Chapter 655: The Discovery on Mountain Fifty

"Don't worry. Its venom gland has been drained, so it can't release venom for two or three hours." Yang Jin stopped beside Xia Qing and asked quietly, "The wound snake was discovered by this sheep?"

Xia Qing patted the bulging pouch hanging at her waist. "Not just the wound snake. In the past little over an hour, it led me to many places and we found over forty snakes."

Yang Jin nodded. "Third Brother sent you to Mountain Fifty. Stay safe."

"Got it."

Yang Jin and Luo Pei have arrived, so handing Mountain Forty-Nine over to them is just right, because in everyone's eyes, all areas of Mountain Forty-Nine, including Area Three, belong to the Green Dragon Squad.

Before leaving, Xia Qing reminded Yang Jin, "Captain Yang, the wild boars big and small in the Area Three valley all belong to the wolf pack."

Yang Jin smiled and nodded. "Understood. If I want wild boar meat, I'll trade with the wolf pack through you. I won't hunt them directly."

Xia Qing was amused by him. She turned and led Sheep Boss back to Territory Three, first broke off some second-crop toon sprouts that hadn't grown much yet and let it eat in the territory, then took out her personal flight device and headed for Mountain Fifty.

This time Sheep Boss was very cooperative and didn't make a fuss about going with Xia Qing. Xia Qing leaned toward the idea that Sheep Boss believed the wound snakes on Mountain Forty-Nine had already been cleared, so its "little brother" Xia Qing going out to gather food again wouldn't run into danger.

The moment Xia Qing flew out of Mountain Forty-Nine's range and entered the airspace above Mountain Fifty, an evolved raptor with a wingspan over four meters dove rapidly from high altitude, clawing at her. The sharp talons extending beneath the raptor's belly, seen from Mountain Forty-Nine, seemed to flash with cold light.

"Xia Qing!" Hu Zifeng, who was searching for wound snakes on Mountain Forty-Nine, saw the scene and immediately shouted for help. "Brother Luo, four o'clock direction, in the air!"

Luo Pei, who had just arrived at Area Three of Mountain Forty-Nine, looked at the raptor in the east about to prey on Xia Qing and didn't even raise his gun. "That's not a speed-evolved bird. Xia Qing can handle it."

The personal flight device was very noisy, so Xia Qing flying in the air couldn't hear the raptor descending until the raptor's shadow covered her, and only then did she know the hunter had come.

Without the slightest panic, she drew the handgun from the pouch at her waist and raised it.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Hitting the target at this distance was child's play for a sniper. The predator that had been hunting a human a few seconds earlier instantly became the human's prey. After being hit, it flapped its wings in panic a few times, then began to plummet out of control.

Using her left hand and both feet to control the personal flight device, Xia Qing dodged the direction of the raptor's fall and pressed on. Whether the raptor was red-light or green-light, she couldn't retrieve prey in the air, because her personal flight device had limited carrying capacity, and she had an important mission right now.

"Sister Qing is so cool!" Er Yong pumped his fist and cheered.

Luo Pei's lips curled up, and Yang Jin also unclenched his tightly held fists.

Xia Qing landed near the high-danger zone of Mountain Fifty, underwent strict inspection at the entrance of the greenhouse where wound grass was planted in the high-danger zone. After confirming her protective suit was fine, she put on antibacterial shoe covers and had her whole body disinfected before entering the greenhouse.

The accelerated cultivation of wound grass in the high-danger zone was still proceeding on schedule, batch by batch. This batch of wound grass had already grown to half a meter tall. Given the current wound-element concentration inside the greenhouse, it would be force-ripened by the day after tomorrow and a new batch of wound grass seeds harvested.

Xia Qing walked over to Zhang He, who was wearing a white airtight protective suit, explained the purpose of her visit, and began patrolling the high-danger zone.

The greenhouse was equipped with thermal imagers. If a wound snake appeared, the thermal imager would immediately issue a warning, so in Zhang He's view, there was absolutely no need for Xia Qing to walk this lap inside the greenhouse. But she had also received Zhang San's order. Since Third Brother felt it was necessary, then it was necessary.

In scientific research and disaster-elimination work, the researchers of Territory Seven fully obey the orders of the territorial lord Zhang San. This is the first principle they must abide by after joining the Territory Seven P3 laboratory to conduct scientific research.

Thermal imaging can only capture creatures exposed on the ground surface, not those hidden in soil or rock crevices, but magnetic sense can. That was the reason Xia Qing had given Zhang San for why she needed to personally inspect the high-danger zone.

Just now, Xia Qing had revealed to her idol through her phone that she could rely on her sense to track wound snakes. Zhang San was the second person to know she had evolved a magnetic-sense ability, and the only one who knew she was a four-system evolver.

Through a year of getting along and observation, especially through his attitude toward Tang Huai, who was fine even after eating poisonous mushrooms, and toward Shi Jiaran, the recovery-evolver, and her mother, Xia Qing trusted in her idol's ability and character.

An even more important point was that she still needed to rely on the medicines Zhang San formulated to enhance her own abilities and physical fitness, so she couldn't hide her ability situation from her idol.

The magnetic field released by the dense red wound grass in the high-danger zone was like countless fine needles pricking toward the space between her brows, causing Xia Qing to experience instinctive physiological reactions such as a racing heart and shortness of breath.

For her, searching for wound snakes under the interference of these countless needles was both an enormous challenge and an extremely rare opportunity.

As an excellent sniper, Xia Qing adjusted her heartbeat and breathing in just half a minute, then slowed her pace, pretending to observe carefully with her eyes while actually using her magnetic sense to carefully search for the magnetic field of wound snakes, which differed from that of the wound grass.

After patrolling both sections of the high-danger zone, Xia Qing confirmed there were no wound snakes lurking in the soil or rock crevices of the high-danger zone, then left the high-danger zone and headed for the mountain crevice.

Last year, the first time she entered the hidden valley, she discovered wound snakes inside. Zhang Hongda and Li Kai could discover the wound snakes in the valley, but were unable to come out and search other locations along the mountain crevice to see whether wound snakes had appeared.

Before Xia Qing had even reached the mountain crevice that the red squirrel had traveled through last year when going to the hidden valley to gather peanuts, she had already detected two wound snakes through the magnetic field.

She immediately sent the photos over, then called her idol. "Third Brother, this is the mountain crevice on the east face of Peak Three of Mountain Fifty, connected to the valley. There are two bright red wound snakes in this thicket, estimated length around thirty centimeters."

Upon learning that Xia Qing could search for wound snakes through magnetic sense, Zhang San felt much more at ease. "Send someone to stand guard first. You continue searching the rest of Peak Three."

"Copy that." Xia Qing immediately called the Green Dragon Squad members protecting the high-danger zone and asked them to send someone over to watch the two wound snakes. She quickly continued searching along the mountain crevice.

This east-west running mountain crevice on Peak Three was about five hundred meters long, over a meter wide in the wide places, and less than ten centimeters wide in the narrow places.

The hidden valley was concealed right in the middle of the crevice. If Xia Qing hadn't already known of the hidden valley's existence, even standing directly above the crevice, she would never have noticed that a valley capable of growing two mu of crops had been artificially carved out inside the mountain crevice.