Chapter 26: The Elf - Dad When I Need Something, Old Huang When I Don't
Hearing Huang Ke Yin's words, his mother, Gardevoir, instantly teleported behind him and slapped him on the head.
“Ah! Got it! Got it!”
Under his mother, Gardevoir's, stern gaze, Huang Ke Yin went to his room.
Under his mother's watchful eyes, he took off his clothes, lay on the bed, pulled the quilt up to his navel, and then closed his eyes.
“Sana Sana. (I'll be watching you, get some proper sleep.)”
“Mhm, I know.”
While he was saying he understood, he was secretly using a hidden communication channel to contact his father.
【Old Huang, are you there?】
“Huh? Little Huang?”
【It’s me.】
【Isn’t this telepathy?】
His mom at home was a Gardevoir, so communication was generally done through telepathy.
So Huang Bo Cheng was quite familiar with telepathy.
【No, this is a new ability I developed, called Hidden Communication.】
【Wow, so advanced.】
【Haha, it’s alright.】
【Well, what’s up, son?】
【Right, Old Huang, can you help me collect some blood from a Charizard X after it mega-evolves? And some blood from other Pokémon with Dragon-type blood.】
【Okay, do you need any Charmander eggs? Your Uncle Jie’s Charizard just hatched two eggs recently, and after testing, their talents are both very high.】
【Um, find one with genetic defects. It’ll be good for my experiment.】
【Genetic defects? That’s hard to find!】
【Well, there’s no other way. Genetically defective genes are easier to modify. It means their genes have started to mutate or regress, but failed. Those with stable genes are harder to modify.】
【Alright, I’ll look around for you.】
【Okay, I’ll leave it to you, Dad.】
【Heh, you call me Dad when you need something, and Old Huang when you don’t, huh.】
【Beep! The number you have dialed is currently busy, please try again later!】
【Click~嘟~嘟~】 (Phone hanging up sound.)
‘Damn that kid!’
After his mother, Gardevoir, tidied up his clothes, Huang Bo Cheng grabbed his briefcase and went to work.
Arriving at the research institute where he worked, Huang Bo Cheng began his work.
After finishing his work, Huang Bo Cheng went to the break room, found a colleague, explained the situation, and those colleagues also allowed him to take some of their Pokémon’s blood.
But when Huang Bo Cheng asked if anyone had a Charmander with genetic defects, those people looked at him strangely.
After all, everyone wanted a healthy Pokémon.
After a day’s work, a thin man who looked like he would fly away in a gust of wind found Huang Bo Cheng.
This was the Uncle Jie mentioned earlier.
After learning the purpose of his visit, Huang Bo Cheng was delighted.
It turned out that Jie’s Charizard hatched three eggs, but one was accidentally thrown into the water by his grandson and became a waterlogged egg.
After examination, the egg’s genes had been damaged by being soaked in water, and the chance of it hatching a Charmander was less than twenty percent.
Hearing that Huang Bo Cheng was searching for a Charmander with genetic defects, Jie felt he should try.
If Huang Bo Cheng could successfully hatch this Charmander, that would be the best outcome.
In the evening, Huang Bo Cheng returned home.
“Director good!”
“Grandpa Director good!”
“Brother Huang.”
Here’s a little info: Huang Ke Yin's father was a scientist at a research institute, and Huang Ke Yin, under his father's influence, had a certain foundation in genetics and started his own research.
In addition, Huang Ke Yin’s family also ran an orphanage.
It’s not that they “ran” it, but rather “inherited” it!
Huang Bo Cheng had been an orphan himself, abandoned at the doorstep of this orphanage. The orphanage director took him in.
Growing up, Huang Bo Cheng was very capable. He finished school quickly and became a well-known geneticist.
After the old director passed away, Huang Bo Cheng inherited the orphanage.
Due to his research, Huang Bo Cheng had always only been accompanied by his mother, Gardevoir, and females.
As a result, the two eventually tied the knot and had Huang Ke Yin.
So while Huang Ke Yin wasn't an orphan, he was raised in the orphanage from a young age (smirks).
Besides Huang Ke Yin’s father, Huang Bo Cheng, other orphans who had left the orphanage had grown up and become wealthy, and would sometimes donate things.
Though it was a civilized urban world, this wasn't an ordinary world; it was a dangerous Pokémon world.
Some children’s parents would go out and never return.
So the government established a law.
Parents were prohibited from going out on adventures until their children reached the age of three.
If the parents wanted to travel, they had to bring their children with them.
If they didn’t want to bring their children, then children between three and fifteen years old would need to be sent to the orphanage for foster care.
If the parents were found to have died, then the child would automatically become an orphan and receive permanent residency at the orphanage.
And every six months, the parents would have to return to accompany the child for half a year.
Of course, if one parent remained, this wouldn't be necessary.
So the orphanage could also be seen as a large kindergarten.
Therefore, most people in this world grew up in orphanages.
Upon returning home, Huang Ke Yin went directly to Huang Bo Cheng.
Taking the test tube box containing various Dragon-type Pokémon blood, Huang Ke Yin thanked his father and left the house.
In the lab, Huang Ke Yin continuously optimized the genes of various Dragon-type blood, extracting the genetic information he wanted.
After a few days, his father came to him with a Charmander egg that was somewhat dull in color.
With a gene engine that was gradually becoming more complete inside his body, Huang Ke Yin could tell at a glance what was wrong with the egg.
“Waterlogged egg, and its hatching rate is no more than thirteen percent!”
“Yeah, it was soaked in water, so some of its genes are missing because of the external stimulus. Is this the kind you want?”
“Yeah, that’s right, this is what I need.”
Looking at the egg, Huang Ke Yin curiously asked.
“Where did you get it?”
“It’s still from your Uncle Jie. This was the third one, but his grandson was playing with it and dropped it in the water, making it waterlogged. After testing, its genes were missing, and the hatching rate was less than twenty percent. After hearing I was looking for this kind of Pokémon, your Uncle Jie gave it to me.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll definitely bring your Uncle Jie the strongest Charizard!”
Taking the egg, Huang Ke Yin returned to his lab.
After a day and a night, Huang Ke Yin looked at the Charmander egg floating in a special nutrient solution with an excited expression!
Looking at the detection data on his computer, Huang Ke Yin’s mouth split open and he laughed without any semblance of decorum.
“Success! Wahahaha! I really am a genius! I did it! Hahaha!”