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74: Taming dogs? I don’t know much, but I’m experienced at taming people.

“Little Ha, come here.”

Lin Zhiwei stood where she was and waved a steak lightly toward the mutated husky.

The giant dog twitched its nose and staggered to its feet, blood still oozing from many wounds on its massive body.

Much of its flesh had been shredded by bullets, exposing glaring white bone.

Any ordinary mutant beast would have died long ago from such grievous injuries.

A strange emotion flashed through Lin Zhiwei’s eyes.

She did harbor a little private thought.

She had raised this husky since it was a pup for more than 6 years and was deeply attached to it.

If Little Ha could still think normally and remember her, she did not want to abandon it.

The mutated husky limped toward Lin Zhiwei, letting out a low whimper that sounded squeezed from its throat.

Hearing that sound, delight flashed in Lin Zhiwei’s eyes!

It was the tone Little Ha used whenever it begged for affection.

It really recognized me!

“Little Ha, want to eat?” Lin Zhiwei walked forward slowly, holding the steak.

Shen Yi watched quietly, ready to use Teleportation at any moment to pull her out.

This woman was truly bold.

For the sake of an experiment, she simply was not afraid of death.

She was clever yet a very simple, pure person.

Lin Zhiwei’s cleverness did not lie in manipulating or scheming against others.

Instead, her full attention was devoted to research.

In fact, she posed little threat to Shen Yi, for she had no ambition or desire to vie for favor or power.

Her thoughts were simple; she was purely curious about Shen Yi’s body and wanted to dissect him for a thorough study…

By comparison, Jiang Nanyan was not as smart as Lin Zhiwei, but she enjoyed scheming against people more.

Still, Jiang Nanyan was loyal and sensible; even with her many little ploys for favor, she never delayed the tasks Shen Yi assigned and never annoyed him.

That was why Shen Yi tacitly allowed her to compete for his attention.

“It looks like it can be tamed, though I’m not sure whether it will go berserk again later…”

Shen Yi used Telepathy and watched the mutated husky, which displayed no trace of hostility.

At this moment, it lay in front of Lin Zhiwei, chewing the steak while letting her stroke its head.

Two steaks were not even enough to wedge between the giant husky’s teeth.

Especially when it was badly wounded now, the faster it recovered, the more energy it consumed.

Shen Yi watched for a while and then decided to reveal himself to run a test.

He wanted to see whether the mutated husky would attack him.

If the beast still showed hostility toward him under Lin Zhiwei’s control, it absolutely could not be allowed to live!

That was how double-standard he was!

“Hup!”

The moment Shen Yi appeared, the mutated husky turned its head and fixed on him, a deep warning rumble coming from its throat.

Its aura darkened slightly as well.

Clearly, it harbored hostility toward Shen Yi!

Strictly speaking, it was hostile toward any unfamiliar creature.

But when Lin Zhiwei patted its head, it suppressed the urge to attack and merely kept its green eyes warily on Shen Yi.

Yes, it was just wary!

It seemed to remember how Shen Yi had immobilized it at the research facility before.

At that time, the feeling of being unable to move no matter how hard it struggled still left the mutated husky fearful even now!

“Good, having reason is enough.”

Shen Yi felt fairly satisfied seeing that the mutated husky bore some hostility but no killing intent toward him.

Although that was due to Lin Zhiwei holding it back, the fact it could refrain from attacking him was already commendable.

After all, it was a beast and could not be treated like a person.

Yet the way to tame a beast was actually similar to taming a person.

It likewise required both the stick and the carrot.

One had to make it revere him while also depending on him.

With that in mind, Shen Yi stepped forward and instantly appeared beside the mutated husky, giving it a fright.

The husky instinctively tried to rise, but a beam from a flashlight struck it, casting a sliver of shadow, and its body was frozen in place at once.

It was that same sensation as before!

The mutated husky struggled hard, its green eyes fixed on the nearby Shen Yi with obvious fear.

Perhaps because it was rational now and badly injured, it sensed the threat of death.

If Shen Yi kept shooting its vital points with a gun right now, he might really be able to kill the mutated husky!

Judging from the stamina Shadow Bind consumed, the mutated husky was clearly much weaker than yesterday; immobilizing it cost only one-third the energy it had before.

It seemed that, while its genes granted strong recovery, the ability was not unbeatable…

Those special-forces soldiers probably just did not want to risk it, otherwise they certainly could have killed the mutated husky.

As for using Shadow Bind inside the black fog, it was simple; if there was no light source, he would simply carry one himself!

There were plenty of flashlights in the supermarket, and with System Space he could retrieve them at will, so it was not troublesome.

Thinking this through and seeing the beast was sufficiently cowed, Shen Yi took a roast chicken from System Space, looked at the mutated husky, and said, “From now on treat me as your master too; as long as you behave, I guarantee you meat at every meal.”

As he spoke, he tossed the roast chicken next to the mutated husky.

Catching the aroma of chicken, the mutated husky clearly grew excited, whining nonstop and itching to devour it!

At the same time, most of its hostility toward Shen Yi vanished, its aura turning neutral gray with a faint white of goodwill.

“Not bad, you’re sensible.”

Shen Yi nodded in satisfaction and released Shadow Bind.

Although the mutated husky could not understand human speech, it still knew it must not attack Shen Yi.

Otherwise it would either be frozen in place or be denied good food!

It cast a cautious glance at Shen Yi, then immediately lowered its head and gulped down the roast chicken on the ground.

The whole roast chicken was gone before it even tasted the flavor…

Then, it gazed at Shen Yi with pleading eyes again.

After a moment’s hesitation, it limped toward Shen Yi.

Shen Yi prepared to use Shadow Bind at any second, yet he did not dodge; instead, he extended his hand.

The mutated husky seemed to know what to do; it lay down before Shen Yi and lowered its head so he could pat it.

All hostility left the husky, and its aura showed much more white goodwill.

Immediately after, Shen Yi took out over a dozen roast chickens and 20-plus steaks and tossed them to the mutated husky one by one.

If he threw them all at once, there would be no sense of training.

He had to make the pet understand that it could eat only what he granted.

If he did not give it, it could not eat, much less snatch.

This was also Shen Yi’s way of testing the mutated husky.

If it could not resist the temptation of food and attacked him, that would prove it was rebellious and should become dog-meat stew!

However, the mutated husky truly was rational now; it stared at the food beside Shen Yi, anxious to gorge itself, yet it did not grab but waited for him to throw it over…

It was clearly in awe of Shen Yi’s ability to immobilize it.

In the end, after being fed for a while, the mutated husky’s goodwill toward Shen Yi deepened greatly.

Although it could not match the absolute loyalty of Xu Wanting, Su Yun, and the other women, at least it would not suddenly ambush him.

Normally, a shift from goodwill to hostility required a process.

That process would give Shen Yi enough time to react.

“I didn’t expect you to be so good at training dogs.”

Lin Zhiwei let out a breath of relief, and a rare smile appeared on her face.

To her, Little Ha was not only her first successful test subject but also a beloved pet she had invested much emotion in, so she was very happy to save it.

“Training dogs? I don’t really get it, but it feels the same as training people, and I’m very experienced at that.”

Shen Yi stroked the mutated husky’s head and looked at Lin Zhiwei.

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