The bright sunshine spills onto the office windowsill.

Fang Xiaoyu sits behind her desk, eyes sparkling, logging into her Black Cat platform account.

While typing, she talks to Bai Socks squatting on the desk.

"Just wait a moment!

"Auntie picked out a bunch of clothes for you last night. You just choose what you like, and we’ll buy them all."

Bai Socks, wearing a red jacket identical to the master’s, has a smiling fox face, whiskers fluffy and shiny.

It sticks its head out, staring at the computer screen.

It’s the first time it meets Fang Xiaoyu. But it has heard about this woman from its fellow disciples before and pretends to be quite familiar, acting as if they meet daily...easy for a fox; they are natural deceivers!

Soon, Fang Xiaoyu logs in, opens her shopping cart to find it filled with a long list of various children’s clothes. Pants, short sleeves, jackets, and small down jackets—in every style, colorful.

Fang Xiaoyu scrolls the mouse wheel, speaking generously.

"Just point at what you like!"

Bai Socks, very seriously, pokes its head out, frowns, and after examining everything for a while, stretches out its furry fox claw to begin pointing at the screen.

"Ow!

"Ow!

"Ow..."

With each ’ow,’ a fox claw points at one item, and Fang Xiaoyu’s mouse checks one.

Finally, reaching the bottom of the shopping list, she checks the last item with the mouse.

Fang Xiaoyu falls into a momentary silence.

Aside from pants and shoes, which the immortal beast doesn’t like, it pointed at every single piece of the dozens of clothes. It wants them all! Additionally, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly realizes how expensive children’s clothes are; selecting them all totals over 4,300 bucks!

With a dry smile, she thinks about her recently raised salary, the fragile relationship she just built with the immortal beast, and her own image and face in front of it. She grits her teeth, clicks pay, and with trembling hands, enters her payment password.

"All done! You’ll have new outfits to wear every day this fall and winter."

As she’s feeling the pinch, she sees the immortal beast extending its paw over, holding a plump and round green date.

Huh?

Getting money back?

"Is this for me to eat?"

Bai Socks nods.

At the Fox Mountain canteen, they sometimes have leftovers with meals for the disciples: some chestnuts or a few dates. This Jade Date was left from last night, agreed upon by the disciples after consulting the master, to gift Fang Xiaoyu, showcasing Fox Mountain’s friendship!

Fang Xiaoyu grins, reaching out to accept it.

Nearby, Bai Mo, looking through papers in the database, glances over.

"Just eat it, it can whiten your skin!"

After saying so, continues reviewing documents.

Recently, the hottest topic in the expert database remains the previous Immortal Technique battle or analysis of the Ancient Immortal Puppet’s corpse. Bai Mo opens one by one, swiftly reading to learn modern scientific research and understanding of these things. Combining what he learned from Fox Mountain, his thoughts and insights grow increasingly flexible and clear.

The morning passes quickly.

Fang Xiaoyu eats the Jade Date, purges impurities from her body, and starts getting diarrhea, frequently running to the bathroom. She nearly collapses, not even having the strength to eat lunch, relying on Bai Mo to bring a packed meal. Doubting whether the date has an issue, or if her mortal body can’t handle immortal beast’s stuff...but thinking of the fragile bond just formed with the immortal beast, she doesn’t voice her suspicion, lying on her desk, cradling a cup of hot water, occasionally sipping.

Bai Mo beside her, occasionally glancing up at her, mostly embracing Bai Socks, reviewing documents, or doing tasks.

Just finished reading an article, wrinkling his brow, pondering a moment, digesting the useful parts.

Then sees a software notification pop up.

[You have a new designated task, you can accept or reject]

Designated?

Bai Mo clicks into the task details, noticing the task initiator is a familiar name, Qu Hailou.

He skims the task content, seeing it’s still a math application problem.

The entire content is mixed with a large amount of biochemical field material.

In a column of parameters, there’s a familiar set of numbers, 173, 54, 34C, 24, 36.

Su Yaoyao’s height, weight, and measurements?

Is this task related to Su Yaoyao?

Is it technological preparation work for her promotion?

"Come to think of it, what is the actual risk of her promotion? Can it be seen from this data?"

...

At North Suburb Base.

In the brightly lit laboratory, Qu Hailou sits in front of the experiment counter, nibbling on a packed lunch.

While eating, he looks at the computer screen, feeling uneasy.

"Did the big shot take the task?

"Please accept it!

"Otherwise, I can’t handle it!"

In anxious wait, suddenly sees a private message from the big shot.

[Need to add some materials!]

[Can I take a look at Medicine No. 8’s document?]

Huh?

Medicine No. 8?

Isn’t that confidential, not to be casually shared?

But...

Qu Hailou glances around; the lab is empty.

Looking at the file storage folders, there’s no access management or operation logs.

So he bites the bullet, muster courage, directly copies one, and sends it to Bai Mo.

...

"Really sent it to me?"

Opening the file and seeing the confidentiality requirements at the header, Bai Mo pulls his lips into a smile.

This Dr. Qu Hailou doesn’t quite adhere to confidentiality principles!

Once I’ve reviewed this file, I’ll report her!

These days, after reading lots of convoluted documents, checking various materials, supplementing knowledge, and cross-referencing Alchemy Dao knowledge, Bai Mo’s understanding of modern biochemical knowledge has deepened considerably.