Chapter 98: These Rabbits Have Eight Hundred Schemes

"Fine."

Ye Bai wore an expression of 'hesitation', but ultimately agreed to his teacher's request.

"Ye Bai, you really are a good sport."

"In the future, if you get into any trouble, as long as it's not something illegal or against the rules, Teacher will smooth it over for you."

"Of course, that matter with He Guangda doesn't count; you were acting in legitimate self-defense. Teacher will keep it a secret for you and won't go around talking about it."

"As for this experiment with the Negative Electric Rabbit, research it however you like."

"We need to have a preliminary conclusion to submit in three months."

At this moment, Zhang Lingxue let out a direct yawn.

"The night is deep; I'm going to rest first."

Zhang Lingxue patted Ye Bai on the shoulder, yawned again, stretched, and went to sleep.

Ye Bai silently calculated the progress ahead.

For the Negative Electric Rabbit experiment, he only needed to provide a conclusion within three months.

Now that Ye Bai already had three evolutionary paths, he could simply work backward from them.

The urgent priority now was to find the Positive Electric Rabbit.

The people on the Dark Web were experts in many fields; they wouldn't just post something like that casually.

It was very likely that he was hinting that he had news of the Positive Electric Rabbit, or that he had one in his possession.

Judging by these three evolutionary paths, the Positive Electric Rabbit had immense utility.

According to what Teacher Zhang Lingxue said, the Western Research Institute had once gone to great lengths to find the Positive Electric Rabbit; they must have secretly hired someone with the Insight Eye talent to discover this evolutionary path.

That was why they needed to find the Positive Electric Rabbit, but judging by the fact that the Western Research Institute eventually abandoned the project, they seemed not to have found the whereabouts of the Positive Electric Rabbit.

Ye Bai divided up his recent tasks.

1. Find the whereabouts of the Positive Electric Rabbit.

2. Complete the preliminary round of the Phoenix Chick Cup.

3. Search the black market for the shell of a Destiny Turtle.

4. Complete the preliminary round of the Young Qilin Cup.

5. Help the Sunflower King become a Sunflower Emperor.

This time, the Phoenix Chick Cup and the Young Qilin Cup were held quite far apart.

After the Phoenix Chick Cup was held, there would still be a month before the Young Qilin Cup began.

Ye Bai had long since read through the notes sent by the various teachers, and he had also watched the experimental videos they sent.

After all, Ye Bai was a seeded player for this Young Qilin Cup, so all kinds of special tutoring had to keep up.

In any case, Ye Bai possessed the Photographic Memory talent, so the teachers would just send him the materials and then record their screens while explaining.

They let him watch the screen recordings for the parts he didn't understand.

The night passed without dreams, and Ye Bai woke up very early.

He looked at the Information System that had just refreshed today.

【1. Two months from now, Yandong Province plans to auction off land. Plot number 98 has a cluster of ancient tombs hidden underneath; whoever buys it dies. The most precious one is plot number 7, which is a piece of black soil.】

【2. The Sword Butterfly Egg can undergo Awakening Spirit, but if a Pet Beast Master uses their own blood to feed the ancient artifact being awakened in advance, the success rate will increase significantly.】

【3. The Positive Electric Rabbit is actually hidden among the Negative Electric Rabbits. Only the Insight Eye can see through their clues; whether you can find the Positive Electric Rabbit depends on luck.】

【4. The Dragon-Slaying Sword can form a sword array; the more Dragon-Slaying Swords collected, the greater the power after forming the sword array.】

【5. Half a month from now, in the Pet Beast Market of Jiaying City, a large black lizard will have a red gemstone inside its body that can enhance the power of fire-type Pet Beast skills.】

Today, it provided a very interesting piece of information.

The Positive Electric Rabbit is actually hidden among the Negative Electric Rabbits—what did this mean?

The people at the Western Research Institute should have been monitoring every single Negative Electric Rabbit regularly.

It was impossible for them not to have discovered the abnormality of these rabbits.

How did they hide themselves?

Did they eat something?

Ye Bai felt more and more that these rabbits had eight hundred schemes in their hearts.

The people at the Western Research Institute really couldn't outplay these Negative Electric Rabbits.

As expected, the most dangerous place is the safest place; even the people at the Western Research Institute couldn't have imagined that the Positive Electric Rabbit they had been searching for so bitterly was actually hiding among the Negative Electric Rabbits.

This was an important piece of information.

And the second piece of information was about Awakening Spirit.

Ye Bai took out the book gifted by Zhang Lingxue and began to flip through it carefully.

Awakening Spirit was an ancient ritual, equivalent to letting the soul in the Sword Butterfly Egg combine with the soul of an artifact to form a very special type of Pet Beast.

This was equivalent to a different kind of Sword Butterfly.

Moreover, the older the artifact, the better the effect of the Awakening Spirit.

If possible, metal ancient artifacts were the most suitable; when performing Awakening Spirit, adding metal-type heavenly treasures might have unexpected benefits.

Ye Bai felt that this Awakening Spirit was very suitable for the Dragon-Slaying Sword.

It just so happened that the Dragon-Slaying Sword was also forged from Geng metal and had a long history.

The Jiaying Ancient Bridge was built three hundred years ago, and from that time on, a Dragon-Slaying Sword had been hung under the bridge.

As the guardian deity protecting the region, the Dragon-Slaying Sword was the most suitable for Awakening Spirit.

However, Ye Bai currently had no Contract Slots left; it would be better to wait until his strength was greater before performing Awakening Spirit, or purchase heavenly treasures that could increase Contract Slots.

Heavenly treasures of this level basically couldn't be bought for less than nine figures.

Ye Bai could only pin his hopes on the Information System to see if any useful information would appear.

As for the Pet Beast Market in Jiaying City, it was a place where hunters who went out to capture Exotic Beasts sold them.

The Pet Beast Market is also called the Exotic Beast Market; some powerful Pet Beast Masters, after capturing an Exotic Beast but finding their Contract Slot full or their strength insufficient, would come to the Pet Beast Market to sell their captured prey.

In the past, Ye Bai was also a regular at the Pet Beast Market; he would look for suitable Pet Beasts there to buy, and then sell them at a high price.

The Clucking Chicken was something Ye Bai had picked up at the Pet Beast Market back then.

As it turned out, after he picked up the Clucking Chicken, he had been swindled.

This guy ate a lot and didn't care about hygiene, defecating and urinating everywhere.

After Ye Bai discovered this, he gave it a sound thrashing, but it never mended its ways.

Recently, it has been a bit better behaved.

After seeing the Roasted Little Wind Sparrow, the Clucking Chicken was truly afraid that if it made Ye Bai unhappy one day, he would gut and disembowel it, turning it directly into a roast chicken.

It had heard that the taste of its kind, the Clucking Chicken, was extremely delicious, and it could be called the best among broiler chickens.

"Now that the Breeding House has been open for a while, it is time to introduce some Pet Beasts to the Breeding House."

Ye Bai thought for a moment.

The Pet Beast Market and the Underground Black Market happened to be in the same location.

"Right, I must send over the roots and sap of the Mandrake King."

Ye Bai placed an order on the Dark Web, leaving the roots and sap of the Mandrake King on a trash can in a park not far from Shenshan Middle School.

After a short while, these items vanished into thin air.

Sophia and the butler were discussing a project when a life assistant knocked on the door.

She walked in carrying a white foam box.

"President, I suddenly received a delivery; there is no sender information, nor is there a tracking number. The item appeared out of thin air, and your name is written on it."

"We have already checked it with a scanner; inside, there are only some root-like things and three bottles and jars."

"The white foam box has already undergone toxicity analysis."

The life assistant said with some difficulty.

If it weren't for a requirement Sophia had recently set, that all deliveries addressed to her must be brought up,

she would never have accepted such an item of unknown origin.

"Miss?"

The butler put on white gloves and summoned a two-meter-tall venomous snake that looked like a king cobra.

On the snake's crown were two huge skulls; it flicked its red tongue, and its body was black and white.

Sophia pressed a button on the floor, and a transparent protective shield shielded her.

She also felt a bit nervous.

The venomous snake used its sharp fangs to pry open the white foam box, revealing the items inside.

A bundle of roots tied together with a red string, and three large bottles of white, murky liquid.

"Take these things to the secret Research Institute and have them tested to see exactly what they are."

The Lightning Cat was lying nearby, yawning; its sharp Lijua were hidden in its paw pads.

It was guarding Sophia.

The Lightning Cat was now the size of a leopard.

At this moment, Sophia's computer received an email again.

【by: You received the items, right.】

【The white stuff is the sap secreted by the Mandrake King; I hope you can make good use of it and develop more things.】

【I am looking forward to the whereabouts of the Hellfire.】

Sophia was very calm at this moment; by sending an email at this time proved that everything was within her control.

He was secretly warning Sophia not to play any tricks.

"What a cautious guy."

Sophia smiled: "I hope there will be good news coming."

Not long after, the phone on her desk rang.

The excited voice of the old butler came through the phone.

"Miss, good news; the Research Institute has confirmed that these are indeed the roots of the Mandrake King."

"When formulating a Tier 2 Awakening Potion, the catalytic conversion rate is ten times that of a top-grade Mandrake."

Sophia grinned: "This is indeed good news worth celebrating."

"We must carefully prepare the things that mysterious person wants to show our sincerity."

"Otherwise, it will be difficult to cooperate with him later."

"Have people search with all their might for the whereabouts of the Dragon-Slaying Sword and the Hellfire."

"If possible, try to retrieve the Hellfire; only then can we show our sincerity."

Ye Bai probably didn't expect Sophia to be so wealthy.

He had originally only wanted the whereabouts of the Hellfire, never expecting that Sophia would want to find the Hellfire and gift it to Ye Bai.

Ye Bai searched for several days in the Secret Realm of the Negative Electric Rabbit, but he did not find the whereabouts of the Positive Electric Rabbit.

This guy was truly good at hiding.

Ye Bai was a bit speechless.

Looking at the rabbits covering the mountains and plains, each one looking the same, Ye Bai felt he was developing trypophobia.

By the day the Phoenix Cup opened, Ye Bai was still at his wit's end.

No wonder Zhang Lingxue tossed this hot potato to him; after working on this for a few days, Ye Bai's head was also throbbing with a dull ache.

This was clearly a case of mental processing overload.

Begging for votes, begging for votes. Keeping a good mindset is enough. Anyway, I try hard to think about and revise every single part. Even if I don't succeed, I've done my best. I am currently using the traditional slow-writing method, not explaining the plot through the "golden three chapters" at the very beginning or laying everything out clearly, but rather peeling back the layers like a cocoon. The difficulty in writing Beast Taming lies in having to conceive the plot. I wrote millions of words for Pokémon without needing to think, because the plot was already there. Thank you all for your continued support~

(End of this chapter)