Chapter 727: Liehuo's Potion

As Xia Qing weeded the green-light peanut terraces, Tang Huai called, asking in a confident tone, "Xia Qing, did you kill that giant eagle yesterday?"

"Yes." Xia Qing admitted it directly. Dozens of people on a mission at Mountain 51 had seen her clearly: she climbed onto a small helicopter with a sniper rifle on her back, and the small helicopter shot the giant eagle dead.

Last night, Luo Pei, who was executing a search mission for the giant eagle in the Southern Evolution Forest, had called her. Far from being angry that Xia Qing had snatched his mission target, he highly affirmed her recent efforts, praising her great comprehension for having figured out the high-altitude design techniques on her own. Then Luo Pei invited Xia Qing to team up and hunt down the second fleeing giant eagle at Mountain 58, vowing to kill it before next month's Ruin Rain.

Xia Qing, of course, agreed immediately. Luo Pei was busy executing missions everywhere; Xia Qing hadn't followed behind him or gone on missions with him for a long time.

She just hadn't expected that early this morning, the Alpha Wolf had delivered the giant claw of Luo Pei's intended target to Territory 3. That team could not be formed after all.

Tang Huai...

He had expected Xia Qing to deny it, so he was already prepared to silence her with a rebuttal, but he never expected her to admit it directly...

Tang Huai felt stifled. "You're awesome! You didn't intentionally shoot that giant eagle down over Territory 14, did you?"

"No." She wasn't that awesome.

"I don't think you did either," Tang Huai sighed. "It's truly a matter of timing, luck, and fate. Your feud with the Yan family cannot be resolved now."

Xia Qing grabbed the weeds she had hoed, shook them off, and tossed them into a basket on the ridge beside the furrow. "What did Yan Meng say?"

Sheep Boss sniffed the grass Xia Qing had pulled and started munching.

Because Xia Qing had specially planted a patch of green-light grass, several furrows of alfalfa, perilla, and other plants for Sheep Boss as fodder, the crops within the terraces, even those not enclosed by Xia Qing's thorn hedges, would not be entered and eaten by Sheep Boss.

"I'm busy right now and have no time to watch other territories. Yan Meng will soon know you did it, and then he will definitely think you did it on purpose."

Only then did Tang Huai state the reason for his call. "My sister has already found out. Yan Meng is using a body-injury recovery potion researched and produced by Liehuo, bought from Wantong Company. Liehuo sold 60 potions to Wantong in March; Yan Meng bought one."

The Tang family's information channels were indeed well-connected. Xia Qing asked, "How much does that potion cost per vial?"

Tang Huai replied, "The public selling price is 150,000 per vial. Given Yan Meng's injury condition, he needs to take four vials to recover. He sold 150 spinach seeds to Wantong at 350 points per seed; those points are nowhere near enough for him to buy the potions."

Yan Meng had long since emptied his family savings to pay for his treatment. Relying solely on farming, it would take him two or three years just to gather enough points to buy the potions. So he either had to go to the Evolution Forest to try his luck, or gather points through other means.

Liehuo had truly found a very useful gun.

Tang Huai asked again, "What are you planning to do?"

Xia Qing already had a plan. "Liehuo will definitely continue to plant spies in the Northern Zone 1 territories. If they remove Yan Meng now, they will target other territories. Let's keep him for now. Yan Meng has a short temper and isn't calm enough in crises; Liehuo approaching him benefits us."

His father said the same thing! Xia Qing now not only uses brute force but also thinks with her brain; amazing!

"Once Liehuo finishes the Beast Hunting Team and the Western Wolf Pack cases, they will definitely pull out personnel to deal with us. So we must improve our strength and combat power as soon as possible!" Tang Huai began his daily question, chanted like a monk's sutra, "When are we going to the Evolution Forest? I've been ready for a long time, just waiting for your call."

Xia Qing had just been wandering around Mountain 51 for a few days; weeds had already grown in the fields. She was busy weeding and had no time to take Tang Huai out for a stroll. "I'm busy these few days. You can apply to join the cleanup mission at Mountain 51; that mission can still last three more days."

Xia Qing and Seeing Xin Yu used four days to explore only the upper half of the vast mountain range of Mountain 51, yet blew up eighty-eight aggressive wild paulownia trees. The mission team not only had to clear the crowns and roots of these wild paulownias but also search the mountain areas they hadn't visited and continue the cleanup.

"Alright, I'll ask."

That mission was so boring; he wasn't going! Tang Huai feared annoying Xia Qing, which might mean she wouldn't take him on the next mission. Although he agreed verbally, he grumbled inwardly.

Xia Qing, of course, could hear the tone in Tang Huai's voice, but Tang Huai wasn't her son. He could think whatever he wanted; Xia Qing had no time to care about him. She had plenty of work to do.

When she hired members of the Beard Feng squad to guard her territory, she would ask them to help with some farm work. But for the irrigation, weeding, and daily management of the twenty-five terraces on Gao Po and Ai Po, she did not use their help.

Because the terraces were experimental fields for cultivating high-quality seeds, they used not only the best fertilizer but also river water that had been filtered and contained almost no Ruin elements for irrigation.

Referencing the method used by Evolution Bears, who placed Yishi stones in hidden valley pools to remove excess Ruin elements from the spring water, Xia Qing dug a water pit at the foot of the slope, placed the Yishi stones inside, and waited half an hour. The Yishi elements released by the stones would drive the Ruin elements out of the water.

Then, Xia Qing used the water from the pit to irrigate the terraces.

Twenty-five terraces sounded like a lot, but each terrace was only about fifty square meters, totaling less than two mu of land. The two Power-Evolution Lords of Territory 3 could easily lift water to irrigate such a small area.

Every time she irrigated the terraces, Xia Qing would silently say in her heart:

Thank you, Handsome Giant Wolf.

Thank you for leading me to find the bag of Yishi stones buried by Su Feng in the Western Evolution Forest. With this bag of Yishi stones, Xia Qing's heart felt extremely secure.

Although there were over a hundred Yishi stones, they still had to be used sparingly. So after each irrigation of the terraces, Xia Qing would immediately retrieve the Yishi stones from the water, put them back into the Yishi protective shell, and take them out again for the next irrigation.

After finishing weeding the peanut terraces, Xia Qing cleared the weeds from the sunflower and potato terraces and felt a bit thirsty.

She walked down to the lower slope vegetable terraces, picked a cucumber from the trellis, washed it clean with unpolluted spring water, broke it in half, and gave half to Sheep Boss and half to herself.

This year, Xia Qing cultivated thirty-five green-light cucumber seedlings: twenty planted in the terraces and fifteen planted in the farmland greenhouse.

Under Xia Qing's careful cultivation, the Ruin element content in the cucumber plants within the terraces dropped by 0.1‰ compared to those in the farmland greenhouse. After the second Ruin Rain ended, the green-light cucumbers in the unprotected farmland greenhouse would further decline in quality. However, those vegetables were grown by Xia Qing to exchange with others; as long as they were edible, that was enough.

The vegetables she and Sheep Boss ate all came from the terraces.

Just as the human and the sheep were crunching away happily, Sheep Boss's ears twitched. Xia Qing also heard the noise, turned her head, and saw a red squirrel squatting on a tree branch outside the shed, wagging its fluffy big tail, rubbing its little paws, and staring longingly at the cucumber in her hand.

This guy is here to eat for free again.

Xia Qing and Sheep Boss remained expressionless and continued crunching crunch crunch. The difference was that Sheep Boss finished his half immediately, leaving not even a scrap; Xia Qing left a small piece and placed it on a stone outside the shed.

By the time Xia Qing returned to the shed, the red squirrel had darted over like lightning, snatched the head of the cucumber before the two great magpies could, and sprinted back to Xia Qing's sheep shed.

After eating the cucumber and resting for a while, Xia Qing returned to the Gao Po terraces to clear the weeds in the spinach field.