In the southern suburbs of the city, there is a road covered with ice and snow.
In the tea restaurant, Zheng Tao wrapped his winter coat tightly and looked at the falling snow outside the window. He couldn't help but sneeze.
"When will this bad weather end?"
He had been in the restaurant for more than two hours. The reason was that he received a call from a private detective early this morning, saying that he had found traces of the "Hell War Dog" near a dog meat restaurant.
After getting the news, Zheng Tao quickly took a taxi to the restaurant, intending to take the dog back as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, he had to wait for several hours, and the detective who called him never showed up, so he had to stay here and keep watch.
It was freezing cold outside, and the terrifying cold wave that lasted for nearly a month had already covered the entire city.
Even though the heating in the restaurant was turned up to the maximum, it still couldn't block the cold air that came in from time to time through the gaps in the windows. He was so cold that he kept swaying and could only rely on shaking his legs to get rid of the cold.
Fortunately, just when Zheng Tao couldn't wait any longer and was about to call again to urge him, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a black leather coat, with a compact figure and relatively short and plump appearance outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the tea restaurant.
Jumped out of a small pickup truck.
"finally come."
Zheng Tao stood up in a hurry, walked up to him quickly, and said to the middle-aged man in a fur coat, "Lao Song, I just asked you to find a dog. Why did it take you so long?"
"Please, you don't know that there are so many dog markets in Lincheng. How can it be so easy to find a dog that meets your requirements among so many dog markets?"
Detective Old Song rolled his eyes and hurriedly walked into the restaurant. He shook off the snow on his body and then complained, "It's such a cold day. I'm the only one willing to help you find a dog. By the way, you're in trouble."
Why are you so crazy and why are you wasting so much energy on a wild dog?"
"Haha, of course I have my reasons. Don't ask about it yet. Hurry up. Where is the dog? Did you bring it to me?"
Zheng Tao smiled with a mysterious look on his face, but he didn't bother to explain the reason. He directly reached into his pocket, took out an envelope full of cash, and waved it in front of Lao Song.
"Here, I promise you a decent reward, but you have to let me see the dog first."
"Haha, you have made a fortune recently. You actually promised me 30,000 yuan for a dog. Could it be that you won the lottery, right?"
Seeing the stuffed envelope, Lao Song's eyes suddenly lit up and he reached out to pick it up.
Zheng Tao retracted his hand and said behind his back, "Where's the dog?"
"In the car, you come with me."
Lao Song curled his lips in dissatisfaction and had no choice but to take Zheng Tao to the back of the pickup truck outside the restaurant.
The back of the pickup truck was covered with a thick white canvas. Lao Song opened the canvas to reveal an iron cage inside.
Inside the cage, squatting was a large, thin dog with short black hair all over its body. It was drooling and lying listlessly in the iron cage, shivering from the cold.
The yellow dog has a relatively broad frame and a rather burly body, but it is probably because it has been wandering for a long time and has not had a few full meals, so it looks a little thin, giving people a sense of malnutrition.
"This guy is the 'Hell War Dog' that Liao Fan calls him? Why does it look less and less like him the more he looks at it?"
Zheng Tao squatted next to the dog cage, squinting and looking at the big black dog that was shivering with cold. The hair was on top, the eyes were dull and listless, and he looked sick. His two dog ears were drooped, and the left one was dangling.
There is also a corner missing from the ears, and the tail is also very short, but it looks very similar to the hell war dog in the portrait.
However, this dog is not majestic at all. It has no aura as a hell war dog. Instead, it is timid and appears to be very afraid of people. It looked at Zheng Tao who was looking at him and even took the initiative to shrink back.
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"How about it? Is it the one you were looking for?"
Lao Song rubbed his hands with a smile and kept urging, "Okay, don't look at it. The old rules are to pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other. I have been dealing with you for so long and I won't cheat you."
"Fine."
Although I didn't sense much strange aura from this big black dog, the black dog's size, coat color, and the missing cut on its left ear were exactly the same as what Liao Fan had described.
Zheng Tao had no choice but to hand over the envelope stuffed with cash and handed it to Lao Song, "It's very cold today. Your iron cage is leaking air everywhere. Don't let it freeze. Give me the key and let it out first."
Bar."
"become!"
Lao Song smiled and collected the money and handed over the key. Zheng Tao immediately opened the dog cage and called to the big black dog squatting inside, "Come out. I know you were frightened in the dog meat restaurant. Don't worry. I won't do it again."
Someone will plan to kill you for meat."
The big black dog seemed to understand Zheng Tao's words, and quickly raised his ears, but looked at Zheng Tao with a somewhat cautious look.
Now it is not the majestic hell war dog in the apocalypse. It is just an ordinary stray wild dog that hangs on the side of the city road and specializes in digging through trash cans to stay alive.
Because it disturbed the appearance of the city too much, he was accidentally spotted by the urban management team, knocked down with an anesthetic needle, and later resold to the dog meat market.
If nothing else, it should have been sent to the back kitchen of the dog meat restaurant, waiting for the fate of being served to the table at any time.
But fate is so magical. Just when it saw the owner of the dog meat restaurant trying to sharpen his knife, the savior arrived.
"Woooo..."
The big black dog shook its head, and at Zheng Tao's greeting, climbed out of the dog cage on its own initiative. It also shook its thick and short tail in a pretentious manner, rubbed Zheng Tao's hand on its own initiative, and stretched out a
The red tongue is very submissive.
"Don't tell me, that guy is quite docile."
Zheng Tao smiled, patted the big black dog on the head, and said, "You can live with me from now on. Seeing as you look so black, I will call you Dahei."
"Woof!"
The big black dog immediately raised its head and barked at Zheng Tao, as if in response.
As a future hell war dog, its IQ is certainly not low, and it can also sense that the man in front of it is not the same as the owner of the previous dog meat restaurant. At least the way the other man looks at him does not look like he is going to take advantage of him at any time.
"Serving food" look.
"Let's go. Seeing how dirty you are, I'll take you to take a bath first."
Seeing the big black dog being so cooperative, Zheng Tao also immediately laughed, grabbed the dog leash, and planned to find a place to wash the big black dog's hair first, so that it would not stink and soil the safe house.
floor.
Detective Lao Song followed behind and said, "Zheng Tao, the dog has been given to you. I have to go home and cook with my wife, so I'll leave first!"
"Okay, you should go home quickly. Don't forget what I reminded you before. Prepare more supplies at home..."
Zheng Tao waved to Lao Song, intending to remind him a few words, but before he finished speaking, the other party got into the cab, kicked the accelerator, and drove away.
"...Forget it, even if I told him that the end of the world is coming soon, I guess this old boy wouldn't believe it."
Looking at the pickup truck that Juechen was driving away, Zheng Tao was stunned, and then shook his head mockingly. Just as he was about to lead Dahei away, he found that Lao Song actually drove the pickup truck again and backed up directly.