The lone surviving Mutated Iron-Seeking Rat wasn't the largest of the bunch. Its entire body was a solid white, making it look like a fine silver statuette. It sat quietly in its cage, watching Fang Qingyuan.
Fang Qingyuan stepped forward, opened the cage, and lifted out the Iron-Seeking Rat.
"You're a lucky one," he said to it. "Out of thousands of Iron-Seeking Rats, you're the only anomaly to emerge. The life that awaits you will be well worth what you've endured."
Fang Qingyuan planned to keep this Iron-Seeking Rat as a stud. In the days to come, its only job would be to take many "wives and concubines" and sire as many little Iron-Seeking Rat pups as possible.
Through such selective breeding, generation after generation, Fang Qingyuan was confident that the Iron-Seeking Rat colony would evolve more and more toward his desired vision.
