Beast Taming: I Can Evolve Indefinitely

Chapter 233: Chapter 229: Gene Problem?

Translator: 549690339

“Aunt Luo, this is your room.”

Lu Qing pointed to the luxurious suite in front of her and smiled, “I need to go to my teacher’s place. I’ll come back to chat with you, Aunt Luo, later.”

“Okay, go ahead, Qing’er.”

With a smile spread across her face, Luo Zhu looked at Lu Qing as if she were her own daughter-in-law.

Upon seeing this, Bai Qi felt a thump in his chest. After Lu Qing left, he rushed to Luo Zhu and said, “Mom, you can’t have any dangerous ideas.”

Luo Zhu rolled her eyes and said, “Do you think your mom is a fool? If you were as dumb as your father, I might really have some ideas, but looking at you now, forgetit.”

Good, in case mom really goes off the deep end and tries to set them up, he wouldn’t be able to face Lu Qing anymore.

“Okay, enough teasing, go check out your dorm. It’s an excellent time to tell me what you’ve been up to lately.”

“Okay.”

Bai Qi, along with Bai Yan and Luo Zhu, returned to his dorm. After a brief tour, Bai Qi took the two of them into his personal secret realm.

Even though they weren’t Beast Masters, as high-end researchers, they had been in other people’s secret realms before. But when they saw the futuristic base in front of them, they were both astonished.

“Son, did you build this base?”

Bai Yan asked somewhat uncertainly.

“Of course not.”

Bai Qi shook his head and summoned his four pets and six sword servants.

“Schuck did the blueprint design while the Six Sword Servants executed the construction. At most, I was a supervisor.”

Bai Yan: ”???? ”

Looking at the ten different creatures in front of her, Luo Zhu commented, “Son, you’ve truly surprised your mom and dad.”

“It’s okay, I got a little luckier than most.”

Bai Qi scratched his head, then began introducing the creatures to Bai Yan and Luo Zhu.

“This is Alpha, my first pet. It’s a speed mutant. It started as a skeleton soldier and is now the king-class creature, the Death Sword Monarch.”

Bai Qi pointed to Alpha and six sword servants behind it, “As for these six, they consider Alpha their overlord, but they’re just high-grade Elites.”

“A servant-class skeleton soldier was raised to king-class?”

Bai Yan and Luo Zhu exchanged glances, their eyes filled with an equal measure of fanaticism.

They had heard about Bai Qi’s ‘Breaking the Void’ talent from Lan Ke. It was a special and specific ability that offered little assistance to pet training and combat itself.

Yet, Bai Qi had managed to raise a skeleton soldier to the rank of king. Disregarding Bai Qi’s personal factors, maybe this particular pet had a unique characteristic that allowed it to progress rapidly? It was definitely worth looking into.

Unaware of his parents’ unusual reaction, Bai Qi moved on to introduce Schuck Beta.

“Schuck Beta was originally an Ice Wolf with a spirit mutation. It’s now a Lord-level creature, the War Lord, thanks to a fortuitous encounter where it merged with something mechanical.”

Bai Qi pointed to Schuck Beta’s two heads, “This creature, however, has a split personality. It has two consciousnesses.”

“Two consciousnesses?”

Upon hearing Bai Qi’s words, Luo Zhu couldn’t suppress her research impulse any longer. She grabbed the two heads of the Husky and began examining them closely.

“Although I’ve heard that super energy pets might split into different consciousness when their mental power reaches a certain bottleneck, this is the first time I’ve seen one alive.”

Luo Zhu’s eyes glistened as she kept analyzing Beta’s head. Bai Yan also leaned in, “The consciousness split isn’t that special, but the potential research value of this mechanical skull being perfectly integrated with flesh is greater. It’s a shame we don’t have tools here. Otherwise, we could take a sample.”

“Exactly, if we can base our research on how metal and flesh can coexist, and investigate metallic cells, maybe mechanical prosthetics could do more than just facilitate movement.”

“And then that one over there…”

Aowoo!!!

(Can I run away, human?!)

Upon hearing Bai Yan and Luo Zhu’s increasingly terrifying conversation, sturdy as Beta was, it couldn’t handle it anymore. If Bai Qi weren’t there, it would’ve run away straightaway.

“Notallowed, mom and dad are just joking.”

Bai Qi promptly intervened at the mention of experimentation. Meanwhile, Beta wore a disheartened expression.

Aowoo…

(But I feel like… they’re not joking…)

“Don’t worry, I’ve already put away all the lab equipment.”

With a red flash in Schuck’s eyes, all rooms related to research in the base were sealed. Only then did Beta calm down.

Finally, they understood where Bai Qi got his odd ideas from – it was definitely inherited!

Luckily, Bai Qi also noticed that his mom and dad’s conversation was veering off track, so he quickly interjected:

“Ahem, Mom, Dad, how about we discuss dissection another time, let me first finish introducing my two remaining pets?”

At Bai Qi’s words, Bai Yan and Luo Zhu realized that they had gotten engrossed in their conversation and forgot about their son. They reluctantly released the husky, gave an embarrassed smile to Bai Qi, and said, “Continue son, continue.”

Bai Qi paused for a moment, walked up to Gamma, and said, “Gamma, a prototype of Slime Monster, a physical mutant, has evolved to a Lord-level Undying King.”

“Wait a minute, why are all three of your pets mutants?”

Unable to contain his curiosity, Bai Yan asked before Bai Qi could answer, but Luo Zhu immediately cut him off.

“So what if my son is lucky? Why are you talking so much? Let my son explain!”

Luo Zhu gave Bai Yan an angry stare, then immediately switched to a smiling expression, saying, “But I’m rather curious too. Son, where did you find all these mutants?”

Bai Qi tilted his head and thought for a moment before saying, “Perhaps, it’s just pure luck?”

Alpha came on its own, and even activated his Golden Finger. Husky, he had known even before Alpha, was also given to him by Zhuge Chen.

As for Gamma, it was a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

In simple terms, it was all luck.

“Fine.”

Bai Yan and Luo Zhu exchanged glances but didn’t probe further. Instead, they directed their attention to Delta, Bai Qi’s last pet.

“What about this Ancestral Beast? Is it a mutant too?”

Bai Qi shook his head, saying, “No, Delta is a regular Ancestral Beast.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Yan slightly nodded. If all Bai Qi’s pets were mutants, it would indeed be too much.

“But son, why haven’t you arranged for your Ancestral Beast to undergo evolution? Do you still need time to decide?”

Bai Qi shook his head again and explained Delta’s situation in detail to Bai Yan and Luo Zhu.

“Unable to maintain its evolved form?”

There was a sharp light in Bai Yan’s eyes. He said, “The gene of the Ancestral Beast is quite special. It has basically retained the state from the ancient times, which is why the Federation chose this name because it could be the ancestor of many pets.”

“But usually, after being stimulated by strong external energy, the Ancestral Beast’s genetic sequence would make corresponding changes. It should not degenerate.”

Luo Zhu also looked puzzled and said, “There are generally three reasons for the degeneration. First, the body is seriously injured and the body instinctively degenerates to relieve the injury; second, there are problems with the contract causing soul damage. Unable to maintain its current abilities, it will choose to degenerate on its own.”

“If your Ancestral Beast was in this situation before the contract and remains so even after the contract, it should be the third situation: inherent genetic problems.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Qi was taken aback, “A genetic problem? But as Delta’s basic data improves, the time to maintain evolution is noticeably longer. Shouldn’t it be this aspect?”

Luo Zhu shook her head and said, “Basic data is just external. Like a leaky bucket, the larger the bucket, the longer it takes to empty, but the final result is the same.”

“So, is Delta unable to continue evolving?”

Upon hearing this, Bai Qi was a bit disappointed. It took a lot of effort to get the Space Crystal Stone, which could awaken Delta’s skills. Now, it was said that Delta was doomed to be unable to evolve, which was a blow to both Bai Qi and Delta.

“No, as long as we can find the root cause.”

Bai Yan shook his head and said, “Delta’s evolution gene is unstable. It is either because its own gene sequence is too weak to maintain a stronger gene sequence, or it’s too strong, and a regular gene sequence simply cannot change it.”

You just said that even without evolution, Delta can retain some space attributes, right?”

Bai Qi nodded and said, “Yes, my teacher gave some Space Crystal Fragments. After Delta absorbed them, its attacks gained space attributes.”

After thinking for a moment, Bai Yan said, “If I’m not guessing wrong, the gene sequence of your Ancestral Beast should be too strong. After each evolution, it quickly goes back to its original state. And you mentioned that the prolonging of the maintenance time due to the energy value increase, it may just forcefully slow down the restoration of the gene sequence.”

Listening to Bai Yan’s explanation, Bai Qi and Delta felt as if alight bulb went off in their heads. It turns out that Delta wasn’t too weak, but too strong all along.

Well, in that case, they need to continue working hard to find an evolved form that can break through Delta’s gene sequence.

“But all of this is just Dad’s speculation. If you can, I hope you could bring Delta to my laboratory for a comprehensive examination.”

Bai Yan gently patted Delta’s head, a glimmer of curiosity in his eyes. Luo Zhu also mirrored the same expression.

“Well, let’s hold off on that for now. If I understand correctly, I just need to find an evolution form that can break Delta’s gene sequence, right? That gives me a rough direction.”

Even though his parents were unlikely to dissect Delta, there was still a chance that someone else might want to. Bai Qi didn’t want to take that risk.

Now that he understood the issue with Delta’s degeneration, the problem should be easy to solve.

But his parents were making sense. He should buy a complete set of gene testing equipment and conduct a test on Delta when he gets a chance.

He’s not short on money anyway –