CH 772

I was worried about how to reply to Zhao Yao’s tricky question while posing as Wu Sheng, but I didn’t expect Director Cao to suddenly say:

“I’ll buy it! I’ll buy all the dogs! While ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’ didn’t make much from advertisements, but I decided to use all of it to save a man’s best friend!”

Huh? When did ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’ even get income from advertisements? In the sponsored by section of the opening, I thought there were only ‘Lanxiang Vocational School’, ‘Shaxian Delicacies’, and something like the ‘Tohsaka Tokiomi Protection Association’? Also, you put ‘Lanxiang Vocational School’ and ‘Shaxian Delicacies’ into the list yourself when they didn’t even give you an advertisement fee! On the contrary, it was the ‘Tohsaka Tokiomi Protection Association’ that sent you 5 bucks on Alipay, isn’t that embarrassing?

I guess you’re going to have to use the sponsor money? It seems like there are still some money left from the ¥2,000,000 that the luxury watch seller invested into Director Cao! I guess he still has extra money left to buy dogs on top of buying Ai Mi’s underwear.

“So you’re just going to screw over your sponsor?” I whispered to Director Cao.

“No! I’m spending the money on the right place!” Director Cao said proudly, “It’s a great marketing opportunity! A series is never finalized as we can still create interest in it! As long as there’s enough, even previously dead movies can be revived!”

Director Cao was probably hoping that tomorrow’s news on NetEase (163.com) will have a headline like: “Director of ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’ spent all of the movie’s revenue on buying trafficked dogs?” or something along those lines.

If you think about it, it would actually be a great advertisement! I could even imagine the dog lovers and the ones who oppose them arguing about whether or not you should eat dogs and if the government should add laws to protect pets and whatnot.

As a rule, a variety of poets will appear in the comments and troll both sides of the debate with poems. There will also be many users who use fake famous characters “Director” and “Xiao Li” to make fun of the stop the cars to save the dogs incident.

For example:

“Xiao Li, I heard that the dog meat from Guangzhou Baiyun tastes pretty good. When are you going to get some for me to try?”

“Director, don’t worry, I guarantee you can eat special dog meat! The dogs the commoners eat can’t be compared to you!”

“Bastard! Are you comparing me to the commoners or the dogs! Do you still want a good review in your year end reviews?”

“Forgive me, forgive me! Please forgive me, Director! I misspoke, I’ll slap myself! I’ll do it right now! Yah! Yah! Look how hard I’m hitting myself…”

If the news could have that kind of effect, it would be worth it even if Director Cao had to spend ¥60,000 to buy the dogs (plus it’s not even his own money)! No wonder he came running when he heard this was happening near Film City!

“You’re going to buy the dogs?” Zhao Yao was shocked and asked, “Then what are you planning to do with the dogs? As far as I know, it seems to be one of the headaches for the volunteers?”

“That’s easy!” Director Cao patted his beer belly, “Tun them into dog meat hot pot…”

I stepped on Director Cao’s foot and made him squeal like a pig getting butchered.

“No! I’m saying——turning them into dog meat hot pot is something I would definitely never do! I could turn the dogs into actors…”

Hey! Although ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’ does have a dog as an actor, but that’s a specially trained dog! How could dogs raised for their meat become actors? Also, which crew would need this many dogs!

As expected, Zhao Yao asked a similar question, to which Director Cao replied: “Someone would need them, right? For example, I have a Japanese colleague who likes to film a human/beast series, so I could give a few dogs to him…”

Eventually, more and more people gathered inside the square. Volunteers accounted for one-third of the people, while the rest were passing drivers and a few security guards. It was way too noisy and Zhao Yao’s interview with Director Cao was cut short.

“We should still interview Officer Ma! I heard that he wants to kill dogs to check them for drugs. If he really did that, it would get interesting!”

Zhao Yao began to push his way through the crowd. In response, Director Cao followed him to try and stay in frame of the camera to get on the news.

I was in a rush to go help the class leader, so I handed the sign back to Director Cao. He held the sign up high as if he was afraid people wouldn’t be able to read it clearly.

“Move, move! I want to buy the dogs! The ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’ crew will buy the dogs!”

“Everyone is welcome to search ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’ online and watch it for free! Our series loves and protects animals! Even the villain has a lot of compassion.”

Compassion my ass! Jin Lin Young Thug tore his master in half! He even told his dog to eat corpses! In the world of the ‘Bloody Battle of Jin Ling’, I think it’s humans who should be loved and protected!

I walked back next to the class leader, but she was staring at a security guard in the distance as if she had discovered an enemy.

“Is there something wrong with the security guard?”

“It’s not the security guard, it’s the student behind the guard——look! He came out again!”

“I took a closer look——huh? He looks so familiar! He was about the same age as Shu Zhe, but his features weren’t as delicate. He seemed to be slightly more robust than Shu Zhe and was also a bit taller.”

Damn! Isn’t this the kid that the class leader and I met once, the dog thief who tried unsuccessfully to steal Obama and later called Li LaoEr and Zhao GuangTou to take care of us!

He said his name was “Luo Ning” and that he was Shu Zhe’s online friend. He had a very close relationship to the dog thieves, so his presence here meant the stolen dogs really hadn’t been transported yet! He was scouting the situation! He didn’t expect that there were people present who knew him and was recognized by me and the class leader!

“It’s him! Don’t let him run away!”

I couldn’t help but shout out loud, then try to run behind the security guard to catch him. Luo Ning didn’t recognize me since I was wearing sunglasses, but the class leader was very eye-catching and he knew his identity had been exposed. He immediately turned around to run and was as quick as a rabbit.

For some reason, the security guard came to block me as if he was protecting Luo Ning. I was worried that running at full speed would trigger a heart attack, so Luo Ning ran further and further away and he was about to run into the main building of the service stop.

We attracted everyone’s attention and a visible expression of concern appeared on Zeng Lao Liu’s. We could almost conclusively say that Luo Ning was their accomplice! Sure enough, the stolen pet dog were still hidden in the service stop! It’s possible that the security guards in the service stop were also involved!

We couldn’t let Luo Ning run into the main building. The interior was intricate and complex, plus it had a back door. If he enters, then we would never be able to find him. If Luo Ning escapes, we would lose our only clue.

The class leader made a quick decision and picked up a small rock from the flower bed. She aimed at Luo Ning and after a second or two, she made decisive shot.

The rock flew straight and struck Luo Ning in his left knee joint. He screamed out loud and took a dive.

The class leader, who was specialized in flying weapons, didn’t show any mercy. Luo Ning fell right onto the concrete floor and couldn’t get back up, it seems he also lost two of his front teeth.

The class leader had a good reason to do so.

Back then, when I caught Luo Ning, the class leader was kind enough to let him go and didn’t let me beat him up.

The result of that was Luo Ning called two thugs to block the class leader and I in an alley to beat us up. Li LaoEr and Zhao GuangTou said they were going to knock me down first, then gang rape the class leader. Luo Ning was also eager and thought he could get in some of the action too.

So in the class leader’s eyes, Luo Ning was someone who tried to gang rape her! How could she show mercy to someone like that? Only losing two of his front teeth was already getting off easy! It would have been easy for the class leader to give you a concussion.

“How dare you volunteers hit someone!?”

The security guard who was going to try to stop me from chasing after Luo Ning, saw the class leader’s wrist flick, followed by Luo Ning falling to the ground and unable to get up with a mouth full of blood, so he couldn’t help but be furious.

“Brothers, come here! Someone hit Captain Luo’s son! It was these dog lovers who did it! We can’t let them get away!!!”

Damn! So Luo Ning’s surname is actually Luo! So Luo Ning isn’t an online name, but his real name?! So your father was the head of security and you colluded with the security guards and are actually the Zeng brother’s accomplices! You guys hid the stolen dogs somewhere in the service stop last night and fed them anesthetics beforehand so that they wouldn’t make any sounds, right?

The security guards gathered at an astonishing speed and thirteen of them gathered in less than half a minute. The thirteen guards were led by Captain Luo and walked aggressively towards the volunteers, especially towards the class leader.

Captain Luo pointed at the class leader’s nose and shouted, “You’re the one who hit my son! Are you tired of living?!”

After the class leader calmed down, she also felt that she had hit him a little too hard, but Luo Ning had already been classified by her as a “incurable villain”. That’s why the class leader’s Justice Devil fighting spirit did not diminish in the slightest, she opposed Captain Luo’s threatening gaze and said in a loud voice:

“I was the one who hit him! Call him over here! I have something to ask him!”

How rare. Usually, when we meet detestable people, the class leader would always urge me to not get into a fight, but today she hit first.

Is it because I have a heart problem and I’m sick and weak, so she inadvertently takes care of me as if I was her brother?

Hmph, I’m not as useless as your brother! I can still transform for three minutes and become a “capable fighter”!

But with the police around, I didn’t really need to fight the security guards.

Other than the police, there were also quite a few volunteers now. There were more than 50 volunteers, although their physiques were inferior to the security guards, we at least had an advantage in numbers.

So I stepped in front of the class leader and stopped Captain Luo from approaching any further, then I appealed in a loud voice saying:

“Volunteers unite! The dog thief has appeared! The student that we knocked down is a dog thief! His father is the head of security! The security guards are in cahoots with the dog thief!”

A few of the young volunteers who had noticed that the situation and had come to protect Shu Sha, immediately felt that they were in the right and it gave them more courage.

I fanned the flames and said: “Keep an eye out! There are still a lot of stolen dogs in the service stop! Maybe they are in a garage somewhere! Don’t give them a chance to move the stolen goods!”

The color on Captain Luo’s face faded after he heard me speak——I can’t believe I actually got it right on the marks. It looks like my intelligence has grown after I ate the blue butterfly! I had a stat adjustment of -10 strength and +5 intelligence!

What? Are you asking where the other 5 stat points went? Of course it’s towards my roasting and imagination abilities!

As a precaution, I kept an eye on Captain Luo’s movements, then I reached into my pocket and held onto my Swiss Army knife.

It might be a bit tough for me, but the Swiss Army knife can be opened with one hand. If Captain Luo, whose built like a bull, gets enraged and charges at the class leader, I will pull out my knife.