Chapter 62 Stone Cricket
"Don't be too big, have a certain fighting ability, have room for training, and preferably be good at vigilance..."
Looking at these criteria, Russell held up a thick copy and rummaged through it carefully.
These internal materials describe all aspects in detail, ranging from the geographical distribution of pet animals and the development history of ethnic groups to daily habits, food intake, and growth parameters.
Soon, Russell found several alternative targets.
The first is the distant relative of the honeypot bee - the red-eyed wasp. This silver-level pet with dual attributes of insect and poison is not only top in combat power among common insect-type pets, but also second to none in ferociousness.
Unlike most bee pets, the tail stinger of the red-eyed wasp is very sharp and its body has enough toxins. It can sting the target more than ten times in a row without exhausting itself.
When enraged, a small group of red-eyed wasps can swarm forward without fear of death, and can even easily surround and kill mature gold-level pet beasts.
Whether it is a wild beast or a beast master, they will usually take a detour when they see their hive.
There was a swarm of red-eyed wasps living at the door. Ordinary Xiaoxiao would not give the slightest thought to the property inside the house.
Moreover, they are also carnivorous pets and can also help clean up pests in orchard farms.
Secondly, it is the gale dragonfly that has excellent flying ability and is good at patrolling at high altitudes.
They have excellent far-sightedness and can accurately see objects from a distance of hundreds of meters. They are very useful whether they are for warning or helping to find lost things. They are very useful for finding people and things.
Relying on its proficiency in low-power wind skills, Gale Dragonfly can sometimes work part-time as a yard cleaner.
The last pet beast to choose from is the Stone Cricket, whose combat power is much inferior to the first two pet beasts.
Although it is called a stone cricket, this pet does not actually have rock attributes. It is a pure insect-type bronze-level herbivorous pet. It is more aggressive by nature than ordinary herbivorous insects. It often gets together to collide and fight with each other. .
Because their round black heads resemble a pebble, and the head position is really hard, they will make a muffled "dong-dong" sound when they collide with each other after jumping and accelerating, so they are named "stone" crickets.
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"Well...it's you!"
But after careful consideration, Russell finally focused on Stone Cricket's information page.
After all, we are going to engage in large-scale breeding. Strength and cultivation space are important, but versatility and cost are also factors that cannot be ignored.
Although red-eyed wasps have the strongest fighting power, it is difficult for these gregarious creatures to survive with only one or two. If you want to raise them, you need to raise a group. Combined with their pure carnivorous habits, the daily maintenance cost will be relatively large.
Another problem is that although mature red-eyed wasps rarely attack their owners, they are not so polite to other residents around them.
The Beast Control Alliance has a sound set of pet animal management laws. The owner must be responsible for the behavior of the contract and feeding the pet animal. If the Red-Eyed Wasp accidentally hurts someone, the compensation will be enough to buy several mechanical watchdogs. .
Therefore, generally only some forest farms and farms located in the wild far away from the city will choose ferocious red-eyed wasps as guard pets.
The Gale Dragonfly has inherited the free character of the wind-attributed pet, and has a great demand for daily activities. For urban residents who are becoming more and more homebound, walking around every day is also a big burden.
In comparison, although the fighting ability of Stone Cricket is a bit lower, it is better to feed and has a relatively gentle personality. It will not attack strangers passing by without feeling an obvious threat.
In addition, the stone cricket also has one of the most critical advantages, that is - it can sing.
Neither the red-eyed wasp nor the gale dragonfly sings, but the stone cricket can chirp, and its chirp is extremely loud, making it a mobile loudspeaker.
Yes, it was such a seemingly common ability that made Russell choose stone crickets as the first batch of experimental pets for combat training.
After all, everything in the world of beast mastering is inseparable from pet beasts. Even if you are not a professional beast master, you will more or less contract one or two pet beasts to stay with you.
Generally speaking, if a well-off family can be chosen as a contract pet by a well-off family with a need for vigilance, its individual strength will exceed the above-mentioned insect-type pets.
Therefore, as a non-contracted domestic alert pet, it is certainly a good thing to be able to solve some minor troubles independently, but the most important ability is actually to be able to convey dangerous information to the owner in a timely manner. And barking is one of the most direct and quick ways to alert.
After finalizing the breeding target, Russell immediately took out his mobile phone and checked the purchase channels for stone crickets.
"A semi-mature cub costs 2,000 credits, and the price is quite acceptable."
Senluo City is a typical mountainous forest city. All kinds of insect-type pets that are common in areas with lush inland vegetation are widely distributed. Just search for them. You can see a lot of links related to stone crickets.
However, the content of the link is somewhat different from the style of painting envisioned by Russell...
"We sincerely invite friends to fight. The Senluo City Senior Activity Center holds a cricket fighting competition every Friday night at Qingxi Square. The free battle mode is strictly prohibited. Beast talent cheats."
"My grandson recently helped me catch several stone crickets. He is new to the trap. Do you have any friends who know how to look at their appearance?" "
Xiao Dou Yiqing has set up a private cricket fighting venue. Each game has a bet of 500. Credit points, open from time to time, if interested, please contact the communication number 139XXXXXXX."
Stone crickets are purely sales-type pets without any output. Russell originally thought that the market would be relatively narrow, but he did not expect that this kind of pet beast is quite popular among middle-aged and elderly people. popular.
However, the small-scale popularity cannot really change the value of Stone Cricket. After all, the world of beast control has more ornamental regular battles to watch. A low-level insect-type pet beast, even if it fights the invincible opponent in the cricket world, will not be able to watch it. Maybe we should really discuss the value with those high-level pet beasts.
After browsing some forums where fighting friends spoke, Russell saw the most expensive stone cricket, which was worth only tens of thousands of credits.
This price seems to be quite a lot, but for a professional wild hunting team whose trip often costs hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, it is obviously not enough.
After all, although the insect-type beasts are not very powerful in combat, they are all very alert, and there are many who are good at camouflage and digging holes. Even mid-level beast masters have to use a few tricks without alarming or harming the beasts. It takes a lot of hard work to get something.
Russell once secretly inquired about the bounty price of Candle Shadow Moth, which was a full two million credits, enough to buy a basket of high-quality crickets.
The source of stone crickets for middle-aged and elderly fighting friends mainly depends on the filial piety of the younger generations and the occasional chance to try their luck at the breeding farm that has bred a new batch of larvae.
The reason why those links that sell stone crickets in bulk only sell semi-mature larvae is because the price of a fully mature stone cricket often fluctuates greatly. The good ones can be sold for five figures, while the bad ones are given away and people are too lazy to raise them.
As an ordinary merchant, naturally I am too lazy to take this risk, so I might as well sell them in bulk during the semi-mature stage, and the final profit will be similar anyway.
However, as a loser with the talent of "Cocoon of Evolution", Russell smelled a very strong business opportunity here.
The risks that other pet houses and breeding farms are unwilling to take simply do not exist for him!
The crickets produced by Yuchongwu are not only invincible in the whole city, but at least they are more than enough to be the victorious general of the elderly activity center in the community.
With a purchase price of two thousand, you might even get a discount for bulk orders. If it can be sold at a five-digit average price, the profit margin will be as high as over 500%!
Although Russell had never done business in his previous life, he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs running away. Among all the legal businesses he had been exposed to, even the most profitable ones, the profits were probably at this level.
"This Stone Cricket also has an evolved form..."
What's even more rare is that the Stone Cricket also has a silver-level evolved form called "Scabbard Cricket".
However, in the wild, except for the fast-growing worm-type pets, most insect-type pets cannot evolve, so the world of cricket fighting generally does not allow the use of scabbard crickets in battles.
After all, this is just a leisure and entertainment activity. It would be boring if it became a one-man show for just one person.
"I wonder if silver-level pet beasts can produce lords. It seems that there is a precedent for ant-level pet beasts." With
some excitement, Russell dialed Dr. Xiamu's phone number.
He remembered that Dr. Natsuki once said that if necessary, the official hunting team of Senluo City could be dispatched...
Well, the reason was that it would be used for insect breeding research, and the results would be shared with the Senluo Beast Control Laboratory at the worst possible time. Well!
(End of chapter)