In the sandalwood-filled Green Pavilion Western Restaurant, the high-power air conditioning dispels the summer heat, and the melodious melody of the old song makes people's thoughts drift away, as if returning to the era that has become the color of the old photo.

It's just a relatively high restaurant in Y County, and after working hard for 10 days and eating instant noodle box lunches for more than 10 days, Zhong Heng decided to come here for a luxury after a busy day of "rent collection" work.

Now he can be described as a double harvest of evolution fragments and money, and he is temporarily rich and peaceful.

11398 base units.

Upgrading skills doesn't just require evolving fragments, it also requires increasing proficiency to 100%, but it's already over the limit if the final balance uses abilities almost every day to the point of overusing the brain.

"Level up your insect manipulation skills."

With a silent recitation, the insect manipulation skill became level 2.

"Congratulations, master, now you can ......"

"Don't talk, I know how to read, and I can read the template myself!"

Final Heng originally thought that the upgraded skills could increase the range and quota of the puppet's control, or increase the number of insect species that could be controlled, but the result was beyond his expectations.

After upgrading, there are several sub-modules that have split off from the original insect manipulation module for him to choose from to unlock:

Control Range Upgrade Submodule: Increases the control range of insects, the current range radius is 100 meters, and each increase of 1 meter costs 10 evolution fragments.

Manipulated Insect Variety Upgrade Submodule: Increase the number of controllable insect varieties, the number of controllable insect varieties is now 5, the used number is 4, and each additional variety costs 1000 evolution fragments.

Manipulative Object Range Upgrade Submodule: Non-insect and insect creatures can be included in the manipulable range, and a type of evolution fragment that costs 1000 points.

**Vertical Quota Upgrade Submodule: Increases the maximum number of controllable insects that can be manipulated by the golem, and only consumes 100 evolution fragments for each additional 1.

Visual Contact Manipulation Submodule: Upgrade the right to control the object by touching it to see the vertical object to get the control of it, the control activation range is 10 meters radius, and each 1 meter upgrade requires 10 evolution fragments.

Sensory Filtering Sub-Module: Filters out undesirable senses in one-to-one manipulation.

Sensory retention sub-module: After one-to-one control is turned on, it can retain the more advanced senses of the ontology than the longitudinal object, such as vision and hearing, and can also be used as an extension of the ontological senses.

Manipulating the extension submodule: A new vertical object can be obtained through the contact of the vertical object.

Manipulation Imprint Submodule: It can leave an imprint on the longitudinal object that has had **vertical experience**, and the target marked with the imprint does not revoke the control, even if it is outside the control range, it will remain in a standstill state in the puppet control, and after revoking its manipulation, the imprint can be activated at any time without contact, and the longitudinal object cannot be activated outside the host manipulation range.

Void Summoning Sub-Module: A special sub-module that needs to unlock all of the above sub-modules, that is, it will be automatically unlocked when the insect manipulation is upgraded to level 9 and the full level, and after unlocking, you can summon the manipulator with the control mark anytime and anywhere.

9 sub-modules, each of which is equivalent to a detailed extension of the insect's manipulation ability, but only one can be selected, and each additional unlock requires proficiency to be practiced again to 100%, not to mention, the evolution fragments consumed will be 3 times that of the previous one.

In this way, it will cost tens of millions of evolution fragments to unlock all the submodules, and this is not counting those manipulation range increases, control variety increases or anything - fortunately they don't have the need to consume double the evolution shards for every increase they need, otherwise the final balance would really crash headlong into the wall and die.

So much, which one to choose......

Biting his fingernails and thinking about these awkward titles, he chose the sensory retention submodule.

Other modules, especially those that upgrade the range of control, are chicken ribs even if they are unlocked, this expansion of the range is completely water grinding effort, there is no large number of evolution fragments, and it is useless to expand a few meters and tens of meters at a time, so it is the first to rule it out.

Modules that increase the number of manipulated varieties and manipulated varieties can also be excluded, and there is still one spare number of controllable varieties left in the final balance, and there is no need to manipulate new types of bugs for the time being. If you control one or two more insects, small quantitative changes will not bring about qualitative changes, not to mention that a lot of follow-up investment is needed.

Excluding the manipulation extension, manipulation imprints and sensory filtering, these are not frivolous, but they do not bring substantial changes.

Of the last remaining sub-modules of sensory retention and visual contact manipulation, Sensory Retention was chosen after a struggle.

Only a few insects that need to use their eyes to focus on observation, such as jumping spiders, need to capture prey, its eyes are a pair of eyes that are easy to gaze at, lock on to the target and sneak attack, and have similar vision.

Most insects are far superior to humans in terms of touch, smell, and even hearing and taste, but when it comes to vision, few can catch up with humans. They do not have mammals that need to look at the convex monoocular balls that evolve from afar, they need to forage for food in humus soils formed by fallen leaves for a long time, and most of them are short-sighted on the surface, and a few even have degraded eyes. Flying insects, although their eyesight is already clairvoyant compared to their relatives on the ground, their unique eyes, compound eyes, bring multi-screen visual effects that are far different from the single-screen visual effects brought by mammals' single eye.

It's a kind of small lattice with countless images inside that look almost identical, and just looking at one of them makes people feel like their eyes are about to fly out.

Although the clarity of the picture is not much different from the clarity of human vision, the multiple constantly shifting perspectives brought by the compound eyes when flying make him feel as if he is watching several dazzling 3D blockbusters with fast switching scenes at the same time, and it didn't take long for him to feel dizzy and want to vomit.

Not to mention the rest, the yellow lynx ant is a myopic eye of thousands of degrees, and things 5 meters away can only see a vague outline, and the paver ant and the American cockroach are simply blind and can only sense the change of light.

The controlled wasp hovered under the table (for fear of flying out and scaring people), and when he switched to the perspective of the golden-ringed wasp, he saw not the compound perspective of several identical images that had made people dizzy before, but a clear single-screen vision that belonged to humans. In the "buzzing" sound of wings, Zhong Heng felt like he was playing a VR game with 100% realism, and the condescending, almost equivalent to the human suspended at the height of a ten-story building, made his perspective tremble slightly, and even jumped over the senses such as the rapid heartbeat that the body of an insect does not have, just through vision, it brought a sense of weightlessness similar to riding a roller coaster to Zhong Heng's consciousness.

It's been more than half a month since he got the insect template, but in the past half a month, he has mostly focused on making money, arming, and collecting evolution fragments, and among the three control modes, the most technical content is also the most important, and the one-on-one control he didn't spend much effort on studying at all. At present, this mode is still very shallow, limited to the use of pheromones to read "worm language" and simple crawling.

For the final balance, who has not adapted to the body structure of insects, which is very different from humans, let alone control the wasp to perform difficult stunts similar to fighter dog fights - he simply cannot effectively control the high-frequency flapping wings to cope with the changeable air currents in the air, and ordinary flight or even take-off is not possible, so he can only let the wasp hover first, and then he will take over the wasp's consciousness to maintain this state.

Mammals rely on the most dependent vision can not play a role, with touch and smell instead of it can not do it in a short time, the final balance is a blind man under one-to-one control, even control cockroaches or ants to crawl at high speed, crawling can only be like a toddler, the left foot touches the right foot to trip oneself is common, on the nearly vertical wall cornices to walk the wall to play parkour is even more far away.

It's time to develop this one-on-one control.

That's all for later, and the exhausted Zhong Heng was feasting on the salad that had just been served, swallowing pieces of sweet and sour fruit lettuce, and regaining his sluggish appetite in the hot weather.

Wearing a Bluetooth headset so that others would not suspect him of being mentally ill talking to the air, Zhong Heng chewed heavily while chatting with Xiao Qian, who was "sitting" opposite.

"You still have more than 10,000 points left, and it's time to upgrade me to an entity." Xiao Qian smiled evilly and said, "Upgrade twice, and I can become an entity, just in case." ”

"Upgrade...... Not...... It's sooner or later...... "chewing a mouthful of spinach, putting down the fork in his hand, and finally waving his hand" but not now, although we have made small achievements now, but selling yellow ants is not a long-term solution after all, and now it is nothing to sell less, but once there is more, the market will be saturated, and the scarcity is expensive, and more is not worth it, and the ghost knows if other merchants will do such a trick as dumping, and now there are a few people who are dissatisfied with me, and they slander me every day on the Internet to brush up on bad reviews. ”

"Besides...... Not...... Our way of catching this is completely dry and fishing, catching too many yellow ants in that mountain can be cut off, not to mention how serious the ecological damage is caused, the forestry department will definitely come to us for trouble, those posts on the Internet is conclusive evidence. Now we can't compete with the government. ”

"So somewhere else? Or catch something else? How about the red-headed hunchback ant, there are also those around here. Xiao Qian said.

"This can be done, but the efficiency is definitely not as high as the efficiency of catching yellow ants, the number of ants is very scarce, and they live underground, few worker ants come out to move, and I can't find worker ants." Zhong Heng said, "But let's take one step at a time, after deducting this meal and the cost of these days, we still have a few thousand yuan, and we don't spend it indiscriminately enough to live for two or three months." Taking advantage of these two months, let's not play on such a large scale as before, and occasionally go to other mountains to catch some yellow monkeys and sell them slowly, as long as you can sell a nest a day and earn 150 yuan, you won't be able to make ends meet. ”

"You can stock up on more." Xiaoqian added, "In the winter and next year, the spring will be sold out of season, and the price can be raised." ”

"Oops, how did I not think of it...... Hahaha, Xiaoqian, you're really a fucking genius! Final Heng raised his hand and lifted his glass, even though it was only lemonade...... Oops, I forgot you don't have a physical ...... right now."

"But I still have to respect ......"

Suddenly, a discordant element crept into the joyous moment, creating a contrast like that of an innocent child's birthday party, when a Frankenstein-like monster breaks down the door and kills all the good things, such as delicious cakes, soft candlelight, beautiful gifts, and the innocent laughter of children.

The goblet fell to the floor, and lemonade and ice splashed everywhere.