Chapter 759: Qi Rain is Coming

Tan Junjie, standing outside the north gate of Territory No. 3, nodded. "Right, the two helicopters didn't participate in the attack; they were only responsible for sending you over, so the four crew members took 400 points, and the rest belongs to you."

"Okay." Only after Xia Qing confirmed did she take the point card.

On the 10th of last month, Xia Qing was urgently summoned by Tan Junjie to support the task force for clearing the wild paulownia on Mountain No. 50.

She participated in clearing the high-risk Qi-evolved wild paulownia in the valley, with a task point of 100; she shot and killed an evolutionary giant eagle with a bounty of 15,000 in the safe zone. Because she was a non-official sniper, the vast majority of the bounty points belonged to her. The four crew members would have other rewards given by the official, which had nothing to do with Xia Qing.

After handing the point card to Xia Qing, Tan Junjie brought up the second matter. "The safe zone, considering the increased pressure on the Northern I District territory to deal with evolutionary wild paulownia, has allocated two more reinforced squads, so during the second Qi rain, there will be a total of 55 investigation team members protecting this territory."

The Northern I District was equipped with three investigation squads at the beginning of its establishment, with 6-7 people per squad, totaling 20 people.

When Yang Jin sold the high-Yi element rapeseed to the base chief, he put forward the requirement to increase the troops and equipment of the Northern I District territory, and the base then increased the troops of Northern I to 35 people and updated a batch of equipment. Temporarily adding 20 people during the Qi rain period showed the base's importance to the Northern I District territory.

But for the Northern I District territory with a total area of more than 50,000 *mu*, having only 55 people to investigate and clear risks was far from enough. Therefore, discovering and clearing risks within the territory in a timely manner during the Qi rain period remained the task of the territory lords; the investigation team could only provide emergency assistance when risks that the territory lords couldn't deal with appeared.

When deciding to walk out of the safe zone to become territory lords, the territory lords already understood this point and were mentally prepared. They occupied two thousand *mu* of land and were rent-free for five years, so they had to bear such risks. If it weren't for the natural disasters, the lack of national human, financial, and material resources, and the urgent need for food, the territory policy wouldn't have been promulgated at all.

Xia Qing understood very well why Tan Junjie told her this. She asked calmly, "Do you need me to assist the investigation team in clearing dangers during the Qi rain?"

"Right." Tan Junjie first stated the requirements, then told Xia Qing about the reward. "If an emergency occurs during the Qi rain period and the investigation team cannot clear it by relying on its own strength, it needs to borrow the power of the evolvers in the territory. If you still have spare capacity when the investigation team issues an assistance request, you can sign up for the danger elimination mission."

"The reward offered by the Territory Management Department is green-light corn seeds HS-2. This is a high-quality corn seed cultivated by our base, which has three generations of stability."

Xia Qing asked calmly, "Have the seeds of SY-2 been harvested now, or will they have to wait until July to be harvested?"

If the SY-1 corn plants were still growing in the fields, they would be like the Y-3 from the Red XI Base planted in Xia Qing's territory, having to wait until mid-to-late June to early July to harvest the corn.

Evolutionary corn seeds needed at least a month of dormancy before they could be planted again. In other words, even if Xia Qing actively did assistance missions during the second Qi rain and got the corn seeds, she would have to wait until the next spring to plant them.

Tan Junjie understood Xia Qing's meaning. "It's seeds harvested last autumn; they can be sown next month."

Xia Qing needed summer sowing seeds to plant in the fields after harvesting mung beans and winter wheat in early June. However, Xia Qing also had conditions. "I sign up for the emergency assistance mission, but I am not a speed evolver, so the range I can provide assistance is limited."

Tan Junjie had long since made a division of the assistance range of the evolvers in each territory. "Under the condition that your own situation allows, you only need to provide assistance to territories 1-10 when the investigation team issues an assistance request."

"No problem." These territory lords were her allies; even if the investigation team didn't have rewards, Xia Qing would go over to help in an emergency.

Tan Junjie had just left in a patrol car when Xia Qing heard someone running fast on the north isolation belt. Xia Qing was too familiar with this frequency and stride. She stood honestly outside the north gate, and after Yan Long ran over, she greeted respectfully, "Sister Yan."

Yan Long stopped. "Go together?"

Nonono!

The little person in Xia Qing's heart shook her head like a rattle, but her face wore a sincere and regretful expression. "I have to tidy up the cotton today."

Yan Long nodded and continued running forward; one could tell from her back that she was in a very good mood now. Xia Qing let out a sigh of relief and quickly returned to her territory.

She had been curious last time and ran to watch Yan Long and Tang Zhou compete. She thought it would be an evenly matched battle, but didn't expect Yan Long to reach Tang Zhou quickly with an overwhelming advantage.

After beating Tang Zhou to the ground, Yan Long didn't have enough fun. Consequently, Xia Qing was beaten up, and her right thigh and left calf were still hurting now.

After she limped back to Territory No. 3, Dajiang immediately popularized to her why Tang Zhou lost so decisively: Tang Zhou, like Yang Jin, was from the A Military Academy, and his fighting was learned from Luo Pei and Yan Long. So there was no need to fight at all; Tang Zhou's momentum and confidence were already a notch lower. In Tang Zhou's own words:

"Seeing Company Commander Yan lift her leg, my leg muscles would cramp, and my whole body's bones would ache."

Xia Qing secretly asked, "Have Captain Yang and Sister Yan fought? Who won and who lost?"

Dajiang chuckled, "Company Commander Yan went to Territory No. 1 to challenge our boss, but he ran faster than an evolutionary rabbit, and Company Commander Yan couldn't catch up at all."

Xia Qing was afraid of being beaten up, which was true, and tidying up the cotton was also true.

Last winter, she piled up a lot of plant residue organic fertilizer, commonly known as "green manure," using plant roots, stems, leaves, and tree leaves. Because she had a lot of green manure, Xia Qing was generous when fertilizing the farmland, and the cotton plants ate too much fertilizer.

This wasn't a good thing.

Because the cotton plants ingested excessive organic matter and nitrogen fertilizer, it not only led to tall plants and lush branches but also led to shallow roots and few flower buds, and the quality of the cotton grown would also decline.

So Xia Qing had been wandering around the half-*mu* cotton field whenever she had time these past few days, picking off all the tops and leaf buds that had grown, so that the cotton couldn't grow taller, and all the nutrients could only be used to hold flower buds and grow cotton peaches.

After tidying up the cotton once, Xia Qing straightened her waist and wiped her sweat, once again rejoicing that she was loose-handed in the cotton field. If this happened in the half-*mu* sunflower field next to it, she would have to face the attack of countless sunflower seed bombs during the second Qi rain.

"Beep."

Xia Qing took out her phone and looked at it, finding that Xu Juan had replied to her.

Just after hearing Tan Junjie talk about the high-quality corn seed SY-2, Xia Qing sent a message to Xu Juan, asking if she knew about this.

Xu Juan said she would go and ask around. She didn't expect that after only more than an hour, she had found out the news:

SY-2 was successfully cultivated by the planting center of the Hui III Base last year. The reason it wasn't announced and promoted to the outside was that Tang Zhengrong wanted to use SY-2 to increase his performance and climb higher, so he blocked the news and hid the seeds in the warehouse of Sufeng.

After Xu Juan finished speaking, she couldn't help but send another one: Tang Zhengrong is truly damned.

As the deputy base chief of Hui III, he didn't consider Hui III and always wanted to seek private interests; such a person truly deserved to die.

"Attention territory lords, attention territory lords." Xia Qing had just finished replying to Xu Juan when she heard Tan Junjie release an announcement with a loudspeaker. "The Territory Management Department has just issued a disaster warning: the start date of the second Qi rain this year is May 15th, with an expected duration of 52 hours, and it will be accompanied by short-term strong winds and thunder and lightning. Please make preparations in advance."

This year's second Qi rain was not only six days earlier than last year, but the duration was extended by 2 hours, and there were strong winds and thunder and lightning?!

The territory lords working in the farmland straightened their waists one by one, their expressions solemn. ===== CHAPTER 760 =====