Chapter 755: Territory No. 7 Researcher, Zhang Shi

Early this year, several scumbags from the Dongyang Battle Team, driven by profit, snuck into the core territory of the Western Wolf Pack and abused and killed more than a dozen cubs, triggering the most serious conflict between humans and evolutionary beasts in the Hui III Base in the last two years.

After that conflict, for their own safety, the Western Wolf Pack did not allow humans to continue staying in the western territory established last year.

Implementing territory policies and vigorously increasing crop planting area was a mandatory task issued by the state to every base. Moreover, specific requirements were made for the territory area developed by each base in the initial stage. To meet the state's requirements and also to settle the western territory lords who had lost their territories, the Hui III Base management decided to reclaim a piece of territory in the south of the Northern I District territory and named it the Northern III District territory.

Construction of the Northern III District territory started in February this year and was expected to be completed in early May. After the second Qi rain, the original western territory lords could move into the Northern III District territory and start farming.

The town ruins Zhang San mentioned were not far from the south of the Northern III District territory. At the current stage, the main area of the Northern III District territory had been cleared, and the construction team had started to clear potential risks around the territory.

And the "two people" Zhang San mentioned were naturally the "precious experimental subjects" of the underground experiments in Hui I years ago—the recovery-evolved Shi Jiaran and her child.

Xia Qing had long guessed that Zhang San had established contact with Shi Jiaran, so she didn't feel too surprised when she heard Zhang San wanted to settle them. She immediately asked her idol for instructions on the subsequent settlement details. "The valley can definitely hold them. However, several retired wounded soldiers from Territory No. 15 are currently living in the valley. Do they need to be transferred out in advance?"

Although Xia Qing was the manager of the Mountain No. 50 test area, Zhang San was the person in charge of the test area. But as long as Zhang San made a request, Xia Qing had to handle it according to his requirements.

Zhang San shook his head. "She wants to go to the valley on Mountain No. 50, firstly because it's the place where her family once lived, and secondly, she wants her child to slowly integrate into human society. Soldiers have a good social image, and retired wounded soldiers have a low danger level; they are the most suitable group for her to bring her child into contact with at the current stage."

Xia Qing understood. "Then, how do you think I should introduce them to everyone?"

Zhang San leaned back in his chair and said slowly, "Territory No. 7 researcher, Zhang Shi."

The surname Zhang was a matter of course. Since her idol let them use the name of Territory No. 7, let alone people, even the insects in Territory No. 7 had to follow Zhang San and be surnamed Zhang.

Xia Qing asked, "The 'Shi' of stone?"

Zhang San corrected, "The number ten. You assign her a piece of research field, and then tell those entering the valley that their research content in the hidden valley is listed as a level-one secret of the Territory Alliance and must not be disclosed to the outside."

Regardless of any reason, the territory where someone who leaked a level-one secret of the Territory Alliance was located would be expelled from the Territory Alliance and could no longer trade with any members within the Alliance. Moreover, the Territory Alliance would recover all benefits previously enjoyed by that territory within the Alliance and make them pay double compensation for the losses caused to the Territory Alliance by the leak.

It was precisely because of the protection of this level-one secret that the spring water used by the Alliance members for such a long time hadn't been discovered by outsiders. And it was precisely because of this level-one secret protection policy that Zhang San decided to discuss the settlement of Shi Jiaran and her child with Xia Qing.

"Understood, I will make it clear to the Alliance members, Brother Three, don't worry." Xia Qing asked, "Brother Three, is the child a boy or a girl?"

Zhang San shook his head. "I haven't seen it, and I haven't asked. You have to pretend you don't know her true identity; just treat her as a researcher I sent over to research crop planting in the valley. Don't interfere with her coming and going. Rest assured, she won't disclose the secret of the valley and the spring water to the outside."

Human wanderers was a collective term for humans who, for various reasons after the natural disasters, did not enter the safe zone of the base but lived in the evolutionary forest.

Xia Qing had heard of the existence of such people, but had never seen them.

Shi Jiaran and her child—no, now it should be called Zhang Shi and her child—were the first pair of human wanderers Xia Qing had come into contact with, and she was full of curiosity about these two people.

So, three days later, Xia Qing arrived at the foot of the north side of the third peak of Mountain No. 50 fifteen minutes early, waiting for them to appear.

There were two high-risk areas on the third peak of Mountain No. 50. Zhang He was leading people to plant red Qi grass here, and the passage they used to go up and down the mountain was in the southwest under the third peak.

Yu Shou, Shi Du, Qi Fu, and others entered the hidden valley to fetch water and manage crops. To improve confidentiality, they would use the excuse of teaming up to collect in the evolutionary forest and take a detour to enter from the northwest of the third peak of Mountain No. 50. And the north side of Mountain No. 50 was a dense evolutionary forest; there was no road here at all.

So Xia Qing chose an open position and stood quietly on a stone, waiting.

At four in the afternoon, she heard the sound of human movement among the many sounds. Their footsteps were very light, but every step was firm; there was no slipping, and they didn't break dead branches or hit heavy objects like stones to make noise.

If it weren't for the unique pace frequency of humans, Xia Qing would have thought that two hunters were coming.

When they got closer and the noise they made could be detected even by non-auditory evolvers, Xia Qing turned her head to look, and then she was stunned.

Because the Zhang Shi who walked out of the evolutionary forest was very different from the Shi Jiaran in the mobile video of Shi Jiayi, and also had no similarities to the Shi Jiaran with a face full of needle holes and a wooden expression in the photos Zhang San had shown Xia Qing.

She was wearing a half-old camouflage field level-three protective suit, looked gentle, had fair and tender skin, and even had a pair of black-framed glasses on her nose; the eyes behind the lenses even carried a smile. At first glance, Xia Qing thought Assistant Xiao Liu of Territory No. 9 had returned.

How could this be...

Xia Qing was only stunned for a second before raising her hand to greet, "Sister Ten, I am Xia Qing, Brother Three asked me to wait for you here."

Zhang Shi nodded with a smile. "Sorry for the trouble."

Her voice was low and slightly hoarse, not as crisp as Xiao Liu's, giving people a feeling of being both gentle and powerful; she truly looked like what a researcher should look like.

But her micro-expressions still couldn't be hidden from the eyes of a level-nine visual evolver.

Zhang Shi looked relaxed, but in fact, her whole body was tense. She pretended to be calm, with a typical face of a fake smile. Her left hand was pulling the child, and her right hand was only a few centimeters away from her weapon. Her hands weren't relaxed and hanging down like an ordinary researcher, but were prepared to pull out a weapon at any time.

And the child that Zhang Shi was pulling, who was also wearing a half-new protective suit, although walking upright, had eyes that were more like a beast of the evolutionary forest.

Based on the eyes and half-face behind the protective mask, Xia Qing couldn't judge whether this very thin and small child was a boy or a girl. ===== CHAPTER 756 =====