Chapter 93: Opening the Cocoon of Information

"This involves another issue."

"The genes of Negative Electric Rabbits are unstable; they can spit out electrical currents that their bodies cannot absorb."

"But as they age, the amount of current they cannot spit out increases, and they become like walking bombs; as long as they are touched lightly, they will explode."

"This causes immense destruction to the environment of the Western Region."

"This is the origin and sequence of events that led to the opening of the Negative Electric Rabbit research."

"Negative Electric Rabbits have an extremely strong reproductive capacity, so they cannot be wiped out; if they are pushed to the limit, they will even Self-Destruct to injure their enemies."

Zhang Lingxue seemed to recall some unpleasant things.

"No wonder, this truly needs to be studied carefully, so the ultimate goal of our experiment is not to make the Negative Electric Rabbit evolve, nor is it to make the Negative Electric Rabbit increase the amount of electricity stored in its body."

"Rather, it is to make the Negative Electric Rabbit not easily Self-Destruct; that is the focus of the research, right?"

Ye Bai asked softly.

Understanding the purpose of the experiment is important; one must solve problems from the root, rather than treating the head when the head aches and the foot when the foot aches.

Some of the information Zhang Lingxue mentioned earlier actually misled Ye Bai; what Zhang Lingxue spoke of were the goals and directions the Western Research Institute wanted to develop, not the goals and directions initially set by the authorities.

This is actually like splitting hairs, narrowing the path and limiting the direction of research to this scope.

"So our true purpose is to study how to prevent the Negative Electric Rabbit from exploding and causing an impact on the ecological environment of the Western Region."

"If possible, being able to have the Negative Electric Rabbit supply electrical current so that the Western Region can have an ample power supply, is that what you mean?"

Through Ye Bai's layer-by-layer analysis, Zhang Lingxue stepped out of the blind spot set for her by the Western Research Institute.

Yes, wasn't the initial purpose just to prevent the Negative Electric Rabbit from Self-Destructing?

Why did it escalate to making the Negative Electric Rabbit evolve?

Zhang Lingxue was also deeply doubting why she had walked into a dead end and could not get out.

Right, the Negative Electric Rabbit grazing plan.

A flash of inspiration crossed Zhang Lingxue's mind.

Because she lacked a lot of data, her source of intelligence was mainly through the retelling of her master, as well as some hearsay.

The Negative Electric Rabbit grazing plan was merely a derivative product of the Negative Electric Rabbit research.

This is actually an information cocoon; fragments of information will subconsciously suggest to oneself to walk in that direction, rather than thinking about why one should do so.

If one really followed that direction, one might never research anything in a lifetime and would still be led by the nose.

"I almost fell into the trap."

"Fortunately, those people didn't give me the data; if we had read that data, we might have followed their line of thinking and been led by the nose."

"Truly insidious, a dirty tactic."

With Ye Bai's guidance, Zhang Lingxue had a brand new research direction.

"Now we must find a way to find the reason why Negative Electric Rabbits Self-Destruct when they reach a certain age."

"When they reach the time to advance, they also Self-Destruct; is there any connection between the two?"

Zhang Lingxue thought deeply; she always felt there was a certain connection between the two.

The Negative Electric Rabbit leader looked at Zhang Lingxue and Ye Bai with a ferocious gaze; it licked its lips, feeling that Ye Bai was tender and soft, as if he were delicious.

Under a sharp shriek from the Negative Electric Rabbit leader, endless Negative Electric Rabbits swarmed toward this direction; they revealed their sharp teeth, with thunder winding around their huge buckteeth.

Just at this moment, a soft gasp came from behind.

Just as Ye Bai wanted to turn his head to look, he discovered that his own body could not move, his whole body emitting golden electric arcs, his entire body numb.

Just at this moment, the Sunflower King stood out; just as it intended to wave its Vine Whip to drive away the Negative Electric Rabbits, golden electric arcs also emerged on its body.

This guy also fell into a paralyzed state.

A sinister smile appeared on the corner of the Negative Electric Rabbit leader's mouth.

Wood-type Pet Beasts were its favorite.

It loved to gnaw on wood-type Pet Beasts and listen to the sound of their screaming; when those researchers were still around, they often released wood-type Pet Beasts for it to gnaw on.

After the humans disappeared, it missed the screams of wood-type Pet Beasts every day.

Just at this moment, the petals of the Sunflower King moved, and a golden round ball the size of a fist fell from the petals of the Sunflower King, heavily hitting the ground.

Only a heavy boom sound was heard, and blinding strong light surrounded the surroundings.

A violent shockwave spread toward the surroundings with the round ball as the center.

Just as it was about to submerge Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue, two black shadows flapped their wings and saved them.

Ye Bai looked closely and saw it was actually the Guangming Nüshen Die and the Blood Gu Butterfly; the Sunflower King was saved by the Guangming Nüshen Die at the moment of the explosion.

And the Myriad-Change Silkworm held its nose high, looking very proud of itself.

"Guangming Nüshen Die, use Purification."

Zhang Lingxue shouted loudly, and milky white light fell on the two people and one pet.

Their paralyzed state was instantly lifted.

"That was close, we were almost finished off by the Negative Electric Rabbits."

The Guangming Nüshen Die and the Blood Gu Butterfly turned into dots of light and surged into the body of the Myriad-Change Silkworm.

The Myriad-Change Silkworm only felt a strong sense of fatigue, and it fell asleep.

"We were saved by the Myriad-Change Silkworm this time; this Clone of its is still quite useful."

"What was that thing the Sunflower King threw just now, and why did it possess such powerful might?"

"I saw that the strike just now was equivalent to the full-force strike of a peak third-rank Pet Beast."

Zhang Lingxue asked suspiciously; as a Fifth-rank Pet Master, she could naturally withstand it, but Ye Bai might not be able to.

"That is called a Thunder Gall, produced inside the body of an Ancient Lantern Fish; the quantity is not large, but the power can be compared to a Sky Thunder Seed."

The explosion just now brought a lot of smoke; after the smoke dissipated, a group of Negative Electric Rabbits had already fallen into a deep pit.

The bottom of the pit was radiating heat; it was clear the power of the Thunder Gall was astonishing enough.

The Negative-Electric Rabbit leader lay motionless at the bottom of the pit; it was unclear if it had kicked the bucket.

Ye Bai activated his Insight Eye; if it wasn't dead, he intended to finish it off with one strike.

At this moment, Ye Bai's expression was somewhat strange.

Because through his Insight Eye, he saw the third evolutionary route of the Negative-Electric Rabbit.

【Evolutionary Route 3 (Hidden Evolutionary Route): Lightning-Strike Rabbit, Thunder Gall*3, Third Order electric-type crystal core*3, Second Order Peak; the greater the number of Thunder Galls, the higher the success rate of evolution.】

My goodness, the Thunder Gall was actually an evolutionary condition that could allow the Negative-Electric Rabbit to evolve.

If not for the Sun Flower King's casual blast, which fulfilled the conditions for the hidden evolution, perhaps Ye Bai would never have known in his entire life that the Negative-Electric Rabbit had another evolutionary route.

This evolutionary route seemed much more logical.

The Negative-Electric Rabbit leader's eyelids twitched; it was about to wake up, and just at this moment, a Vine Whip pierced through the center of the Negative-Electric Rabbit leader's brow!

The Negative-Electric Rabbit leader's head was directly pierced through by the Sun Flower King; its pupils were wide open, and its blood-red eyes stared fixedly at the direction where Ye Bai was, as if it were questioning why he had to kill it.

Unfortunately, there was no answer, and the Negative-Electric Rabbit leader died of breathlessness.

The Sun Flower King extracted a crystal core covered in cracks from the Negative-Electric Rabbit leader's head, which was still radiating electric-type energy.

"Teacher, I think we should dissect the Negative-Electric Rabbit's body now to see where the abnormality lies."

"According to the data I found, the Negative-Electric Rabbit was originally a very docile Exotic Beast; how could it look like it wanted to eat us all just now?"

"Take some of these Lightning Clovers away to study."

"Let's dissect this Negative-Electric Rabbit leader first to see exactly what went wrong."

Ye Bai intended to take advantage of the fact that this guy was still warm to hurry up and dissect it to see exactly what had gone wrong.

The Lightning Clovers were also uprooted in a large bunch by the Sun Flower King and taken away.

The two of them flashed back to the Research Institute.

The Negative-Electric Rabbit leader weighed about thirty kilograms, and its body felt heavy.

Its fur was very thick, and the hair on its body was matted.

Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue put on lab coats, masks, and goggles to conduct the dissection experiment.

The large light in the dissection room was turned on; it was a light composed of more than a dozen sets of lamps.

Zhang Lingxue made a cut at the Negative-Electric Rabbit's head, and fresh blood was still trickling from the gruesome bloody hole.

Upon opening the skull to look, Ye Bai immediately felt something was wrong.

"Why is this Negative-Electric Rabbit's volume so large, yet its brain is so small?"

"Excluding the position of the crystal core, the brain occupies less than half of the skull."

"This doesn't look normal."

Zhang Lingxue said very affirmatively.

"Surgical Knife."

"Forceps."

Zhang Lingxue parted the Negative-Electric Rabbit's fur, and the Surgical Knife Cut through its muscle groups.

Its muscles were still twitching slightly.

"The muscle part is normal."

"The internal organs are all normal; could it be that the brain is the problem?"

Zhang Lingxue felt as if she had found a breakthrough.

But she also felt it was unlikely.

After all, the people at the Western Research Institute had been studying the Negative-Electric Rabbit all along; they would have loved to give the Negative-Electric Rabbit a CT scan for a full-body checkup every day.

So this was a detail they absolutely would not have overlooked.

Zhang Lingxue felt more and more confusion welling up in her heart.

"Teacher, let's not keep thinking about what others have done or what others have worked on."

"That way, you will easily be led astray."

"You need to think about what clues you can find when you encounter this situation."

"We haven't even looked at the crystal core that the Sun Flower King pulled out just now."

Ye Bai felt that should be a clue.

"And we also need to catch a few newborn, Juvenile Stage, growing, and adolescent Negative-Electric Rabbits for comparison."

"Only then will we be able to know where the experiment went wrong."

Zhang Lingxue felt that what Ye Bai said made a lot of sense.

Her teacher would feel that things she had studied had already been studied by others long ago.

If she kept getting trapped in this emotion, she would never be able to conduct experiments properly.

Ye Bai really had the courage to jump out of the box.

Actually, it wasn't that Zhang Lingxue wasn't capable, but that she was worried she would make a mistake.

Because she was worried about making mistakes and being ridiculed, it would also implicate her teacher's reputation.

But Ye Bai didn't have this concern; on the contrary, the bystander sees clearly.

Zhang Lingxue took the crystal core handed over by Ye Bai.

She placed it into the Scanner to begin scanning.

Before long, the results came out.

"The interior of this crystal core is already dilapidated."

"Once it encounters stimulation, it will completely burst open."

Zhang Lingxue frowned, and the two looked at each other simultaneously: "Could this be the reason why Negative-Electric Rabbits are prone to Self-Destruct as soon as they reach adulthood, and prone to Self-Destruct whenever they get excited?"

With the crystal core shattered to this extent, it is no wonder they say every advancement of a Negative-Electric Rabbit is like gambling with one's life.

So it turns out there is a ticking time bomb in their heads.

"I feel that the people at the Western Research Institute cannot have failed to discover this; rather, they have already tried everything and have fallen into despair."

"That is why they handed over this project so readily."

"They are looking for a scapegoat."

Zhang Lingxue quickly reached this conclusion.

"No wonder this project had such a large amount of funding; so that's it, so that's it."

Zhang Lingxue understood; this was an open conspiracy by the Western Research Institute, and it also provided an excuse for having spent so much money over the past five years.

Look, as the number one experts on the Baibian Can, even they cannot handle this Negative-Electric Rabbit, so, big shots, you know, we really want to produce results, but we just cannot do it.

"Teacher, let us not panic."

"This time, we are going to slap the Western Research Institute hard in the face."

"Tell them, the cases you cannot handle, we at the Eastern Depot—no, the Research Institute—can take on."

"The cases you can handle, our Research Institute can also take on."

Upon hearing Ye Bai's domineering words, Zhang Lingxue's eyes immediately lit up.

"Have you thought of a research direction?"

Ye Bai shook his head.

"We have now found the possibility of why the Negative-Electric Rabbit Self-Destructs."

"The next step is to experiment with this part."

"It is very likely that the decreasing amount of current the Negative-Electric Rabbit can withstand is also related to the crystal core being shattered."

"This crystal core is like a leaking bucket; no matter how you inject current into it, it will overflow."

"And after it overflows, it will also stimulate the Negative-Electric Rabbit's brain."

"That is why in the end, the Negative-Electric Rabbits all appear to be in a crazed state."

"But."

Ye Bai's single word "but" made Zhang Lingxue's heart skip a beat.

"But what?"

Ye Bai threw out a second question: "We still need to find out why the meat of the Negative-Electric Rabbit contains toxicity after it Self-Destructs."

"Those who eat it will suffer from mental instability."

"If we can solve these two questions, I believe we will be able to unravel the mystery of the Negative-Electric Rabbit."

"We need the assistance of a poison expert."

"Teacher Zhang, do you have a suitable candidate in mind?"

Although Ye Bai possessed the Photographic Memory skill, he had not come into contact with this area of knowledge, and in the field of toxicology, he was still a blank slate.

"I am untalented, just a mere fifth-rank Poison Master."

Zhang Lingxue patted her own chest and said with a proud look on her face.

"A fifth-rank Poison Master?"

"I couldn't tell."

Begging for votes, begging for votes.

(End of this chapter)