Chapter 4 - was uploaded yesterday night, remember to check it out if you haven’t! (1/2)

Then I’ll be your father!

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A man and a dog faced each other.

Lin Mu was confused.

He glanced at the burning fire then looked at the dog that had a wound visible to the naked eye, and for a moment, didn’t know what to do.

The fire didn’t spread to the yard.

In the midst of the rain and thunder, a few screams could be heard from the outside, piercing their way through the heavy rain to reach one’s ears, after which came a biting coldness that made one’s whole back feel cold from the icy winds and raindrops.

Lin Mu turned back and continued to stand in the rain in a moment of stupor. He realised it was the ‘protection against monsters, demons, fierce ghosts’ that Da Hei had said and couldn’t help but shiver. Not daring to look carefully at the burning fire, he turned his line of sight to the dog that hadn’t been burnt by the green flames.

The dog hadn’t been burnt, which meant that it1 wasn’t some sort of demonic or monstrous outsider.

This made Lin Mu feel a little relieved.

It wasn’t clear if it was due to the dog being wet that cause its fur to shrink, but the dog wasn’t as big as an adult sized one. The rain that fell on it mixed with its blood and flowed down, making it look very miserable.

But strangely, it showed no signs of begging or weakness.

The dog just coldly and indifferently moved its sight and struggled to stand up under Lin Mu’s watchful eyes, but could not get up at all.

Lin Mu swept his eyes over it and found out that its front leg was swollen so badly, the dog was probably unable to exert any strength using it.

Lin Mu looked at the exhausted dog and slightly bent his body down. Just as soon as he reached out, the dog quickly raised its head and narrowed its eyes to look up at him.

Lin Mu paused his actions and squatted down under the dog’s gaze, spreading bout of his hands out to show that he wasn’t holding anything.

“Let me help you?” The moment he spoke, his voice was broken up by the rain and he couldn’t help but frown.

Now that it was raining and burning outside, Lin Mu didn’t dare to go out at all — who knew what he would encounter if he went out, and the dog probably couldn’t either.

Lin Mu tried to get closer to the dog, but realised that as soon as he got closer, the dog would become unusually alert and acted as if it wanted to bite him. Therefore, he gave up on that idea and turned around to take an umbrella out of the house, opening it up to help the dog block the rain before continuing to work on his rain shelter.

Anyways, what was outside couldn’t come it, and what was inside didn’t dare to go out. He might as well continue to save his plants that were getting messed up because of the rain.

Although not all of them were custom ordered, the rest could also be sold for some money.

Thankfully the pots that were left outside were all resistant to the rain.. Lin Mu turned his head after he had finished propping up the rain shelter and found that the dog was licking its wound.

Lin Mu thought for a bit and decided to walk over again.

The dog stopped and turned to look at him.

Lin Mu once again spread his hands out in front of the dog and asked, “go in?”

The dog looked him up and down, as if it understood what he said and no longer rejected his approach.

Lin Mu let out a slight sigh of relief and carried the dog into the house, carefully avoiding its wound.

Causally dropping the off raincoat to the side, Lin Mu felt for his phone and searched for what had to be done.

The dog’s injury wasn’t light. The front right leg was swollen and the left paw was bloody, and both its hind legs and sides had wounds.

Lin Mu took a look at the scratches, and no matter how he looked at them, they looked as if they had been caused by the bamboo fence in his yard.

— The fence might have scratched the panicking dog that ran in.

Lin Mu looked at these frightening wounds, gently tsked then turned to look at the heavy rain that was accompanied by green fire and vague cries of screams and curses. He dismissed the idea of sending the dog to the vet and started to look at the steps needed to treat an injured dog on his phone and found his medical kit.

Use a clean and sterile bath towel, clean the wound using saline water, shave the fur before applying medication, and then use…

“Erythromycin Ointment, Erythromycin Ointment……2” Lin Mu muttered as he rummaged the medical box, before finally managing to pull out a tube of ointment with some difficulty, then felt for the gauze and bandage before stumbling his way through dealing with the wound.

Lin Mu looked at the bandaged wound, let of a sigh of relief, and continued to treat the next one.

He lowered his head slightly, and even didn’t care that his hair was still wet and dripping. He carefully cut the dog’s fur on the edge of the wound and applied the medicine very seriously.

The dog stopped all its movements as soon as he leaned over and looked him up and down again.

This was what happened.

Yan Xuanjing is a fox. A nine-tailed fox. As soon as he was born, he lived in the world of monsters, known as the Great Wilderness3.

But recently, some problems happened in the Great Wilderness and he was injured whilst pursuing the enemy. His father had immediately thrown him to the rear and made him responsible for guarding the passage between the Great Wilderness and the Central Plains.

The Central Plains — this was what they called the world that humans lived in.