Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Abuse, Psychopaths, and—Huh? Why Is the System Bug Back Again!
"Master Zhang, up here is a stray animal rescue station. My first task as a volunteer at the Integrated Media Center is to shoot here."
Song Wanqing responded as she walked.
"So you came to a stray animal rescue station!"
Zhang Lingchuan was a bit incredulous.
Is there such a place in Qing County?
He really didn’t know!!
"Yes, I thought since Master Zhang, you’re a veterinarian, you’d probably like the stray animal rescue station too, so I came along. This mountain is a bit steep, climbing it is indeed tiring. Master Zhang, do you want me to wipe your sweat?"
The weather was very hot.
The five o’clock sun was still blazing.
It didn’t take long for them to sweat.
Song Wanqing took out a small pack of tissues to wipe her sweat, then mischievously smiled at Zhang Lingchuan and asked.
"No, no, I’m not sweating."
Zhang Lingchuan shook his head.
Although he didn’t like climbing mountains, his physical fitness was still good.
"Oh, so if you do sweat, can I help you wipe it off?"
Song Wanqing grasped the tissue in her hand, looked at Zhang Lingchuan, and nodded knowingly.
"Wanqing junior, I suddenly realize you’re quite a conversationalist. Are you like this with everyone?"
Zhang Lingchuan looked at this girl who, on the first day, spoke softly, and on the second day, was shy when they met in the morning, with some surprise.
How come he didn’t notice she was so talkative before?
"No, I only chat well with Master Zhang."
Song Wanqing answered with a smile as she put the tissue back in her pocket.
"Speaking of Wanqing, how much further do we have to walk?"
This conversation couldn’t continue.
Nowadays, juniors are really socially skilled.
He was getting old and couldn’t keep up with the times.
Zhang Lingchuan decided to change the topic.
After all, the road seemed endless.
"Master Zhang, no need to rush; we’ve got a long, long way to go."
After saying this, Song Wanqing couldn’t help but cover her mouth to laugh as she looked at Zhang Lingchuan.
"..."
This girl was a bit playful.
Ten minutes later.
In front of them came the sounds of dogs barking.
"Bump bump bump~, Master Zhang, it’s here~"
Song Wanqing energetically pointed ahead.
Soon, dozens of dogs came into view, white, black, yellow, old, young, all sorts.
"There are so many dogs up here."
On the mountaintop are small houses.
There are many dogs.
Seeing them come, they all gathered together.
"Woof woof woof~"
Each one barked.
Some dogs even wagged their tails and approached Song Wanqing voluntarily, indicating she probably came here often.
"Not only dogs, but also donkeys and alpacas. Master Zhang, look over there~"
Song Wanqing pointed to a direction with a slender finger.
It was a small house on its own.
Two heads popped out, a black-headed donkey and a white-headed alpaca with a flowing hairstyle.
"Wow, I’m a native of Qing County but didn’t know about this place, Wanqing, do you come here often?"
There were free-roaming dogs and ones kept in cages.
It’s embarrassing to say, but he, as a local, didn’t know about this place.
"You don’t often return home, so it’s normal not to know. I don’t come often either, just occasionally if I have time to check on these little ones."
Song Wanqing replied.
She’s been in Qing County for half a month and has come here three or four times since the interview.
"I see, I quite like it. When I was at school, I often went."
Zhang Lingchuan nodded; he was indeed interested in the stray animal rescue station and used to visit when he was at school.
"I actually met Master Zhang before. Let’s show you around, and let’s shoot a video while we’re at it. Later, we can title it ’Roaming Around the Stray Animal Rescue Station’ for exposure and influence."
Song Wanqing laughed and led the way, also taking out her phone to film.
"Huh?!!"
Zhang Lingchuan paused.
The other party has seen him before? And is filming here for material??
"Master Zhang, this is One-eyed Yellow, this one’s named Xiaobai..."
Before Zhang Lingchuan could react, Song Wanqing already started filming, introducing each one like a tour guide.
Without realizing it, they walked for a few minutes.
"Huh, the TV station folks are here again."
Passing by a small house.
A man with a square face spoke with a smile.
After the Integrated Media Center interviewed, Song Wanqing occasionally came with colleagues, and over time, got to know the rescue station’s chief.
"Station Chief Wu, what’s up with these dogs?"
Song Wanqing curiously asked as she saw the square-faced chief holding tools.
"Sigh, a few dogs got bitten, and some previous wounds got infected. I’m treating their wounds, but the most difficult one is this one just brought in. I don’t know which heartless person cut two gashes on its back and then tossed it out to fend for itself."
The chief’s name was Wu Fang.
This moment, he pointed with a sigh at the corner where there was a dog drinking water, struggling for survival.
For their stray animal rescue station, injured animals were common, but human-inflicted skinning incidents were truly rare.
"What kind of person did this? Pure psychopath, it’s so vicious!!"
Song Wanqing focused her gaze on the corner, where the skinned dog was, rapidly becoming furious.
If you want to kill it for meat, do it quick. This kind of bloody torture of a creature is just monstrous!!
"Sigh, it’s about killing, not torturing. I also don’t know what kind of person. A passerby pitied it and sent it to the rescue station, hoping I could save it, but honestly, it’s very touch and go."
Wu Fang sighed, being halfway-trained as a veterinarian himself.
"Station Chief Wu, do you have a medical kit and stitching materials? Let me treat it."
He wasn’t a dog lover and didn’t disdain people who ate dog meat, as dogs were a person’s property, but such cruel skinning abuse was something no person could do.
Be it dogs, cats, or other animals, anyone who enjoys abusing animals for self-satisfaction is quite clearly a psychopath.
After all, what normal person has this mindset?
"Yes! Station Chief Wu, Teacher Zhang is a veterinarian, and he’s really skilled! Leave this dog to him!!"
Song Wanqing’s eyes lit up.
Maybe Master Zhang could save it.
"A veterinarian! I have all the tools here!"
Upon hearing this, Station Chief Wu immediately made room for Zhang Lingchuan and took out a medical kit.
Gloves, masks, tools were all neatly laid out.
Though it wasn’t as refined as his own medical kit, it had all the basics.
Zhang Lingchuan gave the dog anesthesia, then treated the infected wounds.
Following that, he grabbed a needle and stitched the skin.
Needless to say.
This psychopathic entity did such inhuman things.
The cuts made two strokes along the dog’s spine on its back, then from the dog’s rear, a rounded cut.
The whole wound formed a cross shape.
The skin was also flipped like a peeled orange.
There was even a hernia dragging it, like a tumor, pulling towards the ground.
The entire scene looked very bloody and terrifying.
He also performed a hernia surgery for it.
The time unknowingly reached six-thirty.
"The stitching is really neat."
At this moment, the terrifying dog had been treated to a normal condition, its skin stitched together.
Song Wanqing used tissues to help Zhang Lingchuan wipe his sweat.
Station Chief Wu couldn’t help but exclaim.
As expected of a professional, this dog would survive.
[Congratulations, Host, for completing Wound Cleaning and Dressing Skill +1.]
[9/100]
Six forty.
Just as Zhang Lingchuan finished the entire process, he was surprised to find a system prompt suddenly appearing before him.
"Huh???"
He was momentarily stunned, what’s going on!!
Hadn’t the system already upgraded and fixed the bugs?
How did Wound Cleaning and Dressing Skill +1 appear!!
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