"Holy crap! Is this 'Lady Lisa' a bit too rough on kids?"
Just before the puppy hit the table, Leon caught it in his arms and checked it over, a string of question marks popping into his mind.
No wonder, Lady Lisa was a Golden Retriever, but the puppy he held, with its blue eyes, was a typical black-and-white, with two triangular ears stubbornly erect, and three white dots on its brow forming a chubby "fire" character...
This was obviously a husky!
Hmm... wait a minute.
As he was about to make a judgment, Leon noticed some sparse golden fur on the puppy's head, likely belonging to a human's scalp, towards the back of the dog's skull, and its color matched Lady Lisa's perfectly.
After exchanging a glance with the Young Ha staring at him stubbornly from his arms, Leon looked at the big Golden Retriever in the glass panel with confusion, then turned his head towards Senior Jerry beside him.
"Is Lady Lisa's... uh... partner possibly a husky?"
"No, Lisa's husband is the same breed as her, also golden."
Looking at the Young Ha in Leon's hands, the short man sighed helplessly,
"This is the child of Lisa's husband and his mistress."
Damn mistress! So the male Golden Retriever cheated with a female husky and brought the kid back home for the female Golden to raise?
"Ah, you wouldn't know, the situation at their place is quite complicated."
The short man shook his head as he glanced at Leon's dumbfounded face,
"Lisa's husband... well... isn't a good guy. When the Mirror World invaded three years ago and he sensed something was amiss, he took off early with his mistress, leaving a whole litter of kids behind. Lisa, having no kids of her own and hearing the little guys crying pitifully, adopted her husband's mistress's child.
Though she could reluctantly raise the other kids as her own for the sake of her husband, this little guy, apart from that tuft of golden hair on his head, looked just like his biological mother, and every time Lisa saw him she would remember her husband's mistress.
Ah... Although Lisa had a soft heart and continued to raise this little guy, she couldn't help feeling blocked inside, secretly crying whenever she saw him for the first two years, so it's actually a good thing for you to take him away."
With a somewhat stiff expression after hearing this "dog blood drama," Leon looked at the golden retriever with its back turned in the glass panel, its back twitching, and didn't know what else to say but to stroke the small golden tuft on Young Ha's head.
[Name: Mirror Dog (Passage)]
[Appearance: A juvenile husky with sparse golden fur on its head]
[Ability: Enter and exit the Mirror World]
[Cost: 3-4 small bowls of dog food per day, approximately 80-120 grams each time, while ensuring certain exercise, but its food intake will increase with age]
[File: A Mirror World creature, 3 years and 6 months old, presented to Level Three Incident Handler Leon Laine by Level Two Crisis Handler Jerry Baker at the Virgin Branch of the Purification Bureau]
[Evaluation: A rare and fascinating creature able to travel freely between two worlds, with intelligence slightly higher than ordinary dogs and an incredibly long lifespan of its own.
Its growth and aging rate is one-fifth that of normal humans, reaching twenty-five times that of regular dogs. If well kept, it could outlive your eighteenth generation of descendants]
[Corrosion Value: 0.1]
It was... quite easy to raise...
Stroking the excellent-feeling golden tuft on Young Ha's head, Leon looked up at Senior Jerry with some reluctance and couldn't help but speak,
"I need a place to store a box, isn't it a bit too small? Can it hold things?"
"Don't worry, they store things by 'passage,' not 'movement,' so there's no need to physically move things in."
As the short man spoke, he took out a small mirror from his pocket and gave a slight wave over the pile of anomalous objects on the table.
With the familiar bark, anything on the table within the little mirror's sight disappeared as if erased with a rubber, and the reflection in the mirror showed another table, now filled with those items.
"See, that's how it works."
After demonstrating the basic usage of the [Mirror Dog], the short man returned to his desk, rummaged through a drawer underneath, and handed over an identical small mirror, then seriously cautioned,
"Also, they are not just storage tools, but very exceptional assistants and companions!
Because the definition of the Mirror World is not just 'mirrors' themselves, anything that reflects an image is essentially an entrance to the Mirror World.
So don't be fooled by this little one, with the lowest Leon Value almost, but if used well, its ability can be life-saving in critical moments... !"
The short man spoke while kicking away the office carpet, revealing the cement floor below, then took a glass of water from the table and splashed most of it on the ground.
After a few seconds, as the water on the ground stabilized into a relatively calm "mirror," Lady Lisa's figure appeared in the puddle, subsequently fetching a knife and tossing it over.
"I was once ambushed by the Bai Ye Sect, all my possessions taken, tied up and locked in a pitch-black dungeon, and they thought they'd hold me, but they didn't know I had Lisa."
Pointing to the puddle on the ground, the short man said with lingering fear,
"Those lunatics were actually very cautious, but during interrogation, I kept babbling nonsense and managed to ask for several glasses of water, then held in my urine for half a day to form a puddle on the ground, and with a pre-prepared emergency anomalous object to heal my injuries, I narrowly escaped."
"And besides saving your life in critical moments, it can also do this."
Reaching into his pocket and retrieving a palm-sized metal object, the short man placed this heavy metal ball in Leon's palm, then snapped his fingers lightly.
With a bark so close as if right next to him, Leon's vision blurred, and the metal ball vanished directly from his hand!
"Human eyes, in fact, also have reflections, and as long as the object you see isn't blocked, Lisa can take it away directly, and not only can she take things, but she can put them back again."
Pointing to the small metal ball that reappeared with the bark, the short man warned solemnly,
"This thing in your hand is a whale oil bomb that I got from the military, with a blast effect extra-enhanced by an anomalous object. Once activated, it could destroy an entire building, releasing a burning agent over 1000 degrees Celsius, and after training that little guy can place it right in your enemy's face."
No wonder you're a "half-first-level" expert, Senior Emma's using a large sniper rifle already seems outrageous enough, but you throwing explosives is ten times as unprincipled!!!
From Leon's eyes, seeing the intense shock and admiration, the short man, eager to make friends with this "appraisal master," let out a chuckle.
"Of course, forcibly taking or releasing larger items from such a small reflection is not ordinarily possible; before you break through a Leon Value of 10 points, it's probably not feasible, and that little guy will need to grow a bit more for you to do it currently.
My purpose for telling you this is to encourage you to pay attention to that little guy, don't just view him as a luggage box that doesn't need carrying; his ability is indeed quite remarkable and it's a shame not to make good use of it.
Oh, and in the future, when you're able to use the whale oil bomb, feel free to come here and find me; I'll gladly give you a couple for free, but for now... Uh..."
Hearing the puppy's whimpering beside him and realizing that the whale oil bomb had suddenly disappeared from Leon's palm, the short man was utterly shocked.
"How did you do that?! Do you have an anomalous object that can communicate with animals too?"