Chapter 394: Who is the Strongest in This Territory

Chapter 394: Chapter 394: Who is the Strongest in This Territory

Xiaqing’s black long knife certainly looked extraordinary, but no matter how special it was, it was still just a knife.

To clear trees from a vehicle path, one should use shovels, pickaxes, or axes to dig out even the tough roots. Otherwise, the tires of the heavy earth-moving trucks could easily be punctured by leftover stumps and roots.

Anyone who had been a Lord for a year should have understood such a simple principle.

The people from Territory No. 17 all stopped, wanting to see how Xiaqing would clear the way.

They watched as Xiaqing patted a thicket of red-leaf barberry bushes blocking the path a few times with her black long knife. After confirming there were no Evolutionary Animals hiding inside, she didn’t foolishly start hacking at the bushes with her blade, but her next move didn’t seem very smart either.

Because she actually bent down and grabbed the base of the barberry bushes with her hands. The sight made the people from Territory No. 17 grimace; they knew all too well how dense and hard the thorns on a barberry were.

Just as they were waiting to see her yelp in pain and let go, they instead saw her grasp a few of the bush’s stems and give a light tug upward. A two-meter-tall thicket of thorny red-leaf barberry was lifted a good twenty centimeters out of the ground, just like that!

’What the hell!’

These were thorny barberries growing in highly viscous yellow clay. How could they be pulled up so easily?

’Are her hands made of iron? Isn’t she afraid of the thorns? What kind of gloves is she wearing? They look like they’re made of snakeskin.’

If not for the tangled roots of the thicket still embedded in the soil, the people from Territory No. 17 would have thought Xiaqing wasn’t pulling up a native bush, but a stick she had planted there beforehand.

It wasn’t just the people from Territory No. 17; Yu Shou and Zhao Ze were also taken aback by Xiaqing’s strength. Only Qi Fu, who had carried Chestnuts with her, remained calm.

He was also wearing the Python Skin Protective Gear that Xiaqing had traded him. Wearing those gloves, even he could pull up thorny bushes like this, to say nothing of Xiaqing.

There was no need to clear the lateral and fibrous roots that posed no threat to the tires. Xiaqing swung her knife, severing the hard stems and main roots, and flung the red-leaf barberry clump more than four meters away, landing it precisely in a spot where it wouldn’t be in the way.

Now, even Qi Fu was impressed.

A large swarm of small insects that had been hiding behind the barberry bushes lost their cover and swarmed toward Xiaqing. But upon smelling the Insect Repellent on her, they immediately stopped their advance and flew about in a panic.

Xiaqing ignored these harmless little insects, hacking through the overgrown weeds with her long knife as she moved to the second bush and continued pulling.

It wasn’t just bushes. Even thorny trees, two or three years old and thicker than an arm, were felled by her with a single, clean strike.

"That’s... too incredible. She must be a High Level Strength Evolver!"

The people from Territory No. 17 couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement, "The most badass High Level Strength Evolver I’ve ever seen is actually a woman..."

’She doesn’t even look that muscular. Where does she get all that Strength?’

Wen Nengjie shouted, "Would they be called a High Level Evolver if they weren’t badass? Hurry, hurry! Chop down ten more trees, dig up ten more roots, and then we’ll go back for breakfast!"

Yesterday, Wen Nengjie had come here looking for yellow clay to build a greenhouse and had seen an excavator and a few people chopping down trees in this forest. After a careful search, he was shocked to discover that beneath this patch of thorn wood was high-quality yellow clay. That’s why he had brought all his men, fully armed, to claim the spot early this morning.

But now? There was no need. He was pulling out.

Her group hadn’t chosen the same area as them, so there was no competition. But even if they had, his group would have been the one to back down.

Because their "full arms" were nothing in front of a well-equipped High Level Evolver. They would just be crushed.

At 7:20, before Wen Nengjie and his men could finish their work and head back for breakfast, four crawler excavators came roaring over, two abreast.

Then, five large transport trucks followed the path flattened by the excavator tracks, driving through the area that Territory No. 17 had cleared early in the morning and heading toward the riverbank.

Most of the vehicles actually bore the logo of the Hui Er Territory’s Reunion! They’d better not get too close to those trucks, or the Reunion’s security team would see them as a threat and shoot them dead on the spot. Such things had happened before.

Over on the riverbank, Zhao Ze used a megaphone to give orders, "Excavators, position yourselves according to the markers on the ground and start digging. Two excavators will load one truck. I need six people over here to clear the weeds and draw the lines. Pay attention to safety! Do not cross the cleared weeds into the Evolution Forest. If you do, you’re responsible for your own life or death. Everyone else, start clearing the rocks on the riverbank, and be careful not to leave the marked area..."

Hearing this, Wen Nengjie realized the transport trucks were carrying a lot of people.

At that moment, Wen Nengjie deeply understood that on this land, their Territory No. 17 was not the strongest.

He had long known that Lord No.3 was a Strength Evolver, but he also knew that the Third Territory only had one person.

"A hero is no match for four hands," as the saying goes. So no matter how strong one person was, they weren’t to be feared.

But now he realized he had been too naive. Not only could Xiaqing annihilate his entire group by herself, but what was even more terrifying was that her influence was far greater than his own.

Even the stubborn and unyielding Territory No.15 was following her commands.

Just ten-odd minutes after the transport trucks drove past, the first truck was already returning with a full load of earth, passing through the area cleared by the people from Territory No. 17 and heading toward human territory.

Five minutes later, the second truck roared by.

"So fast!" The people from Territory No. 17 were so envious they were practically drooling. "Boss, can we work with them?"

Wen Nengjie roared irritably, "Are they short on people? Didn’t you hear they brought too many and even sent a team to cut down trees? You don’t want to go back and eat? What are you standing around like idiots for? Get to work!"

Many hands make light work.

On the riverbank, the weeds and loose stones within the soil-extraction area marked out by Zhao Ze with a micro-tiller were quickly cleared. Zhao Ze directed one excavator to the logging area to haul timber, while the other three remained on the riverbank to continue digging earth.

To ensure each transport truck could be reloaded within five minutes of its return, some people needed to stay behind to coordinate with the excavators and handle miscellaneous tasks.

After Xiaqing and Yue Haiying confirmed there were no dangerous, aggressive plants or animals on the riverbed and hillside, Yu Shou and two armed members from Territory No.15 stayed behind to stand guard by the river. Xiaqing and Zhao Ze then drove the micro-tiller to the logging site.

The machinery was mainly concentrated by the riverbank. The logging site had more people and a more complex situation, requiring Xiaqing, with her superior combat power and equipment, to go and provide protection.

The area to be logged today had already been cleared once by Yue Haiying’s team, and no high-risk plants or large beasts were found.

When Xiaqing arrived, she didn’t need to patrol the area again. She drank a vial of Special Level Nutrient Liquid through the straw in her Protective Mask and then sat down on a large, high rock to rest.

Kuang Qingwei sidled up to Xiaqing and said, "Hey, sis, talk about a coincidence. The rental guy just contacted me and said that after we’re done with the vehicles, Territory No. 17 is renting them."

’Quite a coincidence,’ Xiaqing thought. She asked, "Why did he contact you?"