184: Small

Chen Xin stammered, "But... I just washed all my clothes."

Su Ze glanced at the washing machine trembling under the weight of too many clothes and asked, "Not even one piece left?"

Chen Xin nodded and said, "This outerwear I'm wearing can barely be worn, but I have no underwear left."

"Clothes in my size are harder to buy. You know, the place we lived in before collapsed, so most of my clothes were buried in the rubble. Even if I dug them out, they'd probably be unwearable. These dirty clothes are all newly bought in the past few days."

Chen Xin shook her empty wallet and said, "Now I have no money to buy clothes... If the school doesn't start classes soon and I don't get my salary, I'll starve to death."

Su Ze said doubtfully, "A Beast Taming University lecturer's salary shouldn't be that low, right? Teacher, don't you have any savings after all these years?"

Chen Xin shook her head. "My research direction is artificial external reproduction of high-level demonic beasts. This requires finding at least platinum-level demonic beasts to 'borrow seed' for research."

"This kind of high-level demonic beast, borrowing once is so expensive, even though it's something they have in excess with nowhere to use it."

Su Ze said with a sweatdrop, "Teacher, have you ever considered changing your research direction?"

Chen Xin shook her head and said, "This research has great prospects. High-level demonic beasts reproduce too slowly on their own, and the success rate is low."

"If our Great Xia mastered the ability to artificially breed high-level demonic beasts, we could create an army all contracted with platinum-level or even Diamond-rank Demonic Beasts. Then, any problem could be easily solved!"

This idea of Chen Xin's also shocked Su Ze quite a bit. What she said was indeed correct.

If platinum and Diamond-rank Demonic Beasts could really be mass-produced in a laboratory, the prospects would be extremely vast, even more outrageous than his system!

After all, the system could only produce one demon beast egg per day, and it was most likely a bronze or Silver grade demon beast egg.

But Su Ze still shook his head and said, "Teacher Chen Xin, have you ever considered one point? Demonic beasts are not like ordinary animals; they are also an intelligent race, especially high-order demonic beasts."

Su Ze thought of Feng Qingyi and Erha by his side, and even the Drought Fiend.

"They also think and resist. Artificially breeding high-order demonic beasts is actually similar to artificially breeding humans."

Su Ze's original intention was to say that treating an intelligent race like ordinary animals for artificial breeding wouldn't work.

But Chen Xin suddenly understood and said, "I get it! You mean I can practice with test-tube babies first?"

"That makes sense. To experiment on demonic beasts, I'd have to wait for their mating season, but humans are different!"

Her gaze fell on Su Ze, making him feel an inexplicable sense of dread.

Xu Yao, who was nearby, hurriedly stepped over to block Chen Xin's line of sight.

Su Ze also immediately changed his tune and said, "Teacher Chen Xin, come help me hatch these platinum eggs. When the time comes, you can pick one, no, a pair to take away. Then you can research them however you want!"

Chen Xin's eyes lit up. "Are you serious?"

"Absolutely true!"

...In the end, Chen Xin still followed Su Ze to the Thirteenth Squad's base.

As for her clothes, Xu Yao went home and brought her a set of her own new clothes.

After all, if she didn't wrap Chen up securely, she really couldn't rest assured with her appearing by Su Ze's side.

Along the way, Chen Xin kept tugging at her clothes, seriously affecting the trio's speed.

So Su Ze couldn't help but ask, "Teacher Chen Xin, what's wrong?"

Chen Xin said with an embarrassed look, "It's nothing, just... feeling a bit tight, hard to breathe."

"Tight?" Su Ze looked at Chen Xin, then at Xu Yao, and finally understood why she felt tight.

Xu Yao, who was nearby, had already clenched her teeth. Wasn't this an indirect way of saying she was small?!

Chen Xin seemed to sense the awkward atmosphere and said, "A little tightness is fine, let's keep going."

But after thinking about it, Su Ze still said, "No, let's go buy clothes first. Consider it an advance on your salary."

Xu Yao, who was nearby, didn't say anything more either. Otherwise, every time Chen Xin tugged her clothes on this journey, it would be like stabbing a knife into her chest.

Soon, the group found an underwear shop. Su Ze stood outside and didn't go in, letting Xu Yao accompany Chen Xin to buy clothes.

As soon as they entered, an experienced and sharp-eyed shop assistant greeted them: "Sister, here to buy clothes, right?"

"I could tell at a glance that what you're wearing now doesn't fit well. It's a bit too small. These are our treasures as women; we can't let them get squeezed."

As soon as her words fell, there was a loud *bang* from the side. It was Xu Yao, who couldn't take it anymore, punching the shop's doorframe.

This made the shop assistant say fearfully, "This... this sister, actually, being small is also cute."

Finally, before Xu Yao dismantled the shop, Chen Xin picked out her clothes, changed into them quickly, and Su Ze went to the counter to pay before leaving the place... Soon, the trio arrived at the Thirteenth Squad's indoor training ground.

The indoor space was quite large. It was used for regular sparring among team members, so its specifications were definitely sufficient for a full-scale battle.

It was now perfect for piling up those demon beast eggs for Chen Xin to identify one by one.

The Shadow Moon Wolf King emerged from under Su Ze's feet and began moving the demon beast eggs previously stored in the Shadow Realm.

Su Ze also called upon the Thirteenth Squad members to help. They had already seen this scale of demon beast eggs before, so they didn't show much surprise.

Instead, because it was their first time entering the Shadow Realm, they were very curious about everything inside.

As for Chen Xin, she was dumbfounded looking at the demon beast eggs Su Ze brought out.

"You really weren't exaggerating at all, kid. You can actually produce so many platinum-level demon beast eggs. Hatching them will be no small workload."

She had already picked up a demon beast egg and began talking eloquently: "Actually, hatching demon beast eggs isn't much different from hatching other eggs. Both require suitable conditions and sufficient time."

"But for demon beast eggs, their suitable conditions aren't just temperature; they involve many other factors."

"For example, this demon beast egg in my hand. You can tell it's a dark-attribute demon beast egg. In this case, we need a dark-attribute demonic beast to place this egg close to its body, using its own power and aura to nurture and hatch it."

"Moreover, the demonic beast incubating the egg must be at least the same level as the egg. For example, to hatch a platinum egg, you need at least a platinum-level demonic beast."

Then she looked at the other eggs and said, "I just took a glance. Most of yours here should be dark-attribute demon beast eggs."

Su Ze nodded. These eggs were all snatched from the Shadow Guards, so of course most were dark-attribute.

But Chen Xin didn't know this. The fact that she could tell just from the eggs' appearance showed that what she said was indeed correct.

However, a dark-attribute platinum-level demonic beast... Just as Su Ze was troubled, he suddenly saw the Shadow Moon Wolf King, acting like Erha, carrying out the last egg and coming to Su Ze's feet to seek praise.

His eyes immediately lit up: "Teacher, for just hatching eggs, a male demonic beast should be fine too, right?"

Chen Xin was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Only the Shadow Moon Wolf King still didn't understand what his master was talking about, looking completely confused.

He thought to himself, "What male demonic beast hatches eggs? This is simply a disgrace to demonic beasts, haha!"