Chapter 793: Phoenix Fire's Enemies

"Two sets of dog protective suits, three dog protective masks, and this—new walkie-talkies!" Tang Huai handed the supplies to Xia Qing, asking curiously, "Boss running around everywhere—what are you folks doing?"

Xia Qing inspected the quality of the supplies and answered, "Clearing out qiang grass roots."

Tang Huai asked in a friendly, negotiating tone, "Can I go in and watch for a bit? I'll just stand on the hillside."

"Sure." Toward this best trading partner on Blue Star, Xia Qing was actually quite generous.

Tang Huai happily followed Xia Qing through the north gate of Territory Three, passed through the wild grass wall, and standing on the high slope couldn't help shouting in amazement, "Holy crap! That big patch of land must be several hundred mu, right? All cleared by Ram Boss? That's way too capable!"

Xia Qing's face was calm. "Don't make a sound, just stand right here. If you run down and anger the boss, it'll chase you and butt you."

Tang Huai immediately raised his hand in assurance. "Don't worry, I'll be quieter than Beard Feng's cat." Ram Boss's strength far exceeded Tang Huai's imagination—if it butted him once, Tang Huai figured he'd immediately meet his great-grandmother.

Xia Qing hung the new walkie-talkie on her left shoulder, put the newly traded dog protective suits in the meeting room, then reunited with the boss and continued clearing grass roots.

Seeing Xia Qing standing on a rectangular farm tool being pulled around by Ram Boss, Tang Huai's envious eyeballs were about to fall out.

After Ram Boss pulled four laps and cleared nearly seventy mu of wasteland, it felt thirsty and ran off to drink water.

Xia Qing took this chance to return to the hillside and see Tang Huai out of the territory.

Tang Huai sincerely proposed a trade. "Sister Qing, I want to ride that thing for one lap, just one lap. Whatever conditions, whatever supplies you want!"

Xia Qing calmly refused. "Letting you watch from afar is already the limit."

Disappointment welled in Tang Huai's eyes, but it was quickly filled with new hope. "Then I'll get a power-evolved ewe back, raise it in your territory for a while, and once it's pregnant take it back—would that work?"

"You can try, but no guarantee it'll work." Tang Huai genuinely loved animals—Ram Boss's offspring raised by him would certainly live a good life. The premise was, he could find a power-evolved ewe that caught Ram Boss's eye.

This past spring, the red squirrels and little swallows in the territory had all had young, laid eggs, but Ram Boss's eyes still held only eating and fighting, not the slightest urge to breed—this behavior just didn't seem like a normal adult ram.

"Not trying definitely won't work, try and there's a chance it'll work!" Tang Huai was full of drive. "The walkie-talkies are already debugged—1 is the lord channel, 2 is the Northern Alliance channel. In half an hour we'll abandon the original lord channel and activate the new one."

After leaving Territory Three, Tang Huai drove a cool fiery-red off-road vehicle, hurrying to the north gate of Territory Four to deliver walkie-talkies. Yesterday, his dad had sent someone to deliver his off-road vehicle, so Tang Huai now had a car to drive too.

Half an hour later, Tang Huai's voice indeed came through the new walkie-talkie. "Everyone, this is the encrypted lord channel. Members include the lords and agents of our Territories 1-10, plus the lords and agents of Territories 11, 12, 15, and 17, as well as two walkie-talkies from the investigation team. Outsiders can't eavesdrop on this channel—feel free to speak openly."

Wen Nengjie spoke first. "Thanks, Brother Huai. Thanks, everyone, for agreeing to let me stay on the channel. From now on, just give a shout on the channel if you need anything—I'll be there whenever called."

Lord Huo Lei came online second. "Qi Fu, Zhao Ze. The blades you wanted are ready—come pick them up this afternoon or tomorrow morning."

Qi Fu immediately came online. "Copy that, thanks, Uncle Huo. Brother Huai, this walkie-talkie's sound is much clearer."

"Copy that, thanks, Uncle Huo." After thanking Lord Huo Lei, Zhao Ze began thanking Tang Huai. "This walkie-talkie's sound is clear, no noise interference, and the response is fast—way better than the one the territory issued. Thanks a lot, Brother Huai."

Shi Du, Zhu Li, and Tan Qi also followed in thanking Tang Huai.

Tang Huai was in high spirits, talking at length about how he applied for the new channel, how he encrypted it, and how he got his dad to procure the walkie-talkies.

Beard Feng got tired of listening, tossed his old walkie-talkie to Dajiang, and continued clearing qiang grass on Mountain 49. The new walkie-talkies Tang Huai traded for naturally had no share for him, but the walkie-talkies the Blue Dragon squad used were originally not bad in function, so they could join the current channel.

Similarly, the walkie-talkies for Territories Seven and Eight hadn't been replaced either.

Xia Qing also got tired of listening, turned down the walkie-talkie volume, and continued clearing grass roots with Ram Boss.

"Tang Huai." Zhang San came online, asking lazily, "Your dad didn't come over?"

Tang Huai immediately answered, "This qiang rain safe zone suffered too much damage, my dad can't get away for a while. Third Brother, what do you need my dad for? Just tell me."

Everyone……

Zhang San ignored Tang Huai and asked, "Xia Qing, come over if you're not busy."

Xia Qing immediately answered, "Not busy, on my way."

Tang Huai immediately asked, "Sister Qing, should I go over and help guard your territory, do some work?"

Everyone……

Before Xia Qing could speak, Dajiang came online. "Sister Qing, our squad leader is already heading to Territory Three."

Tang Huai cursed: Go on, get going, hurry up and let Ram Boss send you to meet your great-grandmother!

After Beard Feng entered Territory Three, Xia Qing took a basket of eggs, a basket of vegetables, and over twenty strawberries, and drove to Territory Seven.

The car stopped outside Territory Seven. The eggs and vegetables were handed to Daya, and the strawberries were delivered straight to her idol's desk.

Zhang San picked up a bright red strawberry and took a bite, his expression fairly satisfied.

"The unknown element contained in the mutated soybean plants within my territory is a type of qiang-synthesized substance. Small amounts of intake won't affect the body, but as intake increases, this substance raises the risk of hereditary genetic mutations in animals, leading to reduced resistance and shortened lifespan in offspring."

Zhang San took another bite of strawberry, savoring it carefully. "Although that soybean plant was a yellow-light, in essence it already belongs to the category of aggressive qiang-evolved plants—that's why you could use your magnetic sense to detect its abnormality."

Xia Qing had long suspected that unknown element was no good thing, but hadn't expected it to be this vicious. "Third Brother, is this aggressive qiang evolution in the green-light soybeans an accidental occurrence under multiple factors, or is there something wrong with the Fierce Fire seeds themselves?"

Zhang San picked up another strawberry and examined it carefully. "If the seeds came from elsewhere, the probability of accidental evolution is high; but these are Fierce Fire seeds, so the probability of something being wrong with them is greater. Deng Yufeng founded Fierce Fire for two reasons—one was survival, the other was revenge. These seeds are the genetic weapons they developed. When they mutated and became detectable by magnetic sense, it means this weapon failed."

Seeds of revenge?

Xia Qing felt something was off. "Phoenix Fire's enemies shouldn't be those people from the underground experiment back then who are still alive, right?"

How could this kind of "weapon" have been sent to her and her idol last October and November?

Zhang San took a bite of strawberry. "Besides the underground experiment participants, the beneficiaries and those upper-level figures who knew about the underground experiment but took no action to stop it were all listed by Deng Yufeng as targets of revenge."

Xia Qing said nothing. These people being listed by Phoenix Fire as targets wasn't unfair at all.