Chapter 910: The Cunning Broken-Waist Wolf

After dinner, Xia Qing lay in the living room with the air conditioning on, replying to the long message Yuan Yan had sent over.

When Zhou Zhaoping sent people to protect Yuan Yan, she had just noticed an unusual magnetic field fluctuation nearby. Unlike Xia Qing's assessment, Yuan Yan believed someone nearby had been parasitized by an aggressive evolved plant, which was why Xia Qing had sent people to protect her.

Because the fishing operation in the safe zone was a classified mission, Xia Qing couldn't share any intel, so she couldn't say much to Yuan Yan now and could only stiffly reassure her not to be afraid, that as long as she stayed within the territory she'd be fine.

"Beep."

While reading the messages Yuan Yan had sent, Xia Qing saw a notification pop up on her phone:

The Unscrupulous Wolf entered Territory Three through the north gate at 20:08 on July 7.

Xia Qing sat up at once. Good, very good—right on time!

This time the Broken-Waist Wolf didn't bother with the gate. After entering the territory it quickly came to the screen door at Xia Qing's house, swiped its paws across it, wiped them clean on the grass mat beside it, and pushed open the security door.

Seeing Xia Qing's aggressive stance, the Broken-Waist Wolf, basket in its mouth, paused, walked in, set the basket down, and showed Xia Qing its cute little white fang tips.

Xia Qing pointed her scissors at the Does Daigua monkey hanging on the basket and asked, "Broken-Waist, why did you bring this thing back?"

Hmm?

The Broken-Waist Wolf closed its mouth and thought for a moment, then pressed a clean big paw on the edge of the basket: it wasn't brought back in its mouth, it was brought back.

Xia Qing paused. "Same thing. Why did you bring the Does Daigua monkey back?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf patted the Does Daigua monkey, which was crawling along sluggishly, with its paw and looked at Xia Qing.

"I know it hasn't recovered yet, but today it stole food from my territory's greenhouse." Xia Qing pulled up video evidence to show the Broken-Waist Wolf, then furiously stated her position: "I won't allow it to stay in my territory any longer!"

Damn it—when the wolf pack fought the bears, she even rushed in to holler and help, and the pack won back Hill Fifty-Five, yet she brought back a Does Daigua monkey.

After more than a month of coaxing medicine into it and cleaning up after it, the moment the monkey learned to crawl it started stealing her food!

"This monkey was entrusted to me by the Queen. I can give it medicine every day, but it can only stay in the wolf den. If you don't agree, take it back to Hill Fifty-Five."

The Broken-Waist Wolf stared thoughtfully at Xia Qing for a few seconds, stepped forward and used its big paw to nudge the Does Daigua monkey that was slowly crawling toward Wolf Lao Er, flipped it over, stepped on its face, and looked at Xia Qing with a delighted grin.

Xia Qing raised her hand and pointed at the Does Daigua monkey's face, asking slowly, "You think I look like this monkey?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf grinned even more happily.

Xia Qing suppressed the urge to skin the Unscrupulous Wolf alive, opened her phone, pulled up a picture she'd prepared long ago, and held it up in front of the Broken-Waist Wolf that was mocking her.

On the left of the picture was the majestic Broken-Waist Wolf; on the right was an ugly, dirty mangy hyena. Xia Qing pointed at the mangy hyena and mocked the Unscrupulous Wolf in front of her: "You look just like this hyena—it's your relative, right? Hahahaha—"

The Broken-Waist Wolf stared at the picture for a few seconds, then refused to take it, bared its fangs at Xia Qing, and growled softly. Wolf Lao Er immediately jumped down from the rocking chair and stood between the Broken-Waist Wolf and Xia Qing. Sheep Boss, lying in the hanging chair, acted as if it hadn't heard a thing, squinting at the Does Daigua monkey as it chewed its cud.

Xia Qing stopped laughing. "You think this hyena doesn't look like you?"

"Wooo—" the waist-severed wolf continued to howl.

Xia Qing furiously pointed at the Does Daigua monkey on the floor. "You say I look like this ugly monkey, so I say you look like this hyena!"

"Grrr—"

Wolf Lao Er licked the Broken-Waist Wolf, then licked the back of Xia Qing's hand, telling them not to fight.

Xia Qing said nothing more, holding up the phone picture and glaring viciously at the Broken-Waist Wolf. The Broken-Waist Wolf gradually retracted its fangs, picked up the Does Daigua monkey from the floor in its mouth and tossed it outside. When it came back, it showed Xia Qing its little fang tips again.

"Hmph."

Xia Qing snorted, put Wolf Lao Er back in the hanging chair, then said to the Broken-Waist Wolf, "Don't push my limits, or I'll shear every bit of fur off you and turn you into a bald wolf!"

The Broken-Waist Wolf stopped smiling, picked up the cord of its notebook in its mouth, gently placed the notebook on the table, and finally took a pigeon-egg-sized Use Yishi out of the basket and set it in front of Xia Qing.

At the sight of the Use Yishi, Xia Qing's fury burst like a balloon with a pop. "Broken-Waist, you're using this Use Yishi to apologize to me?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf glanced at Xia Qing, then took a palm-sized plastic bag out of the basket and set it in front of her.

Isn't this the bag that held the body-strengthening, fur-beautifying potion Handsome Giant Wolf soaked in last night? So when the Broken-Waist Wolf came over this morning, it dug this bag out of the trash, stuffed it into the basket, and took it away?

What did Handsome Giant Wolf say to this guy after its medicinal bath, to make this increasingly stingy creature interested in this kind of potion and bring a Use Yishi to trade?

Xia Qing understood. "You want to trade for this potion?"

The Broken-Waist Wolf immediately showed its little fang tips.

Xia Qing shook her head and gestured as she explained to the clever Broken-Waist Wolf: "One Use Yishi isn't enough. This potion can repair bodily damage, and it also keeps wolves from shedding and from being bothered by small flying insects. You see—"

Before Xia Qing could finish, the Broken-Waist Wolf and Wolf Lao Er both turned their heads at the same time, ears twitching, and looked toward the back window.

Before long, the fussy-free Handsome Giant Wolf was seen pushing the door open without even wiping its paws, ignoring Xia Qing, the Broken-Waist, Boss, and Lao Er, walking straight to the bathroom door and crouching down—its intentions clear.

Xia Qing immediately went to Handsome Giant Wolf's side, patted its thick silver-gray fur, and continued introducing to the Broken-Waist Wolf: "Big Brother Giant Wolf used the new potion—no shedding, no bug bites, and it's gotten much stronger! This potion costs two Yi Stones to trade for."

Handsome Giant Wolf scooted aside, dodging Xia Qing's paw.

The Broken-Waist Wolf looked thoughtfully at Handsome Giant Wolf and actually hesitated.

Xia Qing stopped paying attention to it, first combed Handsome Giant Wolf's fur, gave it water, and only then began filling the tub.

After Handsome Giant Wolf jumped into the tub, Xia Qing ran upstairs to get the notebook's power cord and plugged in the Broken-Waist Wolf's notebook to charge.

The Broken-Waist Wolf watched Handsome Giant Wolf soak for a while, lost interest, went back to the living room, opened its cute pink notebook, and searched for videos to keep practicing—its movements so practiced they were cringeworthy.

When Xia Qing came downstairs with the blue potion, she saw the Broken-Waist Wolf actually watching a video about fungi, and was reminded of the natural disaster reported at today's safe zone meeting—the invasion of Hui Seven Territory by highly toxic evolved fungal spores.

Seeing Xia Qing bring down a bag of potion, the Broken-Waist Wolf immediately paused the video and followed her into the bathroom.

Xia Qing poured the potion into the water and tossed the bag into the trash can beside it.

The Broken-Waist Wolf leaned against the tub and sniffed the potion, then carried the bag back to the living room, set it in front of Xia Qing, and took another pigeon-egg-sized Use Yishi out of its basket.