Chapter 580: Since You Dare Come, Then We Fight

Yang Jin stepped back, and Xia Qing stepped forward, warmly greeting the two evolved wolves who had come down the mountain first. "Big Handsome Wolf, Wolf Lao Er, you've worked hard. Are you thirsty? Want some water?"

Handsome Giant Wolf kept staring at Yang Jin, guarding against a sudden attack; Sick Wolf ran to Xia Qing's side and grinned at her, hahaha.

Xia Qing raised a hand to stroke Sick Wolf's head, poured some water for it to drink, then looked at the tall, mighty, and handsome Handsome Giant Wolf, very much wanting to ask what its relationship was with the head wolf of the western wolf pack.

Handsome Giant Wolf noticed Xia Qing looking at it; its ice-blue eyes turned toward her for only one second, then locked back onto Yang Jin before Xia Qing could even open her mouth.

To be honest, without the Queen and the Broken-Waist Wolf around, Xia Qing was a little wary of this wolf. Now it was locked in a staring contest with Yang Jin, so Xia Qing could only close her mouth again.

After Broken-Waist Wolf also came down the mountain, the nearby howling gradually stopped. Xia Qing asked softly, "Handsome Wolf Bro, did you pass on the news that the monkey troop is coming to seize territory?"

Broken-Waist Wolf tilted its head slightly, bared its two snow-white little fang tips in a grin, and smiled.

Yang Jin blinked rapidly, surprised to find that this wolf, after spending so much time with Xia Qing, had actually picked up a smile somewhat resembling hers.

Just… very captivating, making one want to hand over all their good things to it.

Sure enough, Xia Qing took the bait.

She couldn't help bending down to pat the wolf's head, pulled out a big handful of roasted meat jerky from her backpack, stuffed it into the two side pockets of Broken-Waist Wolf's protective suit, "Thanks for your hard work, Handsome Wolf Bro. This is roasted meat jerky—take it back and chew on it as a tooth-whittling stick with the Queen and Handsome Wolf Bro. Come find me when you've finished it."

Yang Jin……

Broken-Waist Wolf grinned at Xia Qing again, then closed its mouth and glanced at the fierce-looking Yang Jin not far away, turned around, and headed home with Handsome Giant Wolf.

After seeing Xia Qing back to Section 3 of Mountain 49, Yang Jin stopped moving forward. "I need to hurry back to the Safe Zone. Once I get the microscope and the seeds, I'll send them over as soon as I can."

Hearing that Yang Jin was hurrying back to the Safe Zone, Xia Qing gave up on inviting him into the territory for tea and asking about the Sufeng Squad's situation, and only put forward a cooperation request.

Afraid of being overheard, Xia Qing lowered her head and typed a line on her phone, then showed it to Yang Jin:

If you're going to kill Tang Zhengsu, count me in.

If what Tang Huai said is true, then Tang Zhengsu might very well try to flee to escape criminal punishment. Yang Jin couldn't possibly give up this golden opportunity to hunt him down.

Of course Xia Qing couldn't either—she wanted to blast Tang Zhengsu's head off with one shot.

Yang Jin knew why Xia Qing had proposed this cooperation. He nodded solemnly, watched Xia Qing and Sick Wolf enter Territory No. 3, then turned and sped away.

After returning to the territory, Xia Qing continued tidying up the Gao Po greenhouse.

The lords were heatedly discussing in the channel the commotion the wolf pack had just caused. Tang Huai also sent Xia Qing a message, asking why the sick wolf in Territory No. 3 hadn't howled.

Tang Huai hadn't spent much time with wolves, and Xia Qing had run more than ten li north with the sick wolf. So Tang Huai couldn't tell that the howling coming from Mountain 52 included a contribution from the sick wolf.

Before Xia Qing could reply, she received a call from Xin Yu. "Xia Qing, what happened?"

Xin Yu knew best the relationship between Xia Qing and the wolf pack, so after hearing the howling, she didn't need to send birds to scout—she went straight to ask Xia Qing.

Xia Qing explained in detail, "A troop of monkeys deep in the evolved forest east of Hui-6—more than two hundred of them. A high-level evolved pathogenic fungus appeared in their territory, so they can't survive there anymore. So they want to take advantage of the western wolf pack's revenge against the Hui-3 Base Safe Zone to seize the wolf pack's territory. The northern wolf pack used howling to pass on the message, telling the western wolf pack, which is out on its revenge run, to go back and protect its territory."

Xin Yu asked again, "Where is that western wolf pack right now?"

"In the evolved forest south of the Safe Zone's southern territory." Xia Qing understood what Xin Yu wanted to say. "The amount of information and the distance the wolf pack's howling can transmit is more, and farther, than I previously thought."

"Mm, I hope the western wolf pack can successfully resist the monkey troop." Humans having monkeys as neighbors would definitely cause all kinds of conflicts over food, let alone the monkeys carrying viruses. Xin Yu asked, "How far is the western wolf pack's territory from our area?"

Xia Qing answered, "From the map, it's definitely more than a hundred li from our area."

Xin Yu, also looking at the map, roughly circled the location of the western wolf pack's territory and said regretfully, "My scout birds can't fly that far."

Being able to fly a hundred kilometers would really be defying heaven. Xia Qing smiled, "It's already pretty good if they can cover our area. The military is using reconnaissance planes to track the monkey troop. I'll send you any new information."

Xin Yu replied calmly, "Alright, I'll go make some bombs first."

What is Xin Yu making bombs for? Knowing her personality, she must be preparing in case the wolf pack fails.

What if the wolf pack fails? Bomb the monkeys!

So long as they dare charge into this territory, then—fight.

After hanging up the phone, Xia Qing had just picked up a pair of pliers when she heard Wen Nengjie calling her on the lord channel. "Sister Qing, are you there?"

Xia Qing pressed the walkie-talkie button. "I'm here."

Wen Nengjie pleaded, "Most of the greenhouses and hothouses in my territory have been destroyed. The overwintering wheat and the vegetables I planted all froze to death. If we don't find a way to make money, we'll have nothing to eat but grass roots. If there's any work on Mountain 50 that we can do, can you take us along?"

Xia Qing asked calmly, "I've recently been leading people to install surveillance cameras. Does anyone in your territory know electrical work, installing solar equipment, or network connections?"

If they knew how to do these things, they wouldn't have been doing corpse transport and cremation work back in the Safe Zone. Wen Nengjie replied, "We don't know how to do those things, but we can help you carry stuff and learn to do the installation along the way. Would that work?"

Xia Qing refused, "The stuff isn't that heavy—I can carry it all by myself. When the snow melts and it's time to transplant saplings, I'll recruit people on the channel."

Wen Nengjie hurriedly thanked her, "Alright, alright, thank you so much, Sister Qing. What are you busy with in the territory right now? Do you need us to come over and lend a hand?"

Xia Qing of course refused, "No need."

After Xia Qing put down the walkie-talkie and took a thank-you call from Kuang Qingwei, she heard Qi Fu asking on the lord channel, "Xia Qing, are we still going to install cameras this afternoon?"

When Qi Fu asked about installing cameras, he meant to find out whether they were going to Mountain 50 in the afternoon.

Today, Yuan Yan and Shi Mu went to Territory No. 7 to learn how to prepare seedling-raising soil and picked up the new technique. They wanted to test the pH and trace element composition of the soil in the valley, so they'd know what fertilizer to add to the valley soil after testing.

Xia Qing replied, "We'll set out at seven tomorrow morning."

After Qi Fu acknowledged receipt, Tang Huai immediately announced on the lord channel the news that the monkey troop was going to invade the Hui-3 Base evolved forest, which sparked another heated discussion.

After patching up the greenhouse, Xia Qing cleared some of the accumulated snow around the greenhouse and hothouse for a while, then headed home with her two animal companions for lunch, keeping a close eye on her phone the whole time, waiting for news from Yang Jin.

At the same time, the Red One investigation team finished surveying the damage and personnel situation in the northern Section 1 territory, and drove to the Safe Zone to rendezvous with the suspect interrogation group.

Deep in the evolved forest in the northern part of the territory, the pregnant head wolf and Broken-Waist Wolf stood on the mountain, watching Handsome Giant Wolf lead more than twenty wolves down the mountain and into the vast snowy expanse, heading for the western evolved forest.

On the neighboring mountain, two giant bears stood side by side on the fog-shrouded Shanfeng, gazing westward.