Chapter 724: Sister Qing, Run!

The giant black python on Mountain 55 looked like it had undergone a hardness evolution. Xia Qing had no intention of provoking it, but the wolf pack would sooner or later have a fight with it.

Once the wolves defeated the python, the snake skin would be sent over for Xia Qing to make more snake-skin protective suits. By then, getting a pair of gloves for Cao Xianyun would be no problem.

So Xia Qing didn't shut the door completely. "If I can hunt it, I'll save a piece of skin for you."

"Thanks, Sister Qing!" Cao Xianyun grinned, smiling very happily.

After roasting the vines, Xia Qing thoroughly cleaned her gear and protective suit, confirmed not even her shoe soles had any wild wisteria seeds stuck to them, then shouldered the vines and headed back.

She had come over to provide support. Once the support mission was complete, she didn't need to take on other tasks and could return to the territory. As for the points from shooting the giant eagle, once Tan Junjie went to submit the mission, they would naturally be issued.

Xia Qing's weight plus several dozen vines exceeded the single-person flyer's maximum load, so Xia Qing had to carry the vines and the single-person flyer back on foot.

Xia Qing walked for over an hour along the passage she and Xin Yu had opened up before returning to the territory. Standing on Gao Po, she saw that all the greenhouses in the territory were intact, and only then did her suspended heart finally settle completely.

"Sister Qing, run!"

"Moo!"

The moment Chen Cheng's shout fell, Ram Boss's angry bellow rang out.

Just hearing the sound told her that Ram Boss's anger this time couldn't be soothed by a handful of green lantern grass or a piece of dried green lantern bamboo shoot.

"It's fine. Everyone worked hard today. Go back and rest."

Xia Qing had Chen Cheng and the others leave first to avoid innocent bystanders getting caught in the crossfire. She set down the vines, backpack, sniper rifle, and black blade, then obediently went up to face it, letting Ram Boss headbutt her flying more than ten times.

Once its temper had cooled a bit, Xia Qing took out the handful of green lantern grass she'd gathered back and explained in a gentle voice, "Boss, look at that smoking mountain over there. High-risk plants appeared there. If I didn't go over and help clean them out, our territory would have been attacked."

After Ram Boss finished chewing the purplish-red grass, its eyes were still full of fury. Xia Qing limped up the tree, broke off a handful of Chinese toon leaves, and continued feeding it. "Boss, just now some giant eagles and evolved hawks came to attack our territory?"

"Baa!"

"It really was too dangerous." Xia Qing said softly, "Fortunately Boss was here guarding our territory. Otherwise, how could I have left the territory to clear out the dangerous plants..."

Outside the wire mesh wall, watching Xia Qing shoulder her supplies again and follow the proudly strutting Ram Boss home, Chen Cheng was thoroughly impressed. "Sister Qing's mouth being used to coax an evolved ram is a real waste of talent. As long as she's willing, forget the boss, she could even take down our brigade commander."

Chen Zheng gave his brother a look. "Take them down for what? Which of the two of them can plow thirty mu of land in one go?"

Chen Cheng...

Exactly!

Relying on her excellent hearing, Xia Qing overheard the Chen brothers' conversation and expressed complete agreement with Chen Zheng's view.

Her boss ate grass to generate electricity and could plow thirty mu of land in one breath—more capable than anyone!

Back home, Xia Qing found several dozen chickens all locked in the chicken coop, chirping and clucking in protest. She quickly set down her supplies, went into the chicken coop, and opened the iron plates blocking the two passages leading to the chicken run.

The black-feathered rooster rushed out of the coop first, standing tall in the spacious chicken run, flapping its wings and crowing loudly. The other chickens followed it out, wandering around the chicken run.

Nine hens led their chicks out through the lower passage, burrowing out of the chicken coop, clucking softly in low tones to their young, telling them not to wander far.

Seeing the ram hoofprints by the iron plate, Xia Qing was stunned for a moment. Wasn't it Chen Zheng and the others who had closed the chicken coop's iron plates?

Xia Qing opened the monitoring app on her phone and replayed the footage recorded by the yard's camera.

When the giant eagle's cry rang out, Ram Boss ran home, rushed into the house first, and after a short while rushed back out and went into the chicken coop.

After coming out of the chicken coop and closing the door, Ram Boss stood at the chicken coop entrance, nervously gazing at the eastern sky. When the eagle's cry grew louder, it got scared, opened the chicken coop door again, and hid inside.

Then, Liangzi arrived near the house, sniping at the diving birds to protect Xia Qing's yard. After the bird tide was repelled, he glanced into the chicken coop, then left.

It wasn't until Xia Qing had just returned to the territory that Ram Boss finally left the chicken coop and hurried out.

Xia Qing's heart ached. She walked into the yard, rubbed the little curls on Ram Boss's head, and said softly, "Boss, it was you who put the iron plates down to protect the chickens. You're really amazing. You're the most capable, most reliable evolved ram on Blue Star, the evolved ram standing at the top of Blue Star's pyramid. Blue Star is more beautiful because of you..."

Ram Boss didn't pay attention to the animals at home. Opening and closing the chicken coop passages every morning and evening was Xia Qing's job.

But when Xia Qing wasn't in the territory and a dangerous situation arose, Ram Boss actually thought to block the chicken coop's exits and protect the chickens, which made Xia Qing especially delighted, moved, and at the same time a little guilty.

For sheep, giant eagles were also their natural enemies.

Of course, praising Ram Boss couldn't just stay on the lips.

Xia Qing didn't even bother taking off her protective suit before going to the storage room, finding steel pipe, and nimbly cutting and welding a sturdy cube-shaped frame. Then she used the vines she'd brought back to make an ergonomically designed rectangular hanging chair for a ram, and hung it on the frame.

After placing a grass mat inside the hanging chair, Xia Qing picked up Ram Boss and set it on. When it first got on, Ram Boss's muscles tensed up. After discovering that although the thing swayed, it wasn't dangerous, it finally relaxed.

Seeing it wasn't afraid, Xia Qing let go and gently rocked the hanging chair. "How is it, Boss? Comfortable, right?"

"Baa~"

Seeing that Ram Boss was clearly enjoying it, Xia Qing went to change clothes and feed the chickens, then continued welding the steel frame and weaving her own hanging chair while chatting with Ram Boss. "Last time I went to Territory Eight, I saw Xin Yu had put a hanging chair in the glass room, and I thought I'd come back and make two. Too bad I never found suitable materials."

"Baa." Lying on the hanging chair, eyes narrowed, comfortably sunbathing, Ram Boss casually responded.

"These vines are perfect. No matter how Boss jumps and kicks, they won't break. And even if they do break, it's fine—I'll make a few more to keep as replacements."

"Baa..."

Xia Qing roasted the thick vines over fire and bent them into the shapes she needed, then used the thin vines she'd brought back to weave the three thick vines serving as the frame together, making a teardrop-shaped hanging chair hung on the steel frame. She spread a cushion on the chair and sat down herself.

By now the sun had moved to the western mountain, and the area under the eaves no longer got sunlight, but lying in the hanging chair still felt very comfortable.

"It's too late today. Tomorrow I'll hang insect-proof netting on the steel frame, and from then on we can sit in the hanging chairs and sun ourselves."

Hearing no response from Ram Boss, Xia Qing turned her head and saw that her companion lying on the hanging chair had already fallen asleep.