"Salty Vegetable Ultra-Man Part IX: Salty Vegetables and Dogs"

The reason why pickles want to take dogs as their teacher is that the dog's sense of smell is very sensitive, more sensitive than pregnant women's noses. The smell that other animals can't smell, the dog can smell it. Without looking or touching, he can detect unusual things. Even if the thing just passes by here, he can smell it. This is especially useful at night. Because of this superhuman ability, people and dogs have become best friends. Animals all know that people are smart because they can use the special skills of other animals to serve themselves. Elephants have good temper, so they let elephants carry heavy things. Cows are honest and obedient, so they use cows to plow and pull the plow to do heavy work. Horses run well, so they ride them for a journey. Donkeys don't get dizzy when turning in circles, so they use them to grind. Chickens are easy to get pregnant, so they let them keep getting pregnant and lay eggs. Only pigs have no special skills, lazy and gluttonous, they hate that pigs always affect the enthusiasm of other animals to serve people, so they kill pigs and eat them to relieve hatred. Other animals, like wolves, tigers, foxes, etc., also have their own specialties, but because humans can't control them, they stay far away and ignore them.

People and dogs are friends. While using the dog's specialty, I want to be famous. If I'm not famous soon, I'll jump off a building. People also say bad things about dogs. All the words related to dogs are unpleasant, such as "doggo", "dog stuff", "dog leg", "dog skin ointment", "dogs can't help eating shit", "puppy", "nonsense", "adding a dog's tail to a fox", "a dog will jump over a wall if it gets desperate", "spitting fire", "a dog trying to catch mice", "a dog relying on human power" and so on. Many animals can't figure out whether people and dogs are best friends or enemies.

Pickles wants to learn the sense of smell from the dog, but the dog doesn't want to take him as a disciple. Pickles won't leave then, standing in front of the doghouse door for three days and three nights, regardless of wind and rain. As a result, he stood a pit in front of the doghouse. Once it snowed, almost freezing Pickles to death. The dog was deeply moved and said to Pickles: "Pickles, it's not that I don't teach you, but I'm afraid you can't bear the hardship. Do you know how our dog's sense of smell is trained? We train by eating shit, especially children's diarrhea. Can you bear it?" Pickles felt nauseated after hearing it. He was just about to say he couldn't bear it, but thinking of roses, the words coming out of his mouth were: "I can."

Although he said that, the dog has taken him as a disciple. But when it really came to eating shit, Pickles saw the shit and vomited, unable to eat it. He asked the dog: "Why must we eat shit? Can't we eat something else?" The dog said: "Only when eating shit does the nose become stimulated, making the sense of smell more developed. Even if you don't eat shit, you need to eat stinky things like shit. But other stinky things are hard to find. Shit is the most economical and practical, so eating shit is better." After hearing this, Pickles wanted to back out. The dog, moved by Pickles' sincerity in seeking a teacher, taught him: "When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on someone, it must first make his mind suffer, and strain his muscles and bones... What you need to change is not the shit, but your attitude towards eating shit. Don't think of shit as shit. When you eat it, imagine it as meat. The taste will be different. For example, people, whether tiger meat or rat meat, it's all meat. Girls at twenty-eight years old, they're all fragrant. They differentiate them, imagine them, and the feeling when eating is quite different. If you want to be a superhero, you must surpass ordinary people in thought first, and then you can become a superhero in action." Following the dog's method, Pickles tried it, and the taste was indeed different. After eating for a while, he went from rejection to acceptance, and then from acceptance to liking it, until he was like the dog, grabbing and eating the shit he saw. After eating for a while, he could smell unusual odors from afar like the dog. Just his nose was like a dog's nose, often wet and sticky. This made him a little worried. He had learned the dog's skills, but if his nose was always like this, would roses dislike him when she sees him? Pickles thought about roses' reaction in his heart and felt quite troubled.