Chapter 13: Upgrading (Part I)

Three days later.

Finally received the first amount credited. It's not much, it's the money from the sale of two new ones, and it's only 50 yuan after deducting the postage, but the final balance is still so excited that he almost burst into tears.

The first warm rays of winter finally broke through the bitter cold that had lasted for a long time, melting the countless ice and snow in the frozen earth to an insignificant fraction.

Although the winter is not over, the warm spring is not far away, and the next thing is the accumulation of rising account balances:

+100

+230

+30

+500

+720

+301

+1s

……

Hey, it looks like there's something strange mixed in.

Regardless of it, all in all, the economic problems that have always plagued the final balance, this dark cloud that has always been entrenched overhead, "black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy the city", have finally been broken with the small change that flows in like a stream.

The daily inflow of money from hundreds to thousands lasted for more than a week since the first account inflow, so that the final balance finally had the first pot of gold since leaving home to "start a business":

10652。

Not much, in the imperial capital, he can't even afford an area the size of an urn, but in this small county, as long as he doesn't get involved in pornography, gambling and drugs, it is enough for him to spend money for several months. According to the monthly rent of two or three hundred and the average salary of 2,000 yuan here, he is already a small tyrant with an income of more than 10,000 yuan in two weeks.

More than ten days, except for the first three days of the busy online business and delivery of goods all day long in the express site (because the final Heng lives in the old city, the express delivery is not, you need to go to a specific site to receive and send), the last ten days are relatively leisurely, the final balance simply finished the other three unfinished things.

The first is the nest of golden-ringed wasps.

Since becoming an evolutionary, Ultimateum always has a trace of worry before going to bed when he is excited to use his abilities every day.

"Evolution fragments can be plundered from other evolutionaries"

Every day before going to bed, this sentence rings in his mind.

Zhong Heng worries every day whether some evil evolutionary will knock on the door and crush him to death like an ant the next day, because he has no other means of defense except for letting Xiao Qian stare at the movement outside the house every day and keeping the three golden-ringed wasps in a large test tube in the puppet control mode all the time.

After getting the nest of golden-ringed wasps back and raising them in the toilet, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. Although I don't know how strong the other evolutionaries in the world are now, maybe this nest of poisonous bees is still not worth mentioning in the eyes of the other party, but it is better to have a thought that multiple means are better than nothing.

Hundreds of bees, who only need to use the puppet manipulation to control the ten jumping segments, will desperately use the stinger that makes people get hospitalized with a single shot. When the time comes, coupled with the fact that the ten controlled ones exist as the eyes of the "poisonous bee black cloud array", and the golden-ringed wasp with big toes greets the enemy's eyes, carotid arteries, exposed skin and other vital points, Zhong Heng believes that even the world's top special forces such as the Navy SEALs, Delta Special Forces, and Alpha Special Forces will probably suffer a big loss if they want to do it, and they will be stung in the hospital or even stinged to death.

Provided, of course, that they don't know what they're capable of.

In order to get back this nest of poisonous bees, Zhongheng can be said to have made a bloody investment, and it took more than 2 hours to guide them to move, dancing the "8" shaped waltz, plus transporting them back to more than 20 kilometers of mountain roads, not to mention, it took more than 2 days to customize and modify the container that contained them.

The final balance can now only be manipulated and commanded by puppets after touching an insect, in which the puppet cannot be more than 100 meters away from the object of ** control when the puppet is controlled, otherwise it will be invalid. As for one-on-one control, it can only be used on golems.

In other words, he still can't fully control the whole nest of golden-ringed wasps, especially when he is close to them, and he can't use the delayed puppet to manipulate it like he did when he used the social loopholes of bees to make them move, and order this nest of very territorial creatures to stand up obediently ♂ and not attack him.

Not to mention most of them at that time, even if there is only a single digit shot, it will be enough for him to die before he can get out of school.

Therefore, Zhongheng can't let them build a nest directly in the toilet, so the house will be uninhabitable, and it is impossible for them to build a nest near their home - there are many cases of fire fighting receiving a call from the neighborhood to pick up honeycombs in the media.

This requires a special container.

He first bought a hard plastic sorting box with a volume of about 1 cubic meter in the mall, several plastic partitions, a computer ventilation fan, wire mosquito screens, a washing machine drain pipe and transparent glue and other objects, and then found a hardware store and spent 800 yuan to ask the master to renovate.

The modified finishing box is like this: its top cover is sealed, and it is equipped with a hanger that is convenient for the golden-ringed wasp to build a nest, and the shell is full of holes about 5 mm in diameter, which not only ensures ventilation but also ensures that the ring-ring wasp will not come out. On the left side, an exhaust fan is installed to ensure ventilation, and the inner part of the exhaust fan is covered with barbed wire on the screen window to prevent the wasps from escaping or being swept into the exhaust fan when the ventilation fan is turned on.

A 10 cm diameter door is opened on the front side, which is used as an inlet and for feeding, and behind the door is a plastic pipe that slopes downward with a bracket, and is equipped with a valve on the top of the box that is controlled by pulling the switch up and down, forming a structure similar to a sealed bin.

There is also a pipe with such a structure on the right side, but it is protruding, and it is usually kept closed, and only when an enemy breaks into the room will the golden ring wasp be opened to meet the enemy, and occasionally the ten bees controlled by the puppet will pass through here to clean up the garbage.

Finally, the plastic washing machine hose is installed as an outlet, and the hose is also equipped with a valve, which extends to the outside through the exhaust port of the toilet, as the usual entrance and exit of the wasps, so as to ensure their daily life and fight to meet the intruders outside the house, but also to ensure that as long as they do not fall out of the nest, the neighbors will not notice them, and one or two in and out are only treated as occasional flying insects.

This was not without cost, as the original exhaust fan had to be removed and the exhaust window of the toilet except for the extended washing machine pipe was blocked with duct tape.

In the future, can only stink......

The completion of a complete set of work cost more than 1,000 yuan, nearly one-tenth of the income of these days, which made the final balance painful.

He gave the strangely shaped vessel a clichéd name, Hive 1, inspired by the Resident Evil movie.

After making these preparations, Zhong Heng rented an electric tricycle, covered Hive No. 1 with a black cloth, and went to the place where the golden-ringed wasps had moved once, and brought them back in the same way.

The first thing is over for now.

The second thing is the collection of evolutionary fragments.

The number of evolutionary fragments in the final balance is extremely scarce, only more than 600 points, and it is not enough to upgrade an insect manipulation.

100 was given at the beginning of the system, 200 was given by unlocking Xiaoqian, and more than 300 were picked up when catching yellow lynx ants that day, and more than 290 of them were a large piece of debris picked up in the wild by walking dog shit.

This collection of evolutionary fragments can be said to be the top priority for evolutionists, and all kinds of things related to the evolution template are inseparable from its consumption. However, previous experience has taught the final balance that it is too time-consuming to collect them, except for those large pieces that are lucky enough to pick up, such as the size of spectacle lenses, which are about 10,000 points, and the size of rice grains is about dozens or hundreds of points, and most of the scattered pieces that are smaller than a human hair are very painful to collect. Simply collecting these scattered ones, even in such a clear environment as the urban area, you can't collect 100 points in a day, let alone the more scattered ones in the wilderness.

It is difficult to collect them, but this kind of scattered fragments account for the vast majority of the number of fragments, at least 80%, and it would be a pity to give up.

It's tasteless to eat, it's a pity to throw it away, it's even chicken ribs!

So, Zhong Heng handed over this task to the bug, and it was the fourth insect he controlled, the grass paving ant, who took on this glorious and arduous task.

Grassland paving ant is a kind of only three or four millimeters in size, black widely distributed in small ants all over the world except the North and South Pole, their survival ability is extremely strong, even a crack in the concrete floor of the urban roadside, is enough for a litter of hundreds of grass paver ants to take root here.

What gives them such a strong vitality is not only the solid exoskeleton that can protect the fragile flesh under them from injury even if they are grasped by hand, as long as they cannot be pinched and crushed, but also their terrifying fecundity.

This is a kind of ant that implements a multi-queen system, and a nest can reach a maximum size of hundreds of thousands or even millions, and what supports this huge scale is the collective laying of eggs and exploding soldiers of hundreds or even thousands of ant queens who live together behind it.

Fast reproduction, strong adaptability, and native species will not cause biological invasion, and in reinforced concrete cities that are almost not part of the ecosystem, they will not cause environmental overload, which is really the best dispatch cannon fodder.

Instead of catching them, Ultimate's choice was to buy them online.

This kind of ant is everywhere, and its price is lower than that of the yellow ant, the larger the community you buy, the more cost-effective it is, if you buy a super community after 1000, an ant queen with hundreds of worker ants is less than 2 yuan on average.

On the insect forum, Zhong Heng bought the results of wild harvesting from an insect friend who had just dug a nest of hundreds of thousands of worker ants, and specially instructed this insect friend to split the ants according to the scale of dozens of ants and put them in test tubes before sending them over, which made the other party complain.

When the gang of guys who made Final Heng bleed nearly 2,000 soft sister coins arrived, Final Heng gave each of the ant nests that were separated one by one an order to "collect evolution fragments and put them at the mouth of the test tube", this level of order can still be understood with the intelligence of ants.

He took 500 test tubes out of the house, and as the initial advance army, every 20 meters, one test tube was buried in the soil of the green belt or tree pit, only exposing the mouth of the tube facing 20 degrees to the sky, and next to each stronghold were also placed rock sugar fragments to prevent ants from starving to death.

In the future, the fragments of evolution in this city will not have to be collected one by one, and the end only needs to play the image of a landlord who is chow peeling, and regularly come to the place where the test tube is buried to collect rent.

In just one week, his actions have been effective, excluding those who were wiped out because of their lack of self-generated adaptability, or accidentally uprooted by human factors such as cleaner aunts and bear children, the remaining nearly 400 strongholds have a few or more hundreds of wealth, and the total has reached more than 10,000 points, and all the streets that have been buried in the test tube, the evolutionary fragments have almost been swept away.

Only the special ability of Ultimateness can sweep away the evolution fragments so quickly, and if other evolutionaries don't have his bug-level ability of treasure hunting + minion, it would be impossible to get so many scattered evolution fragments without spending a year and a half.

As for this last thing, it's the issue of unlocking and upgrading the evolution template.