"What kind of problem?" Bai Meiyue asked with a frown. She had made sure to protect the energy ball, so what kind of problem could even arise? Don’t tell her that something happened when they were moving the energy ball and disrupted the energy within it? There was a very good possibility of it happening. Anyway, this was her first time seeing something in her life, whether in the present or the past.
"Just as you asked, I did try to research the energy ball. Though nothing much was found, I did find something," explained Doctor Cui as he placed the report that he had brought along with him. "It seemed like the Meng siblings had clearly separated the energy ball into two halves. While one half carries death, decomposition and fear, the other carries fear, temptation and seduction."
Bai Meiyue frowned as she couldn’t understand what Doctor Cui was trying to say. After some contemplation, she slowly began, "Do you want to say that the Meng siblings have awakened different powers and skills?" This was something that she hadn’t expected. She knew Meng Qibao in her last life, and the man was not fortunate enough to awaken. Thus, she didn’t know what kind of powers that man was going to awaken and as Meng Suisui had died, knowing her powers were even more impossible.
"That’s right," Doctor Cui. He nodded and pushed the glasses up on the bridge of his nose. "However, we have no idea which Meng sibling awakened which power. But what I do know is that the problem of the increasing population of livestock is due to the energy that is oozing out from the energy ball."
Upon hearing his response, Bai Meiyue’s brows furrowed even more. She asked, "How can this be possible?"
"It is very possible," Doctor Zhou chimed from the side. He cleaned the ribs on the plate and belched happily. He patted his round stomach, which looked even bigger than Bai Meiyue’s, who was five months pregnant and then continued, "You didn’t hear us clearly when we said that the other half of the energy ball supports life. What do you think when we said that?"
Bai Meiyue thought about it a little, and a second later, her expression turned complicated. Beside her, Lei Qian’s left eye also started to twitch. "You mean—"
"The other half of the energy ball oozes a kind of energy that could make a person lose their mind and do all sorts of things. It’s still a bit better for humans. As long as they have a straight head on their shoulders and proper control over their impulses, they won’t jump on the opposite gender, but the same cannot be said for animals or those who are weak to their impulses," explained Doctor Cui. "As the energy ball is locked a bit further from the shelter where the livestock is kept, it’s not a surprise that they are affected by the energy that oozes through it."
When Bai Meiyue heard the explanation, her expression turned even more awkward. Just what kind of power did Meng Quiqui develop? What use was this power?
"And that’s not all," Director Cui continued. He flipped the pages of his report and said to Bai Meiyue, "There is a complex difference between their powers. While one supports life, it means that their power will heal everything that brings life to the world, which means that this power is quite helpful to females who are barren. There was a sow in the livestock farm who had never given birth to a piglet, but after living in the shelter, she gave birth to a litter of piglets. I have already examined the sow. It was clear that she did have some damage to her uterus in the past, which is now healed."
"Of course, the other half of the energy ball has a completely different effect. It supports decay and decomposition. To test the skills of this half, I buried a set of chicken bones right next to the coop. And the next morning, I saw a skeletal chicken running around the coop, but it was destroyed in a matter of seconds by a pig running in the backyard. Though it was only for a few seconds, it was quite easy to understand the skills of the other half of the energy ball."
"So one supports life and the other supports death; that’s quite a... difference," Lei Qian remarked with a frown. He glanced at Bai Meiyue, who was frowning hard, and questioned, "What are you thinking?"
Bai Meiyue hesitated for a while before glancing at the man beside her. She said to him, "Doctor Cui said that the energy ball supports life. Then doesn’t it mean that it can also mature the mutated animals way too quickly? Maybe that’s why the livestock population is not getting any lower?"
As soon as she finished, everyone turned to look at Doctor Cui and Doctor Zhou. The two men smiled and nodded at once. Bai Meiyue’s face darkened. Damn it, she had expected a lot of things to happen, but she never expected such a thing to happen. Her vision darkened for a few seconds before she let out a shrill yell, "Go and catch all the male mutated animals!"
That night, another round of castration started in the mansion, leading feathers and fur to fly over the land.
Those who could be kept were kept, and those who had matured too much were all butchered and frozen by Bai Meiyue before being placed inside the freezer in the basement. Bai Meiyue didn’t want to work hard, but it was better than letting all the meat go to waste. With her freezing everything, as long as anyone wanted to eat meat, they could just take the meat out of the freezer and eat it.
It took a few weeks for things to go back to normal, and just as peace and calm returned to the mansion, a fleet of black cars appeared at the gates of their base.