Beep, beep—
Dai Le's identity was verified, and the electronic security door opened.
Simon hurried over as well.
"Leader!"
Yu Yuan caught a rich floral fragrance coming from him, a complex blend of many different flowers.
Clearly, Simon had been making [Hundred-Flower Honeydew] when Zhou Yuan summoned him.
"Come on! Let's go in together!"
The cultivation chamber was divided into an outer room and an inner room.
The outer room was larger, while the inner room was smaller.
Yet Yu Yuan noticed that entering the inner room from the outer one required passing through another electronic security door.
The inner room's walls also appeared to have been specially reinforced. From their visible thickness alone, they were half a meter thick.
The inner room had an even higher security rating than the outer room.
Yu Yuan already had an inkling of what was inside.
He turned his attention to the outer room's layout. Twenty independent Cultivation Boxes stood in a 5 × 4 array.
Each Cultivation Box had its own touchscreen computer outside it.
Yu Yuan walked up to the nearest Cultivation Box.
Click—
The lights came on, and an overhead spotlight illuminated both Yu Yuan and the Cultivation Box.
The computer screen lit up.
It displayed the following information.
Baseline species: Yellow Mealworm Mutation induction time: 11 days, 6 hours, 53 minutes Mutation induction regimen: 1 drop of Hundred-Flower Honeydew daily + thermal radiation from lava crystal stone Number of specimens: 1 Initial Cultivation Box temperature: 25°C Current Cultivation Box temperature: 35°C Mutation induction status: increased heat resistance, red lines appearing on body surface, enlarged body size Biological danger level: extremely low Biological mutation induction level: high
Inside the Cultivation Box, a worm as thick as an index finger lay motionless.
Its plump body still bore traces of