Chrysalis

Chapter 1391: The Dog Army

The buffalo-sized mastiff, which had black, fluffy hair, walked over. It would be delivering a strong vibe if its eyes were to be seen. Lin Qiao tilted her head from side to side but still failed to see the dog’s eyes through its hair.

Lin Qiao looked at the dog with confusion. Then, she dragged Bowwow out from behind herself and asked the Mastiff, “Why do you like him so much? You two are different species now, aren’t you? Is there still that dog-to-dog kind of connection between you?”

The dog walked to Lin Qiao and sat down meters away from her, just looking at her silently. She couldn’t see the dog’s eyes through its thick hair, but she could feel that it was looking at her.

“You can help if you want to, but you can’t do what he did. Don’t dig holes, but dig gently, okay?” Lin Qiao said to the mastiff and then looked around, saying to Junjun, “Please hand me a hoe.”

Liu Jun fetched a hoe from the storage room before the cabin and handed it to Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao looked at the mastiff and said, “Come on, I’ll show you. See, I’m not digging deep. You have to do this… You dig out the soil chunks and pat them loose…”

The others on the scene didn’t know what to say. They could hardly react to what they were watching – their boss teaching a dog how to loosen the soil.

The mastiff watched Lin Qiao’s movement and then glanced at its own paws. It spread its claws and then shrank them, gently digging into the earth. It still dug a little too deep, but that was already much better than creating a deep hole!

Next, the dog poked its claws into the soil chunks and loosened them, just like how Lin Qiao taught it to. Yes, it loosened the soil by poking its claws into the chunks.

“Yes, yes! That’s right! That’s what I’m talking about! You don’t have to dig holes! If you dig holes, the others would need to fill them back up!” Lin Qiao looked at the dog’s work and praised it with a grin.

Bowwow turned his eyes between Lin Qiao and the mastiff. Teng patted on Black’s neck. Following the boy’s movement, Black wriggled to Bowwow. Teng looked at the mastiff and said to Bowwow, “Look, he’s much smarter than you! Haven’t your wits woken up yet?”

Bowwow turned to look at the boy with confusion, staying silent.

At that time, Lin Qiao flattened the area where she dug through before with her feet and said to Bowwow and the mastiff, “Come here. Come with me if you want to help so much.”

Everyone on the scene watched Lin Qiao bring the two dogs to the land which was waiting to be exploited. “Come here. You two have sharp claws, so you can first help us to remove these trees and grasses and then start to loosen the soil. Remember, don’t dig too deep!”

She pointed at the grasses and bushes on the mountain as she spoke while wielding an arm and cutting some plants. The two wanted to help, so she decided to let them do some actual help.

“Wow?” Bowwow glanced at Lin Qiao confusedly and then suddenly jumped into the woods, cutting the plants with his claws. Meanwhile, the mastiff stayed motionless. Lin Qiao observed the dog and found that it was actually measuring the area with his eyes. It was probably trying to figure out exactly how large the area was.

After scanning the area with its eyes, the dog abruptly raised its head and uttered a resonant howl. “Owoooooo…”

‘Eh? What is it doing?’ Lin Qiao looked at the dog bewilderedly.

In the next second, she heard dog barks coming from all directions, wave by wave. Hearing htat, the others also started to look around.

“Um… It’s not gonna summon a bunch of dogs, is it?” Fox said with both surprise and confusion.

Once her voice faded, waves of swishing noises could be heard, and then the scents of different mutated dogs were sensed.

Lin Qiao stayed quiet, and the others on the scene didn’t know what to say.

What was happening?

Before long, countless mutated dogs started to show up in all directions. They were all in different sizes, looking different as well.

“Wowowow…”

“Wowowow…”

“Wowowow…”

The dogs showed up by the edge of the field. Instead of coming closer or stepping in, they took seats on rocks or trees.

Lin Qiao speechlessly looked at the mastiff. She had no idea why the dog summoned the army!

“What do you want? Are you trying to invade my mountain?”

Those dogs were at different levels. Some of them were at level-five, and two were at level-six, as same as the mastiff itself. One of them had erect ears while the other was a Labrador.

“Woof! Woof!” The mastiff barked at the other dogs. Following its sound, all the level four to six ones came over. None of them stepped into the field, of course. Instead, they jumped across the rows like what farmers would do.

The largest dog among the crowd was only slightly bigger than Bowwow, and none of them was as large as the mastiff. The mastiff was like the king of those dogs.

Duan Juan showed up by Lin Qiao’s side and said with curiosity, “If it had so many friends already, why did it come here?”

The ones she saw were only a small part of the dog army. The rest were waiting in the distance.

Lin Qiao shook his head and said, “How am I supposed to know? I don’t speak their language!”

Everyone quietly watched those dogs, waiting to see what they were going to do. They saw those dogs line up under the mastiff’s instructions and then start to remove plants from the area that Lin Qiao just showed to the mastiff.

They stood in straight lines. The two level-six ones were supervising the others while the mastiff was standing behind them, giving instructions.

“This Tibetan mastiff is even smarter than Bowwow! Unbelievable!” Duan Juan couldn’t help but exclaim when she saw what happened. Those cattle-sized dogs cut the plants using their sharp claws, soon clearing the whole area. The plants that they cut off spread all over the ground.

Next, the mastiff summoned the lower-leveled dogs and ordered them to drag those plants to the side. After that, a dog with fire power burned those branches and grasses out.

How wonderful! Lin Qiao hadn’t even taught the dog to do that. The dog learned that from the zombies!

“Did you see that? He is really different from you!” Lin Qiao turned and patted on Bowwow’s head as she said with a sigh.

Bowwow stayed very quiet.

Liu Jun and the others came up behind Lin Qiao.

“See, they’re really helping now, aren’t they?” Lin Qiao turned to them and said.

“A-are they really dogs?” Liu Jun asked with disbelief.