Long Xing picked up a stray dog when he was getting off work that day.
When he saw the dog, it was huddled under a car in front of him, its fur dirty and messy, and it looked pitiful.
Long Xing was afraid that it would be run over by the wheels when the car started, so he stretched out his hand to summon it out.
The dog raised its head and glanced at Long Xing, then slowly got up and walked to him. It looked like it had been injured or had lost its vitality due to age. However, Long Xing couldn’t clearly identify it.
Long Xing’s original intention was just to call it out, but the dog kept following Long Xing and refused to leave.
It followed Long Xing back to the school dormitory where Long Xing lived.
Oh, by the way, because Bu Hui moved out from the old dormitory of Forensic Medicine College to rent a house to live with his girlfriend, Xia Hongshen took advantage of his relationship to rent one of the two vacant dormitories to Feng Junyuan, and the other one was rented to Long Xing.
The dog kept following Long Xing, but Long Xing couldn’t bear to get rid of it.
Finally, when he returned to the second floor of the dormitory, the dog was still walking slowly behind him.
When Long Xing came back, Song Jun and Feng Junyuan were watching movies in front of the computer. Long Xing put the lunch box he bought on Song Jun’s computer table and asked, “Where is Teacher Xia?”
Song Jun turned to look at him and said, “Went to attend an academic conference with his tutor and won’t be back until a few days later.”
“Oh,” Long Xing responded, “Let’s eat first.”
At this time, both Song Jun and Feng Junyuan noticed the dirty stray dog following Long Xing and asked, “Where did it come from?”
Long Xing was a little troubled, “It’s a stray dog. It’s been following me back.”
Feng Junyuan took one look and said, “It’s so dirty. Do you want to keep it?”
Song Jun whispered, “Senior brother may not agree.”
Long Xing lowered his head to look at the dog, and the dog looked up at him pitifully. In the end, Long Xing couldn’t bear it. He took his lunch box, fed half of it to the dog, and said, “Let’s wait until Teacher Xia comes back.”
After dinner, Song Jun helped him give the dog a bath.
While washing, Song Jun said, “Do I need to take it to a pet shop for injection? I’m afraid it has some disease.”
Long Xing seemed to think it didn’t matter, “It doesn’t matter, we shouldn’t be able to get rabies.”
Song Jun looked at him and said, “True.”
When the two of them finished bathing the dog, Long Xing discovered that the dog’s fur was pure white. It was so dirty just now that it was impossible to tell.
Song Jun looked at the dog in confusion, “What breed is this? I can’t tell?”
Long Xing also looked at it and said, “Huskies, right? Are there pure white huskies?”
Feng Junyuan walked into the water room with a cup of mouthwash. He heard two people talking, so he also took a look at the dog and said, “Maybe it had albinism.”
Given Feng Junyuan’s status as a doctor, both Long Xing and Song Jun were then convinced by him.
Long Xing used a towel to wipe the water off the dog’s body. As he wiped it, he said, “Let me give you a name. Can we call it Erbao?”
Not sure if Erbao understood, it shook its head, splashing water all over Long Xing’s face.
When going to bed that night, Song Jun helped Long Xing find a large cardboard box, opened it and stuffed some unnecessary towels and sheets inside, temporarily making a place for Erbao.
Erbao’s place was placed in Long Xing’s room. The room Long Xing lived in now was the same room that Bu Hui used to live in. It still had a simple layout of a small bed, desk, and wardrobe, and the dog kennel could only be placed next to the bed.
Long Xing was lying on the bed and could touch Erbao’s head with his hand.
Erbao was curled up in its kennel. Long Xing stretched out his hand to touch its head, and it would raise its head slightly and lick Long Xing’s fingers.
Long Xing closed his eyes and fell asleep quickly.
That night, he kept dreaming, and he always dreamed that something heavy was pressing on him, and he could hardly breathe. He repeated this all night long. When he woke up the next morning, he only felt a soreness in his back.
When Long Xing opened his eyes, he saw Erbao lying beside the bed, looking at him.
He reached out and rubbed Erbao’s head.
Erbao stretched out his head and rubbed against his chest.
Long Xing had to go to work in the morning, so he got up from the bed and dragged his tired body to the water room to wash up.
Song Jun saw him and asked, “Why are you so haggard?”
Long Xing rubbed his eyes and said, “Am I?”
Song Jun touched his head, “Did Erbao disturb you to sleep?”
Long Xing shook his head, “No, I just didn’t sleep very well. It’s nothing.”
Because he had to go to work during the day, Long Xing asked Song Jun to help him find time to come back and feed the dog.
At noon, Song Jun went to buy a bag of dog food and came back. He opened the door of Long Xing’s room and saw Erbao sleeping in its space. He didn’t move when he heard him come in.
Song Jun poured the dog food into the bowl, put it near Erbao’s mouth, and then walked out gently.
But until Long Xing came home from work in the afternoon, Erbao didn’t touch the dog food in his mouth. He didn’t seem to like eating dog food.
Long Xing felt very tired. After he came back, he lay down on the bed and didn’t want to move.
Unexpectedly, Erbao jumped on the bed, lay on Long Xing’s body, and licked Long Xing’s ears.
Long Xing felt itchy and turned his head away with a smile.
Erbao could be considered a large dog. With its size, it pressed down on Long Xing, making it impossible for him to move. It licked Long Xing’s ears for a while, then lowered its head to lick Long Xing’s collarbone.
Long Xing struggled for a while but failed to break free and fell asleep with his eyes closed.
After dinner, Long Xing took Erbao for a walk in the school. It was obviously a stray dog that had been picked up from outside yesterday, but he didn’t expect that it would be surprisingly well-behaved and keep following Long Xing’s feet. Even when a girl teased it with food, it wouldn’t run away.
He just picked up Erbao and raised him for several days. His skin became smoother and smoother, while Long Xing became more and more lethargic.
One night, Long Xing took it out for a walk. Long Xing sat on a bench next to the small pond in the school and fell asleep after sitting for a while.
Erbao, who was sitting next to his legs, seemed to notice that he was asleep, so he jumped up on the bench, lay down next to him, and put his head on his lap.
After walking back, when Long Xing walked into the door of the first floor of the dormitory, Erbao suddenly stopped and refused to leave.
Long Xing was a little strange and looked back at it, “What’s wrong?”
Erbao raised his head and looked ahead warily.
Then, Long Xing heard footsteps coming down the stairs. He turned around and saw that the person slowly coming down the second floor turned out to be Xia Hongshen.
“Teacher Xia!” Long Xing was very happy to see Xia Hongshen.
Xia Hongshen didn’t look at him but kept staring at Erbao at Long Xing’s feet.
Long Xing felt a little strange and looked back at Erbao. Thinking that Xia Hongshen might have some hostility towards dogs, he explained, “I picked up Erbao. He is a stray dog.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Hongshen turned into a black shadow and rushed towards Erbao, but Erbao suddenly retreated and disappeared from Long Xing’s face without any intention of fighting with Xia Hongshen.
Long Xing was stunned.
However, Xia Hongshen had transformed back into his human form and stood beside him, saying, “You idiot, your spiritual power has almost been sucked out.”
Long Xing suddenly lost consciousness, turned into a silver whip, and fell into Xia Hongshen’s hand.
Xia Hongshen brought Long Xing Whip back and put it on the bed. Song Jun and Feng Junyuan stood beside it, both of them were a little embarrassed because none of them realised that Erbao turned out to be a demon and let him stay beside Long Xing. So long.
Song Jun asked, “What on earth is that? I can’t see what it was?”
Xia Hongshen’s eyes fell on the Dragon Tip Whip and said, “It’s not an ordinary demon. I don’t know where it came from and what its purpose is.”
Song Jun thought for a while and said, “It’s probably because of Long Xing’s spiritual power.”
Xia Hongshen reached out and picked up the Dragon Tip Whip, handed it to Feng Junyuan, and said, “Send Long Xing to Yun Po. There is enough spiritual power on the mountain so that he can return to his human form as soon as possible.”
Feng Junyuan took it and said, “I have to go to work.”
Xia Hongshen said, “Am I not going to work?”
Feng Junyuan was not very happy, “You are obviously more relaxed than me, okay? I have to work the night shift tomorrow!”
Song Jun said softly, “I also have to go to work…”
Xia Hongshen reached out and took the Dragon Tip Whip back, “Call Yun Po and ask him to come over.”
Two days later, Yun Po appeared in Song Jun’s dormitory building.
Xia Hongshen handed the Dragon Tip Whip into his hand, “Please help me take Long Xing back to Yun Qingshan Hongyin Temple and wait for him to absorb spiritual energy and return to his human form as soon as possible.”
Yun Po took the Dragon Tip Whip, waved it excitedly in his hand, and said, “You gave it to me, but I won’t give it back to you.”
Xia Hongshen didn’t care, “Long Xing will come back on his own.”
Yun Po suddenly lost interest and asked Xia Hongshen, “How did it get like this?”
Xia Hongshen said, “Its spiritual power was absorbed by a demon.”
“Huh?”
Xia Hongshen raised his head and looked out the window, “Something got in.”
Yun Po left with the Dragon Tip Whip that day.
At night, Song Jun sat on Xia Hongshen’s bed, playing games on his laptop.
Xia Hongshen rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find something.
Song Jun was a little strange, “What are you looking for?”
Xia Hongshen didn’t say anything. He found cat food from the cabinet, grabbed a handful and put it in his mouth. He chewed it for a while and felt something was wrong, so he quickly spit it out. After looking carefully at the packaging bag, he realised that it was not cat food at all, but dog food.
Seeing this, Song Jun stood up, grabbed the bag, and said, “I bought this for Erbao two days ago.”
Xia Hongshen was not happy when he heard the word Erbao, and he was even more unhappy when there was no cat food. He looked gloomily and asked, “Where’s mine?”
Song Jun said, “You have finished it all, and I haven’t had time to buy another yet.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he was pressed onto the bed by Xia Hongshen, and he couldn’t say the next words.
On the same night, Yun Po drove back to Hongyin Temple overnight, and sitting with him in the passenger seat was Wan Mingguang. Wan Mingguang devoted himself to practising Buddhism at Hongyin Temple. Yun Po saw that he was now dedicated to doing good, so he let his soul attach to his Buddhist beads and took him down the mountain to catch ghosts, eliminate demons, and do good deeds to accumulate virtue.
Wan Mingguang held the Dragon Tip Whip in his hand and asked doubtfully, “What kind of powerful demon do you think it could be, keeping Chunjun and others in the dark?”
Yun Po drove the car and responded casually, “Who knows?”
When he finished speaking, Wan Mingguang suddenly exclaimed. It turned out that he saw a white figure running towards their car outside the car window.
They were driving on a highway, and on this kind of highway, what kind of monster could catch up with the speed of a car?
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