Chapter 712: Ghost

Dorarisa paused for a moment before answering, “It’s generally between 150,000 to 200,000 alliance coins per month, mainly depending on the research institute you join.

As long as you’re a Beginner researcher, the research center’s minimum salary is 150,000 alliance coins per month.”

She paused there and added, “However, I’m talking about the situation on Super Dormant Star; I’m not entirely sure about Blue Star.”

Even at the lowest estimate, 150,000 a month is 1.8 million a year.

Even if the unlimited card expires, it’s enough to support Steel Treasure at its current stage… Qiao Sang no longer hesitated and said seriously, “I’m willing to participate in this research.”

“Great!” Dorarisa couldn’t help but smile.

If Ice Kexilu’s Yu Beast Master participated in this research, it meant Ice Kexilu was participating.

For the rest of the time, Dorarisa led Qiao Sang around, introducing the layout of the research institute:

“We mainly have five areas here.”

“The experimental area is where we usually conduct research… The custody area is where Pets cooperating with the research usually move around.

Most of them are wild Pets, and some have Yu Beast Masters, but only a small portion…”

“The data room contains almost all data related to Pet emotional energy.

If you want to see it, you can come in anytime; I’ve already granted you access…”

“Then there’s the storeroom.

You might not even know what’s stored here, so it’s best not to go in for now.

Wait until you’ve studied for a while…”

“Finally, there’s the lounge area.” Dorarisa stopped at the place where they had first sat down to chat.

“Alright, now summon your Ice Kexilu, and I’ll check on its condition.”

Check on its condition?

Qiao Sang’s eyes lit up, and she immediately formed hand seals.

An orange-yellow star array lit up, and soon, Lu Bao appeared within the star array.

Orange-yellow… Dorarisa’s pupils slightly contracted.

Yesterday, her attention was entirely on Ice Kexilu, and she hadn’t noticed the color of the star array at all.

Although she had read the data and was mentally prepared, thinking about a 16-year-old child’s brain domain reaching such a level, and then seeing it with her own eyes, she couldn’t help but feel a shock in her heart.

Setting aside combat power, just this brain domain talent alone explains why those people from the Pet Tamer Academy came looking for her…

“Ice Ke.”

Lu Bao stood quietly, looking at the human in front of her, her expression lacking yesterday’s impatience.

“May I touch you?” Dorarisa asked with a gentle smile.

As an expert in Pet emotional energy, she was always sensitive to Pets’ emotions and knew that Ice Kexilu currently had no feelings of rejection towards her.

“Ice Ke.”

Lu Bao glanced at the other party’s hand and let out a cry.

She definitely heard yesterday’s conversation and understood that Dr. Dorarisa might be able to help her evolve… Qiao Sang helped translate, “She said yes.”

Dorarisa’s smile widened at her words.

She squatted down, observing Ice Kexilu while stroking her.

Lu Bao cooperated throughout.

You’ve sacrificed too much for evolution… Even though it was just being touched a few times, Qiao Sang inexplicably felt that Lu Bao was compromising for the sake of evolution.

After about ten seconds of touching, Dorarisa stood up and said, “Your Ice Kexilu is quite introverted and quiet.

It might be a bit difficult for her to generate feelings of despair.”

Holy cow, she truly is an expert!

She understood so much just by touching her a few times… Qiao Sang was extremely impressed and asked, “Then what should we do?”

“Ice Ke…”

Lu Bao’s tail unconsciously tensed, and she looked at the human who had just touched her, her expression slightly nervous.

Dorarisa smiled and said, “This isn’t a very serious problem.

There are many ways to make a Pet generate feelings of despair.

First, you need to understand what she cares about most.”

Qiao Sang thought for a moment and said, “What she cares about most right now is probably when she can evolve.”

“Ice Ke.”

Lu Bao nodded, indicating that was indeed the case.

“Then let her understand that she can’t evolve,” Dorarisa said.

Lu Bao was stunned on the spot.

Qiao Sang glanced at Lu Bao and asked in a low voice, “She heard our conversation, so she shouldn’t be able to generate feelings of despair, right?”

“No.” Dorarisa smiled faintly.

“Don’t forget, for Ice Kexilu to evolve, besides energy accumulation and feelings of despair, she also needs to be in a Sandstorm environment.”

“As long as you keep her out of a Sandstorm, no matter how much despair she feels or doesn’t feel, she won’t be able to evolve.”

“Ice Ke…”

Lu Bao had some trouble processing this news for a moment.

What does that mean?

Tell her Yu Beast Master not to look for Pets with Sandstorm skills?

What if she manages to generate feelings of despair in the meantime?

Thinking of this, Lu Bao couldn’t help but feel a little annoyed.

Dorarisa had been observing Ice Kexilu’s state and, seeing her reaction, smiled and said, “It seems your Ice Kexilu truly values evolution.

I only briefly mentioned it, and her emotions seem to have changed.”

She’s been obediently letting you touch her for a long time for the sake of evolution, so how could she not value it… Qiao Sang muttered to herself and sighed, “My other Pets have been evolving recently, so she also wants to evolve as soon as possible.”

“Ice Ke…”

Lu Bao heard her Yu Beast Master’s words and showed an expression of “Is it that obvious?”

Dorarisa saw Ice Kexilu’s expression and suddenly added to her previous point:

“What you said also makes some sense.

Since Ice Kexilu has heard our conversation, if she doesn’t evolve for a long time, she might just blame me for suggesting this idea.”

“Ice Ke.”

Lu Bao looked at the so-called emotional energy expert.

Good that you know.

Dorarisa continued, “For a Pet to evolve by relying on emotional energy, it’s not enough to just generate the corresponding emotion.

This emotion needs to reach a certain vibration frequency.

In my opinion, your Ice Kexilu might generate feelings of despair because she can’t evolve, but the vibration frequency of that despair will definitely not be enough to make her evolve into a General-level Pet.”

Despair itself isn’t difficult, but despair to the extent that it can cause evolution is very difficult.

If not evolving doesn’t make Lu Bao despair to that extent, then she really can’t think of anything that could make her despair… Qiao Sang and Lu Bao exchanged a mutually despairing glance.

Dorarisa saw Qiao Sang become disheartened by her words and said gently, “The energy in your Ice Kexilu’s body probably hasn’t reached the level required for evolution yet.

Don’t rush the despair part for now, because even if she does despair, there’s no Sandstorm environment right now.”

As she spoke, she pondered for a moment and asked, “Do you know a Pet called Ghost Sense?”

Qiao Sang nodded, “It’s a High Level Ghost-type Pet from Super Dormant Star.

I heard it can swap emotions between people.”

“That’s right.” Dorarisa confirmed, continuing, “The feelings of despair your Ice Kexilu needs for evolution must be self-generated.

This is how she can mobilize the energy within her body and achieve resonance.”

“Ghost Sense has the ‘Emotion Swap’ characteristic, which can swap the emotions of two targets for a certain period of time.

This swapping method will leave emotional residue in both parties.”

“In other words, when the time is up and the emotions are swapped back, your Ice Kexilu can also generate emotions she didn’t originally have from the other party’s emotions.”

“I suggest you find a Ghost Sense, then find some targets who are currently in despair, and swap with Ice Kexilu to see if the feelings of despair can gradually accumulate.”

“Ice Ke…” Lu Bao tried hard to understand the meaning of these words.

Qiao Sang’s eyes, however, suddenly lit up, and she asked, “Teacher, do you know who in our school has a Ghost Sense?”

Dorarisa already had a candidate in mind:

“Charles Cobra from the fourth-year Outdoor Exploration Department.

He has a Ghost Sense.”