Human-Gu Connection

When Jiang Yiming reached the restaurant, it was pitch-dark inside. The owner had probably gone to bed.

Jiang Yiming went around back and stood outside the kitchen's rear door, but he couldn't sense any gu insects at all.

"The ten Centipede Gu I left here before have probably all died... No wonder the owner asked me to come over."

"Red Tail, Ghost Face, go inside and have a look!"

The two gu insects obeyed, their figures vanishing in an instant. The next moment, the Red Tail Centipede had slipped through a gap in the window.

The Ghost-Faced Spider reached the windowsill too, but its belly was too big, leaving it stuck outside. It squeezed for a long time, but still couldn't get in.

"Can't you try somewhere else?"

Jiang Yiming gave it a reminder, and Ghost Face finally caught on. It set off along the wall, climbed to the exhaust vent, and finally crawled inside.

Having applied the Human-Gu Connection Water, Jiang Yiming could see what they saw.

There were indeed some cockroaches in the kitchen, but before the Ghost-Faced Spider crawled in, the Red Tail Centipede had bitten every last one of them to death.

Only cockroach corpses remained, scattered across the floor.

After Primordial Gu evolved to Yellow Rank, they didn't need as much food. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was more important. So the Red Tail Centipede didn't eat the cockroaches.

Seemingly showing off, the Red Tail Centipede raised a third of its body, fiddled with its two large venomous fangs with its front claws, and quietly watched the Ghost-Faced Spider that had just come in.

"Quit showing off and bring out all the meat in the kitchen!" Jiang Yiming ordered again.

The two gu insects immediately got busy, rummaging through everything.

After evolving to Yellow Rank, they had grown much stronger and could easily open the freezer!

Soon, the lamb rolls, beef balls, pork belly, and other such things in the kitchen were all carried out and put into the Gu Rearing Box.

After emptying the meat from the freezer, Red Tail and Ghost Face continued searching.

To Jiang Yiming's delight, they found a cobra in a bamboo basket beside the kitchen counter!

Cobras weren't native to the area. It looked as though a customer had reserved it for a dish tomorrow...

After guessing at its origin, Jiang Yiming promptly told the two gu insects to bring the snake out.

The cobra was over a meter long, several times bigger than the two of them put together. But after receiving their orders, they didn't retreat in the slightest. They crouched at the edge of the bamboo basket, itching to make a move.

The cobra inside sensed the danger. It spread the area below its head into a flat hood and raised its head in an attacking posture.

The Ghost-Faced Spider wasn't intimidated at all. It poked the end of its abdomen through a gap in the mesh lid and sprayed silk inside nonstop. In moments, the cobra was wrapped up like a zongzi.

Red Tail acted then, using its two venomous fangs to bite through the mesh lid. It crawled in and dragged the snake out.

It was only a little over twenty centimeters long, yet dragging a snake over a meter long took it no effort at all.

Snakes were one of the five types of Primordial Gu and could also be cultivated. So when the Red Tail Centipede dragged the cobra out, Jiang Yiming's first thought was to put it in the Gu Rearing Box and turn it into his own gu insect.

Unfortunately, he failed this time.

[Capture failed. The Gu Rearing Box can only capture venomous creatures that have never been caught before.]

"Never been caught before? Does the Gu Rearing Box only like first times too?" Jiang Yiming was puzzled. "Then if I buy venomous creatures from someone else, won't I be able to put them in the Gu Rearing Box either?"

[The Gu Rearing Box can only capture gu insects personally discovered by the host.]

The system's cold voice rang out again.

"I can't buy them?" Jiang Yiming's mind raced. "I might as well become a breeder myself. That way, I'd be the only one who's seen the venomous creatures I raise, so they'd meet the capture conditions, right?"

[An insect without ferocity cannot become a gu. Captive-bred venomous creatures do not meet the capture conditions either.]

"Picky, aren't you! So you're forcing me to catch them one by one?" Jiang Yiming felt somewhat helpless.

A few days ago, he had plenty of gu but little meat and had worried about food. Now, all of a sudden, he had meat but no gu, and was worried because he didn't know where to catch them.

If he wanted to grow stronger, his only option was to refine gu. Without Primordial Gu, what the hell was he supposed to refine?

He returned home, dejected. Unable to sleep, he frantically scrolled around a map of the surrounding area, trying to find a suitable place to catch gu.

After searching for an hour, his gaze settled on a place on the map, five kilometers away.

There was a small mountain there.

As the saying went, there should be plenty of venomous creatures on the mountain.

"That's the place! I'll go there tomorrow!"

Early the next morning, Jiang Yiming was still washing up when Sun Qin knocked on his door. The two went out together, and a little over ten minutes later, they arrived at the restaurant.

The owner and his wife had been waiting there since early morning.

They had also called the six cooks and two servers over early.

The moment he saw Jiang Yiming, the owner put on a false smile. "Little Jiang! Come, come! Let's go inside and talk."

Even if Jiang Yiming had been a fool, he would have known there was a dagger hidden behind that smile. He merely smiled back, then silently followed the owner into the restaurant.

The restaurant hadn't opened for business yet. The chairs in the dining area were still upside down on the tables, and the kitchen door was tightly shut.

The owner went to the kitchen door and said with a smile, "What did we agree on before? Do you remember?"

As soon as he said that, Jiang Yiming sensed something was wrong. He quickly and silently released Red Tail, which burrowed underground and made its way into the kitchen.

Because of the human-gu connection, he could see what Red Tail saw.

What he saw was shocking: there were lots of cockroaches in the kitchen again!

The owner must have put them there again this morning. This never ends!

Eat all the cockroaches! Jiang Yiming immediately ordered in his mind, while saying to the owner, "I don't quite remember. Could you tell me again?"

He was stalling for time, but the owner didn't know that. He actually took out the agreement they had signed and began reading it word for word.

"...If cockroaches appear in the kitchen within one week, Jiang Yiming will pay the restaurant two thousand yuan in compensation..."

By the time he finished reading, Red Tail had swallowed every cockroach in the kitchen.

"Well? I've read it to you. Do you remember now?" the owner asked with a smile as he put the agreement away, afraid of losing it.

"I remember," Jiang Yiming said coolly. "What is it? Are there cockroaches in your restaurant again?"

"Whether there are or not isn't for me to say. Let's have a look together!"

With that, the owner grabbed the door handle and shouted to all the employees, "Everyone, come over here and see if there are still cockroaches in our restaurant!"

When the employees heard him, they all looked at him with disdain.

They all knew what the owner had been up to these past two days, but as employees, they weren't in a position to say anything. Besides, it was none of their business, so none of them wanted to step forward and expose him.

With everyone watching, the owner turned the handle, shoved the kitchen door open, and charged in first.

Strangely, the kitchen was spotless. There wasn't a single cockroach on the stove, in the corners, or anywhere else!

"It's pretty clean!" Jiang Yiming feigned surprise.

The owner was stunned and blurted out without thinking, "How could this happen?!"

The way he said it, it was as though a clean kitchen were unforgivable.

The other employees curled their lips, their faces full of disdain.

"What's wrong? For a restaurant, isn't it good to have a spotless kitchen without any cockroaches?"

The owner was at a loss for words.

His wife was the better talker. She smiled and said, "Of course, the cleaner a restaurant is, the better! That's why, when the owner found cockroaches last night, we called you over first thing today!"

She wasn't finished. After a pause, she continued, "Besides, cockroaches usually only come out at night. It's perfectly normal not to see them during the day."

"Right, right, right! Cockroaches come out at night!" the owner hurriedly chimed in.

"You mean you want me to come at night?" Jiang Yiming said firmly, "I'm very busy. I don't have time to go through all this with you!"