Luckily, no more mishaps happened after that.
The other female ate enough for the enhanced muscle mutation before she broke through, splitting the pain into two instances.
Meanwhile, the males only got the germline mutation, making the breakthrough the only painful experience.
Madeline was a little harder to convince as she had already felt the immense amount of pain one of the rats went through. But with the promise of future treats, Mitch managed to persuade her into entering the Infused stage.
She fed the other rats some food, connecting to them too. Hailey was too old to connect to, but assuming she would have children with one of the connected rats, her children would be under Madeline's influence.
After being told what it meant, instead of being angry, Hailey was delighted. To her, all it meant was that her master would constantly keep a lookout for her children.
