632 A Successful Escape (1/2)
Chapter 632: A Successful Escape
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
What was happening in the Love Lovely Pet Breeding Base made Old Time Tea and Famous furious. Nobody could watch their own kind get treated inhumanely without doing anything, especially not these two, who had a great sense of justice.
Famous nudged the puppy on its back, asking it to come down.
Old Time Tea helped Famous loosen its collar.
Famous's collar had a buckle style which could be easily adjusted, like a belt. Together with Old Time Tea, they adjusted the collar to its largest size and tied the poodle puppy tightly behind its neck. Fortunately, the puppy was smaller than those around its age. It would've been hard to tie otherwise. They'd decided to take the poodle puppy away from the farm. If it winded up with people like Zhang Wanguo again, it wouldn't be able to escape the fate of getting abused.
Zhang Wanguo scanned the vicinity along with the other two guys for a while, but the puppy was nowhere to be found.
The three men returned to the shed disappointed, and stopped at the entrance.
”What happened? Where'd the dog go?” one of them asked.
”Well, it can't get out of the breeding base. Let's keep on searching tomorrow.” The other guy was sleepy, and yawned as he talked.
Zhang Wanguo frowned. He felt like strange things were happening that night. Like when the lights turned off for no reason, or when his arms were pushed by someone, and then the missing puppy. It was an unlucky day for him.
”Fine, let's look tomorrow, then. Tell the guards and ask them to pay more attention.” He shook his head helplessly, and went inside.
In a flash of a bright light, the syringe filled with solution dropped silently, landing straight into Zhang Wanguo's shoulder. The needle stopped after reaching the bone, but the plunger went down with gravity, injecting some of the solution into his muscles.
”Ah!” Zhang Wanguo felt a chill in his shoulder as the sharp object pierced him through his clothes. He felt the cold liquid get injected into his body. He screamed in panic. The syringe was still stuck in his shoulder. The other two guys saw it from behind and immediately yanked it out for him.
At first, Zhang Wanguo thought it was only a nail. As he rubbed his shoulder and looked at his wound, his face turned green. Almost half of the liquid in the syringe had been injected into his body.
”F*ck! Who the hell did this? Get the f*ck out here!” He was going completely insane, yelling at the top of his lungs.
The other two looked around aimlessly. This was obviously purposely done by someone. It was too serious to be a joke. If Zhang Wanguo hadn't gone through the door first, the syringe would have ended up in one of them, and the home-made lipolytic solution made of God-knows-what ingredients would've be injected into one of their bodies.
Zhang Wanguo was still loudly yelling, but nobody responded. This made him even madder. He jumped and cursed. All sorts of foul language poured out of his mouth.
The employees who hadn't gone to bed yet and those on night duty heard the commotion. They came over one after the other to check out the situation. Without knowing what was going on, they circled around each other asking questions. The two guys retold the story with some exaggeration.
More and more people gathered at the scene. Almost everybody who was still awake at the breeding base came over to watch the drama.
Old Time Tea and Famous went separate paths and snuck into different sheds. They unlocked the cage latches one by one to open the doors. All of the kittens and puppies had never been outside of their cages, ever since they'd been born. Even now that the doors were open, they didn't know how to escape, and kept circling around the cage door. Fortunately, because of this, Famous and Old Time Tea had enough time to open almost all the cages before anyone found out. However, the great animal escape that Famous and Old Time Tea had imagined didn't happen. The puppies and kittens had been caged for too long and had lost their free nature. Maybe that was one of the Love Lovely Pets Breeding Base's goals, to make them stay obedient.
Zhang Wanguo's cursing grew weaker and weaker. After the cathartic meltdown, his anger dwindled and he grew tired of cursing. Instead of being seen as a clown, it would be more effective to go home and do research on the side effects of lipolytic injections.
As the crowd dispersed, Famous and Old Time Tea met up again.
”What should we do?” Famous was anxious and angry. ”These dumb cats and dogs don't even know that they should escape!”
The wise Old Time Tea couldn't think of a good solution.
If this went on, within just a couple of minutes, someone would see that the cages were open.
The poodle puppy on Famous's back suddenly moved violently, as if it wanted to escape from the collar and jump off Famous's back.
”Stay still,” said Famous as it tilted its head. Unable to see behind it, it could feel the puppy moving, but didn't know what it wanted.
Old Time Tea took a quick glance, and saw that the puppy seemed to be longing for affection. It wondered why. As it focused on listening, it heard a weak sound come from somewhere.
”Check it out over there.” Old Time Tea pointed at one of the sheds.
Famous went under the shed's canvas with the puppy still on its back. The shed was full of all kinds of small dogs.
”Woo!” The puppy was struggling even more violently.
Famous sniffed, and recognized the faint smells of thousands of different scents. They seemed to be similar the puppy's scent.
It followed the smells, and reached one of the cages.
Old Time Tea opened the cage door. A normal-sized adult female poodle was in the cage, lying in dried feces. Its fur coat was filthy and smelled terrible. It heard the puppy's whine, and struggled to open its eyes, casting a glance outside the cage with a look of both hope and despair.
The female dog had the puppy's scent, and the puppy had the scent of the female dog.
Needless to say, Famous knew that this female poodle was the mother of the puppy on its back.
In the cage next door, a few poodle puppies were wandering near the cage door, without escaping or barking. They stared at the female poodle and the puppy on Famous's back. They also carried the same scent as the female poodle, but very weakly. They could have been siblings from the same litter, who were spared from the lipolytic injections because of their normal sizes.
Famous turned around.
Old Time Tea knew that they didn't have much time, but sighed and unfastened the buckle for Famous to release the puppy.
The puppy stumbled into its mother's cage.
The dying female poodle moved its neck and struggled to lift its head. It nudged the puppy with its nose. Despite the fact that this puppy wasn't the same size as the other ones, it was still its child, and blood was thicker than water.
The puppy laid down quietly next its mother, and gazed at it with big, affectionate eyes. If the female poodle was in better health, it would have been a warm and beautiful scene.
Famous was trembling with sadness and anger.
Old Time Tea jumped onto the shed roof, and watched over by Zhang Wanguo. The crowd was dissipating, and some people were heading their way. They might look inside as they passed by, which would ruin all the good work they'd already done.
”Famous, we have to leave!” Old Time Tea jumped off the roof and hurried back in. Its tone remained calm, but held a hint of anxiety. Considering their current situation, as the kittens and puppies didn't even know how to escape, they could only save those that could be saved.
Famous couldn't do any better. It could save itself along with Old Time Tea, but was unable to take all the cats and dogs with them.
It turned around, and found the puppy lingering next to its mother, unwilling to leave. It wanted to put its snout into the cage and take the puppy by force.
The female poodle didn't care how filthy and smelly it was. It licked the puppy's fur with affection. There wasn't much saliva left on its tongue, but it still licked with great care, as if it wanted to leave its scent on its baby forever.
Seeing Famous approaching, its eyes sparkled with an intimidating flare. It struggled to stand up. Using the last of its strength, it pushed the puppy out of the cage with its forehead.
The puppy didn't understand what was going on. Everything was fine, but its mother suddenly didn't want it anymore? Its body was small and light. Although the female poodle was weak, the push rolled the puppy out of the cage.
It stood up shakily, and stood on its short legs, trying to get back into the cage next to its mother. But the female poodle moved the cage door with its front paw, closing it with a loud bang.
The puppy hit the cage door, and stepped back shakily. It walked forward again, and hit the cage door again. It whimpered and sadly sat on the ground.
It was too young to understand what a cage door was. All it wanted to do was go back to its mother, and have its fur licked. This was one of the few moments where it could get all of its mother's affection for itself, without being bothered by its other siblings.