Chapter 191: Level 2 Speed Evolution

Chapter 191: Chapter 191: Level 2 Speed Evolution

Xiaqing built a greenhouse for two reasons: one, to have fresh vegetables to eat, and two, to have a ready supply of Green Light Spinach. As long as she could grow spinach year-round, she would never run out of Special Level Nutrient Liquid.

The Special Level Nutrient Liquid wasn’t just needed by her and the Sheep Leader; it was also a "medicine" that the Evolution Wolf Group was very fond of. It could be used to trade with the Wolf Group for Yi Stones and Green Light prey.

Qi Fu immediately agreed, "I’ve been waiting for you to say that. Don’t worry, the two of us will definitely not hold you back. Once we’re in the Evolution Forest, we’ll do whatever you say."

Xiaqing asked, "Brother Qi, is your wife a Strength Evolver too?"

Qi Fu replied, "Back in the Safe Zone, she had 1.8 times Strength Evolution. She’s gotten stronger in the past half-year since coming to the territory, so she’s definitely reached Level 2. If we go somewhere dangerous, it’ll just be you and me. If it’s not dangerous, the three of us can go. We can have Yanzi follow along to carry things and gain some experience."

’Wow, a husband and wife who are both Strength Evolvers. Any child they have would definitely be a Strength Evolver too.’ Xiaqing figured that if the couple’s life improved a little more, they would definitely consider having children.

Xiaqing shared her joy with the Sheep Leader, "Boss, the number of people we can work with has grown again."

Unlike Hu Zifeng’s team from the No.1 Territory, Qi Fu and his wife shared the same goal as Xiaqing: they all wanted to farm properly. Qi Fu was knowledgeable about farming and recognized many plants. If Xiaqing teamed up with him to explore the outskirts of the Evolution Forest, her gains would surely be greater than going alone.

If Shi Du also wasn’t returning to the Safe Zone for the winter, she could ask him to team up too. She could also discuss building the greenhouse with the Fifth and Tenth territories and do it together.

The more she thought about it, the more Xiaqing looked forward to the coming winter.

A small team of three or four Strength Evolvers would have a high carrying capacity but poor risk resistance. Even if they were only exploring a few kilometers into the outskirts of the Evolution Forest, they had to be fully prepared.

Xiaqing didn’t lack the equipment to explore the Evolution Forest; her main task now was to improve her own abilities.

During this time, no matter how busy she was each day, Xiaqing would set aside enough time for training in stamina, precision, reaction speed, and accurate auditory positioning. Every time she trained to the point of exhaustion, Xiaqing would grit her teeth and push on for at least another half hour, until she was so tired she couldn’t get back up after lying down.

After half a month of high-intensity training, Xiaqing’s progress was obvious: it used to take her fifteen minutes to run a lap around her territory, but now it only took her twelve.

The perimeter of the Third Territory was nine kilometers. This running speed meant she had already reached the level of a Level 2 Speed Evolver. Although she was still a long way from the Level 4 speed standard Luo Pei had mentioned, she was making progress, and that was something to be happy about and celebrate.

Exhausted, Xiaqing lay on the ground, grinning at the blue sky. "Boss, aren’t I amazing?"

The Sheep Leader, who had been running laps with Xiaqing, lay panting beside her. It was a Strength Evolution Sheep, not a Speed Evolution Sheep, so this kind of running was a challenge for it too.

Xiaqing didn’t know what it was thinking. Even though it was dog-tired every time, the Sheep Leader insisted on running. It ran for as long as Xiaqing ran, and as fast as Xiaqing ran.

It wasn’t just the Sheep Leader; the Sick Wolf would follow along too. However, its body was weak, and it couldn’t keep up with Xiaqing and the Sheep Leader. It could only stroll slowly along the hillsides, flatlands, and valleys they had run through, and now there was no telling where it had wandered off to.

"Xiaqing, finished with your run?" Tang Huai asked in a deceptively pleasant tone on the Lord channel. "If you’re done, I’m heading to the Northern Wilderness Grass Wall in the Second Territory to dig for bugs?"

Xiaqing’s daily runs around her territory didn’t affect her eastern neighbor, Zhao Ze, but they seriously affected her southern neighbor in the Second Territory, Tang Huai, who had Auditory Evolution.

After being scolded by his old man, Tang Huai no longer dared to openly curse at people outside the No.1 Territory on the Lord channel. Instead, he had resorted to being sarcastic and passive-aggressive.

Xiaqing was in a good mood, so she pressed the walkie-talkie button and replied, "I’m done."

Not expecting Xiaqing to reply, Tang Huai couldn’t help but press, "Xiaqing, what on earth are you trying to do, pushing yourself to death like this?"

Xiaqing answered earnestly, "I want to be able to better protect my territory the next time we’re attacked."

Tang Huai snorted coldly, his tone dripping with sarcasm. "You think running fast can protect your territory? Are you faster than the Evolved Fierce Beasts on the ground, or faster than the Evolved Fierce Birds in the sky?"

Before Xiaqing could reply, Hu Zifeng came online and started roasting him. "Xiaqing doesn’t have to compete with Evolved Beasts that are good at running and flying. When a Natural Disaster strikes, she just has to run faster than most people to survive. And you, you’re part of that ’most people.’"

Shit!

Just as Tang Huai was about to press the walkie-talkie button to curse back, he heard his old man speak up. "Captain Hu is right."

Tang Huai...

’Damn his old man! I can’t live like this anymore!’

Although Hu Zifeng argued with Tang Huai daily, he was still very polite to Tang Zhengpo. "Chairman Tang, have the Su Feng Team’s Pangolins still not been found?"

Hearing Hu Zifeng bring up the Pangolins, everyone with their walkie-talkie on pricked up their ears and listened intently. Even Xiaqing sat up.

After sending Zhang Yong and Xu Juan to test Xiaqing and confirming the Pangolins weren’t in the Third Territory, the Su Feng Team had focused its main forces on searching the Evolution Forest, especially the swamp area north of Mountain No. 49.

In seven days, the Su Feng Team had swept the swamp clean but hadn’t found a single new scale armor piece. Tang Zhengsu, who had never suffered such a huge loss, went ballistic. He slammed the two scale armor pieces they had found previously on the Hui San Base Commander’s desk and demanded the Green Dragon Team compensate them for their losses.

Making the notoriously stingy Iron Roosters of the Green Dragon Team pay compensation? That was pure fantasy.

The result of Tang Zhengsu’s big scene was this: Yang Jin produced irrefutable evidence on the spot that Su Feng Team members had trespassed on Mountain No. 49. Faced with ironclad proof, the Su Feng Team could only grit their teeth and swallow their anger, compensating the Green Dragon Team with three hundred thousand points.

"You should be glad the Pangolins died outside of Mountain No. 49. If they had died three li to the south, you’d be compensating me for a lot more than just three hundred thousand."

As Chen Cheng vividly recounted the story, imitating how Yang Jin held his gun while confronting Tang Zhengsu, Xiaqing laughed so hard her stomach hurt. But she also couldn’t help but admire Yang Jin’s shrewdness.

The Su Feng Team had lost two Pangolins they’d bought at auction for a high price. Not only did they fail to find a single Yi Stone, but they also had to compensate the Green Dragon Team with three hundred thousand.

Three hundred thousand—that was exactly the number of points Luo Pei had exchanged with Xiaqing for two Pangolins. Perhaps Yang Jin and Xie Yu had already figured out their strategy when Xiaqing made the call.

Now that Hu Zifeng had brought up the Pangolins, was the No.1 Territory planning something, or had the Su Feng Team been caught planning something by the No.1 Territory? Xiaqing leaned against the Sheep Leader, listening with great interest.

Tang Zhengpo answered in a calm, unhurried voice, "This morning, Ah Huai received a notice from the team, ordering him to continue cooperating with the team to find the whereabouts of the Pangolins."

’They’re still looking?’

’Could it be that the two Pangolins captured by the Wolf Group weren’t the two from the Su Feng Team?’

Hu Zifeng voiced Xiaqing’s doubt directly. "Those two scale armor pieces they found—they weren’t from the Pangolins you lost?"