Chapter 847: This Monkey Looks Pretty Daigua-Cute

Last November, a "refugee squad" composed of members from the Blaze and Sufeng combat teams went out hunting in Territory Two, cornered a brown bear in a den on Mountain 50 and tormented it, making the bear cry out for help.

Their goal was to lure the Xiong Qun from Mountain 61 southward, so that Sufeng's vice-captain Xu Pin could take a helicopter to Python Lake beside Mountain 61 to play tricks. Of course, this objective was only confirmed this spring after Sufeng was destroyed, when the base interrogated captured Sufeng personnel.

After the Mountain 50 brown bear howled a few times, Xin Yu had her trained bird drop a pack of explosives over Territory Two, directly blowing up Sufeng's helicopter. Sufeng lost its transport, the plan fell through, and the bear-tormenting stopped.

That incident was finally settled when Yang Jin delivered the bear-tormenting culprit to Mountain 61 and compensated the giant bear with a jar of honey.

The wolf pack living on Mountain 60 seized the chance when two evolved bears went south and Python Territory was left unguarded by bears to launch a surprise attack, killing a giant python of advanced hardness weighing over a thousand jin whose activity had dropped due to the cold. They delivered it to Zone Three of Mountain 49 and paid Xia Qing a piece of yi-stone as "processing fee," asking her to use the python's skin to craft snake-skin protective suits for them.

Xia Qing naturally agreed to the wolf pack's request, and used the leftover python skin to make two highly defensive protective suits for herself and Xin Yu.

This morning, Xia Qing and Xin Yu teamed up to hunt wild ducks in the Evolution Forest, wearing the close-fitting python-skin protective suit underneath and a Level-4 field protective suit on the outside.

Without the double protection, she wouldn't have had the nerve to take on poachers carrying rocket launchers head-on.

Yang Jin nodded. "That's the one. At the time there were two evolved bears in the Mountain 50 area, and the tormented one was smaller in size. When I treated its wounds, I discovered it was a brain-domain evolved bear. You should have noticed too, right?"

Xia Qing had long reached a consensus with Zhang San that they would not reveal data on evolved animals within this Evolution Forest zone.

In the case where Xia Qing, the lead wolf, the Broken-Waist Wolf, and Wolf Lao Er annihilated the Blaze beast-hunting squad, the video and wolf-related data finally submitted only covered a sick wolf whose digestive function had been compromised by parasitic infection.

So the wolf-versus-bear video Zhang Song filmed this morning will only be submitted to the lord Zhang San. Yan Long, Huo Zhun, and Xin Yu also won't leak the information.

So Yang Jin only knows that Xia Qing and Xin Yu saved a bear and a monkey, but doesn't know the monkey was forced on them by this brain-domain evolved bear.

Xia Qing nodded. "It should be a cub of those two brain-domain evolved giant bears on Mountain 61. Captain Yang, what exactly is the tracker inside the bear? Can it be removed?"

Keeping this thing around, Hui Six's people might come back to capture bears any day. For the Northern Zone One territory, this tracker is a ticking time bomb.

"It's a walnut-sized tracker that charges through kinetic energy, so it should have been implanted in the evolved bear's leg. My fault—I didn't check carefully when I bandaged the bear's wound." Yang Jin reproached himself, then continued, "To remove the tracker, we have to catch this bear. After its last injury, it didn't leave the Mountain 60 area for over half a year. This time the interval probably won't be short either. I reckon it's now full of hostility toward humans, so we can't recklessly lure it. What's the deal with that monkey?"

Xia Qing briefly explained the situation, took out the new phone she'd only gotten that evening, and showed Yang Jin Daigua monkey's current state. "Whether this monkey can recover to its previous condition is still uncertain."

"Hui Six's people have a deep hatred for monkeys. The tranquilizer dart was definitely aimed at this monkey's brain, but it blocked with its arm, so the dart hit its arm instead. If the dart had hit the brain, it would already be dead." Yang Jin spoke of the monkey, but his eyes looked at Xia Qing's hand holding the phone.

The back of her hand had large patches of bruising, and two fingernails had purplish-black blood pooled underneath. Yang Jin's heart ached terribly, but he had to pretend he wasn't paying much attention, and asked casually, "Did you smash your hand?"

"Yeah, a stone blown off by a cannon shell hit me this morning, no big deal." Just a bump, the skin wasn't even broken, let alone infected with an evolution bacterium. Just a bit of pain, doesn't get in the way of work. Xia Qing didn't take it to heart at all, and continued, "I suspect this monkey was also a powerful Evolver before being shot, which is why that bear picked it up to display during the wolf-bear confrontation."

Of course, Xia Qing didn't mention that those Xiong Xiazi bears considered her and Daigua monkey to be of equal combat power—too embarrassing!

Yang Jin gave Xia Qing a bit of knowledge: "The northern wolf pack's main activity area is Mountains 49-60. Last summer when the Xiong Qun went south to seize wolf territory, they left a giant python to guard Mountain 50's Second Peak and a small bear to guard Mountain 55's Third Peak, but most of the bears still foraged in the 61-65 range. Mountain 62 has quite a few bee colonies, and it's the place the Xiong Qun likes to visit most."

"When I went gathering herbs last year, passing through Mountain 62, I encountered this kind of monk-faced monkey. They leap between trees, very fast, combat ability unknown. But this monk-faced monkey being together with a brain-domain evolved bear suggests it's also an Evolver. After you save it, what do you plan to do?"

Mountain 62? Xia Qing had never been there, but she had gazed northward from halfway up Mountain 60. Mountain 62 lies north of the huge python lake north of Mountain 60—a vast mountain area of low elevation but extraordinarily dense and humid vegetation.

That place is deep in the absolute interior of the Evolution Forest, already considered a forbidden zone for humans.

Who would have thought, the monkey troop lives just over seventy li from human territory!

Xia Qing sighed. "I'd rather kill it."

Yang Jin smiled and comforted Xia Qing. "This monkey looks pretty daigua-cute. Once you save it, it might just build a bridge for you to communicate with the brain-domain evolved bears. Even if you can't reach the same friendly exchange relationship with the Xiong Qun as you have with the wolf pack, as long as you're not hostile, the safety rating of this territory will jump up a big notch."

Daigua-cute? Xia Qing looked at Daigua monkey's ugly face on the phone screen, once again confirming Yang Jin's aesthetic sense was problematic. Still, "I considered this layer too, which is why I'm doing my utmost to save it. I just hope what I save isn't a Bai Yan monkey."

If this monkey, after being saved, discovers abundant food in human territory, runs back to cozy up to the giant bears, and then leads its monkey troop and the giant bears south to seize human food, that would absolutely be a massive disaster.

Yang Jin, however, had unusual confidence in Xia Qing and the wolf pack. "A little monkey barely bigger than a house cat—it can't stir up much trouble. Even if it really is a Bai Yan monkey, it wouldn't dare lead its troop south through wolf territory. And taking it ten thousand steps back, even if the wolf pack let them through, with your shooting skills, every monkey on Mountain 62 coming at once wouldn't last you a single day."

Makes it sound like the monkeys are so stupid and she's so amazing...

Xia Qing gave a hollow smile. "Bullets have gotten more expensive. Shooting monkeys isn't cost-effective."