Chapter 36 - Chapter 36: Chapter 36 Taste of Others (1/2)

Chapter 36: Chapter 36 Taste of Others

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Chapter Thirty-six: Other Scents

The elevator doors slowly closed. Inside the elevator, Xiang Kun held Little Fatty Girl Liu Shiling’s hand and stood with Shiling’s Mom on one side while Miss Yang held her pet dog, PINKIE, on the other.

However, at this point, the husky had completely lost its previous excitement and was crouched alone, pressing itself into an elevator corner, as if trying to shrink into the elevator wall. Miss Yanz’s efforts to Dull it or call it were in vain.

The husky is often called a “Husku” because of its playful and mischievous instincts and poor obedience, often causing mischief and tearing things up at home, earning it a place among the “foolish three sled-dogs” alongside the Alaskan Malamute and the Samoyed.

However, whether it’s the Husky or the other two types of sled dogs, they all have high intelligence. Sled dogs, initially domesticated as working dogs by Siberian herders, have better directional skills than humans when pulling sleds in snowstorms, often requiring them to make their own decisions and choices.

The low obedience of sled dogs is not because they do not understand their owner’s commands and intentions, but because they believe they are smarter than their owner, often making decisions on their own. Also, the owner may not have established enough dominance to command obedience from them. Alternatively, they may just be deliberately being naughty, all in pursuit of their own goals.

Miss Yang’s husky clearly hadn’t been trained properly and probably regarded her as a companion rather than a master, and even then, one ranked lower than itself.

Xiang Kun knew that the husky didn’t mean to attack Little Fatty Girl earlier but just wanted to play with her. However, if she were knocked down in such a situation, it could lead not only to physical injury but also to a severe psychological shock.

Ultimately, the cause of the problem was Miss Yang’s failure in training her dog.

Miss Yang might have been unable to control her pet, but Xiang Kun could.

During his previous nocturnal ‘patrols’, he often encountered stray dogs and cats scavenging for food, or people walking their dogs at night.

He quickly discovered that if he held his breath, slightly tensed his muscles, and exuded a fierce aura when these cats and dogs noticed him, they’d immediately withdraw, run away, or even lie flat on the ground, even without him making any movement.

Once, he encountered a Labrador Retriever on which its owner had loosened its leash. The dog ran over to sniff him, but one look from him made the dog lie flat on the ground and dare not move. The next day, upon seeing Xiang Kun again, even while its owner was holding it, the dog immediately lay down, looking submissive, and would not move regardless of how much its owner pulled at it.

At home, Xiang Kun had experimented with the meat rabbits he had bought. It was the same – the rabbits were frightened into shivering and curling up.

However, his intimidation seemed ineffective on birds. Pigeons in the square, sparrows on walls, chickens and ducks at the market, all seemed to completely ignore his “threats”.

Xiang Kun speculated that animals like cats and dogs, with their sensitive senses, might be detecting strong danger pheromones from him, hence their behavior.

In any case, he is now certain that in the future, Miss Yang’s husky will take a detour upon seeing him or Little Fatty Girl.

Little Fatty Girl, holding Xiang Kun’s hand, curiously stuck her head out from beside his thigh to look at the husky “facing the wall” in the corner of the elevator. The shock and fear in her eyes slowly faded away.

“If you’re not scared of it, it’ll be scared of you,” Xiang Kun patted Little Fatty Girl’s head and said.

Shiling’s Mom looked at Xiang Kun, then at the suddenly subdued husky in the corner, puzzled. She had clearly seen that the dog was “scared” after a glance from Xiang Kun?

The elevator quickly reached the first floor. Even after Xiang Kun, Little Fatty Girl, and Shiling’s Mom had left the buildings electronic door, Miss Yang still couldn’t get her pet dog out of the elevator.

After leaving the residential complex and bidding goodbye to Little Fatty Girl and her mom, Xiang Kun started by walking briskly. After 10 minutes, he began to run.

His running speed was very fast, drawing many passersby’s gazes. Seeing him carrying a bag, they assumed he was a white-collar worker rushing for time, and they were not much surprised.

Of course, they didn’t know that Xiang Kun was running more than twenty kilometers at a stretch.

Xiang Kun wasn’t running at his top speed, instead keeping to a moderate pace that would allow him to observe and think simultaneously.

He had once casually measured his 100 meters speed, which was around 11 seconds.