Chapter 254: A Thousand-Mile Embankment Collapses at the Ant

"Okay, we will continue to follow up on the Eevee's situation. Goodbye."

After Su Qing sat on the office chair and hung up the phone, she looked up at Su Hao; even though she had reached middle age, her appearance was still charming.

Compared to Su Xu, Su Hao's appearance was more inherited from Su Qing.

Su Xu and Su Qing met in college, became a couple upon graduation, and got married and had children after working.

Although they coincidentally both had the surname Su, even if they traced back several generations of ancestors, there was no blood relationship between the two; Su Hao was definitely not the product of incestuous birth.

In order not to be affected by her long hair and hinder her experiments, Su Qing would generally tie her long hair up with accessories like rubber bands and place it in front of her shoulders, so that her hands could freely push aside the fallen braid, and she wouldn't have to cut off the long hair she liked most.

She gently stroked her bundled hair with both hands, while smiling and saying to Su Hao: "Baby, sorry to keep you waiting; the testing room is ready."

Su Hao and his mother, Su Qing, had agreed to perform the first step of basic inspection today, to detect some of Diancie's data to facilitate its public reveal as evidence later.

Of course, there would definitely not be all of Diancie's data; after all, Su Qing's heart was biased towards Su Hao.

Su Hao stared at Su Qing for a moment, didn't pick up the conversation, and asked with a slightly serious voice: "Is that... very serious?"

Since he was a child, whenever Su Qing's research hit a bottleneck or she really wanted to accomplish something but couldn't, she would habitually stroke her hair repeatedly.

This was also the reason why she insisted on keeping long hair for scientific research activities, unlike other female researchers who cut it into short hair.

Su Hao saw at a glance that Su Qing was worried about the Eevee with genetic collapse, of which he had only heard the ending.

"Can you take me to see it?" Su Hao asked softly.

To be honest, Su Hao didn't quite understand what this genetic collapse was, but since his mother was so worried, Su Hao also wanted to try.

Could the life energy taught by Xerneas and Celebi, a technique mastered only by gods, save that Eevee?

For him, it didn't matter if his ability was exposed.

Since his mother, Su Qing, who raised him, was so worried, he also felt that there was no need for him to hide anything.

Su Qing's smile froze slightly; after being stunned for a moment, she didn't choose to question, but instead nodded trustingly: "Okay."

She had been working at the Evolution Research Institute headquarters in Magic City for a year or two; every year, she would return to Yangcheng to reunite with her husband and children during her holidays.

During these one or two years, she hadn't watched Su Hao's growth by his side; most of it was what Su Hao himself told Su Xu during their phone calls.

Whether it was clearing four Junior Gyms, or his starter Pokémon Carbink achieving an evolution that currently only had one case in the world, she was somewhat moved that Su Hao had already grown so outstandingly.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see that child."

After organizing her emotions, Su Qing took Su Hao to a silver passage with a sci-fi style.

"This is an isolation suit; the room we are going to next is a completely sterile space, and we need to go through several sterilization passages before we can enter."

She took out an isolation suit that looked like a "Big White" and signaled Su Hao to put it on; this was the necessary equipment to enter the room where the only surviving Eevee was currently located.

"Including the Eevee that have already passed away, according to our testing, they have experienced live experiments directly on Pokémon, including but not limited to live bacterial culture, implantation of alien attribute energy, live dissection, and gene replacement of other Pokémon breeds."

Su Qing's voice was very heavy, and Su Hao was also somewhat silent.

Su Qing didn't know whether it was right or wrong to show the dark side of the world to her son, and Su Hao's mood was mixed.

On one hand, he was angry that no matter which world it was, there was such a group of lunatics and villains doing things that trampled on life; after all, Pokémon are living, intelligent creatures!

On the other hand, he was thinking, how many victimized Pokémon like these Eevee are there in corners unknown to anyone?

Sensing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Su Qing, standing in the sterilization passage, opened her mouth to change the subject: "Speaking of which, did your dad run off to the secret realm to cultivate again?"

Su Hao organized his emotions and nodded, saying:

"Yes, he said that several old buddies in the team have signs of breaking through to the Heavenly King level, and he won't come out until he breaks through."

Looking up, Su Qing sighed somewhat: "Sure enough, he still wants to go further; being surpassed by someone a few years younger than himself is ultimately a thorn in his side."

"And then threw the work to Uncle Qian again, right?"

"And then threw the work to Old Qian again, right?"

The mother and son said in unison.

After all, in the eyes of the mother and son, Su Hao's father is a battle maniac who is busy with battles every day; it is not strange at all for him to do such a thing.

Pokémon: 【Eevee】

Attribute: 【Normal】

Gender: 【♂】

Ability: 【Anticipation】

Level: 【25】

Item: 【None】

Moves: 【Omitted】

As Su Hao expected, when he cast his gaze on this Eevee in the medical pod, the displayed data panel was no different from usual.

Relying on the system's detection to find possible treatment methods had failed, so there was only one way left.

He turned his head and asked Su Qing, who was looking over here worriedly: "Mom, what kind of disease is genetic deficiency?"

"Ah...? Genetic deficiency, huh..."

After organizing her language in her heart, Su Qing said: "We have already found the reason for this Eevee's genetic deficiency; it is the individual among the batch of Eevee sent to us that has undergone the most genetic experiments. Most of the other Eevee were because of excessive physical exhaustion, and treatment couldn't make up for their consumed vitality."

"This Eevee is different; the intensity of the experiments it suffered was even worse than the others, but its desire to survive was stronger, which is why it has lasted until now."

"It is because genetic deficiency triggered the collapse of the overall gene chain; the reason for the genetic deficiency is that a large number of genes from other Pokémon were implanted into its body's genes in a short period of time."

"Gene fragments of Water-type, Electric-type, Fire-type, Psychic-type, Dark-type, Grass-type, Ice-type, and Fairy-type Pokémon, and there are also some gene fragments that currently belong to the unknown."

"The conflict between genes caused the genetic deficiency in the Eevee itself."

"The so-called 'a thousand-mile embankment collapses at the ant's nest,' this Eevee triggered genetic collapse because of this."

"Because of the genetic collapse, various means of trying to supplement vitality before the Eevee was sent here could only slightly inhibit the speed of collapse; in the end, there was no other way, so it was sent to our research institute to see if there were any other possibilities."

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