"How did you get here?"
Feng Yuan looked at Long Boduo with some surprise, sniffed, and Long Boduo, full of anticipation, said to Feng Yuan
"Didn’t you make a Cotton Orchid Flower cake? I want to try it~"
"This... who told you?"
"Gitalien~ When I asked what it was doing, it said you were making a Cotton Orchid Flower cake. So, do I get a piece?"
Seeing Long Boduo’s expectant look, Feng Yuan felt a bit guilty. He didn’t have any Cotton Orchids right now and would probably fail to make the cake if he promised, but he couldn’t bear to dash its hopes.
"Why don’t you take some from the herbs prepared for herbal tea?"
Yun You smiled and said to Feng Yuan, who hesitated for a long time before nodding in agreement,
"That’s the only way, but..."
Feng Yuan said, looking at Long Boduo,
"None of you are planning to come over, are you? I don’t have many ingredients."
Sniffing, Long Boduo pawed at the ground and said,
"No, they aren’t particularly interested in your food. I just wanted to come and play with you~"
"Alright... The rest I’ll have to entrust to Sister Yun You."
Looking at Yun You, Feng Yuan felt a bit embarrassed. He had agreed to organize the storage with her, but he had walked away first. Yun You, with a smile on her face, said,
"No worries, it’s a minor issue."
"I’ll take it for a walk around; please can you take this back to the kitchen."
As they reached the entrance of the dining room, Gitalien, seemingly seeing something and looking guilty, handed the dish meant for the cake to Qi Chen, turned around with a puzzled Nagna on his shoulders, and left. Qi Chen looked strangely at the dining room, didn’t notice anything amiss, but he didn’t say much, considering the other party was a Divine Beast who might have something important to do.
Dou Yanlan, however, suspected Gitalien might have done something given its expression, but she wasn’t sure exactly what. However, it probably wasn’t anything harmful to the place, especially since Feng Yuan was also there, and it seemed to have a good relationship with him.
"Why is it you? Where is Gitalien?"
Feng Yuan asked curiously as he saw Qi Chen walking into the kitchen with a tray. Seeing Feng Yuan was making something, Qi Chen asked puzzledly,
"Are you making snacks? Didn’t you eat enough just now?"
Glancing at Long Boduo behind him, Feng Yuan shrugged and said,
"Not really, but I couldn’t not offer it something since it came by."
"It smells good, no wonder Gitalien praised it."
Sniffing, Long Boduo said excitedly. Qi Chen, observing the black steed-like Long Boduo, instantly understood why Gitalien had reacted the way it did; it really had done something naughty. Dou Yanlan, observing the ingredients that Feng Yuan was handling, asked puzzledly,
"These ingredients seem different from the ones you used before?"
"Yes, this is specially made to suit Long Boduo’s taste. Since no one else wants it, there’s no need to cater to everyone’s taste like before, right?"
Feng Yuan said nonchalantly. Thinking for a moment, Dou Yanlan asked,
"But the one you gave Gitalien earlier wasn’t..."
"I’m not sure when it will be back. If it doesn’t return tonight, then it’s my late-night snack; as simple as that."
"I see."
Smiling lightly, Dou Yanlan pulled Qi Chen. Staying there wouldn’t help much. Remembering something, Feng Yuan cautioned Qi Chen,
"Don’t go looking for those people, and don’t agree to help them move anything if you come across them."
"Why?"
Qi Chen asked, puzzled, and Dou Yanlan was also somewhat confused. As for the trouble of transporting those devices, she really didn’t know; after all, she did not plan to be a researcher or a Spirit Beast Master in the future, naturally not bothering to learn so much.
"Those things are troublesome, not to mention expensive, but also very laborious to move. They can’t be affected by the power fluctuations of Spirit Beasts, nor can they be touched with the power of Spirit Beasts. During transportation, one cannot even use the power of a Beast Tamer."
"Why so many requirements?"
Hearing Feng Yuan’s explanation, Qi Chen felt somewhat baffled. Why were those things so troublesome? He knew that most equipment, if not moved by Spirit Beasts but by manpower alone, would be very troublesome to relocate.
"Because those devices are very sensitive to the power of Spirit Beasts. After all, they are used to detect the power of Spirit Beasts, but I believe they will move them by themselves."
"So that’s why you slipped away earlier?"
Looking at Feng Yuan, Qi Chen finally understood why Feng Yuan had run so fast earlier, it was because of this. However, this guy really knew his stuff; he had always thought those devices could be moved with the power of Spirit Beasts. Feng Yuan gently pushed the Xiao Ji behind him and said,
"Make way."
"What do you mean ’slipped away’? I call that a strategic retreat. Those things are too much trouble, and I don’t want to move them at all. Besides, you better stay away from those devices; they’re damn expensive, and the cost of repairing even one could make your flesh ache."
"That approach does indeed prevent rain, but those wires..."
Cen Chudie, having guessed they might’ve finished, sneaked over with Cheng Xiaoxiao and others to check the situation and found that they had already moved the devices inside the warehouse, while the detection devices were placed on the grass at the entrance, connected to the indoor devices by wires.
"In doing so, the accuracy of the data will decrease. How about we move the devices outside? After all, our budget is sufficient, and he probably won’t deliberately damage these devices."
The woman proposed to the leading middle-aged man, who shook his head and said,
"We don’t need such high precision. Don’t forget, we’re just doing preliminary data collection right now. Later, when we return to the lab area, we’ll be able to conduct further research. But then, we’ll rely on other departments to provide willing Little Green Snakes."
"I just don’t know how many Little Green Snakes will be willing."
The middle-aged man said, somewhat headache-ridden. The requirements were a bit stringent, but he could understand why. If the requirements were low, there could be some severe flaws yet undiscovered. An evolutionary method that is low in requirements, easy, and with strong capabilities, theoretically or realistically, does not exist.
"The nursery might be able to support some, but for more, it’s not easy; the wild ones probably can’t be used this way."
The woman analyzed. In fact, after Gitalien had gone out to search, there seemed to be no Little Green Snakes that meet this evolutionary requirement at least in the Divine Land Region, even though they hadn’t known what Gitalien had been doing before. But Meng Binglan had told them during the equipment transport.
At that moment, Feng Yuan came over with Long Boduo and Xiao Ji, seeing that the installation of the devices was complete, and said to Qi Chen,
"It’s safe now, at least we shouldn’t need to move stuff anymore~"
"You guy, sneaking off like that."
Cen Chudie said with a somewhat displeased expression, to which Feng Yuan glanced at Cen Chudie and said dismissively,
"Look at you, didn’t you sneak off too? Can you blame me? Those things are so expensive; how dare I help~"
"Ready to give it a try?"
By that time, Gitalien had also come over, and Feng Yuan looked at Gitalien, who didn’t say anything; Gitalien looked a bit guilty and quickly diverted his gaze. Agunas looked at Kong Qing, who was preparing the Little Green Snakes on the grass, and asked,
"Will you handle the potion preparation?"
"If it’s their own, of course, it’s for them to handle. But these are wild... it’s better if I do it."
Feng Yuan said, somewhat troubled. Gitalien’s Little Green Snakes were quite numerous, and just preparing the Potion would likely take a lot of time, yet he couldn’t neglect it. Although the quality of the potion did not greatly affect evolution, it did affect the success rate. Though a failure in evolution wasn’t much of a loss, as the potion’s effect was in the stage of sensing Energy, the subsequent failure potential was extremely low; even if there were, it wasn’t due to the potion.
And the failed evolution due to not sensing Energy theoretically meant no loss, since strictly speaking, the bodily changes during evolution hadn’t even started yet, so naturally, there was no loss.
"Do we have enough materials?"
Veronia asked curiously, looking at Feng Yuan. Even if he managed not to waste, just the materials probably already exceeded what she had seen before, not to mention Feng Yuan might not manage to not waste at all.
Glancing at the direction of Meng Binglan, Feng Yuan said nonchalantly,
"If we don’t have enough here, don’t they have more there?"

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