Chapter 579: Heh

"Wolf Lao Er brought them over. Wait here a moment, I'll go take a look."

Xia Qing stood up and went to meet the three wolves running toward her at speed.

The Broken-Waist Wolf running at the very front stopped, looked past Xia Qing, and locked its amber eyes on Yang Jin, who was half-standing at the foot of the slope. Handsome Giant Wolf also stopped, forming a fan-shaped attack formation with Broken-Waist Wolf, and its ice-blue gaze also locked on Yang Jin.

Seeing this giant wolf's terrifying size and appearance, Yang Jin understood at once why Xia Qing had called it over. Not wanting to cause the two evolved wolves to misunderstand, he spread his hands open to show he carried no weapons, and stepped back a dozen paces to stand in an open area, indicating he had no hostile intent.

The Sick Wolf, the last to arrive, ran up to Xia Qing and panted with its tongue lolling out.

Xia Qing rubbed Sick Wolf's head, quickly took a water basin from her backpack, poured some warm water for it to drink, and said, "Wolf Lao Er, you've worked hard. Have some water and rest a bit. Handsome Wolf, Giant Wolf, would you two like some too?"

Handsome Giant Wolf, still staring at Yang Jin, didn't move. Broken-Waist Wolf walked over to Xia Qing, drank a couple mouthfuls of water, then raised its head to look at her.

Xia Qing immediately pulled out Yang Jin's notebook and showed Broken-Waist Wolf and Handsome Giant Wolf standing behind it the footage of the monkey troop's advance. Handsome Giant Wolf only glanced at the thing Xia Qing had taken from her backpack, confirmed it wasn't a weapon, and continued staring at Yang Jin.

Broken-Waist Wolf lifted its nose to sniff, then raised its eyes to look at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing instantly got its point, and explained with gestures, "Handsome Wolf, this isn't your notebook, it's Yang Jin's. He discovered the monkey troop is coming to seize territory, look."

Only then did Broken-Waist Wolf turn its attention to the video, watching it with a solemn and serious expression.

Yang Jin's gaze shifted back and forth between the notebook and Broken-Waist Wolf.

The notebook she had traded to him—she'd traded it to a wolf?

What did she trade for it? Yishi?

There are so many wolves in the pack, is one notebook enough?

Broken-Waist Wolf lived in the Evolution Forest, so of course it recognized monkeys. After watching, it looked solemnly at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing immediately took out a map and spread it on the snow, then opened the pathogen images on her phone and pointed them out to it. "Handsome Wolf, the territory of that monkey troop in the video is here. A high-level evolved pathogenic fungus has appeared within their territory. It can infect monkeys, wolves, and humans, causing sickness and death after infection. They're now running toward the western wolf pack…"

Xia Qing opened the images again to let Sick Wolf see the picture of the giant wolf from the western wolf pack, and showed it to Handsome Giant Wolf as well. Giant Wolf stared at the wolf in Xia Qing's phone for a few seconds, then went back to staring at Yang Jin.

"It's the territory where this wolf's pack lives, right here. The monkey troop is going to seize this territory. They'll bring the pathogenic fungus, they'll bring death."

A human crouching on the ground, holding a notebook, a phone, with a map spread out, explaining evolved fungi to a wolf—Yang Jin had never even heard of such a scene, let alone seen one.

The self-styled worldly-wise leader of the Azure Dragon Squad had been transported into a fantasy, and had grown proud. Xia Qing was very capable, and that brain-evolved wolf was also smarter than he had assumed.

Over there, Xia Qing was still solemnly explaining the current situation to Broken-Waist Wolf. "This afternoon, when the sun moves from here to there, the monkey troop will seize the western wolf pack's territory! Handsome Wolf, if the western territory falls, this nasty evolved fungus will appear in my territory and yours too."

"Handsome Wolf, the Queen is pregnant with cubs, we can't let the monkey troop come over, we can't let them seize the western wolf pack's territory!"

"Handsome Wolf, you take this giant wolf, follow that human—his name is Yang Jin, follow Yang Jin to the southern Evolution Forest, tell the wolf pack hiding there about this situation, and get them to go back and protect their territory. Alright?"

Broken-Waist Wolf's gaze turned to Yang Jin in the distance, then back to Xia Qing, looking thoughtful.

Didn't trust Yang Jin? Xia Qing was already prepared for that.

She took a personal flight device from her backpack, and discussed it with Broken-Waist Wolf using gestures. "I'll use the personal flight device to go with Yang Jin, Handsome Wolf, and Giant Wolf to notify the western wolf pack. Is that alright?"

Broken-Waist Wolf of course recognized the box Xia Qing had just taken out. Seeing the contraption, Broken-Waist Wolf actually showed a look of disdain.

From here to the southern Evolution Forest was nearly three hundred li. Xia Qing planned to fly a stretch herself first, then run a stretch, and when she got tired, let Handsome Giant Wolf carry her a stretch, and when Handsome Giant Wolf got tired, let Yang Jin carry her a stretch, then she'd keep running.

She had to get the message to the wolf pack still looking for a chance to take revenge on humans as fast as possible: hurry back, or your old home will be occupied by monkeys.

Broken-Waist Wolf was a very clever wolf. It circled Xia Qing once, then turned and ran up the mountain. Handsome Giant Wolf and Sick Wolf followed it up the mountain too.

Two minutes later, Xia Qing heard long wolf howls, one after another, spreading from the mountaintop in all directions.

"Aooo—wuu—"

"Aooo—wuu——"

"Aooo—wuu—"

Soon, wolves on Mountain Fifty-Five answered: "Aooo—wuu—"

Immediately after, wolves on some unknown mountain also began howling in reply: "Aooo—wuu——"

Xia Qing…

No wonder Broken-Waist Wolf had given her such a strange look just now—turns out it had a much more efficient way of passing on information.

Run over? Heh.

A few howls and it's done!

Xia Qing couldn't help laughing.

Yang Jin walked over, saw Xia Qing's bright, smiling eyes, and his heart couldn't help racing. He quickly looked up, gazed at the lovely clouds in the sky together with Xia Qing, and asked softly, "Do you understand what message they're passing?"

She wished she had that ability too, but unfortunately, she hadn't evolved it.

Xia Qing shook her head. "I can only tell that this howl is different from the ones used for intimidation, driving away, locating packmates, or calling packmates for support. This sound is very solemn, with very obvious rises and falls in pitch. The content of the message should be substantial, and it should get through quickly."

Yang Jin immediately contacted the base safe zone. A few minutes later, he hung up the phone and said with a smile, "The twenty-plus wolves and several leopards lurking in the southern Evolution Forest preparing for revenge have received the message and started running west."

"That's great!" Yang Jin was standing lower than Xia Qing, so when she turned her head, she could look straight into Yang Jin's smiling eyes at eye level, and… it was very pleasing to the eye.

Suddenly meeting Xia Qing's gaze at close range made Yang Jin's heart pound. He felt he ought to say or do something to draw the two of them closer. But his clever brain-evolved mind went completely blank.

Before Yang Jin could react, Xia Qing had already turned her eyes away and looked up. "The wolves' howling has changed."

Yang Jin also turned his head, cleared his throat before speaking. "Mm, probably feedback information came in. If the western wolf pack returns to its territory to resist the monkey troop, I'll put in a merit request for you with the base commander. What do you want?"

What does she want?

Xia Qing gazed at the clouds and mist shrouding Shanfeng. "I want a microscope with very high precision for researching microorganisms—the kind that's simple to operate, rugged, and durable."

A microscope? For a wolf?

"No problem." Yang Jin agreed, then calculated carefully. "One microscope is too few. I'll get you a thousand sniper rifle rounds while I'm at it, and see if there are any high-quality seeds."

Xia Qing's eyes lit up. "If there are high-quality wheat seeds, please trouble Captain Yang to get me twenty jin for me. If there are no green-light ones, yellow-light ones will do too. The winter wheat I planted lost more than half, I need to plant another crop of spring wheat."

She had originally planned to trade wheat seeds with Tang Huai, but before she could bring it up, Yang Jin had arrived.