When they had wanted it, a few words had made it seem easy enough; but once the other side actually delivered it, it became too hot to handle.
Tai Yu truly was not sure what to do with it. Even if the nutrient pod contained only an incompletely differentiated Clone embryo, one that might not even count as a proper life form in legal terms, it was not something he could simply use for experiments.
And before any experiment, he would have to find a way to feed it and raise it to maturity, which was another headache.
Never mind that there was nearly a year left for installment payments—if anything went wrong along the way, this precious "experimental embryo" might perish in his hands before the second payment was even made.
The experimental conditions were too rudimentary!
Even with an Ancient God-level experimental platform at his disposal, Tai Yu still found things difficult. He could not help wondering whether Chang Yi Zhen had been so generous precisely because he was certain Tai Yu would be unable to make use of it.
There was clearly no point dwelling on it now, so Tai Yu took the initiative to change the subject and smiled at Xin Rui.
"What, was studying too hard, so you skipped class? Or did Priest Corbin and the others give you time off?"
Though he said that, Tai Yu also felt that even if the Dawn System's internal atmosphere was more relaxed than that of the Ruin and Fall System, it should not have been relaxed enough for an Acolyte Priest like Xin Rui, who had only just arrived to study, to come and go from Plane One as she pleased.
Ever since Tai Yu arrived, Xin Rui had been unable to stop herself from looking the