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

Chapter 76 Fighting crickets

Without feeding advanced materials, it would take about ten days and a half for the other black-ringed silkworms hatched in the same batch as Ayou to naturally transform into cocoons. Russell was not too anxious and just let Lu Yinning improve slightly. Check out their food standards.

During this time, Russell had one more thing to do: a shipment of stone cricket larvae that he had ordered earlier arrived.

Since the growth cycle of crickets is much longer than that of silkworms, some species will even lay eggs in autumn and will not hatch until the following spring. In order to save time, Russell purchased more than 20 semi-mature crickets directly from the Internet. larva.

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These larvae, which have gone through two or three molts, have not yet fully grown wings, so they cannot sing and can only crawl around in the transport box to show their presence.

The aggressive nature of stone crickets is essentially to compete for territory and breeding rights. The immature larvae do not have these concepts for the time being, so they do not need to be raised alone, but Russell still prepared a "small single room" covered with tiles and glass for them in advance. .

Twenty or thirty cricket nests were built together, and soundproof glass was used to enclose an activity area. The corner of the breeding ground that had been idle for a month finally had a stable resident.

After the stone cricket cubs had adapted to the breeding farm for a few days, Russell began to customize special breeding materials for them.

"Bronze-level pets can only master some very basic skills. Fighting crickets mainly depends on body hardness, endurance and explosive power. Then use some fighting and rock-type energy..."

As a pet beast sold to the outside world, the cultivation of stone crickets is mainly based on cost-effectiveness. Fighting-type physical strength enhancers and rock-type trachoma fruits are very cheap low-level cultivation materials.

Ten grams of physical strength enhancer, half a trachomatis fruit, and a bundle of cordyceps that stone crickets usually eat, add up to more than 20 credits, which is a day's meal for a little cricket.

Pet beasts in the growing stage absorb energy very efficiently. Within a few days after adjusting the feeding formula, these stone crickets began to produce fighting and rock energy in their bodies.

When the two abilities in Stone Cricket's body exceeded 5.00%, Russell dialed the number Xiang Pan left for him.

"Hello Director Xiang, I have a new batch of insect-type pet beasts that have arrived and are ready for training. Can you tell me when it will be convenient to send students over?"

The Imperial Insect House has limited manpower, and it is unrealistic to run around with dozens of uncontracted pet beasts, so Russell applied for door-to-door service from Bloodstone Martial Arts Hall.

"You can do it at any time. Brother Luo, do you have any requirements for the training staff?"

Xiang Pan's voice revealed joy when he received a call from the genius boy on the street.

Having a stable business and establishing a relationship with a future high-level beast master, the price is just a discount, which is almost equivalent to a business without capital.

After all, even if they don't take sparring courses, the students in the martial arts gym still have to train for several hours every day. Even with a [-]% discount, the fee of [-] credits can at least earn back their own food.

After hearing Xiang Pan's question, Russell thought for a moment and then stated his request:
"The strength does not need to be too high, but the defense and endurance of pet beasts are better. It is best to be a hard-bodied type. It is enough for ten people to come at one time. I have pet beasts in the breeding ground here, and the space is not very big. "

After all, Stone Cricket is only a bronze-level pet. Its hard power is incomparable to that of the pet beasts contracted by martial arts students. Russell has no intention of training them to the point where they can compete in the beast-fighting arena. It would be good if they can accumulate some combat experience.

For a second-level martial arts master, it should be quite easy for him to train two stone crickets by himself when he only commands his pet beasts to do some simple collisions and defenses.

"Okay, I'll pick ten defensive-oriented students to come over. The address is the Chongwu House on Fenglin Road, right?"

Russell's requests sounded like there were several, but none of them were actually too high. It would not be difficult to satisfy them all, so Xiang Pan agreed wholeheartedly.

Not long after, ten martial arts students of less than average age lined up and arrived at the entrance of the training ground.

"Hello Boss Luo!"

As soon as they met, these energetic teenagers greeted Russell in unison.

"Hello, you guys, hello..."

I don't know where they learned such an awkward greeting. Russell's scalp was numb from embarrassment and he could only respond with a dry smile.

Before coming, Xiang Pan should have explained the content of this course to these young students. Russell just took them to the reserved space in the factory and released the Stone Crickets. The battle training was in full swing. stand up. "I don't know if this is considered child labor..."

Looking at these young students who worked hard to train, Russell felt that all the young people in the world of beast control were really hardworking.

In this world, there seems to be no such thing as child labor. After all, the main source of productivity and combat power in society are pet animals.

As for the contract and cultivation of pet beasts, in addition to paying attention to methods, talent, luck, and even financial resources are also important.

Some second-generation beast masters with outstanding talents, whose parents purchased cubs of higher races, and a large amount of resources were allocated to them, have become mid-level beast masters at the age of ten.

"I wonder what kind of monsters we will encounter when we participate in the official city league..."

Watching the sparring martial arts students and Stone Cricket, Russell, who had nothing to do, began to hold his mobile phone and check the highlight videos of previous years' events.

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In the days that followed, Russell once again lived a leisurely life as a home owner.

He gets up early every day to assign training tasks to Ayou and Daodao Mantis, make breeding materials, and supervise the training of Stone Cricket in the afternoon. He feels that life goes by very fast.

The only regret is that the institute has not informed him about the evolution of the stone cricket, the scabbard cricket.

Since he has never been able to come into contact with a lord-level cricket-like beast, his evolutionary aura cannot take effect on stone crickets. Therefore, after training and nurturing, Russell still has to screen the energy of the stone crickets one by one.

Fortunately, Stone Cricket is not a large-scale breeding route. He can only raise twenty or thirty animals in one batch. With the mental power of his third-level beast master, he can sift energy for more than twenty bronze-level second-level pet beasts. As for feeling tired.

"Over at the research institute, they may be concentrating on the three-tailed night-eyed fox. For now, forget about finding the scabbard cricket for me..."

It was another evening, and Russell, who still couldn't wait for the scabbard cricket, complained a little depressedly.

Recently, Dr. Xiamu made several calls and asked him about the situation in the Baixi orchard. He even sent a group of researchers to live directly next to the pothole. Seeing how busy everyone in the institute was, Russell was stunned. I'm embarrassed to ask about this little thing about my business.

However, these days, he is still very satisfied with the results of the first batch of stone crickets.

During the growth process, it is actually more difficult for pure insect-type pet beasts to completely absorb the energy of the rock-type. In order for these energies to accurately act on the head carapace of the stone cricket larvae, in addition to the screening of the "Cocoon of Evolution" talent, it is also necessary to combine Lots of impact training.

The fighting energy also requires training to be properly digested.

After ten days of training, the appearance of these stone cricket larvae has changed a lot compared to when they first arrived at the breeding ground. In addition to growing in size, the most obvious change is their head carapace.

The head carapace of juvenile stone crickets generally appears brown, and turns black when they reach full adulthood, and the heads of these larvae have begun to turn slightly black.

This not only shows that their growth progress is much higher than that of other members of the same species, but also means that specialized breeding for head hardness is working.

"It's almost time to find a square to practice your skills..."

Seeing these stone crickets getting stronger day by day, Russell figured out the next marketing plan.

Friends of ordinary stone crickets are not necessarily really good at selecting the quality of their pet animals. Many people actually just follow the trend for fun. In addition, the industry where the price of a single pet animal fluctuates up to dozens of times is definitely a mixed bag, so it will gain popularity in advance. It's still necessary.

As for which square to go to for the first stop, the best place is naturally Qingxi Square where the cricket fighting competition is held every Friday night.

For a competition held by the Senluo City Senior Activity Center, you can tell with just a little thought that there will be a lot of stable participating members, and the number of onlookers is probably not that small.

No matter where in the world they are, the elderly who have money and leisure are a consumer group that cannot be ignored.

If we can make a group of grandparents who have a boring retirement life, play crickets in their free time and experience the fun of competition, and want to regain their youthful feeling happy, then why don’t they worry about not having any business coming to them?
(End of this chapter)