As Wang Qiqi descended rapidly from the helicopter, she spoke to Master Fox:
"It seems the Forest Musk Deer hid something in the coal mountain?"
In the forest, it might not be obvious to discern the Forest Musk Deer's escape route.
But for those in the helicopter, it was clear that the Forest Musk Deer gave up on escaping into the deep mountains, giving up the only chance of escape, and without hesitation opted to run in circles in the forest under the fire of Master Fox, heading directly into the coal mining area.
It was as if something in the coal mountain made the Forest Musk Deer, who was at a disadvantage, completely give up the option of escape.
"Escape route... clear target?"
Hearing Wang Qiqi's loud reminder, Ansheng glanced at the Forest Musk Deer lying on the ground.
The Forest Musk Deer seemed aware, shrinking its neck, not daring to speak.
"You, like Ah Bai, wouldn't like to hide weapons in your den, would you?"
Ansheng rolled his tail, dragging a stone slab, stepping on it like skiing, sliding down the mountain to the Forest Musk Deer's side, looking at it suspiciously.
Meanwhile, as Master Fox descended the mountain, two heavy-armed helicopters descended from the sky, landing on the cleared coal mining ground. Security Bureau's logistics personnel followed Wang Qiqi in advancing to the Forest Musk Deer's front.
Everyone formed a surrounding stance, enclosing the Forest Musk Deer.
But the Forest Musk Deer laid flat, with a look of resignation, ready for anything they planned to do.
"Wang Qiqi, bring a tactical knife! Master Fox wants to end its nap now!"
Ansheng pondered, borrowing a knife from Wang Qiqi, preparing to end the Forest Musk Deer's nap with two stabs.
"Woof woof woof! Woof!"
Feeling someone prying its hind leg, the Forest Musk Deer instinctively opened its eyes, seeing the glaring cold shine of a black blade. Its nap felt frozen, cold sweat seemingly forming on its forehead.
The Forest Musk Deer quickly got up from the ground, its front legs slightly bent, kneeling pitifully and letting out a series of barks.
"I'm sorry!"
"It's my fault! I really did wrong, I shouldn't have kept Master Fox's Treasure Grass, it was all my greed..."
The Forest Musk Deer knew its bells were damaged, unable to display its mighty pride as a male beast in front of Master Fox.
But even though heavily injured, at least, it still had a bell handle, able to be there as a symbol.
However.
Looking at Master Fox's expression, seeming ready to uproot its basket, the Forest Musk Deer panicked.
Between the dream of dominance and masculinity, it decisively chose the latter.
Why become dominant? Isn't it just to better enjoy the females?
The Forest Musk Deer's intelligence was high, understanding basic truths; it would not forsake the bigger picture for small gains.
"Woof woof..."
The Forest Musk Deer, re-standing, looked at the fully-armed security bureau logistics around, barking towards Master Fox.
"Hmm... The Forest Musk Deer says you should clear out a bit, it's going to lead us to something."
Among everyone, only Master Fox had the ability to translate all channels, he conveyed the Forest Musk Deer's words, then Ansheng looked at Wang Qiqi and said, "This guy's intelligence should not be low, it even insulted my mom."
"Huh?!"
Wang Qiqi looked at Master Fox, standing only to her waist, then looked at the Alaskan-sized Forest Musk Deer, revealing a strange expression.
Wang Qiqi was unable to make a scientifically rigorous judgment now on the intelligence level of the Forest Musk Deer.
But the Forest Musk Deer's survival was tough indeed. In one day, it first kicked the crotch of a Guardian Level Golden Leopard and then verbally insulted Guardian Level Master Fox, yet, it only had two bells shattered by Master Fox, and did not die.
If it were a human, it'd be like being repeatedly run over by two overloaded 100-ton kings within a day, but surprisingly just resulted in fractures, with the person being mostly fine.
[Due to personal greed, the Forest Musk Deer brutally injured innocent creatures all over. Master Fox heard about it in the evening and delivered a heavy hammer of justice, making the Forest Musk Deer understand human nature, realizing that as a musk, it shouldn't be too selfish.]
[Wish Power +3]
[Total Wish Power: 20]
As the Forest Musk Deer felt dejected, a golden light suddenly flashed in Ansheng's mind.
This time what Ansheng encountered
The people were good, Spirit Beasts bad.
Master Fox's great hammer was very just.
......
The Forest Musk Deer, limping, led Master Fox and everyone into a coal mine cave.
In the aged and decrepit coal mine cave, the wooden stakes used for support had started to mold, with some even showing signs of insect infestation, making the danger of the cave collapsing palpable.
Wang Qiqi signaled, indicating for everyone to stay in place, she and Master Fox would go in alone.
After advancing more than a hundred meters into the mine, they arrived at the dead end of an abandoned mine.
The abandoned mine had always been leaking water, clearly showing signs of collapse, and at the end of the mine, a low area had accumulated a considerable amount of water, with a plant glimmering with little fluorescent dots standing in the pond.
"Woof..."
The Forest Musk Deer sniffed at the plant, barking towards Master Fox while saying something.
"Spirit Plant? How could there be Spirit Plants here?" Wang Qiqi looked at the glowing plant, visibly shocked and slightly incredulous on her face.
In this era of Spiritual Energy Recovery, the simpler the biological structure, the more easily they are influenced, thus absorbing Spiritual Particles and evolving unimaginably.
Currently, human technology is temporarily unable to utilize the free Spiritual Particles in the air. All existing Spirit Particle Potions or Spirit Particle products are based on artificially cultivated Spiritual Particle Plants, which are then condensed and reused.
Or, like the Longevity Club, hunting Spirit Beasts to extract essences first, then using residuals to cultivate Spirit Plants.
The growth conditions for Spiritual Particle Plants are extremely demanding, even after several generations of breeding, developing varieties that can rapidly absorb free Spiritual Particles still require large human resources for care.
And seeing a Spiritual Particle Plant growing uprightly in a crevice, Wang Qiqi was startled, then immediately excited inside:
"This is a new... new species! A whole new species that can significantly reduce cultivation costs!"
"Master Fox! Three bottles, no... we are willing to offer five bottles of Spirit Particle Potion in exchange!"
Wang Qiqi spoke to Ansheng with an excited expression, as a student at the Agricultural Research Institute, she understood very well the strong scientific value of this Spiritual Particle Plant.
Spiritual Particle Plants are all very delicate. If this plant's hardiness can be transplanted onto rapidly absorbing free Spiritual Particle plants... that would save an immense amount of cost.
Wang Qiqi had never seen something so hardy.
No... it should be said, so scientifically valuable.
"Hm?"
Seeing Wang Qiqi's agitated expression, Ansheng again looked at the speaking Forest Musk Deer, revealing a peculiar expression.
This item was extremely valuable scientifically, making Wang Qiqi willing to bid five bottles of Spirit Particle Potion, equivalent to letting Ah Qing transform into Fox Lady five times.
But according to the Forest Musk Deer's account, such Treasure Grass often appeared en masse for unknown reasons around Qinling and its surroundings.
Counting this one, not yet in the maturity phase, the Forest Musk Deer had already obtained six Spiritual Particle Plants.
The reason for attacking the surveyors was simple.
It just didn't want humans to discover the Treasure Grass, or to cause geological disturbances leading to the collapse of the abandoned mine.