto Xu Pin standing inside Territory Two's wild-grass wall with bullet-like precision.

Xu Pin, who possessed extrasensory perception evolution, felt the piercing malice. Yan Long wanted to kill him!

Xu Pin immediately jumped into the pit Tang Huai had dug. The two bodyguards quickly shielded him with their bodies. Though Zhou Xun didn't know what was going on, he unhesitatingly jumped in after them, curled up into a ball, and covered his head.

"Sister Yan, Brother Huo, Brother Ya."

Xia Qing naturally saw Yan Long's murderous gaze and also heard the commotion inside Territory Two. She raised her hand and warmly invited them into her territory.

Her idol was giving her too much face — actually sending Sister Yan over to back her up!

Da Ya cheerfully explained why so many people had come. "Third Brother said there were a lot of mad dogs these past few days, afraid I might get bitten, so he had Brother Huo come with me."

Huo Zhun greeted Xia Qing very enthusiastically, eager to meet the members of her squad.

Anyone who could hunt a hardness-evolved python — Xia Qing's squad's strength and weaponry definitely couldn't be bad.

The moment Yan Long opened her mouth, the drill instructor aura came out. "I came to test your physical fitness and design a special training plan."

"Alright." Xia Qing had agreed to undergo Yan Long's special training together with Tan Qi. She had assumed she was just an afterthought, but she hadn't expected Yan Long to design a plan based on her situation. This filled Xia Qing with anticipation for the training.

After Territory Three's iron gate closed, Xu Pin didn't dare poke his head out of the pit, because he could still feel Yan Long's piercing malice.

It wasn't until the malice disappeared — meaning the distance between Yan Long and him had exceeded two hundred meters — that Xu Pin climbed out of the pit, his face dark enough to frighten people.

He was sure he had never offended Yan Long or Hui Yi Jun's military, nor done anything against Zhang San. Why would Yan Long want to kill him?

Because of Xia Qing? Was it on Zhang San's orders? Had Xia Qing and Zhang San's relationship already gotten that good? Wasn't she Beard Feng's mistress?

And why would Xin Yu send Zhou Zhaoping over to back Xia Qing up? Why would Iron Rooster Yang Jin also stick his nose in?

"Heh."

Hearing Deputy Captain Xu, covered in dirt, suddenly let out a cold laugh, Zhou Xun in the pit wished he could grab a handful of dirt and bury himself.

The reconnaissance squad member inside the wild-grass wall took off his earpiece, shook his head, and rubbed his ear. "Captain Xu, Territory Three's anti-eavesdropping equipment has been fully installed. Electromagnetic interference has been activated. Our devices can no longer be used."

"Withdraw the equipment and send a hearing evolver over. Keep your eyes glued to that woman in Territory Three until she walks out begging for mercy." Xu Pin dusted off his clothes and left the wild-grass wall with a cold smile.

This woman Xia Qing wasn't bad-looking, but she wasn't smart. Did she think that handing out a few jin of dried nuts and having these people come by for a visit would scare him?

Stupid.

Unless she could produce precious supplies worth hundreds of thousands of points, these people wouldn't lift a finger for her when he made his move.

A strength-evolved woman who came out to farm and doesn't even have a single relative — what precious supplies could she possibly have!

"Th-this-this—"

Huo Zhun pointed at the giant python covered by the insect-proof net shed in Xia Qing's courtyard, his heart going wild with excitement.

A python this big had to be at least a thousand jin of meat. If Xia Qing would let him eat his fill, he'd retire on the spot and join her squad!

What's her squad called, and where are the members?