Xia Maomao and Kong Zhi were in the car.

It was icy and snowy outside, and there were only two of them in the car. The air conditioner was on, and the seats were warm and soft.

Xia Maomao lay on her back in the car with her furry belly exposed, snoring soundly.

Kong Zhi sat in the driver's seat, observing the situation on both sides while listening to Xia Maomao's breathing.

The snow and wind were too strong outside, and Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian were fetching oil more than ten meters away, so their figures could not be seen clearly, not to mention whether there were any wild animals attacking in the distance.

Kong Zhi sat in the car, and did not expect to see anything while on guard, but was just alert out of habit.

In the snow and wind, the roar of animals came with the wind, and the howling sounds came one after another, and it was unknown whether it was a wolf or something else.

Kong Zhi held the steering wheel loosely, ready to meet Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian at any time.

Just as he was concentrating on observing the outside, the furry tips of Xia Maomao's ears moved.

Then, Xia Maomao rolled over and sat up, and there was no sleepiness in his emerald cat eyes. He stood on the seat with his hind legs and the driver's platform with his front feet, looking outside with full concentration.

The expression on his furry cat face was extremely serious.

Kong Zhi noticed his abnormality and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

"Meow." There was hostility.

Xia Maomao looked at the front window that was repeatedly cleaned by the wipers, his ears trembled, and suddenly he stretched out his claws to lower the window.

The cold wind rushed in through the car window, sweeping away the warm air in the cab.

Xia Maomao's pink nose twitched, and he smelled a peculiar odor of wild animals in the strong wind.

The odor was not very obvious, but it was very pungent.

Xia Maomao's cat eyes stared outside, and he quickly realized that it might be the smell of a dog.

Cats and dogs are natural enemies. He might be affected by his beast form and was particularly disgusted by this smell.

"Meow." Xia Maomao turned his head, picked up the pen on the driving platform, and wrote on the open notebook: There is a dog outside

"A wild dog?" Kong Zhi also noticed something was wrong, and stared outside, not knowing whether he was asking Xia Maomao or himself.

He looked at Xia Maomao's performance and knew in his heart that it was most likely a wild dog.

After the catastrophe, most pets became stray animals.

The stray animals that have survived to this day are no less dangerous than wild animals of the same size.

Kong Zhi said to Xia Maomao, "You wait in the car, I'll go down and take a look."

"Meow." Xia Maomao scratched him with his claws, his eyes full of worry.

Kong Zhi turned around and rubbed the cat's head, whispering, "Don't worry, I won't go far, I'll just take a look outside and remind Brother Huo Qu and the others by the way."

Xia Maomao retracted his claws, took two steps on the spot, and watched him get off the car.

After Kong Zhi got off the car, he shouted in the direction of the gas station: "Brother Huoqu! Hurry up! There may be wild dogs coming!"

Xia Huoqu also shouted: "Hurry, there is still oil to be filled, you be alert!"

Kong Zhi: "I am on alert, I will call you if there is any situation!"

Xia Maomao was also on alert.

He had a very sensitive sense of smell and soon smelled that special odor getting closer and closer. The odor was not the odor of a certain individual, but the odor of several individuals. He could distinguish three odors alone.

"Ouch!" Xia Maomao roared, both to remind his brother and to warn the predators hiding in the dark.

Over at the ruins of the gas station, Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian worked together, each holding a pipe and filling the bamboo tube with oil.

The gas station had been abandoned long ago, and most of the pipes were blocked and not easy to use.

The two of them had already tried their best to save time, but their efficiency was still not high.

As the dog smell got closer, both of them smelled it.

Xia Huoqu handed the bamboo tube and oil pipeline in his hand to Yan Xinian, looked outside, and said, "You continue to fill the oil, I will change back to the beast form and see if I can scare them."

"Wait!" Yan Xinian said, "I'd better change back to the beast form. I'm stronger in the beast form and have a stronger shocking power."

"It doesn't matter who changes. I have long hair and am not so afraid of the cold. I can exert my fighting power 100%. I'll do it." Xia Huoqu stuffed the oil pipeline into his hand and said directly, "Don't push each other at this time."

Yan Xinian had no choice but to take the things in his hand and watched him take off his clothes in the ice and snow, and his skin color changed due to the cold.

Fortunately, Xia Huoqu was very fast.

More than a minute later, he had taken off all his clothes and turned into a giant wolf on the spot.

"Roar--!!!"

The giant wolf roared, and the roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, much louder than the sound of a summer cat.

After the wolf roared, the distance became quiet, as if countless wild dogs were retreating.

The giant wolf's beast form was very tall, and he could see far because he stood high. He could clearly see those small black dots hundreds of meters away.

Those small black dots were so dense that it looked like there were nearly a hundred dogs.

Those mutant dogs were much bigger. The giant wolf looked over and saw at a glance that the mutant dog in the front seemed to be the leader. It should be a Chinese yellow dog.

"Roar!" The giant wolf roared again, and his voice was full of warnings.

Yan Xinian understood instantly that the surrounding wild dogs were very close and ready to attack. They could not delay any longer here, otherwise casualties would easily occur. Yan

Xinian acted decisively, hung up the oil pipeline, picked up the two bamboo tubes, and said, "It's almost done, let's get back to the car and leave this place."

"Woo." The giant wolf nodded, roared again, then picked up his clothes and walked back to the truck with Yan Xinian.

Yan Xinian held the bamboo tubes and said to Kong Zhi who was standing outside the truck, "Kong Zhi, you drive. Your brother Huo Qu and I will go to the back and put the oil in. We will change our destination and find another place to stay overnight."

"Okay!" Kong Zhi said, "You guys get on first, I'll drive now."

Yan Xinian went back to the back of the truck, put the two bamboo tubes filled with oil in the wooden box, covered it, and then turned to look at Xia Huo Qu.

Xia Huo Qu had also changed into a human form and got on the truck.

He only had time to put on his pants. He was so cold that his arms were covered with goose bumps and his fair skin was frozen purple.

Yan Xinian quickly helped him put on his shirt, found a pair of hand warmers, and applied three to him in one go. He wanted to apply more, but he refused, "Use sparingly, I just need to drink some hot water."

Kong Zhi, who was in front, had already started driving.

Hearing the conversation in the back, Kong Zhi raised his voice and asked, "Brother Huoqu, are you okay?"

"No, everything went well." Xia Huoqu asked, "What happened in front of you? Can you see the traces of wild dogs?"

"Yes." Kong Zhi said, "They are watching from a distance. I have to drive faster, otherwise these mutant dogs may ambush us."

Xia Huoqu had no objection, "Be careful."

Now there was ice and snow everywhere, the road was very slippery, and there were wild dogs watching closely. Kong Zhi drove very carefully, and all the muscles in his body were tense.

Summer Cat watched from the side, also staring intently outside, with the tips of his ears twitching from time to time, concentrating on analyzing the movements outside the car. As

their car drove forward, they were getting closer and closer to the group of wild dogs.

Summer Cat originally thought that the mutant dogs should look ferocious, but to his surprise, these dogs were dirty and mutated in different ways, but their eyes were relatively peaceful.

The difference between the eyes of crazy dogs and ordinary dogs was too great, and Summer Cat could tell at a glance that these wild dogs didn't seem to have much malice.

Most of the wild dogs outside the car were purebred dogs, mostly medium-sized dogs.

Summer Cat thought of the dogs that his neighbors had kept before the disaster.

The eyes of these wild dogs seemed to be similar to those of the dogs before the catastrophe, and they looked quite friendly.

"Meow?" Xia Maomao observed for a long time, tilted his head to look at Kong Zhi, jumped onto the driver's seat, and wrote with a pen in

his mouth: The dogs have no ill intentions? Kong Zhi took the time to scan his words while driving, "What does the dog have no ill intentions mean?"

Xia Maomao wrote: The eyes are not fierce

Kong Zhi was concentrating on driving and could not communicate much, so he simply shouted to the back: "Brother Huoqu, Xiao Nong said that these dogs blocking us are not fierce, and they seem to want to communicate with us!"

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian looked at each other.

Yan Xinian knocked on the car wall and asked, "What do you mean by communicating with us? In this winter, dogs are reluctant to come out except for hunting, right? Are they just wandering around in large groups?"

Kong Zhi looked at Xia Maomao.

Xia Maomao shook his furry cat head. He didn't know either.

Xia Huo said, "After the catastrophe, the IQ of mutant animals has improved. Dogs are human-like and should be able to understand us now. How about I go out and talk to them?"

Yan Xinian was anxious, "How can this be done? What if Xiao Nong guessed wrong? At most, we can drive slower, stick our heads out, and ask those dogs what they want to do?"

Xia Huo said, "It's okay to ask. Kong Zhi, drive slower, move closer to the mutant dogs, and I'll go and ask."

"Okay!" Kong Zhi said, "Brother Huoqu, be careful. If there is any movement, I will step on the accelerator immediately."

Xia Maomao: "Meow!"

Xia Huoqu heard his brother's cat roar and said, "Don't worry too much. Generally speaking, we have the advantage. As long as we are not surrounded, there shouldn't be any big problems."

Xia Maomao: "Meow."

This means to remind them to be careful.

Xia Huoqu stuck his head out and looked at the dog more than ten meters away.

It was snowing now and the vision was not very good. He only then realized that the dog more than ten meters away was a little thin, and the ribs could be seen.

Xia Huoqu was shocked.

The most frightening thing in winter is to encounter hungry beasts.

Hungry and crazy beasts have no reason. No matter how disparate the strength of the two sides is, they dare to attack people.

Xia Huoqu said to Kong Zhi in the cab across the car board: "These dogs may be hungry and crazy, be careful and don't get too close."

"Don't worry, Brother Huoqu, I have observed the route." Kong Zhi's voice came from the cab, "Xiao Nong said that these dogs have calm eyes, there should be no problem, let you try to shout."

Yan Xinian took over the conversation, "I will shout."

Xia Huoqu was not very good at negotiation, and he stepped back to make room for Yan Xinian.

Yan Xinian stuck his head out and shouted to the mutant dogs around him in the wind and snow, "Do you have something to ask us? If so, step back a little, don't surround us! We are scared!"

The mutant dogs were ready to move.

After a while, many dogs started to move their paws, and the sound of "woof woof" came one after another. Then, under the leadership of several dogs, the dogs really retreated and gathered together.

In the ice and snow, there were hundreds of mutant dogs gathered and gradually gathered into a torrent.