Pet King

Chapter 1335: Antidote

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Zhang Zian threw the ball to the white dog’s group. What happened next was now entirely up to them.

He wasn’t pretending to be righteous and of high status. This was a practical decision. The Wuling Hong Guang MPV couldn’t enter the landfill. Without getting too far in, their tires may have been flattened by sharp debris. The vehicles in the landfills were all crawler arm type vehicles with reinforced wheels. He wasn’t willing to abandon his vehicle and walk through the landfill with hundreds of thousands of stray dogs... He really couldn’t.

He made it clear that if the white dog wanted to save his companions, he needed to come out to take the medicine himself. If he came out with a large group of subordinates surrounding the Wuling Hong Guang MPV, then all he could do was leave. Besides, the drone was monitoring from the sky, thus making this unlikely to happen.

The white dog hesitated, but the isoniazid was very toxic and there wasn’t much time left.

He looked at his poisoned companions who were vomiting, shitting and crying out in sorrow. He didn’t hesitate for too long. Filled with determination, he looked up and said to the drone, “Bring me there!”

Dogs are social animals. Seeing their leader heading off elsewhere made the dogs instinctively want to follow. However, the white dog howled at them to stay. They obeyed his orders, and if a stray dog stupidly insisted on following, he gave it a head butt.

Zhang Zian issued a command for the drone to return and the drone automatically began to fly towards the Wuling Hong Guang MPV. The white dog followed closely behind.

After a short while, the drone arrived at the roof of the MPV. It continued to hover in the air, acting as a directional aid for the white dog in the distance.

It would’ve been faster to fly than to run. After a while, the white dog finally appeared with his tongue out.

He cautiously stopped to observe the situation. His eyes moved down from the drone and fell on Zhang Zian and Vladimir, who were both next to him.

“You are the two that spoke over that thing?” he asked, alert to the situation.

Zhang Zian and Vladimir were also eyeballing him. This was an ordinary white mongrel. He was medium in size and average body shape with brown eyes. He had a bald spot on its scalp; perhaps he always used his head to head butt the other dogs.

Compared to the other stray dogs, this one was quite clean and dazzling. While other white stray dogs became grey after a few days in a landfill, he remained white.

“It’s us.”

Zhang Zian pulled out a few small bottles from the car and threw them through the window.

The small pill bottles landed, bounced a few times, and rolled to his feet before coming to a stop.

He looked down but the instructions on the pill bottles were too complicated and difficult for him to understand.

“This is...the antidote?”

“Antidote ... This isn’t a martial arts story, this is vitamin B6. It has a certain detoxification effect in cases of isoniazid poisoning. In theory, the best treatment is intravenous injections. However, based on the current conditions, that is not possible. We can only force those poisoned dogs to take massive amounts of these pills. Do not allow them to vomit these out once swallowed. How to do it is entirely up to you,” Zhang ZIan explained.

The white dog looked down at the small pill bottles and hesitated.

“Don’t worry. If I wanted to poison the dogs I would have just left you all alone. Why bother, then?” Zhang Zian urged, “The longer you wait, the less likely the dogs will be to survive.”

The white dog was still uneasy. He asked further, “I don’t doubt that you do not want to poison them, but are you a doctor? Is this medicine going to detoxify them?”

Vladimir muttered impatiently. “What the hell is with all this nonsense? Just get on with it!”

The white dog wanted to say something but decided not to. This is neither the time nor place for that.

Zhang Zian nodded. “I am not a doctor, but I know the principle of isoniazid poisoning. The molecular structure of isoniazid is similar to that of vitamin B6. After entering the body, they will competitively inhibit each other’s effects. To be precise, Vitamin B6 isn’t used to detoxify the body but instead helps to prevent the isoniazid from completely taking effect. The remaining isoniazid will have to be excreted from the body. Vitamin B6 is relatively harmless since it is also non-toxic with few side effects. In any case, those side effects would be much better than poisoning.”

What he said made sense and seemed to be built on a well-versed knowledge of medicine. It was not a scripted reply. That made it easier for the white dog to believe his words.

“I have one last question. Why do you have Vitamin B6 with you?” It was indeed suspicious. He probably suspected that Zhang Zian first poisoned the dogs, then deliberately offered to help them.

“Because before this, someone already reminded me that the whole country, including Binhai City, has quietly seen a rise in the poisoning of stray dogs. This was because some people had been bitten by dogs or were scared off by others. However, it is more likely that it’s because they do not want to see others raising up a dog. I own a pet shop and often interact with cats and dogs. I always keep a lookout on things and have Vitamin B6 on hand most of the time. This is just in case the need for it arises.” he explained further.

Speaking of which, before going to Egypt, the netizen “Collapse The World” has keenly discovered the issue of dog poisoning through the internet. He then warned Zhang Zian about it so he was able to make corresponding preparations. He reminded the staff every day not to let the dogs eat anything once they went out for a walk in the park. At the same time, he instructed them to buy large quantities of Vitamin B6. If the dogs in the store were poisoned, they were to use hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting and carry out an intravenous feeding of Vitamin B6.

The white dog’s doubts still weren’t completely dispelled, but he couldn’t quickly find obvious contradictions in Zhang Zian’s words. Besides, the poisoned dogs urgently needed treatment, so there was no other way but to take his word for it.

“Then I will trust you this once. I hope you are telling the truth.” He lowered his head, grabbed the few small bottles into his mouth, turned around and ran off to the beach.

Zhang Zian controlled the drone and continued following him.

The white dog ran back to the poisoned dogs as fast as he could. By the time he returned, they had been repeatedly fed seawater. The other dogs stretched out their front paws and stepped on their stomachs. With each step, water was squished out. However, as the dogs lost control of their bowels, water flowed out from two holes instead of one.

The white dog dropped a small pill bottle out of his mouth and ordered the dogs to stop the induced vomiting. He then bit down on the bottle to open it before pouring the pills into the poisoned stray dogs’ mouths. He then pressed their mouths shut to prevent them from spitting the medicine out. The remaining medicine was split up and each dog was given a dose of Vitamin B6.

Vitamin B6 and isoniazid were mutually exclusive. Since it wasn’t clear how much isoniazid these dogs had ingested, they had to rely on taking a large dosage of Vitamin B6 to inhibit the reactions of the isoniazid.

Now, they could only wait.

If all went well, they may have been saved by his actions. However, since isoniazid was very toxic to dogs, it would’ve been highly understandable if they didn’t survive the ordeal.

The other dogs didn’t know what to wait for, they only knew that their leader was particularly anxious today, and they kept prancing around.

Ten minutes passed.

The muscle spasms on some of the poisoned stray dogs had eased.

Another thirty minutes passed.

The symptoms of most of the poisoned dogs were significantly reduced. However, two of the dogs were foaming at the mouth. They might have eaten way too many poisonous sausages.

After waiting longer than an hour the other poisoned dogs have slowly but surely opened their eyes except for the two dogs that were too heavily poisoned and died.