Chapter 837: If the Talks Fail, War It Is

"Copy that."

Huo Zhun immediately pulled out his phone, typed a few words, and showed them to Xia Qing: Yan Long has discovered six giant bears on Mountain 61 rushing over at full speed. One of them is a speed evolver. At its current running speed, it can reach here in 15 minutes. Do we need to intercept with the helicopter?

Intercepting now would be tantamount to declaring war on the Xiong Qun.

Xia Qing asked, "Is the wolf pack moving out to meet them?"

After asking via walkie-talkie, Huo Zhun shook his head: No.

Xia Qing glanced at the bear hooked up to an IV drip and asked Zhang Song, "Song Ge, can this bear's treatment be finished within ten minutes? We don't need to take it away, right?"

Zhang Song sped up the IV drip, treating the monk-faced macaque while answering, "It can be finished, no need to take it. The bear will regain mobility in 20 minutes, and there shouldn't be any aftereffects. This monkey is a bit troublesome—the medicine seems to have affected its brain, it needs follow-up treatment. Should we take it?"

After reading what Huo Zhun had typed on his phone, Xia Qing gave the order, "Don't take it. Huo Ge, have Sis Yan come back to pick us up in nine minutes."

"Copy that." Huo Zhun immediately contacted Yan Long in the air.

This time shouldn't be wasted either. Xia Qing lowered her head and patted the brown bear's big noggin. "Open your eyes if you're awake."

How did Xia Qing know it was awake? Damn, although this thing had its eyes closed, its eyeballs were spinning faster than a top!

The brown bear slowly opened its eyes and looked directly at Xia Qing. Probably because the anesthetic hadn't worn off yet, its gaze was a bit dull, but Xia Qing was certain:

The Blue Star, whose brain had already gone haywire from cosmic ray stimulation eleven years ago, had once again produced a powerful brain-domain evolver!

After confirming it was a brain-domain evolver, Xia Qing decided to try communicating. It had such a big head—even if it couldn't compare to the Head Wolf and the Broken-Waist, it had to be smarter than Little Bai Mao and Little Feimao and the others, right?

However, it probably hadn't had much contact with humans and couldn't understand human language. So Xia Qing slowed her speech and communicated with gestures: "You, and this monkey were sick. It was us humans and the wolf pack who saved you. We, humans, awoo—woo—wolf pack, saved you. These medicines saved you. We need to exchange with goods. Exchange, like this…"

Huo Zhun was dumbfounded. Would this really work?

"Xia Qing, did it understand?" Zhang Song, who was treating the monkey, wished he could grow one more hand so he could use a third hand to pull out his phone and record this historic moment.

Huo Zhun quipped, "Song Ge, Xia Qing's ears are injured, she can't hear."

Xia Qing earnestly gestured to this lying big-headed brain-domain evolver for several minutes before speaking to the dull-looking monkey beside it, "And you, big white-face. I know you don't understand right now, but you owe humans a life too. We'll settle accounts once your brain clears up."

Actually, if this monkey hadn't been staying with the bear, if Her Majesty hadn't ignored it, and if the Broken-Waist Wolf hadn't laughed every time it saw it, Xia Qing would have very much liked to send it to meet its monkey great-grandmother right now.

Because monkeys are humans' main competitor for survival. With monkeys in this Evolution Forest, the natural food humans can obtain from it—especially natural fruits—will be greatly reduced.

Not just picking wild fruits—monkeys are good climbers, agile, smart, and will attack humans and snatch their supplies, making them impossible to guard against.

Xia Qing had been pelted with stones by a group of evolution macaques on a previous mission. Evolved macaques are very strong. When they attacked from all directions simultaneously, Xia Qing was hit over twenty times, and her protective mask was cracked.

So she had no good impression of monkeys.

Huo Zhun looked at the dumb-struck monkey, then at Xia Qing, opened his mouth and closed it again, pulled out his phone, and took a close-up of its face.

"Done! Do your best, leave the rest to fate!" Zhang Song stood up and shook out his hands.

"Let's go." Xia Qing shielded Zhang Song as they walked toward the helicopter. Huo Zhun glanced at the dumb monkey and dull bear lying side by side on the ground, then hurried to catch up.

After the helicopter flew away, the brown bear lying on the ground unable to move struggled to turn over and painfully crawled toward the stone hollow nearby.

The white-faced monk-faced macaque still lay motionless on the ground, staring blankly at the sky.

An eagle circling high in the sky spotted this prey and was about to dive when it heard a bear's cry coming from the rocks beside the prey.

"Aowoo…"

The bear's cry sounded weak. The eagle flapped its wings, about to continue hunting its big meal, when it suddenly heard another bear's response.

"Roar————"

The airwave kicked up by this roar made the eagle cry out in frustration, spread its wings upward, and fly away again.

"Aowoo…"

The little one in Xiong Dong responded once, then closed its eyes in peace.

The white-faced monk-faced macaque? Still staring blankly at the sky, motionless.

"Holy shit!"

After the plane took off, looking down at the giant bear charging through the Evolution Forest, Huo Zhun was so shocked he cursed.

"Speed evolver." Xin Yu gave the conclusion directly, hoping he wouldn't keep getting startled.

"It's faster than humanity's top speed evolvers!" Zhang Song stared at the radar speedometer, extremely excited, speaking very fast.

"The average running speed of evolved ordinary humans is 24 km/h. Although our current top speed evolvers can reach 120 km/h, they cannot maintain full speed for more than 5 minutes, or it will cause irreversible bodily damage. The giant bear below has reached a running speed of 130 km/h! How long has it been running at this speed?"

Meeting Zhang Song's excited eyes, Xin Yu answered through the pain, "It should be over 18 minutes."

"A miracle! Blue Star is too magnificent!" Zhang Song wished he could grab the bear below and immediately start researching its bones, muscles, and nervous system.

Its muscles must be absolutely gorgeous…

Yan Long's magnetic field grew even more fierce, and brain-domain evolver Zhang Song's magnetic field was terrifyingly active too. Xin Yu, pale-faced, clenched her fist and forced herself to hold on.

Huo Zhun thought Xin Yu was scared and quickly comforted this ally who kept a tame bird that could drop satchel charges, "Bears have four legs, they're so big, they bound several meters at a time, it's normal for them to run fast. We're in the helicopter, it can't hurt us."

"Understood." Xin Yu barely resisted the urge to toss a satchel charge and clear the area around her, scooted closer to Xia Qing, whose entire body was radiating a joyful magnetic field, and only then felt her head clear up a bit.

Xia Qing noticed Xin Yu's movement and leaned closer to her as well, her eyes still fixed outside the window.

Unlike Zhang Song and Huo Zhun, Xia Qing's focus was not on the path-clearing giant bear that was carving a straight channel through the Evolution Forest with its body, startling birds and beasts into panicked flight, nor on the five other giant bears charging along that channel, but on the silver-gray one in the western Evolution Forest, leading a pack of wolves and approaching even faster.

The Giant Wolf Bro running at full speed really looked too cool.

Her Majesty standing on the mountaintop howling to summon her companions really looked too domineering.

Even the cool Giant Wolf has been called in—the Head Wolf is fully prepared: if the talks fail, war it is.