It's not a particularly expensive dog breed, it's just a hybrid native dog with some Shiba Inu blood. This dog was a birthday gift given to Su Yao by Su Yao's grandfather in the first year when Su Yao followed her mother Li Yao to the resettlement area to recuperate.
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When Su Yao saw this little native dog with slightly yellow hair and slightly rolled ears, she fell in love with it and named it Arthur.
That year Arthur was one year old and Su Yao was six years old.
One person and one dog are almost inseparable.
One night after dinner, Su Yao even carried Arthur to her seat and asked him to eat the food in the bowl with her. This scene looked very warm, but she didn't expect that it would be interrupted by Su Yao's grandfather Su Yuchuan.
After seeing this, he not only got angry on the spot, but also gave Su Yao a severe scolding.
At that time, Su Yao's mother Li Yao hid aside tremblingly and did not dare to say a word, because as the daughter-in-law, Li Yao knew her old man's temper best. Even if he was no longer the head of the Su family, even if he had
Hiding and living a life like a villager, he is still Su Yuchuan, still the legend who has been in charge of the Su family business for a full 120 years.
Such an old man is not comparable to Li Yao as his daughter-in-law in terms of knowledge and experience, so whenever the old man teaches the naughty Su Yao a lesson, Li Yao always hides and watches.
Even if Su Yao looked at her mother for help, Li Yao could only wait until the old man finished scolding her son before taking her son aside to comfort her. But this time Su Yao was extremely wronged, and he also had a strong character. This and
Su Yuchuan is very similar. They have been fearless since childhood, and both have extremely high intelligence.
In the past, there was no need for Su Yuchuan to explain clearly, and Su Yao would soon realize where she had made a mistake, but naughtiness was a child's nature. He was scolded and even slapped on the butt by a ruler, but he just laughed. But Su Yao just laughed.
Yao just couldn't understand why her grandpa would be furious if she put Arthur, who usually slept on the same bed, on the dining table?
But he didn't dare to say it, and he couldn't say it. He just pursed his lips and clenched his fists tightly.
Su Yuchuan whipped Arthur on the side and cursed, "Beast! You really think you are your master! All you have to do to give you a bite of food is wag your tail! Now you dare to come to the table! Damn beast!"
See if I don’t beat you to death!”
The whip rose and fell, hitting Arthur, a native dog who was just over a year old, firmly with every blow. The dog whined in pain and kept retreating, curling up as much as possible, but Su Yuchuan did not spare him.
It means. Although the whip did not hit Su Yao's body, the shock of this scene was even more profound for Su Yao than hitting his butt directly with a whip.
Finally, Arthur was frightened. He bared his fangs at Su Yuchuan and screamed crazily.
It was like a dog jumping over the wall when forced into a desperate situation. When Su Yuchuan saw this scene, he not only did not stop what he was doing, but instead smiled, an extremely cold smile.
Su Yao may never forget in her life how Su Yuchuan beat to death a local dog that had lost its shape and wanted to come to the table for dinner that afternoon. Afterwards, Su Yuchuan even asked a nearby butcher to skin the dog.
The skin was braised and turned into a dish to be eaten with wine.
For a child, this incident is undoubtedly a shadow of childhood.
Su Yao, who did not dare to disobey her grandfather, became seriously ill because of this incident.
He had nightmares all night long, and when he had nightmares, he was trapped in the nightmare, unable to wake up or escape. His mother Li Yao saw this and was anxious in her heart, so in the end she had no choice but to
Go and ask the old man to come forward to relieve Su Yao's inner shadow.
The boy's playmates were lost and lost, and after a serious illness, Su Yao's temperament seemed to have become dull and gloomy.
He no longer had the monkey-like excitement he had before and became silent. He would only hide in the study and read and write.
When Su Yuchuan found Su Yao, he found that he was holding a copy of "The Golden Age" and was fascinated by it.
Su Yuchuan didn't bother him. He just sat on the threshold in front of the concierge and waited until Su Yao got tired and went out to find snacks. After a long time, the young Su Yao finally saw the familiar Su Yuchuan in front of the door.
A flash of panic flashed in his eyes before he stepped forward and saluted, "My grandson has met grandpa."
Su Yuchuan was not an old scholar, and Su Yao did not receive an old-fashioned cultural education.
This scene seems a bit nondescript.
Su Yuchuan turned to look at his grandson and said, "Will you hate grandpa for the rest of your life?"
Su Yao was silent for a while and then shook her head, "No, Arthur is just a dog. Since it is a dog, it is a beast. How could my grandson hate his grandfather all his life because of a beast?"
Su Yuchuan always felt a little strange when he heard this. He asked in a deep voice, "Do you really think so?"
At a young age, Su Yao has already undergone enhanced transformation from the seed of the sub-god, and his brain has been opened up by countless smooth roads by the supreme think tank. Although this does not mean that the six-year-old Su Yao will be better than an adult.
People need to be strong and smart, but with these foundations, Su Yao can think and judge independently even at the age of six.
"Um……"
When Su Yuchuan heard this, he turned around in disappointment.
Su Yao felt inexplicably uneasy when she saw Su Yuchuan's eyes.
Looking at the sunset outside the yard, Su Yuchuan said, "Yao Yao, do you know that our Su family has been doing business in private for centuries besides doing business on the outside?
Are you holding on to something?"
Su Yao nodded, "Well, my father told me that it is... related to the 'Old God'."
Su Yuchuan smiled, and then asked, "Then do you really think Arthur is just a dog? A beast?"
Su Yao was a little confused. Of course, it was because Su Yuchuan's thinking was too out of the ordinary. He looked at the back of the old man in front of him and suddenly realized that it was only his body that had aged, not his face to the sea.
That unyielding soul.
"People in the world are mediocre and all living beings are in a hurry. Aren't they all beasts?" Su Yuchuan said and looked at Su Yao with a smile.
Su Yao was shocked when she heard this, and felt terrified for a moment.
"Early years ago, when that man asked me to take care of his vegetable garden, a wild dog with children hid in the house when no one was around and gave birth to six cubs. I still remember that they were three yellow and three black.
, each one was shivering with cold, but the mother who gave birth to them was missing." Su Yuchuan touched his chin and continued with a smile, "At first I had the idea of adopting them. After all, I am a bad old man who doesn't have much else.
There is a lot of money, not to mention raising a few wild dog cubs without mothers, even raising a group of wild children without mothers is not a problem... But Yaoyao, grandpa has done some good things, and even if he sees it, he will look down upon him.
What do you think it is about scolding me?"
Su Yao listened quietly and replied without thinking, "Grandpa let them fend for themselves and didn't adopt them, right?"
Su Yuchuan chuckled, "My good grandson is still smart. I really put away my pitiful goodwill and left these bastards where they were and let them howl in the grass nest.
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Su Yao seemed to understand. He walked to Su Yuchuan and sat down and asked, "What happened next?"
"Later? Hey, don't tell me. As soon as grandpa left, the mother of those bastards came back. But she didn't come back to feed these bastards. She was injured, and after she came back, she gave birth to six
Three of the puppies were eaten, and the remaining three starved to death before they could recover from their injuries. In the end, not one of them survived. Of course... the wild dog himself was too seriously injured.
He's dead." After Su Yuchuan finished speaking, he looked at Su Yao and said, "Do you think grandpa is too cold-hearted?"
Su Yao shook her head, but he was not denying Su Yuchuan's coolness, but felt that this evaluation was meaningless.
Just as he read the catalog of major historical events in the past a few days ago, when the earth's containment zones were first built seventy years ago, plague and famine broke out in many containment and resettlement areas. However, at that time, the Asia-Star Republic had
The top management did not believe that they had the obligation to resolve these non-man-made disasters in the resettlement areas, because the resettlement areas were the final shelters in a state of anarchy and were chosen by tens of millions of people.
If you cut off ties with progressive human society, you will naturally not get the so-called "sympathy."
Of course, even if the top management structure of the Asia-Star Republic behaves inhumanely in this matter, there are still many well-meaning philanthropists in the people of the Asia-Star Republic who are doing their best to help the anarchy in the shelter and resettlement area.
The people lend a helping hand.
This incident had a great impact on Su Yao.
The outlook on life, values and world view he has accepted since childhood are all very disgusting to some extent against the indifference of the Yaxing Republic back then.
Just like Su Yao watched her grandfather beat Arthur to death with a whip.
Maybe he didn't have to be so cruel, so crazy, so cruel... This kind of thing shouldn't happen in the childhood of a child of Su Yao's age, and Arthur shouldn't die either. Isn't it just a dog?
Is eating at the same table? What's the big deal? Is it really necessary to scare a child by making such a fuss about something like this?
Su Yao thought it was unnecessary at first, but now he seems to understand what grandpa means.
You are not a mortal.
You are the one who wants to kill the gods.
Isn’t this the ultimate goal that the Su family has passed down from generation to generation?
Before Arthur was whipped to death by his grandfather, Su Yao had not yet deeply understood the significance of the mission of the Su family passed down from generation to generation.
Why kill God? How to kill God? Where is God even?
Su Yao didn't even have time to think about it, he only knew it when he was very young.
When the seed of the sub-god was buried in his DNA base and began to transform him into a super soldier, he knew that the Su family existed to kill gods.
"Everyone in the town is afraid of me, but they don't dare to provoke me. Even if I scolded me tens of thousands of times, in the end, when I took that beast to find Fatty Zhang, he still had to put down the knife obediently and wipe his hands.
He took what I handed him, marinated it, and then personally brought it to my door to drink with me. Tell me, is this a typical tyrant?" Su Yuchuan compared himself to those mediocre people in ancient times.
When he is a tyrant, there is clearly misery hidden in his eyes.
Su Yao remained silent. He would definitely not think that Su Yuchuan was a tyrant.
But I still can't figure out why Arthur died because of this. Why did he have to go to war over such a trivial matter and make the whole town talk about it? What's the purpose of this?
Su Yao didn't get the answer, and Su Yuchuan didn't mention it. He stood in front of the study door for a long time and then said, "Don't hate grandpa, grandpa is not a madman."
After saying that, Su Yuchuan left, leaving Su Yao alone in a daze.
Since then, Su Yao found that she and her grandfather seemed to be far apart. This man who had lived for a century and a half seemed to have finally begun to
As he gets older, his steps are slowing down, his body is curving, and he has become polite even when talking to his neighbors.
Another year has passed.
On Su Yao's seventh birthday, her mother Li Yao asked someone to find another dog for Su Yao.
But this time, Su Yao no longer treated it as a treasure as he did in the past. He seemed to feel that he and the dog had seen each other clearly.
Dog loyalty is a way of survival twisted by the dual pressures of domestication and evolution.
As long as dogs have no worries about food and clothing, they probably won't choose to get close to humans. This seems surprising and chilling. But Su Yao thus drew a clear line between him, Arthur, and this dog. Humans domesticated dogs
There are many purposes, but it was obviously not for it to give spiritual comfort to humans at the beginning, but this does not mean that the reason why dogs are loyal now is just to gain the trust of their owners with peace of mind and to gain family from their owners.
and food.
It's like humans and the old gods.
It was clear that the flickering candlelight beside him, the shabby bench, and the stars outside the house were mostly depictions and were not real.
But Su Yao found that she could see farther.
Dogs and men, men and the old gods.
Can they be understood as the same concept?
Su Yao opened a very shabby notebook. This thing was found for Su Yao by her father's friend who spent a lot of effort. It is also one of the few complete records of the plague and famine decades ago.
Book.
The notepad was very small and had been soaked in water and blood, so the papers were twisted to varying degrees and were not clean and smooth.
Su Yao opened the notepad and took off the bookmark. What came into view was a photo recording a human tragedy. The woman in the photo died in a dilapidated house with three children in her arms. There were injuries on her legs, but
It's no longer important.
Turning to the next page, Su Yao saw another photo. There was only one person in the photo. He was standing on the ground full of corpses. The corpses were neatly stacked on the ground. Most of them were covered with white cloth, and there were just wounds near the heels.
The dug grave. This scene was so shocking that Su Yao couldn't eat for several days when she saw it for the first time.
There is only half of the photo, and the other half has been artificially torn off.
Su Yao asked the person who found the notepad if he knew where the missing photo of the other half had gone or what was on the photo, because he noticed that the man with his back to the photographer in the photo was looking up.
It was looking at the sky. As a result, the man only told Su Yao that he only got the notepad from a collector. For details, he might have to go to the collector to find out.
Su Yao was only seven years old at the time and would definitely not go on a casual journey. Even if he was rich and smart enough, such behavior was not allowed without a guardian. But he couldn't find that person.
The collector only accepted door-to-door visits, which made Su Yao very distressed.
Fortunately, Su Yao still remembered this incident twenty years later, so he took advantage of the college vacation to secretly visit the collector who was living in seclusion in Iceland.
Iceland, once a forgotten land, remains extremely lonely in the twenty-seventh century.
When Su Yao took the space shuttle to find the collector's private villa, the collector happened to be drinking tea in the garden, while his housekeeper was organizing people to move some of the moldy collections out of the collection room to dry.
The priceless paintings from hundreds of years ago have become so cheap in the hands of this collector.
Seeing the servant throwing things on the grass, Su Yao couldn't help but wonder, 'Could they all be fakes?'
I went to the backyard with doubts.
The collector, dressed like a circus clown, stood up with a smile and said, "Welcome, Mr. Su Yao, your arrival really makes our place shine."
Listening to the accent, Su Yao judged that the other party's ancestors should also be Chinese.
They were so enthusiastic, so Su Yao didn't want to be too arrogant, so she smiled and said, "Professor Zhou is so polite. It's my honor to come to you to broaden my horizons."
The two of them exchanged polite words, smiled at each other, and then sat down in the small pavilion in the garden.
Su Yao got straight to the point. He took out the notepad and handed it to collector Zhou Yidao, "Actually, I only have one main purpose for coming here, which is to find out who the owner of this notepad is and where half of the photos are missing."
Where, or what the photographer captured."
No one knows his exact age and how many years he has lived in this vast and lonely cold land. Solar system collector Zhou Yi did not pick up the notepad. His specially modified one can directly share data links with the Yaqiong core.
, and the relatively independent brain quickly gave a reply.
But there is a difference between thinking and speaking.
Zhou Yi could tell Su Yao the answer directly, but he didn't. He was not a philanthropist, let alone a persuasive teacher. He was a collector, a shrewd businessman, and by no means a kind-hearted person who would simply give.
So he didn't pick it up after seeing the notepad, because it was something someone else took from him in exchange for another collection of equal value, and it no longer belonged to him.
"Mr. Su Yao is here to ask these questions?"
Seeing that Zhou Yi didn't take the notepad, Su Yao didn't look confused or angry. He took back the notepad and nodded, "Yes, please tell me the owner of this notepad and what the missing photos are worth tearing up."