Chen Kai sat in the car, but the questions in his heart were too much to suppress.
“Dad, Mom,” he turned his head to look at his parents, his tone full of confusion, and asked again, “Weren’t you in Sichuan Province? Why did you suddenly come back? Are you not raising Wooloo anymore? And where did this car come from?”
Chen Dafu and Bai Lijuan exchanged glances, their eyes filled with smiles.
Chen Dafu cleared his throat, his voice still clear and hearty, but he deliberately avoided the key questions, “Oh, it’s all because of you, kid!”
“Because of me?” Chen Kai was even more bewildered.
“Mm,” Chen Dafu nodded, glancing at Dong Gang, “We… have some matters to attend to, and your grandpa also missed us, so we came back.
We asked your friend’s family to help look after the sheep for a while.
As for the car, we just bought it; it’s good to have a car for getting around once we’re back.”
Chen Kai immediately understood that it seemed inconvenient to ask for details at the moment.
He suppressed his curiosity and changed the question, “So, where are we going now?”
Dong Gang in the front seat turned his head, a mysterious and excited smile on his face, and the Archen on his shoulder also curiously tilted its head to look at Chen Kai, “Heh heh, I’ll tell you some good news, we’re going to the Beijing Academy of Sciences now.”
“Beijing Academy of Sciences, could it be?” Chen Kai’s eyes instantly lit up; had his uncle succeeded?
However, Dong Gang said nothing more, just kept smiling.
After registering at the entrance, Dong Gang, familiar with the way, led Chen Kai’s family through bright, spacious, and futuristic corridors, finally stopping in front of a heavy alloy door marked “Fossil Revival Laboratory.”
Dong Gang rang the doorbell and reported his name to the intercom, “Engineer Zhang, it’s me, Dong Gang. Mr. Chen Dafu’s family has also arrived.”
The door opened with a soft “hiss” and slid to the sides.
Inside the door was a huge, brightly lit laboratory.
Various precise instruments flickered with indicator lights, and data streams surged on large screens.
Most striking was the huge, cylindrical crystal cultivation tank filled with light blue nutrient solution in the center of the laboratory, connected by dense pipelines, emitting a soft glow and a low hum.
A group of researchers in white coats were nervously gathered around the control console, and the person in charge here was Chen Kai’s uncle.
His uncle, Bai Zhaoxing, turned his head when he heard the movement, and when he saw Chen Kai, a brilliant smile instantly bloomed on his face. He quickly came forward and grabbed Chen Kai’s arm:
“Xiao Kai! You’ve come at the perfect time!”
His voice trembled slightly with excitement, his eyes fixed on the huge cultivation tank, “I never thought! We theorized countless times, and this time you were really right! The energy readings are abnormally stable! It… it’s really going to succeed! It’s about to enter the final revival and activation stage!”
His uncle’s words struck Chen Kai like an electric current; his heart pounded “thump, thump.” Although he knew the probability of success was high, he couldn't help but be excited when it actually succeeded.
He held his breath and, along with his parents and Dong Gang, was pulled by his uncle to the position closest to the control console and the cultivation tank.
Everyone’s gaze was focused on the huge crystal tank.
The nutrient solution in the tank began to violently churn and bubble, the soft light turned into a dazzling bright blue, and the hum of the entire laboratory suddenly increased!
The curves representing vital signs on the screen jumped wildly, finally converging into a peak!
“Energy injection stable!”
“Life signs confirmed!”
“Prepare to release the restraint!”
“3… 2… 1… Open the hatch!”
Following the researcher’s excited, cracking voice from the control console, the top and side walls of the cylindrical crystal tank slowly opened like petals.
The light blue nutrient solution poured down like a waterfall into the recovery trough below, raising a misty vapor.
Amidst the swirling vapor, a peculiar outline gradually became clear.
What first came into view was an unusually large, fish-head-shaped head covered with hard blue scales, disproportionately large, and an astonishingly wide mouth, the entire head almost occupying one-third of its whole body.
On the fish head were two round, somewhat dull-looking small black eyes, which were now blinking blankly.
A large mouth full of sharp teeth was slightly agape, seemingly adapting to the air.
Even stranger, directly below its mouth were its forelimbs, relatively short and small, more like fins than limbs.
Next, as the vapor gradually dispersed, its body was revealed—in stark contrast to its massive head, its neck was relatively “slender,” and its entire body displayed vibrant red and green interweaving scale patterns, covering strong but oddly structured limbs.
Especially on the front of its torso, there were many protruding spikes.
Its hind limbs were thick and powerful, covered with a hard keratin layer.
Its overall form gave a strong sense of an ancient predator’s oppressive presence, yet also carried a peculiar top-heavy clumsiness, like a fish head attached to a dinosaur tail.
Chen Kai knew this was Dracovish!
An ancient Pokemon formed by splicing two different fossils!
It seemed not yet fully adapted; its massive fish head turned left and right, its small black eyes curiously surveying this strange new world and the excited humans around it.
It tried to move its hind limbs, clumsily stepping forward from the cultivation tank’s base.
“Crack!”
A crisp sound!
Its huge fish head seemed to have lost its balance, and it crashed into the rack holding spare test tubes on the nearby control console!
Glass shards and test tubes clattered to the floor.
Dracovish was startled, sharply retracted its neck, and let out a low, watery whimper: “Awoo?”
Its massive fish head paired with its blank, somewhat innocent eyes instantly diluted the ferocity of an ancient predator, making it appear rather… endearingly clumsy?
The laboratory was silent for a moment, then erupted into even more enthusiastic applause and cheers!
It succeeded! The world’s first successful revival of a brand-new Pokemon from several broken, unrevivable fossils, right before their eyes!
A person who seemed calm and experienced, like a leader, walked over and patted his uncle’s shoulder, signaling him to keep up the good work.
Chen Kai’s attention was entirely on this peculiar Pokemon.
He saw Dracovish almost fall and tried to step forward to help it, but fortunately, Dracovish quickly found its balance.
Now directly in front of it, Chen Kai tried to greet Dracovish: “Hello there!”
“Awoo?” This Dracovish tilted its head, staring intently at Chen Kai for a long time, making Chen Kai’s scalp tingle a bit.
Chen Kai sent out Miraidon and asked it to help translate, but Miraidon said, “I don’t understand what it’s saying either!”
“Huh?”
Chen Kai was stunned for a moment.
The Archen beside Dong Gang also tilted its head, clearly it also didn't understand what this strange Pokemon was saying.
Just as Chen Kai was stunned for a moment, Dracovish’s massive fish head suddenly darted forward!
That large mouth, like a huge, wet clamp, opened with lightning speed and snapped towards Chen Kai’s head.