34: I want to be a salted fish

Hasn't anyone spoken to him like this in so many years?

Professor Sun was almost infuriated by Song Yu's words!

Especially seeing the expression on this little girl's face, he could almost read from her rich facial expressions, 'What are you looking at? A Tier 0 beast can defeat an ordinary adult male, and you, an old man, don't even have the physical fitness of an ordinary adult male. What are you so proud of?'

Even though these words weren't explicitly said, Professor Sun still sensed the meaning from her expressions.

Professor Sun was so angry that smoke almost came out of his seven orifices. He almost blew out two white puffs from his nose. He's only 84 years old this year, okay?!

Even if his hair is a bit white, he's still 11 years away from the country's statutory retirement age!

"You little high school dropout, what do you understand?!" Professor Sun was furious, pointing at Song Yu and scolding, "According to historical records, from the appearance of the first spatial crack on Blue Star until now, it has been a full 1893 years! Excluding the initial spatial crack secrets and the chaos caused by some spatial cracks merging with Blue Star to form the Wilderness Forest for nearly a hundred years... humans quickly used beasts to counteract other beasts, and with absolute superiority, they suppressed the Wilderness Forest and spatial crack secrets!"

"Even according to the records in our country's history, for at least the next 800 years, there were hardly any beast tide attacks on cities! Those beast tides were almost eliminated by the military guarding near the Wilderness Forest before they could even form. Even though new spatial crack secrets and Wilderness Forests appear on Blue Star every year, they pose no threat to humans!"

"The situation of absolute human advantage persists to this day. However, this does not mean that the advantage will last for another one or two thousand years!"

"The riot of the Northern Beast Tide a hundred years ago, with a third of the area of the entire Qin Province falling into the beast tide, is enough to show that the human advantage is gradually declining over these years!"

Professor Sun's voice was extremely severe, and coupled with touching on the special large beast tide a hundred years ago, it instantly shifted the attention of everyone in the silent office from Song Yu to Professor Sun.

Zhou Tao and others carefully recalled the numerous beast tide attacks on cities in the country over the years...

One, two, three, four, five...

Someone counted on their fingers, carefully calculating. Although there were rarely beast attacks on cities in the country, most of them, just like a thousand years ago, were eliminated by the military and professional Beast Tamers near the entrances of the secret realms and the safety lines of the Wilderness Forest before the beast tide could reach the cities.

But in the last 10 years alone, there have still been five large and small beast tide attacks on cities...

The most recent one, the largest, was the beast tide attack on Jinhe City, a third-tier city, in the winter two years ago.

Although, among domestic cities, third-tier cities have a population of only a few million, making them smaller in terms of population size.

However, when the beasts in the two adjacent Wilderness Forest areas suddenly erupted, and chaos also erupted in the three-star secret realm guarding the outskirts of Jinhe City, with three sides attacking, Jinhe City fell directly by a quarter in just one day.

Countless residents of Jinhe City had to take refuge in underground disaster prevention areas and various subway tunnels.

Fortunately, three neighboring second-tier cities, one first-tier city, and one super first-tier city's professional Beast Tamers quickly arrived using space-contract beasts and flying-contract beasts, suppressing the beast tide directly on the second day.

Seeing thoughtful expressions on everyone's faces, Professor Sun nodded in satisfaction and continued, "It's because of the research institute that we have found that as time goes on in recent years, human advantages have become smaller and the frequency of beast tide attacks on cities has increased. So, we collect various data and investigate the reasons in between."

"However, it is in the comparison of these years' research data that the research institute gradually discovered that contract beasts bred from beast bases, under the same level, gradually weaken compared to similar beasts in the Wilderness Area. Especially in recent years, the decline in strength has become more severe!" Professor Sun's expression was serious, and he angrily said, "Even some contract beasts have shown bloodline degradation!"

"Some similar level contract beasts are weaker than the beasts in the Wilderness Area. We can say that this is due to insufficient training, causing a decline in combat power due to wild degradation."

"But bloodline degradation is different!"

"If you have studied biology, you should know that dinosaurs that appeared in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the absolute rulers of Blue Star! But now, those chickens that can be casually served on the table are descendants of dinosaurs!"

"I cannot imagine what will happen to us humans if these contract beasts degrade to the level of chickens and ducks in the future?!" Professor Sun's tone was stern, and his slightly cloudy eyes swept over all the teachers present, saying heavily, "We originally thought that this was due to some improper operations in the breeding bases, lack of biological awareness, leading to the degradation phenomenon of inbred beast bloodlines... but after years of research and data analysis, we found that as long as it is contracted with humans, various degradation situations will occur in just a few generations of beasts!"

"The lower the bloodline level of the contract beast, the faster the degradation! The more obvious!" Professor Sun's sharp gaze locked onto Qiuqiu, "Take this Snow Civet Cat, for example. A hundred years ago, there were still hundreds of registered 3rd Tier Snow Civet Cats every year, but now the data has dropped by a quarter!"

"If it weren't for the efforts of the Beast Research Institute in recent years to re-register and organize the previous paper-based data into computers, we wouldn't have discovered such significant changes!"

The development of electronic computers on Blue Star is not much different from Earth, and the first computer was a product that appeared only in the last century. The widespread use nationwide has only happened in recent decades.

If it weren't for the Beast Research Institute starting to use computer data entry in recent years, they wouldn't even be able to find such a big difference between a hundred years ago and now.

Professor Sun stared at Song Yu with a piercing gaze, his imposing aura strong. "So, do you think, in this situation, it is necessary to spend a lot of time researching and cultivating low-level bloodline beasts like the Snow Civet Cat?"

Professor Sun talked a lot.

But fundamentally, it was just one sentence—low-level bloodline beasts have no research and cultivation significance!

Low-level bloodline beasts are not as powerful as high-level bloodline beasts in combat, degrade faster than high-level bloodline beasts, and require a large amount of precious materials to improve—even if your Snow Civet Cat is a variant, stronger than ordinary Snow Civet Cats, it still has no meaning!

In the office.

Zhou Tao and several other teachers frowned.

Although in recent years, society has often called for everyone to treat contract beasts as true friends and family, in most cases, not being able to achieve this is the norm.

"Woo~..."

Upon hearing this, Qiuqiu's head lowered more and more, its ears that were originally raised high drooped down.

Its spine stiffened, and its body crouched down, almost curling up...

Having the talent to see the future.

Qiuqiu had seen many people who, on the surface, smiled at it, but once they found out it couldn't advance, they would cast it aside. Some would even lock it in the Beast Taming space until it starved to death.

The Beast Taming space had energy that could accelerate the evolution of contract beasts, but that didn't mean contract beasts didn't need to eat. 

Even if the Beast Taming space level was high, if a contract beast stayed in the space for a long time, it would still be starved to skin and bones until it died in the space. 

However, the duration of this process often depended on the amount of original energy in the Beast Taming space...

In the dark and quiet space, with no sunlight or grass, only its emaciated form lay on the pitch-black ground.

Thinking about the various terrible futures it had seen... the little cat instinctively leaned towards Song Yu, and its big tail helplessly curled around Song Yu's feet.

Song Yu looked down, her brows furrowing. She reached out to touch Qiuqiu's head, not afraid to offend Professor Sun.

Song Yu said seriously, "Professor Sun, although I'm not an beast researcher, I think what you said is wrong."

"If it is considered to be given up just because of a low bloodline level and poor potential, then what is the difference between us and those wild animals that will abandon the weakest cubs in times of food scarcity? What is the difference from primitive humans?"

"The progress of social civilization, the establishment of the nation, is for the protection of everyone's safety, to ensure that everyone has clothes to wear and food to eat... If we give up something today, discard something tomorrow, is there still a need for such a country to exist?"

Song Yu said seriously, "Contract beasts help us in battles, assist us in our work, they are a part of this country!"

"So, contract beasts are not our tools but our companions and friends!"

Song Yu hugged Qiuqiu's big head, held it in her arms, and confidently said, "I believe in effort and bonds rather than the bloodline theory. Only through them can both the contractor and the contract beast grow faster!"

Although the novel is from the perspective of the male protagonist and has never mentioned the degradation of beasts, Song Yu was surprised.

But as she said, regardless of the bloodline level of beasts, since they have signed a contract, they are a family!

If they are family, how can they abandon each other just because of a low bloodline level?

If that's the case, then why contract in the first place?

After saying this, Song Yu planted a kiss on Qiuqiu's big head!

If it weren't for her little kitten being too big, she could have performed a live demonstration of her affection for Qiuqiu with a kiss.

With soft red lips on the forehead, although Qiuqiu's whole body was covered in white fur and couldn't feel any softness, it seemed as if those lips carried a scorching temperature, making Qiuqiu shiver suddenly...

Suddenly!

Just as Professor Sun waved his sleeve and had just said he wanted to see how far Song Yu and Qiuqiu could go in the future...

A burst of intense white light erupted from Qiuqiu!

Buzz! ——

The strong energy fluctuations made the air hum briefly. Everyone in the room subconsciously widened their eyes and looked at Qiuqiu, especially Professor Sun, who was so surprised that his jaw almost couldn't close!

"Evolution, evolution? Is this advancing from the 2nd to the 3rd tier?" It was unclear who in the room murmured.

Only, within the white light, Qiuqiu's body expanded again, especially at the location of the original twin tails, where a white energy column condensed into an 'S' shape. After the white light flickered, another snowy white tail formed!

"Th-three-tailed Snow Civet Cat?" Zhou Tao stammered, his mentality slightly collapsing. Weren't low-level bloodline beasts supposed to be difficult to evolve? How could it evolve to the 3rd tier in just three months???

After all, he was over forty years old this year, and even his main battle pet was only at the 2nd tier intermediate level this year!



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