Inside Woodheart's Instrument Laboratory.
"No, but there's nothing different about this Dark Flame Ancient Crow!?"
Ye Zhou crouched in front of an analytical instrument, studying the extracted Dark Flame Ancient Crow DNA with a frown as he repeated something he had already said countless times.
Su Ping glanced at him, fiddling with his phone:
"What difference do you want? For it to turn straight into another species? For other types of pet beasts to go straight from birds to plants or elementals? Ultimately, even pet beasts that disappeared into the long river of history, that degenerated or even went extinct, were still pet beasts at their core."
Ye Zhou looked troubled.
Su Ping, however, could no longer be bothered with him.
This guy had returned to Woodheart from the Dong Family on the third day of the Lunar New Year, ready to study the Dark Flame Ancient Crow's remains in Su Ping's Beast Taming Space. He had been studying them ever since.
Su Ping had buried the other remains in front of Little Crow Yaya, laying them to rest.
Only this Dark Flame Ancient Crow had been kept as a specimen for him and Ye Zhou to study extinct pet beasts, after obtaining Little Crow's consent.
"The problem is, there ought to be a reason! Why did Dark Flame Ancient Crows degenerate into Fire-Eating Crows? And why did this Dark Flame Ancient Crow undergo atavism under these circumstances? Aren't there reasons behind all of that?"
"Exactly. Isn't that what I told you? So go look for those reasons."
Su Ping smiled.
Ye Zhou rolled his eyes at him, then really began racking his brains. "Say, could it be because there were too few Dark Flame Ancient Crows, and they ended up inbreeding?"
This time, it was Su Ping's turn to