What would the chicks born from mating a Phoenix Feather Chicken with a White-Crowing Chicken look like?
Wang Ba was full of curiosity.
But when he saw what hatched from the egg, he was somewhat surprised.
Other chicks were covered in pale yellow down when they first hatched.
This hybrid chick alone had gray down all over.
Otherwise, it was no different from an ordinary Spirit Chicken.
As usual, Wang Ba tested it first and unexpectedly discovered that this hybrid was not high grade as he had predicted, but a supreme-grade Spirit Chicken.
This was quite a pleasant surprise.
He waited patiently for another few days before depositing lifespan into this supreme-grade hybrid Spirit Chicken.
After the lifespan deposit, with ample Chicken Feed supplied, the chick grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, looking almost different every day.
Gradually, however, Wang Ba began noticing something unusual about the chick.
It never made a sound.
Even when it was clearly hungry and searching everywhere for food, it never let out so much as a cluck.
Stranger still, it never joined any of the other Spirit Chickens. It lived apart from the flock, and even when its mother, Jia Nine, came looking for it with her rump raised, it paid her no attention whatsoever, looking rather dazed.
It was even more extreme than the unsociable Jia Twelve and Jia Thirteen.
Yet it liked coming close to Wang Ba alone, especially when he was sitting down. It would jump onto his lap, nestle its head against his chest, and peck gently here and there.
Almost wherever Wang Ba went, it followed.
"Another problem chicken..."
Wang Ba rubbed between his brows in some distress.
But after caring for it so attentively for so long, he could not bear to give up on