1936 Nest of Surprise!
Yi Huailong was fine with Lin Yuan learning about the Yi family’s secret weapon. After all, Yi Huailong intended to attach the Yi family to Sky Creation so that Sky Creation could help him to reach Immortal.
Since the Yi family had become part of Sky Creation, there was nothing inappropriate about Sky Creation learning about the Yi family’s secret weapon.
At that moment, Yi Lingxi’s voice traveled from the entrance of the second floor, “Father, Young Master Chu, I was held up on the way here. Did I interrupt your discussion?”
While she spoke, Yi Lingxi held up a small cage.
She had intentionally changed her hairstyle when she returned home and put on two pretty hair accessories.
Yet, Lin Yuan had not even glanced at her but was staring at the cage she was carrying.
There were two of the Flower Branch Mice with bright red tails running around inside the cage.
It was clear that one of the Flower Branch Mice was listless and was just following the other Flower Branch Mouse.
While Lin Yuan was observing the two Flower Branch Mice, Yi Lingxi said with a smile, “I was right! Most of the Flower Branch Mice’s tails are dark red, but these two had bright red tails. The slighter fatter one of them isn’t in high spirits. This isn’t because it’s sick. I treat them very well. It is slightly down because it had mated with the other Flower Branch Mouse and is now pregnant. The Flower Branch Mouse’s gestation period is around 15 days. I wanted to see if the babies have red tails too!”
While Yi Lingxi spoke, neither she nor Yi Huailong noticed that Lin Yuan was suppressing delight.
Yi Huailong had been keeping his gaze on Lin Yuan and should have been able to tell.
No matter how skilled Lin Yuan was at controlling his emotions, it was difficult to cover delight.
However, Yi Huailong had never approved of his daughter’s hobby. Why did a girl have to collect strange mice?
She even brought it to Young Master Chu. How was this appropriate? If this displeased Young Master Chu, he might rescind his promise!
Lin Yuan only started breathing again a moment later as he suppressed his delight.
Since the Flower Branch Mouse’s color was due to its mutation, it had to be related to its genes.
Genes could be passed down.
Given Lin Yuan’s understanding of genetics from his previous life, he felt that it was likely that the two Flower Branch Mice’s descendants would pass down the trait of having bright red tails to their descendants.
His acceptance of Yi Lingxi’s order seemed to provide Lin Yuan with not just two of the Lifespan Mice.
Lin Yuan was in a great mood.
When Yi Lingxi continued to talk about the Flower Branch Mice to Lin Yuan, Yi Huailong coughed and said, “Lingxi, Young Master Chu might just be curious about these two Flower Branch Mice. Unlike you—”
Before Yi Huailong could finish speaking, Lin Yuan said, “No trouble. These two Flower Branch Mice were raised well. Leave the snake-species feys you want to be nurtured here. When I go over to the Yi family’s residence tomorrow, I will take the snake-species feys and the Black Enchanting Snake Strawberry with me.”
Lin Yuan’s words caused Yi Huailong to look at him curiously.
Yi Huailong had already noticed that Lin Yuan’s interest in the two Flower Branch Mice was not casual.
Alas, Yi Huailong could not tell what was so special about the two Flower Branch Mice.
Yi Huailong’s younger brother was a pinnacle Class 4 Creation Master. He had seen the two Flower Branch Mice but had not picked up anything special about them.
Hence, Yi Huailong could not figure out why Lin Yuan was interested in the two Flower Branch Mice.
Nonetheless, Yi Huailong could tell that Lin Yuan’s tone was one that was telling them to leave.
Yi Huailong hurriedly took out five of the Platinum Item-Storing Walnuts and placed them on a wooden table nearby.
Then, he picked up Yi Lingxi’s hand and said, “We will receive you with the warmest welcome tomorrow. I’m sure you’re very busy. My daughter and I shall not bother you any longer.”
After bowing, Yi Huailong pulled the shocked Yi Lingxi downstairs.
Yi Lingxi did not understand why her father was acting so humbly in front of Young Master Chu. He was usually fearless and did not even keep his head down in front of the Yang family.
It was unrealistic to fathom that her father was threatened by Young Master Chu because her father’s gaze was one of yearning.
It seemed that her father and Young Master Chu had negotiated a successful deal.
Once Yi Huailong and Yi Lingxi left, Lin Yuan opened the cage that contained the two Flower Branch Mice.
The two Flower Branch Mice were terrified of humans and instinctively wanted to dive under the table.
But Lin Yuan activated his spiritual power and released it from his palm.
This immediately attracted the attention of the two Flower Branch Mice.
Eventually, the male Flower Branch Mouse could not resist the temptation any further and went over to Lin Yuan’s hand.
Lin Yuan gently touched the male Flower Branch Mouse and injected spirit qi into it.
This immediately earned Lin Yuan the trust of the male Flower Branch Mouse.
The male Flower Branch Mouse chittered away and placed its hands together as though it was begging for more spirit qi.
As badly as the female Flower Branch Mouse wanted the spirit qi, it still kept its distance from Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan knew that the female Flower Branch Mouse could resist the temptation of the spirit qi because it was pregnant.
Once lifeforms became mothers, they would see their children as more important than themselves.
Lin Yuan ignored the female Flower Branch Mouse and took a deep breath before he picked up the male Flower Branch Mouse and injected a large amount of spirit qi into its body.
After thousands of experiments, Lin Yuan guessed that the Flower Branch Mouse with the bright red tail could evolve into the Lifespan Mouse.
Guesses were just that and could only be verified after experiments were carried out.
Lin Yuan was going to verify his guess now.
As the waterfall of spirit qi entered the Flower Branch Mouse’s body, it started to transform.
Its brown fur fell, and tangerine fur grew out in its place.
When the Flower Branch Mouse’s fur color changed, Lin Yuan’s knitted brow relaxed.
