Chapter 850: A Lively Night

The red lynxes, also known as bobcats, are members of the cat family. Because they are not large predators, when the two red lynxes crossed from Mountain Fifty into Zone Three of Mountain Forty-Nine, they drew no attention from the Green Dragon Squad's mountain-guarding members.

Although red lynxes are slightly smaller than red foxes, their hunting skills are superior, and they also possess a skill that canines lack: climbing trees.

They could effortlessly scale and cross the iron-net walls set up by humans, entering the quiet Third Territory, then following the scent of prey to the ruins east of Xia Qing's courtyard.

"Beep." The camera detected the intruders and issued a warning.

The new phone, lying face-down on the nightstand, lit up its screen, but Xia Qing, whose hearing was impaired, was sleeping deeply and didn't hear it.

The obvious scent left by wolves in the ruins made the two red lynxes hesitate for a while, but they couldn't resist the lure of abundant prey scent and silently climbed atop the ruins.

When they cautiously poked their heads out and saw the tall evolved wolf standing in front of the sheep pen and chicken coop, their upright ears immediately flattened back against their heads.

"Wooo—"

Wolf Lao Er bared its fangs and growled low.

The two hungry red lynxes, hiding in the wild grass, listened for a while. After confirming there was only a lone wolf here, their hunting hearts began to pound again.

One red lynx silently moved south, trying to snatch prey from behind. As long as it moved fast enough and carried the prey up into a tall tree, the wolf would have no way to take it back.

Sensing the red lynx's movement, Lao Er immediately entered the sheep pen, picked up Does Daigua in its mouth, and placed it on the living room floor. Then it dashed out of the house and leaped onto the roof of the chicken coop, looking down at the two intruders from above.

The red lynx that had already run south, only two meters from the chicken pen, immediately retreated over twenty meters and hid in the wild grass.

Lao Er lowered its head and glared viciously at the two felines hiding in the grass. As long as they dared approach, it would strike.

The two starving red lynxes had come to hunt, not to fight a wolf. Fighting one wolf, they might not lose, but they could very well get injured.

Injury means reduced combat ability, means harder to catch prey, means weakness and death.

So, after facing off against the lone wolf for several minutes, the two red lynxes could only retreat.

After leaving that evolved wolf's territory, the two felines followed the sweet scent of wild piglets and found the wild boar cave in Zone Three of Mountain Forty-Nine.

Because they smelled several strong adult wild boars, the red lynxes didn't dare enter the cave. They lay in ambush above it, waiting for the piglets to come out on their own, then they'd jump down and catch them.

They didn't expect that before the piglets appeared, they themselves were spotted by another animal.

Xiaopingtou, who had also come out hungry and was searching for food, caught the scent and discovered the two small creatures crouching ahead, and charged at them without hesitation.

The red lynxes leaped up suddenly and climbed a nearby large tree. Xiaopingtou saw its prey escape and snorted angrily.

The red lynxes realized that what had charged over was actually a chubby little honey badger, and immediately shifted their hunting target, pouncing toward it.

Xiaopingtou also bristled its fur and tail, let out loud rattling cries, and charged in with a mouth full of sharp little teeth, wanting to eat meat.

The red lynxes got a fright, leaped aside nimbly, and used appraising gazes to size up this abnormal little honey badger.

Failing to bite the prey, the little honey badger snorted angrily and began scraping the stone under its feet with its claws, scraping scraping.

This behavior is very unhoney-badger-like.

The two red lynxes grew even more cautious and stood on the tree, not daring to jump down rashly.

In the tree hollow over two meters above them, a family of red squirrels huddled together, trembling.

On Mountain Fifty-Five, two clever wolves stood by the Python Pool, staring solemnly at the water's surface, which was rippling in circles.

Inside Xiong Dong on Mountain Sixty-One, the little brown bear, curled up in a ball and sleeping, hummed a few times. When it opened its eyes and found itself in the safety of its den, the fear in its eyes slowly faded.

The thick fog shrouding the Evolution Forest was gradually pushed back by the sun rising slowly in the east, and the forest once again revealed its original riot of colors.

From the chimneys of the houses in the human territory, wisps of cooking smoke rose. After the black-feathered rooster in the Third Territory's chicken coop let out a loud crow, several three-month-old young roosters also stretched their necks and let out immature crows.

"Cock-a-doodle—doo—"

"Doo—"

"Doo—"

Sheep Leader, who had been sleeping under the eaves, went huffily to scratch open the chicken coop door and walked in, scaring the chickens into silence.

Sheep Leader squinted for a while, then opened the baffle leading to the big chicken run. Bai Yu the hen rushed out first, flapping her wings and clucking.

Sheep Leader also scratched open the baffle leading to the small chicken run, and one by one the little chicks ran into the run, searching for early-rising insects to eat.

After Sheep Leader left the chicken coop satisfied, Wolf Lao Er jumped down from the coop roof, went inside to do a check, and after confirming there were no intruders, it set its sights on the eggs in the nesting boxes.

After a while, Lao Er actually picked up the small basket hanging on the wall in its mouth, placed it beside the nesting boxes, then gently took an egg from the box in its mouth, turned its head and carefully spit it into the basket. Finding the egg unbroken, Lao Er wagged its tail happily.

Xia Qing in the second-floor bedroom naturally heard the chickens. With her eyes closed she quietly took stock, and after confirming that her tinnitus was milder than before she slept, she clenched her fists and moved her legs, feeling that the pain all over her body was also much lighter.

Xia Qing sat up, stretched out her arms covered in two bruises, picked up the comfortable summer clothes neatly folded by the bed, and covered the patches of bruises on her body.

Today is another day full of vitality and drive, another day where she can eat lots of green-light food and make herself stronger!!!

After psyching herself up, Xia Qing looked out the window and actually didn't see the freeloading red squirrel.

This abnormal phenomenon immediately put Xia Qing on alert. She raised her eyes toward the distance, and only after seeing that each of her greenhouses was safe and sound did she breathe a sigh of relief.

Then Xia Qing picked up her phone to check the cameras. Just as she was about to look at the situation in various parts of the territory, she saw the surveillance App's intruder warnings, sent to her one after another in the middle of the night.

Xia Qing hadn't finished setting up the new phone yet, and the volume wasn't loud enough. She'd also slept too deeply last night and hadn't heard a single alert.

Opening the camera feed, she discovered the intruders were two bobcats—red lynxes—and broke out in a cold sweat.

Red lynxes are very strong fighters. Did Leader and Lao Er, who weren't wearing protective suits, get hurt?!

Xia Qing quickly checked the forage shed and found Leader safe and sound, eating grass. But Lao Er's favorite bug-hunting spot was empty—no sign of it!

Xia Qing grabbed her gun and opened the bedroom door, and…was hit by a very foul smell.

She ran downstairs and saw Does Daigua lying on its side on the living room floor, having diarrhea again. Her very first reaction was actually a sigh of relief.

During the lynx intrusion, Lao Er thought to carry the defenseless Does Daigua into the house—that's amazing!

Where's Lao Er? It isn't hurt, is it?

Xia Qing couldn't bother cleaning up after Does Daigua and rushed out of the house to find her companion.