Companion +1

"Are you waiting for me?"

The dog just looked at Lin Shi, without making a sound.

Lin Shi casually put the shared bicycle back into space.

He didn't need to hide anything from a dog.

But he still subconsciously looked at the dog's expression.

The dog stared at the hand that Lin Shi used to put the bike back into space, its head tilted slightly, and there was a trace of doubt in its smart heterochromatic eyes.

It seemed to be puzzled about why this hand could make things disappear into thin air.

Such an expression on such a big dog looked really amusing.

It also indirectly proved that the dog was very smart.

Lin Shi originally had the idea of raising a sled dog, but later gave up the idea because the sled was burned in a warehouse fire.

Dogs can't speak and won't reveal his secrets.

They also won't betray him.

Although he has never raised a dog, he has heard that dogs are very loyal to their masters.

Perhaps this dog is also a good choice?

Lin Shi tentatively took a few steps towards the dog.

The dog stood up and took a step back, looking a bit uneasy.

He immediately stopped and felt a bit disappointed.

This dog obviously looked like a stray dog, maybe abandoned by people and injured, and it's normal not to like being approached by people.

If it can't accept him, he won't force it.

Yesterday, there was a container of pet supplies in the container at the port, and Lin Shi casually took out a bag of dog food from the space and put it in front of it.

"Food.

Go back."

Then he bypassed the dog and walked towards the door.

After a few steps, a familiar sense of attention came from behind.

Lin Shi turned his head and saw that the dog was actually carrying the dog food and followed up with a look of anticipation.

His eyes flashed, and he remembered something and said:

"The one who was spying on me in the woods last time, was it you?"

After speaking, Lin Shi laughed, how could a dog understand what he was saying?

However, this dog was surprisingly smarter than Lin Shi imagined, it put down the dog food in its mouth, opened its mouth:

"Wang!"

"Is it really you? Do you want to go home with me?" Lin Shi was skeptical.

"Wang!"

The dog carried the dog food and took a few steps towards Lin Shi, then stopped and looked at Lin Shi's expression, as if to confirm that Lin Shi didn't dislike it getting close.

Finally, it slowly walked to Lin Shi, lay on the ground, wagged its tail carefully, and looked up at Lin Shi.

Now Lin Shi no longer doubted that the dog could understand what he was saying.

He bent over and reached out to touch the dog's head.

The dog subconsciously wanted to dodge, but in the end, it didn't move and accepted Lin Shi's hand on its head.

These reactions all indicated its subconscious rejection of human contact.

Lin Shi understood that if it weren't for him accidentally saving its life, with this dog's hostility and vigilance towards humans, it wouldn't accept him so quickly.

"It seems we are quite fate."

Lin Shi smiled and looked at the pair of heterochromatic eyes, and said earnestly:

"Let's go home, from now on we will rely on each other for survival."

The dog also looked at Lin Shi earnestly, seemingly responding silently.

Lin Shi brought the dog back to the safe house and first checked the dog's wounds.

The dog had severe external injuries, with several places on its dirty fur where the skin had fallen off, and the flesh was blurred with blood.

Most of them were new injuries, still oozing blood.

Many wounds were hidden by the black and dirty fur, and if it weren't for Lin Shi's close examination, he wouldn't have found that the dog was so severely injured.

It could still bite people like a dog without any problem.

"You are truly a man among men."

Lin Shi's tone carried a hint of helplessness.

With such severe injuries, if left unattended, the dog would develop an infection and die within a few days.

He could only hope that the dog didn't have any internal injuries.

"I'm going to treat your wounds now.

I'll need to shave your fur, and it might hurt a bit, so you'll have to bear with it."

Seeing no reaction from the dog, Lin Shi took out disinfectant, a razor, bandages, medical sutures, and other tools from his space.

He began to treat its wounds.

Shaving, disinfecting, stitching, applying medicine, and bandaging.

It took over three hours for Lin Shi to treat all the wounds, and finally, he administered half a dose of anti-inflammatory injection.

The entire process was done without anesthesia, and the dog neither dodged nor barked, staying very quiet and allowing Lin Shi to work on it.

"You are truly a man among men."

It didn't make a sound while he treated the wounds, and his touch was far from gentle.

Lin Shi patted the dog's head, took out a blanket, and covered the dog.

Because of the numerous wounds and the dog's dirty fur, some of which had clumped together, he shaved all the fur off the dog.

Now it was completely bald.

The dog looked somewhat comical.

After shaving, it was apparent that the dog was very thin.

Its ribs were clearly visible on its belly.

Feeling the temperature dropping, Lin Shi lit the stove.

The warmth quickly dispelled the chill in the living room.

After cleaning up the trash on the floor, Lin Shi began to prepare lunch.

As Lin Shi just stepped into the kitchen, he noticed the dog had followed and silently lay down by his feet.

"Your wounds have been stitched, so avoid moving around.

Go and stay in the living room."

The dog obediently left with its tail down.

"Right, should I give you a name?"

Lin Shi suddenly thought of it.

He had never kept pets growing up, mainly because that woman didn't like small animals and hated extra fur in the house.

So he had no experience with pets.

Upon hearing that he was going to be named, the dog stopped in its tracks, looking at Lin Shi hopefully.

"How about..."

Lin Shi looked at the bald, ugly dog with stitches all over, deep in thought.

"Mixed Plate?"

"Iron Man?"

"Blue Red?"

The dog's face visibly drooped.

"Haha! I was just joking with you."

With a new member in the house, Lin Shi found himself talking more.

"How about 'Demon King'?"

"Wang!"

"Demon King?"

"Wang!"

"Demon King!"

"Wang!"

...

Lunch was prepared with plenty of meat, and after discovering that the Demon King preferred raw meat, Lin Shi directly took out a large chunk of raw beef from his space for it.

One person and one dog, well-fed and resting, when there was a noise outside the door.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

It was the sound of someone pounding on the door.

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