Whole School Transmigrated: I Have 3 Daily Intel

’So this is... the Tiger Striped Dog?’

By the head of the bed, the man and the dog stared at each other.

The Tiger Striped Dog tilted its head, staring at Chen Chong as if it were deep in thought.

A few seconds later, it immediately stuck out its tongue and began wagging its tail furiously, as if it had just recognized the person before it as its new master.

Overcome with excitement, it leaped onto the bed and began licking Chen Chong’s face incessantly.

"Alright, alright, hey!"

Chen Chong’s face was covered in slobber, leaving him both amused and exasperated.

It took a good deal of soothing before the Tiger Striped Dog finally calmed down a little...

"No getting on the bed from now on. You can only stay down here, understand?"

Chen Chong patiently laid out the rules for it.

The Tiger Striped Dog tilted its head again. After a moment, it lowered the paws it had placed on the edge of the bed and lay down on the floor.

"Good boy!"

Chen Chong patted its head. Seeing the Tiger Striped Dog squinting with its tongue lolling out, he thought for a moment before saying, "Since you’re a Tiger Striped Dog, and your coat looks like a tiger’s pelt, I’ll call you Hu Zi from now on."

WOOF!

The Tiger Striped Dog barked, as if it already knew that was its name.

"Hu Zi?" Chen Chong was surprised. ’This dog is too smart. It’s like it can actually understand me.’

A panel of information about the Tiger Striped Dog materialized in Chen Chong’s mind.

[Royal Hunting Hound · Tiger Striped Dog]

[Loyalty: 100]

Chen Chong stared, stunned. ’Damn, no wonder they’re famous for their loyalty. It’s maxed out right from the get-go, huh?’

Seeing the Tiger Striped Dog with its tongue lolling out, Chen Chong grew even fonder of it.

"Hu Zi!"

WOOF!

"Hu Zi!"

WOOOF—

The man would call, the dog would bark, and they played together, having a wonderful time.

「Meanwhile, in another room...」

Xu Jun was lying with his eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling.

"Damn, my insomnia’s so bad I’m starting to hallucinate. Why do I think I’m hearing a dog bark?"

...

「Dawn.」

The sun had not yet risen, but Chen Chong’s eyes were already open.

Even though he had only gone to bed in the wee hours of the morning, his long-established habit of waking before dawn had him stirring naturally.

Hu Zi was nowhere to be seen beside the bed. Instead, the sound of splashing water could be heard intermittently.

Chen Chong paused for a second, then a thought struck him. He quickly threw on his shoes and rushed to the fishpond.

There, the Tiger Striped Dog was climbing out of the water with a palm-sized crucian carp in its mouth.

On the bank, a pile of some thirty dead fish of various sizes lay stiff and cold.

’What the hell...’

Chen Chong was speechless.

’Wait, did it go hunting in my own fishpond?’

’Did my own dog just kill my own fish?’

’It killed so many! That has to be over twenty pounds of fish!’

’No, wait...’

Chen Chong took a closer look and realized that the fish’s eyes were glazed over and their bodies were stiff as wood. They clearly hadn’t just been killed; they must have been dead for at least several hours.

’These fish... they were already dead before he pulled them out.’

’They must be the injured ones that were culled and thrown in yesterday.’

’Could it be that Hu Zi went into the pond just to clean out the dead fish, not to eat them?’

The Tiger Striped Dog dropped the carp onto the pile, shook the water from its coat, and sat down, its tongue lolling out as if expecting a reward.

Chen Chong was astounded. ’This dog is way too perceptive, too smart!’

...

At the dining table, Chen Chong and the others were eating roasted venison that Jia Wen had prepared.

The Tiger Striped Dog lay under Chen Chong’s stool, gnawing on a few plucked birds.

Xu Jun stared intently at the dog while stuffing his own mouth with venison.

"So that dog I heard barking last night wasn’t a hallucination after all, huh?"

"By the way, Brother Chong, the Card you summoned is seriously badass. All I got yesterday was a D- Resource Card, for some ’ironwood axe.’ It’s not even as good as my Fire Axe."

"This dog looks seriously intimidating. Here, have a piece of meat."

As he spoke, Xu Jun tossed a piece of venison to the Tiger Striped Dog.

But the Tiger Striped Dog merely glanced at it, completely ignoring the venison and continuing to chew on the birds clutched in its paws.

"Brother Chong, your dog doesn’t eat venison?"

"No, it’ll eat. Hu Zi, eat it."

The Tiger Striped Dog snatched it up in one bite, swallowing the venison whole before lying back down at Chen Chong’s feet to resume gnawing on the birds.

Xu Jun was amazed. "So it only eats what you tell it to, and nothing from anyone else?"

Chen Chong smiled and nodded.

Excellent hunting dogs have a habit of never eating food from an unknown source, precisely to avoid being poisoned.

As a top-tier hunting dog, there was no way the Tiger Striped Dog would make such a basic mistake.

Unless its master, Chen Chong, gave the order, it wouldn’t touch a single bite, no matter how hungry it was or how fragrant the food.

Setting down his bowl and chopsticks, Chen Chong looked over at Shen Xinrou.

The previous night, he had specifically sent her home with the tiger bone they had retrieved from the Stone Claw Eagle’s nest.

Tiger bone was an extremely precious medicinal ingredient, said to be highly effective for treating injuries like bruises and sprains. Shen Xinrou had been visibly excited when she received it.

The tiger skin, however, was kept by Wang Biao, who knew how to make things from it. Chen Chong didn’t ask for details.

"I’ve looked over the documents you organized for me. You can use this as a fee schedule from now on. You don’t have to follow it to the letter; you can use your own judgment on the value of specific food and supplies when deducting payment for treatment."

Chen Chong said, handing her a sheet of paper covered in writing.

After she’d left yesterday, Shen Xinrou had, as they’d agreed, written down a list of all the ailments she could treat and the corresponding difficulty.

It had to be said that while Shen Xinrou wasn’t a professional doctor, she had picked up a surprising amount of knowledge from her grandfather, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

She could treat dozens of different issues, both major and minor.

What shocked Chen Chong the most was that she could even handle mild poisoning and simple fractures!

She had specifically noted she wasn’t very practiced with them, but practice makes perfect. The more she did it, the more skilled she would become.

The cost of the herbs needed for these treatments was generally low. The only difficulty was that they might require multiple sessions, making them time-consuming.

Because of this, Chen Chong had created a tiered system based on the severity and difficulty of treatment, which Shen Xinrou could use to collect fees.

Things that were easy to treat, like colds and scrapes, could be priced at the lowest tier—a small amount of food would suffice, like two pieces of bread, a pack of instant noodles, or a single meal.

More serious issues, like sprains or diarrhea, would require more food, such as two or three packs of instant noodles, or a day’s worth of food.

The most severe cases, like poisoning, fractures, or shock from dehydration, would command a much higher fee—at least three days’ worth of food to start...

"The payment doesn’t have to be food specifically. Any usable resources are fine, as long as the value is roughly equivalent."

"And no more accepting things like those unfamiliar wild fruits, mushrooms, or mystery jerky from before. Absolutely not."

Shen Xinrou nodded. "I understand, Brother Chong."

Chen Chong took out two Cards and used them immediately.

Instantly, two figures appeared: a dark-skinned, middle-aged man about five-foot-seven, and a middle-aged maid in servant’s attire.

"Master!"

"Master!"

The man and woman greeted Chen Chong, one kneeling and the other bowing deeply.

Chen Chong glanced at their Loyalty: the maid’s was 65, the laborer’s 50.

’As expected, the characters summoned from low-level Cards don’t have very high Loyalty. They’re nothing compared to Wang Biao and the Tiger Striped Dog.’

’Not that I was expecting much from them, anyway. They’re just here to help with logistical tasks.’

’As long as I don’t exploit them, their Loyalty can be slowly nurtured.’

’Besides, they’re incapable of betraying me, and that’s what’s most important.’

Chen Chong instructed them to go assist Shen Xinrou with her clinic later. The two agreed without the slightest objection, nodding repeatedly.

Just then, Xu Jun seemed to remember something.

"Brother Chong, I forgot to tell you when you got back last night. Something happened with the Fishing Club. I didn’t go trade for fish yesterday because they sent one of their members to ask for help. It sounded like they wanted to discuss something with you."

Chen Chong’s brow furrowed slightly.

"The Fishing Club is asking me for help?"

...