Chapter 700: Honey Badger and Wolf

A wolf with a broken waist, carrying two wild ducks in its mouth, entered Zone Three of Mountain Forty-Nine, spotted a little honey badger sleeping while hugging a snake, sniffed the air here with its nose, then continued forward to the north gate outside Zone One in the north, and raised its head.

"Beep."

The wolf with a broken waist passed through the north gate and entered the territory of Zone One in the north on March 18 at 9:28.

"Beep."

The wolf with a broken waist passed through the north gate and left the territory of Zone One in the north on March 18 at 9:28.

Hearing the familiar frequency of the phone's notification sound and watching messages popping up one by one, Xia Qing, who was night running, turned toward the northern buffer forest.

When she arrived at the north gate, the wolf with a broken waist had already finished playing with the north gate of Zone One in the north and was now playing with the north gate of Territory Three.

Only when Xia Qing walked close did it place the two wild ducks it was carrying on the ground and show her its cute, blood-stained little fangs.

Its happy smile meant the Alpha Wolf was safe, the wolf pups were safe, and Wolf Lao Er was safe. Xia Qing smiled too. "Broken Waist, long time no see. What have you been busy with lately?"

Busy with what?

The wolf with a broken waist turned and walked two steps toward the gate, then looked back at Xia Qing.

"Immediately!"

The wolf with a broken waist had placed the wild ducks inside the territory, so it definitely wouldn't want to take her far away; the possibility of catching a pig was very high.

Xia Qing quickly stuffed the two wild ducks on the ground into a packaging bag, held them in her hand, and followed. "Are we going to catch a pig? There is a half-grown boar in the cave south of Valley One. It jumped out and provoked me last time I was shoveling pig manure. How about we kill it? I don't know what quality it is..."

The wolf with a broken waist looked up at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing understood. "Not killing the pig? Then why did you bring me out?"

Following the wolf with a broken waist to the big pine tree, Xia Qing fell silent when she saw Flathead Brother hugging a one-meter-long spicy strip.

This guy... actually gnawed half a viper raw. Is it paralyzed by poison? But honey badgers have very strong resistance to toxins; will sleeping it off be enough to fix the poisoning?

Why is it so powerful? Because it loves eating snakes and has no dietary taboos; those that weren't powerful enough were poisoned and eliminated.

The wolf with a broken waist raised a paw and pressed the honey badger, then looked up at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing gestured to ask, "Do you want to take this honey badger back and roast it with the wild ducks to serve to my lord? No, it's poisoned."

The wolf with a broken waist withdrew its paw and looked at Xia Qing thoughtfully.

Not that meaning?

Xia Qing stared into the eyes of this wolf with an evolved brain for a few seconds but still couldn't figure out what was going on in its clever head. She gestured directly to ask, "Broken Waist, what do you want to do with this little honey badger?"

Realizing Xia Qing was very stupid, the wolf with a broken waist could only use its paw to paw at the little honey badger, signaling Xia Qing to pick it up.

Xia Qing understood, picked up the little honey badger hugging the snake meat strip, followed the wolf with a broken waist back to the territory, and returned home.

Passing the sheep shed, the wolf with a broken waist stopped, turned its head, and sniffed.

Xia Qing explained, "A red squirrel is inside. It ran over tonight, probably about to give birth."

The sheep shed she built for Sheep Lao Da had already been converted from a wolf recovery room into a mouse confinement center.

The weasel family lived there for a month; the Alpha Wolf gave her a Yi Stone, the plucker gave her many frog and rat heads, and Bai Mao gave her a rabbit and sixty thousand points worth of herbs. They were premium clients.

The cowering red squirrel now was definitely eating and drinking for free while also stealing things with its paws, making it a low-quality client.

Premium clients are gods, treated to good food and drink; low-quality clients are devils. Xia Qing hadn't even kicked it out, which was already very generous.

After the wolf with a broken waist figured out what was inside, it looked up at the swallow's nest under the eaves where birds were chirping, then skillfully crawled through the insect-proof screen door, washed the mud off its feet, wiped its snake-skin boots clean on the straw mat, stepped on the doorknob, pushed open the security door, and entered the house.

Once light from inside the room shone out, flying insects immediately gathered toward this side but were blocked outside the insect-proof screen door made of netting sprayed with insecticide. After Xia Qing closed the security door, the gathered flying insects quickly dispersed.

Seeing the wolf with a broken waist arrive, Sheep Lao Da had no reaction, but when it saw Xia Qing walking in carrying the little honey badger, it got angry, jumped up, and started a fight.

"Woof—"

The wolf with a broken waist stood in front of Xia Qing, glared fiercely at Sheep Lao Da, and let out a low growl, warning it not to cause trouble. Sheep Lao Da retracted its spiral horns, clattered back onto the tatami, stared sideways at the little honey badger, and chewed its cud viciously.

After disciplining Sheep Lao Da, the wolf with a broken waist stared at the two wild ducks Xia Qing was holding.

"I'll clean up immediately and start roasting the ducks." Xia Qing held the little honey badger forward. "What about this honey badger?"

The wolf with a broken waist ignored this, went upstairs, carried its laptop down with its mouth, placed it on the small table, and signaled Xia Qing to play a video for it.

Xia Qing didn't understand the world of a straight-A student, but she admired it greatly. She placed the little honey badger outside the door, closed the security door, took off her protective gloves, and opened the laptop for the wolf with a broken waist.

This time, the wolf with a broken waist clearly pointed its paw at the video explaining the ecological balance of the Evolution Forest.

After Xia Qing clicked play for it, she went to the kitchen to clean the wild ducks. The hunting standards of the wolf with a broken waist were as stable as ever, still one green-light duck and one yellow-light duck. The green-light one belonged to the Alpha Wolf, and the yellow-light one was hers.

While Xia Qing was busy boiling water and plucking feathers, the red squirrel hid behind the sheep shed door, cautiously observed the sleeping honey badger for a while, then hid back in the grass nest.

"Within an ecosystem, a relatively stable state of dynamic equilibrium between energy and material input and output is maintained among producers, consumers, decomposers, and the non-living environment over a certain period of time."

In the video footage, a scene of a honey badger catching a snake was playing. The narrator continued, "This stable state is called ecological balance."

The wolf with a broken waist turned its head toward the kitchen, realized Xia Qing wasn't looking this way, then turned its head back to watch the video seriously.

Not long after, Xia Qing brought the steaming hot duck innards in front of the wolf with a broken waist. "Broken Waist, eat up, it's still hot."

The wolf with a broken waist focused on the video, only its ears twitching slightly. It seemed it had arrived full and didn't want to eat.

Xia Qing hummed a little tune and took the innards back to the kitchen. Since the wolf with a broken waist wasn't eating, they were all hers. The green-light duck liver, heart, intestines, and lungs were hers; the yellow-light duck could be used to feed fish and snakes.

After sending the snake box containing the Qiang Snake to Territory Seven, Xia Qing made another snake box out of hard wood, inside which she raised two green-light snakes.

Xia Qing slowly roasted the plump green-light wild duck over the fire. After freezing the yellow-light wild duck in the refrigerator, she went downstairs, took off the snake-skin protective suit of the wolf with a broken waist, and began to wipe and maintain it.

After the video played once, the wolf with a broken waist asked Xia Qing to play it again for it.

While Xia Qing was cleaning the protective suit, she watched the video. When it played the scene of the honey badger eating the snake, the wolf with a broken waist turned its head to look at Xia Qing again.

"This stable state is called ecological balance."

A crazy thought drilled into Xia Qing's head, and her beautiful black-and-white eyes gradually widened.

Pressing the pause button, Xia Qing gestured to ask, "Broken Waist, is that little honey badger outside the gate the one you caught to eliminate the Qiang Snake?"

This clever wolf opened its mouth, revealing its cute little fangs.