Beast Control: Starting from raising silkworms and becoming the King of Insects.

Chapter 167 Material Merchant Qian Duoji

"... How could there be such a coincidence in the secret trial realm of the insect system? Could it be that the chosen one is actually myself?"

After learning that the large secret realm in the Black Dew Forest was indeed an insect trial realm, and that only insect beasts could move in it, Russell's thoughts were filled with this matter.

It's one thing to be able to explore a large secret place, and it's dangerous, but it's impossible not to be tempted.

The principle behind the formation of the secret realm is either space fluctuations caused by huge energy sources, or artificially created independent spaces. In short, it will definitely not be ordinary.

Therefore, when exploring secret realms, the risks are always directly proportional to the benefits.

What's more, naturally formed secret trial realms are extremely rare. Most of the secret trial realms are artificially constructed, or are the remaining beast-control spaces of a powerful beast master.

The trial secret realm with the insect system as its core, the internal resources and rewards must also be closely connected with the insect system.

If it were an ordinary insect merchant, obtaining these resources would be nothing more than expanding the production scale, but Russell was a professional summoner who contracted three insect beasts.

In his hands, the resources in the secret realm are not only wealth, but also a great guarantee for subsequent improvement in strength.

Powerful insect-type pet beasts are extremely rare. The appearance of an insect-type trial secret realm near Senluo City is almost an exclusive opportunity for Russell.

Although he was still a little appalled by the various evil deeds of the Fire Thieves, he had made up his mind to explore the secret realm since he heard the news from Dr. Xiamu.

However, before that, Russell must be as prepared as possible for independent exploration and minimize the risks as much as possible.

According to the information provided by Dr. Xiamu, there are no insect-type talents in the Fire Stealing Group, and the process of exploring the secret realm does not seem to be going smoothly.

Although the shadow priest did not know too detailed personnel information, it was at least certain that there were no high-level insect beast masters in this group, and there were only a handful of mid-level or above insect beast masters capable of combat effectiveness.

This information is very credible. After all, the Fire Thief Group discovered the secret realm for some time before the Beast Control Alliance.

If their strength allowed, they would have quietly started exploring the secret realm long ago, and would not come to the city to arrest people at all.

Russell has two outstanding fourth-level insect beasts. If the opponent's strength is only around the mid-level threshold, he should not suffer too much loss in frontal combat.

However, from the fact that the Shadow Order can easily sneak into the city and escape easily, it can be seen that the Fire Stealing Group has many methods of assassination and sneak attacks.

Coupled with the time advantage, even if they cannot defeat them head-on, there is no guarantee that they will not ambush the Yin people in the secret realm in advance.

Therefore, Russell's main task now is to quickly improve his ability to protect himself.

The most direct way to improve self-protection ability is naturally to improve the strength of protective beasts.

Before setting off, Russell set two small goals for himself.

The first is to let Xiao Qi learn the quick recovery skill as soon as possible.

With the blessing of this high-level skill, its continuous combat capability can be greatly improved, avoiding the dilemma of running out of mucus and leaving the door wide open in the secret realm.

The second is to find a material that is more practical than iron sand to improve the defense of the slime shield as much as possible.

This first target was okay. Xiaoqi had suffered a lot in the Fire Pirates. When Russell bought it, his quick recovery skill proficiency reached 70.00%.

After this period of cultivation, Xiao Qi has also grown a bit, and now only needs about twenty points of the source of evolution to fill the gap.

Recently, another batch of large silkworms are about to turn into cocoons in the Imperial Insect House. Counting the remaining ten sources of evolution after Ayou took control of the iron chrysalis silkworms, as long as he saves up for a few more weeks, he can obtain a sufficient amount of sources of evolution.

However, the second goal gave Russell a hard time.

The combination of iron sand and dead leaf cloakworm is a commonly recognized usage among professional beast masters.

However, the iron sand will harden after being fused with the mucus, and it will break and fall after being attacked, making it difficult to reuse it.

With only the space in pockets and backpacks, a beast master can carry very limited things.

Even if you fill bags of all sizes with iron sand, I'm afraid it won't take too long.

Moreover, the weight of iron sand is not light. If you really have to carry a backpack full of iron sand and some other outdoor essentials to explore the secret place, Russell himself will fall down from exhaustion without waiting for the members of the Fire Stealing Group to take action.

The degree of binding to foreign objects is relatively high, which is one of the reasons why the platinum-level dead leaf cloakworm has not become a popular pet beast.

If you want to solve the problem of carrying shield auxiliary materials, carrying a piece of space equipment with you is the best solution.

Even a square meter of space filled with iron sand would be enough to cast a slime shield dozens of times.

Unfortunately, space equipment is very rare in the world of beast control, and Russell doesn't know where to get such a thing.

Even if he is lucky enough to encounter it, he may not be able to afford it with the credit points he can only spend tens of millions.

Another idea is to replace iron sand with some kind of material that can significantly improve the defense against mucus shields, has a smaller weight and volume, and can be reused.

However, materials that can meet so many conditions at the same time are naturally not cabbage on the roadside and can be found casually.

After making inquiries through the channels of the Beast Control Alliance, and searching around the materials market in Senluo City, Russell, who still had no results, couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

At a loss, he could only place his hope in the almighty online world and posted advertisements for the acquisition of special materials on multiple platforms, hoping to try his luck by increasing the scope of acquisitions.

Perhaps it was because Omushiya had recently become famous in the business circles of the cities surrounding the Black Dew Forest. Not long after the advertisement was published, Russell received many calls from material dealers.

At first, he was quite happy, thinking that he would soon be able to purchase high-quality materials to replace iron sand.

However, most of the material suppliers not only failed to provide materials that met his requirements, but after a few awkward conversations, they began to promote their own products, talking about a flower, just to achieve cooperation with Omushiya.

Faced with dozens of pestering phone calls every day, as well as the same business rhetoric, Russell couldn't help but want to withdraw the advertisement.

However, thinking that exploring the secret realm was likely to be a matter of life and death, and if he could improve a little bit, he decided to endure the harassment for a while longer.

During this period, Russell had to deal with the business in the Imperial Insect House from time to time.

As the silkworms that had been cultured for a month or two began to spin silk one after another, the order contract between Yu Chongwu and Feiyi Shipping Company was officially put into operation.

After receiving a batch of insect silk and processing it, Ms. Tong Mingzhu was very satisfied with the toughness and strength of the finished textiles, and made several video calls to praise the cultivation technology of Yuchongwu.

Flying Wing Shipping Company also promised that after the transaction stabilizes, Russell can purchase a small and medium-sized airship made of new materials at cost price.

At the same time, Ou Jianjun from the health department also asked many times about cultivating black cloud flies, and even wanted to directly invite Russell to station at a garbage treatment plant in the suburbs for a period of time.

In desperation, Russell could only use Dr. Xiamu's name and said that he had to cooperate with the alliance's official actions in the near future and was really unavailable. Only then did he stop.

.........Another day, Russell sighed when he saw a strange call lighting up on his phone, but he still answered the call patiently.

Sure enough, it was another call from a material dealer who saw the acquisition advertisement.

The materials merchant on the phone said his name was Qian Duoji, and he ran a pet materials company in Qiuchuan City next door.

What surprised him was that the other party did not criticize him, but simply and clearly expressed that his products could meet Russell's needs.

Qian Duoji also fully agreed to Russell's request to inspect the goods in person, and the two met in the Chongwu House that afternoon.

Boss Qian is a short, slightly stout, middle-aged man, wearing a retro Tang suit, and he does look like a shrewd businessman.

"Do you really have a material that is smaller in size, not too heavy in weight, but highly resistant to impact after being mixed with liquid?"

Perhaps he was really annoyed by those chattering material dealers. As soon as they met, Russell got straight to the point and asked the core questions.

"I'm not bragging. In the entire Southern Principality, there will not be more than three companies that can accept this order."

Qian Duoji didn't mind Russell's impatience. He answered with a smile and took out a small bottle of lavender crystals.

"This is the Earth Mother Crystal. It is made of a mineral called regenerated amethyst, mixed with more than a dozen other auxiliary materials. After the energy is exhausted, it can automatically absorb the nearby earth elements and recover, because the regenerated amethyst stone The output is extremely low, and the only one in this area that can mass-produce Earth Mother Crystals is my Golden Shield Company."

Qian Duoji was obviously very confident in this purple crystal called Earth Mother Crystal, and introduced it with a proud expression.

"It's extremely hard to find...can it still form a certain industrial scale?"

However, because Qian Duoji made the Earth Mother Crystal very mysterious and then said that it could be mass-produced, Russell asked with some suspicion.

"My company's ability to mine this rare ore depends entirely on it."

Probably guessing that Russell would ask this question, Qian Duoji immediately raised his hands and summoned a small pet beast exuding jewels.

Due to the distinctive appearance of this pet beast, Russell recognized its identity at a glance.

This is an earth-type pet beast called the Gem Mole. Its bloodline level is only gold level, and it is very timid. From a combat perspective, it cannot even defeat some silver-level pet beasts.

But its worth is no less than any powerful purple-gold pet beast cub.

Just because the Gem Mole possesses the innate skill of "Treasure Hunter", in the wild, this skill is the Gem Mole's main means of foraging for minerals.

Based on the characteristic that innate skills can naturally advance with the growth of strength, after reaching adulthood, it can sense the mineral atmosphere hundreds of meters underground.

If coupled with some detection amplification skills, or a mechanical pet with the ability to scan and share, the Gem Mole's perception distance can be increased several times.

The most important thing is that it is a living creature and can move easily. The efficiency of this mining mode is hundreds of times higher than digging holes everywhere.

This is the magic of the world of beast control. An outstanding talent for beast control, a rare special pet animal, may drive the development of a company or even an entire industry.

Seeing the Gem Mole, Russell felt that Qian Duoji's various boasts just now became reasonable.

No longer doubting the business capabilities of Golden Shield Company, he took out an Earth Mother Crystal from the bottle, and then gave Xiao Qi the order to release the miracle slime.

chirp...

"The material feels so strange."

Feeling the energy contained in the Earth Mother Crystal, Xiao Qi became unusually interested. He stretched his head with all his strength and sprayed the translucent miracle slime.

In the blink of an eye, the mucus shield that expanded like a balloon wrapped around the Earth Mother Crystal and formed a semicircular shield around Russell.

After contact with the mucus, the Earth Mother Crystal began to rapidly release earth energy, turning the soft mucus shield into a thick earth wall in the blink of an eye.

Russell stretched out his hand and knocked on the earth wall in front of him. Russell, who had been worrying about the shield material for several days, finally showed a satisfied smile.

Compared with the iron mesh, the hardness of the earth wall is slightly worse, but the earth energy in the earth mother crystal is very abundant. Compared with the shield hardness provided by ordinary iron sand, it is not much different.

Moreover, earthen walls hardly conduct electricity and do not conduct heat, making them more resistant to abnormal effects of attacks.

Most importantly, the way the Earth Mother Crystal amplifies the slime shield is by dispersing the energy, rather than completely mixing it.

After the shield fails, the thumb-sized crystals are very conspicuous and can be easily recovered.

According to Qian Duoji, if it has access to soil or other earth energy sources, it only takes about three days for the energy-depleted earth mother crystals to recover.

If you can bring a bottle of a dozen Earth Mother Crystals, the slime shield auxiliary material should be enough as long as you don't suffer continuous high-intensity attacks.

"Mr. Qian, the quality of the materials you provided exceeded my expectations. I just don't know what the price quoted by Golden Shield Company is?"

After trying it, he felt good, so Russell asked about the price of the Earth Mother Crystal.

If the price is too high, he will choose to buy a few in small quantities and bring some iron sand with him to use alternately.

"Boss Luo, what you said is untrue. I bring this bottle of Earth Mother Crystal as a meeting gift. I hope to invite Yu Chongwu to start business cooperation with Golden Shield Company."

Qian Duoji came to the door personally, obviously not wanting to make a profit of 200 million credit points. It could be seen that Russell was very satisfied with his own products, and he made no secret of his willingness to seek cooperation.

However, this request made Russell somewhat difficult.

"I am very willing to cooperate with your company, but to tell you the truth, the insect silk material of the Royal Insect House currently has a stable and exclusive partner. You should not be interested in other businesses that directly sell insect-based pets, right?"

Yuchongwu has never been very picky about its business partners. As long as the other party has stable channels and good character, it will be fine. What's more, Qian Duoji's Golden Shield Company has excellent strength and is willing to give up profits.

However, the other party is a materials company mainly engaged in mining, and it seems that Yu Chongwu does not have many successful cooperation projects.

Unexpectedly, Qian Duoji didn't mind not being involved in the insect silk business at all. Instead, he talked happily about his intention to cooperate with Yu Chongwu.

"That's wrong. Isn't the insect sand used in your store made of sand and gravel? There are also phosphorus powders from many moth beasts, which can be used as high-quality light sources in the mine tunnels. In addition, the carnivorous insect beasts are Excrement also has a very good repellent effect... Wait, wait, isn't this all business related to materials~"

After saying that, he added a special sentence.

"Besides, when we do business, we don't just look at the immediate profits. Mr. Qian thinks that you will be feared in the future. You will definitely have your own great ambitions in the future. Although I am just a small businessman, I don't only look at the petty profits, little brother Russell. If you like it, just accept this small gift."

Russell was stunned for a moment after hearing Qian Duoji's remarks.

He even felt that if he didn't agree to this cooperation, it would be too unkind and disrespectful to this kind brother!
Sure enough, when it comes to doing business, I am still a little too green...

(End of this chapter)