Chapter 936: The Qiang-Synthesized Poison Born of Blaze

"That eagle's feather colors contrast sharply, and it has a nape—it should be a male eagle." Xin Yu held the leveling rake used for flattening fields, and together with Xia Qing she was leveling the just-fertilized and tilled plot where fig branches were to be cuttings-planted. "Every stone pillar in that area has an eagle-type perched on top, so the one occupying the tallest pillar must be the strongest."

"Not necessarily. That stone pillar has two aggressive Qiang-evolved great trees growing on it, and the sap contains strongly corrosive substances." The samples Xia Qing brought back had already been tested by Zhang San—a naturally synthesized Qiang toxin.

"It really is one clever, non-magnetic-sense-evolved eagle." After leveling the field, Xin Yu planted branches with Xia Qing again. "Your luck is just too good. Who would've thought that after searching so long, the green-light figs we never found were hidden right in the stone pillar forest. And yesterday, with so many visual-evolution users in the squad, you were the only one who spotted the fig tree."

The stone pillar forest was the territory of evolved raptors, and Xin Yu's scout birds couldn't fly in to scout—that was why neither she nor Xia Qing had found the fig tree despite searching for it several times.

Xia Qing, who was planting fig branches, joked with herself, "Because among all the visual-evolution snipers hiding up high, I'm the only one who's a farming lord."

The others were either main force of the military or core squad members of battle teams—they didn't lack points or supplies, and rarely took outside gathering missions with few points and low pay. So their attention was all on the giant eagle. Only Xia Qing would subconsciously search for green-light wild fruits.

Xin Yu nodded, "Fair enough. We'll be able to eat our fill of green-light figs next year."

Although the two of them had never found out where the yellow-light figs in the red squirrel's nest on Xia Qing's territory came from, now they had fig trees of even higher quality!

"In a couple of days, when the people from the Azure Dragon battle team deliver the figs over, I'll send you a few jin." At the edge of the stone pillar forest, Yang Jin had only picked out four worm-free figs, and Xia Qing got two—one she ate herself, and one she gave to her idol. The ones she brought back for the animals on her territory were all fully ripe and wormy; animals could eat them, but they wouldn't be appropriate to give to Xin Yu.

"Good, I want three jin to try." Xin Yu didn't stand on ceremony with Xia Qing. Besides arranging to exchange three jin of figs, she also traded Xia Qing for eight cutting branches to plant back on her own territory, because figs were one of Guagua's favorite foods.

When leaving, Xin Yu also scooped a bucket of yellow-light fish and two green-light fish from Xia Qing's fish pond, to eat herself and to feed the raptors on her territory.

What she brought Xia Qing in exchange was an LCD TV equipped with a storage battery.

Apart from the branches exchanged to Zhang San and Xin Yu, the fig branches Xia Qing was allocated amounted to 125 cuttings planted as small seedlings. She kept the 10 small seedlings in the terraced fields for herself; however many survived in the cultivated fields, she would sell them all.

Calculated at 300 points per seedling, she could sell at least 30,000 points.

Add the bounty for shooting down a giant eagle, plus the fig harvest—yesterday's single mission earned no less than 100,000 points!

The two chatted while planting the fig branches, then watered them thoroughly and set up shade netting. Just as Xia Qing saw Xin Yu off her territory, she received a call from She Xing.

Hearing that She Xing was offering 200,000 points, a pack of new-material ore worth 300,000, and ownership of two territories to ask Zhang San to treat Lu Fangchun and Wang Bo, Xia Qing wasn't surprised.

A starved camel is still bigger than a horse. She Xing's husband and Fu Xiaodan's husband were the former captain and vice-captain of the Liang Qing battle team, so it was only natural that they had new-material ore on hand.

The 200,000 points were scraped together by them begging everywhere, including Xu Juan's 3,800 points.

This was already everything they had. Xia Qing replied calmly, "Let me contact Lord Seven first, then I'll get back to you."

Amid She Xing's profuse thanks, Xia Qing hung up but didn't contact her idol. Because she had already discussed this matter with Third Brother yesterday—Third Brother was busy researching the super-evolution bacteria outbreak at Base Lan Five and had no mind for these trivial matters, so he left it to Xia Qing to handle.

In her idol's words: "Anyway, they're people you wanted to save, and the two most expensive detox ingredients both come out of your pocket."

Detoxifying the Qiang-synthesized poison in Lu Fangchun and Wang Bo required Qiang withered grass and Qiang-suppression agent.

The Qiang withered grass was in the spring cave on the hillside of Xia Qing's territory. The main ingredient of the Qiang-suppression agent—cordyceps fungus—was still growing in the underground cordyceps cultivation room that Xia Qing and Yang Jin had jointly built, and wouldn't be ready for harvest and medicine-making until the middle of next month.

Once this batch of Qiang-suppression agent was produced, Hui One would take 300 doses, Hui Three would take 180, Red Eleven would take 20, the Azure Dragon battle team would take 5, and at least 10 would be left for Xia Qing. How she wanted to use them, Zhang San wouldn't interfere.

After spending a while pinching off wild shoots in the cotton field, Xia Qing felt the time was right and called She Xing again. "Sister She, Lord Seven has agreed to treat the two children. You can send them over today for examination. As for how to treat them and how many points it'll take, that can only be decided after the examination."

She Xing and Fu Xiaodan beside her couldn't help crying, "Xia Qing, thank you, thank you…"

They had put out all their supplies and points to save the children. Anything their territories had, Xia Qing had too, so the two of them couldn't offer a decent thank-you gift now and could only thank Xia Qing with empty words.

Xia Qing replied calmly, "You're too polite, Sister She. I only passed along a message. Lord Seven isn't interested in your territories. If your points aren't enough…"

She Xing sniffed, "We'll borrow. No matter how many points, we'll deliver them to Lord Seven on time."

She Xing and Fu Xiaodan moved very fast. At 2 p. m., Lu Fangchun and Fang Bo were sent by She Xing into Lord Seven's territory.

At 4 p. m., Zhang San called Xia Qing, his tone very annoyed. "Later, speak up in the lord channel and have Zheng Chen pick up one jin of green-light edamame. Put four leaves of Qiang withered grass inside."

"Okay, Third Brother." Hearing her idol mention edamame, Xia Qing immediately knew why he was in a bad mood, and knew how to cheer him up. "Third Brother, the method to kill that super-evolution bacteria at Lan Five has already been found?"

If the Lan Five crisis hadn't been resolved, Zhang San couldn't have spared the hands to deal with this batch of Blaze yellow soybean seeds, which were essentially biological weapons.

"Not yet." Zhang San snorted, and his tone was indeed much better. "But Red One's side has developed an agent that suppresses the rapid spread of the evolution bacteria."

"Being able to suppress the rapid spread of the evolution bacteria means most of the crisis is solved. Base Lan Five won't have to relocate." Xia Qing asked, "Third Brother, how many leaves of Qiang withered grass are needed in total to detoxify the two of them?"

"They haven't been poisoned long, and their physical foundations haven't been damaged yet. Four leaves per person should be about right." After saying that, Zhang San's tone turned icy. "The Qiang-synthesized poison on them should have come from the Blaze Laboratory."