"My laboratory was built on the back mountain of Sacred Mountain Middle School. Some of the Chameleon Silkworms at the Chameleon Silkworm Farm were provided by me."
"That was the condition the principal offered when he invited me to teach at Sacred Mountain Middle School."
"Although Sacred Mountain Middle School had a long history, it had not achieved a top-eight result in either the Young Qilin Cup or the Phoenix Fledgling Cup for a very long time."
"I was the champion of the eightieth Young Qilin Cup."
"After learning that I had developed the Goddess of Light Butterfly, Principal Zhang Dashan set his sights on me. He offered a price I could not refuse and poached me."
Although Zhang Lingxue was a faculty member, she held considerable authority. Aside from necessary teaching duties, the school would not assign her any other work.
Sacred Mountain Middle School was determined to achieve a good ranking in the Phoenix Fledgling Cup and the Young Qilin Cup.
Zhang Lingxue had changed back into her white lab coat, which wrapped around her lovely figure and gave her an abstinent sort of charm.
She led Ye Bai to the heavily guarded laboratory.
Infrared beams extended from the heads of the patrolling machines. After scanning their identities, they automatically let them pass.
"I've already entered your information into the system, so these patrolling robots will treat you as one of their own."
"My laboratory is mainly used to research the Evolution Paths of Chameleon Silkworms."
"According to my current research, Chameleon Silkworms can also evolve into Dark Butterflies."
At that moment, a sharp whistling sound descended from the sky and landed in Zhang Lingxue's arms.
It was an incomparably tiny black butterfly. Its wings were as thin as gauze, like the finest Dark Night Glass in the world.
Its wings emitted a faint glow in the darkness.
"This is a Dark Butterfly, and it is also my second contracted pet beast."
"Its trait is that it can turn invisible in the darkness and share its vision with me, allowing me to see at night in the dark."
"The Military Department was very interested after hearing about it, and the Night Watchmen were interested too. They wanted to buy my evolution formula."
"The key problem now is that the Reproducibility Experiment won't work!"
"No matter how many times I repeat the experiment, at the critical moment, the Chameleon Silkworms only evolve into Gray Poison Moths."
"I originally wanted to ask Li Weiyang to take a look, but before I could even speak, she was taken away."
"I heard she was put under protection and wasn't coming back."
Zhang Lingxue told Ye Bai about the current bottleneck in her research.
"This is where I raise the Chameleon Silkworms."
The moment Zhang Lingxue pushed open the door, Ye Bai saw groups of plump, snowy-white Chameleon Silkworms.
They were eating an extremely expensive type of feed.
"For the sake of research results, these little fellows eat better than I do."
The Chameleon Silkworms here, large and small, had all been raised exceptionally well.
Their bodies were as white as jade and even gave off a faint fragrance.
"Let me see where the problem lies."
At the same time, he wanted to see the limits of his Eye of Insight.
Naturally, he had a standard by which to judge. After absorbing some of the essence of the Life Spirit Seed, Ye Bai had always felt that the Eye of Insight had changed.
If his eyes felt even slightly sore, he had to stop and could not continue. Otherwise, it might affect his eyesight.
Ye Bai activated the Eye of Insight.
To avoid being discovered, he had put on color-changing contact lenses long ago.
[Pet Beast Name: Chameleon Silkworm] [Level: lv2 (First Order Level 2)] [Skills: Ram, Silk Spit, Harden] [Evolution Path: Flame Butterfly. It must devour fire-element Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures before it can possibly evolve. If evolution fails, it will become a Gray Poison Moth.] [Pet Beast Name: Chameleon Silkworm] [Level: lv2 (First Order Level 2)] [Skills: Ram, Silk Spit, Harden] [Evolution Path: Gray Poison Moth]
Ye Bai inspected more than a dozen Chameleon Silkworms in one breath and discovered a problem.
If a Chameleon Silkworm failed to evolve, it would evolve down the failed path into a Gray Poison Moth.
Furthermore, the attribute energy within every Chameleon Silkworm was different.
They had to consume Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures suited to their attributes in order to guide them toward the correct direction of evolution.
[Pet Beast Name: Chameleon Silkworm] [Level: lv2 (First Order Level 2)] [Skills: Ram, Silk Spit, Harden] [Evolution Path: Dark Butterfly. It requires a large number of dark-element Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and must evolve at night. Otherwise, it will become a Gray Poison Moth.]
At last, Ye Bai found a Chameleon Silkworm capable of evolving into a Dark Butterfly.
"Teacher, have you tested the attributes inside the Chameleon Silkworms?"
The genes of Chameleon Silkworms were extremely complicated, and they possessed many mutated genes. Therefore, testing their attribute energy was of paramount importance.
"I know what you want to ask. You want to know whether I performed tests, whether feeding them unsuitable materials by mistake caused them to evolve incorrectly into Gray Poison Moths, right?"
"I have already tested the attributes of every Chameleon Silkworm here."
"That sort of thing you mentioned does not exist." Zhang Lingxue had already considered every detail she could think of and tested them all, yet it was still useless.
Instead, it left her thoughts tangled like a ball of hemp, making the problem even more troublesome.
As a result, even if she found a Chameleon Silkworm with the Dark Attribute, she did not dare to act rashly.
"By the way, Teacher, why isn't there a single person in this laboratory?"
Ye Bai made a round of the place without seeing a single soul, so he asked curiously.
"My place uses intelligent management. Everything is handled by robots."
"After all, the more people there are, the easier it is for rats to sneak in. If someone stole my research results, I'd cry myself to death."
Ye Bai nodded. It seemed his teacher trusted him completely, which was why she had brought him here.
"These are my research materials on the Dark Butterfly. See whether there's anything you can add. I also put the cases of failed evolution in there. Look through them carefully, and tell me if you find anything."
"I've been staying up late for days and am a little tired. I'm going to sleep first."
The Homeroom Teacher let out a deep yawn and headed toward the lounge.
Ye Bai took out the Homeroom Teacher's experimental records and quickly flipped through them.
Before long, he closed the book.
That was right. He already knew why Zhang Lingxue's research had failed: she had chosen the wrong time.
It lacked the factor of nighttime.
That was the reason for the failure.
Watching the numerous Chameleon Silkworms eat with soft rustling sounds, Ye Bai smiled as well.
Zhang Lingxue woke up after sleeping for an hour.
She came out looking full of energy. "Ye Bai, did you make any major discoveries?"
This was effectively Zhang Lingxue's assessment of Ye Bai. If he could not answer, he would lose points in her impression of him.
Naturally, Ye Bai did not want to leave a bad impression in his Homeroom Teacher's eyes.
"Teacher, I really did find a key point."
Zhang Lingxue's spirits immediately soared when she heard that.
"Tell me what you think."
Ye Bai already had the answer, so naturally, he had to work backward from it to deduce what he should say.
After pondering for a moment, he said to Zhang Lingxue, "Teacher, regarding the Dark Butterfly's evolution, do you think the environment has some special significance?"
"For example, perhaps evolution needs to occur at night. I noticed that your data all lack consideration of environmental factors."
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