135 Energetic Reaction Ahead, Strong and Powerful (1/2)
In the end, Wang Lu didn’t eat that stupid dog.
He didn’t want it because he was afraid eating him would affect his IQ.
Previously, with flowery words, Wang Lu claimed that dog meat was the best delicacy in the world… In fact, even though it was quite fragrant, it was not the first under heaven. Like the women in the beauty pageant, it was too difficult to really decide who was the first and the second. However, incredibly, that stupid dog really believed it to the point that it actually tried to bite itself—that was really painful...
Therefore, Wang Lu concluded that this dog’s IQ was in the same rank as that of Senior Sister Liu Li, and consequently, it was better not to eat it.
As for the previous five meat buns… alas, what’s gone could never come back, they were gone forever. He had been saving them for almost a year, in the end, it was all for naught.
In fact, when the dog began to talk, Wang Lu had basically dispelled any thoughts on eating that dog’s meat. It didn’t mean that he wouldn’t eat any intelligent creature—eating them could actually increase one’s power. If this were in the Clear Sky Peak, Wang Lu would’ve never softened his stance, however, rather than eating his meat, a talking dog undoubtedly has a higher value.
No matter how inconspicuous his look was, since this dog could rush through the black tide, it must have an enormous secret. And since it could speak, it was much better to fish information from it than eating him.
Therefore...
”Who are you?”
”Woof?”
”Where are you from?”
”Woof?”
”Are you native here?”
”Woof?”
”What’s your mom’s name?”
”Woof-woof.”
”Damn, why don’t you answer?”
”Too tired. Woof.”
And thus, Wang Lu realized that it was extremely difficult for this stupid dog to speak human language. If not for it getting almost cooked into fragrant meat inside the pot last night, it wouldn’t have even bothered to speak out. So much so that Wang Lu even began to think about learning the dog’s language in order to communicate.
And to make matter worse, after Wang Lu had used a few meat buns to coax it to speak, he found out that this stupid dog was indeed a stupid dog. Although it could speak human language and could sing a melodic song, for god’s sake, it couldn’t remember who it was or where it came from. When Wang Lu tried to push it for an answer, it began to anxiously bark and roll on the floor, revealing a posture that said its past was too unbearable to recall.
After later sighing that the lower IQ of this dog was too incurable, Wang Lu once again fished out his pot, bowl, and seasonings ready to prepare a meal. The dog, quite naturally, was unbelievably shocked. ”What are you going to eat?”
”I’ll treat you a dog meat. Your welcome.”
No matter how stupid this dog was, it knew there was only one choice between eating dog meat and keeping its life; its immediately shook his head. ”Don’t want to eat.”
”Then I’m going to eat it myself.”
”Wait a minute, why would you insist on eating me? Aren’t we friends?”
Wang Lu gawked. ”When did I make a friend with you, dog?”
The puppy was surprised. ”I’ve eaten your meat buns, so now we’re friends for life.”
”What the? Did you really eat meat buns? You obviously owe me that, you know?”
The little mutt thought for a moment before it straightened its chest and gave off his best impression of loyal look. ”You’re right, I ate your meat buns, so I bear your kindness. Therefore, from now on, I’m your faithful little brother, I will do everything you tell me to.”
Wang Lu inwardly exclaimed what a stupid dog. Even so, although he was a stupid dog, it has a high loyalty and natural affinity with the human; five meat buns could actually buy it.
”Okay then, now I want you to come to my bowl.”
From then on, Wang Lu had a companion in his survival trip in the Savage Land.
Considering the IQ of the dog, it was definitely inedible. Since he couldn’t eat it, he could only keep it as a pet. Although this stupid dog could talk and sing, most of the time, it wasn’t that different to any other stupid dog. After it had recognized Wang Lu as its master, it would almost always run around him, jump all over the place, and shake its tail, revealing a pleasing-like foolish grin while secretly looking forward to getting another meat bun from Wang Lu… As a brainless pet, it was passable.
Day after day soon passed by and in the blink of an eye, it was already more than ten days. A man and a dog experienced the black tide together, wiped out a few dead spirits that wandered into their cave, and then continued to wander around the Western Mountain… During the day, they didn’t talk too many words, however, Wang Lu was getting a bit more familiar with this stupid dog.
This dog was really not a normal dog because a normal dog wouldn’t be this stupid. The claim that it didn’t remember where it came from or what its name was all true—it really didn’t remember… In fact, it only remembered what happened in the last few months, which was: it inexplicably appeared in the midst of the Savage Land. With its animal instinct, it fled from the dangers all around it, avoiding all those powerful monsters who preyed on the small and weak. When the black tide approached, it learned from the other monsters that huddled inside the cave.
Not long ago, the cave where it stayed was infiltrated by the black tide. Aware of the impending crisis, it didn’t wait for the dead spirits to come in; it immediately ran out of the cave, desperately fleeing in the dark. By sheer coincidence, it crashed into Wang Lu’s cave and was almost reduced to a pot of fragrant meat.
In addition, this dog was indeed much more powerful than the average dog. Although its height was only about a foot, its strength, speed, especially its set of canine teeth that was comparable to tiger or wolf—wrong, even those fierce animals would be bitten to death in two or three rounds if they encountered this dog.
This little mutt was small and stupid, but if graded according to the Spirit Sword Sect’s grading standard, it would belong to the second level high-rank beast. Moreover, that didn’t account for the other special abilities that this mutt might have.
Any other average monster would always have some kind of special ability as their capital to survive. Like the stone and wood apes that he encountered at the Small Clear Sky Peak, which have an abnormally tough skin, and the ghost monkey that was good at illusion and bewitching. This stupid dog didn’t remember its ability; in their first two days of wandering together, Wang Lu was only able to discern one: it has an extremely good digestive track.
There was nothing to eat at the Savage Land. Although the meat on some of the monsters seemed edible, even Wang Lu wasn’t interested in eating them to challenge the poison resistance limit of his body… However, this mutt happily ate them.
This day, Wang Lu and the stupid dog cooperated to hunt and kill a rather large monster—Wang Lu used his Non-Phase Sword Art to tangle it while the stupid dog shredded its throat to pieces with its bite. Afterward, that monster’s corpse rapidly decayed and turned into half solid half liquid puree-like substance, which extraordinarily stank.
Wang Lu felt that even a lump of excrement seemed more edible than that pile of thing, yet, the stupid dog’s saliva immediately flowed down, and it started to gobble it up.
”You even eat this kind of thing… Could it be that your real identity is a fungus?”