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Chapter 73: Looting the Mall and Trying to Tame

“How sure are you, and even if you tame it now, can you guarantee it won’t go berserk and attack us later?”

Shen Yi shot back.

He had just watched that mutated dog try to devour its own master, Lin Zhiwei.

Even if Lin Zhiwei could bring it to heel for a short while, it would remain a ticking time bomb.

“Trust me one more time; I saw that Little Ha is badly hurt and the bloodlust in its eyes has faded, so its mind should be clear again, and I am confident I can tame it now and keep it from attacking people at will.”

Lin Zhiwei spoke solemnly, paused, and added, “I can’t promise it will never snap, but I can live in the same building with it so that if it does, I can respond at once and make sure it never threatens you.”

“Besides, to improve the gene evolution serum, raise the success rate of injections, and remove the side effects, I need Little Ha’s live genetic samples.”

“If you agree, I can guarantee that within 10 days I will hand you an upgraded genetic serum!”

Hearing Lin Zhiwei’s earnest pledge, Shen Yi arched a brow.

If she truly could deliver, he could live with that.

Shen Yi himself did not fear the mutated dog.

Although he could not kill it, escaping from it would be a breeze.

What worried him was the danger it might pose to the other women around him.

Even so, he hesitated.

If Lin Zhiwei really could tame the beast, the benefits would be substantial.

Not only would her research move faster, he would also gain a powerful bodyguard.

With the dog around, ordinary mutant animals would fall without him lifting a finger.

After mulling it over, Shen Yi looked at Lin Zhiwei and asked, “If you can tame it, can you make it obey, say, send it to kill whoever I tell it to kill?”

“That’s the most basic kind of command, so of course there’s no problem; an evolved husky is much smarter than before and can understand most orders.”

Lin Zhiwei answered at once.

“Also, as long as you feed it regularly, there’s a high chance it will listen to you as well.”

Since that was the case, Shen Yi gave his consent.

He was quite willing to try experiments that carried such low risk.

Especially because he currently had a small problem to solve.

The mutated black spider!

If the dog really could be ordered to finish off the mutated black spider, Shen Yi would consider it a bargain.

If it failed, then it was pure trash and not worth wasting food on.

After that, Shen Yi swept the surrounding 3 km with Telepathy and located the wounded dog in a secluded corner.

It was lying there licking the bullet wounds on its body, looking rather pitiful.

“Can you find it?” Lin Zhiwei asked curiously.

She knew that Shen Yi’s Telepathy power covered far greater range than her own clairvoyance.

If Shen Yi could not locate it, things would get troublesome.

“I’ve already found it, but there’s no rush; let’s loot this mall first.”

Shen Yi looked at the large shopping mall.

The place was filled with designer bags and clothes but almost no food, so no survivors had taken refuge inside.

Shen Yi immediately started sweeping the shelves on the first floor.

Men’s shoes, shirts, T-shirts, pants, and all kinds of jackets…

He stuffed them all, hangers included, into System Space!

From now on he would never worry about clean clothes again.

He also collected women’s high heels, underwear, long skirts, trousers, shorts, and stockings in every color, hangers and all.

After clearing out 4 entire floors of luxury goods, Shen Yi finally left with Lin Zhiwei, satisfied, and headed for the wounded dog.

On the way, Lin Zhiwei could not help asking, “Shen Yi, just how big is your superpower storage space in square meters?”

“I’m not sure; I can’t see the end of it, so it might be infinite.”

Shen Yi replied.

“Infinite? H-how is that possible…?”

Lin Zhiwei fell silent in shock.

Since the eerie black fog appeared, most of the scientific theories she once knew had been shattered.

A few superpowers could still barely be explained by science.

But others had strayed so far beyond science that they bordered on theology.

Shen Yi’s Teleportation, for instance, involved spatial traversal that current human technology could never achieve.

Yet he could do it with a single thought.

It made no sense whatsoever.

Then there was the black fog.

It was equally bizarre.

Lin Zhiwei had studied it for a long time and found that the black fog belonged to none of Earth’s known substances and was something she could not even fathom.

Either it was technology from a higher dimension, or it was theology itself.

Nevertheless, Lin Zhiwei was rational; when she realized she could not understand something, she chose not to waste time on it and never let it discourage her.

She simply pretended she had never uncovered the theory.

When she had gathered enough data and grown stronger, she would revisit the mystery.

Otherwise, stubbornly dwelling on it would yield nothing and merely waste time and energy.

A dozen minutes later, the two of them reached the vicinity of the mutated husky.

Shen Yi withdrew his Telepathy in advance to avoid alerting the beast.

He remembered that the dog had sensed him when he spied on it with Telepathy before.

That proved its perception was keen.

Yet most of the time it acted dumb and showed no response.

For instance, during the entire walk Shen Yi had stared at it and it had not reacted at all.

Perhaps its perception had dulled because of its injuries?

“I’ll go over and try; as long as Little Ha recognizes me, I can make it obey,” Lin Zhiwei said.

“Be careful.”

Shen Yi was ready to use Teleportation and Binding at any moment to bail her out.

Lin Zhiwei’s expression hardly changed, as if Shen Yi’s concern did not surprise her.

Although they had spent little time together, her keen insight had already parsed Shen Yi’s personality.

He was meticulous, self-serving, and highly sensitive.

For his own safety he would kill without hesitation, even a woman who had slept with him.

The moment his safety was threatened, he struck without mercy.

Yet he was not utterly cold; he simply buried his feelings so deeply that they never dictated his actions.

In other words, as long as no one endangered him, he was actually a decent man.

“Could you give me some food? I’ll use it to tame Little Ha,” Lin Zhiwei said.

Shen Yi took two raw steaks from System Space and handed them to her.

Right after that, Lin Zhiwei walked into the alley with the steaks.

Inside the alley, the wounded husky heard footsteps, jerked its head up, and fixed its emerald eyes on the newcomer.

When it recognized who it was, its gaze flickered slightly, as if stirred by emotion…

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