Chapter 0 (Fa Wang Side Story)

Night. A net ensnared a black dog with a missing ear by the roadside. The next morning, the Bai Er Dog Meat Restaurant's dog cage had one more occupant.

Fa Wang whimpered, tears in its eyes. Why were dogs so unfortunate?

Fa Wang wasn't stupid; it knew it could become dog meat at any time.

Including Fa Wang, there were five dogs in two cages.

Trapped in a cage, Fa Wang didn't want to accept its fate. It was thinking about how to escape.

Bai Er carried a basin of dirty leftovers and shoved it into the cage.

"Woof woof."

The other four dogs, seeing Bai Er, immediately began to bark fiercely.

Bai Er sneered, "I'll stew you sooner or later."

But Fa Wang's face showed a flattering smile, its tongue lolling out stupidly.

Bai Er was amused. This silly dog was a bit small and didn't look good.

The other dogs were ferocious toward Bai Er, but only Fa Wang didn't know Bai Er would be their reaper.

Over the next few days, Bai Er clearly relaxed his vigilance towards Fa Wang. He couldn't imagine a dog acting like this.

The companions around it were replaced one after another. Some dogs ended up on the dinner table, while new dogs were brought into the cage.

Fa Wang kept looking for a chance to escape the cage.

Fa Wang was small and didn't look good. Customers rarely stopped to look at it when ordering.

Whenever customers came to the restaurant and chose in front of the cage, Fa Wang's heart would beat rapidly, trembling for fear of becoming dog meat.

One day, a young couple came to the dog meat restaurant and started choosing in front of the cage.

Only two dogs were left today. Fa Wang was one of them. A one-in-two chance, a fifty percent mortality rate, it seemed.

The other dog looked even worse than Fa Wang.

The young man said, "Well, let's order this black dog. 'One black, two white; black dog is the tastiest.'"

Fa Wang was terrified. "Black dog is the tastiest?" What kind of logic was that?

The woman agreed.

Suddenly, Fa Wang began to convulse all over, white foam dripping from its mouth, its eyelids rolled back. It fell to the ground, looking scary.

The woman was startled. "Is this dog sick? I don't want to eat it."

In contrast, the other dog looked on menacingly.

Fa Wang escaped this disaster.

That night, a few more dogs were brought in.

When it was time to clean the dog cage, if the cage was full of excrement, it would definitely affect the customers' appetite.

Fa Wang grinned and lay on the cage, looking at Bai Er very obediently.

Bai Er smiled and cursed, opening the cage. Fa Wang trotted out of the cage.

Usually, Bai Er would tie the dogs with wire and chase them into other cages, but he turned a blind eye to Fa Wang and relaxed his vigilance.

Usually, Fa Wang gave him the impression that it was stupid, silly, and wouldn't resist.

Fa Wang gained temporary freedom. As Bai Er squatted down, it immediately ran wildly, escaping.

Bai Er cursed behind him, "You damn dog."

On the bustling street, Fa Wang ran without stopping, afraid of being caught.

Its heart was filled with the joy of escaping, but also the confusion of not knowing where to go.

Fa Wang wasn't born a stray dog. It once had a home, but fate was too unfriendly to dogs.

A dog wanted a home.

But who would like a dirty, skinny dog with a missing ear?

In the cage, at least it wouldn't starve to death. The skinny Fa Wang often went hungry outside.

Soon, things changed. The apocalypse happened.

Fa Wang wasn't in the downtown area, but soon a zombie with blood-red eyes and a distorted face pounced on it.

Not to mention a zombie, even a normal person pouncing on Fa Wang like that would make Fa Wang run away.

Fa Wang was startled. What was going on?

"My head hurts so much."

Fa Wang's head began to ache violently. Was the dog dying from some disease?

Fortunately, the pain soon passed, and Fa Wang felt a strange power in its body, but it didn't know how to use it.

Fa Wang seemed to have awakened. Its mind was more agile, and its body was more nimble.

The world was in chaos, with a large number of crazy humans on the streets.

Fa Wang could see that they were crazy, but they were also people. Fa Wang remembered in its bones that it couldn't hurt people.

Fa Wang didn't attack the zombies, even though these zombies pounced on it when they saw it.

Zombies were already clumsy, so how could they catch the agile Fa Wang?

Fa Wang could still crawl through dog holes. Could zombies?

For Fa Wang, safety wasn't a concern, but the problem of food became a big problem.

Before the apocalypse, people always threw away food, throwing leftovers into the trash. But when the apocalypse happened, who would throw away trash?

As long as they weren't stupid, anyone who had something to eat would cherish it and wouldn't throw it away.

Fa Wang had no source of food and often encountered zombies chasing it.

Fa Wang set its sights on a small supermarket that had food inside.

But that was human territory. If it went in to get something, it would be beaten.

Even if there was no one inside, Fa Wang still didn't go in.

One night, after a day, Fa Wang was so hungry that it saw that the original supermarket owner had also turned into a zombie.

Fa Wang hesitated for a long time and decided to go in and get something to eat. If humans didn't allow it, then it wouldn't take it.

Fa Wang mustered its courage and pushed open the glass door of the supermarket.

The apocalypse had just happened, and few people had the courage to come out to look for food. Almost everyone was at home, fantasizing about rescue.

Fa Wang surveyed the area and found the cheapest kind of roasted sausage, one package at a time. It grabbed two and prepared to run out of the supermarket.

At this moment, footsteps sounded. Two men, accompanied by sticks and kitchen knives, entered the supermarket.

Fa Wang was startled, like a thief with a guilty conscience. It hid in the shadows, hoping that they wouldn't find it stealing.

These two men wouldn't be like Fa Wang, taking only a little something. They came prepared, putting item after item into the prepared sacks.

Fa Wang didn't know that the corner it was hiding in was the shelf where the chocolate was stored.

Fa Wang was discovered and cornered.

"Look, there's a dog."

"Damn, what good luck. I happen to have hot pot seasoning at home."

Fa Wang wanted to retreat, but there was nowhere to retreat. "Did I steal something?"

Fa Wang put the roasted sausages on the ground, whimpering, shrinking its ears, wanting to leave.

But the two men blocked Fa Wang's way with their strong bodies.

Fa Wang pleaded, "Let the dog go this time. The dog won't dare to do it again."

A young man was about to smash the stick hard at Fa Wang's body, but Fa Wang dodged it nimbly.

Fa Wang looked terrified, shaking its head.

"Yo, this dog can even dodge."

Another young man greeted Fa Wang with a kitchen knife, which Fa Wang barely dodged.

Fa Wang's body trembled, looking at the kitchen knife. The terrifying memories buried in its heart resurfaced in its mind.

Back then, a woman had used a knife to force it into a corner, stabbing it with the knife and cutting off one of its ears.

Fa Wang roared and slammed into the two men with all its might, wanting to rush out the door.

The awakened Fa Wang was very strong, knocking them open at once, but unexpectedly, one of them grabbed its tail, and the kitchen knife slashed at Fa Wang's body.

Fa Wang didn't feel much pain, but the sad memories of the past became more and more profound.

Fa Wang roared, "Let go of the dog!"

Fa Wang's collision seemed to have angered the two young men, who frantically attacked Fa Wang with their weapons.

"I told you to run, I told you to run."

Its tail was firmly grasped, unable to continue dodging. Fa Wang endured the two men's deadly attacks.

A bolt of lightning flashed from Fa Wang's mouth.

Even a cornered dog will bite.

With a "boom," the two young men fell to the ground.

After being stunned for a while, Fa Wang choked up and said, "Why did you force me?"