Chapter 78: Chapter 73: Teacher Is Simply a Diamond-Gilded Golden Benefactor!
The Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm’s Blood Gu Butterfly clone and Zhang Lingxue’s Blood Gu Butterfly look identical in appearance, but when comparing their aura, Zhang Lingxue’s Blood Gu Butterfly is slightly superior.
"Ye Bai, let it try and see if it can manipulate Gu Poison."
"These Gu Poisons are actually Gu Insects invisible to the naked eye, named Blood Gu, which specialize in parasitizing human blood and live off it."
The Blood Gu Butterfly clone flapped its wings and flew to the reagent bottle containing Gu Poison.
Inside the reagent bottle, the milky-white liquid formed a straight line under the clone’s manipulation.
Zhang Lingxue could feel those Blood Gu being controlled by the clone.
"Ye Bai, I suddenly thought of a question."
"Does this clone count as an independent entity, and can you learn the skills it has mastered?"
Ye Bai understood Zhang Lingxue’s implication.
When a Pet Beast Master signs a contract with a Pet Beast, the Pet Beast Master can randomly draw one skill from the Pet Beast, allowing them to possess some combat power or self-defense capabilities.
The stronger the Pet Beast, the stronger the Pet Beast Master’s combat power will be.
However, Ye Bai currently only possesses two skills, one being Steel Armor, and the other being Rapid Run.
One increases his own defense, while the other increases his own speed; Ye Bai truly lacks any attack skills.
Ye Bai shook his head: "I haven’t learned other skills."
"This proves that the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm’s clone does not count as an independent entity and cannot exploit loopholes in the contract rules."
While Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue were discussing this, Chairman Wang’s secretary personally came over and took away the Sunflower King.
The Sunflower King, lead the Cultivation House and Tier Two sunflowers in the school’s Secret Realm, becoming the strongest working ’Paluru’.
Ten plump Hundred-Change Silkworms were released by Ye Bai from the Beast Card.
Due to tight timing, Zhang Lingxue planned to conduct reproducibility research simultaneously.
This kind of multi-individual evolution experiment is common in the country, but it requires higher competence from researchers.
Because during the evolution process, various abnormal situations may occur and require urgent handling.
In order to observe the evolution state of each Hundred-Change Silkworm individually, Zhang Lingxue partitioned the glass showcase for evolution into ten two-meter by two-meter by two-meter compartments.
Each compartment was individually equipped with three cameras for easy recording of the experimental results.
Her pet beast Light Goddess Butterfly and Blood Gu Butterfly were hovering in the air, patrolling.
"Alright, let’s begin the reproducibility experiment."
The Blood Gu Butterfly manipulated the Blood Gu to fly into the mouths of the ten Hundred-Change Silkworms.
In the first stage of swallowing the Blood Gu, quite a few Hundred-Change Silkworms started yawning.
"I guess these Hundred-Change Silkworms need to assimilate with the Blood Gu to evolve into Blood Gu Butterflies."
"That means the Blood Gu needs to survive in the Hundred-Change Silkworms’ bodies and proliferate to a certain scale."
At this point, Ye Bai, through the Eye of Insight, was already seeing some Hundred-Change Silkworms showing the evolutionary path to Blood Gu Butterflies.
This proves Ye Bai’s guess was right.
The Blood Gu is the hidden condition for Hundred-Change Silkworms evolving into Blood Gu Butterflies, and the evolutionary path for Blood Gu Butterflies counts as a hidden evolutionary route.
A certain condition must be met before the Eye of Insight can see it.
Ye Bai carefully observed these Hundred-Change Silkworms with the Blood Gu Butterfly evolutionary path and compared them with those without it.
This observation revealed the clue; all Hundred-Change Silkworms that adapted to the Blood Gu and showed the Blood Gu Butterfly evolutionary path fell into a deep sleep.
Those Hundred-Change Silkworms that didn’t adapt to the Blood Gu appeared anxious and uneasy.
Ye Bai immediately conveyed this phenomenon to Zhang Lingxue.
Zhang Lingxue used the skill of Manipulating Gu Poison and found that the Blood Gu within the sleeping Hundred-Change Silkworms had calmed down.
Conversely, the Blood Gu in the anxious Hundred-Change Silkworms was exceedingly active.
These Blood Gu were equivalent to invasive foreign viruses within the body, causing a major battle with the macrophages inside the Hundred-Change Silkworms.
This leads to various abnormal reactions in the Hundred-Change Silkworms’ bodies, such as high fever, muscle soreness, and runny nose.
"It seems that these Hundred-Change Silkworms have severe cellular rejection within their bodies."
"If I’m correct, we can determine whether the Hundred-Change Silkworms can accept Blood Gu through allergen testing."
"Or use special potions to reduce this rejection."
The strong reactions this time were from numbers one, four, seven, nine, and ten.
"Blood Gu Butterfly, manipulate Gu poison, and recover the Blood Gu."
"Light Goddess Butterfly, prepare to use the Goddess of Light’s forgiveness after the Blood Gu Butterfly recovers the Blood Gu."
The Blood Gu Butterfly opened its proboscis, emitting a low frequency wave, as it flew over the Hundred-Change Silkworms needing Blood Gu recovery.
Droplets of the milky-white liquid emerged from the noses of these Hundred-Change Silkworms and dropped into the Blood Gu Butterfly’s proboscis.
These Hundred-Change Silkworms instantly felt much more comfortable.
Zhang Lingxue seized the opportunity to perform rejection testing on them, and sure enough, their specific reactions were very high.
Meaning these Hundred-Change Silkworms have already ruled out the possibility of evolving into Blood Gu Butterflies.
The Light Goddess Butterfly flapped its wings, and waves of milky-white light descended from them.
The milky-white light fell onto the Hundred-Change Silkworms, making them feel as if they were soaking in a hot spring, relaxing and falling asleep.
This experiment was very successful; it distinguished which Hundred-Change Silkworms could evolve into Blood Gu Butterflies.
This counts as a small progress.
Taking advantage of this brief break.
Zhang Lingxue decided to disclose something to Ye Bai: "Ye Bai, you have been my direct disciple for a while now."
"I need to tell you, in a few days, my mentor, who is also your grandmaster, will be coming to Jiaying City."
"Your grandmaster is the director of the Imperial Capital Research Institute, Academician Su Qingxian."
"I am her youngest direct disciple."
"She will be coming to Jiaying City next week."
"But you must not disclose this information, or I am afraid someone might harm my mentor."
"Next week, the security level of Jiaying City will be raised to the highest, ensuring not even a mosquito can fly in."
Ye Bai felt a massive surprise hit him on the head, making him feel a bit dizzy like a drunk person.
Academician Su Qingxian, the iron lady of the scientific community, she is a scientist whom all researchers profoundly respect.
How could someone as insubstantial as me become the disciple grandchild of Academician Su Qingxian?
This enormous fortune has finally fallen into my lap.
Teacher Zhang Lingxue is truly a golden thigh adorned with diamonds!
Knowing this familial connection, I must ensure nothing happens to the grandmaster.
"Let’s make an effort this time to perfect the reproducibility experiments of the Blood Gu Butterfly and Blood Poison Moth, as well as these two evolutionary paths of Dark Butterfly and Star Wave Butterfly."
"Hopefully, the teacher won’t criticize me again."
Zhang Lingxue stuck out her tongue somewhat sheepishly, knowing how strict her teacher’s requirements in research are.
If unable to satisfy her, she would reprimand mercilessly.
Zhang Lingxue secretly squeezed her hand in anticipation.
Help, the big demon of the research world is coming.
Zhang Lingxue seemed to see her teacher holding a small whip.
The experiment was subsequently divided into two groups.
One group was for the evolution experiment of the Blood Gu Butterfly, while the other was for the Blood Poison Moth.
For ease of observation, these Hundred-Change Silkworms were relocated, divided into a Gu group and a Poison group, and renumbered.
Apart from the Gu Poison, all other parameters were the same.
Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue mixed them in according to the proportions.
At the time of investing the Blood Core and Spiritual Crystal Core, the Hundred-Change Silkworms remained unharmed.
However, when the Tier Four Exotic Beast meat was added, the Poison group of Hundred-Change Silkworms started to swell rapidly.
"Blood Gu Butterfly, use sucking blood."
"Light Goddess Butterfly, use the Goddess of Light’s forgiveness."
Zhang Lingxue shouted loudly.
The Blood Gu Butterfly flapped its wings, and waves of mighty blood energy emerged from the seven orifices of the Hundred-Change Silkworms, pouring into the Blood Gu Butterfly’s body.
The Hundred-Change Silkworms deflated like a punctured balloon, retracting back.
Subsequently, a holy light fell upon these Hundred-Change Silkworms.
In no time, these Hundred-Change Silkworms, which were about to expire, recovered.
"Ye Bai, I think the evolutionary plan for the Blood Poison Moth needs partial adjustment."
"The energy contained in Tier Four Exotic Beast meat is too massive for the Hundred-Change Silkworms."
"So often before absorption, the Hundred-Change Silkworms’ bodies are filled with energy, leading to the self-explosion phenomenon of rapid body expansion."
"Look at the Gu group’s Hundred-Change Silkworms, they had no issues, proving the Blood Gu inside them helps digest the energy from the Tier Four Exotic Beast meat."
"I can feel that within a short period, the number of Blood Gu in the Gu group’s Hundred-Change Silkworms has doubled."
"For the Blood Poison Moth experiment, I suggest trying Tier Three Exotic Beast meat."
"Tier Three Exotic Beast meat is gentler, easier for the Hundred-Change Silkworms to absorb."
Zhang Lingxue pointed out the shortcomings of the experiment with her rich experience and keen insight.
"It’s mainly because it was my first time conducting an evolution experiment with the Hundred-Change Silkworms; I thought it was a normal phenomenon."
"So I didn’t consider other aspects."
Ye Bai’s face turned slightly red; he actually made such a simple mistake.
The Eye of Insight said the higher-tier the Exotic Beast meat, the higher the success rate.
He thought the higher the tier of Exotic Beast meat invested, the higher the success rate of evolution, but he overlooked the body tolerance of the Hundred-Change Silkworms.
Without the Sunflower King’s rescue, his experiment would have been doomed to fail.
Ye Bai took out Tier Three Exotic Beast meat from the cold storage, and the following time was spent continuously observing the state of the Hundred-Change Silkworms.
The experiment lasted for two days and nights, and the faces of both were covered with dark circles, finally reaching the time for the Hundred-Change Silkworms to cocoon.
However, Ye Bai was somewhat surprised that in the Gu group, two of the Hundred-Change Silkworms formed cocoons resembling blood-red gems, while the remaining three formed blood-red insect cocoons.
The Poison group’s Hundred-Change Silkworms formed three blood-red insect cocoons and two white insect cocoons.