"Um, were you scared away by me?"
Zhang Ning slowly turned around and looked at the giant husky disappearing in the corridor, a big question mark appeared in his mind.
He also heard the whistle just now. Judging from the direction, it should be coming from the residential building, but he couldn't tell which floor it was on. He just felt that the whistle was vaguely familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.
"Wait a minute! The corridor that the dog ran in just now seems to lead to my parents' house!"
Zhang Ning instantly fell into the ice cave and became cold. This husky was huge and looked very capable. If it blocked the corridor, how could he go to his parents' home?
Just when Zhang Ning was about to rush into the corridor regardless, a head poked out of a half-open window on the third floor of the residential building and shouted to him tentatively.
"Son? Is that you?"
Zhang Ning hesitated and subconsciously looked up. Although his eyesight could not clearly see the face of the caller, he could easily identify the person's identity based on the person's location.
It was in the direction of home, and it was his mother, waving her arms excitedly and saying hello to him.
"Mom..."
Zhang Ning was stunned on the spot, his lips pursed, his body trembled, and he didn't know how to react for a moment.
A huge sense of surprise hit his nerves like a flash flood. The original anxiety suddenly disappeared. The stone hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground. His mother was fine!
"Where's dad! How is dad?"
Zhang Ning looked at his mother and shouted incoherently.
Hearing Zhang Ning's shout, another man's head emerged from the other side of the window, looking down in surprise.
That person was none other than Zhang Ning's father!
"I told your dad that the man riding a motorcycle downstairs is you. Your dad still doesn't believe it. Come up quickly. It's not safe downstairs..."
The middle-aged woman shouted excitedly. The greatest joy in this apocalypse is to see that her relatives are intact, and the most reassuring of this kind of joy is to see her child intact with her own eyes. .
Hearing his mother's call, Zhang Ning quickly agreed and raised his legs to walk towards the corridor, but after a while he stepped back, returned to his original position, and shouted to his mother upstairs.
"Mom, a big husky rushed upstairs just now. Is our family okay?"
Although this sentence seems like nonsense, because Zhang Ning's mother and father can communicate with him intact, there must be no accidents, but in fact, Zhang Ning's implication is to judge the big dog After reaching several floors, if the giant husky passes by the third floor and runs upwards, then he can go upstairs with confidence; if he does not pass by the third floor, he needs to pay more attention and take more precautions.
"You have such a bad mind and memory. That's our family's mountain cannon!"
"Mountain cannon? Stupid dog mountain cannon?"
Zhang Ning raised his eyebrows, and a big look of confusion appeared on his face.
Due to the emergency situation just now, he really forgot about this. In his parents' home, there was also a half-grown husky. It was a pet dog that he bought from the pet market specially because he was afraid that his parents would be lonely.
Because Huskies are naturally full of energy and have low IQs, they often engage in intelligence-reducing operations such as demolishing homes, so Zhang Ning simply gave it a name that suited his temperament - Mountain Pao.
"So, that giant husky just now was a mountain cannon? No wonder the whistle just now sounded so familiar. It must have been blown by dad..."
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Zhang Ning's head turned around and he murmured in sudden realization. In order to train this energetic stupid dog, his father once bought a dog training textbook and a dog whistle. Look at it now. , the training should be successful.
"I'll be up right away."
Now that he understood the situation, Zhang Ning no longer hesitated and immediately stepped onto the stairs and trotted towards the third floor.
After a while, he saw the ajar door, and hurriedly stepped forward and opened it. He was about to say hello to his parents, but the moment he opened the door, the smile froze on his face.
What greeted him behind the door was not the kind smiling faces of his parents, but a dog's face the size of a rice vat!
The giant husky was squatting at the door. Since it was originally 1.56 meters tall, when it was squatting on the ground, the dog's face was facing Zhang Ning's chest, and it was close to the door, just in front of Zhang Ning who opened the door. Their eyes met, and we almost had an intimate contact!
"Oh my god, old swan!"
Zhang Ning screamed and jumped back, subconsciously placing his hands in front of his chest in a defensive posture.
Although he already knew that this dog was his old stupid and energetic dog, the huge change in Shan Pao's size and the unexpected close contact still scared Zhang Ning.
"Son, are you okay, Shan Pao! Just stay here..."
A middle-aged man walked out of the door. Under Zhang Ning's surprised gaze, he waved his big hand and slapped the giant husky hard on the head. The husky shrank its head in embarrassment and moved its huge butt to one side. Exited the entrance passage.
"Hey, son, you are back, let mom hug you!"
Before Zhang Ning could speak to his father, a middle-aged woman ran out of the door again and gave him a big hug excitedly.
"Hey mom, I'm fine, are you and dad fine too..."
Looking at the mother in front of him, Zhang Ning said happily with a sore nose.
"We're fine. Come on, let's talk first. It's not safe outside. You've lost weight..."
Zhang Ning's mother was talking nonchalantly, and she pulled Zhang Ning into the house. The house was still as tidy as before, just like before the apocalypse, with no changes.
After the three of them sat down on the sofa, Zhang Ning's mother pulled her son down in front of her and looked at him carefully. The middle-aged woman soon noticed something strange about Zhang Ning and asked with worry on her face. road.
"Son, what's all this on your neck? Why are your eyes turning red? You're suffering outside..."
As she spoke, tears overflowed from the mother's eyes. She was not worried about whether her son's zombie appearance would infect her, she was simply worried about his physical condition.
"I... don't have any big problem. I have enough to eat and sleep well. You don't have to worry..."
Zhang Ning scratched his head and didn't know how to explain it for a moment, so he had to make a perfunctory sentence and bring the topic to the giant husky.
"By the way, Mom, why has this mountain cannon grown so big? I just saw it eating zombies downstairs..."
As he spoke, Zhang Ning turned his attention to the husky sitting obediently and asked with curiosity on his face.
"It turns out that those kind of man-eating monsters are called zombies..."
The expression on Zhang Ning's mother's face completely missed the point of Zhang Ning's question.
"Well, zombies are not the point. The point is how this dog suddenly became so big, and it seems to be very obedient..."
Zhang Ning is a little helpless
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Alas, my mother is like this sometimes and easily misses the point, but fortunately, saying it twice more can make up for this shortcoming.
"There was something wrong with this dog on the day the infectious disease broke out. After drinking a little water, he lay on the ground and jerked. Your dad and I originally thought it was going to die. Who knew that after lying down for a day, it immediately became lively and energetic, and even peeed. He scratched the door happily, trying to get out."
Zhang Ning's father picked up the conversation and continued.
"The situation at that time was very serious. The news said that people were not allowed to go out, lest their lives and property would be threatened..."
"I thought that walking the dog would definitely not work, but I couldn't keep it at home all the time. After all, it is a husky with a lot of energy. If I don't let it out, it will definitely tear down the house..."
"So your dad just untied the rope and let it go outside to have fun..."
The two of them talked to each other and roughly described what happened in a tacit understanding.
Only then did Zhang Ning understand that the second elder was worried that Shanpao would get bored if he stayed at home for too long, but he couldn't go out to walk the dog, so he simply let the dog out as soon as the door opened and let it walk on its own.
As a result, Shan Pao, a stupid dog, didn't know what happened. He didn't come home for several days after going out. The two elders thought that the husky might have returned to its wild nature. After sighing for a while, they didn't pay much attention to it. They just thought it was released. .
Just when Zhang Ning's parents thought Shan Pao would never come home again, the familiar sounds of scratching at the door and barking of dogs sounded outside the door again.
This husky named Mountain Cannon is back! It was also a bit bigger, like a foal, with its mouth and body covered in dark brown mucus and unknown residue.
In such a panic environment, the two elders were naturally very happy to see their dog returned safely. They didn't pay much attention to the huge changes that had happened to the dog, and took him to the bathroom to wash away the dirt on his body. , and then gave up after a few scoldings.
However, from that day on, Shan Pao had to go out every day. Although he would not be as dirty as before when he came back, his size was growing day by day, until now he was as big as an adult horse.
"Don't you wonder why it grows so big?"
Blinking his eyes, Zhang Ning asked in disbelief.
"Isn't this dog a sled puller? Naturally, the sled puller cannot be a puppy. The bigger the better, of course. Look at how well developed the mountain cannon is. It's almost catching up with the big horse!"
The middle-aged man glanced at the giant dog lying on the side with great satisfaction, showing off his incorrect knowledge reserves just like Zhang Ning remembered.
"So you know what this dog eats outside..."
Zhang Ning's facial muscles twitched, and he glanced at his parents speechlessly, whose hearts were as big as the sky.
"I don't know. Anyway, what I eat is not dog food. It's a pity that the imported dog food..."
Zhang Ning's mother pointed to a bulging dog food bag in the corner, with English words such as "transcendency" printed on it. There was a cute Labrador in the center of the bag, smiling crumpledly at him.
Turning his attention to the mountain gun lying in the corner, the husky saw Zhang Ning looking at him. He raised his triangular ears like pot lids in confusion, tilted his head, and looked at him with brown eyes. stand up.
"Shan Pao, this is the master who brought you home, have you forgotten? What a stupid dog..."
Zhang Ning's father saw his son and the husky looking at each other in confusion. He couldn't help stroking his hands and chuckled. He stood up and scratched the mountain cannon's neck. The big colt-like dog turned over in an instant, revealing its white belly and sticking out its tongue. His face was full of enjoyment, and the fierce look he had at the garbage station was completely gone...
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