Gazing at the C2-A144, Shen Cong called up the introduction the material had given, in his mind.

"One injection, and a jin beast's jin core either mutates—thereby raising its Talent—or the jin core can't withstand it and collapses outright, dead."

"The Theater Command chose low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and super-grade jin beasts for the experiment. Low-grade: one hundred percent death. Mid-grade: of a thousand, one could survive, gaining roughly 0.3H of Talent. High-grade: of a hundred, one survives, gaining roughly 0.5H of Talent. Data on super-grade jin beasts is insufficient—only three have been injected so far, of which two died and one survived."

"The survivor was a giant crab of 3.048H Talent; after injection its Talent rose to 3.846H, a gain of 0.798H, one step short of topping out at ultimate-grade jin beast (3.892H)."

"Theoretical inference: the stronger a jin beast's Talent, the greater its resistance to C2-A144, and the higher the probability of success."

"Jin people can be injected with C2-A144 too, but jin people are generally at the low grade, with no possibility of success. The lab gave C2-A144 a nickname—'Ultimate Beast Drug'—meaning an agent to help super-grade jin beasts evolve into ultimate-grade jin beasts. As for whether it works on ultimate-grade or nuclear-grade jin beasts, that remains unknown."

This dose of C2-A144, the moment it appeared, made Shen Cong think at once of the four-legged dragon.

Perhaps it was precisely because the Eastern Theater Command knew Shen Cong had a super-grade jin beast as a battle pet that they'd sent the C2-A144 over.

"Little Four..."

Shen Cong looked out of the vehicle with his Third Eye. The four-legged dragon was among the great pits of the Diamond Park, boring holes back and forth, digging up mutated bugs from the earth to eat—it loved eating bugs.

Every so often it raised its head and glanced all around, its vigilance quite good.

Its intelligence was climbing higher and higher too. When they'd first met it was around a four- or five-year-old's level; then five or six; now it felt like the intelligence of a six- or seven-year-old child. Its notions…