Animal Detective

Chapter 341: Chapter 278: Which Lao Liu Designed This Test?

It was no use complaining.

Shen Xin and the others quickly gathered to discuss their strategy.

Li Yinjiang looked at Chen Ran and asked if he was confident.

Chen Ran glanced at Xiaoba beside him, his head throbbing. He then joked, "Chief, is it too late to start talking about ’friendship first, competition second’?"

"What do you think?"

Li Yinjiang rolled his eyes hard. Gritting his teeth, he tried to console them. "It’s fine. I don’t think it’ll be a huge problem. To be blunt, it’s still just the basics."

Namely, giving alerts, searching for dangerous items, and when a K-9 had to act, decisively attacking and biting the suspect.

It’s just that all of this was being placed in a realistic combat environment.

His words had practically zero comforting effect.

Li Yinjiang then looked to Shen Xin and asked for his thoughts, since Shen Xin was also participating.

Far from being scared, Shen Xin was actually a little excited.

’CQB. What man doesn’t love it?’

After a moment of thought, Shen Xin said, "I think luck is the key."

It was a double-blind test, so they had to draw lots to determine how many suspects and how many hidden dangerous items would be at the competition site.

If they were lucky and drew the easiest scenario, their score definitely wouldn’t be bad.

"Right."

Li Yinjiang’s eyes lit up, and he immediately asked the group who had the best luck.

Everyone exchanged a look, then, in perfect unison, they all turned to Shen Xin.

Chen Ran said, "Shen Xin, you’ve cracked so many major cold cases. Your luck must be pretty good, right?"

Shen Xin’s eyes widened. "Are you guys sure?"

’Could you really call this good luck?’

Thinking back to last year’s drug case and what happened in Huibei Village, Shen Xin really didn’t think his luck was all that great.

He had managed to run into such an impossibly unlucky situation.

But the others clearly didn’t see it that way and unanimously decided to have Shen Xin draw the lots.

Right then, everyone proceeded to draw lots.

Shen Xin, holding the wild card, was considered a separate team.

Lv Yuan explained that there were 14 envelopes in total.

They didn’t detail the specific competition content, only that they were divided into three difficulty levels.

There were only 3 envelopes for the hardest level, 5 for the second level, and 6 for the first level.

And drawing a difficult envelope came with no bonus to the scoring multiplier.

So, just as Shen Xin had said, luck was also very important.

But this also perfectly matched a real combat situation. Sometimes you’re just unlucky and run into more criminals.

The crowd looked at each other, but no one was the first to step forward and draw.

Just as Shen Xin was about to go, Meng Fuqiang from the other side stepped up and drew his lot.

Everyone craned their necks to see.

The envelope was opened on the spot. It was a 3—the highest difficulty.

"Nice!"

Li Yinjiang and the others instantly felt much better.

’That’s what you get for trying to hog all the glory!’

Meng Fuqiang froze for a second, then walked back looking dejected.

Fang Weijie patted someone on the shoulder, signaling for him to go up and draw.

This man was in his thirties. His name was Li Yanfei, and he was the handler for Yige.

Shen Xin had made a point to chat with him earlier. He gave off a very honest and steady impression.

To have trained Yige into a decorated police dog, he must have had incredible patience.

He went up and randomly picked an envelope.

A 1—the lowest difficulty!

Everyone once again silently cheered, ’Nice!’

The group had now agreed: they wanted Peng An’s team to take the lead, represent them, and crush Ningshan.

They would rather let Peng An win the championship than let that old schemer from Ningshan get his way.

With no more hesitation, everyone surged forward to draw their lots.

There was a limited number, and if you were slow, you’d miss out.

Shen Xin squeezed in as well. There were 7 envelopes left. After a brief hesitation, he picked the two that looked most appealing.

Lv Yuan opened them in front of everyone.

A 3!

Shen Xin’s expression changed. ’What terrible luck.’

Li Yinjiang was speechless and covered his face.

Chen Ran didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Shen Xin turned his head, signaling for them to calm down.

’It’s okay. Worst case, I’ll take the difficult one myself.’

Lv Yuan opened the second envelope.

It was another 3.

Even he glanced at Shen Xin with some surprise.

’There were only two highest-difficulty ones left. How did you manage to draw both of them in one go?’

Shen Xin looked at his right hand and walked back, dejected. "See? I told you my luck is really bad."

Li Yinjiang let out a long sigh and said no more.

Before the competition officially began, there was a ten-minute period to familiarize themselves with the site.

This was crucial.

As soon as the timer started, Shen Xin immediately put Tian Kui on the leash and charged into the two-story building with the others.

Concrete walls, floors covered in dust, and rooms everywhere.

The moment he entered, Shen Xin was hit by a smell of decay.

It was also somewhat choking.

Some of the police dogs around him started sneezing.

Wan Chao raised a megaphone, and his voice boomed out, explaining that since the combat environment was simulating a chemical plant, there was an irritating odor.

But he assured them it wasn’t toxic to the K-9s.

But the smell undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the competition.

The ten minutes passed in a flash.

Everyone left the competition area with heavy hearts.

Over on Ningshan’s side, the riot control dog competing was named Mumu.

The name sounded very gentle, but it was all about the contrast—the dog was a fierce and domineering Ronaldo.

His handler’s name was Hou Ben Dong.

Meng Fuqiang hurried over to meet him and asked how he felt.

Hou Ben Dong thought for a moment and said, "It’s alright. We’ve practiced for this, anyway."

Meng Fuqiang nodded in satisfaction. ’There’s nothing like getting the test questions in advance to boost your confidence.’

"By the way."

Meng Fuqiang then pointed to the small group from Nanjiang in the distance and asked, "That dog Shen Xin trained, Tian Kui—did you get a look at him? What do you think?"

Zhao Hongjie had asked for his opinion on Shen Xin’s project.

So he knew the situation: it was a genuine stray, trained for only a month.

Hou Ben Dong’s expression suddenly turned strange. "Hard to say. Its obedience seems very poor."

After entering the site, all the other dogs were hurrying to get familiar with the area.

But Tian Kui just wandered around with Shen Xin.

Of course, Shen Xin was trying to control him, but Hou Ben Dong got the feeling that Tian Kui’s attention wasn’t on familiarizing himself with the site at all, but on the other police dogs.