"...That bad guy didn't tell San Zong his name, but once, someone contacted that bad guy, and San Zong heard him say, 'No one has ever escaped from Feng Qianzhan's grasp!'"
Xia Chujian mused to herself that the assassin's name was Feng Qianzhan.
When she got back, she would have to check this person out on the Star Network.
From this person's status, it shouldn't be hard to deduce who would find such a person to commission a task...
While Xia Chujian was still pondering, Ping Qiong came out after taking a shower.
Xia Chujian didn't say much more, yawned, and lay down on the small bed she had converted from a seat.
Ping Qiong was also tired. She had eaten and drunk her fill, and had even taken a shower. All she wanted was to sleep again, which was the ultimate bliss.
By a little after nine in the evening, Xia Chujian and Ping Qiong were already fast asleep.
But the Pig-head Humanoid San Zong opened his eyes.
San Zong looked at the Small Dog curled up next to him, and quietly pushed its head with his finger.
The Small Dog swayed and didn't wake up until it had been pushed several times.
It opened its bright black eyes and looked at San Zong in a daze, as if it didn't understand why he had woken it up.
San Zong slowly got up, held the Small Dog in his arms, and then, hunching over, moved step by step to the Flying Vehicle's hatch.
He looked back quietly at the dim Flying Vehicle cabin, and after confirming that the two humans were asleep and wouldn't wake up, he gently opened a crack in the Flying Vehicle's hatch, leaned out sideways, and quickly closed the door again.
But in that blink of an eye, the extremely cold air outside the Flying Vehicle spread into the Flying Vehicle.
Ping Qiong mumbled a few words in her sleep and pulled her coat, which she was using as a blanket, tighter around herself.
Xia Chujian, however, had already woken up the moment San Zong got up.
Because she always remembered that she was an ordinary person without Mental Strength, she was more vigilant than others when performing tasks outside, worried that she would be tricked by those Gene Evolvers who had evolved Mental Strength.
This habit also kept her alert even in her sleep.
She got up silently, put on Ping Qiong's helmet, then picked up her Destroyer 800 Fully Automatic Submachine Gun, which was hanging by her small bed, and slung her Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle over her back, following San Zong out of the Flying Vehicle.
The night in the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest was much colder than the day.
The temperature was still minus eighty degrees Celsius during the day, but at night it dropped to below minus one hundred degrees Celsius.
Fortunately, she had self-heating gloves, or she wouldn't be able to hold the gun steady.
As soon as she jumped out, the Griffon Sea Eagle sleeping next to the Flying Vehicle woke up.
Its amber eyes looked at Xia Chujian, and it tilted its head, as if it didn't understand what she was doing out here.
Xia Chujian held a finger to her lips, signaling the Griffon Sea Eagle not to make a sound.
The Griffon Sea Eagle blinked, then lowered its head and buried it in the warm feathers under its wings, continuing to sleep.
Xia Chujian gave it a meaningful look and followed San Zong and the Small Dog's footsteps forward.
San Zong was carrying the Small Dog and wasn't walking fast.
The ground was covered with snow, and at night, many places were frozen solid.
The wind was still howling, roaring in the sky and on earth.
In some places, San Zong couldn't walk upright, so he lay down on the ground, carried the Small Dog on his back, and crawled forward.
Xia Chujian, following behind him, wasn't having an easy time either.
However, she wasn't barefoot like San Zong, but was wearing long boots made of Exotic Beast fur that she had received from the association.
The soles of the boots had special anti-slip measures.
Even in these harsh weather conditions, she could still walk steadily forward, but she just wasn't walking fast.
After walking in the dark for about twenty minutes, San Zong, carrying the Small Dog, turned east and west, arriving at a nearby forest.
Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes.
Looking out from her helmet's eyepiece, this should be the forest she had seen when she first arrived here.
Not too far, not too close from the Flying Vehicle's location.
What is San Zong doing there? Xia Chujian didn't want to think too badly of San Zong, but she had to be vigilant.
After all, she had only known this Pig-head Humanoid for less than a day.
San Zong never expected anyone to be following him.
Carrying Small Dog on his back, he finally climbed from the hard, slightly slippery snow into the woods.
There wasn't as much snow here, and the ground wasn't frozen solid.
He stood up, sighed softly, took Small Dog off his back, held it in his arms, and continued walking forward.
After another thirty minutes, they arrived at a clearing deep in the woods, illuminated by moonlight.
Xia Chujian, following behind him, was also shocked by the sight.
The clearing was estimated to be about an acre in size.
Towering trees surrounded the edge of the clearing, like tall walls, firmly enclosing it.
Bright moonlight poured down from the night sky, covering the clearing perfectly.
The soil in this clearing was also different from other places.
The soil exposed in the scattered snow was pure black, so black that it was very fine and even.
In the center of that pure black soil, several Blood Kirins were growing!
It could only be described as a "nest"!
Xia Chujian was stunned.
She even couldn't help but quietly count them.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine!
There were a full nine Blood Kirins!
Under the moonlight, the blue-green plants growing on the pure black soil were very conspicuous.
A gust of wind blew, and the branches rustled, but it didn't affect the Blood Kirins at all.
They stretched their branches under the moonlight, striving to grow.
San Zong looked at these Blood Kirins, sighed with satisfaction, and said to Small Dog, "Small Si Xi, in a little while, these Blood Kirins will all be mature. Let's dig them all back for Female Sire!"
Small Dog softly said, "Wu Erfu! Wu Erfu!"
It wagged its little tail in San Zong's arms, rubbed its head against him, and when it turned around, it happened to see Xia Chujian standing behind San Zong! Small Dog widened its eyes and called out even louder, "Wu Erfu! Wu Erfu!"
San Zong patted its back, "What's wrong? Are you too cold? Oh, isn't Small Si Xi's nest near here? Should Small Si Xi go back to its nest to sleep for a while? I'll call Small Si Xi when San Zong has dug out all the Blood Kirins?"
Small Dog became anxious and struggled violently.
Xia Chujian felt embarrassed and coughed softly twice.
These two coughs were like a bomb, exploding in San Zong's ears.
San Zong's body stiffened instantly.
After a while, Xia Chujian had already walked to his side, looking at the Blood Kirins in the center of the clearing, her eyes shining, and said, "Are all the Blood Kirins for this year here?"
San Zong trembled, nodded, and stammered, "Y-yes... yes... yes... Blood Kirins only produce ten plants a year..."
He had already dug one before, and now there were still nine here.
"You knew about this all along?" Xia Chujian asked expressionlessly.
San Zong nodded: "San Zong smelled it..."
"You didn't tell that Feng Qianzhan?"
The second update is here. See you tomorrow!
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