The second puppy
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Under Riven's relentless flattery and persistent persuasion, Coleen finally agreed to help her with the chip and accommodation issues.
"Riven, I have a one-bedroom apartment in the neighboring community, which was assigned to me as a dormitory when I first joined the hospital. If you don't mind, you can stay there temporarily," Coleen said with a tone of indifference, but his eyes betrayed a plea for her to accept.
Riven was pleasantly surprised; she had no fondness for large houses. A one-bedroom apartment was the perfect choice for her. Normally, she disliked being in anyone's debt, but these were not the times for pride.
At this moment, Riven had not yet realized that the one-bedroom apartment here was completely different from what she was used to.
Arriving in a strange world all by herself, Riven was like a newborn baby, unfamiliar with this world, without identification or money. Without a chip, she couldn't work, and if she left Coleen, she might end up in the ditch again within a day.
Riven made up her mind to repay the kind-hearted golden retriever once she was settled.
As for returning to the human world, sorry, she didn't want to go back. If possible, she even wanted to avoid that possibility.
Thinking of this, Riven couldn't help but gently scratch Coleen's chin.
Ugh, what a soft and smooth touch.
Coleen's furry face turned a bit crimson, looking down at Riven with moist eyes, a look of joy and shyness.
Riven's gaze became a bit wandering, her fair fingers slightly curled up.
"Ah?"
Coleen's right arm swept behind Riven's knees, lifting her up with one hand, causing Riven to exclaim in surprise.
"Coleen!!"
Naughty dog!
Riven wanted to hit his dog head.
If her own mischievous child dared to make such a fuss, she would have already taken up a slipper and started scolding him for being so naughty after all this time as a mother.
"I just felt that Riven seemed to want to touch my head, but Riven is too small." Coleen looked up at Riven with a silly smile, his dog eyes seeming to say, come and touch me～
Riven spread out her curled fingers and placed her hand on Coleen's head. Compared to the chin's touch, the palm's feeling was a bit hard but still soft fur, with a delicate smoothness. Riven couldn't help but pet the dog head a few more times.
The fur on the golden retriever's head was a bit short, and it stood crookedly on Coleen's head after being rubbed in the opposite direction by Riven, who nonchalantly withdrew her hand.
Fortunately, she didn't become a barber teacher, otherwise, she might have been sent to the hospital by the victims.
The messy hairstyle added a bit of humor to Coleen, who seemed oblivious, holding Riven with one hand and showing no intention of putting her down.
Just then, a sound broke the balance.
"Grumble~"
They looked at each other, their faces reflecting different expressions.
Riven was embarrassed and shy, while Coleen looked a bit annoyed.
"It's all my fault. Riven has been lying down for so long, and I actually forgot to take you to eat." The enthusiastic golden retriever deflated, looking pitiful with a drooping head and pouting mouth.
Coleen reluctantly put Riven down and immediately took out a bag of vacuum-packed, brown, panda-like buns from the refrigerator, each about the size of a mooncake. By her estimation, there were at least twenty in the bag.
Riven had a bad feeling. Was she supposed to eat this?
"Riven, these are LeDi nutritional biscuits, eat them quickly." Coleen took out a plate larger than Riven's two heads and poured the bag into it.
"..."
Coleen didn't hear Riven's response and encouraged her, pushing the plate towards her.
Riven pretended not to see and lowered her head.
Riven: Someone save me!
If it was dog food, Riven would accept it; she had tasted dog food before. But these buns, the color of cattle and horse feces, made her want to shout, "Teacher, I really can't do it!" This was too much for her!
"Riven, although LeDi nutritional biscuits don't look good, they taste better than raw meat, and they are more nutritious and easier to digest. Try it, you can't be picky." Coleen, facing Riven's straightforward and intense gaze, embarrassedly took a biscuit and fed it to Riven's mouth.
This was like having a knife to the neck, and she had to eat.
Riven took a small bite, and the sour and refreshing taste that rushed to her head made her try hard to maintain her facial expression. This complex and strange taste, you call it good?
Riven unilaterally declared that this cake must not taste as good as a panda's bread. The biscuit had the sour and fishy taste of raw meat that had not been pickled and dried with blood, with a bit of milky smell, and the taste of vegetables mixed together and stewed like pig grass...
It was as complicated as the last question on the math exam paper she never solved in senior three.
She really wanted to force herself to eat it. Being picky in such a critical moment was too hypocritical. Perhaps it was because she had been living a peaceful and happy life without famine and war for too long, or perhaps it was because Coleen made her feel at ease.
She really couldn't eat this stuff.
Riven still couldn't help but spit it out, and the disgusting taste made her retch.
"Coleen, I'm sorry~" Riven quickly blinked, forcing back the tears.
She was extremely annoyed with herself, angry for being too delicate, for being picky at such a time, and for letting down the good intentions of a good dog.
But the physiological reaction, she couldn't control.
Coleen didn't blame Riven, he was just a bit distressed. Riven's physical condition was not very good, in a sub-healthy state, probably running 800 meters would fall down, and now many parts of the body were still bruised, not eating something nutritious how to recover quickly?
In his cognition, there are very few dogs in the world who are picky eaters, almost all dogs like raw bones and meat, occasionally eating a little vegetable.
A biscuit like this, made by mixing bones, blood, milk powder, and vegetables, adding trace elements, and then high-temperature sterilization and pressing, is already a high-tech food, and only a few puppies can afford it.
The most important thing is, almost no puppies do not like to eat nutritional biscuits, but Riven does not like to eat.
"Riven does not need to say sorry, I was just thinking about what kind of food can fill Riven's stomach." Coleen sighed.
Suddenly, his ears twitched, there was no difference on the surface, but his heart was already in a panic, Riven's voice... It seems to have a trace of imperceptible choking.
Didn't Riven cry?
What to do, how should he react correctly, so as not to make Riven more sad.
The clumsy dog, anxious online.
Riven saw Coleen thought he was calm, but in fact, he exposed his thoughts, the ears that kept twitching, and the long eyebrows that trembled, and the original sadness also disappeared.
"I want to visit Coleen's home." Of course, her purpose is to find the kitchen, but in case the dog world's kitchen is not called a kitchen.
When she just woke up, Coleen said he took her home, so the word home can be used, although she suspects that the dog world's worldview is actually highly consistent with the human world.
Coleen's home is very large, about more than 300 square meters of large flat floor, she feels like she is living in the legendary rich family with a bed of 800 meters, Riven walked for a while, and finally found
something similar to the refrigerator, but this refrigerator is much taller than what she has seen on Earth.
Riven tried to open the refrigerator door hard, and there were actually sweet potatoes, pumpkins, broccoli, strawberries, blueberries and other fruits and vegetables in it.
Riven continued to explore the lower half of the refrigerator, and at this time, a furry golden hand pressed on her hand.
"The lower part is the fresh and sterilized raw meat, you can't eat it yet."
"Ding!"
"The system starts successfully, the start time is a total of 28:30, welcome to use the other world to get rich system, I am the 01728 number system - Fugui."
"The partner Riven Jean Doherty has been bound to the system, now entering the novice test period, after the test period is passed, the partner becomes a formal binder, the test fails to unbind with the partner, and the partner returns to the original world."
Seeing Riven standing in place, Coleen immediately retracted his hand to stop her, and was annoyed in his heart that he might have made Riven unhappy.
"Hello, Fugui." Riven thought silently.
"Coleen, I'm fine, I just suddenly thought of a question," Riven gave up opening the refrigerator door below and patted the dog's paw to comfort him.
Hearing this, Coleen let out a sigh of relief, and the tail behind him began to swing in spirals again.
"Riven can ask me anything that puzzles you."
"Of course, I won't be polite with Coleen, but let's fill our stomachs first."
Riven took some fruit and asked Coleen to steam two sweet potatoes. After all, she didn't understand the cooking of this world.
"Steam? What is that?" Coleen asked in confusion.
Has this world not had the concept of steaming? Riven tentatively asked, "So how do you usually eat these fruits and vegetables?"
"Just... wash them and eat them directly," Coleen blinked his golden eyelashes, innocently looking at Riven, as if to say, such a simple question, how could Riven not know, worried about Riven's quality of life.
"What are these things in your room for?" Riven couldn't believe it, in front of her was Coleen's kitchen, all kinds of kitchen utensils are available, cutting board, kitchen knife, pot, basin, induction cooker... Is it just a decoration?
"I actually don't know how to use these, they are the decorations when the former landlord renovated the house.
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