My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 274: The Super Experimental Spiritual Beast Buried Because It Was Too Ugly

Toyosu Third Research Institute.

This is the most famous research institute in Fengzhou and also the most authoritative spiritual beast research institute in the world.

Many new spiritual beasts are bred here every year and become popular spiritual beasts on the market.

However, although the spiritual beasts produced by these research institutes are powerful, they are often expensive, so ordinary people still prefer to go to secret realms to find wild spiritual beasts for contracts.

Just as behind every newly developed successful drug there are often countless failed products that fail at various stages, every year a large number of research projects at Fengzhou Third Research Institute fail and are terminated due to various reasons.

The reason why many projects fail is often that the final strength of the spirit beast is not satisfactory.

Spirit beasts with powerful skills often have huge flaws in their natural attributes, and spirit beasts with good attributes often do not have any powerful skills.

However, when the finished product of a project clearly shows signs of failure, the institute has often already invested a huge amount of money in the project.

This part of the loss can only be spread over all the projects that are eventually successful, so that many excellent spiritual beasts often have to be sold at a high price to make up for the cost of failed projects.

Therefore, when the government proposed a subsidy plan for failed projects, the institute certainly welcomed it and immediately applied to become a pilot unit for the plan.

However, what is slightly different from the institute's idea is that the so-called subsidy does not appear in the form of funds.

The pilot units need to submit the finished products of the failed projects to Qiu Dao Mu’s special fairies for review, and then Qiu Dao Mu will issue fairy coins as subsidies based on the on-the-spot review results.

Just let it be fairy coins.

After all, it is the hard currency of the Beast Taming World and can be exchanged for cash in various ways.

What's more, as a research institution, the institute also has a strong demand to use fairy coins to exchange knowledge.

only……

"Don't you think this special fairy is a little strange?" Researcher Wu Huifeng muttered strangely as he looked at the special fairy who was testing the failed project experimental beast in the culture room.

The special fairy sent by Qiu Dao Mu was completely different from what they imagined.

It didn't have the appearance of a cute girl like a common fairy, but rather looked like a small snail curled up in a snail shell. However, the vines that stretched out of the shell proved its identity as a branch of a plant spirit beast.

At this time, this special goblin was fighting fiercely with the experimental spirit beast, and the fierce battle between the two sides turned the entire culture room upside down.

In the end, the plant snail was more skilled and stood proudly on the body of the unconscious experimental beast.

Is this a test?
Why does it feel more like a battle?

When the researchers saw this scene, they all looked confused.

However, the fairy coins that arrived in their accounts quickly dispelled their thoughts.

Except for a few people who still care very much about this special goblin, most people began to look through their respective projects according to their superiors' instructions.

Fortunately, many of the institute's failed projects have finished products. Considering that these experimental beasts may be helpful to other research projects, many of the experimental beasts of failed projects will be fed for a period of time after the project is terminated. It is very easy to find failed projects.

At the same time, similar scenes are constantly happening in many well-known research institutes around the world.

Hanabi's clone entered these research institutes as a special fairy, and then defeated those experimental spirit beasts in the name of testing.

If you don't get the skill, continue testing a few times until you get the opponent's skill.

It has to be said that as some of the world's top research institutes, the experimental spirit beasts produced by their so-called failed projects are sometimes not weak, but are abandoned by the institutes only because of major defects.

Among them, the most important reason for project failure is... appearance.

Yes, it's the appearance.

Being handsome is a lifelong thing.

As long as the appearance of the cultivated spiritual beast is outstanding enough, there is always an option of keeping it as a pet even if its strength performance is not satisfactory in the future.

Appearance is often an important factor in attracting animal tamers to spend money.

Handsome, beautiful, or cute...

The beastmasters who consume these experimental research products are often from wealthy families.

The spiritual pets they choose are also largely to highlight their own identities, and appearance is one of the important reference factors in their selection of spiritual pets.

"But... this is too unfair." Hua Huo said to Zhou Lu, who was sorting out the information about the ancient city of the fairyland, while cleaning the room, "Many of the experimental spirit beasts that fought against me were actually very powerful. It's just because they are ugly that they don't even have the opportunity to show their strength and are directly relegated to the cold palace of the research institute."

"The strength is pretty good, how good can it be?" Zhou Lu immersed himself in the information.

The ancient city of the fairyland is a very large and complex city.

That secret realm is almost entirely made up of ancient cities from the fairyland, and its area is already larger than many large secret realms.

In the ancient city of the fairyland, there are still a large number of fairy magic tools, souls and seals.

The actions of the pioneering army in the ancient city of the fairyland are almost a carpet sweep of every building, because some details that you overlook can easily become a foreshadowing of your life.

How to prove the complexity of the ancient fairyland city?
The final battle of the War to Destroy Immortals took place here.

In other words, the secrets of the ancient city of the Immortal Realm had actually been discovered by humans since the Beast Taming Era. Many of the founding fathers of the Beast Taming Era spent a long time afterwards in the ancient city of the Immortal Realm to eradicate the last traces of the immortals.

However, up to now, the exploration level of the ancient city in the fairyland is still less than 40%.

It's just too big.

So big that it’s a bit despairing.

"Just like this!" Just as Zhou Lu was marveling at the size of the ancient fairyland city, vines of fireworks appeared in front of Zhou Lu.

Along with the flowering and fruiting, several fruits appeared in front of Zhou Lu.

This is a skill that Hua Huo learned from the special plant spirit beast in the Cursed Frog Pond. As long as one eats one of the fruits, one's own attributes will increase dramatically in a short period of time.

However, the cooldown time of this skill is very long, almost close to the entire cycle of flowering and fruiting of plants. Even with the crazy growth, it will take three or four days to cool down.

However, what surprised Zhou Lu was that although it was a skill that theoretically needed several days to cool down, Fireworks was able to use it continuously.

"What did you do?" Zhou Lu immediately asked in surprise.

"Hehe." Finding that she had finally attracted her master's attention, Hanabi laughed happily, "This is a new racial skill I just got. It will reduce my own attributes by half for a long period of time, and then refresh all my skills except this one immediately."

"????" Zhou Lu's eyes widened when he heard the skill description. "Is this the racial skill you stole? Don't those research institutes only feed you failed projects?"

"It is indeed a failed project. If I hadn't shown up, it would have starved to death."

"Holy shit..."

As a beastmaster, Zhou Lu certainly knew what this racial skill meant. A refresh ball! A refresh ball with all skills!

This can no longer be described as perverted!
"No! Are those people in the research institute all useless?" Although Hua Huo got the upper hand, Zhou Lu couldn't help but curse, "Such a powerful spirit beast project was directly terminated?"

"Um... Actually it's not considered to have racial skills until now." Hanabi said while scratching her hat.

Zhou Lu looked at Hua Huo in confusion.

Hanabi then began to explain.

Because this experimental spirit beast was so ugly, the kind of ugliness that would make people feel mentally polluted and cause serious psychological discomfort when they saw it, so when it was just hatched from the egg, the project was actually labeled as a suspended death sentence.

So after that, the researchers on the project were always absent-minded about its testing.

It is true that this skill, [Super Refresh], can sacrifice long-term attributes in exchange for the immediate refresh of other skills, but the prerequisite is that it must know other skills!

If the researchers don't give it the chance to learn other skills, how can it have the opportunity to display its racial skills?
So, this super powerful spiritual beast, which clearly possesses a super powerful BUG-level skill, is just a failure, staying in the corner of the laboratory, silently waiting for death.

If it weren't for Hanabi's almost census-like plan this time, no one would have known that such a terrifying skill existed in the world.

This racial skill, when used on Hanabi, who already has a great many skills, produces an unparalleled super effect. It is no exaggeration to say that it doubles Hanabi's strength.

"But this attribute is reduced by half..." Zhou Lu asked hesitantly, "How long will it last?"

"Hmm...it seems like three months." Hanabi felt it and said.

Some of it was too long.

Zhou Lu was a little disappointed.

Then he saw a flash of light on Hua Huo's body, and then the aura that had originally weakened a little returned.

"But I will recover soon! Just like now!" Hanabi said with a smile.

Zhou Lu was surprised: "What did you do?"

"Use the Curse Frog's racial skill to eliminate the effect of the attribute reduction buff!" Hanabi said as a matter of course, "Even if the attribute reduction is caused by your own skills, it is considered a negative state by this skill and can be eliminated directly."

In this way, the only side effect is eliminated.

In other words, Hanabi can perform two sets of skills without taking any damage in one battle.

Damn...this intensity...

"Oh, right." Hua Huo seemed to have heard something, and then blinked at Zhou Lu and said, "Just now, Xin'an Sixth Research Institute seemed to tell me that there is a failed project that needs to be tested."

Since Hua Huo specifically told Zhou Lu about this, it means that this failed project is not simple. Zhou Lu smiled and patted Hua Huo on the shoulder and said, "What skill is it? Don't keep me in suspense."

Hanabi scratched her hat and said happily, "It's also a refreshing racial skill."

After hearing what Hua Huo said, Zhou Lu immediately understood what Hua Huo meant.

[Super Refresh] This skill is extremely powerful, but its cooldown time is also terrifying, almost equal to the duration of attribute reduction.

But if there is a skill that also has the ability to refresh this skill, then the two skills can refresh each other.

During this process, Fireworks' skills can be almost released infinitely.

With the purification skill of the Cursed Frog, it is enough for Hanabi to bear the cost of most skills.

No matter how long the cooldown of this skill is, you must get it!
After thinking this through, Zhou Lu came to a conclusion almost immediately.

Hua Huo had the same idea as Zhou Lu, and nodded to Zhou Lu and said, "Don't worry! I will definitely get this skill!"

"I'll let Benben activate the [Doomsday Easter Egg] to cooperate with you." Zhou Lu said immediately.

After a pause, he stroked his chin and said to Hanabi: "Come to think of it, can [Super Refresh] only be used on yourself?"

After hearing Zhou Lu's words, Hua Huo knew what Zhou Lu was thinking.

He clearly wanted to refresh [Doomsday Easter Egg] and [Recycling] to keep his [Absorb] skill in a 100% absorption state permanently.

Well, what is the cost of doing this?

Benben will be in a cycle of death-recycling-resurrection-death for a long time.

"Hello devil, Master."

When Zhou Lu heard Hua Huo's teasing, he also coughed twice.

It does seem a bit unkind of me to think this way.

"If it's really possible, I also hope that my [Doomsday Easter Egg] can be refreshed quickly." But at this time, Benben, who was serving as a decoration on the table, spoke.

It had been listening to the conversation between Zhou Lu and Hua Huo, so it naturally knew what they meant.

Benben's tone was very firm: "I need constant hardships to quickly improve my growth, and death is the best hardship. If there really is such an infinite refresh method, maybe I will grow faster than Hanabi."

This statement is not an exaggeration.

Yueya, who was listening on the side, called it outrageous and said helplessly: "If this idea is realized, it seems that it can really evolve quickly."

"Then you use your skill first, Stupid." Hua Huo stopped what she was doing, "I'll go get that skill first."

Hua Huo devoted herself to her work, while Zhou Lu fell into deep thought.

[Super Refresh] This racial skill is definitely an unexpected gain for Huo Huo.

If it weren't for the failed project census plan carried out by Huahu and Qiudaomu, no one would know that such a powerful spiritual beast existed.

So...should I tell others about this discovery?
As long as she doesn't say anything, the skill [Super Refresh] will become Huohan's exclusive skill.

But if I don’t say it, wouldn’t I seem too selfish?

After much consideration, Zhou Lu finally decided to spend a large sum of money to purchase the spirit beast and related project information.

A spiritual beast with such outstanding strength should not be buried.

But at the same time, Zhou Lu would not produce and promote this kind of spiritual beast - until he had dealt with the Mengyu Flower Fairy.

As long as Meng Yu Hua Xian is dealt with, he won't have to worry about promoting this kind of spiritual beast and helping the enemy.

Thinking of this, Zhou Lu became more and more looking forward to Huo Huo's census plan.

In laboratories all over the world, there are countless spiritual beast projects that appear to have failed but could actually shine if they were positioned differently.

(End of this chapter)