Chapter 368

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

Chen Yi returned home a step late, only to see three pitiful animals trembling as they hid inside the bamboo circle by the courtyard wall; Chen Rongxi stood guard beside them, mimicking various strange sounds and attempting to lure them out with green grass.

The little lizard still looked like a big lizard, lying sprawled on the house's windowsill, looking down with a face full of envy, jealousy, and hate. Its appearance wasn't scary, but it wasn't endearing either; watching three unweaned beasts receive attention filled it with indignation.

"If this were in the Kingdom, they'd be food," the little lizard said to Chen Yi standing below the windowsill. It used to hang out with Mages, and its standard of living was quite good.

Chen Yi habitually snorted in disdain and said, "Things are valued for their rarity; you have no basis for comparison."

The Illusion Dragon Qi's tail perked up as it shouted, "I, Big Pineapple, am the strongest Dragon."

Chen Yi gave two perfunctory "mm-hmms," ignored it completely, and went to drag his little sister away, saying as he dragged, "Stop provoking them; if they die, they'll be very hard to find again."

Chen Rongxi pouted dissatisfiedly and said, "How would I kill them?"

Chen Yi coughed once and asked, "What's that in your right hand?"

"Grass."

"What kind of grass?"

"Green grass?" Chen Rongxi blinked her eyes.

Chen Yi held back a laugh and asked, "Did you pull it from the very top of the courtyard wall?"

Chen Rongxi nodded and said, "I saw they couldn't reach it..."

"But is there soil on the wall?" Chen Yi pointed behind him and said, "Those are simulated grass, specially used in places where grass is hard to grow."

"Ah?" Chen Rongxi cutely stuck out her tongue, let go, and blamed him, saying, "I said they felt so smooth, and there was no grass juice when I pulled them out; they looked too real. It's all your fault for sending me to a girls' school, so I don't know what's in my own family's backyard... doesn't matter, it's your fault."

"Alright, my fault. But stop manhandling them; in this weather, surviving at all is good luck. If they eat simulated grass, they'll definitely get terrible diarrhea." Chen Yi shrugged, preparing to chase Chen Rongxi out of the bamboo circle.

Little sister continued acting cute, hooking her calf around Chen Yi's leg, blinking cutely, and asking, "If they ate the simulated grass, would they really die?"

Chen Yi slapped his forehead and saw that the wall to the south was also missing two clumps of grass.

"You already fed it to them?"

"These grass grew the best. It's all the gardener's fault for not being careful; he actually planted grass that wasn't as good as the simulated kind." Chen Rongxi finished angrily, then said pitifully, "I'll go get a bottle of Aglaonema for them to drink; when my stomach feels unwell, drinking it works best."

"I'll still find a doctor." Chen Yi patted her head and said, "Don't worry. Back in their homeland, they ate grass taller than me and ran faster than me."

As they spoke, a young Cang Niu burrowed out, swaying a head not much bigger than Chen Yi's fist, trying to eat the dry hay inside the bamboo circle, but because it was too dry, it couldn't chew it up no matter what.

The Saber-toothed Beast followed behind, placing its worn milk teeth on the Cang Niu's neck and tearing at it with force; its movements were so violent that half its body was practically lying on the Cang Niu.

A newborn calf fears no tiger; the young Cang Niu understood nothing, only feeling the Saber-toothed Beast was too heavy, and shook trying to throw it off. The Saber-toothed Beast probably didn't think so.

Chen Rongxi widened her eyes and said cheerfully, "They're playing so energetically; they shouldn't be injured, right?"

"Maybe." Chen Yi responded dully, staring at the Saber-toothed Beast. This thing survives mainly by eating large animals like Cang Niu when grown, yet it was just born recently and already wanted to disembowel one itself.

Carnivores are indeed more ferocious.

Given another three to five months, it might truly be able to eat the Cang Niu and Camel Beast.

Hmm... Camel Beast...

Chen Yi released his restrained Pocket Qi and sure enough touched the Camel Beast, hiding in the innermost part of the temporary dog kennel, not moving at all.

He reached out and grabbed it out. The Camel Beast drooped its head, its giraffe-like neck hanging low, leaning back on its not-yet-grown hump. This thing weighs about 5 tons when fully grown, good for walking and carrying heavy loads, just a bit delicate. Now it seems the stuff used to feed sheep won't work for it.

The Cang Niu with two stomachs is much easier to serve; drinking some milk works, eating some grass works too.

"How is it?" Chen Rongxi looked like she had done something wrong.

"Not a big problem, but Aglaonema definitely won't work." Chen Yi was still joking. Getting a small animal from the West Continent was difficult, but that was subordinates' business; he didn't want his little sister to have a psychological shadow because of it.

An ignorant, fearless girl must have a big brother who secretly buries small animals for her to grow up strong.

Chen Yi held the Camel Beast in his left arm, clamped the Saber-toothed Beast in his right hand, then took out his phone and said to his little sister, "I'll find a vet; they'll come treat them soon."

Chen Rongxi said solemnly, "Okay," and added, "I'll go check online for treatment methods. What are these three animals called?"

"Uh... Cang Niu..." Chen Yi thought, let her go check. Maybe there's an animal in the book called Cang Niu.

Watching his little sister leave, Chen Yi tensed his pectorals, resisting the Saber-toothed Beast's milk teeth gnawing, while simultaneously calling Chen Zhenxing and asking, "Medical institution, expanded yet?"

Chen Zhenxing was very unaccustomed to this Chairman who seeks him out whether there's business or not, but he knew he had to get used to it, so he said with bitter amusement, "Capitalism is the real estate market; you put in 5 billion US dollars, so of course I expanded the medical department. Uh, expanded about 3 times."

"Any vets?"

"What?"

Chen Yi entered the room carrying the two animals, threw them on the sofa, and said loudly, "I need a vet to come treat my pets, then I need a powerful genetics expert to study them, and finally clone them."

"Clone?" Chen Zhenxing also studied finance; he always felt biology was a frightening thing.

"That's the last step; right now it's about treating the illness first. You know why I had you establish the company, right?" If Grandpa's health weren't so good, Chen Yi might have set up the company in Europe or the United States, but given the current situation, a company established in Jiangning is the safest. As for experts, there's no shortage. Although China's education level is quite low and academic corruption quite severe, if the state power wants to accomplish something, the current system is still formidable.

Chen Zhenxing hummed twice, half-joking, half-venting: "I understand. Buying pharmaceutical and medical enterprises is to give your pets a place to be treated; if they die untreated, you can just clone a new one. Same principle as buying a repair shop when you buy a car."

Chen Yi laughed heartily and said, "I like humorous people; it'd be great if you stayed this humorous. Then it's settled. If you find a reliable doctor, I'll give you a car. If you find a company that can do biological cloning, I'll give you a repair shop on top of that."

"Then you wait for good news." Chen Zhenxing took bitter amusement. If it weren't for the Chen Family's status, he wouldn't have the qualifications to be CEO of a Chinese top-500 enterprise. Precisely because of this, he didn't want to lose this position now. Thinking further, China has rich-kid Chairmen, foreigners have them too; the lifelong pursuit of senior management isn't just deceiving superiors and deceiving subordinates, fooling the emperor above and abusing the commoners below — it's the same tempering method everywhere.

Chen Yi thus sat on the sofa watching TV waiting for word. Ever since the Magic Subway appeared, he really rarely watched TV. Before he was busy cultivating; now Divine Arts only need Faith, but external affairs have increased.

The rerun of Xinwen Lianbo played mournful music; another proletarian revolutionary had passed away. Counting on his fingers, Grandpa Chen Zhongguo's peers had mostly retreated to the second line. The older generation of revolutionaries, due to the conditions of those years, many only had children in their thirties or forties, and only those with good enough luck kept them. Plus traditions like Victory Lady, the age span of the second generation is truly not small.

Half a century after the war ended, the honors of those years have all scattered with the wind. What's truly being compared now, besides disciples and old subordinates, is actually health.

The longer an old revolutionary lives, the further his disciples and old subordinates go, the better protected they are, and the greater the energy they exert. Living three to five more years might not show a difference, but living ten or twenty more years makes a difference to a whole other level.

At this time, what's being compared might be time, especially healthy time.

Chen Yi felt especially the preciousness of the Holy Knight at this moment — not for power, but the value of life itself was inestimably precious.

The phone rang.

"Who is it?"

"Chen Zhenxing." The CEO on the other end of the phone had no temper at all, like an old monk who did not partake of worldly incense. If one were to say what Chen Yi learned after becoming Acting Chairman, it was patience and endurance. However you put it, he was a top student from Harvard University, able to endure the whipping of white, black, and hairy races; naturally he could endure the oppression of Chinese people.

Chen Zhenxing said clearly: "Found the person. Professor Wu Fangyu is a professor at Southwest Agricultural and Forestry University; three of his projects are funded by Chen Group, and he is also a nominal professor of your mother's foundation. He has two sons and two daughters, all working in government agencies. He is a learned and steady biology professor. I invited him and Associate Professor Li Tianzhu of Jiangning University's Veterinary Medicine to come together. Associate Professor Li Tianzhu is Professor Wu Fangyu's undergraduate disciple, later specializing in veterinary medicine, with extremely rich experience, a famous pet expert in Jiangning City. Of course, he is also an honest man with a clean background, introduced by Professor Wu Fangyu."

One could tell Chen Zhenxing had indeed carefully chewed over Chen Yi's words, deliberately pondering the meaning of "steady and safe," and found two professors with simple yet complex social connections. From their backgrounds, one could see that people like Professor Wu Fangyu would not speak carelessly outside; they are precisely the best people to be responsible for the country's research on aliens.

"Ask them to come over." Chen Yi looked at the camel beast lying on the tea table with diarrhea, and the saber-toothed beast licking and biting away, feeling the latter was especially hateful-looking.

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