Chapter 502: I Want Magnetoreception Evolution

Clutching the phone that had just received the magnetoreception ability data, Xia Qing left Xiong Dong and headed to the firebreak construction site, sincerely thinking that Yang Jin was a good trading partner.

In late October, when Xia Qing went to treat the alpha wolf and the wolf pack's injuries, she had brought back 760 jin of Green Light hickory nuts from Mountain Belt No. 60 in total.

Because hickory nuts ripen in September, by the time Xia Qing harvested them, the shells were basically dried out. After bringing them back and drying them for a few days to remove the desiccated shells, she stored them in the underground storage room.

Not counting the trade just now at Xiong Dong, Xia Qing had already traded 243 jin to her idol, 60 jin and 3 to Yang Jin, and over 10 jin to Beard Feng and the others, leaving over 440 jin, roughly 9,000 nuts.

These evolved wild hickory nuts were indeed not large among evolved plant fruits, but their nutritional value was very high. After learning that Xia Qing was a triple-system advanced evolver and testing her nutritional status, Zhang San raised the number of Green Light hickory nuts she should eat daily from four to five.

In other words, the hickory nuts in the storage room, if only for Xia Qing's own consumption, could last nearly five years.

All food has a shelf life. Even though hickory nuts have hard shells and are stored in a constant-temperature, constant-pressure storage room equipped with Yi Stones, the shelf life is only two years.

The hickory nuts Xia Qing couldn't finish eating would lose their nutritional value from being stored too long, even if she didn't take them out to trade for supplies.

In a year of natural disasters, information is scarce; mastering information means mastering the initiative. So trading 70 jin of hickory nuts for shareable information in Yang Jin's possession seemed very cost-effective to Xia Qing.

Yang Jin really was a miserly iron rooster, but he strictly followed trading rules. Trading with him made the negotiation process burn brain cells and was infuriating, but once a deal was struck, there was no worry about him breaking the agreement or shorting the weight.

Xia Qing felt very grounded right now.

After confirming everything was normal at the construction site, Xia Qing walked back to Territory No. 3, added a few dry logs to the fireplace, and couldn't wait to open her laptop. She transferred the data Yang Jin had given her onto the laptop and read it with great eagerness.

The laptop was a novelty to Ram Boss and Sick Wolf; both crowded next to Xia Qing to stare at it.

Ram Boss stared at the words on the screen for a few moments, then sniffed it. Confirming this novelty couldn't be eaten, he lost interest and went back to play with his power-generating bicycle.

Sick Wolf didn't move from its spot, resting its head on Xia Qing's hand that was holding the mouse, looking up at her with clear rust-colored eyes. Xia Qing pulled her hand out, set the mouse aside, and read the data while scratching the dog's head.

A faint stench drifted through the room; it was so quiet that only the crackling of dry logs burning in the fireplace and the whoosh of Ram Boss pedaling the bicycle could be heard.

The data was only six pages long. Besides the basic characteristics of magnetoreception, most of the content was researchers' speculation about this newly named evolved ability.

Xia Qing read the not-very-long data twice over before closing the laptop and quietly absorbing the contents while sitting in the recliner.

Sick Wolf stood up, changed position, and offered its head to Xia Qing's hand again. Ram Boss, who was pedaling the bicycle, noticed that Xia Qing was done with her work but just lying there motionless, and got upset.

"Baa."

Xia Qing turned to look at her companion, who was squinting at her, and praised it very sincerely, "Boss, I've noticed your hind legs are getting more and more agile, and your muscles are getting more and more developed. You're really amazing—you exercise your body while also supplying all our electricity. What would Lao Er and I do without you!"

Ram Boss hadn't heard enough, squinted and tilted its head up, signaling Xia Qing to say more.

Sick Wolf, hearing Xia Qing call it, immediately opened its mouth wide and hahaha'd at her.

"Look, Lao Er agrees with me too. Boss, you are the pillar of our territory, all the brilliance of our territory is created by you! Boss, you are the sheep standing at the top of Blue Star's pyramid, you are the pinnacle of sheep evolution history, you are the pride of the sheep race…"

"Boss, are you tired? Come here and let me massage your hind legs?"

Ram Boss squinted, pretending it couldn't hear anything, and pedaled the power-generating bicycle furiously.

"Boss, are you hungry? Come have some chestnut peels?"

Ram Boss immediately stopped and clip-clopped over to Xia Qing.

Xia Qing went upstairs, unlocked the refrigerator, took out a small bag of Green Light chestnuts and washed them clean. Then she sat by the fireplace and used a small knife to make a light cut on the chestnut bottoms, revealing the golden chestnut flesh inside. The thin slices cut off were placed in Ram Boss's food bowl, and the prepared chestnuts were put into a pot filled with spring water, which was then placed in the fireplace.

After the water boiled for two minutes, Xia Qing took the pot out and set it on the wooden mat on the small table, and began peeling the chestnuts. The peeled chestnuts went into a bowl, and the chestnut peels went into Ram Boss's food bowl.

Compared to chestnuts, Ram Boss preferred eating chestnut peels.

After washing the peeled Green Light chestnuts, she put them into the washed Green Light rice and left it to simmer slowly over the fire. She poured the rice-washing and chestnut-soaking water into a bucket specifically for collecting dirty water, and once it was full, she would take it to the greenhouse to water the vegetables.

All of this was precious, unpolluted spring water—not a single drop could be wasted.

Then, Xia Qing took out six more Green Light hickory nuts. The extra one was for Ram Boss and Sick Wolf.

Xia Qing cracked the hickory nut shells and picked out the kernels, putting half in Ram Boss's food bowl and handing the other half to Sick Wolf. "This food has brain-boosting functions; eating it is good for us."

Ram Boss didn't like eating walnuts, but since Xia Qing had put them in, it didn't get angry and ate them mixed with the chestnut peels.

Sick Wolf rolled its tongue, and half a walnut disappeared into its belly, then grinned hahaha at Xia Qing.

While peeling walnuts, Xia Qing proudly told her two companions, "Magnetoreception ability is very important. With this evolved ability, our chances of survival will greatly increase. All three of us are evolved mammals and currently possess this ability. However, my ability is considered high among humans, while you two might be at an ordinary level among your kind."

This ability had just been discovered, and although there was no clear classification of levels yet, Xia Qing, who could sense anomalies in plant magnetic fields, was confident that her magnetoreception evolution was above ordinary level—she was definitely a magnetoreception evolver.

However, Xu Pin, who could sense killing intent from people or animals within a hundred meters, should be an advanced stimulation evolver, while she should be an ordinary evolver. Yuan Yan's magnetoreception evolution level was above Xia Qing's but below Xu Pin's.

Ram Boss twitched its ears, didn't even look at Xia Qing, and continued slowly nibbling chestnut peels.

Xia Qing popped the peeled walnut into her own mouth, silently chanting: I want magnetoreception evolution, I want to become an advanced magnetoreception evolver…

Magnetoreception evolution is more awesome than speed evolution; it's the awesome among awesomeness, the top awesome! Xia Qing wants to be the top awesome!

After eating the Green Light hickory nuts, Xia Qing noticed Sick Wolf still staring at her eagerly, and seriously explained to it, "You can't eat too much of this food, because its oil content is too high; if you eat too much, you'll get sick. From now on, you and Ram Boss will each eat half a nut a day, and I'll eat five."

Sick Wolf couldn't understand all of Xia Qing's meaning, but it knew what getting sick meant, and immediately closed its mouth and stopped hahaha-ing.

Seeing that it was about time, Xia Qing went upstairs to the living room to check the Yi Element detector's analysis results of the spring water quality from Mountain No. 50.