After concluding his conversation with the pet store owner, Gu Yi placed Ye Zhizhou into a small cage. He then lifted the cage and got into a black car parked at the door.
Ye Zhizhou numbly raised his paw to scratch at the dog tag around his neck.
"Be good," the cage door opened, and a slender, strong hand reached in, roughly pushing his butt aside to retrieve a glass bead hidden underneath him.
Ye Zhizhou howled and stood up, biting down on the sleeve of the hand. "Woof woof woof (What do you want to do to my precious bead)?"
"Six days to the toilet."
He silently let go of the sleeve and used his paw to scratch at the hand.
Gu Yi patted his little head and waved the glass bead in front of him. "Do you like this?"
Ye Zhizhou lunged forward, grabbing the hand with his mouth, trying to snatch the bead back.
"It seems you really like it," Gu Yi returned the bead to him and patted his head. "No going to the toilet in the cage." After saying this, he placed him back in the cage, fastened his seatbelt, and started the car.
Ye Zhizhou sighed in relief and quickly stashed the glass bead into the small space on his furry paw. Once he was sure Gu Yi wouldn't bother him again, he opened his system data and focused on the plot of the world's destruction.
After the protagonist and the male leads became happily settled in their businesses and their superpowers grew stronger, three years later, the protagonist's ability suddenly upgraded to the point where he could detect if others possessed superpowers. The world's gates to superpowers opened, and he was surprised to discover that all the male leads had superpowers, but they were unaware of it themselves. Gu Yi's power was hypnosis, though it was weak and could only affect small animals. Wu Kaien had super speed, somewhat underwhelming. Shi Jianwen had the power of voice, making people naturally like him when they talked to him. Wen Jiahan had the ability of appraisal, also weak but quite useful. Xiao Rui's power was restoration, perfect for his job in repairing artifacts. Chang Yao had the power of purification, making the air fresher in his presence.
After their initial shock, the protagonist was overjoyed. He wasn't alone; there were awakened superpowers all around the world. He enthusiastically shared this discovery with the male leads, and they eventually accepted their abilities, starting to train based on the protagonist's guidance.
Five years later, the male leads' powers grew, and the protagonist's power upgraded again. To celebrate, the protagonist arranged a honeymoon trip for them to enjoy. They traveled across half the globe, having a blast, unaware that a secret organization with superpowers had been monitoring them.
On the last leg of their honeymoon, the protagonist took the male leads fishing at sea, only to be ambushed by the long-planned superpower organization, leading to a desperate situation. The protagonist and the male leads fought with all their might but, realizing they couldn't escape, decided to detonate their powers, sacrificing themselves along with the organization members.
Ye Zhizhou: "..."
The explosion from the superpower detonation triggered a tsunami, which led to the death of a certain country's visiting president. Combined with a video Gu Yi uploaded before the explosion, the truth about the existence of superpowered individuals in the world was revealed to the public.
The world fell into chaos overnight as more and more people discovered their own superpowers, honed their skills, and became elite members of various industries. However, as the fervor for superpowered individuals waned over the years, ordinary people began to feel resentment as their livelihoods were encroached upon. Class tensions grew, leading to war a century later. After a hundred and fifty years, the accumulated energy released by superpowered individuals disrupted the Earth's magnetic field, causing natural disasters and eventually the world's destruction.
The screen continued to faintly flash, and Ye Zhizhou looked at Gu Yi, who was driving seriously. He felt a calmness akin to being struck by lightning. It made sense; how could a hellish mission world be a normal one? He should have realized that, given the nature of the plot, turning him into a dog was just not enough...
[Plot change detected. Please accept the new plot, Host.]
"..." He hadn't even done anything yet, and the plot was already changing.
With a dog's face, he made a resigned expression, tilting his head to look at the changing screen.
In the new plot, Gu Yi was accompanied by a scheming dog. This dog was all sorts of mischievous and even bullied the pitiable protagonist. And then, the story ended with the dog being abandoned by Gu Yi due to its aggressive behavior and eventually meeting a tragic end at the hands of a dog thief.
How much malice did this world hold for him? He had already been turned into a dog, and it still wouldn't let him off!
"Tongtian, let me guess. Initially, you arranged for me to have Qin Shuhou's body, didn't you?"
[Host is astute.]
Indeed, whether it's a human or a dog, he won't have a good ending. The heavens must have had it in for him.
The car stopped in front of a villa, and Gu Yi took Ye Zhizhou out of the cage and placed him on the grass in front of the villa. He turned to look at a corner of the yard with a rose-covered wall and said, "Jian Hua, I'm here."
After hearing this name, Ye Zhizhou hesitated for a moment and tilted his head. Jian Hua? Wasn't that the frail brother of Shi Jianwen, Jian Hua? Gu Yi actually knew the Shi family? He turned his head in confusion and saw a white ball suddenly rush out from behind the rose wall, followed by a handsome man in a wheelchair.
"Bark! Bark! Bark!"
The white figure quickly approached and then abruptly stopped, causing Ye Zhizhou, who couldn't move out of the way in time, to tumble over.
"Woof! (Where did this crazy dog come from?)"
"Woof! Woof!"
"Woof! (Get lost, you annoying dog!)"
"Woof! Woof! Woof!"
Ye Zhizhou endured the harassment of the white dog with a disgruntled expression, then used his paw to fiercely strike at the other dog's face.
"Howl!" The white dog yelped and quickly ran behind the handsome man, poking its head out cautiously to watch Ye Zhizhou.
Seeing this, Gu Yi smiled and crouched down, taking a dog biscuit out of his pocket and offering it to Ye Zhizhou. He patted his head in reward and said, "Xiao Qiang, well done."
Ye Zhizhou let out an exasperated breath and turned his back to Gu Yi. He had had enough of this absurd world!
Gu Yi turned him back around and continued to offer the biscuit. Ye Zhizhou turned his back to him again.
"That's a teething biscuit. He's too small to eat it now," the handsome man in the wheelchair said as he approached, bending down to pick up Ye Zhizhou and patting him. He then looked at Gu Yi and asked, "When did you buy him? This puppy probably hasn't been weaned yet."
"This morning," Gu Yi put away the biscuit and patted Ye Zhizhou's head again. "I happened to see someone selling puppies on my way to work, and I remembered you have a similar breed here, so I bought one. This one is the skinniest of the bunch, but I have the money to fatten him up."
The handsome man gently pinched Ye Zhizhou's ear and lowered his gaze. "I have money too."
Gu Yi looked puzzled. "What?"
"I'll take care of him," the handsome man said, removing the dog tag from Ye Zhizhou's neck and hugging the dog closer to his chest. "I like him, and I want to raise him."
Gu Yi frowned. "But he's my son, and yours is over there." He pointed to the white Samoyed squatting beside the handsome man's wheelchair.
"That one was bought by Jian Wen, not me," the handsome man replied, looking at Gu Yi with a sincere expression. "We've been friends for over a decade, and you won't even give me a dog?"
Gu Yi raised an eyebrow. "Shi Jianhua, don't be shameless."
Shi Jianhua turned his head, hugging Ye Zhizhou tightly in his arms, determined to carry his shamelessness to the end.
Ye Zhizhou stiffened in Shi Jianhua's embrace, his psychic power uncontrollably surging. Was this his lover? The familiar dominant attitude and the scent of mint...
[Warning! Warning! Host, please remain calm for the mission! Host, please remain calm for the mission!]
He was startled, quickly retracting the psychic power he had extended toward Shi Jianhua's mind. His heart sank. No, there was no psychic power on Shi Jianhua; this wasn't right. After his lover regained his memories, his psychic power became even stronger than his own. It was impossible for him to arrive in a new world without awakening his psychic power. But what about this familiar scent of mint and this dominant attitude that emerged upon seeing him? Could it be that his lover in this lifetime had played with him again?
[Scanning the soul state of Shi Jianhua... Scanning complete. Body and soul match 100%, no abnormalities.]
100%... Ye Zhizhou stared at the screen with wide eyes, his mind instantly in chaos. Such a high matching percentage meant only one thing: Shi Jianhua was the original inhabitant of this world! His lover couldn't follow him through reincarnation methods since the previous world, so he had to borrow someone else's body...
He moved his hind legs and hopped out of Shi Jianhua's embrace. He then tried to sniff the minty scent on Shi Jianhua's body, his tail drooping with a touch of sadness. This Shi Jianhua probably wasn't his lover. First, he had turned into a dog, then Tongtian became a ball, and now, there was this guy who looked like his lover... If he had recklessly probed the other person's mind and accidentally harmed or made this possibly-not-his-lover Shi Jianhua mentally handicapped...
Thinking of this, he was suddenly horrified, and his fur stood on end. Foreign forces harming native humans could lead to divine retribution or obliteration. That was way too close! Furthermore, in the previous world, his lover had mentioned that the Soul Flag seemed to have become aware of his existence as a variable and might try to deal with him. Could all the strange and frustrating things that had happened to him in this world be the result of the Soul Flag intentionally causing trouble? Now that he had turned into a dog, where was his lover? Could his lover also have been targeted by the Soul Flag and turned into something strange and bizarre?
Suddenly, his body was lifted, and a warm hand pressed down on his back, flattening his ruffled fur. "Xiao Qiang, don't be timid. Rest assured, no one can take you away. You can only belong to me."
Ye Zhizhou blinked, then quickly lifted his head and stared with wide eyes at Gu Yi, who was looking down at him. He let out a panicked bark, "Woof! Woof! Woof! (This familiar dialogue, what on earth is happening in this world?)"