Chapter 919: Hitching a Ride with a Wolf

At two in the middle of the night, Handsome Giant Wolf, who had been sleeping under the eaves, had recovered his stamina. He stood up, stretched, and was about to head off for a fight full of fighting spirit when the security door was pushed open.

Xia Qing, already dressed in her protective suit, walked out and asked warmly, "Brother Giant Wolf, has your body recovered? How do you feel? Do you feel full of power all over?"

Handsome Giant Wolf pretended not to hear and walked off on his long legs.

Xia Qing immediately blocked him, pulled out the bag of medicinal liquid, and tried to negotiate with him using gestures and kind words, "Brother Giant Wolf, could you take me along part of the way? I need to go to Mountain Forty-Eight to cut some grass and bring it back. The medicinal liquid you soaked in has run out and needs to be remade, so I need to gather herbs."

Handsome Giant Wolf heard nothing, understood nothing, and walked around Xia Qing to keep going.

Xia Qing kept muttering as she followed behind, "Brother Giant Wolf, you drank my spinach juice and spring water, and soaked in the medicinal bath, so won't you take me along part of the way? If you don't take me, I definitely can't fight Brother Leopard, Sister Leopard, and the little leopard cubs of Mountain Forty-Eight on my own..."

As Xia Qing muttered and followed, Handsome Giant Wolf left Territory Three and entered Zone Three of Mountain Forty-Nine. When she noticed him running north, she called him to a halt and muttered at him for a while, and Handsome Giant Wolf finally turned toward Mountain Forty-Eight.

Xia Qing had planned to run for forty minutes first, and only ask Handsome Giant Wolf to carry her when she really couldn't run anymore. She hadn't expected this wolf seemed to have urgent business—after she'd only run for five minutes, Zhang Shiyi signaled she could climb on.

How did he signal?

He simply stopped and stood still, and when Xia Qing walked over, he didn't immediately dodge away.

The very tactful Xia Qing immediately took out a mat and climbed on. In less than thirty minutes, the person and the wolf arrived beside the evolved red bean tree entwined with vines, growing mistletoe.

The last time Xia Qing was here, she used the bark and mistletoe she gathered, which contained Yi synthesis elements, to exchange with her idol for five bags of medicinal liquid for Handsome Giant Wolf's use.

After Broken-Waist Wolf discovered this kind of medicinal liquid, he exchanged two pieces of Yi stone with Xia Qing for it.

A few hours ago, the two wolves entered her territory one after the other. The scheming Broken-Waist Wolf, who had a hundred and eighty cunning tricks up his sleeve, discovered Handsome Giant Wolf soaking in the medicinal bath and had Xia Qing put all three bags of medicinal liquid locked in the small refrigerator into his double-door big refrigerator, completely clearing out the stock of the middleman Xia Qing.

So after Broken-Waist Wolf left, Xia Qing sent a message to ask her idol whether she still wanted this kind of plant that could naturally form Yi-3 elements. Her idol told her, if she had time, to go gather a complete mistletoe plant with fruit already at the mature stage.

When it came to gathering supplies for her idol, of course Ash Fan was always free, but she had to pick a time when Handsome Giant Wolf was free. Because last time this guy took her to the West District Evolution Forest to search for the missing Liang Qing Squad, they had passed right beside this red bean tree.

What does this indicate?

It indicates that although this is leopard territory, wolves can also come here, so Xia Qing hitching a ride on Handsome Giant Wolf to come gather herbs means she won't be attacked or driven off by the leopards.

Xia Qing jumped down from the wolf's back, scouted around and didn't spot a single leopard. She smoothly dug up a complete mistletoe plant with deep blue berries, put it into her herb box, jumped down from the tree, and walked over to Handsome Giant Wolf, who had run off and hidden in the distance thinking she couldn't see him, to negotiate with him, "I've gathered the herbs, thanks, Brother Giant Wolf. Could Brother Giant Wolf take me back?"

Handsome Giant slowly revealed his bone-white fangs, bristling with killing intent.

Xia Qing had long expected this guy wouldn't take her back—she was just trying. After being refused, she immediately stepped back, "Understood, you can't take me back. Brother Giant Wolf, go on with your business, I'll go back on my own."

Xia Qing turned around, drew her black blade, and crossed the danger-filled Evolution Forest at night.

The dangers of the Evolution Forest: first, aggressive plants—she could avoid most of them using her magnetic sense; second, poisonous insects and poisonous plants—her special protective suit could withstand them; third, large beasts that hunt at night—as long as they weren't packs of evolved wolves or leopards, she could handle them alone.

Watching Xia Qing leave, Handsome Giant Wolf retracted his fangs, raised his head, and let out a long wolf howl, "Aooo-wooo—"

Xia Qing, who had only walked a few dozen meters, stopped. This was the first time she'd heard a wolf howl in this tone—what was Handsome Giant Wolf trying to do?

"Aooo, wooo————"

Handsome Giant Wolf howled again. Xia Qing still didn't understand what it meant, but she knew very clearly that Handsome Giant Wolf wasn't talking to her, so she continued on her way.

"Aooo————" From a mountain peak to the west came another long wolf howl, seemingly answering Handsome Giant Wolf's call.

The wolf howls traveled into a valley twenty li away. The sentries on night watch at the old regiment headquarters immediately reported the unusual movement of the wolf pack upward, and the officers and soldiers undergoing training at the garrison urgently assembled, preparing for a night battle.

Xia Qing, on the beast trail of Mountain Forty-Eight, didn't know about the military's movements. Based on the direction the howls came from, she judged it was the evolved wolf queen of the western wolf pack, and quickly crossed over a vine that looked soft and harmless, its red glandular hairs all over its body hung with shiny little water-bead balls, and sped up her running.

This vine wasn't a hostile evolved plant, but once the shell of the water-bead-like balls on the tips of its glandular hairs broke open, it would release a unique fragrance. This fragrance was fatally attractive to many evolved insects. If Xia Qing's protective suit got stained with this liquid, she would become the target of evolved insect attacks. Once enough evolved insects gathered around her, it would naturally attract venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, and even raptors that hunted insects.

Acting alone, Xia Qing certainly didn't want to get into such trouble.

Perhaps because Handsome Giant Wolf's howl had worked, on Xia Qing's way back, apart from wild boars, rabbits, porcupines, snakes, and other animals foraging for food, she actually didn't run into a single large beast. As for the various bizarre plants blocking her path, she avoided them when she could, and when she couldn't, she cut them away with her blade, took samples, and kept moving.

The road Handsome Giant Wolf covered in thirty minutes took Xia Qing until dawn to walk out of Mountain Forty-Eight and into the Mountain Forty-Nine area.

"Sister Qing, do you need support?" Chen Cheng, who was stationed at Mountain Forty-Nine, saw through the camera that Xia Qing looked bedraggled, put down Little Fifth, and called to ask.

Xia Qing raised her head, waved at the camera, "No need, I'll go back on my own."

"Okay." Although very curious about what Xia Qing had gone riding a wolf to do last night, Chen Cheng followed the Green Dragon Squad rules and kept her mouth tightly shut, asking nothing.

Seeing Xia Qing enter Mountain Forty-Nine, Handsome Giant Wolf, who had been following far behind her, shook the water droplets off his silver-gray fur, lost his interest in fighting too, and lay down on a flat stone that caught the sun and fell asleep.

Xia Qing scanned her face to return to her territory, walked down the North Buffer Forest to the reservoir, and excitedly asked Wolf Lao Er, who was feeding the fish, to look at her huge, bulging backpack.

"Lao Er, look! I hunted a wild boar over three hundred jin, Yellow Lantern—pretty lucky, right?" Every time she went out with Handsome Giant Wolf, her luck was amazing!

"Aoo." Lao Er responded, bared his teeth and wagged his tail, smiling happily.

Xia Qing didn't hurry home either. She took out the wild boar packed in a thick, large packaging bag, gutted it by the fish pond, and started processing it.

The offal that Lao Er liked was all set aside. The blood and water flowed into the fish pond, attracting a large school of spring-water fish that loved the fishy smell.

The small fry hatched in spring had now grown to palm-length. To reduce Lao Er's workload of feeding the fish, Xia Qing had picked out and sold a batch of Yellow Lantern and Red Lantern fish. The ones left were all Green Lantern and Yellow Lantern.

After processing the wild boar and feeding Lao Er and Old Big full, Xia Qing set aside some meat and stored it in Broken-Waist Wolf's refrigerator as Lao Er's reserve wolf food, and sold the rest directly to the Ninth Planting Center cafeteria, to add a bit of meat to the hardworking employees' meals.

Then, after waiting for her idol to wake up, she carried the medicinal materials and entered Territory Seven.