196: Chapter 196 These dog thieves are too brazen!

The chat in the live stream immediately started scrolling rapidly.

"Another person who lost their dog. Dog thieves are just too rampant these days."

"Don't cry, miss. Hurry up and report it to the police to check the surveillance footage."

"Reporting it to the police is probably hopeless. It's hard to get a case filed for such a petty crime, and those dog thieves run really fast."

"Yeah, the hope of getting it back is too slim."

Su Yun looked at Zhang Chuchu on the screen and tapped his fingers on the desk.

"Don't panic. Tell me the specific situation first."

"Do you have any leads?"

Zhang Chuchu nodded hurriedly, put down the missing dog notice in her hand, and picked up another phone to aim it at the camera.

"This is the surveillance footage I copied from the residential complex's property management office."

"Da Huang is usually very well-behaved. He just plays by himself in the garden downstairs and never runs off."

"That day, I just turned around to throw out some trash. It wasn't even a minute, and he was gone."

The surveillance footage started playing.

Although the footage was a bit blurry, the general situation was clear.

A sturdy Golden Retriever was squatting by the flower bed, sniffing the grass.

A dilapidated silver van suddenly stopped by the side of the road. The license plate area was covered tightly with a black cloth.

The car door slid open.

Two men wearing black masks and baseball caps jumped out.

One of them held a long pole with a wire noose, and the other held a black snake-skin bag.

The man with the long pole moved extremely fast. He quickly walked behind the Golden Retriever and thrust the pole forward.

The wire noose landed accurately around the Golden Retriever's neck.

The Golden Retriever was startled and was about to bark.

The man yanked it back hard, and the wire tightened directly around the dog's neck, lifting half its body off the ground.

The Golden Retriever kicked its four legs in mid-air, unable to make a sound.

The other man immediately opened the snake-skin bag. The two of them worked with extreme proficiency, stuffing the dog into the bag and throwing it directly into the back seat of the van.

The door was slammed shut, and the van accelerated away.

The entire crime process took less than fifteen seconds.

The surveillance footage finished playing, and Zhang Chuchu covered her face, crying her heart out.

The millions of viewers in the live stream were furious.

"Those animals! This is too professional!"

"This is a professional dog-stealing gang! Their movements are so fast; they are clearly veterans at this!"

"A van with no license plate, wearing masks to cover their faces—where are you supposed to find them?"

"Miss, to be blunt, you need to prepare yourself mentally."

"This dog has most likely already been sold to a dog meat restaurant. These kinds of professional dog thieves don't leave any survivors."

"Yeah, it's been three days. It's probably already been cooked."

Seeing these comments, Zhang Chuchu cried even harder.

She pressed her palms together and bowed repeatedly toward the screen.

"Master Su, you can calculate heavenly secrets. Please help me calculate if Da Huang is still alive."

"As long as I can get him back, I'm willing to tip you half a year's living expenses as a gift!"

Su Yun looked at the screen and directly awakened the system in his mind.

"System, check the whereabouts of this Golden Retriever."

The light blue system panel unfolded before Su Yun's eyes.

Data streams scrolled rapidly.

A few seconds later, the information was locked.

[Name: Da Huang (Golden Retriever)]

[Age: 3 years old]

[Occupation: Pet dog]

[Recent Fortune: A bloody disaster. Captured by a professional dog-stealing gang and resold for five hundred yuan to an unscrupulous pet blogger. Its right hind leg was deliberately broken, causing a comminuted fracture. It is currently trapped on a pet hospital operating table, being used as a tool for financial gain, severely injured and near death.]

[Past: Carefully raised by its owner, Zhang Chuchu, for three years. It has a gentle and well-behaved personality. Three days ago, while playing in the garden downstairs of the residential complex, it was forcibly abducted by two men driving an unplated silver van using a wire noose...]

[Future: If not rescued in time, it will die miserably on the operating table due to excessive blood loss and severe infection. Now, due to the host's intervention, it is about to be recovered by its owner and receive proper medical treatment, with hopes of recovery and returning to its owner's side...]

[Sin Value: 0]

[Detailed Crimes: None]

Su Yun looked at the text on the panel, his expression turning cold to the extreme.

He used to only know that dog thieves were hateful for stealing other people's pets to sell as meat dogs.

But he really didn't expect that these internet influencers in self-media, for the sake of traffic and money, would use methods even more ruthless than dog thieves.

Stealing a healthy dog, crippling it, and then pretending to be a good person to rescue it, all while live-streaming to beg for money.

This tactic is truly eye-opening.

Su Yun raised his head and looked at the still-crying Zhang Chuchu.

"Stop crying."

"The dog isn't dead."

Zhang Chuchu jerked her head up, a glimmer of hope erupting in her eyes.

"Really?!"

"Master Su, where is Da Huang?!"

The viewers in the live stream were also very surprised.

"It didn't end up in a dog meat restaurant? That doesn't make sense."

"Was it stolen for breeding?"

"Who cares where it went? It's a blessing that it's alive!"

Su Yun tapped his fingers on the desk, his speaking pace steady and unhurried.

"Your dog is currently in the Southern District of Jiang City, at a pet hospital called 'Life of Pet Love'."

Zhang Chuchu stood up immediately, grabbed her jacket, and was about to run out.

"I'm going to hail a taxi and go there right now!"

"Wait." Su Yun called out to stop her.

"Don't rush off yet."

"Do you have a tablet with you?"

Zhang Chuchu paused for a moment and nodded quickly.

"Yes, it's right on the table."

"Bring it here," Su Yun ordered. "Open that other short video platform and search for an account called 'Loving A-Mao'."

Zhang Chuchu didn't understand what Su Yun was trying to do at all, but she trusted his words implicitly.

She quickly picked up the tablet, opened the app, and entered those four characters.

The search results popped up.

This was a top-tier pet blogger with over ten million followers; their homepage was full of videos about rescuing stray cats and dogs.

At this moment, the account was live-streaming.

The cover of the live stream had an extremely eye-catching title: "Emergency Late-Night Rescue! A Stray Golden Retriever Abused by a Pervert, Life Hanging by a Thread!"

Zhang Chuchu clicked into the live stream.

The tablet screen lit up, and the image was clearly transmitted to Su Yun's live stream.

The background of the footage was the operating room of a very high-end pet hospital.

Right in the center of the frame.

A young man with dyed yellow hair and black-rimmed glasses was wiping away tears in front of the camera.

He was the ten-million-follower internet celebrity, Loving A-Mao.

Behind him, lying on a cold, stainless steel operating table, was a large Golden Retriever.

The Golden Retriever was covered in blood, its originally golden fur matted and filthy with mud and bloodstains.

The worst part was its right hind leg, which was broken at an extremely twisted angle, with white bone shards even piercing through the skin and sticking out.

The Golden Retriever had its eyes closed, emitting extremely weak whimpers from its mouth.

Zhang Chuchu stared intently at the screen.

When she saw the red woven collar worn around the Golden Retriever's neck.

The tablet in her hands dropped onto the table with a clatter.

"Da Huang!"

Zhang Chuchu let out a heart-wrenching scream, covered her mouth with both hands, and tears flooded uncontrollably from her eyes.

That red woven collar was one she had braided herself, and it had a small silver tag hanging from it with the name 'Da Huang' engraved on it.

She absolutely could not have mistaken it.