Chapter 1    Start with a photo

Start with a photo

Zhuo Muqiangba is 1.87 meters tall, with a real tiger-backed and bear-bearing waist, a big guy, with a hair that is covered with bronze, and her body shows her unhidden toughness everywhere.

But on weekdays, he is a very kind person, with a straight suit, a pair of small square frames and boundless glasses, and a smile always hangs on his face. Some people call him Mr. Zhuo, and some call him Professor. His true close friend is called Jonbara.

Zhuomangba, Tibetan, forty-two years old, president of Tianshi Famous Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog, and visiting professor of the Department of Biology at Fudan University. He teaches world famous dogs.

Zhuomchanba grew up in a small village called Davanucuo, which is a place that penetrates deep into the hinterland of Tibet and is closest to the no-man's land. His name originally means a person who can defeat the sea.

He did not disappoint his parents. He is now the boss of a company with assets of tens of millions and a professor at a famous university. He can be said to be both fame and fortune, and the capital that made him start his business is nothing else, but a dog.

Pennsylvania, USA.

"For thousands of years, the dog with the largest and most ferocious personality that is recognized in the world is called a mastiff.

That is a specialty of our Tibetan area. They have existed for tens of millions of years. They spread to Greece about two thousand years ago, and then to the Roman Empire. They were then passed down from Slavic people in Eastern Europe to various European countries. To this day, the world's famous dogs still retain the genetic genes of Tibetan mastiffs in their bodies. In Lhasa, the most unique dog in the entire Tibetan area should be the Tibetan mastiff..." Zhuo Muqiangba stood on the gorgeous podium and talked happily, and the guests who visited them always described the history of the Tibetan mastiff.

This is organized by their company. The opening ceremony of a world-class mastiff competition can be promoted to more media to enhance people's understanding of dogs such as mastiffs. On the other hand, it also sells their own domestication bases to mastiffs from all over the world, so that they can also see what a real mastiff is.

In the hall, hundreds of journalists from all over the world had already reached more than 8,000, and many of them were enthusiasts of mastiff raising who came from China.

Zhuo Muqiangba smiled and said, "Now, a purebred young mastiff has a net worth of more than 100,000 US dollars.

Although there are many people raising mastiffs, I can tell you clearly that the purest mastiffs in the world are definitely in our base, snow mastiff, iron-brown gold, red mastiff, and we are all the best here..."

The hall was crowded with people. Everyone knows that Mr. Zhuo himself came from Tibet. The mastiffs from their base are definitely one of the best in China. He himself has absolute research on Tibetan mastiffs, and he has not yet misunderstood it.

In addition to hoping to get a good ranking, the participants all hope that their mastiffs can be recognized by Mr. Zhuo’s wise eyes and can be bred into the Tianshi famous dog breeding base to obtain a purer Tibetan mastiff.

"If the Tibetan mastiff leaves Tibet, can it still be called a mastiff?"

Generally speaking, when Mr. Zhuo speaks, everyone can only listen quietly. Every time I hope to learn some knowledge about raising mastiffs and training mastiffs from Mr. Zhuo’s speech.

But I don’t know who it was, but suddenly broke the tranquility at such a conference, which made everyone angry. Several mastiff buyers immediately retorted: “Why aren’t you called a mastiff?”

"You fucking take off your clothes, can you still call someone?"

"This is no nonsense!"

The man was obviously defeated by the public's anger and soon disappeared. Zhuo Muqiangba smiled and stopped everyone and said, "Yes, only in Tibetan areas can the mastiff have that fierce body and unique domineering spirit."

Many people also asked me why the mastiffs in our base look more powerful and magical than those in other places. In fact, the mastiffs in our base have always insisted on choosing Tibetans, stocking in Tibet, and domesticating in Tibet, which is definitely a real Tibetan mastiff."

Only then did everyone calm down and continue to listen to Zhuo Muqiangba’s teachings.

Although no one knows who was talking just now, Zhuo Muqiangba had noticed that the man at the door lowered his hat, wore sunglasses, and a big windbreaker covering his face. He was the one who asked the question just now.

Zhuo Muqiangba continued his speech with his confidence and pride. He tapped the photos of the best mastiffs at their base on the back wall with slides. The crowd exclaimed in surprise, and Zhuo Muqiangba felt extremely satisfied.

His face also became slightly rosy due to excitement, and his forehead was covered with blue veins, indicating that he began to be excited under the flash.

At this moment, a small boy was holding something and squeezed through the crowd. Seeing that he was approaching the podium, several burly men blocked the little man's way.

Zhuo Muqiangba looked at it. The little man didn't seem to have any offensive weapons on his body, and he only held a postcard-like thing in his hand. He winked at the security guard. The security guard took the thing that the little man wanted to hand over to Zhuo Muqiangba and handed it directly to Zhuo Muqiangba.

The little man handed over the postcard and walked back immediately, as if he was entrusted by someone.

While pointing at the huge picture behind him, Zhuo Muqiangba told the excellence and purebred of the mastiff at their base, he opened the postcard envelope.

The moment the envelope was opened, the familiar smile on his face disappeared, and he stood dull and dull on the brightly lit podium.

Everyone was listening to Zhuo Muqiangba's speech. When he stopped, the hall of nearly 10,000 people suddenly became quiet. There was only a slight sound of camera shutters, which sounded sporadically in several corners of the hall.

The sudden change focused everyone's attention on Zhuo Muqiangba. He saw his eyes staring at the photo with his eyes fixed on him, as if he had lost three souls and seven spirits. His previous rosy face disappeared and he was pale.

Immediately afterwards, people discovered that Zhuo Muqiangba unconsciously changed from holding a letter with one hand to holding a postcard in both hands, and trembled slightly, and the corners of his mouth also trembled slightly. The people sitting in the front row also found that Zhuo Muqiangba's eyes were pounding, obviously being greatly stimulated. Sensitive reporters took the opportunity to record this sudden change in the camera in full swing.

After about half a minute, Zhuo Muqiangba suddenly woke up, held the microphone and shouted: "Friend, please wait!"

His voice had completely changed its tone, very dry and sharp. He seemed to have not seen the reporter or everyone else, just staring at the little man and asked, "Who gave this thing to you?"

The little man was obviously frightened by Zhuo Mu Qiangba's expression. He only looked towards the door in horror, without answering directly, and quickly wanted to squeeze out the crowd.

Zhuo Muqiangba looked in the direction of the small man. The man with "wind coat and sunglasses" just now had disappeared at some point.

Zhuo Muqiangba didn't care to continue his speech, jumped off the platform and squeezed towards the door. This incident immediately caused a commotion at the scene. The reporters rushed forward, while the bodyguards wanted to open the way for Zhuo Muqiangba. Some wanted to squeeze forward, while others wanted to retreat, and the scene was completely out of control.

In the chaotic scene, Zhuo Mu Qiangba disappeared! People were talking about what the little man gave to Zhuo Mu Qiangba. How could he lose his color in front of the reporter's camera and chased him out in person regardless of such a major opening ceremony.

What people even more unexpected is that in the next few days, Zhuomu Qiangba was completely gone in this world's highest-level Mastiff Competition. Some people said that it was a blackmail letter, which contained photos of Zhuomu Qiangba and his lover committing adultery. Because the person sitting in the front row had seen it, the envelope was a photo, so many people believed it. The reporters were even more indifferent to the incident, adding to the close-up of the big book. For a time, Zhuomu Qiangba's reputation was twenty times greater than that of his first twenty years.

Just when the reporters were hyping up the incident, Zhuo Muqiangba was already in Shanghai, Professor Fang Xin's home.

Zhuomengba is just a visiting professor, while Fang Xin is a real professor of canine zoology. He is 65 years old this year. He was Zhuomengba's mentor in canine biology research. Later, the two became collaborators specializing in Tibetan mastiffs. Since Professor Fang Xin's research only stayed in the academic stage, he firmly opposed the use of mastiffs for commercial operations, so the two later parted ways.

Later, Zhuomengba's career in mastiff raising was booming. Professor Fang Xin was still just an unknown academic researcher. However, in order to express his gratitude to Professor Fang Xin for his enlightenment and professional help in biological attributes, Zhuomengba still fully supports Professor Fang Xin's academic work. Now Professor Fang Xin has become an authoritative in the canine academic circle. If you want to become a world-famous dog in the world, it is best to get the reputation of Professor Fang Xin.

Recently, he is writing a paper on the blood of Tibetan mastiffs, similar to compiling a family tree for Tibetan mastiffs all over the world. In the future, if you want to find world-famous mastiffs, you have to search for them in his book.

This paper was written specifically for participating in the Matthewlia Biological Forum. It is said that this forum will award the Prite Prize to Professor Fang Xin. Its significance is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in zoology and is the highest honor for zoologists.

Fang Xin has long been white, but he is energetic and has bright eyes. He habitually lit a Chinese cigarette, took a deep breath, and then said, "I will go to Germany next week to attend the Matthewlia Biological Forum. I heard you bring something special?

What makes you give up the opportunity to show off your own chance at the American Mastiff Ranch Competition and fly back to Shanghai?”

Zhuomangba said: "Teacher (he has always maintained this title), please look at this--" As he said that, he put the box in his hand on the table.

It was an anti-theft cash transport box with iron wrapped in steel. Fang Xin then noticed that Zhuo Muqiangba carefully handcuffed the box to his hands.

Fang Xin was surprised. You should know that Zhuomu Qiangba once won the championship of the Tibetan Kubai (that is, wrestling) competition twice. Kong Wu himself was powerful, and even an ordinary police officer was not his opponent. He once carried a diamond worth 20 million US dollars for someone, but he just found a cloth bag and put it in his pocket. He had never seen him bring something so cautiously and carefully.

However, when Zhuomu Qiangba opened the box, Fang Xin was even more surprised. There was a golden box one foot square in the box. The Buddha statue was embossed with vivid images, with rare cat-eye stone embedded in the four corners, and the smallest one had thirteen eyes.

Fang Xin knew that this was the treasure box heired by Zhuomu Qiangba’s family. The value of this treasure box alone cannot be measured by money. This treasure box was used to hold Buddhist scriptures, but later it was passed on to Zhuomu Qiangba’s father. The Buddhist scriptures were dedicated to the country and were treated as the most complete Nyingma Bible in Tibet. The treasure box was always empty. Zhuomu Qiangba often laughed and joked that he would never find anything that could be put into this box in his life.

But today, what was put in?

Fang Xin thought he had seen things in the world and would no longer have anything to attract him, but now, the things Zhuo Mu Qiangba brought him once again, and he couldn't wait to see what exactly could make Zhuo Mu Qiangba pay so much attention.

Zhuo Muqiangba just sucked his appetite and refused to open the gold box for a long time. Seeing Fang Xin staring at the box, his eyes almost fell out, he pushed the box in front of him and said respectfully: "Teacher, please open it."

Fang Xin put on white silk gloves and carefully opened the box. There was nothing else in the box, only one thing - a photo! Fang Xin's expression was the same as when Zhuo Muqiangba saw that thing, as dumb as if he was stunned!

Secrets in the photo

To be precise, the box contains two photos.

The first picture is the vast grassland in the background, with some low shrubs lurking in the grass, with blue sky and white clouds in the middle of the grassland, but there is a black hurricane.

If you look closely, it was not the wind, but the figure of some kind of animal. The whole photo was very blurry. Anyone who is familiar with the photo knew that it was because the person taking the photo was shaking his hands, but the animal's hair was still vaguely visible.

The second photo is also based on the grassland. If you look closely, you will find that the location of the shooting has not changed. It is still the mountains, the shrubs, and even the grass near it is still in the same position as the photo. However, the blue sky and white clouds have been replaced by the night. In other words, the photographer waited from daytime until dark, staying in a place without moving.

The black figure was naturally completely immersed in the darkness, but the second photo was clearer than the first one, because the figure was closer to the shooting point and was directly facing the photographer.

Judging from the second photo, the blurry face seemed to be a lion from Africa, with the wrinkles on the neck, together with the mane, wrapping the face like a sunflower.

But from a physical perspective, it is completely different from a lion. Due to geographical and climatic reasons, the African lion only has a little mane around the head and behind the knees. This guy's whole body is covered with thick and long hair, and his body looks more like a yak, strong and strong.

Professor Fang Xin took these two photos and couldn't speak for a long time. His yak-like body, his lion-like head, and his leopard-like curves. The guy covered in black hair in the photo outlined a nearly perfect outline, which contained infinite power. He looked like an arrow that could come out at any time, and every movement was like a cat waiting to go.

But he knew very well that this was a canine animal with square head and small ears, long hair and long skin, short mouth and extremely wide mouth, straight back and abdomen, and thick limbs. This is a Tibetan mastiff that can be regarded as a standard from any angle.

Moreover, this is not an ordinary Tibetan mastiff. The ordinary Tibetan mastiff is not as big, not as thick, not as tough and resolute as it stands there, like a giant of steel, full of the domineering spirit of the royal family. The innate wildness makes it look at the world and run majestic on the grassland.

Professor Fang Xin looked at the professor for half an hour without saying a word. Zhuo Muqiangba looked at the professor with a smile. He knew what the professor was thinking at the moment. The professor's mind must be blank, just like when he first saw these two photos.

Because in the photo, it is considered a real Tibetan mastiff. Only the plateau has such clear blue sky and white clouds so close to the earth. It is like reaching out to pick one. The shrubs include square branches and round cypresses, short ephedra, and hard-leaved willows. These are the characteristic vegetation of the plateau, and there are several types, almost only in Tibetan areas.

As for the mastiff, Zhuo Muqiangba and Fang Xin are both veterans here, so there is no need to take a look at it. It must be the best mastiff they have ever seen, with the most perfect body shape and the most perfect temperament. What's more rare is that this mastiff has something that other Tibetan mastiffs don't have but cannot be described in words.

Zhuo Muqiangba restrained his breathing and gently tapped his thighs with his fingers. Every time he saw these two photos, he was so excited that he wanted to cry, and he could not control his hands. Although he had seen it many times, his fingers could only barely not shake.

Fang Xin took off his reading glasses, put them on after a while, and then took them off again. This repeated several dozen times, and then he lit the photo heavily and said, "Impossible, this is a fake photo, a computer-synthesised photo!"

Zhuo Muqiangba stood up suddenly, pointed at Professor Fang Xin, and his face turned pale. He didn't expect that Professor Fang Xin had come to such a conclusion after looking at him for so long. If it weren't for the person he respected, he would have beaten people on the spot.

Professor Fang Xin signaled him to calm down and pointed to the photo and said, "Let's look at this photo first. Although the background is blurry, the plants inside can still be clearly distinguished. Look, this is a spruce in western Sichuan. From the diameter, it has become a timber. Their height is between 30 and 40 meters. Even if we are thirty meters high, the square branches and round cypress next to this mastiff are also a wood. The height should be between ten and fifteen meters. If the photographer's position is fixed, then we can visually infer the distance between this guy and the two trees. On the same plane, through proportional miniatures, we can calculate the height of this guy.

I roughly estimated that if it is true, then its shoulder height should be between 1.2 and 1.4 meters, and then its standing height will reach and exceed 2.5 meters, and then it will no longer be a dog, but a calf.

The highest shoulder height of the dog I have come into contact with is no more than 1.05 meters, and all the reported dogs are only only two meters one.

You know the height of the mastiff. Its shoulder height will not exceed 80 centimeters and its length will not exceed 1.5 meters. When have you ever seen such a big dog?"

Zhuomengba said excitedly: "However, the canine genus of the Mastiff family is indeed the largest species in the Canine genus. The dog is four feet tall. Originally, the Chinese meaning of the word "Mastiff" is a dog with great body, a German clown, a Danish dog, and a Swiss Saint Bernard. They are recognized as the largest dog in the world, but they all have the blood of a mastiff in their bodies.

Therefore, it is not surprising that individuals with particularly large sizes are produced in the mastiff.”

“Extremely huge?”

Professor Fang Xin sneered, "Yes, but you have to know what the environment it lives in is the plateau, the highest plateau in the world, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau."

Zhuo Muqiangba blushed and murmured: "Then...so what?"

He knew that his professional knowledge was not as good as that of his mentor.

Fang Xin said: "In the special living environment of the plateau, due to the thin air and low oxygen content, the species inside have become accustomed to the hypoxic environment. Their body shape decreases with the rise of the terrain. Most of the animals are short, thick and long hairs, and thick and short limbs. This is to reduce the ability of the body's blood to transport oxygen and ensure the mind is clear.

You have learned that all species on the plateau are smaller than their similar species that survive at lower altitudes. In this photo, there are short bracken that can only grow at higher altitudes. That is to say, the mastiff in the photo lives at higher altitudes than its similar mastiffs, and it is impossible for it to have a physique that is much taller than its similar ones."

Fang Xin said, opening the computer on the desk and slowly said, "We use the computer to analyze. The clarity of the photos, the blur index of the grass is only 2.4. It can be considered that it is caused by the unstable hand of the photographer. But if you look at the fuzzy index of this guy, it is as high as 6.7. The average camera takes 0:005 to 0:01 to 0:001 seconds from pressing the shutter to flash exposure. That is to say, in one hundred and ten percent of a second, this guy moved twenty centimeters or more. Let's count it. It can reach forty meters in one second, and the speed is only 140 kilometers per hour. However, the fastest animal on land, the cheetah, has a maximum speed of only 120 kilometers per hour. Do you think this mastiff runs faster than a cheetah?"
To be continued...