Chapter 50: Catching the Dog
"I think... I'd rather go with the shorter one, I'm a little confident in my fighting ability, and I'm actually in a bit of a hurry. ”
Andy ended up opting to catch the dog instead of training it.
The teacher nodded.
"It seems that this is your choice, I need to remind you that there is no further chance, once the trial is officially announced to begin, the one-day countdown will begin, and once you run out of time and have not achieved your goal, you will fail."
"I understand, but I don't want to change my mind."
Seeing that Andy's gaze was very determined, the teacher didn't say anything more, he walked back to his broken thatched hut and took out a small cloth bag.
Andy looked at the dusty little cloth bag and couldn't figure out what it was.
The teacher pulled out a handful of gray powder from the cloth bag.
The dogs around them showed expressions of disgust and spread around with their tails between their legs.
Andy smells a strange smell, a little indescribable... It feels like a rancid smell, but not the rancid smell of meat, it's something else...
The teacher gestured to Andy with a gesture pointing at the fleeing dogs around him.
"This powder will help you a little, it is not toxic and harmless, both for people and dogs, but dogs will be very disgusted by its smell, it is something I grind out of a rare stinky grass...... This thing is not a secret weapon that will make it easy for you to complete the trial, and if you don't use it well, it will make it harder. ”
Andy took the little cloth bag.
"Your destination is a relatively large cave on the west side of the North Ravine, where a pack of wild dogs live, there must be their cubs in it, catch one and bring it back, and your mission is complete.... Of course, if they catch you intruding, they will attack you, so use the powder to sneak in as quickly as you can, and then get out as quickly as possible. ”
The teacher found a rock and sat down, and he stared at Andy with his back bent, feeling that there was one more thing that had to be mentioned.
"If you're discovered.... Don't kill too many wild dogs, those dogs are our precious resources, and we also see them as spiritual beings, if you kill too many wild dogs, it will harm the interests of our village, and it may even lead to an attack on our village by spirits.... If that's the case, even if you can complete the trial and join us, everyone won't give you a good face. ”
Andy nodded repeatedly.
A hint came from the beep boy.
[Mission: Join the Dog Village]
【Selected: Capture Wild Dog Cubs 01】
[Optional: Get some help from some people in the Dog Twist Village (completed)]
Looking up, Andy thought of a few more questions.
"Teacher, what do you think is the best time for me to go?"
"Preferably during the day, and in the right direction, don't let the wind constantly blow your scent into the cave."
"Why daytime?"
The teacher stood up from the stone with a look of tiredness and boredom on his face, and it seemed that his patience with the guy in front of him had reached the limit.
"You can't go in when the dingos are all back to their nests, and then any powder you shoot on your body won't work."
........
After that, Andy headed towards the North Ravine.
The North Ravine is just north of the village of Doginu, and it is a ravine in the literal sense of the word, and some wild dogs can be seen moving around in the distance.
The vegetation here is not very dense, and it is quite difficult to dive into, and even if you can hide the smell, you can't hide the view.
Squatting behind a rock, Andy saw the cave.
A cave about two meters high and three meters wide, dark, as the time gradually passed towards noon, only dogs came out and no dogs entered.
Andy wanted to sneak in with the powder, but he remembered his teacher's instructions and tried the wind direction and found that it was not suitable.
Helpless, he had no choice but to continue to squat in the distance and wait for an opportunity.
After waiting for about two hours, when he was about to fall asleep, the wind finally changed.
"Hmm... Great, this time finally.."
Andy took out the stinking grass powder from the beep boy and quietly went to the outside of the cave, and then sprinkled the powder around the perimeter of the cave... At the very least, this will ensure that no dog will suddenly come back to the burrow to block him in the short term.
Walking cautiously through the hole, Andy twitched to see that there were some suspicious bones and strange dry objects in the cave, and the dog's hair was even more clumpy..... Fortunately, he has been wearing a gas mask, otherwise this environment alone is enough for people to eat a pot, and this trial is really not something that ordinary people can complete.
After walking for a while, the cave began to fork.
"Help, beep boy."
Andy crouched in a hidden spot shaking the machine in his left arm.
[Shelter Tech Pathfinding has been enabled]
[Shelter Tech Terrain Detection has been enabled]
V-mode automatically activates, and Andy's perspective is turned to a fork in the road, where one of the forks is marked with a green glow.
[Hint, environmental danger has been detected, and there may be rockfall ahead]
Andy shouted angrily, and was about to continue walking, but suddenly there was a puzzled voice not far behind him.
"Huh?!"
He quickly crouched down and spilled some powder out in that direction with one hand.
It didn't take long for the desired effect to be obtained.
"Woo! ——”
With a whin, Andy smiled, feeling like he could already imagine the guy running away with his tail between his legs.
The further you go inside.... The darkness and strange stench aggravated.
Ten minutes later, Andy's patience was almost at its limit, and he couldn't understand why those wild dogs with a keen sense of smell could stay in such a hellish place.... Is this the same as the fact that people can't smell their own snot and can't taste their own saliva?
【You have arrived at the mission destination】
Getting a reminder from the Pip-Boy, Andy quickly stopped and quietly turned on the Pip-Boy's lights.
Under the pale green fluorescence, a litter of puppies appeared in front of him, and a female wild dog guarding the side, but the dog was still sleeping.
The puppies looked cute, some curiously watched the green light emitted by Andy's beep boy, and some hummed and ducked into the dark corners.
Andy hesitated for a moment, then held out his claws towards one of the stupid guys who didn't run away.
Coincidentally, there was a slight noise on the cave wall behind him, and before Andy could react, a falling rock had already smashed firmly to the ground, making a loud noise.....
The wild dog, which had been lying on its stomach, suddenly pricked up its ears, and then immediately came to its senses, and when it saw that Andy had already grabbed one of its children, it could imagine how its mood would change.
The wild dog roared angrily, and directly lowered its body and prepared to pounce on Andy.
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