Chapter 368: Are your Pokémon genes legal?
[Genetic Gene Collection Library: Template Skill. Hammond Innovation Lab, with its considerable ambition and mysterious technology, possesses the ability to collect and dissect ancient creature carcasses, transforming them into special resources for regeneration and incubation.
The template skill can only be used normally when carrying or being in the 'Portable Lab'.
You can acquire the remains of 'ancient creatures' in dungeons and convert them into corresponding genetic material—either by collecting them yourself or by spending Chosen Coins to hire NPCs.
Genetic material will be automatically recorded as the corresponding species and displayed as a percentage, awaiting use for 'incubation', such as 'Brontosaurus 47%'; the material percentage corresponds to the incubation probability. You can decide the ratio of material used according to your needs, for example, using all 'Brontosaurus 47%' material will result in a 47% incubation success rate; when ancient creature remains have multiple genetic traits, the material will retain all its traits, such as 'Spade Brontosaurus 47%'.
You can currently hold a maximum of 50 ancient creature genomes, with no upper limit on the collection capacity for corresponding creature genomes.
When 'Orangutan Utan' is in an assisting work state, your conversion efficiency of ancient creature remains increases by 25%. (Utan Linkage Enhancement)]
Likely due to splitting the spoils with other hunting parties, the Brontosaurus carcass sent by the bald butcher was incomplete, probably less than half its original size. However, the panel data wasn't very intuitive. When Cheng Tian projected the entire skeleton to scale, he and Irene were directly enveloped by the mountain-like projection.
This was after some limbs had been cut off, leaving a relatively intact half of the torso.
Perhaps it was due to the ice attribute inherent in this Brontosaurus's 'Spade Bloodline Mutation', but even though it seemed to have been dead for some time, and storage and transport were crude, it showed no signs of normal decomposition. It looked almost as if it had just been pulled out of a freezer.
But to be fair, while the bald butcher was truly reckless, he also lived up to his word, with full professional integrity. Aside from this Spade Bloodline mutated carcass, which was too massive to easily dissect and store, most other dragon carcasses were fully dissected and then frozen.
He genuinely enjoyed being a butcher and had a true passion for slaughtering dinosaurs. His skill in dissecting dragon carcasses had almost reached the level of a craftsman. Such professional conduct reminded Cheng Tian of that government official who, abusing his public office and exploiting the subservience of subordinates, slaughtered over 3,600 pigs in 8 years... Unsurprisingly, in addition to the Spade Brontosaurus material (47% of the total, which incurred the highest acquisition cost), Cheng Tian also received material from four classic herbivorous dragons: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, and Ankylosaurus, as well as three equally classic carnivorous dragons: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, and Allosaurus.
These materials also carried different mutated genes, with 'Spade/Fire Dragon' and 'Pentagram/Sand Dragon' mutated individuals being the most numerous, 'Heart/Ice Dragon' second, and absolutely no 'Club/Flying Dragon' or 'Diamond/Water Dragon'.
This indirectly showed that the butcher's team likely did not target flying or aquatic dinosaurs for hunting... or simply lacked the ability to hunt these two types of dinosaurs.
Since it was the beginning of the month, Cheng Tian's savings were quite ample, and the gene bank urgently needed filling, so he basically bought out all of the butcher's stock.
Moreover, unlike his hastily-entered, fiercely competitive peers, the more experienced butcher was somewhat particular about his hunting targets. He would deliberately avoid hunting relatively valueless groups like 'Ornithomimus', so the overall quality of his stock was higher.
Herbivorous dragons were mostly gregarious and relatively less dangerous, while the carnivorous dragons, predominantly solitary in the stock, were generally hunted incidentally during the process of hunting herbivorous dragons.
With the gene stock replenished, Cheng Tian also met several incubation conditions, but whether and where to incubate was clearly a more important question.
[Ancient Creature Incubation: Template Skill. As a successor to the Hammond Group's technology, which once successfully resurrected prehistoric animals from 65 million years ago using only 'an ancient mosquito in amber that absorbed dinosaur blood', the Innovation Studio, with sufficient ancient living and carcass materials, has already achieved 100% incubation replication and is beginning to advance to higher levels.
The template skill can only be used normally when carrying or being in the 'Portable Lab'.
When you have enough genetic material in your gene bank, you can incubate ancient creatures according to your needs—
Select the corresponding genetic material, consume the corresponding Chosen Coins, and make an incubation judgment based on the quantity of material consumed. If the judgment is successful, an adult individual can be incubated; typically, the initial state of this creature is 'Neutral Unit' or 'Hostile Unit', and the basic template is 'Normal Template'. When the individual's genetic blueprint inherently possesses special bloodlines, has undergone genetic modification, or genetic hybridization, the template may change; you can only incubate 1 ancient creature at a time, and can only temporarily hold 1. You need to release the incubated ancient creature individual before you can incubate again.
You can obtain probabilistic drops from the incubated individual through normal killing behavior, but the quality of dropped items from this behavior will be reduced by at least 1 tier. Additionally, if the killed individual is judged to be a 'Wild Wandering BOSS', skills like 'Bounty Target' for additional drops will not be triggered.
You can use auxiliary tools such as Poké Balls, Pal Spheres, Familiar Crystals, Tranquilizing Darts, or Blank Mount Reins to attempt capture and taming. If successful, this action may require occupying a minion slot or be based on completing a main quest.
When 'Orangutan Utan' is in an assisting work state, the ancient creature incubation probability increases by 10%, and the incubated unit has a small chance of template promotion, up to 'Elite Template'. (Utan Linkage Enhancement)
You can use the 'Dominate' skill on all incubated ancient creatures, and when used within 24 hours of incubation completion, the 'Dominate' judgment success rate is 100%. ('Dominate' Linkage Enhancement)]
Simply put, the template Cheng Tian loaded was just an innovation lab, only responsible for almost perfectly recreating ancient creatures on this land. Most of the incubated individuals were wild neutral creatures; if they were carnivorous dragons, they might naturally be in a hostile state.
As for whether to treat them as evolving wild monsters to kill for meat, or to attempt to tame them, that would depend on Cheng Tian's subsequent methods.
However, after reconfirming his template skills, Cheng Tian's clever mind began to churn.
His gene bank's collectible materials were limited to 'ancient creatures'. So the question was... do Pokémon with ancient creature characteristics also count as ancient creatures?
Cheng Tian's 'ill-intentioned' gaze shifted directly to the Megalocrab Pterosaur beneath Irene.