Pet Beasts that are naturally gentle and kindhearted often possess sharper instincts, allowing them to avoid danger and instinctively draw close to people who are just as kind themselves.
Principal Liu of the nanny-type Pet Beast school was clearly one of those people—and an extremely emotional one at that.
The moment she saw Xiao Xian after its evolution, she burst into tears from overwhelming joy on the spot. She hugged it and cried for quite a while before finally wiping away her tears in embarrassment and greeting Jiang Xing.
After learning why Jiang Xing had come, she did not hesitate in the slightest before giving him two hundred Honey Attendant, four hundred Sweet Cocoons, and one thousand Honey Larva, covering all three evolutionary stages of the Honey Attendant line.
She had practically emptied out the school's Honey Attendant breeding house entirely.
However, since Honey Attendants were Bug-type Pet Beasts, their reproductive speed was naturally very fast.
The reproductive-form Honey Attendants could lay more than a dozen eggs at a time, and the eggs would hatch within a little over ten days... enough to make many overlord species with low fertility cry with envy.
Under normal circumstances, the Pet Beast school actually had to control the breeding rate to prevent the number of Honey Attendants from growing beyond what they could properly raise.
So even after emptying the breeding house, as long as the Honey Attendants responsible for reproduction worked a little harder, the population would gradually recover.
Principal Liu even handed over the breeding methods for the reproductive-form Honey Attendants as well.
That way, Jiang Xing could establish a dedicated Honey Attendant breeding house within the research institute itself, instead of having to keep coming back to the Pet Beast school to strip it clean every time.
When the trucks loaded with Honey Larvae and Sweet Cocoons started up and slowly departed from the school—
Principal Liu stood together with the Antique Doll, the River Clam Maidens, the Happiness Angels, and the school's other Pet Beast teachers, their eyes filled with tears as they waved goodbye in reluctance.
"Xiao Xian, you must take good care of Mr. Jiang Xing and live a happy life!"
"Yii!!" (You all too!)
Xiao Xian's eyes had reddened as well as it waved farewell to Principal Liu and its Pet Beast friends.
The entire scene and atmosphere felt less like they were sending off a Pet Beast and more like they were marrying off a daughter.
Considering Principal Liu's age and experiences with Xiao Xian, though, it really was not much different from sending a child away from home.
When Jiang Xing saw Xiao Xian fly back into the truck through the window and sit tearfully on his shoulder, even he was affected by its sadness. Rubbing his slightly sore nose, he reminded it, "You really don't need to feel this emotional."
"The research institute is in the suburbs of Yuzhong City, not far from the school. Once you break through to Monarch Level, flying back and forth won't take long at all."
"If you miss Principal Liu or your friends at the school, can't you just fly over to visit them whenever you want?"
"The research institute isn't that busy, and you'll have plenty of assistants helping you. It's not like you won't even have this much free time."
Well, the straight-line distance between the research institute and the school was only about twenty kilometers.
Even driving would not take half a day, much less traveling with a Monarch-Level—or even stronger—flying Pet Beast.
They were making splitting households sound so emotional, like a permanent life-and-death farewell...
Only to realize the new home was practically right across the street.
Jiang Xing really could not hold it together anymore.
Besides, did he look like the kind of evil researcher who exploited Pet Beasts?
Forget a place this close—even if it were farther away, giving Xiao Xian a vacation so it could return home to visit family would not be troublesome at all!
"Yii?" (Really?)
Xiao Xian tilted its head, realizing that actually did make sense.
So it wiped away its tears, broke into a smile, hugged Jiang Xing's cheek, and planted a hard kiss on it.
"Yiya!" (I like you!)
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Flower Fairy Attendants were not Pet Beasts that excelled at wallowing in sadness. Xiao Xian quickly regained its lively personality and began flying around everywhere, comforting the uneasy Pet Beasts.
After arriving at the research institute, Xiao Xian led the Flower Fairy Attendant and the Little Healing Fairy in constructing the breeding house—
The Honey Attendants were easy enough. They did not have particularly demanding environmental requirements. As long as they had enough food and were surrounded by friendly, happy lifeforms, they could happily continue living there.
The Sweet Cocoons were also simple to handle. As cocoon-state Bug-type Pet Beasts, they had already stored enough energy. As long as they were placed beside flowerbeds and occasionally exposed to sunlight, they could complete their evolution without difficulty.
As a result, the breeding house was mainly being prepared for the Honey Larvae.
They needed to live in gardens filled with flowers and consume enough nectar to replenish the energy needed for growth before eventually forming cocoons, transforming, and evolving into Honey Attendants.
Because they naturally emitted a sweet honey fragrance during that process, they easily attracted the attention of wild Pet Beasts.
Yes, the Pet Beast world also operated under the law of the jungle. If you were weak and disobedient, you really could end up getting eaten.
Fortunately, Xiao Xian had experience as a school teacher and knew how to build breeding houses and raise Honey Larvae safely until adulthood.
Besides, the Pet Beast groups living around the research institute could no longer really be considered "wild Pet Beasts."
They could help guard the Honey Larvae breeding house as well.
These Pet Beasts had originally been gentle omnivorous species to begin with. After such a long period of time, they had gradually been tamed by Jiang Xing and no longer fought each other over survival resources.
Instead, they now lived near the research institute, helping protect it and even participating in certain research projects.
Their relationships with one another had also become increasingly harmonious.
Jiang Xing could even see different Pet Beast species grooming each other's fur and playing around together.
In the past, something like that would have been completely impossible.
'The changes the research institute is bringing to the environment are slowly starting to spread as well…'
The matter immediately caught Jiang Xing's attention.
This was not some minor issue—
Right now, there were only a few Pet Beast groups, so things were still manageable.
But as the research institute continued developing and the number of Pet Beast species steadily increased, the surrounding environment and atmosphere would inevitably be affected as well.
Certain Pet Beast species that naturally restrained one another or possessed incompatible temperaments might end up clashing.
There could even be situations where predators and prey were forced to coexist within the same area, potentially triggering large-scale bloodshed.
In addition, if no restrictions were imposed, some weaker species might begin reproducing explosively once food and resources became abundant, causing their numbers to spiral out of control and squeeze out the living space and resources of other Pet Beasts...
Just like the Golden-Patterned Koi in the lake, which were already starting to show signs of overpopulation.
'How should this be handled?'
"Wouldn't limiting them solve it?"
Su Muli was still overseeing the training of the Ugly Waterfowl.
Not only did she need to raise the Ugly Waterfowls' Friendship and design "special situations" to stimulate emotional growth, she also had to research how to use the strange feathers and the Hundred-Bird Garment to help the Ugly Waterfowls learn the Phoenix Grace move more easily...
As she walked past holding a cup of coffee, she heard the problem Jiang Xing was considering and casually offered a suggestion.
"Just tell them not to reproduce so much, then assign territories based on their living habits and tell them not to casually leave their designated areas…"
"…Would that actually work?"
Jiang Xing looked confused. Even if Pet Beasts possessed intelligence close to humans and could understand language...
How could all of them possibly behave so obediently just because they were told not to reproduce?
There were so many fish in the lake that Jiang Xing obviously could not monitor every single one individually to see whether they obeyed or not.
"Of course it would work." Su Muli casually revealed the real reason.
"Wild Pet Beasts obey the orders of their leader."
"This is your research institute."
"You are the 'leader.'"
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