Spatial Gu Rearing Box

The blazing sun hung high in the sky.

Qiuyang City.

A shabby old residential complex lay tucked away in a corner behind the industrial park in the south of the city.

Its rusty gates, peeling walls, and potholed roads all hinted that the complex had been around for years.

With the industrial park right in front of it, the occasional wave of heat always brought a strange smell along with it.

Jiang Yiming had lived here for nearly half a year and had long since grown used to the smell.

Now, shirtless, he lay over the edge of his bed, facing the floor, his right hand raised high with a slipper clutched in it.

A spider the size of a grape crawled slowly toward him, almost reaching the bedside.

A slipper was the best weapon against these things!

Seeing the spider crawl into striking range, he raised his hand even higher, ready to bring it down hard the next second!

Suddenly!

[Ding! This is the thousandth venomous creature you have encountered. You have successfully triggered the Gu Rearing System. Activate it?]

The thousandth venomous creature? The Gu Rearing System?

He had moved into this rundown complex to save money. After being tormented by venomous creatures like spiders and centipedes for so long, who would have thought that, beyond the dark willows, bright flowers awaited, and he would actually get a system because of it!

Without hesitation, Jiang Yiming said silently, Activate!

[Congratulations, host. You have successfully activated the Gu Rearing System and received a Junior Gu Rearing Box.]

"A Gu Rearing Box? Where is it?"

Jiang Yiming turned his head and looked all around, but he couldn't find any box. As he wondered, more information appeared in his mind.

[Junior Gu Rearing Box: A type of spatial box that can store and raise Gu insects. Space: 10 cubic meters.]

After reading the information, Jiang Yiming immediately sensed an ethereal space.

He was still figuring out how to use the space when the system notification sounded again.

[Big-bellied spider detected. Capture it in the Gu Rearing Box?]

Capture it! Jiang Yiming said silently.

The grape-sized spider in front of the bed vanished instantly. The next moment, Jiang Yiming sensed that it had appeared inside the Gu Rearing Box.

More information about the spider also appeared in his mind.

[Congratulations, host. Capture successful. The big-bellied spider has evolved into a Big-Bellied Spider Gu.]

As soon as the message flashed through his mind, Jiang Yiming felt a special connection form between him and the spider in the Gu Rearing Box... as if he could control it at will!

That was it? It was that simple?

Although there was only one extra word, "Gu," after spider, its significance was anything but ordinary.

According to some books, venomous creatures were placed in a vessel and left to kill one another. The last one remaining, fiercely venomous and ferocious beyond compare, was known as a "Gu"!

Raising Gu insects was very difficult.

Jiang Yiming hadn't expected a Spatial Gu Rearing Box to make it so simple! With just a thought, he could capture any venomous creature he saw and send it inside, where it would automatically evolve into a Gu!

In his excitement, he released the Spider Gu.

Sure enough, the big-bellied spider's coloring was brighter now!

"Turn left! Forward! Halt! Turn right! Halt..."

No matter what commands he gave in his mind, the Spider Gu followed them without fail!

It was even more obedient than his right hand.

"This really is fun! Let's catch a few more and try them out!"

He had never believed in anything supernatural, much less in systems, but now... it was so good!

For the next while, Jiang Yiming switched off the creaking electric fan and began searching the entire room for small bugs.

[Spider detected!]

[Centipede detected!]

In just half an hour, Jiang Yiming rummaged all over the room, which was less than ten square meters, and found eight spiders and two centipedes in the cabinet, under the bed, and in his sneakers.

These creatures were normally hostile to one another. But once captured in the Gu Rearing Box, they all became one big family. They stopped fighting and found each other pleasing to the eye.

"Ready! Attention! Turn right..."

Sitting comfortably at the head of the bed, Jiang Yiming let all the Gu insects out and gave them a series of commands. He had to admit, the more insects there were, the more fun it was to command them.

It brought plenty of joy to a miserable wage slave like him, living far from home and working twelve hours a day on a two-shift rotation.

As it happened, he had sprained his left arm at work yesterday, and the doctor said he needed at least two weeks of rest.

That gave him plenty of time to train these Gu insects.

At the thought of his sprained left arm, the joy vanished from Jiang Yiming's face.

He didn't know why he was so unlucky.

He had never known his parents and had been raised by his grandparents. After graduating from high school and turning eighteen, he couldn't afford to continue his studies anyway, so he decided to leave home and work to ease the burden on his family.

But after he had carried his luggage out of the mountains on his own and finally found work at a pork processing plant, he hadn't expected it to be a family business.

The people there were terrible bullies. Whether they had a reason or not, they liked to pick on Jiang Yiming and make him the butt of their jokes.

Since he sent most of his wages home every month, Jiang Yiming had little money on hand. Poverty wore down his resolve, and he could only grit his teeth and carry on.

Yesterday, while he was operating a machine, Fatty Hu had deliberately scared him from behind, causing him to sprain his left arm.

As the factory director's son, Fatty Hu had gotten off scot-free, while Jiang Yiming was the one unable to work now!

"Once my arm heals and I go back to the factory, I'll put a spider in the pants of everyone who bullied me!"

Looking at the Gu insects on the floor, Jiang Yiming suddenly had an evil idea.

"No, Fatty Hu gets two! And a centipede too!"

If Fatty Hu hadn't used his status to take the lead in bullying him, the others wouldn't have joined in.

Just as Jiang Yiming was thinking about how to get even with the Gu insects, the status of the spiders and centipedes on the floor changed.

It went from "full" to "hungry."

"They're all hungry after training for such a short while?"

Jiang Yiming thought no more about it. He changed out of his baggy shorts, got dressed, and went out to buy a jin of pork belly. On his way back, he picked up two chicken carcasses as well.

These were things he usually couldn't bear to buy for himself.

He shut the door, and with a thought, the Gu insects in the Gu Rearing Box appeared on the floor out of thin air. He cut off a small piece of pork belly the size of a ping-pong ball, tore off half a chicken carcass, and tossed both over.

The spiders and centipedes were drooling with hunger, but none of them went to eat.

"Are you being that polite? Go on, eat!"

Only after he gave the order did they swarm forward and begin to eat.

Jiang Yiming had originally figured that the meat was larger than all the Gu insects on the floor put together and should be enough to feed them for a long time.

But he was wrong.

After becoming Gu insects, the spiders and centipedes had developed enormous appetites. They seemed never to know what it meant to be full and stayed there eating nonstop!

In half an hour, they had polished off all the meat on the floor.

They still didn't seem satisfied. The two centipedes kept burrowing into the bones, intent on hollowing them out!

"Spiders and centipedes shouldn't have such big appetites!"

"Did everything change after they became Gu insects?"