Yalong Bay Coast.

Here stands a tall clay pyramid sculpture, with the Curved House inverted inside, an architectural camouflage created by Bone Man Wu Yi to avoid outside prying and unwarranted approaches.

Zhou Yi walked into the interior from the underground passage. Inside, the glass room was extremely bright, like a gigantic light bulb, with electric arcs crisscrossing within the glass shell.

Joy written all over his face, Tuo Zhu exclaimed, "Chairman, you've arrived! We have results here! It can really..."

Seeing Duke Destructive by the side, his words began to falter.

Zhou Yi gestured, "Duke Destructive is one of us; speak freely."

Given permission, the Panda Man disregarded everything else and immediately rattled off the entire event.

After the generators, cables, and related equipment from Recursive City were transported here, Tuo Zhu and the Electricity Engineer dispatched from there started tinkering together.

They first connected the cables to the Curved House, ensuring a stable electrical environment. Then, through patiently testing different electric currents and voltage effects, they found the most suitable electrical conditions.

In this process, they paid quite a bit in tuition fees; two generators were scrapped, and the cables, transformers, and batteries also suffered considerable damage.

"But the result is good!"

Tuo Zhu's bear face was gleeful as he pointed at the Curved House, "Look, that flashing electric light object inside, can you see it? That is the electric cat."

Zhou Yi looked intently.

Inside the glass room, indeed, there was a flashing ball of electric light.

It was composed of dense blue electric arcs, with wide radiation areas resembling triangles on either side, and a main electric arc in the middle, like an open big mouth, indeed somewhat resembling a cat's head.

The electric cat darted about the room, never staying still, turning into a ball of lightning when moving at high speeds.

Panda Man said, "The electric cat is a transient state; we need to find this state and apply the corresponding current and voltage for it to maintain its form and structure over the long term."

"Thanks to You Ai—the Electricity Engineer sent from Recursive City for this point."

Tuo Zhu pointed to the side, "Come over here, why stand so far away? Introduce yourself to the chairman."

A two-wheeled little robot rolled over.

A metal probe extended from its body, with two cameras on it, reminding Zhou Yi of the robot WALL-E.

In an emotionless initial voice, You Ai said, "I am the substation inspection robot ARIS-OS, capable of conducting inspections autonomously or via remote control for various metrics like meter readings, switch positions, and equipment temperatures at different heights and locations. I can also build and monitor basic electric power systems."

Tuo Zhu added, "You Ai confirmed the existence of the electric cat through the electric power meter. High voltage and high current and all that, I still don't quite understand, you explain."

Zhou Yi turned his gaze to the robot.

You Ai directed its cameras at the Curved House, "From a safety standpoint, maintaining a low current state indoors allows for harmless touch."

"However, electric cats are more suited to a low voltage, high current environment by nature. Although this allows the electric cat to maintain its form in the long term, it's difficult to touch it. Once the electric cat leaves the house, the slightest touch with the outside world could be deadly."

"The hardest part is finding the electric cat formed under a low current state."

"I have named these environment-formed electric cats as tamed electric cats. High-current cats, due to their inherent danger, are hard to tame, causing life-threatening injuries if restrictions are lifted."

Zhou Yi listened intently, "Are you saying that the electric cat can exist outside the Curved House?"

"Yes."

The Electricity Engineer continued, "It is a life form of electric energy state; the Curved House can keep it securely in place. If it needs to be taken outside, that's possible too, as long as a specific electrical environment is maintained."

"To ensure the electric cat is safe to touch at 10 milliamps of current, Mr. Tuo Zhu and I conducted many sets of experiments; the process was arduous but the outcome was fortunate."

"We found a prototype electrical system for 5 milliamps current with associated voltage and resistance and cultivated this electric cat, which we named Thunderbolt No.5."

You Ai said, "Even a regular person could touch Thunderbolt No.5 with their hands. Although it likes to nip, it doesn't hurt; you can enter the living room and experience it."

Thus, Zhou Yi walked inside.

Stepping into the living room, all the hairs on his body stood up as though in an electrostatic field.

Zhou Yi finally got a close look at the electric cat.

It moved incredibly fast, like a lightning bolt darting to and fro, its electric arcs resembling sloppy bright blue graffiti under high-frequency stretching.

Beside him, You Ai said, "Mr. Zhou, please hold this electric ball."

Zhou Yi took the device handed over by the robot.

It was a spherical metal object, not heavy to the touch, and could be split in the middle.

He asked, "Can I open it and see?"

"Of course, please feel free."

Zhou Yi opened the metal ball and found it filled with gel and a series of copper coils, fixing a miniature glass model of the Curved House.

"Isn't this the prototype that Tuo Zhu got from Bone Man Zema?"

He suddenly realized: "So it's this miniaturized version of the Curved House that's used to hold the electric cat?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhou."

You Ai stated, "Although we still do not fully understand the principles of the Curved House, it indeed can contain and maintain Electric Balls and electric cats."

"I've made improvements and upgrades based on this, by using electromagnetic coils, I can maintain an electromagnetic induction area with a radius of 5 meters. Within this area, the electric cat can maintain its motion."

"The electric potential inside the electric ball will attract the electric cat."

Before the robot could finish speaking, a flash of light darted into the metal ball in his hand.

Through the miniature model within the metal ball shell, Zhou Yi saw the miniaturized electric cat flickering and skittering inside.

"Because electricity flows from a high potential to a low one, I designed the electric ball based on this principle, guiding the electric cat into the 'cat house' inside."

You Ai explained, "This way, it can be carried around. Do you see a button on the ball? Press it, change the electric potential, and the electric cat will run out."

Zhou Yi did as instructed.

The electric cat suddenly burst out of the cat house, scurrying up and down around itself.

The touch of electrical life upon contact with the skin is not painful, just a slight touch and bumping feeling, just like a normal pet.

Zhou Yi activated [Alert] and saw the electric cat surrounding him emitting red light.

It's actually a B-level life form!

He was somewhat surprised: "That's quite a high level of strength… You Ai, you said it can be tamed, how do we tame it?"

"That's very simple."

The little robot said: "Different life forms have completely different bioelectricity. Electric cats can recognize and distinguish different life forms by this."

"Feeding it for a long time in a cat house and providing it with electric energy will earn its recognition—as long as it can be powered by a Floating Heart. Now, after improvements, installing a generator attachment, the Floating Heart is a very high-quality power generator."

"Right now, what Lightning No. 5 recognizes most is Tuo Zhu."

As it said.

Although the cat house was in Zhou Yi's hands, the electric cat quickly burrowed onto the Panda Man, running back and forth on his thick fur.

Tuo Zhu reached out to touch it, and the electric cat did not resist.

"Taming is about long-term power supply and then mutual familiarization and adaptation."

"The functions of electric cats, we have summarized two for now."

You Ai went on to explain: "The first function is purely for research."

"The electric cat itself is a very rare Energy State Life. Now that we have stable means of feeding and cultivating them, we can allow them to grow further by continuously supplying electric energy. Being of Energy State, the electric cat's energy limit is theoretically only constrained by the environment, and growing to A-level is certainly no problem."

"We've conducted physical measurements, and Lightning No. 5 is not far from A-level."

Zhou Yi inquired: "Does that mean, as long as we further construct Curved House, we can cultivate a large number of electric cats?"

"Yes. Because the Floating Heart can be modified into an electric motor, we lack neither materials nor equipment."

These words invigorated Zhou Yi.

Even if they were useless for anything else.

Raising an A-level life form is an achievement in itself. It would be great as pets for the company's staff.

"The second function is for combat."

You Ai continued to state: "Although electric cats have been selectively screened by us to find low-current, high-voltage types, in reality they are still full of lethality."

"With this Electric Cat Stick, it can be done."

The little robot pulled a metal bar from its back, which had a layer of fabric wound around it.

"Electric cat stick, it can change the electric cat's voltage and current, making it shift to low voltage and high current for a short time. This completely releases their destructive power, the instantaneous deadly impact is no less than any B-level life form."

"For example."

You Ai held the electric cat stick up to the side of the Panda Man. The electric cat instantly jumped onto the metal rod, running around it, bringing about a series of electronic sparks, like a giant sparkler.

The robot's mechanical arm grabbed the electric cat stick, aiming it at a large iron plate propped up on the ground.

"Attack, electric cat!"

Where the electric cat stick pointed, the iron plate glowed brightly and let out a piercing boom, then instantly melted into a pool of bright red molten iron hissing with steam.

Zhou Yi watched and clicked his tongue in wonder.

He didn't expect the company to actually develop something beyond Pikachu and Master Ball.

The electric power system seemed to have great potential.

He asked again: "How do we make the electric cat determine its target?"

"It can't precisely locate its target because it can't communicate."

The robot said: "Therefore, it can only release energy in the area indicated by the electric cat stick, and discharge will cause instantaneous devastating destruction—it's best to use it with caution."

"Also, after discharging, the electric cat will become less active due to the reduction of energy, and fall into laziness or sleep…"

As they spoke, the electric cat had already burrowed back into the electric ball.

It took Zhou Yi some time to digest all this information.

He told the two cat keepers: "The electric cat is of immense value, you've done a great job! We need to raise more electric cats in the company to provide to our staff who are out and about, so they can protect everyone's life in critical moments."

At this time, Panda Man spoke proudly: "Chairman, I told you, the electric cat is absolutely worth the investment!"

They discussed and celebrated enthusiastically.

Coming to his senses, Zhou Yi realized he had overlooked someone.

Duke Destructive.

But the young puppet was staring intently at the electric ball in his hand, with a bit of an odd expression.

Zhou Yi asked him: "What's wrong?"

"This thing... it's Horror Claw."

"Horror Claw? What's that."

Duke Destructive said word by word: "The unique creature of Spark Plain, they can even kill Light Core Bodies... they rule over Spark Plain."

Zhou Yi listened in shock.

The Spark Plain of the Forbidden Continent.

Is that where the electric cats originate from?

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