Super God Pet Shop

Chapter 23 Mutation

Returning his gaze to the little skeleton before him, Su Ping, following the method of the ancient spirit beast contract, bit his finger and slowly traced his blood onto the little skeleton's forehead.

The little skeleton remained sitting there blankly, seemingly oblivious to everything around it. However, when it smelled the blood on Su Ping's fingers, a faint crimson tinge appeared in its empty eye sockets, and its body reacted.

Just as it slowly raised its hand to grab Su Ping's fingers, Su Ping had already quickly drawn the contract and withdrew his hand.

A complex pattern of bloodstains was etched on the little skull's forehead.

As Su Ping withdrew his hand, the blood patterns gradually disappeared, as if they had been absorbed by the little skeleton.

The next moment, Su Ping suddenly felt a line appear in his consciousness, which connected to the outside of his body and linked to another consciousness.

This was a very faint consciousness, flickering like a candle flame, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

From this faint consciousness came faint thoughts of fear and confusion.

"Is this its consciousness?" Su Ping looked at the little skeleton. Through the power of the contract, he could clearly sense the little skeleton's emotional changes.

The little skeleton slowly raised its head, staring blankly at Su Ping, still bewildered by the changes it had undergone.

Su Ping stroked its little head. After all, this little skeleton had just been conceived and had no inherited memories, so it was normal that it was clueless about everything around it.

He opened the shop door, and as the sunlight streamed into the shop, he suddenly sensed a sense of fear emanating from the little skeleton's mind.

Turning around, I saw that the little skeleton had fallen off the counter, its scattered bones slowly shrinking into the shadows in a corner of the counter, reforming its body, and now it was curled up, shivering.

Are you afraid of sunlight?

Su Ping was slightly taken aback, realizing that he had overlooked something. Most demon-type pets prefer dark environments, and a few of them are even afraid of sunlight and can only stay in the dark.

Su Ping immediately returned and carried the trembling little skeleton to the pet room behind the shop.

Seeing the vacant foster spot, Su Ping stepped forward and placed the little skeleton into the stone tooth array.

"System, this free foster care space you're offering costs ten yuan an hour. What are its benefits?" Su Ping asked curiously.

At 10 yuan an hour, the daily boarding fee is not cheap.

"The free foster care spots are built from spirit stone waste, containing only traces of spiritual energy and complex, chaotic rays from the waste ore. These provide a slight boost to the growth of the pets and have a relatively high probability of causing them to mutate," the system explained.

"Mutations?"

Su Ping was stunned.

Besides evolution, pets also have a low probability of mutation depending on their growth environment.

Mutation, on the other hand, is the process of transforming into another species.

It may be a stronger and better new species, or it may be a degenerated and failed variety.

In some extremely harsh war zones, where the landscape is devastated and filled with technological waste, mutated pets are most likely to emerge.

Most of those mutated pets carry unknown pathogenic bacteria, which can easily cause plagues or lead to large-scale viral attacks.

This is extremely deadly for ordinary people, so "mutant pet" is a terrifying term in most cases.

However, in terms of pet research, the pace of promoting pet mutation has never stopped. Many famous ninth-tier pets in the Federation are mutated by scientific catalysis, and they are extremely powerful and are new species that have been successfully bred!

"Are the mutated pets here good or bad?" Su Ping asked the system.

"It's a mixed bag. We suggest you upgrade to a basic foster care position as soon as possible to avoid affecting our reputation," the system said briefly.

Su Ping's lips twitched.

Well, at least you asked.

When the system mentioned radiation from abandoned mines, he sensed something was wrong; indeed, you get what you pay for.

"Then let's upgrade."

Without much hesitation, Su Ping chose to upgrade.

Putting aside the fact that the rental price increased tenfold after the upgrade and there were many benefits, he simply couldn't afford the probability of the mutation failing.

If the customer's pet is damaged and a huge commotion breaks out, it will be a huge blow to the store's reputation. The system isn't just giving him a free pet boarding spot; it's clearly planting a treacherous bomb here!

Fortunately, he makes money quickly, and business at the store hasn't been great these past few days, so nothing serious happened.

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20 energy.

The two ancient stone tooth arrays in front of Su Ping suddenly emitted a hazy white light. When the white light dissipated, the stone tooth arrays were completely renewed. Although they were still the same array of sharp stone teeth, the color of each stone tooth was completely different.

Previously, they resembled ordinary, rough stones, dull and lifeless, but now they look like white jade ivory tusks, full of vitality.

"It's starting to look decent now."

Su Ping was quite satisfied.

However, the thought that this primary foster care position required 1 point of energy to maintain every day made his heart ache.

They spend money like water.

His initial 315 energy points were quickly reduced to less than 100.

"We still need to hurry up and earn energy; the Chaos Spirit Pool hasn't been upgraded yet."

The thought of the effects of the Level 3 Chaos Spirit Pool filled Su Ping with excitement. If he could nurture a pet with the bloodline of a king beast, just leaving it at the entrance as advertising would attract a steady stream of customers!

Is anyone there?

Just then, a sound came from outside the shop.

Su Ping recognized the voice and quickly left the pet room at the back and returned to the front.

Two beautifully dressed girls stood at the door, peeking out cautiously.

"Um?"

Su Ping saw one of them and immediately recognized him as the one who had led the Thunder Rat away from here before.

……

"The boss isn't here?"

The girl at the door was Su Yanying. She peeked into the shop, looking somewhat puzzled.

"Yingying, are you really sure this is the place?"

Beside her was Lan Lele, dressed in a soft gauze dress. She had come with her friend and looked at the dusty, out-of-the-way little shop with a look of disbelief. She simply couldn't believe that the monstrous Thunder Rat could have been bred here.

"This is it!"

Su Yanying was absolutely certain, "My Thunder Mouse is definitely related to this place!"

After the preliminary rounds ended, she gradually came to her senses and realized that there was a big problem with her Thunder Mouse.

Especially after being visited and questioned by her teachers and homeroom teacher, she realized just how monstrous and terrifying her Thunder Mouse was!

If you only master one advanced pet skill, you could say it's a coincidence, but if you can use two at the same time, no one would believe it's just a coincidence.

When questioned by her teacher, she gave a vague answer, after all, she herself didn't know, but she realized that it might be related to the pet store where she was fostered.

After all, the Thunder Mouse had always performed poorly before, and it hadn't been exposed to anything else before she fostered it. So after analyzing the situation, she felt that the only variable was this pet store!

(End of this chapter)