Beast Tamer: The evolution path I made up has come true!

But now.

Its ears perked up instantly, its tail started wagging, and its eyes were fixed on the bear slippers, shining as if a power source had suddenly been switched on.

The drool at the corner of his mouth couldn't hold back any longer and dripped onto the ground with a plop.

Seeing this, the junior student instinctively hugged her arms tighter and said cautiously, "Does it...does it really want to bite my slippers?"

However, Su Mo pressed down on Fugui's head and said seriously, "It's not a bite."

"This is target locking before mental guidance."

Junior: "..."

Judging from the expression on her face, she clearly didn't believe it.

Shen Qinghe was the first to notice Fugui's change in behavior, and wrote on the record sheet: [After the random slippers were placed in the testing area, the subject showed a clear interest response.]

[Ears erect, tail wagging, pupils focused, saliva production increased.]

She paused here, then added a line: [Target preference is met.]

Qin Ze stood aside, looking at Fu Gui's expression as if he wanted to stick his eyes to his slippers, and said irritably, "The fact that the target preference is valid does not mean that the mental attraction is valid."

Liking slippers and being able to move slippers are two different things.

After he said that, many people in the lab nodded in agreement.

Qin Ze was right this time.

It's not uncommon for pets to have a strong interest in a particular item.

There are similar examples in the study of animal taming: canine pets that like bones, crows that like shiny stones, and cats that like to hide their owners' socks in their beds.

Liking something doesn't equate to having the ability to do it.

Xu Qingshan also looked at Su Mo and said, "Continue."

"Let it try to be leashed."

Su Mo nodded, squatted down, and patted Fugui's head.

"Wealth and honor".

“Look at it.”

Of course, the wealthy are watching.

And I watched it more attentively than ever before.

The problem is, this pink bear slipper is not the same as its original worn-out slipper.

That worn-out slipper accompanied it through countless nights, endured all the changes in its teeth from infancy to adulthood, and even had been chewed into a uniquely luxurious taste and shape.

This one in front of me is also a slipper.

But for Fugui, it was nothing more than a pair of unfamiliar slippers that looked very tempting.

Although I'm very interested, it hasn't reached the point where it's etched into my soul.

Fugui stared at the slippers for a long time.

But the pink bear slippers on the lab table remained lying there quietly.

It didn't move even a millimeter.

On the monitoring screen, the mental fluctuation curve did not change significantly, at most it was slightly more active than when facing the metal ball.

Upon seeing this, viewers in the live stream chat also expressed their opinions.

[Hahaha, even changing to slippers didn't help!]

[The emotional anchor isn't strong enough, is it? I've already thought of all the excuses for the streamer.]

[Fugui: These shoes look nice, but they're not ripe yet.]

Liking slippers doesn't mean you can make them fly. I'm rooting for Qin Ze this time.

[The junior student is already worried about the slipper's remains.]

The junior student stood in the observation area, listening to the discussions around her, and then looked at the slippers on the lab table.

She whispered to the lab technician next to her, "If the experiment fails, will I get my shoes back?"

The lab technician nodded and said, "That's right."

Upon hearing this, the junior student immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, Fugui suddenly took a step forward, his eyes still fixed on the pink bear slippers.

Seeing this, the junior student's heart jumped again.

Shen Qinghe lowered her head and continued taking notes.

[Randomly chosen slippers elicited a clear interest response.]

No stable mental fluctuations have been observed yet.

[The goal preference is met, but the psychological pull has not been triggered.]

Qin Ze glanced at the waveform on the record sheet, then looked up and coldly stared at Su Mo.

"Su Mo".

"So far, this data can only prove that your fake wolf has an unusually strong fetish for slippers."

"That's called instinct, it's far from what you call 'spiritual guidance'."

As soon as Qin Ze finished speaking, the atmosphere in the laboratory immediately became heavy.

Xu Qingshan, standing to the side, remained silent, simply watching Su Mo and awaiting his reply.

Upon hearing this, Su Mo couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Qin Ze is right, the current conditions are indeed not good enough.

The connection between the wealthy and the black-stockinged junior schoolgirl in slippers is too shallow.

Although the rich were indeed exciting, this emotion had not yet reached its threshold.

Its current state is simply "wanting" it; it's far from being in a desperate situation where it "must have it."

To push the traction to its limit, we need to add some more powerful measures.

Thinking of this, Su Mo raised his head and said, "Teacher Xu, Qin Ze is right, the current stimulation conditions are not enough."

"I request a change in the testing method."

Xu Qingshan frowned and asked, "How do we adjust it?"

Su Mo looked up and said seriously, "The activation of emotional anchors does not depend solely on the attractiveness of the target object itself."

"It also depends on specific 'behavioral inducements' and 'environmental deprivation'."

Qin Ze's eyelids twitched when he heard those words.

He now has an instinctive wariness of the various new terms that Su Mo keeps spouting.

Upon hearing this, Xu Qingshan nodded thoughtfully and asked, "What kind of behavioral inducement are you referring to?"

Su Mo pointed to Fugui, who was wagging its tail wildly.

"Its current state is that it has only completed 'visual capture' and has not yet fully transformed into the ultimate 'desire to acquire'."

"To make its brain activity exceed the threshold and reach the standard of mental attraction, we must artificially create an anxious state of 'extreme desire, yet unable to obtain'."

"In academic terms, this is called 'reactive nervous excitement caused by delayed gratification'."

As Su Mo uttered this string of smooth technical terms, the laboratory fell silent.

A group of professors and researchers wearing thick-rimmed glasses looked at each other, their brows furrowed.

They frantically searched their minds through the core journals of the past decade: a combined application of "environmental deprivation" and "delayed gratification"?

Does this specific term really exist in academia?

Two professors even exchanged a glance, wondering if they had been too busy with projects in recent years to keep up with the most cutting-edge research in the Department of Psychiatry.

The viewers in the live stream are always the quickest to react, and the screen is instantly filled with comments.

[Translation: I crave it.]

[What the hell is this stress-induced hyperactivity?! Behavioral inducement is just walking the dog, right?!]

[Answerer: As long as my vocabulary is large enough, even immorality can be turned into a rigorous science.]

Professor Xu: I was actually thinking about this kid's theory just now...

[Su Mo's smooth talk will eventually make even a dog crippled; he even dangled a carrot in front of the dog!]

[Fugui: I may not be human, but you really are a dog.]

Chapter 14 The Pinnacle of a Dog's Life

The female student in black stockings listened with a slight stiffness on her pretty face, and looking at her slippers, a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in her heart.

Although Xu Qingshan's eyes twitched slightly as he listened, he did not call for a halt.