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Astral Pet Store
Chapter 23: Mutation
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Chapter 23: Mutation

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Su Ping shifted his focus back to the Little Skeleton. According to the process
described in the Antiquity Pet Contract, he bit his finger and slowly painted the
Little Skeleton’s forehead with his blood.

The Little Skeleton was still sitting there, absent-minded. It seemed to be

oblivious of everything around it, but then the Little Skeleton reacted to the
smell of blood on Su Ping’s finger; a faint scarlet color appeared in its hollowed
eye sockets.

The Little Skeleton slowly lifted its arm to reach toward Su Ping’s hand, although
the latter retracted his hand right after he finished painting the contract.

An intricate blood pattern was engraved on the Little Skeleton’s forehead.

As Su Ping lowered his hand, the blood pattern disappeared bit by bit as if the
Little Skeleton had absorbed it.

In the next moment, Su Ping felt an additional line in his consciousness that was
linked to an external consciousness.

The second was a quite feeble consciousness, like a flickering candlelight that
could die out at any time.

From the weak consciousness, Su Ping felt some faint hints of fear and confusion.

“Is this the Little Skeleton’s consciousness?” Su Ping looked at the Little
Skeleton. With the power granted to him by the contract, he could vividly sense the
changes in the Little Skeleton’s emotions.

The Little Skeleton looked up, staring blankly at Su Ping. It was still puzzled
about the recent changes it was going through.

Su Ping patted its little head. After all, the Little Skeleton had just come into
being. There was no legacy nor memory in it. It was only natural that the Little
Skeleton would be muddleheaded about everything.

Su Ping went to open the door. As the sunlight flooded the store, he abruptly
sensed fear coming from the Little Skeleton’s mind.

He turned around, only to see the Little Skeleton who had fallen from the counter.
The bones scattered around slowly moved into the shades at a corner by the counter.
The Little Skeleton reassembled itself. It was hugging its knees, curled up,
shivering from fear.
“Is it afraid of sunlight?”

Su Ping was surprised. He realized that he had been ignorant. The majority of pets
of the demon family preferred a dark environment. A fraction of them were so afraid
of sunlight that they could only stay in darkness.

Su Ping came back at once and carried the trembling Little Skeleton to the pet room
at the back.

There was an empty nursing pen. Su Ping placed the Little Skeleton in the
stalagmite array.

“System, this complimentary nursing pen costs 10 coins per hour. What can it do?”
Su Ping asked out of curiosity.

It was not a cheap price to hire the pet boarding service at 10 coins per hour.

“The free nursing pens are built with scrap spirit stones. The remaining spirit
energy and the complex and confusing radiations from the scrap minerals can be of
aid in the pet’s growth. There is a high chance that the pets can mutate,” The
system explained.

“Mutate?”

Su Ping was startled.

Apart from evolution, with the difference in the living environment, there was a
small chance that pets could mutate.

As for mutation, it implied that the pet would become an entirely different
species.

Maybe it could become a new and more powerful species, or it could degenerate into
a failed species.

Some war zones with extremely harsh environments, filled with devastation and
technological waste, were the most likely places to breed mutant beasts.

Most of the mutant beasts would carry agents with unknown diseases, which would
very likely cause plagues or form a large-scale virus attack.

Such cases could be lethal to the general public. As such, in most cases, “mutated
pets” were words that could instill panic.

At the same time, in scientific pet studies, people never stopped inducing
mutations in pets. Many famous ninth rank pets in the Federation had been the
result of mutations by scientific methods. Those pets were proficient in battles;
they had also been successfully bred as new species!

“Are the pets mutated in the slots good or bad?” Su Ping consulted the system.

The system gave a brief answer, “Half and half. It is advisable for the host to
upgrade the nursing pens into elementary nursing pens, to avoid damaging the
store’s reputation.”

Su Ping curled his lips.

Fortunately, he thought of asking this question.

He already had a bad feeling when the system mentioned radiation of scrap minerals.
The cheap buyer takes bad meat.

“Go ahead and upgrade it.”

Without hesitation, Su Ping made the decision.

First of all, after the upgrade, the rent would be 10 times higher and other
benefits would ensue. Second, he couldn’t afford to face the possibilities of
failed mutations.

Harming his customer’s pets and having a fall-out with them would be detrimental to

system was planting a sinister bomb! fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

the store’s reputation. The system was not giving him a free nursing pen. The

Lucky for him, he had just made some quick cash. Other than that, the business
hadn’t been good in the past couple of days. Nothing had happened.

-20 points of energy.

Suddenly, a hazy white light glowed over the two aged stalagmite arrays. When the
white light was dispersed, he found that the stalagmite arrays had a brand-new
appearance. The arrays were practically the same; they used the same sharp stones
but the color of each stalagmite was completely different from before.

Previously, it was as if the slots had been built with rough rocks in dim and
dreary colors. But then, the stalagmites were like ivories, full of life.

“Now we are talking.”

Su Ping was satisfied.

His heart began to ache though, since he remembered that this elementary nursing
pen would cost him one energy point for maintenance every day.

It was burning a hole in his pocket.

In a blink, less than 100 energy points remained from the original 315.

“I have to make the most of the time available to earn energy points. I still need
to upgrade the Chaos Spirit Pool.”

Su Ping was filled with anticipation at the thought of the effects that a third
rank Chaos Spirit Pool could bring. If he could breed a pet with a Beast King’s
bloodline, the mere action of displaying the pet in the store could attract a large
group of customers!

“Is anyone in?” someone was shouting from outside the store.

Su Ping found the voice familiar. He rushed out from the pet room in the back.

Two beautifully-dressed girls were standing by the door, looking around quite
carefully.

“What?”

Su Ping immediately recognized one of the girls when he laid eyes on her. It was
the girl that came for the Lightning Rat.
...

“Is the owner here?” asked Su Yanying by the door. She looked into the store,
confused.

“Yingying, are you sure this is the place?”

Lan Lele, who was wearing a gauzy skirt, had tagged along. After looking at such an
obscure and disgraceful little store, Lan Lele found it hard to believe that this
genius Lightning Rat had been trained here.

“This is the place!”

Su Yanying was certain. “This place must have something to do with the changes in
my Lightning Rat!”

She gradually had a better understanding after the preliminary contests; there was
indeed something way off about her Lightning Rat.

After being visited and questioned by her teachers and the class advisor, she
realized to a large extent how freakishly strong her Lightning Rat was!

It could be regarded as a coincidence if the Lightning Rat only learned one

advanced pet skill. But nobody would think this after seeing how the Lightning Rat
could use two of such skills.

She threw her teachers off the scent; after all, she wasn’t really sure. And yet,
she did know that this might have something to do with the pet store where she left
her Lightning Rat for temporary boarding.

Before that, the Lightning Rat had been quite ordinary and it had never come into
contact with anything else before the stay at the pet store. With such analysis,
she believed the only variable in the equation was the pet store!

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