Chapter 124: The Damned Dog (1/2)
Chapter 124: The Damned Dog
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”That dog!” Wang Tianlei froze for a moment, and replied with a wry smile, ”Do you recognize it?”
”Do you think anything can be concealed in this god-forsaken place? Though it did happen a few years ago.”
Wang Tianlei also laughed, ”Right, there can be no real secrets in this small place!”
While saying this, he uttered a slight sigh, somewhat showing a helplessness. ”Do you remember what happened at my wedding?”
”Of course! The one-eyed wolf had run down the mountain and came into our village that year. How could I forget? If it wasn't for that thing, I would never have realized that you should be a martial artist!” Junior Leopard said, half-jokingly. ”It has been nearly ten years, right?”
Of course, he wouldn't forget it. That was the year he saw Wang Tianlei's supernormal power while dueling with that one-eyed wolf. At the same time, he believed that martial arts, for sure, existed in this world. In a sense, his whole life, after reincarnation, had changed, because of what happened that day.
”Yes, it has been ten years! Even my son is able to deal with something common!” Wang Tianlei said, ”You know that the one-eyed wolf has stayed in West Mountain Pass for a century, and it seldom came down except for some special reasons. However, that year, he came down and seemed to do nothing but fight with me, which had me bewildered at the time.”
”What happened after that?!”
”You know what happened after. A great many bitches in our village were killed that year!”
Junior Leopard seemed to figure out something. ”His purpose was to breed?”
”It appeared to be so. But, even the most robust bitch in our village was unable to satisfy the one-eyed wolf.”
”Then how was the dog conceived?”
”It's the Old Blind's dog. How surprising! Old Blind was a good-for-nothing at that time, and his dog was as thin as a pole. At the end of that year, that bitch gave birth to the pup.”
”Anything abnormal at the time?” Junior Leopard asked.
”At that time you were still in the village, how could you not know if there was anything abnormal?” Wang Tianlei asked.
Junior Leopard felt speechless. Since the one-eyed wolf left, he had indulged in martial arts wholeheartedly and he even managed to secretly learn something from Wang Tianlei. What kind of pup the bitch had bred was none of his business. He never rendered assistance to it!
Seeing changes in Junior Leopard's expression, Wang Tianlei hastened to reply, ”Actually, at the very beginning, the pup showed no sign, at all, that he was different from other pups. Though living a tough life, Old Blind never mistreated the pup, the pup just grew more slowly than ordinary dogs. His appearance had remained the same after he was one or two years old, that's when you went to Qingyang Market.”
”What does it have to do with my going to Qingyang Market?” Junior Leopard thought with depression but he continued to listen.
”The first oddity happened that second year you went to Qingyang Market. After that point, the family that cared for livestock keep losing them in the night. We all thought that it was a thief, so we gathered together and waited, but we remained clueless. So, we thought that it had to have been a passer-by.”
”Passer-by?” Hearing this, Junior Leopard could not help but laugh. It reminded him of a movie called ”A Journey to the West” in his previous life. There was a scene called ”Monkey Hit Lady White Bone Thrice”, in which Sun Wukong said: ”Maybe the monster is just a passer-by!”
The two were so similar.
”Do not laugh. I was not the only one who thought so at the time!” Seeing Junior Leopard's smile, Wang Tianlei's face showed some embarrassment.
”What happened then?”
”What happened later was erratic. We guarded the livestock for several nights, but we never even caught a rat, let alone a thief. And, still, the animals keep disappearing, as soon as we called off the surveillance!”
”You had to realize it was an inside job.” Junior Leopard pointed out while laughing.
”Yes, we thought that and investigated, for quite awhile, but any trail always grew cold.”
”It must be a rough time, right?”
”Absolutely! Everyone in my eyes was a potential thief in those days.” Wang Tianlei snapped, ”We tore the village apart to only find nothing and we offended a lot of people for no reason, which instigated a few fights.”
”Then how did you find out the truth?”