"My research institute is established on the back mountain of Shen Mountain Middle School, and a portion of the Hundred-Change Silkworms in the breeding farm is provided by me."
"This was the condition set by the principal when he invited me to teach at Shen Mountain Middle School."
"Although Shen Mountain Middle School is a school with a long history, it hasn't achieved a top eight ranking in the Young Qilin Cup and Phoenix Cup for a long time."
"I was once the champion of the 80th Young Qilin Cup."
"After learning that I had developed the Light Goddess Butterfly, Principal Zhang Dashan was tempted and offered me an irresistible price to bring me over."
Although Zhang Lingxue is a faculty member, she has extensive authority, and aside from necessary teachings, the school does not assign her other tasks.
Shen Mountain Middle School is keen to achieve good rankings in the Phoenix Cup and Young Qilin Cup.
Now, Zhang Lingxue put on a white lab coat enveloping her graceful figure, exuding a kind of ascetic charm.
She led Ye Bai to the highly guarded research institute.
The patrolling machine heads emitted infrared rays that, after scanning the identities of the two, automatically let them pass.
"I've already entered your information into the system, so these patrolling robots will treat you as one of us."
"My research institute mainly focuses on studying the evolutionary path of the Hundred-Change Silkworm."
"According to my current research, the Hundred-Change Silkworm can also evolve into the Dark Butterfly."
At this moment, a sound from the sky descended, landing in Zhang Lingxue's arms.
It was an extremely delicate black butterfly, its wings thin and transparent like the finest dark night crystal in the world.
Its wings emitted a faint glow in the darkness.
"This is the Dark Butterfly, also my second contracted pet beast."
"Its trait is being able to become invisible in the night and share vision, allowing me to have night vision in darkness."
"The military is very interested, and the Night Watcher is also interested, wanting to purchase my evolutionary formula."
"The current key issue is that reproducible experiments aren't succeeding!"
"No matter how many times the experiments are repeated, at the critical moment, the Hundred-Change Silkworm only evolves into the Gray Poison Moth."
"Initially, I wanted student Li Weiyang to help look at this, but before I could speak, she was taken away by someone."
"It's said that she's been protected and won't return."
Zhang Lingxue disclosed the current bottleneck in the research to Ye Bai.
"This is where I nurture the Hundred-Change Silkworms."
As Zhang Lingxue opened the door, Ye Bai immediately noticed a group of plump white Hundred-Change Silkworms.
They were eating a type of very expensive feed.
"For the sake of research results, these creatures eat better than I do."
The Hundred-Change Silkworms, large and small, were all well nurtured.
Their bodies were as white as jade, emitting a faint fragrance.
"Let me see where the problem is."
Incidentally, he also wanted to witness the limitations of his Eye of Insight.
He naturally had a judgment standard in mind, after absorbing some essence from the life spirit seed, Ye Bai always felt that the Eye of Insight had changed.
If the eyes felt a slight sourness, one must stop and not continue, otherwise, it might affect eyesight.
Ye Bai opened his Eye of Insight.
To avoid being noticed, he had early on worn colored contact lenses.
[Pet Beast Name: Hundred-Change Silkworm]
[Level: lv2 (Tier One, Level Two)]
[Skills: Impact, Silk Spitting, Hardening]
[Evolutionary Path: Flame Butterfly, must devour Fire Element's Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to potentially evolve, failing would lead to evolving into Gray Poison Moth.]
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[Pet Beast Name: Hundred-Change Silkworm]
[Level: lv2 (Tier One, Level Two)]
[Skills: Impact, Silk Spitting, Hardening]
[Evolutionary Path: Gray Poison Moth]
.......
Ye Bai looked through over a dozen Hundred-Change Silkworms and discovered a problem.
If the Hundred-Change Silkworm fails to evolve, it will involuntarily evolve into a Gray Poison Moth.
And the attribute energy within each Hundred-Change Silkworm is different.
They must consume Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that match their attributes to guide them towards the correct evolutionary direction.
[Pet Beast Name: Hundred-Change Silkworm]
[Level: lv2 (Tier One, Level Two)]
[Skills: Impact, Silk Spitting, Hardening]
[Evolutionary Path: Dark Butterfly, requires many Dark Element Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and evolution must occur at night, or else it will turn into Gray Poison Moth.]
Ye Bai finally found a Hundred-Change Silkworm that could evolve into a Dark Butterfly.
"Teacher, have you tested the attributes inside the Hundred-Change Silkworms?"
The genes of the Hundred-Change Silkworms are complex, with many mutant genes, so testing attribute energy has become of utmost importance.
"I know what you're asking, you want to know if I have done testing to see if incorrect feeding of unsuitable materials led to incorrect evolution into Gray Poison Moth, right?"
"Every Hundred-Change Silkworm here has had its attributes tested."
"There's no such situation as you've mentioned." Zhang Lingxue has thought through every aspect she could think of and has tested them, but it was still useless.
Instead, this made her thoughts more chaotic and messy, making things thornier.
Even when identifying Hundred-Change Silkworms with Dark Attributes, she dared not proceed.
"By the way, Teacher, why is there no one in this research institute?"
Ye Bai walked around and did not see a single person, prompting him to ask curiously.
"I utilize intelligent management here, using robots throughout."
"After all, the more people, the easier it is for rats to sneak in. If my research results were stolen, I would be devastated."
Ye Bai nodded, seemingly the teacher trusts him entirely to have brought him here.
"This is my research data on the Dark Butterfly, take a look at what's missing, including cases of failed evolution, which I've also included, review it carefully and let me know if you have results."
"I've been staying up late and am a bit tired, need to rest first."
The homeroom teacher yawned deeply and walked toward the lounge.
Ye Bai took out the teacher's experimental records and quickly glanced through them.
Before long, he closed the book.
Sure enough, he already knew why Zhang Lingxue's research was failing, because she chose the wrong timing.
A crucial factor missing was nighttime.
This was the reason for the failures.
Observing the numerous Hundred-Change Silkworms eating, producing rustling sounds, Ye Bai also smiled.
After an hour's nap, Zhang Lingxue woke up.
She energetically walked out: "Ye Bai, have you made any big discoveries?"
This was essentially Zhang Lingxue's assessment of Ye Bai; failing to answer would cost him her good impression.
Ye Bai certainly didn't want to leave a negative impression on the homeroom teacher.
"Teacher, I indeed found a key point."
Zhang Lingxue perked up immediately upon hearing.
"Tell me your ideas."
Having the answer, Ye Bai naturally began recounting what he'd deduced from the answer.
He pondered for a moment, then said to Zhang Lingxue, "Teacher, regarding the Dark Butterfly's evolution, do you think environmental factors have special significance?"
"For instance, the evolution needing to happen at night. I found that your data lacked an environmental consideration."