The wolfhounds that had been blocking the front of the bus suddenly parted like a tidal wave to either side, revealing a trail. They stood quietly in the snow, watching the seemingly skinny and weak human girl, stepping into their guard range.
Step after step, meter after meter, even though the snow slowed down Su Jishi’s pace, she eventually reached the injured wolfhound.
When Su Jishi got closer, she realized that the wounded wolfhound was very old.
Its fur, like that of other wild dogs, was a mixture of yellow and black, but the fur on its face gradually turned white, and the area around its mouth and eyes was completely white. When people get old, their beard and hair would turn white, and so would animals. Su Jishi estimated that the wild dog was at least ten years old. It wasn’t easy to live to ten years old in such a harsh wild environment.
At first, Su Jishi thought that this pack of wild dogs would protect this wounded dog because this wounded dog was their ‘leader’, but after getting closer she realized that this wounded wild dog was actually female!
The bitch’s eyes were also bright and clear with two-color different eyes. According to its age, it was likely to be the mother of this pack of wild dogs! They used their bodies to shelter it from the snow and wind, even against human-made industrial giants, just to protect its life.
…Nature’s laws of survival were sometimes cruel which could drive the human heart to shake with fright, but also sometimes gentle, it could make people cry.
Su Jishi felt like something soft hit her heart.
Hearing the sound of her approach, the injured bitch raised its head and looked at her.
The surrounding wild dogs instantly tensed up, making low threatening guttural growls. Some of them even bared their mouthful of canine teeth!
Surrounded by so many humongous dogs, accompanied by their ‘stereo-like projected’ intimidation, another person would have already been scared to death. But Su Jishi wasn’t at all disturbed by the outside world. She still calmly looked at the wounded wild dog and repeated over and over again —— “I’m here to help you”.
Dogs had no way of understanding human language, but they could read humans.
This human girl seemed to carry a magical power in her , enough to make the mountains, to make the natural chasms, to make the land and every living creature in the land submit to her feet.
The cold wind blew away her hair, but it could not extinguish the fire in her eyes.
The woman put down her pots of water, took off her gloves, and stretched her hand out to the injured wild dog.
The -40 degrees temperature instantly whisked away the temperature of her palm, and it turned red visible to the naked eye from her fingertips. In just half a minute, her right hand had cooled into a mass of ice.
But her palm remained obstinately stretched out in mid-air, without trembling.
“You can trust me,” she said quietly, “I’m here to help you.”
She looked at bitch, and it looked at her.
Then after an unknown amount of time in that posture, the bitch slowly dropped its neck! It sniffed her with its moist nose, then rested its burning hot chin in Su Jishi’s palm!!!
—— In that moment, it chose to trust the strange human girl.
Because there was a mini camera fixed above Su Jishi’s head, this scene naturally was recorded clearly and synced to the recording tablet in the hands of the Chief Director.
The Chief Director couldn’t contain his ‘gasp’ and leaned on the shoulders of the Chief Producer.The Chief Producer, whose jumpy heart finally settled down as well, was moved to tears, patted the arm of the Director beside him, and exclaimed excitedly, “This section must never be cut!! You must not cut it!! Keep it all for me! Give me the most sensational music! When the episode is aired, I want to send it to Discovery Channel’s headquarters to participate in the ‘Ten Most Beautiful Moments of Man and Nature’ annual selection!”
The Chief Director scolded him furiously, “…You’re so vulgar! All you can think about is ratings!”
Chief Producer: “No! All I can think about are the bonuses! Do you know how much attention the station is paying to this show? Before accompanying you, I was worried that this trip to Koktokay would not be able to sustain the ratings, but now, I’ve already thought about how to spend my year-end bonus this year!”
Chief Director: “… It’s only January and we’ve just received last year’s year-end bonus.”
Chief Producer: “Apart from annual leaves, aren’t bonuses within social animals’ expectations? There’s nothing wrong with looking forward to the end of the year at the beginning of the year!”
The two whispered in each other’s ears in the bus, and Su Jishi, who was surrounded by wild dogs naturally couldn’t hear them.
After gaining the trust of the injured bitch, she began to concentrate on cleaning its wounds and melting the snow and ice.
Netizens often shared videos of ‘outdoor water sprinkling in extremely cold areas’ on the Internet. The hot water would freeze at the moment of contact with the air and turn into ice in the sky. Those videos were by no means exaggerated special effects. In such a cold place like Koktokay, as soon as she unscrewed the thermo pot’s lid, the temperature of the pot began to drop rapidly.
Su Jishi carried two large hot water thermos. She carefully tilted the cup and poured so that the hot water flowed first to the bitch’s injuries, washing away the dirt and blood.
As the bitch was born in a cold place, its coat was very thick and felt like a fluffy, slightly tangled plush blanket. Her hand sank directly into its coat, but she couldn’t even touch its skin directly.
She was able to detect that the bitch’s left hind leg had been completely broken from the impact and was hanging limply there. At the slightest touch, it whimpered and shook in pain. However, she didn’t have any experience of rescuing animals in the wild. She had no way to help fix it. All she could do was to try and provide limited help. The rest all depended on God’s will.
One jug of water was used up, and the other was used to thaw the ice and snow that had frozen the bitch’s remaining limbs.
She controlled the speed a little bit and let the boiled water wash over the thick piece of ice. When she was pouring the water, the wild dogs followed her movements closely. Some dogs stared at her hand, some prodded her with their long noses, and others whined anxiously, like a bunch of kids.
Little by little, as the jug of water gradually poured out, the bitch’s injured leg jerked —— it finally broke free from the snow and ice!
It struggled to stand on three legs, its injured leg curled up in its lower abdomen, but even in such a sorry state, it was still majestic.
It looked enormous when it was lying down, and now that it stood up, it was even more frightening. It was nearly 80 centimeters high at the shoulder, more than a meter long, with a wide muzzle square head, and a pair of blue and dark black pupils that called to mind deeply ingrained and unforgettable memories.
The wild dogs gathered in front of Su Jishi, not one, two…but a whole pack!
So many giant dogs surrounded her, stared at her with their two-colored eyes, and issued low growls.
The hearts of the other staff members who remained in the bus fiercely shrink, and Qin Qiu was even more anxious: “This group of white-eyed wolves. How could they turn their backs to their helper?!”
Fortunately, what everyone feared did not happen —— All they saw was the wounded bitch suddenly tilting her head up to the moon in the sky and howled high into the sky! Under her leadership, one by one, all the wild dogs around the girl all raised their heads and howled at the moon.
The wolf gene was engraved in their bloodline, and this howl was the only way for these animals that couldn’t speak to express their gratitude to the human girl.
Surrounded by the wild dogs, Su Jishi stood quietly in that world of silver light, with arched eyebrows and a gentle smile: “It’s no bother, you’re welcome.”
……
After the wild dog pack dispersed, Su Jishi then stepped on the footprints she formed on her way there and returned to the bus with one deep and one shallow mark.
What greeted her was deafening applause and the cameras in the hands of the Follow PDs.
In a trance, Su Jishi almost thought she was a hero who had completed a mission to the moon.
“Okay, stop surrounding me.” Su Jishi immediately surrendered, “It’s so cold. I’m freezing. I just want to get to the camp now and rest well. Stop taking photos of me anymore!”
Xiao Xia hurriedly squeezed over from the end of the crowd, followed her every step of the way, pressed her into a seat, and busily poured hot water and fed her energy bars.
Su Jishi’s hands were frozen red, as if there were countless small thorns stabbing her skin. Xiao Xia was so anxious that she shoved a hot pack warmer into her hands and went looking for a warm compress.
Seeing her moving like a busy little bee, Su Jishi wanted to pull her back, but somehow, a dark thing suddenly fell out of Su Jishi’s pocket and landed on the ground with a dull sound ‘dun’.
Before Su Jishi could reach out to pick it up, Xiao Xia beat her to it and already picked it up.
“Sister Su, you dropped something…Huh?!!” Xiao Xia rubbed her eyes and carefully stared at the crumpled black lump in her hand. The more she looked, the more familiar the item became…
“What is this?” Xiao Xia asked with a scowl.
Su Jishi replied, calm and composed, “This is a Gobi mud stone. I found it on the roadside when we were leaving the airport. There is no Gobi in Koktokay, but it somehow appeared here. I found it interesting, so I picked it up.”
“—— But you just said it was tiger dung!!!” If there were no other workers on the bus, Xiao Xia would definitely have exploded. You also said-you even said that with it, wild dogs would not dare to go near you!”
Su Jishi wanted to show a ‘sincerely admitting her mistake’ expression, but she inherently lacked the ability to tell lies with her eyes wide open: “Well, if I don’t make an excuse, you won’t let me get off.”
Xiao Xia was about to cry at her audacity: “Sister Su, why are you so bold? Aren’t you afraid you’ll have an accident?”
“There won’t be an accident.” Su Jishi smiled wryly and pulled Xiao Xia’s hand into her trouser pocket.
Inside her trouser pocket, Xiao Xia touched something hard and straight.
Xiao Xia:”…”
Xiao Xia: “…….”
Xiao Xia: “……..”
Xiao Xia: Although I guessed what it is, I still feel very suffocated.jpg
Su Jishi said proudly, “With my big baby around, nothing can hurt me!”
Peek-Aboo 
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