173: Chapter 173 The Prototype of Cerberus? Isn't this still an unlicensed, illegally raised, and dangerous dog?

In the southern suburbs of Donghai City.

There was a vast area of abandoned heavy industrial factories left over from the 1990s.

Over the past half month, nearby residents had been frequently calling the mayor's hotline.

Some claimed that in the middle of the night, they could always hear terrifying beastly roars coming from the factory, sounding like lions.

An old scavenger even insisted on calling the police, claiming that he had seen a monster larger than a minivan next to a garbage pile outside the factory area.

The rumors grew more and more bizarre.

The Donghai Public Security Bureau dispatched two police officers to investigate the scene, but as soon as the police car drove into the factory gates, it was overturned by an extremely violent force.

The two officers nearly lost their lives.

The case was directly transferred to the Bureau of Anomalous Affairs.

Eleven o'clock at night.

Gu Changan, wearing a black trench coat, walked into the abandoned factory area, stepping over broken bricks and weeds covering the ground.

Chen Xiaobei followed behind, clutching a tactical tablet, surrounded by dozens of fully armed Special Police officers.

"Director Gu, the energy detector shows strong anomalous biological magnetic field fluctuations in Workshop No. 3 ahead," Chen Xiaobei reported in a lowered voice.

Gu Changan nodded and made a gesture.

The Special Police officers quickly dispersed, moving in a combat formation along the mottled red brick walls to surround Workshop No. 3.

The air was filled with an extremely pungent, fishy stench.

It wasn't the smell of fermenting garbage, but the distinct, musky odor of a large carnivore, mixed with the strong scent of blood.

The large iron door of Workshop No. 3 was left ajar.

A few dim incandescent lights were on inside.

Gu Changan walked to the door and activated the [Eye of Data Insight].

Through the iron door, several lines of red data popped up in his field of vision.

[Host: Gou Sheng]

[System: Divine Pet Raising System]

[Current Energy Rank: D Rank]

[Target Under Cultivation: Mutated Tibetan Mastiff (Has consumed Elementary Evolution Pill, mutation progress 40%)]

Gu Changan peered inside through the gap in the door.

The space inside the workshop was enormous.

Both sides were stacked with iron cages of various sizes, containing hundreds of stray dogs of different breeds.

Some dogs were so thin they were skin and bones, while others had red eyes and were frenziedly slamming against the iron bars.

And in an open space in the very center of the workshop.

Stood a thin, scrawny man wearing a worn-out leather jacket with messy hair.

He was Gou Sheng.

Gou Sheng held a blood-stained whip in his hand, looking fanatically at a behemoth before him.

It was a Tibetan Mastiff.

But it had completely transcended the category of normal canines.

This Tibetan Mastiff stood over two meters tall, was nearly four meters long, and its limbs were as thick as pillars.

Its entire body was covered in black, coarse fur like steel needles, and clusters of eerie, ghostly green flames danced between the hairs.

What made one's scalp tingle the most was its mouth.

Its lower jaw was completely split open, and its mouth was filled with sharp fangs over a foot long.

At this moment, the monster was lying on the ground, crunching away at several pieces of scrap steel rebar as thick as an adult's thigh.

The hard construction steel was easily chewed up in its mouth like crispy crackers.

"Eat! Eat more!"

Gou Sheng watched the chewing scene, sparks flying, and let out a neurotic, manic laugh.

"Once you digest this batch of metal, you will be able to fully advance to having Copper Skin and Iron Bones!"

Gou Sheng spread his arms wide and shouted at the air.

"What conglomerates, what Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, all of them are trash!"

"Once I build an army of Mutated Divine Beasts, the entire underground world of Donghai City will have to bow to me as their king!"

Bang!

A loud bang.

The rusty iron door of Workshop No. 3 was blown away by the Special Police's directional explosive device.

The two iron doors, weighing several hundred catties, slammed onto the concrete floor, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Gu Changan walked in, expressionless.

Dozens of automatic rifles equipped with tactical flashlights simultaneously locked onto Gou Sheng and the Mutated Tibetan Mastiff in the center of the site.

The intense light illuminated the entire workshop as if it were day.

Gou Sheng was stunned for a moment, then an extremely arrogant and fierce glint erupted in his eyes.

"Police?"

Gou Sheng sneered, not only unafraid but actually licking his lips with excitement.

"Just in time, Xiaotian happens to be lacking a few living people to test its teeth on!"

Gou Sheng violently swung the whip in his hand, cracking it in the air with a loud bang.

"Xiaotian! Bite them to death!"

"Let this bunch of ignorant Mortals witness what a true prototype of a Three-Headed Hellhound looks like!"

Roar—!

The Mutated Tibetan Mastiff let out a terrifying roar that did not belong to any canine.

The sound was as loud as a jet airliner starting up right next to one's ear.

Visible sound waves rippled through the air, causing the glass at the top of the workshop to shatter one after another.

The green flames on its body suddenly flared up half a meter high.

Its two-meter-tall massive body, carrying a strong, foul-smelling wind, charged directly toward the Special Police defensive line at the door like a heavy tank.

"Fire!" the Special Police Captain shouted.

Dozens of tranquilizer guns fired simultaneously.

Specially made military-grade tranquilizer needles shot toward the Mutated Tibetan Mastiff like raindrops.

Clang, clang, clang!

A dense sound of metal striking metal rang out.

The tranquilizer needles, which were strong enough to pierce wild boar skin, struck the black, coarse fur on the Tibetan Mastiff and were simply deflected.

They didn't even break the skin.

The Special Police officers were clearly a bit flustered.

This was not a conventional creature at all; ordinary police equipment was completely useless against it.

Seeing that blood-red maw filled with fangs about to bite onto a Special Police officer's helmet.

Gu Changan stood in place, not even blinking an eye.

"It got bigger, and even added some green fire special effects."

Gu Changan sighed.

"But at the end of the day, it is still a dog."

Gu Changan turned his head to look at Chen Xiaobei behind him.

"Chen Xiaobei, play that frequency."

"Received!"

Chen Xiaobei's fingers slid rapidly across the tablet.

The four giant speaker modules on top of the black communication vehicle parked outside the factory instantly activated.

A sound that no human could hear was emitted.

But in the range of infrasound and ultra-high frequency, an extremely sharp audio frequency cut directly into the entire Workshop No. 3 like an invisible blade.

An ultra-high frequency dog whistle sound.

The frequency was tuned to the maximum power of 100,000 Hertz.

The "Hellhound" that had been wildly violent and opening its maw to slaughter just a second ago.

The next second, it felt as if its head had been smashed hard by a large iron hammer.

Whimper—!

The Mutated Tibetan Mastiff let out a miserable, piercing wail in mid-air.

Its massive body fell directly from mid-air to the ground.

The huge inertia caused it to slide over ten meters forward on the concrete floor, crashing heavily into an abandoned machine tool.

This Divine Beast, which claimed it would tear everything apart, was now clutching its ears tightly with its two front paws.

It rolled frantically on the ground, its head constantly slamming against the floor.

The green flames had long since extinguished.

It kept foaming at the mouth, its tail tucked tightly between its hind legs.

The manic laughter on Gou Sheng's face froze completely.

He stared blankly at the Mutated Tibetan Mastiff suffering in agony on the ground, his mind a complete blank.

How is this possible?

This is an Elementary Divine Beast produced by the System!

How could it suddenly collapse when it had Copper Skin and Iron Bones that didn't even fear bullets?

Gu Changan walked to the front and brushed the dust off his trench coat.

"Surprised?"

Gu Changan looked at Gou Sheng, his voice flat.

"Your System might have only taught you how to feed a dog, but it didn't teach you basic biological knowledge."

"No matter what kind of messy Evolution Pills you fed it, changing its size and appearance."

"Its auditory nervous System still belongs to the structure of a canine animal."

"The auditory sensitivity of canines is forty times that of humans."

"This high-intensity directional ultrasound is, to it, equivalent to ten thousand needles stabbing its cerebral cortex at the same time."

Gu Changan pointed at the Tibetan Mastiff rolling its eyes on the ground.

"It currently feels like its head is filled with a clanging, broken gong."

"This is what we call biological physical suppression."

Gou Sheng gritted his teeth, intense, frenzied bloodshot veins appearing in his eyes.

Not only did he not surrender, but he reached his hand into the pocket of his worn-out leather jacket.