Chapter 833: The Bear Group's New Ally

In the blink of an eye, Xia Qing climbed to a height of thirty meters, steadied herself, and peered through the cover of branches. She immediately spotted three people approaching the ten-o'clock target… and the thick-barreled weapons on their backs. Damn! She'd recognize that thing even if it were reduced to ashes!

Blaze's poison gas gun!

Xia Qing quickly steadied her emotions, glanced at the thick brown fur and a bear paw exposed at the target's position, and immediately ordered Xin Yu to advance 30 meters, staying within her protection range while also ensuring the enemy remained within Xin Yu's magnetic-sense detection range.

When those three poachers raised their guns to evolve the bear, their bodies were fully exposed within Xia Qing's attack range. She remained calm and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

"..."

"Ah—"

Keeping last time's lesson firmly in mind, Xia Qing fired six consecutive shots to take off both their arms, leaving them unable to use their weapons, but she didn't kill them outright.

Who the hell knows if any of these three poachers has some seriously powerful backing? Keeping them alive to hand over to the authorities or Yang Jin would cause less trouble than killing them.

Xin Yu reported, "All four targets are retreating. The one at twelve o'clock is the fastest and has now exceeded scouting range."

The three slower ones had been shot in both shoulders.

"Leave it to me." Xia Qing used her cat-claw shoes to climb rapidly, quickly reaching a height of 50 meters, and spotted the person carrying the poison gas gun fleeing toward twelve o'clock, now 600 meters away.

Able to cover 500 meters in just seconds—this was a level 5-6 speed evolver. And the opponent was experienced, using large trees and rocks for cover while fleeing in a zigzag pattern.

That trick really works against ordinary snipers, but the one aiming at him now is a top-tier sniper. Forget 600 meters—even if he ran 1600 meters it wouldn't help, because Xia Qing's current range has improved by 100 meters since the January ambush on the Blaze Squad, now reaching 2000 meters, the same as Luo Pei.

Level-9 visual evolver Xia Qing predicted the poacher's movements, calmly pulled the trigger, and a bullet accurately hit the target's upper thigh. Before he could fall, she fired another shot that struck his right shoulder, preventing him from firing the poison gas round.

All four targets had been hit. Xia Qing quickly removed her protective mask, pulled down her face covering, then climbed down the tree. Together with Xin Yu, who had already put on her single-way transparent protective mask, she seized the four shot poachers who were trying to flee, and only then headed toward the ten-o'clock direction.

Looking at the brown bear on the ground, Xin Yu asked, "This is a giant bear, right? Is the one beside it a monkey or an ape?"

"This is either a regular brown bear or a young giant bear—adult giant bears are much bigger than this. The one beside it… is a white-faced saki monkey." Compared to the brown bear weighing three or four hundred jin, the white-faced saki monkey beside it, weighing only a dozen or so jin, looked utterly lacking in combat ability.

The reason the lead wolf and the broken-waist wolf started studying the mountain macaques and rhesus monkeys instead of the white-faced saki monkey is probably because they judged this little thing didn't have enough combat ability, right?

However, the saki monkey's big white face that hit the broken-waist wolf's funny bone struck Xia Qing as extremely eerie. When this monkey with the eerie face lay next to a brown bear, it became even eerier.

Is this saki monkey, like the python, an ally of the brown bear?

Does the brown bear's choice of this saki monkey mean it has some special ability?

Full of questions, Xia Qing stepped forward to examine the brown bear and the saki monkey. After confirming they still had heartbeats and breathing, she immediately drew blood for a rapid evolution test.

She's now following a big shot, and the medical kit she carries is equipped with the most advanced instruments. A minute later, seeing the test results, Xia Qing grew furious. "The brown bear's anesthetic content is severely over the limit. The potential risk is very high—it could easily cause complications and must be treated immediately. 'You contact Yang Jin, send him the photos of the poachers, and have him send people over as soon as possible. I'll contact Third Brother.'"

If this brown bear dies, the brain-domain evolved bear of Mountain 61 will find out humans did it, and it definitely won't let the matter rest.

The signal jammers on the four poachers had been turned off, and their locators smashed, so they could use phones now.

Xin Yu first sent the photos to Yang Jin, then dialed his number and explained the situation. Compared to the inspection team, the Azure Dragon Squad members stationed at Territory One and Mountain 49 had higher combat ability and more advanced equipment. Moreover, Xia Qing and Xin Yu didn't want to reveal their identities, so they needed Azure Dragon Squad people to take over here.

Yang Jin was very decisive. "Send me your location, I'll send support immediately. If you spot danger, don't worry about those four—just grab the bear and run. Can Xia Qing carry it?"

Xin Yu glanced at the brown bear on the ground. "Yes."

On Xia Qing's end, based on the situation Xia Qing reported, he gave a plan: "Send me your location, I'll dispatch a helicopter and Zhang Song and the others right away. First inject the brown bear with 30 ml of SE agent, the monkey gets 2 ml."

"Sending it now. I only brought 20 ml of SE…"

"Inject all of it into the brown bear."

"Yes!" After sending her location to her idol, Xia Qing had just finished injecting the brown bear when she heard the sound of a helicopter.

Her idol couldn't have arrived this fast, and the direction was wrong too—this was a poacher's helicopter.

"Retreat!"

Xia Qing quickly packed her backpack, slung the sniper rifle behind her, and hoisted the brown bear weighing over four hundred jin onto her shoulders. Xin Yu also picked up the saki monkey.

For level-six-and-a-half strength evolver Xia Qing, over four hundred jin was less than half her maximum load, so she ran faster than Xin Yu, leading her as they swiftly wove through the evolved forest, and chose a hiding spot—a space formed by two fallen rocks five hundred meters away.

One of the basic skills for executing missions in the evolved forest is constantly monitoring the surrounding environment, always being prepared to quickly retreat or hide when danger appears. When she had passed through this area earlier, Xia Qing had already noticed this hiding spot.

Of course, such a good spot wasn't noticed only by Xia Qing. But she didn't have to act herself—the bear's scent had already driven away a nest of porcupines hiding inside.

After getting Xin Yu and the two animals well hidden, Xia Qing sprinted to the best sniping position on a mountain peak five hundred meters away, ready to attack.

When the helicopter was two thousand meters away, Xia Qing identified the model by its shape: a UH-60 medium helicopter, with a maximum takeoff weight of 10 tons, equipped with a machine gun, but no missiles or rockets mounted.

No missiles or rockets makes things easier. Xia Qing focused her breathing, took aim, and placed her finger on the trigger.

"Bang!"

After a single gunshot, Xia Qing immediately ducked and rolled rapidly to change position. Immediately after, she heard a burst of intense heavy machine gun fire—bullets struck the large rock where she had just been hiding, shattering it, with fragments flying everywhere.

The machine gunner on the helicopter was also an excellent shot, and they had the high ground!

After rolling to her second sniping position, Xia Qing immediately abandoned the plan to pop up and fire another shot. Grabbing the rope she had pre-tied, she slid down rapidly. Sure enough, the helicopter began strafing her chosen second sniping position.

The opponent was indeed very skilled, but he was out of chances.

Because Xia Qing's single shot had hit the helicopter's rotor, and the helicopter had already begun to lose control and plummet. The dense large trees below would catch the helicopter and prevent a forest fire, but these poachers could no longer use the helicopter to escape.

Even if the machine gunner was lucky enough to be uninjured and still able to fight, once he landed he would lose air superiority and might not be a match for Xia Qing. Moreover, Xia Qing's goal wasn't combat, but to buy time.