Chapter 545: Eating Meat

"Yes, thank you, Third Brother!" Xia Qing's eyes were shining almost as brightly as the color of this bottle of medicine.

Zhang San pointed at the brownish-red bottle and said weakly, "Give this one to that sick wolf in your territory to repair its internal organ damage. The cost of these two bottles of medicine will be paid in herbs. I'll send you the herb video later."

As a die-hard, deep-in-the-trench fan, Xia Qing took the sick wolf's medicine with sparkling eyes, about to pour out an endless stream of admiration for her idol who was tired from dispensing medicine, but was suppressed by Zhang San's impatience. "Get out of here, stop being an eyesore."

"Yes, Third Brother, you're busy, just call me whenever you need anything." Xia Qing carefully packed the medicine into her backpack, left Zhang San's office in high spirits, walked down the corridor for a bit, stopped in front of Yan Long, and handed her a small bag of green-light kudzu worm pupae. "Sister Yan, these are the green-light kudzu worms I collected today, try them."

Yan Long didn't stand on ceremony with Xia Qing. She took the worm pupae and handed her a USB drive. "This is a video on training for advanced power evolvers."

Xia Qing took it with both hands. The blazing admiration that had just been suppressed by her idol now wanted to pour out entirely onto Yan Long, but she didn't dare, held back by Yan Long's powerful aura.

"Thank you, Sister Yan, for specially finding this video for me. I won't say too many words of thanks. When you're not busy some day, come to my territory and have a meal of pork and chive dumplings? I'm not good at much else, but I can wrap dumplings alright."

After Xia Qing left, Yan Long returned to the monitoring room. Huo Zhun looked at the small bag she was carrying and drooled. "Yan Long, share two with me?"

Yan Long weighed the small bag in her hand. "Fight me once, and I'll share three with you."

Huo Zhun……

Xia Qing hummed a little tune as she returned to her territory, and gave Er Yong, who had been guarding it for her, twenty yellow-light worm pupae.

Er Yong immediately took them, and with a grin pointed at the condiments on the small table. "This is green-light five-spice powder my dad got, shipped over from Lan City. I brought you a bottle, Sister Qing."

A bottle of green-light five-spice powder is certainly not something that can be exchanged for twenty yellow-light worm pupae. Xia Qing took out fifteen more green-light kudzu worm pupae from her backpack. "These are green-light ones."

Apart from the ones sent to Territory Seven, all the green-light kudzu worms harvested this time were claimed by Xia Qing. She also took some yellow-light kudzu worms as her reward for participating in this mission.

She didn't take any yellow-light wild boar because she wasn't short on yellow-light meat, so the wild boars hunted today were divided among the other territories.

As for whether she took too much or too little, that would only be known after this harvest was appraised or sold—return the excess, make up the shortfall.

"Thanks, Sister Qing. You go rest for a bit first, we'll start eating once the rabbit meat is roasted." As a member of Azure Dragon's main combat squad, Er Yong also often participated in gathering and hunting missions. When lucky, he could also harvest green-light supplies. But being able to trade for delicious green-light kudzu worms still made him very happy.

Xia Qing went to the greenhouse, fed a few yellow-light worms to the fish in the water tank and the chickens in the coop, then brought Sheep Boss and the sick wolf home, and put out a few yellow-light worms for the little swallows under the eaves. As for which of the twenty-plus little swallows could snatch the worms, that would depend on their own ability.

Xia Qing went inside, lit the fireplace, took out the last few green-light worm pupae and roasted them by the fire. After she finished washing up and came downstairs, she cracked open the pupae and put a few fragrant roasted kudzu worms into the sick wolf's food bowl. "Lao Er, try these. This is the meat pulled out from green-light worm pupae. You've definitely eaten them before, but they're even better roasted."

The sick wolf first sniffed the golden-brown roasted worms with its nose, then quickly rolled them up with its tongue and sent them into its mouth.

Sheep Boss?

It was beside her, eating the green-light kudzu leaves Xia Qing had brought back for it. Judging by its expression, the kudzu leaves seemed to taste pretty good.

In the evening, Xia Qing, Er Yong, and Xiao Jiang ate dinner together. Er Yong's cooking was much better than Xia Qing's, so she ate to her heart's content and found Er Yong increasingly pleasing to the eye.

Tonight, the mouth-watering aroma of meat drifted through every territory of the Lords' Alliance.

In Territory Four, Zhao Ze and his mother ate fragrant pork and wild vegetable stuffed buns. Zhao Ze ate while talking at length, spitting everywhere, telling his mother how heroic he had been today.

In Territory Five, the exhausted Qi Fu couple had no energy to fuss over delicate food and ate stewed meat directly.

In Territory Six, Kuang Qingwei, with one arm in a sling, was using chopsticks to pick up dumplings and feed his wife. Zhu Li not only had blood blisters rubbed raw on both hands, but had also carried over a hundred jin of supplies for over an hour—her shoulders and legs could no longer move.

In Territory Ten, the three-member Shi family had already finished their stewed meat. Exhausted from the day, Mother Shi and Shi Du went to sleep first. Shi Zhong sat by the fireplace, using the firelight to study how to use the tools available in the territory to process the kudzu roots they had dug up today into kudzu root powder.

Processing it into kudzu root powder and then selling it fetches a considerably higher price than selling the kudzu roots directly. So after the Lords' Alliance discussed it, they unanimously agreed to first grind the kudzu roots into powder, and then have Qi Fu find channels to sell it.

In the Territory Fifteen cafeteria, thirty-two retired soldiers were eating hot pot, their laughter and chatter carrying directly to the inspection team's dormitory not far to the north of the territory.

Tan Junjie ate the pork and chive dumplings his daughter had wrapped, looked at her bright smiling face, and also smiled benevolently. "Zhao Ze, the Lord of Territory Four, his mother used to be a high school teacher before the catastrophe. Starting tomorrow, you'll go study math and Chinese with her every morning from nine to eleven. There are no evolvers in Territory Four, so safety isn't an issue."

Tan Qi obediently agreed. "Daddy, is Grandma Zhao only teaching me?"

Tan Junjie nodded. "Right now, just you. Study seriously with Grandma Zhao. Even though you're not going back to the Safe Zone for classes, you still have to go back at the end of each semester to take exams. Only by passing the exams can you get your diploma. Math and Chinese will be taught by Grandma Zhao; physical training and Evolution Forest biology, those two subjects I'll teach you."

"Okay." Tan Qi picked up a dumpling for her dad and seriously discussed with him. "Daddy, I want to go to the Evolution Forest with Sister Qing and the others, can I? Uncle Zhao and Sister Li are ordinary people, and they can still go."

Tan Junjie was also considering this matter. "I'm preparing weapons for you right now. Once the gun and knife are both ready, and you pass my assessment, you can apply to Xia Qing to join the team. If she doesn't agree, you'll keep improving your combat ability."

"Yes!" Tan Qi jumped up and gave her dad a salute, cheering. "Daddy, are you really going to buy me a gun?"

Tan Junjie nodded with a solemn face. "The territory is more dangerous than the Safe Zone, and Daddy can't always be with you. You need weapons to protect yourself. But the gun can't—"

"Wow—" Tan Qi jumped up happily, rushed to her dad's side, hugged him and cheered. "Daddy, you're the best!!! Daddy, I love you! Daddy, don't worry, I'll definitely train hard, join the team as soon as possible, and earn points to buy you something delicious!"

Tan Junjie, who hadn't finished speaking, broke into a silly grin.