Chapter 977: Wu Wen and Huang Kaiyu

Being rescued was a good thing.

The bad part was that, barring any surprises, he would be trapped in this tiny place for the rest of his life.

Being confined to this tiny place wasn’t a big deal. The only thing he regretted was that he wouldn’t be able to keep dogs or cats.

His own apartment was too small. Even if he sacrificed every bit of space, he still wouldn’t be able to keep many of the stray cats and dogs.

And if he let them roam free...

Huang Kaiyu thought that the perverts in this apartment would torture and kill every last one of his strays.

Of course, what concerned him most now was the stray cats and dogs he had been raising in the courtyard of the partially demolished area.

Based on what he had found out over the past few days since his release, the animals he’d cared for had scattered like monkeys after a tree fell. It was as though they knew the person who had looked after them was gone forever.

As a result, many of the strays no longer hung around the area. They had run farther away, fleeing the place.

Of course, quite a few had stayed.

Some had been adopted.

But the ones who found homes were mostly the strays with amusing appearances or especially lovable personalities. The majority of the strays Huang Kaiyu had taken in were ordinary local dogs and cats, nothing particularly cute to look at.

So although his murders had made both him and his strays famous, and many cat and dog lovers had come to adopt them or take them to other animal shelters, there were still far too many with nowhere to go.

There was no helping it. These days, even pet cats and dogs were being abandoned. There really was nothing to be done.

So throughout his days in the apartment, Huang Kaiyu had been trying to figure out how he could keep looking after them.

He found Wu Wen, the manager of Building No. 1, and asked if he had any ideas, or whether the apartment had a safe place where he could keep the strays. As it turned out, Manager Wu Wen had the perfect place in mind: the underground space where Old Dog had once kept his large hunting dogs.

Huang Kaiyu had never imagined that beneath the apartment, besides the underground parking garage, there would be such a vast underground space. But when he arrived there,

at first, he was delighted that he had a place to keep the strays. Then a new concern arose. Since it was underground, it was bound to be the kind of place with no direct sunlight, where all the light came from lamps.

And if a group of living creatures were kept all day in a sealed space lit only by lamps,

he feared the strays would become psychologically twisted and go mad.

Manager Wu Wen had accompanied Huang Kaiyu to the underground space. Huang Kaiyu had told him about his concerns and thoughts.

Manager Wu Wen hadn’t known Old Dog. By the time he came to Alice Apartment, Old Dog had already died.

He had only learned about Old Dog because, as the manager, he could read some of the apartment’s stories and history from the past.

So after hearing Huang Kaiyu’s concerns, he told him, “Old Dog could keep dogs here. Why can’t you?”

Huang Kaiyu didn’t know Old Dog either, and had no idea why he’d been able to keep dogs here. Wasn’t he worried they’d develop problems?

But Manager Wu Wen soon figured it out himself. They said Old Dog had raised fierce, large hunting dogs. Those dogs needed to become psychologically twisted, so this environment had been just right for them.

But Huang Kaiyu was different.

Taking everything into account, he offered Huang Kaiyu another suggestion:

“If that’s the case, you could buy some large-breed hunting dog puppies and raise them, training them to guard your strays. That way, when your cats and dogs roam around the apartment, these hunting dogs can protect them if they run into danger.”

Huang Kaiyu felt it really was a good idea. It seemed like the only thing he could do, and the bright future he imagined with this plan was exactly what he hoped for. But another problem soon cropped up.

First, although he had raised so many strays, he was only a little better at it than an ordinary person. Compared with professional handlers, he had never raised large hunting dogs before. He had even less experience or ability when it came to training them to serve as guards.

Second, he knew that many large dogs were aggressive toward other dogs.

Take Golden Retrievers, for example.

They were extremely friendly toward people, but downright fierce toward their own kind.

So he could give this plan a try, but it probably wouldn’t go smoothly. It would take a great deal of time and effort. As it happened, though, Huang Kaiyu was trapped here now, so he had plenty of time.

The live stream room.

Round 34, Day 4.

There were nearly 170,000 people in the live stream room. These night owls began urging the Long-haired beautiful host to start the Day 4 Paid Assassination segment as soon as the time hit twelve, or midnight.

They couldn’t wait to see the resident they had selected kill Yang Qi.

The Long-haired beautiful host was still hosting from the studio at this hour.

As the host of this live survival game, she had to look beautiful and polished.

That meant wearing a full face of makeup. She normally had terrible dark circles under her eyes from the severe lack of sleep caused by hosting the program, but now they were perfectly concealed beneath layers of cosmetics.

She quickly did as these demanding viewers wanted and started the Day 4 Paid Assassination segment.

Once the feature was activated, she temporarily left the studio.

Apart from the spot in the middle where she stood, bathed in a beam of light, the rest of the studio was pitch black. After leaving the dark studio and opening the door, she found a brightly lit corridor that was as bright as day.

She followed the corridor to the restroom and stayed there for more than ten minutes.

Then she followed the corridor to another room.

She knocked on the door, producing a series of thumps.

A voice came from inside. “Come in.”

She opened the door and went inside.

The room wasn’t large. It looked like an office, but it had a bed.

A man who looked to be in his forties was sitting in a black leather swivel chair behind the desk, watching the Long-haired beautiful host enter.

He had an ordinary appearance, but one striking feature made him unforgettable: his face was covered in a thick beard, just like Zhang Fei’s.

Besides that, he had rather dark circles under his eyes too.

When the Long-haired beautiful host saw him, she stood in front of the desk and said listlessly, “Brother Iron Axe, could you make a few more suggestions to the people upstairs? I’m the only host for this live game. I really can’t take it anymore. If I host for a few more days like this, I feel like I’m going to drop dead.”

She had repeatedly suggested adding more hosts to the live game. They didn’t even need to arrange multiple shifts; two or three shifts would be fine. At least that way, she would have some time to rest.

But every time she submitted her suggestion, it vanished without a trace.

The man they called Brother Iron Axe smiled. He leaned forward slightly, braced both hands on the desk in front of him, and stood up. He was about a head taller than the Long-haired beautiful host.