Chapter 83
Chapter 83
The young man brought over a stool from the side and helped him sit down.
Then he turned and called to the burly man. When the two came back, they were carrying gauze and iodine.
After giving Wu Xiaojiu a rough bandage job, the burly man raised his hand and told them to keep unloading the dogs.
“What the hell is this? Has that dog been vaccinated? Fine, you won’t take me to the hospital for a shot, but now you’re making me work?”
“The incubation period is this many years.”
The burly man held up fifteen fingers.
Wu Xiaojiu spread his hands, baffled.
“So?”
“So you can get the shot anytime in the next fifteen years. But if these dogs miss this meal, then they really won’t get to eat.”
Wu Xiaojiu almost ignored the pain and started swinging at him.
What kind of inhuman crap was that?
Fortunately, Bo Suihan reached out and stopped him, then quietly turned his head and whispered in his ear.
“I have a way.”
Knowing what Long Aotian was capable of, Wu Xiaojiu finally swallowed his anger and sat back down. The young man felt guilty about him, so after much persuading, he refused to let Wu Xiaojiu carry any more dogs.
Wu Xiaojiu took a little stool and sat off to the side.
He watched as Bo Suihan and the young man carried the dogs down one by one and locked them in cages.
During that time, his eyes kept sweeping everywhere, but he found nothing. The Dog Farm was not particularly clean. The dog cages were filthy, and if this had not been an open-air place, the stench would probably have been suffocating.
On top of that, it was nighttime. Aside from excrement, Wu Xiaojiu gained nothing.
Once the two finished the job and took off their gloves, the young man went to report back. Bo Suihan quietly pulled Wu Xiaojiu aside.
Wu Xiaojiu was still a little angry.
“Are you even a man? He treated me like a pack animal, and you still stopped me! I don’t even put up with that kind of crap at home. Who does this stranger think he is?”
Bo Suihan said nothing.
“I have a way to help you, and a way to make you stop being angry.”
Seeing his serious expression, Wu Xiaojiu fell silent for a while. Then he frowned and spoke cautiously.
“You’re not going to slit his throat with a wolf fang, are you? Don’t. There are people in the truck. You have to do that kind of thing quietly, don’t you?”
Bo Suihan looked at him and laughed. Without saying anything else, he reached into his inner lining and took something out.
“My second master is skilled in medicine. This is a life-saving potion she concocted.”
Bo Suihan’s voice was very gentle. There was no frown or displeasure on his face at all. Instead, his tone was soft and slow, like he was coaxing a child afraid of bitter medicine.
Wu Xiaojiu hesitated for a moment. Out of trust, he still opened his mouth.
In an instant, a cool drop landed on the tip of his tongue.
There was no strange taste at all. In just a moment, that coolness vanished without a trace.
“That’s miraculous.”
Wu Xiaojiu reached out and touched the tip of his tongue. It was burning hot, exactly the same as before, but somehow his whole body felt much lighter. Even the wound that had been hurting so badly had eased a little.
“Shh.”
Bo Suihan raised a finger at him and bared his teeth.
“My second master doesn’t let me show this in front of outsiders. Don’t tell anyone.”
Wu Xiaojiu nodded over and over.
While the two of them were treating the injury, the young man lifted the curtain and walked out of the burly man’s room.
When he saw them, he kept signaling with his eyes. The three of them gathered in a corner, and only then did the young man pat himself down and speak in a low voice.
“In a bit, I’ll go with him to the warehouse to get dog food and haul swill. We’ll use the leftovers to make dog mush. Use that time to hurry up and look around the area. Try to find some clues so we can run together.”
After the young man left, the two of them got moving.
They went outside the Dog Farm first.
Before they even arrived, they smelled a fishy stench.
When they got there, a black garbage bag stood quietly on the muddy dirt road.
It looked heavy, and water kept seeping out of it.
“In this kind of situation, what’s inside is either people’s money or people.”
Wu Xiaojiu swallowed and hid straight behind Bo Suihan.
The other man was not afraid. He strode over in a few steps and untied the knot on the garbage bag.
As the fishy stench poured out,
he flipped the garbage bag open, revealing what was inside.
“A pile of rotten meat. Is it leftovers the Dog Farm gives the dogs?”
Wu Xiaojiu clung to Bo Suihan’s shoulder, only exposing his eyes to peek inside.
“Doesn’t look like it. This meat isn’t rotten, it just stinks. A shady Dog Farm like this would still feed it to the dogs.”
Bo Suihan put on gloves. He had clearly expected this. He reached straight into the rotten meat and started rummaging.
The fishy stench shot to the sky.
Wu Xiaojiu felt it sting his eyes. Just as he was about to be unable to take it anymore,
Bo Suihan looked at the thing inside and straightened up.
“What’s in here is people. And probably more than one.”
Having seen plenty of corpses, Wu Xiaojiu was immune.
He asked, “What makes you say that?”
With the hand that had not touched the stench, Bo Suihan patted his face and gestured for him to look inside.
Wu Xiaojiu focused and looked.
He discovered that there were many limbs in the black bag.
He had never seen anything this gruesome.
At most, Wu Xiaojiu had seen more heads. This had refreshed him with an entirely new variety, and for a while, he could not recover.
He braced himself against the wall, trembling.
Looking at Bo Suihan again, the man did not seem to care.
He continued using something to turn the contents over.
“There’s something very strange.”
After flipping the pile inside out, Bo Suihan took off his gloves and walked over.
“The skin on this flesh is gone. Judging from the normal length of the limbs, they belonged to adults. But this pile of meat is not the amount a normal adult should have.”
“Too much or too little?”
“Far too little. I already knew something was wrong when I could lift it with one hand. It was very, very light.”
“Could it be because you’re just strong?”
Bo Suihan looked at him, briefly speechless. Then Wu Xiaojiu’s head hurt.
When he lifted his face, the other man was smiling brightly.
“You still don’t believe me when I say you’re dumb. That head of yours isn’t turning at all right now.”
Just as Wu Xiaojiu was about to retaliate,
the sound of running came from the distance, accompanied by a man’s rough panting.
Before the two of them even had time to get nervous,
Wang Qiang ran up to them, his head and face covered in sweat. His face was deathly pale.
His lips trembled, and he could barely get his words out. He only kept repeating one word.
“Ghost, ghost… ghost!”
“There’s a ghost!”
Wu Xiaojiu hurried forward and patted his back to help him catch his breath.
The moment his hand touched him, Wang Qiang shoved him away. He shook his head violently, his entire face bloodless, and pointed past the two of them with trembling lips.
“Turn around! Hurry up and turn around!”