The Strategic Development Department's office had become the most mysterious place in the entire Team Rocket Base.
There were no thunderous sounds of training here, only the crisp tapping of keyboards and the faint hum of equipment.
Lin Feng, the computer genius who struggled with words, had unleashed astonishing creativity under Ye Li's "guidance."
Ye Li had not told him any specific programming methods. He had merely offered an approach.
An approach based on the "save-and-load trick" from the games of his previous life.
[Don't think about creating Shiny genes. That would mean playing God, and we can't do that.]
[What you need to do is "predict."]
[Imagine the Pokémon Egg's hatching process as a game that is constantly being saved and reloaded.]
[Every tiny environmental change, every infusion of energy, could cause hundreds of millions of different random mutations in the gene sequence.]
[And what we need to do is find the one path among those hundreds of millions of possibilities that leads to a Shiny.]
This approach opened an entirely new door for Lin Feng.
He abandoned traditional gene comparison algorithms and began writing an entirely new prediction program based on "probability simulation" and "environmental parameter variables."
After half a month of sleepless, unrelenting work, an entirely new gene sequence comparison program was successfully created.
This program could simulate all kinds of minute mutations during a Pokémon Egg's hatching process.
By analyzing vast quantities of data, it could also calculate the specific combinations of environmental parameters most likely to induce a "Shiny" mutation.
For example, at the seventeenth hour of incubation, the temperature would be raised instantly by 0.3 degrees, while the surrounding electromagnetic frequency was adjusted to a specific number of hertz.
These minute adjustments, which would once have seemed meaningless, became the crucial keys to a miracle under the program's calculations.
Holding the report that combined Lin Feng's program with Dr. Anya's theories, Ye Li knocked on Giovanni's office door.
"Boss, the theory and program are complete."
"I need to request a batch of valuable Pokémon Eggs for the first experiment."
Giovanni took the report.
He could not understand the complex data and models on it, but he heard the utterly confident voice in Ye Li's mind.
He did not hesitate at all.
"Approved."
Not only did he approve Ye Li's request, but he also provided him with the highest-grade experimental resources.
A fully independent A-Class Hatching Laboratory equipped with the most advanced environmental simulation system.
And thirty Magikarp eggs carefully selected by the Breeding Base for their exceptional vitality.
The first experiment officially began.
Thirty Magikarp eggs were carefully placed into the incubators Engineer Wang had modified to allow precise control over every parameter.
Lin Feng sat at the main control computer, his expression focused as he entered a series of complex environmental control commands calculated by the program.
Temperature, humidity, light, sound waves, electromagnetic stimulation...
The incubators began simulating various combinations of extreme environmental conditions that were almost impossible to occur simultaneously in nature.
On the day of hatching.
Ye Li and his three team members all waited nervously outside the hatching room's heavy alloy doors.
This was the moment that would put their half-month of painstaking work to the test.
Success or failure hinged on this one attempt.
When the incubation time reached the critical point, the system inside the laboratory sounded a completion alert.
The alloy doors slowly opened.
Everyone held their breath.
The incubators' transparent lids popped upward.
A wave of warm, moist air washed over them.
Immediately afterward, a brilliant light, like molten gold, shone from one of the hatching compartments.
The light was so dazzling that everyone instinctively narrowed their eyes.
Thirty newly hatched Magikarp were weakly swishing their tails in the water.
Twenty-nine of them were the usual red.
Only one was a magnificent gold all over, gleaming beneath the lights like a perfect work of art.
It had worked.
One golden Shiny Magikarp had successfully hatched from the thirty eggs.
In terms of numbers, this result might have seemed insignificant.
Yet it proved with irrefutable facts that Ye Li's theory and technology were entirely feasible.
Artificially increasing the probability of Shiny Pokémon appearing, in a controlled manner.
This was a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of the entire Pokémon world.
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