Chapter 949: Calling the Helicopter

The broken-waist wolf, its face covered in scratches, understood. It raised its left leg and tried to spread its large paw so Xia Qing could treat it.

Unlike a cat's claws, a wolf's claws can barely retract at all, and its nails aren't sharp enough for climbing trees. Although the broken-waist wolf could leap up trees with its springing power, gripping branches to steady itself was still very difficult for it. Just now, it had been leaping up and down the giant tree at such high speed that its claws were bound to have been damaged.

After clamping the wolf cub in its jaws, the broken-waist wolf had plummeted more than forty meters straight down from over sixty meters up. After spitting out the cub, it landed on a branch of the tilted giant tree that Xia Qing had shot down. The broken branch absorbed some of the impact from the rapid descent, but the broken-waist wolf's leg was also injured by the reaction force.

That was why it was limping.

"Whine..."

When Xia Qing gripped the broken-waist wolf's leg, it trembled and let out a small sound. Xia Qing quickly eased her grip. "Sorry, I used too much force. This leg might have a contusion or a fracture. Don't be afraid."

Xia Qing simply picked up the broken-waist wolf, laid it down, washed its paw with pollution-free spring water, and checked the bleeding spots.

On closer inspection, she found that not only were its nails broken and bleeding, there were also wooden splinters lodged between its toes. The broken-waist wolf was wearing a snakeskin protective suit, which could cover the pads of its feet, but the nails were exposed because the nails were the evolved wolf's weapons.

Survival competition inside the Evolution Forest was fierce and brutal.

If Xia Qing didn't treat the broken-waist wolf's wounds, then because of that wooden splinter, this brain-evolved wolf that loved exploring new things would slowly grow weak from infection, no longer able to play an important role in the wolf pack. Its turn to eat meat would be pushed back, and all that awaited it was death — not to mention the little wolf beside it that was still bleeding.

"Bear with it. I'll pull the splinter out first, then disinfect and apply medicine."

Nearly an hour later, the helicopter arrived above the battlefield.

Pilot Er Yong, gunner Watching Huo Zhun, team medic Zhang Song, and assistant Zhang Sun all looked down at the headless giant tree, the bird nests scattered everywhere, the giant eagle's corpse chunks and feathers, the two injured evolved wolves — one big, one small — and the glaring fresh blood on the gray-white stone. They didn't need to ask to know how brutal a battle had just taken place here.

The helicopter landed on the clearing Xia Qing had made. After the cabin door opened, Xia Qing first carried the already anesthetized little black wolf into the cabin. "Song Ge, treat this little wolf first. It was clawed by the giant eagle — four puncture wounds in its abdomen."

"Alright, put it on the CT scanner." After hearing Xia Qing's description of the casualty, Zhang San had the medical team bring a portable CT scanner.

Assistant Zhang Sun immediately spread a sterile sheet on the CT scanner's bed, helped Xia Qing position the dozens-of-jin unconscious little wolf, and began using the CT scanner to check the little wolf's internal organs and bones for damage.

Standing by the cabin door on guard duty, Watching Huo Zhun asked, "Sister Qing, are those two evolved wolves in the woods over there this little wolf's parents?"

Xia Qing glanced at the black wolf and the broken-leg girl hiding in the woods. "Yes. Huo Ge, stay here on guard. I'll go bring the other injured wolf up."

After hearing the helicopter, the alpha wolf had handed the two injured wolves over to Xia Qing and led several wolves into the dense forest. Xia Qing jumped down from the helicopter, went over, and picked up the lonely broken-waist wolf on the rock that had been given the anesthetic.

Only after anesthetizing the broken-waist wolf did Xia Qing dare to let Zhang Song, who had no combat ability, treat its wounds.

"Awooo—" The little wolf brother hiding in the dense forest grew anxious, stood up, and roared at Xia Qing.

Xia Qing turned around holding the broken-waist wolf, her voice gentle. "Queen, little wolf brother, black wolf brother, broken-leg girl, don't worry. The broken-waist one and the four-eyed little wolf will both get the best treatment."

As for the treatment fee, Xia Qing didn't need to bring it up — the alpha wolf would deliver it to the territory on its own.

Watching Huo Zhun blinked. How did that wolf cub only a few months old end up as Sister Qing's "brother"? Just because it's the alpha wolf's cub?

"Whine—"

Noticing Watching Huo Zhun staring at its cub, the alpha wolf growled low and bared its fangs. The little wolf immediately hid in the grass. The big and small evolved wolves both fixed their identical nouveau-riche-gold eyes on Watching Huo Zhun, as if about to charge forward and tear him apart the next second.

Watching Huo Zhun grinned and told Xia Qing as she walked over, "Little wolf brother is very alert. When it grows up, it'll definitely become an evolved wolf leader that dominates its territory."

Er Yong asked, "Sister Qing, shall I close the cabin door?"

"Don't close it." If the door were shut, the evolved wolves waiting outside would only grow more anxious.

"The little wolf has four intestinal perforations and a ruptured liver. We can operate and suture it here, or we can take it back for minimally invasive surgery. The big wolf has a fracture in the lower leg of its front left leg and needs a splint." After the examination, Zhang Song explained the situation to Xia Qing and let her decide whether to take them back.

Opening the abdomen for suturing would be too hard on its vitality. Xia Qing jumped down from the helicopter. "I'll go ask."

Xia Qing ran over to the alpha wolf crouching in the woods, gestured and discussed with it for a while, then ran back. "Take both back. Er Yong, return to the territory."

"Got it."

Seeing the helicopter lift off, the black wolf, broken-leg girl, and little wolf brother howled anxiously. The alpha wolf gazed at Xia Qing waving at it from inside the helicopter, threw back its head, and let out a long wolf howl.

On the helicopter, after Zhang Song took care of the little black wolf, he had assistant Zhang Sun treat the broken-waist wolf, whose injuries were lighter.

While quickly treating the wounds on the broken-waist wolf's paw and head, Zhang Sun asked the "family member," "Sister Qing, for splinting this wolf's injured leg, should we use calcium sulfate or polyester polymer material?"

Xia Qing asked, "Which does Sun Ge think is better?"

Zhang Sun replied, "Polyester polymer material has high strength, is lightweight, thin, breathable, and waterproof. It just costs a bit more."

"Use that one." The broken-waist wolf was a big spender — points and the like were no problem at all.

"Got it." After confirming the material, Zhang Sun nimbly shaved the broken-waist wolf's leg hair, disinfected, bandaged, and splinted it.

Xia Qing took out her phone and snapped a photo of the broken-waist wolf's bare left front leg, then looked out through the cabin window. "Huo Ge, which mountain area is this?"

Watching Huo Zhun answered, "Northeast of Mountain Fifty-Nine, a straight-line distance of over a hundred li from our territory. Sister Qing, how did you get here?"

Pilot Er Yong: You'd be scared to hear this — she rode a wolf here!

Xia Qing didn't answer that question, and pointed at a nearby mountain peak. "Huo Ge, scan the top of that mountain peak at your four o'clock. There seem to be bears there."

"Copy!"

Watching Huo Zhun operated the helicopter's laser scanning sensor equipment to check the mountain peak Xia Qing had pointed at. "Holy crap! It really is a giant bear! Looks like the one that fought you and the wolf pack!"

Xia Qing guessed, "Mountain Sixty to the northwest of Mountain Fifty-Nine is the giant bear's territory. They must have heard the commotion and come over to check."

"This giant eagle wasn't dumb — it knew to build its nest at the border between the wolf pack's and the bear pack's territory." Watching Huo Zhun asked, "Sister Qing, eagle meat is edible. What are you planning to do with these two big claws?"