Chapter 4: Don't Be Sad 4
When I finished my duty and returned to Duoduo Pet Clinic after school, I happened to meet Lu Zhan and Xiao Huihui who had just arrived.
"Lu Zhan, thank you for bringing Xiao Huihui to the clinic today, because Hero is really lonely! I just want to help it!" I clasped my hands together at my mouth and looked at Lu Zhan, thanking him gratefully.
"I also like animals, so it's my honor to help them!" Lu Zhan curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and there was a little smile on his originally icy face, but of course only a little.
"Woof, woof, woof—" Little Gray stuck out his tongue, rushed over and clung to my legs, with a Samoyed-like angelic smile on his face. Because Abaibai was not there, I couldn't understand what he said, but from his expression I could tell that he was very happy to see me.
"Little Huihui, stop making trouble!" Lu Zhan moved the leash in his hand and looked at Little Huihui with a frown. However, Little Huihui did not stop because of Lu Zhan's cold expression. It paused for a moment and then rubbed Lu Zhan's left knee with more intense movements. Its expression was so flattering.
I secretly looked at Lu Zhan. If the scene at this moment was transformed into a cartoon scene, Lu Zhan's face would definitely be full of black lines...
"Let's go in quickly." Just as I was thinking about it, Lu Zhan glanced at me.
Oops, we've been discovered again. Xiao Xiaoduo, you're doomed!
"Okay, come with me!" I pretended nothing happened and took Lu Zhan and Xiao Huihui to the ward where Hero was.
However, can anyone tell me what exactly happened at Duoduo Pet Hospital and why Hero’s ward became like this?
What appeared before my eyes was a bedless ward. The floor was covered with a thick blanket with a blue sky and white clouds and a puppy painted on it. Hero was lying on it, not saying anything and not responding at all, just like usual. Sitting opposite Hero was Bai Xiaocong, who was wearing a Dalmatian jumpsuit and big black-framed glasses. He had his back to us, the tail on his jumpsuit was behind him, and there were two Dalmatian ears on his jumpsuit hood. At this time, he was holding a big bone and talking to Hero: "Hero, this is the most advanced bone, made of the most advanced materials. Dogs can play with it as a frisbee and use it to grind their teeth. Let me tell you, this bone itself contains nutrients that are beneficial to dogs! Even if you can't bite it, you can absorb it by licking it!"
There are many pet toys placed next to Bai Xiaocong, including small balls woven with colorful non-toxic rubber and with bells inside, pet snakes that make sounds for grinding teeth, frisbees with cute squirrels painted on them, and a small ball woven with yellow knots that A Baibai keeps biting in his mouth.
As he bit the toy, Baibai muttered, "Bai Xiaocong is so mean. He has never bought me any toys in such a long time at his house!"
"Wow, it's Abaibai who saved me, Abaibai, I miss you so much!" Xiao Huihui struggled to call Abaibai twice, then broke free while Lu Zhan wasn't paying attention, and ran towards Abaibai with the leash. Bai Xiaocong turned around when she heard the voice.
"Xiaoduo, you...are back."
I watched Bai Xiaocong turn around, originally with a shy smile on his face , but when he saw there was someone else behind me, his expression suddenly became unnatural, and even the tone of his voice changed.
Maybe it's because I feel embarrassed to be seen wearing strange clothes.
"Let me introduce you, this is my friend Bai Xiaocong, Bai Xiaocong, and this is my classmate, Master Lu Zhan!"
"Hello, I'm Lu Zhan." Lu Zhan said to Bai Xiaocong standing at the door.
Bai Xiaocong stood up, pushed up his glasses, and replied in a very calm tone: "I am Bai Xiaocong..."
I watched the two people greeting each other politely but courteously, and I always felt that it was a little weird. If two crows flew by at this time, maybe it would be more appropriate!
The three of us just stood there, Hero lay there silently, Abaibai was licked twice by Xiaohuihui, and hid next to Bai Xiaocong, while Xiaohuihui began to rub against Hero, and kept saying, "Handsome dog, how about we be friends? Let's go on a date!"
Is Master Lu's dog so precocious?
However, no matter what Xiao Huihui said, Hero ignored him.
I walked over to Hero, sighed, sat down, and stroked its head.
"Are you really not going to give us any response at all? What if you can even take us back to where you used to live?" I said this to Lu Zhan, but what I was actually thinking in my heart was - Hero, can you please say something and tell us what you encountered?
"Xiaoduo, I have tried to expand the search range these past two days, but my program can only cover the province at most. It won't work beyond this range. No clues about Hero have been found in the province."
At this time, Bai Xiaocong explained behind me.
I was wondering why he didn't stay at home looking for clues instead of coming here to play with Hero.
"It's okay, let's think of other ways. As long as we think hard, we will definitely find clues about Hero's master." I turned around and comforted Bai Xiaocong.
"Are you looking for information about the dog's owner? Let me try, maybe I can do it!" At this time, Lu Zhan suddenly interrupted.
"But there are no clues, how can we find it?" Bai Xiaocong said to Lu Zhan.
"I have my own way." Lu Zhan looked at Bai Xiaocong, his tone light, then turned to me and said, "Xiaoduo, stand aside. I want to take a picture of Hero!"
After Lu Zhan finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone to take a picture of Hero, while I held A Baibai and pulled Xiao Huihui to hide aside, trying my best to prevent these two guys from making trouble!
After Lu Zhan finished taking the photos, he casually swiped a few times on his phone to upload the photos, then made another call. After a while, he heard Lu Zhan say:
"Uncle, I'm Lu Zhan. I have something to tell you. Please post it on your Weibo. I've already sent you the photos and information. I'm in a hurry, so I can only borrow your name as a famous anchor!"
"Lu Zhan, your uncle is..." I asked curiously after Lu Zhan hung up the phone.
Lu Zhan put away his phone, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said: "Lu Ning, anchor Lu Ning, I asked him to post the photo on his Weibo. With his powerful fan support group, he should be able to help Hero!"
"What? You, your uncle is actually the news anchor Lun Ning that we can see at 7 o'clock every day! Oh my God! He is super famous! He has 30 million fans on Weibo! Wow, that's great, with Lun Ning's help, we can find more news about Hero!" I was so excited that stars almost came out of my eyes.
"Yes, yes, the handsome master is great! The handsome master is the smartest! So Xiaoduo, please be the handsome master's girlfriend!"
Hey, Xiao Huihui, don't always act like a gossipy middle-aged woman. How can a little dog like you make the decision on such matters?
"But if you want to find useful information, you have to filter through all the comments and reposts under the famous anchor's Weibo. Of course, this is up to me - Bai Xiaocong, who is invincible with computers!"
As he spoke, Bai Xiaocong took out a mini tablet from his body like a magic trick. After logging into a certain interface, he sat on the floor and began to type on the keyboard frantically. Because his hand speed was so fast, I could even feel his hands having double images!
After a while, Bai Xiaocong seemed to have written a program and installed it on his computer, then entered the Weibo page. We saw that the famous anchor Lu Ning refreshed a Weibo half an hour ago. The picture was a close-up of the injured and recuperating Hero and its name tag. The content of the Weibo was to help people post a request for help, hoping that people with inside information could provide relevant clues about the dog in the photo.
When I refreshed the Weibo post five minutes later, I was surprised to see thousands of reposts and comments under it.
Because Bai Xiaocong has been refreshing his account, I can see that the post titled "Looking for Hero's Owner" is growing at a rate of several hundred posts per second, and many people on Weibo are outraged by Hero's plight:
"Poor big dog!"
"Which inhuman guy did this?"
"Mr. Lu, has this German Shepherd been abused by its owner? Please contact our Small Animal Protection Association, and we will..."
…
At this time, I was sitting next to Bai Xiaocong and watching him constantly clicking the "Refresh" interface, while Lu Zhan sat elegantly next to Hero. After Xiao Huihui was taken off the leash, he played with a noisy ball, and then rushed to Lu Zhan to ask for a touch and a hug.
Abaibai sat between our two small teams like a wise man, with a small ball woven with colorful thick cotton thread under its front paws. It looked at Xiaohuihui with contempt, as if it was full of disgust!
After waiting for dozens of minutes, the number of reposts 1.35 million, and 2 million. However, among these comments, less than 1% could provide useful information.
"Wow, that's a huge number. Can we search for useful information from here? Is it really possible?" I looked at Bai Xiaocong nervously. Lu Zhan had already used his connections to help. The next step of information screening depended on Bai Xiaocong...
However, Bai Xiaocong gave me another surprise.
As far as I could see with my naked eyes, I saw the screen of Bai Xiaocong's tablet go dark and then turn into an interface that I had never seen when I was surfing the Internet.
On the black background were densely packed white numbers and letters. From what I had learned, there wasn't a single word I recognized.
The numbers on the screen kept refreshing, and Bai Xiaocong's fingers kept tapping on the screen.
"It's probably impossible to do anything in such a short time. I think I should ask my uncle's journalist friends to help me find it!"
At this time, Lu Zhan walked towards us, talking as he walked, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Bai Xiaocong's shout.
"The search is complete! All that's left now are useful information left by the screening program I just wrote!" Bai Xiaocong said as he raised the tablet in his hand above his head and handed it to Lu Zhan as if showing off!
Is this the revenge of genius?
Because of Lu Zhan's disapproval, Bai Xiaocong was unwilling to give in. I don't know why, but I always feel that the relationship between the two of them is not very friendly...
"I think we should take a look first." I pulled the tablet out of Bai Xiaocong's hand, and then invited Lu Zhan to sit next to me. The three of us looked at the selected news on the tablet together...
The screen returned to the original interface of the anchor Lu Ning's Weibo, and under the forwarded comments, there was a ranking based on the number of clues:
OEU: I saw this dog on a certain street. It looked quite old...
The sunset is so beautiful: Poor dog, I live in Lemon Community in × City. My neighbor has a German Shepherd that looks very similar to this one named Hero, and it has been lost for three months. I have some photos of Hero, I hope it will be helpful to you.
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After checking many posts, we found reliable information in a Weibo post with a picture from @露宁主播, whose Weibo name was “The sunset is infinitely beautiful”.
There were a few pictures below that Weibo post. One of the pictures showed an old German Shepherd with a dog tag. I compared them and found that it really looked like Hero!
"Great, we finally have a clue! Bai Xiaocong, can you contact this person? I need his neighbor's contact information!" I said to Bai Xiaocong hurriedly.
After a while, Bai Xiaocong contacted the netizen named "The Sunset is Unlimitedly Beautiful" and asked for the phone number of the house suspected to be the owner of Hero.
I took out my phone, punched in the number on the tablet, and called.
After two connection sounds, a calm voice sounded.
"Hello, I'm from Duoduo Pet Clinic. I found a dog with a dog tag that says 'Hero'..."
Before I could finish, the person on the other end hung up.
I called again, but it turned out to be a busy tone.
"Strange, why can't I get through?" I said as I dialed, but after I dialed, all I got was a busy tone...
"There's a problem!" Bai Xiaocong pushed his glasses and started typing frantically on the screen.
I turned to look at Lu Zhan, only to find that he was also holding a cell phone and making a call.
In the pet ward, Hero still looked like he had lost all hope in life. Xiao Huihui rubbed against Hero, then against Lu Zhan, and then bit the tail of Bai Xiaocong's jumpsuit. Only A Baibai looked at Lu Zhan with his black eyes, then looked at Bai Xiaocong, and then looked at me and said, "Oh, I actually saw a story of two princes fighting for a Cinderella!"
Oh my God, what is Abaibai thinking?
I sat in front of Abaibai, then held it in my arms and rubbed its head with my hands.
Damn Abaibai, I will turn you into a bald dog!
"Hey, Xiaoduo, I found a long Weibo post and I think I know what happened!" Bai Xiaocong shouted at me at this time, and I knew as soon as I heard it that he had found a big clue!
"I just asked a senior who lives in Lemon Community, and I know what happened!" Lu Zhan turned his head slightly to look at Bai Xiaocong. He spoke in a slow and confident voice.
But why do I feel like the two of them are competing?
I didn't think about it any more, but learned the whole story through the results of Lu Zhan and Bai Xiaocong's investigation.
It turned out that the phone number of the owner of the Lemon Community that I just called was indeed the owner of Hero, but Hero's owner was a retired veteran. After retirement, the veteran raised a dog, and they have lived together for more than ten years.
However, the old man was sick and Hero was old too. The family did not have the extra energy to take care of both the old man and a dog, so they sent Hero away. As for why Hero became a wanderer, no one knew.
"This is too much! I must help Hero get justice. I'm going to find that family in Lemon Community. They are so cruel! If one day they can't take care of their own elderly, are they going to abandon them?"
"I'll go with you. My senior is in Lemon Community and he can help us!" Lu Zhan said very seriously.
"I'll go too, I can help!" Bai Xiaocong was not willing to be outdone.
But Bai Xiaocong, before we set off, shouldn't you change out of this strange outfit?
