Chapter 210 — On the Eve of the Breeding Convention
The Beast-Taming Craftsman · Page 2 of 5
Now he understood why the assistant had wanted him to look at this team. The lineup was simply too strange. And the team leader... Shi Jin, who was that again? He felt he had heard the name somewhere.
Ye Hui stared carefully for a while, then cross-referenced the breeding result. Moments later, he gave a sudden start.
That newcomer from the Eleventh Bureau—the one who had evolved a mid-tier Overlord-race creature, the Butterfly of Imagination, and cultivated those bizarre Green Worm Cocoon-form pet beasts?
"Well, well, this kid. So that's how it is." He thought it over, and everything became clear at once.
This newcomer from the Eleventh Bureau could actually get a legendary Beast Tamer and a renowned doctor to assist his research—absurd! Why didn't the Third Bureau have a genius newcomer like that? And why, pray tell, had the fellow abandoned archaeology so readily and now marched into the breeding world? President Ye Hui sank into thought.
"By the way, move their exhibition slot earlier."
"I'm a little curious what they've been cooking up on that foundation of theirs..."
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"Finally here."
Meanwhile, in the grand hotel the Breeders Association had prepared for the thirty-three exhibition teams, Shi Jin arrived wearily at his room and flopped onto the bed.
The journey had been by fighter craft, but it had been quite tiring. Shi Jin finally understood why Hao Ling's Secret Meteor fighter had so many seats—because this mechanical lifeform could actually be piloted by several people at once. Hao Ling had jokingly let Shi Jin try, and after he really tried, his stamina had been squeezed dry.
Hao Ling explained that at present, many large mechanical lifeforms in the country were like this: though a single Beast Tamer was the primary operator, multiple people could reinforce it together. This was the main development direction for mechanical lifeforms—to gather the strength of idle Beast Tamers to the greatest extent possible.
If war truly came again, one could not count on Beast Tamers below the legendary level to turn the tide of battle; it would be good enough if they could protect themselves.
But if there were a kind of Overlord-level mechanical lifeform that could gather the strength of thousands of low-level Beast Tamers and condense it into a single force, then low-level Beast Tamers too would gain the power to change the course of battle.
When ten thousand Beast Tamers with lightning-attribute enhancement talent reinforced a single warship together, unleashing one giant lightning cannon—its power would surely surpass that of a single Beast Tamer reinforcing it alone.
This very plasticity of mechanical life was precisely why every nation threw its weight behind its development.
"I've flown a fighter jet now too... even if I never got to fire a shot along the way..."
Shi Jin was still wondering what his own mechanical life would look like when a knock came at the door.
"Shi Jin." Thump, thump, thump—Xia Yan's voice followed.
"Little Xia, what is it?" Shi Jin stretched lazily, opened the door, and looked at the research assistant in her blue dress.
"Coming to eat? My mom sent me to fetch you." Xia Yan was exasperated. At Modu University she had at least been someone of modest renown, a star of the Modu varsity team; here at Ancient Capital University she had been demoted to plain "Little Xia"—and the worst part was she couldn't even complain, because in both strength and breeding she was utterly crushed by Shi Jin.
"The hotel has a buffet restaurant. You can eat all three meals there."
"Have Aunt Zuo and the others gone?" Shi Tang asked.
"My mom and Aunt Hua said they were going to meet friends. It's just the two of us."
"I'm not hungry. You go ahead." Shi Li said.
Xia Yan: ???
Shi Youcai had already eaten the Ginseng Baby's nutrient fruit, so his stomach was no longer empty—though the aftereffects were a bit strong, and right now all he wanted was to lie down and sleep.