After fantasizing about the future, Shi Yu was pulled back to reality. In the morning, besides feeding the snow wolves, he had many other tasks to do, which kept him busy for the entire morning.
It wasn't until close to noon that he finally had some free time, but his afternoon was still scheduled to the minute.
After lunch and a nap, the interns in Shi Yu's dormitory building had the same task in the afternoon.
They had been doing this work for some time.
It was the task listed on the work sheet: observing and recording the behavior and growth of the Green Silk Worms...
In the afternoon,
Shi Yu quietly followed the group to the forest where the Green Silk Worms were abundant.
The forest was lush and dense, making it difficult for light to penetrate.
The Green Silk Worms were the most numerous pet beasts here. In the Ice Plains City pet beast base, there were only about 50 snow wolves, but there were over a thousand Green Silk Worms.
They could be described in five words: as numerous as street dogs.
Their strength was pitifully weak. Compared to the snow wolves, which could steadily awaken four racial skills during their growth period, the Green Silk Worms only had one skill: Silk Thread.
Moreover, Silk Thread, even when used to perfection, could only match the strength of steel wire, a skill of the lowest tier.
Beast masters classified the abilities of extraordinary creatures into different levels based on their power and effects, from lowest to highest: unranked, low-tier skills, mid-tier skills, high-tier skills, and super-tier skills...
The Silk Thread skill of the Green Silk Worms didn't even qualify as a low-tier skill and had no rank at all.
Therefore, the racial level of the Green Silk Worms being classified as low-tier was already a pity, considering they couldn't even defeat most ordinary animals. Their only advantage was their potential for growth.
However, depending on the cultivation method, the Silk Thread of the Green Silk Worms had many uses.
But the pet beast breeding base wasn't raising the Green Silk Worms just to produce Silk Thread.
The reason for raising such weak pet beasts was that the Green Silk Worms were one of the few pet beasts in nature that could naturally evolve once.
After consuming sufficient nutrients, they could evolve into Wind Crystal Butterflies and potentially awaken a new racial skill, Wind Blade, thus increasing their combat power.
Although their racial level remained low-tier after evolution due to their lifespan, the Wind Crystal Butterfly, as one of the easiest insect pet beasts to raise, was the best initial choice for most ordinary beast masters.
Next, Shi Yu and his team's task was to observe and record the growth status of the Green Silk Worms, determining when they could successfully evolve.
Compared to the snow wolves, the Green Silk Worms were much less harmful, being only palm-sized.
Their green, furry bodies, innocent eyes, and two yellow antennae on their heads made them look very much like the larvae of the citrus swallowtail on Earth.
After personally interacting with them, Shi Yu understood why they were called the weakest pet beasts in the pet beast world...
Because the Silk Thread skill used by these untrained Green Silk Worms could be easily broken with a gentle pull from his hands...
During the observation, Shi Yu's hands were entangled with Silk Thread.
Compared to the snow wolves, the Green Silk Worms had lower intelligence, and Shi Yu's mental induction talent was not yet proficient, so their communication was not very good, causing the Green Silk Worms to resist.
But this resistance... was too harmless.
However, this wasn't what left Shi Yu speechless.
What left him speechless was that the stone skill manual in his mind showed that the high-tier mental skill, Intimidate, could also be taught to the Green Silk Worms?
A Green Silk Worm with the potential of a king???
Was the standard for compatibility so loose?
Shi Yu's gaze toward the Green Silk Worms changed.
It seemed that the skill manual was not so simple, considering the Green Silk Worms were known as the lowest-level pet beasts that could not learn any other skills besides Silk Thread before evolving...
While Shi Yu was musing, the Green Silk Worm slipped out of his hand, and the skill manual changed again.
At this moment, the second page of the stone skill manual was flipped open.
This time, a new image of a Green Silk Worm was added.
Below it was still a bunch of text.
【Skill】: Silk Thread
【Skill Level】: Unranked
【Introduction】: An insect skill, which might have some effect when used to perfection.
【Status】: No teaching target yet
Shi Yu: ???
What's with this introduction?
Forget it... So, the Silk Thread skill was copied and recorded again?
It seems the three conditions were met.
Currently, the skill manual successfully recorded the second useless skill, Silk Thread... Fang Ran wasn't particularly happy either, as this skill really seemed useless.
But that's not entirely true... Such a weak skill might be useful for experiments, to test the physical energy consumption.
For the rest of the afternoon, while others were observing and recording the Green Silk Worms, Shi Yu was also observing and recording, but he had an additional task: to continue studying the skill manual in his mind.
The only valuable discovery was that besides the copied target, he could also teach the Silk Thread skill to other Green Silk Worms that had already learned it.
They had already mastered Silk Thread, yet they were still in a teachable state!
Shi Yu studied it, and the skill manual's feedback was that repeating the teaching of a skill could increase the proficiency of that skill!
He understood, but unfortunately, Shi Yu didn't dare to experiment here...
...
Until evening.
After dinner, Shi Yu returned directly to the dormitory.
Upon returning, he took out a handbook and started looking through it.
This was not an evaluation guide, but another one.
The handbook recorded the 51 types of pet beasts and their racial skills in the Ice Plains City pet beast breeding base.
Clearly, Shi Yu was starting to select his targets for偷学 (stealth learning).
He planned to see what skills were suitable for his Iron-Eater Beast to learn.
The skill manual couldn't create skills out of thin air; he had to find a way to record new skills himself.
However, once he successfully recorded rare skills, the skill manual would be invincible.
Which beast master had ever raised a Green Silk Worm that could use the Intimidate skill?
Shi Yu tentatively considered the skill manual as his second beast master talent. With this talent, his next goal was easy to predict.
He planned to find a way to copy higher-level skills, store them, and use them to cultivate his pet beast after becoming a beast master...
Unfortunately, after reviewing the 51 types of pet beasts in the breeding base, Shi Yu didn't find the perception-type skills he needed...
The skills that the pet beast cubs in the breeding base could potentially awaken were mostly basic low-tier skills, very common and not worth copying.
Of course, the more skills recorded, the better, just in case.
However, after copying the Silk Thread, Shi Yu suddenly thought of a question: was there a limit to the number of skills the skill manual could record?
Before figuring out this limit, Shi Yu didn't dare to waste pages and decided to focus on mid- and high-tier skills for now.
"It seems I need to change my target."
Actually, the place where Shi Yu was staying, the Ice Plains City pet beast breeding base, not only had a large number of wild pet beasts but also many beast masters...
The skills of their pet beasts could also be targets for copying, just like the Intimidate skill of the Snow Wolf King.
The probability of a beast master's pet beast mastering rare skills was much higher than that of the pet beast cubs in the breeding base...
Thinking about this, Shi Yu pondered for a moment and had a bold idea.