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Chapter 23 The New Form of the Ever-Changing Silkworm: The Dark Butterfly

“My research institute is located on the back mountain of Shenshan Middle School. Some of the silkworms in the Baibian Silkworm Breeding Farm are supplied by me.”

"These were the conditions the principal set for me to teach at Shenshan Middle School."

"Although Shenshan Middle School is a school with a long history, they have not achieved a top-eight finish in the Young Scale Cup and Phoenix Chick Cup for a long time."

"I was the champion of the 80th Juvenile Scale Cup."

"After learning that I had developed the Goddess of Light Butterfly, Principal Zhang Dashan had an idea and offered me a price that I couldn't refuse, thus poaching me."

Although Zhang Lingxue is a faculty member, she has a great deal of authority, and the school does not assign her any other tasks besides necessary teaching.

Shenshan Middle School is determined to achieve a good ranking in the Phoenix Cup and the Young Unicorn Cup.

Zhang Lingxue is now wearing a white coat that hugs her beautiful figure, giving her an air of asceticism.

She led Ye Bai to the heavily guarded research institute.

The patrolling machines, each emitting infrared beams, automatically allowed the two individuals to pass after scanning their identities.

“I have already entered your information into the system, so these patrolling robots will treat you as one of their own.”

"My research institute is mainly used to study the evolutionary path of the ever-changing silkworm."

"According to my current research, the Hundred-Change Silkworm can also evolve into the Dark Butterfly."

At that moment, a whooshing sound came down from the sky and landed in Zhang Lingxue's arms.

This is an incredibly tiny black butterfly, its wings as thin as gauze, like the finest dark glass in the world.

The wings emitted a faint glow in the darkness.

"This is the Dark Butterfly, and it's the second pet I've contracted."

"Its special feature is that it can become invisible in the dark and can share vision, allowing me to see in the dark."

"The military was very interested, and the Night Watch was also very interested, wanting to buy my evolution formula."

"The key issue now is that we can't get reproducible experiments!"

"No matter how many times the experiment is repeated, at the crucial moment, the ever-changing silkworm will only evolve into the gray poison moth."

"I originally wanted to ask Li Weiyang to take a look at it for me, but before I could even say anything, I was taken away."

"It's said that he's been placed under protection and won't be coming back."

Zhang Lingxue told Ye Bai about the current bottleneck in their research.

"This is where I raise my ever-changing silkworms."

As soon as Zhang Lingxue pushed open the door, Ye Bai immediately saw a group of plump, white silkworms.

They are eating a very expensive feed.

"These guys eat better than me for the sake of research results."

The silkworms here, of all sizes and varieties, are all well-raised.

The silkworm's body is as white as jade and emits a faint fragrance.

"Let me see where the problem is."

He also wanted to see the limitations of his Eye of Insight.

He naturally had a standard of judgment in his mind. After absorbing a portion of the essence of the life spirit seed, Ye Bai felt that his Eye of Insight had changed.

If your eyes feel even slightly sore, you must stop immediately and not continue, otherwise it may affect your vision.

Ye Bai activated his Eye of Insight.

To avoid being discovered, he started wearing color-changing contact lenses early on.

Pet Name: Ever-Changing Silkworm

[Level: lv2 (Tier 1, Level 2)]

[Skills: Impact, Silk Spray, Hardening]

[Evolution Path: Flame Butterfly must consume fire-type rare and precious materials to evolve; failure to evolve will result in a Gray Poison Moth.]

Pet Name: Ever-Changing Silkworm

[Level: lv2 (Tier 1, Level 2)]

[Skills: Tackle, Spin Silk, Harden] [Evolutionary Route: Grey Venom Moth]

Ye Bai examined more than a dozen of the Hundred Transformations Silkworms in one go, and he discovered a problem.

If the Hundred Transformations Silkworm fails to evolve, it will evolve into the Gray Poison Moth.

Each of the Hundred Transformations Silkworms possesses different attribute energies.

They must consume rare and precious herbs with suitable properties to guide them in the right direction of evolution.

Pet Name: Ever-Changing Silkworm

[Level: lv2 (Tier 1, Level 2)]

[Skills: Impact, Silk Spray, Hardening]

[Evolution path: Dark Butterfly, requires many dark-type rare materials and must evolve at night, otherwise it will become Gray Poison Moth.]

Ye Bai finally saw a versatile silkworm that could evolve into a Dark Butterfly.

"Teacher, have you tested the attributes inside the Hundred Transformations Silkworm?"

The genes of the Hundred-Change Silkworm are very complex, with many mutated genes, so testing attribute energy has become of paramount importance.

"I know what you want to ask. You want to know if I have done any testing to see if feeding it unsuitable materials caused it to evolve into a gray tussock moth incorrectly, right?"

“I have tested the attributes of every single one of these versatile silkworms.”

“There’s no such thing as what you’re describing.” Zhang Lingxue had already thought through every detail she could think of and tried them all, but it still didn’t work.

Instead, it made her mind a jumbled mess, making the situation even more difficult.

Even if she discovered that the Hundred-Change Silkworm possessed dark attributes, she wouldn't dare to harm it.

"By the way, teacher, why is there no one in this research institute?"

Ye Bai looked around but didn't see a single person. He asked curiously.

"I use intelligent management here, and we use robots for everything."

"After all, the more people there are, the easier it is for rats to infiltrate. If they steal my research results, I'll be devastated."

Ye Bai nodded. It seemed that his teacher trusted him completely, which was why he brought him here.

"This is my research data on the Dark Butterfly. Take a look and see if you have anything to add, including cases of evolutionary failures, which I've also included. Take a close look and let me know if you have any results."

"I'm a bit tired from staying up all night, I'm going to take a nap."

The homeroom teacher yawned deeply and walked towards the lounge.

Ye Bai took out the homeroom teacher's experimental records and quickly flipped through them.

After a short while, he closed the book.

That's right, he already knew why Zhang Lingxue's research failed—because she chose the wrong time.

The element of nighttime is missing.

That's the reason for the failure.

Seeing the numerous ever-changing silkworms eating and making rustling sounds, Ye Bai smiled.

Zhang Lingxue woke up after sleeping for an hour.

She came out looking very energetic: "Ye Bai, what big discovery have you made?"

This is essentially Zhang Lingxue's test for Ye Bai. If Ye Bai can't answer, he will lose points in Zhang Lingxue's impression of him.

Ye Bai naturally didn't want to leave a bad impression on his homeroom teacher.

"Teacher, I've actually found a key point."

Zhang Lingxue was immediately invigorated upon hearing this.

"Tell me what you think."

Ye Bai already had the answer, so naturally he would use that answer to deduce what he had said.

He pondered for a moment, then said to Zhang Lingxue, "Teacher, regarding the evolution of the Dark Butterfly, do you think the environment has any special significance?"

"For example, evolution requires nighttime, and I've noticed that your data lacks consideration of the environment."

(End of this chapter)