Beast Tamer: I'm invincible because I can see the evolution path!

Chapter 28: An academic press conference was held, and the news exploded.

My phone crashed.

Qiao Bai tried repeatedly tapping and banging on the phone, but couldn't get it to stop.

Thinking back to the video call he had just seen, which included a call from their homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, Qiao Bai guessed that something really serious had happened.

I had no choice but to take Xiaowu with me, turn around and go back to the service station, find the charger, and try to wake up the phone using the charging method.

Just as I plugged my phone into the charger, the door to the equipment room was suddenly flung open.

Yang Sanmu strode out from inside, but stopped abruptly when he saw Qiao Bai's figure. Qiao Bai looked at him in confusion.

"Brother Yang?"

Yang Sanmu looked at Qiao Bai with a complicated expression.

Qiao Bai was completely confused.

What's going on?

What happened?

Just as Qiao Bai was puzzled, Yang Sanmu took a deep breath, looked away, and said, "Just ten minutes ago, the professor held an academic press conference."

Qiao Bai suddenly realized.

Zhou Xinran has finished writing her paper on the evolution of honeybees.

But... what's the deal with this academic conference?

"That's good. The evolution of the Honey Insect should benefit many Beast Tamers." Qiao Bai nodded and said calmly.

and then?

He gestured to Yang Sanmu with his eyes.

What does Professor Zhou's academic press conference have to do with him?

Seeing that Qiao Bai was truly unmoved and seemed to have nothing to do with him, Yang Sanmu felt a lump in his throat.

Why are there such people in the world?

Yang Sanmu looked at Qiao Bai with a sense of helplessness in his eyes, but he still explained to Qiao Bai.

"The professor mentioned your name and thanked you at the press conference."

The doubt on Qiao Bai's face only increased.

Thank him?

What should I thank him for?

Can honey bugs evolve if they are discovered "by chance"?

This logic doesn't hold water.

Surely Zhou Xinran couldn't have known about his talent, could she?

Qiao Bai muttered to himself.

Yang Sanmu was too lazy to talk to Qiao Bai anymore.

Tired.

I'm really exhausted.

He had always thought Qiao Bai was just pretending to be approachable, but he never expected that Qiao Bai was actually a bit dim-witted, the kind of person that even he, a naive and simple college student, could hardly stand.

"...Check your phone, it says so." Yang Sanmu turned and went back to his office.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Qiao Bai sat down and picked up the book "Research and Practice on the Evolution of Pet Beasts over Five Hundred Years" on the table to read.

About half an hour has passed.

The phone, which had been frozen, finally lit up again.

Qiao Bai put down the book in his hand, picked up his phone, and carefully turned it on, afraid that a call would come in and the phone would break again.

Perhaps because the phone had been frozen for half an hour, Qiao Bai was able to safely open social media.

brush brush --

The first thing Qiao Bai noticed was the number of 99+.

The number of messages in the class group was even more exaggerated, reaching 999+.

Qiao Bai opened the chat window with Li Gan at the top, scrolled to the very top, and saw the link and a screen recording video that Li Gan had sent.

He was the first to click on the video.

It's Zhou Xinran.

The background resembles a university auditorium, with a PowerPoint presentation behind them displaying images of fairy butterflies from all angles.

Immediately following was Zhou Xinran's voice coming from inside.

"...The above confirms the key to the evolution of honeybees."

Zhou Xinran wore a similar white lab coat as before, her long hair was piled high, and her face was solemn. She exuded a powerful scholarly aura from the inside out, and her academic vocabulary made her seem intimidating at first glance.

talking.

She suddenly smiled, her indifferent face blossoming like a snow lotus, revealing a touch of tenderness and sweetness.

"The conditions for honeybee evolution are more stringent than I imagined, because only unreserved love can nurture a honeybee bold enough to accept the evolutionary process." Zhou Xinran said with a faint smile.

"Here I must thank Qiao Bai, the staff member from Yanglin Village Service Station who discovered the secret of honeyworm evolution. It was he who chose to save a honeyworm at the first opportunity, which dispelled the 1,200-year-old misunderstanding that honeyworms cannot evolve."

"It was also Qiao Bai who suggested that when I encountered difficulties in the verification process, we could find ordinary people who genuinely care for honeyworms to verify the honeyworm evolution experiment."

"Without Qiao Bai's discovery and proposal, there would be no academic conference today."

"I sincerely thank Qiao Bai, and I also hope that one day in the future he can become my student. I believe he can forge a brand new path for pet evolution!"

The video, which is less than 45 seconds long and a minute long, is mostly filled with praising Qiao Bai.

Even though most of what Zhou Xinran said was true, Qiao Bai still couldn't help but cover his face with his hands.

"I'm a little... embarrassed by the blowing!" Qiao Bai said, rubbing his face hard with both hands a few times to make his blush look less strange.

He watched the video again before clicking on Li Ganfa's link.

The words "Live stream is closed" popped up in large letters.

Qiao Bai immediately realized that this should be the live stream link for Zhou Xinran's academic conference.

That round of praise was almost over.

He saw that the live stream ended normally after another half hour.

Qiao Bai scrolled down to find Li Gan's information.

Most of them expressed feelings of shock and awe.

[Qiao Bai: You saw it so quickly?]

Less than three seconds after the message was sent, Li Gan replied.

[Li Gan: Son! My dear eldest son! You're finally alive! I thought you were going to cut ties with me! You didn't reply to any of my messages, were you out contacting that beautiful professor?!]

[Qiao Bai: Several people called at the same time, including you and the old teacher. My phone crashed and I just turned it back on.]

[Li Gan: ...This reason is so absurd yet somehow sincere, I believe it. I told you long ago, your three-year-old phone should have been replaced long ago. No way, this time Dad will pay for you to get the latest model!]

[Qiao Bai: Thank you, but there's no need. I'm attached to my phone.]

Li Gan: I'm not going to waste my breath on you, that vixen butterfly today was really something! When Lao Wang tagged you in the group, I was wondering what was going on. It wasn't until I saw it that I realized you're the kind of guy who quietly gets things done!

I absolutely never imagined that honeybugs could evolve, and that the process of their evolution was even related to you! You've really got guts; maybe I'll even need to latch onto your coattails someday!

[Qiao Bai: Call me Daddy and I'll let you hug me.]

[Li Gan: Dad!]

He joked around with Li Gan for a while.

Qiao Bai finally figured out what had happened and why.

Because of what Qiao Bai said in the group chat, the homeroom teacher, Lao Wang, had been paying attention to Zhou Xinran's activities and discovered the online live broadcast of Zhou Xinran's academic conference today.

I clicked in and took a look.

Oh wow.

Honeybug evolves into Fairy Butterfly.

And then, considering the rumors Qiao Bai mentioned, this makes perfect sense!

Old Wang's typing speed was superb; he forwarded the link to the class group, causing an explosion of messages, and everyone watched what seemed like an exciting academic conference.

Especially the part at the end where he thanks Qiao Bai.

It's hard to say what people who don't know Qiao Bai think, but the students in the class group are probably just having a brain fart.

Has the evolution of honeybees been discovered?

To push forward the proof of the evolutionary process of honeybees?

Qiao Bai?

These all belong to Qiao Baiqian?!

He screamed until his voice cracked!

incredible!

We all agreed to be ordinary high school students, so why did you secretly become a show-off behind our backs?!

Group messages get 99+ in minutes

The homeroom teacher, Li Gan, and several classmates who usually had a so-so relationship with Qiao Bai all immediately messaged Qiao Bai on their phones, which led to the incident of Qiao Bai's phone crashing.

"It seems this discovery has had a much greater impact than I imagined."

Looking at my phone, which was overflowing with messages, besides the class group messages, there were also messages from Zhou Xinran, Lin Weiwei, and Qi Yue, as well as a message from Chairman Huang of the NY City Beast Taming Alliance.

Qiao Bai was somewhat surprised.

He seems to have underestimated the significance of honeybugs' ability to evolve.

Or is there... some crucial point that he missed?

After thinking for a moment, Qiao Bai took the initiative to call Zhou Xinran.

Asking others only yielded secondhand or thirdhand information, but asking Zhou Xinran always resulted in firsthand information.

The phone rang for only three seconds before it was answered on the other end.

"Have you finished watching my academic presentation?" Zhou Xinran's voice, tinged with a slight smile, came through the phone to Qiao Bai's ears, showing none of the coldness and seriousness she displayed at the presentation.

P.S.: Do you have any monthly passes? Could I borrow a few to liven things up?

(End of this chapter)