Chapter 76:
Without feeding advanced materials to Dou Cricket, 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 slightly improved 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 eggs directly from the Internet. Cricket larvae.
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these larvae that have gone through two or three molts have not yet fully grown their 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 for sale to the outside world,
for The cultivation of stone crickets is mainly based on cost-effectiveness. Fighting-type physical strength enhancers and rock-type trachomatis are all 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 food 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%, Russell dialed the number Xiang Pan left for him.
"Hello, Director Xiang. The new batch of insect-type pet beasts that I have arrived here are ready for training. Can you tell me when it will be convenient to send students over?" The Insect
House has a limited manpower and has dozens of them. It was unrealistic to have uncontracted pet beasts running around, so Russell applied for door-to-door service from the Bloodstone Martial Arts School.
"You can do it at any time. Brother Luo, do you have any requirements for the sparring staff?"
Xiang Pan's voice revealed joy after receiving a call from the talented 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 50% discount, the fee of 100 credits can at least earn back their own food.
After hearing Xiang Pan's question, Russell thought for a moment and then said his request:
"The strength does not need to be too high, but the defense and endurance of the pet should be better. It is best to be a hard-bodied type. It can be done ten times at a time. One person is enough. 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 beast. Its hard power is incomparable to the pet beasts contracted by martial arts students, and Russell has no plans to do so. It would be good to train them to the point where they can enter the beast-fighting arena and 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 request sounds like there are several, but each one is actually not too high, and all of them are satisfied. It was not difficult, so Xiang Pan agreed.
Not long after, ten martial arts students with an average age of less than eighteen years old lined up neatly 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 working hard to train, Russell felt that all the young people in the world of beast control are 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 I will encounter when I participate in the official city league..."
Watching the martial arts students and Stone Cricket who were sparring, Russell, who had nothing to do, began to hold his mobile phone and check the highlight videos of past events.
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In the following days, 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 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 helping me find the scabbard cricket..." It was another evening, and Russell, who still could
n't wait for the scabbard cricket, was a little agitated. He complained dejectedly.
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 beasts to completely absorb the energy of the rock-type. In order for these energies to accurately act on the head carapace of 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 no business coming to their door!
(End of chapter)