Chapter 67: Pat the Dog’s Head

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Chapter 67: Pat the Dog’s Head

Hua Yu jumped from the balcony into the room. The crisp click of her high heels was instantly muffled by the soft carpet, but Mu Yanxiao only tensed up even more. At that moment, Lin You, who had been hiding his head inside his shell, slowly poked it back out. When he saw the person across from him wearing a faintly mocking smile, he shuddered and quickly pulled his head back in.

“Linlin? Don’t be afraid. It’s alright.”

Hua Yu raised an eyebrow at the handsome young man across from her, who was clearly on guard. Compared with her own foolish son’s utterly spineless behavior, this boy at least showed some backbone when facing her. However, if that was all he had, it was still far from enough.

“Perhaps you didn’t hear what I said earlier? Your attending physician should have already told you that, given your current condition, you have only a little over a month before that fragment leaves you in a permanent vegetative state or severely mentally impaired. Even if you choose surgery, the success rate with current medical technology is less than one percent. So, do you understand what you’re refusing? Meeting me is a blessing you’ve accumulated over several lifetimes. Young man, compared to this pet of unknown origin in your hands, shouldn’t your own life be a hundred or even a thousand times more important?”

As she spoke, Mother Lin plopped down on the plush sofa, narrowing her eyes as she waited for Mu Yanxiao’s answer while shooting her foolish son a fierce glare. Young Master Lin You felt an enormous amount of pressure.

In their family, whether it was a major matter or a minor one, Mother Lin usually had the final say. Although she sometimes believed it was better to let things take their natural course and rarely interfered, whenever Mother Lin personally stepped in, it meant there was almost no room for negotiation.

Lin You shifted uneasily.

Then he felt someone gently stroke his back in comfort.

“…You’re wrong. To me, his life is as important as my own, or even more important. I don’t care what grudge you have against him. I will never do what you say.” Mu Yanxiao’s expression and voice were ice-cold. “What exactly do you want? Just tell me. As long as it doesn’t harm him, I’ll do my best to help you.”

Hearing this, Hua Yu ground her teeth. This stubborn brat! Even if he was handsome, she couldn’t bring herself to like him anymore!

She gave a light snort. “Fine. Didn’t I already tell you? He stole my treasure. It’s worth a fortune. Since you want to protect him, I want thirty percent of your company’s shares.”

Lin You sucked in a breath.

Talk about asking for the moon! I bet Mom doesn’t even realize how much thirty percent of those shares are worth!

Lin You was just about to give his mother a look telling her that was enough when he heard his foolish master agree without even batting an eye.

“I can’t give you thirty percent. Grandpa currently holds fifty percent of the shares, the other dozen or so senior shareholders hold ten percent, and Yanming has fifteen percent. I only have twenty-five percent, and I need to keep five percent available to transfer. How about twenty percent? That should be more than enough to keep you comfortable for the rest of your life.”

Young Master Lin You nearly coughed up blood.

Did you really have to hand over that many shares without a second thought?! Where’s your arrogance? Your domineering attitude? Your numbered corps?! You’re way too easy to bully!

At that moment, Hua Yu was feeling exactly the same way as her son. So furious that she actually laughed, she said, “Why are you so agreeable? I ask for something and you just give it to me? Are you really that stupid?! You don’t even put up a fight. Are you even a man?! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?!”

Mu Yanxiao rolled his eyes when he heard this. He was cooperating by giving her money, and somehow she was still unhappy about it.

“You’ve been here for at least five minutes. I pressed the alarm the moment you came in, but my bodyguards still haven’t made it through the door. This is the nineteenth floor. No matter how skilled an ordinary person is, they couldn’t get up here without alerting anyone. And then there’s what you said about Linlin stealing your treasure. If I’m not mistaken, you’re a ghost or spirit? Since I have no way to restrain or capture you right now, paying you is the obvious choice if I want to protect Linlin.”

“However, I should warn you about one thing. I may be backing down here, but if you break your word and do anything to Linlin, believe me, even if I’m only an ordinary person, ordinary people have their own ways of killing supernatural beings. If anything happens to Linlin, I’ll fight you to the death.”

Mother Lin, Hua Yu: “…”

There were so many things wrong with that statement that she didn’t even know where to begin.

However, the phrase that caught her attention most was “ghost or spirit.” Her eyebrows rose as she said ominously, “Why do you assume I’m some kind of ghost or spirit just because I came looking for trouble with your pet? Can’t I be some kind of goddess?!”

Mu Yanxiao’s reply made Lin You cover his face and Hua Yu’s expression darken.

“If you were really a goddess, would you come all this way to extort an ordinary person over some object? Hah.”

“Since Linlin is a parrot spirit, then are you some kind of old fox spirit or spider spirit?”

Lin You, trembling from head to toe: “…”

Mother Lin was also trembling from head to toe, though whether from anger or laughter was anyone’s guess.

“…Aha… Ahahahaha!! A parrot spirit!! You actually think he’s a parrot spirit!! Lin. Xiao. You! You’re really something! You’ve become a parrot spirit, and you still keep courting death like this?!”

Lin You, the fake parrot spirit, was on the verge of tears.

I never said any of this! What does my blind master’s overactive imagination have to do with me?!

Mu Yanxiao frowned at her words. Why did he feel like something was off?

“Lin… Xiao… You?” Mu Yanxiao repeated with a frown. “Are you calling Linlin?”

Mother Lin rolled her eyes.

Fine. She wasn’t worried anymore about her son being bullied by this Mu kid. He was stubborn, single-minded, and could accept that her son was nonhuman and still protect him so fiercely. At least his attitude passed muster.

As for everything else…

Hehe.

She was an old fox spirit!

An. Old. Fox. Spirit!!!

She finally understood why everyone at the Lin Family ancestral home would grind their teeth and sharpen their knives whenever this brat surnamed Mu was mentioned. She now really wanted to put her twin swords to this damned brat’s neck herself!

“I’m calling for a troublemaker who’s always courting death.” Mother Lin glared at the little turtle sitting uneasily with his head lowered. “Forget it. I won’t hold it against you ignorant youngsters. We’ll have plenty of time to settle accounts later. Just wait. I’ll make sure you suffer then! You brat, your lifeline is too weak. You can’t afford to keep causing trouble. This is your last chance, so treasure it.”

With that, Mother Lin turned around gracefully and flew back out through the window. Lin You stared after his mother as she stood atop a black giant eagle, the corners of his mouth twitching.

Ever since I became a turtle, my luck has been absolutely terrible!

A second after Mother Lin left, the door was suddenly kicked open, and Mu One and the others rushed in with anxious expressions.

“Boss?! Are you alright?! We don’t know why, but none of us could get the door open just now! Shooting it and picking the lock both failed! If I hadn’t been worried about blowing up the entire room, I was about to use a bomb!”

Mu Three spoke between breaths as he stared intently at Mu Yanxiao. Only after confirming that he was completely unharmed and even capable of nodding did he finally let out a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Mu One and the others had thoroughly searched the room. Mu One walked to Mu Yanxiao’s bedside, his expression tense. Even his usually impassive face now showed a hint of uncertainty.

“Boss, the intruder was a woman who looked to be around thirty or forty years old… This… This makes no sense.”

Mu Yanxiao’s lips twitched. He nodded vigorously inwardly.

Not only does it make no sense. She’s not human. How could that possibly make sense?

Outwardly, however, he calmly nodded. “It’s nothing. Just pretend you didn’t see anything.”

Mu Two, Mu Three, Mu Four, and Mu Five all choked.

Holy crap! Boss, did you not see that the ward door is riddled with holes?! The Mu Family’s bodyguards practically fill the entire floor! How are we supposed to pretend we didn’t see this?!

Mu One glanced at Lin You before giving a solemn, helpless nod. “Understood.”

Young Master Lin You felt enormous pressure from that look.

“Alright, tidy up the door and leave, will you?”

While the numbered Mus were busy coming up with all sorts of wild theories about what had just happened, Young Master Mu frowned as he replayed the woman’s words in his mind. Something she had said about Linlin had bothered him.

Although he had sensed genuine killing intent when he called her an “old fox spirit,” he hadn’t felt even the slightest threat from her at any other point. And the words she had spoken before leaving seemed almost like a warning.

Something was wrong.

Very wrong.

There was something strangely incongruous about applying the woman’s words to Linlin. And her reaction when he called Linlin a parrot spirit had been… Suddenly, Young Master Mu’s entire body jolted.

Ignoring the numbered Mus beside him, he lowered his head and asked Lin You, “Was that your relative just now? You’re not a parrot spirit, but a fox spirit?”

Lin You, who desperately wanted to dig a hole and bury himself, was speechless.

It couldn’t be blamed on Young Master Mu for never considering the possibility that Lin You was human. Even if he racked his brain, he would never imagine that someone who had died several times and come back could actually be a perfectly ordinary human. Nor would he imagine that someone who could effortlessly climb through a window to the nineteenth floor could be human.

A spirit made much more sense.

And considering how many forms a fox spirit could take, a fox spirit seemed even more plausible than a parrot spirit.

Just as the atmosphere in the room froze because of Young Master Mu’s question, the sound of a dog barking seemed to come from somewhere nearby.

Mu One and the others immediately went into action and headed outside to investigate, only to run straight into a half-grown husky. The little thing was about fifty centimeters long, with a gray back, white legs, and round blue eyes. It looked exceptionally lively.

Mu One and the others couldn’t help finding it strange. They had the entire floor under such tight guard that not even a fly should have been able to get in, let alone a dog this size.

Could this dog be a dog spirit?!

“What’s wrong?” Mu Yanxiao called out.

Mu One twitched his lips.

“There’s a husky…”

Mu Yanxiao and Lin You both froze.

After waiting nearly a minute, Lin You, the Turtle Immortal, reluctantly scratched Mu Yanxiao’s palm with his claws.

Maybe it was because yesterday’s battle had gone on for too long, or maybe this turtle’s body had simply been too weak to begin with. By now, he was already running out of strength.

And after his mother’s arrival earlier…

Even though Lin You was deeply reluctant to accept it, he knew that this husky that had suddenly appeared was probably going to be his new body. But this dog looked so lively. It certainly didn’t look like it was about to die.

What am I supposed to do? Just have this dog euthanized?

Reality soon gave Lin You a straightforward answer. After Mu Yanxiao allowed the husky into the ward, the dog happily began chasing and biting its own tail. It spun around and around… and suddenly collapsed.

Everyone in the room: “?!”

Ten minutes later, after Dean Ouyang was brought over to examine it, everyone learned that the idiot dog had been born with a heart condition. It had simply gotten too excited playing and dropped dead.

Lin You, “…” I don’t want to be such an idiot of a dog!! What happened to the snow wolf I was promised?! Where’s my majestic snow wolf?!

Mu Yanxiao now realized that this husky that had suddenly run into the ward was his pet’s new body. He was thrilled that his pet finally had a strong body that would make communication easier. At the same time, however, the doubts that had been nagging at him became even stronger.

And with this husky appearing out of nowhere, Mu Yanxiao couldn’t shake the feeling that the woman who had just arrived had come specifically to deliver the dog. The threats and temptations she had used earlier now seemed more like a test.

He suddenly remembered the mysterious person who had appeared when the turtle was delivered and put pressure on him. Mu One had said that when he chased after that person, there hadn’t been a trace of them anywhere.

Mu Yanxiao suddenly sat bolt upright.

He had to investigate Linlin’s background properly. But then another problem arose.

Linlin was a spirit from the Qinling Mountains. How was he supposed to investigate that?

Even that evil Daoist priest who wielded black-purple lightning was easier to investigate than a spirit!

…Evil Daoist priest? Daoist priest?!

Mu Yanxiao suddenly realized that he might have overlooked a very important possibility!

“Whine… Woof, woof, woof, woof!!”

“Awoo~ Awoo~ Awoooo~~”

Just as inspiration struck, the husky’s barking, with its different tones and calls, snapped him out of his thoughts.

The next moment, a furry creature weighing more than ten kilograms bounded onto his bed without the slightest restraint. And beneath his palm, a furry dog’s head pushed itself insistently into his hand.

“Awooooo~”

Mu Yanxiao calmly patted the dog’s head, then turned his head.

“Go get the translator.”

“Woof!”

“And Linlin’s little bag.”

A certain lord who had just become a husky was in high spirits, his tail wagging back and forth like a little broom.

Well, actually, huskies aren’t so bad compared to turtles!

Lin You, now the Dog Lord, rubbed his head against his blind master’s palm, narrowing his eyes contentedly.

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