Chapter 846: The Little Bear with the Implanted Tracker

"The weapons carried by the beast-hunting squad, apart from those smashed by stones, were all destroyed by wolves or bears. This is the inventory of supplies in the cabin." Yang Jin took the inventory compiled by Hu Zifeng and handed it to Xia Qing.

Evolved forest beasts that had fought humans both feared and loathed human weapons. After seizing weapons, apart from evolved monkeys and apes that could use human weapons, other animals would smash, scratch, and trample the weapons to destroy them.

"Thank you."

Xia Qing took it with both hands and quickly skimmed through it. She had already roughly gone through these items on the helicopter and had a good idea in her mind. "The most valuable thing is this military transport helicopter. I heard the poaching team was officially sent by Hui Six?"

Seeing Yang Jin nod, Xia Qing asked, "This matter is rather unusual. Why did they come to the evolved forest area near our base, close to human activity zones, to capture bears?"

Although Hui Six and Hui Three are adjacent, the human living areas of the two places are separated by 2000 li of vast evolved forest. Hui Six's people coming all the way here to hunt bears is far too unusual.

No wonder the poaching team used such a large dose of anesthetic on the evolved brown bear.

Mentioning this, Yang Jin's fury could barely be contained. He took a sip of tea before beginning to tell Xia Qing the whole story.

"To eliminate the increasingly powerful evolved monkey groups near the safe zone, Hui Six employed every possible means. The evolved fungus that infected the monkeys that invaded the western wolves' territory this spring was actually a disaster triggered by biological weapons…"

Macaques are one of humanity's close relatives. Evolved monkey groups are very clever—when they spot many humans attacking them, they quickly flee and hide; when they spot few, they fight humans and loot their supplies.

The macaques near Hui Six's safe zone had long been observing human activity. Not only did they learn to use firearms, disassemble and assemble magazines and shells, they also figured out long-range attack methods like throwing darts and javelins.

The speed- and power-type evolved ones among them would use these attack methods and the weapons they seized to destroy human protective masks, car windows, tires, and even helicopters.

To wipe out the evolved monkey groups, Hui Six secretly deployed biological weapons that the state had explicitly banned.

They implanted rapidly spreading pathogenic evolved fungi into captured monkeys, then released them, using the pathogens to eliminate the monkey groups.

But these artificially cultivated targeted pathogens—repeatedly tested and confirmed in the lab to harm only monkeys—once released into the evolved forest, unexpectedly triggered an advanced evolution of the ubiquitous Aspergillus fungus.

This advanced evolved Aspergillus could attack indiscriminately every species it could invade, including humans.

Once the situation spiraled out of control, Hui Six's top brass immediately began secretly culling infected animals and treating sick humans. But no plan is ever perfect—some infected monkeys still managed to escape, causing the situation to go completely out of control.

The monkeys carrying multiple pathogens attacked the territory of Hui Three's western wolf pack. After being killed by the wolves, the samples were sent by Xia Qing into Territory Seven.

The leading figure in medical research, Professor Fu Tianfeng, dissected the monkeys' corpses and performed gene-mapping analysis on the various pathogens within them. Tracing back to the source, he uncovered the truth and reported it to the relevant departments of Hui City's management.

Hui City's base management seriously dealt with the personnel involved in Hui Six's base, but they concealed the news, did not report it upward, and did not make it public. They also issued a gag order to Zhang San. Yang Jin only learned of this matter today.

Fortunately, not long after the pathogens began spreading, Broken-Waist Wolf brought two evolved wolf corpses infected with the pathogens to Xia Qing. Zhang San extracted antibodies from the two wolves and successfully developed a low-cost, highly effective agent to kill the pathogens, finally ending this man-made disaster.

Hui Six, busy restoring the damaged ecological balance of the evolved forest, no longer dared use biological weapons against the evolved monkeys and began seeking solutions more in line with natural laws.

Their investigation found that Hui Three's wolf territory, which had been raided by the infected evolved monkey groups, surprisingly did not see the disaster spread. So they set up a special research group to investigate and study Hui Three's western wolf territory.

After more than a month of research, the group concluded that, apart from the factor of the helicopter spraying medication, the western wolf pack, the northern wolf pack, and the bear group in Hui Three's safe zone had played an active role in resisting the monkey invasion.

This discovery greatly excited Hui Six's base. They wanted to introduce wolves and bears from these two areas of Hui Three into the evolved forest near Hui Six's safe zone, assign them territories, and let them help humans resist the monkeys' attacks.

Hui Three's base management, of course, did not agree to Hui Six capturing their "protective barrier." Through various channels, Hui Six learned that there was a two-year-old evolved brown bear fitted with a tracker in Hui Three's northern forest area.

Two years old is precisely the age when an evolved brown bear leaves its parents to live on its own.

So they paid a high price to buy the positioning signal on this brown bear.

So, when the target bear left Hui Three's Mountain Sixty-One alone yesterday, their poaching team arrived this morning!

"To avoid being discovered by our base, they deployed this military helicopter with excellent performance, featuring radar stealth and noise stealth functions. They almost succeeded." Saying this, Yang Jin emphasized again:

"Our base has Hui Six's moles. They knew there were no Hui Three combat teams or military forces operating in the northern evolved forest area this morning, so they dared brazenly come over to poach the brown bear. You and Seeing Xin Yu secretly went out through the north gate, which is how you evaded their surveillance and caught them off guard."

Xia Qing was also shaken with fear afterward, but in front of the brain-evolved Iron Rooster, she still kept her face expressionless. "A two-year-old bear anesthetized and taken 2000 li away can almost never run back. When the giant bear on Mountain Sixty-One discovers the cub is missing, it will track the scent to Mountain Fifty-Three and realize humans took the cub."

What made Yang Jin furious was precisely this point. "Northern Area One's territory will become the target of the giant bears' revenge. If they can hold their nerve and, during the next Calamity Rain, unite with the giant pythons to launch a beast tide attack, this territory definitely cannot be held."

In human eyes, a four-meter-plus-tall iron-mesh wall feels full of security?

In front of a four-meter-plus-tall giant bear, this iron-mesh wall is nothing to speak of.

Electrify the iron-mesh wall to keep evolved animals from attacking?

Not to mention that electrifying the iron-mesh wall during Calamity Rain easily triggers Calamity Explosions—even if by luck none are triggered, it still cannot stop an evolved giant bear.

In the fourth year of the Calamity, a brain-evolved giant bear led a group of evolved bears and wiped out a gathering area of over ten thousand people in Bai Si's base—everyone knew it used stones to smash human walls.

Now it is already the eleventh year of the Calamity. God only knows how freakishly evolved brain-evolved bears have become by now!

Moreover, the giant bears here have formed an alliance with the giant pythons—and very likely the lion-faced monkeys as well. Last July, they attacked Mountain Fifty-Five. Even the mighty Queen my lord could only retreat with her injured companions.

Xia Qing believed that in that battle, the wolf pack must have suffered more than just Broken-Waist and Broken-Leg. That battle must have caused severe losses to the wolf pack. Handsome Giant Wolf likely joined the northern wolf pack after that very battle.

If the bear-python-monkey alliance raids Northern Area One's territory during the third Calamity Rain, Xia Qing can only take her important supplies, carry her idol on her back, and flee together with the Boss and Wolf Lao Er.

"Captain Yang, is the evolved brown bear with the tracker the one that the refugee squad from Territory Two abused inside the bear cave on Mountain Fifty, Peak Three, last November?"