"This way."
With twelve Spider-Shaped Predators spreading out, Xia Xu and Grant moved through the heavily guarded Gardner Psychiatric Hospital as though no one were there.
The Spider-Shaped Predators rustling through the darkness had scouted all the surrounding terrain, surveillance cameras, and guard posts in advance. Nothing could hide from the Smart Glasses.
Soon, the two slipped into the ward where Cui Xinghua had originally been staying.
Sure enough, Cui Xinghua was no longer inside, and the furnishings had been turned upside down. Clearly, some trouble had occurred here.
"A Tuo, remember Cui Xinghua's scent. It might come in handy."
Xia Xu rummaged through the wreckage and found a piece of clothing that Cui Xinghua had probably worn.
"Can a dog understand you when you talk to it like that?"
Grant was rather curious at the sight.
Naturally, he knew about trained working dogs, but they mostly underwent reward-based conditioning and needed specific commands. A dog couldn't understand someone talking to it as though it were human.
"It can't, but you can. And you happen to be half Werewolf, which makes you one-quarter canine. Want to take its place and give it a try?"
Xia Xu rolled his eyes.
Beside him, A Tuo cast Grant an almost human sideways glance and snorted through its nose before strolling leisurely over to the clothing and sniffing it. Then it nodded at Xia Xu, indicating that it had memorized the scent.
"It... it glared at me? And nodded?"
Grant gaped, pointing at A Tuo in astonishment, his arm remaining raised for a long time.
"I told you A Tuo wasn't an ordinary dog."
Xia Xu shrugged slightly.
Although A Tuo had been injected with the Werewolf Enhancement Serum, the serum only enhanced wolf genes. Its fundamental genetics hadn't changed; it was still a