"Ga-la! (￣▽￣)" (There's water now!)
After placing the breeding cages of the Upright Ducks into the already prepared aquatic environment room, the Upright Ducks quacked even more joyously. Each one stood pitifully at the front of the cage, staring with their big, blank eyes at Lin Su.
"Ga-la!" (I want to go out!)
Lin Su reluctantly pressed his forehead.
These Upright Ducks had been quacking all the way to the lab, their loud voices and unique calls even drew the curious stops of quite a few researchers.
It's so embarrassing.
"Qin Fang, please help me open these breeding cages."
"Understood."
With a thought from the Six-sided Rubik's Cube, all cage locks quietly opened under the control of telekinesis. As the doors opened, the Upright Ducks, fluttering their wings and landing on the water, cheered and blew Water Bubbles.
Looking at the Upright Ducks in the water, Lin Su smiled and said, "We..."
"Ding ding ding~"
The ringtone of the communicator interrupted his words, and he casually picked it up to take a look, unable to help raising his eyebrows.
Qin Nan?
Pressing the connect button, the familiar laughter instantly came through from the other end, "Morning, young man chasing ducks."
Lin Su, "... What kind of nickname is that, and it's not morning at all now! It's already the afternoon! Don't tell me you just woke up?"
"Hmm... you guessed half right, " Qin Nan pondered for two seconds, "Actually, I was still sleeping, and then some annoying person called me awake, telling me that my assistant researcher was causing a sensation in the research institute by herding a flock of ducks, and told me to hurry over to watch the show, quite spectacular."
Lin Su: "..."
So many points to criticize, he didn't even know where to begin.
"So, anything else?" Lin Su rubbed his temples, asking.
"That's it, kid, work hard. Your sister here supports you~" Qin Nan laughed heartily on the other end, "Alright, I'm going back to sleep, good night."
Glancing at the clear sky outside the window, Lin Su sighed, "Alright, good afternoon."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Su put the communicator back in his pocket, standing on the shore's platform watching the Upright Ducks playing and fighting with their Water Bubble ability in the water.
Next, let's choose a lucky one.
"Qin Fang, please help me choose an Upright Duck and bring it to shore."
The Six-sided Rubik's Cube, playing the role of a lab assistant, heard the words and effortlessly used telekinesis to grab an Upright Duck, slowly lifting it from the water.
"Ga-la?" (What's happening?)
The chosen Upright Duck twisted its head left and right, its blue webbed feet flapping powerless a few times in midair, until the familiar sensation of slapping the water disappeared, only then it realized what was happening.
"Ga-la! (◉Д◉)" (Help!)
"Ga-la! (꒪Д꒪)" (Someone's after me!)
However, its struggles were doomed to be in vain. With the help of telekinesis, the Upright Duck experienced the taste of flying for the first time and quickly "smack" fell down on the shore's platform.
The nervous Upright Duck quickly steadied itself, looking straight into Qiuqiu's curious gaze coming up close.
"Ga-la? (Ծ‸Ծ)" (What are you looking at?)
"Meow~" (Let's learn a skill together~)
"Ga-la?" (What skill?)
"Clap clap." Lin Su clapped his hands, turning the Upright Duck's attention to himself, walked towards the duck, squatted down, and after patting its head, he spoke, "Next, Qin Fang will hypnotize you, and you must realize you're in a dream and try to actively modify your dreamscape, do you understand what I mean?"
"Ga-la?" (What?)
Seeing the Upright Duck's increasingly blank expression, Lin Su helplessly shook his head.
Usually, uncontracted beast pets and Beast Tamers can only communicate simply; they can't comprehend too complicated language, and Beast Tamers can't fully understand the intentions of uncontracted pets, which can lead to some degree of communication difficulty.
However, with a contracted pet or one capable of mind speech to translate, communication is still possible.
Seeing the negotiation was getting nowhere, he turned his head to the Six-sided Rubik's Cube, "Qin Fang, can you please tell it with mind speech what to do?"
The Six-sided Rubik's Cube already understood its task in this teaching process, as Lin Su had explained it in detail. Thus, upon hearing Lin Su's words, it immediately began communicating with the Upright Duck using the mind speech skill.
Soon, a pondering light shone in the Upright Duck's blank eyes.
"Ga-la?" (What's the benefit of doing this?)
Lin Su took out a water attribute first-level Energy Cube, sent as a research material, and swayed it in front of the Upright Duck, "Once you can completely control your own dreamscape, this Energy Cube is yours."
"Ga-la! (￣▽￣)ノ" (Deal!)
Seeing the Upright Duck agreeing readily, Lin Su breathed a slight sigh of relief.
In research projects involving beast pets, the pets themselves are volunteers, not experimental subjects. Union laws have long stipulated that using pets as experimental subjects for various life-threatening experiments is illegal.
Therefore, since the Upright Ducks were at the research institute, Lin Su couldn't force them to do anything; he had to coax them with things like Energy Cubes.
Luckily, Upright Ducks were simple-minded and easy to coax.
After negotiating with the Upright Duck, Lin Su squatted down and patted Qiuqiu's head, "In a while, you'll also undergo hypnosis along with it. You already know the method, so let's begin."