Five Types of Primordial Gu

When the door opened again, Sun Qin rushed in.

"This is the first time I've heard of someone closing the door to get rid of cockroaches. Let me take a good look and see whether you're the real deal or a fraud."

With that, she went into the kitchen and inspected it carefully.

What she saw astonished her.

Not only were the cockroaches gone, but even the spiders in the corners and the slugs outside the window had been completely cleared away!

"Th-this... you actually cleaned this place up so thoroughly in such a short time!" Sun Qin could hardly believe it.

Jiang Yiming smiled. "Well? That forty yuan was worth it, wasn't it?"

"Worth it!" Sun Qun said with satisfaction. "The owner of our restaurant has been worried about the bugs in the kitchen too. I'll tell him about you when I go to work tomorrow. When the time comes, don't be a fool and charge only forty yuan! Charge more. Got it?"

"No problem!" With business coming his way, Jiang Yiming naturally wouldn't refuse.

Back in his room, he released the Gu insects he had just collected.

This time he had gained six spiders and a centipede. The newcomers were noticeably smaller.

He had also wanted to collect a few cockroaches and slugs, but the system had informed him: [Only these five types of Primordial Gu can be captured: spiders, centipedes, toads, scorpions, and snakes.]

He also learned a little more about Primordial Gu.

According to the system, these five types of Primordial Gu could be combined to create all sorts of different Gu insects!

However, to combine them into other Gu insects, he first had to unlock the system shop.

There was only one way to unlock the shop: spend money.

That was right, spend money—throw 99-percent pure gold straight at it!

He asked the system, "How much gold does it take to unlock the system shop?"

The system helpfully informed him: [20 taels.]

"What?" Jiang Yiming was stunned. At current gold prices, he didn't even dare think about it.

[20 taels is 1,000 grams. Does the host understand?]

The system actually thought he didn't know how to convert units!!

"Alas... long and distant is the road ahead..."

After Jiang Yiming let out that sigh, the whole building was promptly afflicted.

First, someone upstairs found spiders, and he was pressed into helping clear them out. After he also cleaned out the cockroaches and other bugs while he was at it, the middle-aged homeowner insisted on giving him a hundred yuan.

As he was leaving, the man handed him a bottle of Leibi and thanked him repeatedly. "Young man, you're really honest. Other people charge one or two hundred just to come over and clear out cockroaches. You helped me get rid of the cockroaches and all those poisonous bugs too, yet you only wanted fifty yuan. That's far too little. I couldn't bring myself to pay you so little."

Only then did Jiang Yiming learn that other people charged so much to come and clear out cockroaches!

But he was a man of principle. Since he had quoted this household fifty yuan, he could only quote the next one the same.

Next, more than a dozen big black spiders suddenly appeared in the home next door to the man upstairs.

And so Jiang Yiming earned another fifty yuan with tears in his eyes.

After that came the third floor, the fourth floor, the fifth floor...

The more homes he cleaned, the more Gu insects he collected!

The more Gu insects he had, the faster he cleaned. But to make everyone feel comfortable paying, he slowed down and still spent half an hour on each home.

Some generous people gave him a hundred yuan outright, though more gave him only fifty. No matter how much they paid, Jiang Yiming conscientiously cleaned their homes.

He couldn't smash his own signboard.

Back home, he calculated his earnings.

Today, he had earned more than eight hundred yuan in one go!

For someone like him, who had come out of the mountains and couldn't even afford university, it was something he would never have dared dream of!

But after the excitement passed, he was still a little worried.

For no other reason than the dark mass of spiders and centipedes on the floor.

As he earned money, he collected more and more Gu insects. If these Gu insects could eat a little less, that would certainly be a good thing.

Unfortunately, the Gu insects didn't seem to know when they were full. They were hungry at the drop of a hat, and their appetites were astonishing!

Now, because of the food problem, a good thing had become a source of worry. He had only just begun worrying about food when the Gu insects in the Gu Rearing Box grew restless again.

They were hungry!

"Ugh... you just ate so many insects, and you're hungry again already! Why does it feel like the more you eat, the hungrier you get?"

With no other choice, Jiang Yiming went out and asked people for a few meat sellers' phone numbers. Then he returned home and called them one by one.

The first thing he generally asked was, "Boss, what's the cheapest meat you have?"

He had just earned several hundred yuan, only to turn around and pinch pennies like this. But he had no choice.

Who knew how much meat the Gu insects in the Gu Rearing Box would eat in a day!

Half an hour later, he finally found a cheap seller. Five hundred yuan would buy two hundred jin of chicken carcasses, with delivery included.

That was much cheaper than the supermarket.

He ordered two hundred jin without hesitation. Before long, someone knocked on his door.

"Did you order the chicken carcasses?" the middle-aged deliveryman asked.

Jiang Yiming nodded. "Yes, this is the place." As he spoke, he opened the door wide.

The deliveryman quickly carried in two large bags of chicken carcasses. Seeing that there was no refrigerator, he kindly warned, "Young man, these chicken carcasses spoil quickly. You don't have a refrigerator, so don't let them go bad."

Go bad? No chance.

Jiang Yiming was still worried there wouldn't be enough to eat!

After seeing the man off, he closed the door and released all the Gu insects.

Including the ones he had before, there were now 64 Spider Gu and 18 Centipede Gu on the floor.

The famished Gu insects formed a dark mass around the two bags of chicken carcasses.

An unknown liquid dripped from every one of their mouthparts, like human saliva. Some of it even fell onto the floor.

But without Jiang Yiming's command, they wouldn't dare rush forward and eat on their own, even if they were starving to death.

The Gu insects' discipline was beyond anything an ordinary pet could match.

Even the most docile pets had rebellious moments. But Gu insects captured through the Gu Rearing Box were absolutely obedient to their master.

With a single thought from their master, even if he told them to kill themselves, they would not hesitate in the slightest!

That was the wonder of the Gu Rearing Box bestowed by the system!

"Dig in!"

At a thought from Jiang Yiming, the impatient Gu insects immediately pounced on the chicken carcasses.

The outer bags were torn open in an instant.

Every Gu insect scrambled to share the food, afraid of missing out on a single mouthful.

Spiders had originally been able to consume only liquids, but after becoming Gu insects, even their ability to eat had changed. They could actually swallow meat directly, like centipedes! And they ate just as fast!

At the same time, Jiang Yiming gained a new understanding of the Gu insects' stomachs.

He clearly saw one centipede swallow a long strip of chicken bigger than its own body. Yet the centipede was perfectly fine, its belly still flat, its two large venomous fangs still shoveling meat into its mouth!

The other Gu insects were the same. They swallowed pieces of meat bigger than their bodies, yet their bellies never swelled, and their mouths never stopped.

The few that did stop were about to molt.

Once they had shed their shells, they resumed eating before their new ones had fully hardened.

In less than an hour, nothing but bones remained of the two hundred jin of chicken carcasses!