Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 458 Keep it up, Beibei!

Despite Li Siyu's attempts to persuade her, Gu Peiyao insisted on paying the fees at the childcare center and reserving a room.

She seemed somewhat afraid of being helped by others. Even when Li Siyu told her to hurry up and go to school, offering to help her settle her bedding and other personal items in her room, Gu Peiyao stubbornly refused.

Gu Peiyao didn't seem to be skipping class for the first time, or perhaps the rules for senior high school students were more relaxed in this regard; in any case, she had skipped evening self-study yet again. This time, of course, she was very happy to escape, her face beaming with a smile of liberation. Even though it was just a cheap home textile shop, she chose her items very carefully, occasionally exchanging opinions with Li Siyu, as if she were treating her room at the after-school care center as her own free home for these few short months.

Li Siyu reported this to Nie Guoqiang, who nodded but didn't say much. However, in the following days, the female owner of the after-school care center would remember to pack some dinner for Gu Peiyao to eat as a late-night snack after her evening self-study session.

A few days later, when Lin Ge visited Longquan Middle School again, he found that the relaxation corner had been quietly installed again. However, this time it was located against the wall in the main hall on the first floor of the teaching building, next to a glass cabinet containing fresh vegetables and other items. During breaks, students could choose to feed the rabbits and pheasants, or simply peel vegetable leaves to play with, or search for the squirrels hiding deep in the pine trees on campus.

In any case, every activity was interesting and fun for these students who rarely had time to rest. Even a few cabbage leaves could keep them entertained for hours, and they would wipe them clean and hang them on top of the rabbit cage.

This height was a bit difficult for the rabbits; they could only jump up and struggle to bite it, either biting a little bit or pulling the whole leaf down. But every time they jumped, it made the students burst into laughter, even though this childish activity was completely inappropriate for their seventeen or eighteen years old.

Lin Ge would occasionally take a few cats for a stroll on campus, but the frequency gradually decreased. With the police dog skills competition approaching, Lin Ge had received a troublesome task. He had to work with Sun Chang to urgently improve the skills of police dog Bei Bei, including but not limited to sniffing drugs, explosives, and bloodstains, as well as mountain off-roading and combat techniques. Nie Guoqiang had temporarily obtained some small quantities of drugs and explosives from the city bureau, requiring Bei Bei to memorize all their scents within a short period. Running, sprinting, fighting, and biting were handled by Sun Chang, while Lin Ge was responsible for training bloodstain tracking and evidence searching.

"Beibei! Come on, charge!"

Sun Chang, wearing arm protection, stood a few meters away, gesturing for Bei Bei to swat. Bei Bei needed to bite precisely onto the arm protection with each attack, rather than randomly targeting vital areas. It's said that police dogs in China aren't allowed to bite vital parts, and it's rumored that military dogs are also prohibited from doing so. Lin Ge couldn't say whether this was right or wrong, but the human world is definitely human-centered, that much is certain.

"Wang!"

With its tail slightly raised and tongue lolling out, Beibei lunged at Sun Chang at her command. The sight of such a large dog lunging at a person was quite intimidating. Sun Chang's face turned somewhat pale, but she calmly raised her protective gear slightly to shield her face.

With a muffled thud, Beibei bumped into Sun Chang and stumbled back two steps. Both man and dog staggered, but Beibei's big mouth remained firmly gripping the protective gear, and it shook its head violently, tearing at it, making Sun Chang's expression slightly uncomfortable.

The protective gear was a thick, sturdy armband. Beibei's teeth certainly couldn't bite through it, but the tearing still caused Sun Chang's arm considerable pain. Add to that the force of such a large dog lunging at him—enough to subdue a criminal—the impact was naturally significant. And dogs aren't always completely obedient; it was common for their paws to accidentally bump into Sun Chang. Often, by the end of the day, Beibei was exhausted, and Sun Chang had large bruises all over his body and legs.

Even so, Sun Chang did not choose to back down.

The Hubei Provincial Police Dog Skills Competition is not just about winning, but also a platform to showcase skills and training results. Since they've participated, they must perform well; and as police dogs, they must at least meet the required standards.

"Phew... Beibei, take a rest!"

After two more training sessions, Sun Chang was exhausted and finally couldn't take it anymore. She gestured for Beibei to sit down, then took off her protective gear and collapsed onto a nearby chair. Her body ached all over, and tears welled up in her eyes; but besides herself, her dog, and a cat, there was no one around to confide in. She hadn't even told her family that although she had become a formal police officer, she was actually keeping a dog at the Zhanghe Police Station.

Every position in the police force is equally important, and no one can choose which is better or worse. Sun Chang chose to obey orders, had grown fond of Bei Bei after spending so much time together, and had the company of her colleagues and Zhang Ke, so she didn't resist. However, this time, to complete this major competition, she brought Bei Bei and Mimi to the police training base on the outskirts of the city, where there wasn't even anyone to confide in. To put it bluntly, even buying a suitable sanitary napkin required driving two or three kilometers. The supermarket at the training base had plenty of cigarettes and drinks, but everything else was scarce.

"Hahoo hahoo~"

Beibei wagged its tail and came up to Sun Chang, sticking out its tongue and acting all cute. This little guy was still full of energy, looking like it hadn't had enough and could continue working.

"Ow!"

Seeing this, Lin Ge yelled and gestured for Bei Bei to come over to him.

So you want to work, huh? There's something fun here! The four wooden crates contain blood-stained gauze, gunpowder powder, a bottle of ecstasy, and a plastic box with saliva-soaked tissues. The odds of choosing one of these four can't be too hard, right? Choose wrong and you'll regret it!

Lin Ge glared fiercely at Bei Bei, watching as the guy's tail quickly drooped down, and he obediently walked up to him with his head down.

The order of the four boxes had been rearranged by Lingo. Next to them, in a transparent acrylic box, were four more identical samples. Lingo touched the bloodstained gauze in the box with his paw, indicating that Beibei could go find it.

"Woo~"

With a pitiful whimper, Beibei seemed completely uninterested in the game. But under Lingo's coercion, it could only obediently approach the four wooden boxes, patiently sniffing them with its nose.

One minute, two minutes... Beibei seemed to have chosen a target, but then seemed to hesitate, turning back to give Lin Ge an innocent look.

"Why are you taking this long? You think you can get a ranking in the competition at this speed? Hurry up! There's a reward for choosing correctly, and a penalty for choosing incorrectly! Your accuracy rate is only fifty percent right now, you still have a long way to go!"

Ringo was like a vicious slave owner, barking and harassing Beibei while urging it to make its choice quickly. Seriously, what's so difficult about this kind of work? He didn't even need to get close to smell what was hidden inside.

Of course, animals' judgment is definitely not as good as humans'. Even with a strong sense of smell, it still takes Beibei patience to select and judge four things together.

Lin Ge understands this, but Bei Bei can't give up what other police dogs can do in the competition!

"Woo~"

Beibei finally stopped next to one of the wooden boxes, put its right paw on the box twice, looked back at Lingo, and obediently lay down and covered its head and ears with its front paws.

"Pah! Why would I hit you for no reason?"

Lin Ge glared disdainfully at the coward, secretly relieved. This guy had made the right choice this time, or rather, in terms of bloodstain tracking, Bei Bei's success rate was higher than that of poisons and human scent.

Its worst performance was in explosives search, which is also because it doesn't have much experience with it.

To be honest, even Lin Ge himself couldn't guarantee 100% certainty in this regard. After all, the smell of gunpowder is still too faint and bland. Ordinary gray and black powder are fine, but he wasn't confident he could distinguish things like TNT, ammonium nitrate, and plastic explosives. Of course, this was also because he hadn't seen enough samples; these weren't things that would normally be found in a regular police station.

But it doesn't matter, since all six tests are scored separately this time. As long as Beibei can improve her scores in the other five tests besides explosives search, her final overall score won't be too low.

Well... of course, if a top-ranked police dog suddenly appears in another city, then things might get complicated.

According to Nie Guoqiang, the Chushi Municipal Public Security Bureau has a police dog named "Haduogen" who is exceptionally strong. In last year's 6th Provincial Police Dog Competition, Haduogen achieved the highest scores in four events: drug detection, explosives detection, bloodstain tracking, and evidence tracking. Except for a fifth-place finish in mountain tracking and a third-place finish in evidence tracking due to its age, it won first place in the previous competition with the highest overall score. In short, among the more than one hundred police dogs participating, Haduogen never fell out of the top five in any event. This dog truly deserves the title of "King of Dogs" and is a strong contender for this year's championship.

Does Beibei have a chance of beating it?
The probability is extremely low, right?

After all, even if Hadogen were a year older and his physical condition were slightly worse, he wouldn't be someone an ordinary police dog from a local police station could easily outmaneuver. To put it bluntly, Beibei's competition opponents should first be the strange, heroic, and quiet dogs from Zhangzhou. It would have to defeat these six before it even had the chance to compete with Hadogen. And to be even more cynical, why did Liu Shengyou take Beibei from the city's police dog unit?

"Beibei, you need to keep it up!"

Lin Ge patted Bei Bei's head in frustration, hoping that Bei Bei could show all those who looked down on it a thing or two.

"Wang Woo!"

Beibei didn't know what Lingo was thinking, but she felt Lingo's kindness and encouragement. She quickly stood up, wagged her tail, and then stuck out her butt and lowered her head to make it easier for Lingo to climb onto her.

"You bastard, you really think you're my mount?"

Lin Ge sighed in disappointment.

"How's the training going? Beibei is really obedient, so she should be easier to train than An'an here, right?"

With a towel draped over her shoulder, Yu Rong sat down next to Sun Chang as she spoke. She was also covered in sweat and exhausted; after all, the mountain tracking off-road project required the instructors to run alongside the police dogs, which was hard work.

Incidentally, the city bureau selected Guai Guai, Ying Ying, and An An for this competition, and Zhou Bo, Yuan Qu, and Yu Rong each led one team. The three of them, like Sun Chang, are currently undergoing closed training at the training base.

However, unlike Beibei, who was required to train in all six skills, Guai Guai, Yingying, and An'an each only focused on one or two areas. An'an specialized in mountain tracking and secondarily in explosives detection, Yingying in target and evidence searching, and Guai Guai in surveillance and riot control—all their strongest areas. In other words, the city bureau's goal this time wasn't high; achieving good results in any single area would be satisfactory. Getting one or two individual awards from the trip would at least be an honor.

After all, you can't expect every dog ​​to be a king of dogs like Hador; being an all-rounder places too high a demand on police dogs.

"Not quite there yet! Our current results are a bit underwhelming. After all, this is a provincial competition, and who knows how many hidden masters are vying for our attention."

Sun Chang sighed, glanced back at the Rottweiler resting and drinking water, and then said to Yu Rong, "Are you really only planning to do single-item training? Since you're so confident in one area, why not strengthen the other five as well? Putting everything else aside, the total score shouldn't be low, right? Let's not even talk about the ranking; just being among the top teams in the competition would be a pretty good honor, wouldn't it?"

"The municipal bureau needs results. If other units receive awards but we come up empty-handed, it will be embarrassing for the leaders."

Zhou Bo shrugged and chuckled.

Sun Chang understood.

"You're doing pretty well, actually managing to get Mimi to help with the training. It's much easier for you than for us. Beibei is also very obedient in front of Mimi, unlike us, who throw tantrums if we're not careful."

Zhou Bo took the bottled water Yu Rong handed him, took a sip, and then looked towards the other side of the training field. Some distance away, Yingying was fooling around with Yuan Qu. Even though it was supposed to be an evidence tracking exercise, it was circling the target car, playing hide-and-seek with Yuan Qu. Heaven knows if it actually smelled the target in the car; it just kept provoking Yuan Qu. Whenever Yuan Qu turned around, it would run away, wagging its tail happily as it went.

Meanwhile, Beibei was happily patting its head while Mimi gave it a good beating. It seemed it had messed up its search mission again, but only Mimi could train four senses of smell together like that.

"Mimi is really amazing! All four boxes were locked tightly, but she knew what was inside without even opening them. In other words, these four competitions would be a piece of cake for her."

Zhou Bo watched as Lin Ge punched Bei Bei on the head without even opening the box to check, and he let out a long sigh of admiration.

"Nonsense! I saw what was being packed with my own eyes, how could I not know what was in each box?"

Lin Ge glanced back at Zhou Bo with disdain, but a sense of unease lingered in his mind. He didn't know why, but this training seemed utterly childish. The blood-stained gauze, gunpowder powder, the ecstasy bottle, and the saliva-soaked tissues were all clearly identifiable to him. Even if the gunpowder powder were replaced with other, less certain, explosives, he could still use the process of elimination to determine which was which. So, logically, it should be a simple matter, yet he couldn't understand why Beibei always got it wrong. However, if only one target was hidden and Beibei was asked to find it, Beibei always managed to find it successfully. Could it be that it was only bad at distinguishing between different objects, but its sense of smell was still quite good?
Lin Ge then changed the four items to three, then to two, and sure enough, Bei Bei's judgment accuracy improved rapidly. When faced with a choice between two options, Bei Bei could even achieve a 100% accuracy rate, which was already quite impressive.

"So, Beibei's sense of smell isn't actually bad, it's just that when there are more things to analyze and think about, it gets confused? Is this true for all cats and dogs, because their brains are too small? Or is it due to a lack of training?"

Lin Ge tilted his head and guessed.

Of course, he himself is definitely an exception, that's beyond doubt and doesn't need further consideration.

"Phew... My turn! Yu Rong, how about we have a race? We'll run three laps around this cross-country track and see who's faster, Bei Bei or An An, okay?"

Seeing that both Beibei and he had rested well, Sun Chang stretched and stood up. Mimi was training Beibei's sense of smell, while he was training Beibei's physical strength and fighting ability, doing both simultaneously without interfering with each other. There were still two weeks until the competition, and then he needed to go there early to give Beibei another day to rest; overall, time was running out. Although he didn't have performance requirements like his three colleagues at the Municipal Bureau, he couldn't just give up now!

"Woo~"

Seeing that Yu Rong readily agreed to Sun Chang's provocation and had already called An An to the starting point to prepare, Bei Bei could only choke out a sob and walk over with her tail drooping.

"It's been a whole day, I'm exhausted!"

That's definitely what he's thinking.

Lin Ge followed Zhou Bo to the side of the track, curiously looking at the simulated off-road course made up of a log bridge, wall holes, crawling nets, uneven bars, a steep slope, plum blossom stakes, a three-meter freefall, and rolling logs. He had to admit that running this thing required some skill. Especially when pursuing speed, a slight lapse in attention, falling or slipping off, would be a major failure. It's said that the real project didn't even intend to give the police dogs a chance to try again.

On the other hand, Lin Ge felt that this thing would be much easier for a cat. Not to mention that cats are professional wall climbers, this log would be impossible for a dog to stand on, let alone a cat…

It was so empty it was practically flat.

"If I participate in a project like this, will the Street Fighter Dog King have nothing to do with it?"

Lin Ge suddenly had this thought.

(End of this chapter)