Void Spiderweb

As long as those ten centipede Gu stayed alive, the cockroaches in the restaurant wouldn't survive!

When he got home, he quickly took a cold shower, then collapsed heavily onto his bed.

He had just closed his eyes when he suddenly remembered something. He slapped his forehead. "Damn it, I forgot to buy meat!"

He checked the time. It was almost eleven.

"I wonder if they're still open."

Deciding to try his luck, Jiang Yiming called Boss Rou.

"Who is it?" The voice on the phone was clearly impatient.

A woman nearby also seemed to be urging him on. "Quick, hang up... Come on, let's continue..."

Jiang Yiming felt a little awkward, but asked anyway, "Are you still delivering meat?"

Boss Rou paused, then replied, "Not if it's too small an order."

"Four hundred, four hundred jin of chicken carcasses! No, six hundred jin!" Jiang Yiming hurriedly said.

The woman on the other end urged the meat seller again.

Boss Rou roared, "Quit bothering me! I'm doing business here!"

Then he said to Jiang Yiming with a laugh, "All right, six hundred jin. I'll deliver it right away. You're the same customer from yesterday, right?"

Only after ordering the chicken carcasses did Jiang Yiming breathe a sigh of relief.

The Gu insects in the Gu Rearing Box had eaten quite a few cockroaches, but that was nowhere near enough.

Actually, it wouldn't hurt them to miss a meal, but Jiang Yiming wanted them to grow faster, so he didn't want to leave them hungry.

After all, when a Gu insect reached level three, the system had given him the Identify Gu at a Glance skill. He wondered if there would be other rewards for leveling them up further.

He didn't have the money to unlock the System Store now, so getting some other benefits wouldn't be bad either.

Before long, the delivery man arrived.

It was the same man from yesterday.

"Young man, did you sell all of yesterday's chicken carcasses?!" the delivery man asked with a smile as soon as the door opened.

Jiang Yiming smiled politely. "I don't have a refrigerator at home. If I didn't sell them quickly, was I supposed to let them rot on my hands?"

"You're something else!" The delivery man gave him a thumbs-up and started unloading.

Six hundred jin of chicken carcasses filled exactly six big bags.

Stacked up, they stood a meter high!

Jiang Yiming closed the door and released all the Gu insects.

"Help yourselves. Don't leave the room. I'm going to get some sleep..."

After giving the order, he felt groggy and terribly sleepy. He had barely collapsed onto the bed before he fell fast asleep in less than a minute.

Early in the morning, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Jiang Yiming opened his eyes and saw several spider Gu hanging from the ceiling. Several centipede Gu were also lying on the wooden rail at the head of his bed.

He turned to look at the floor. The six big bags had been torn to shreds, and the chicken carcasses inside had been eaten without even a bone left.

Sensing that the Gu insects were hungry again, he sighed. "Sigh... Even six hundred jin wasn't enough for you! I don't know when this will end..."

Though he felt helpless, he ordered another four hundred jin of chicken carcasses.

While waiting for the delivery, Jiang Yiming gathered the Gu insects and counted them carefully so he could make better arrangements.

"One, two, three... One hundred and twenty-eight! One hundred and twenty-eight level-two spider Gu." He counted and recorded the numbers as he went.

"Sixty-three level-three spider Gu."

"These are... level four?"

Looking at the fist-sized spiders on the floor, he made a mental note. Twenty-seven level-four spider Gu.

Next, he counted the centipede Gu.

"Thirteen at level two, twenty-seven at level three, and at level four... three!"

Those three level-four centipede Gu were already over thirty-five centimeters long and a full four centimeters wide! Their purplish-black backs were extremely intimidating!

"How are these centipedes? They look just like little snakes!"

As soon as Jiang Yiming mentioned snakes, he suddenly remembered that of the five types of primordial Gu, he had only found spiders and centipedes so far.

He hadn't found a single snake, toad, or scorpion.

"I need to make money now, so I don't have time to look for other Gu insects. When I get the chance, I have to gather all five poisonous creatures!"

Just then, the four hundred jin of chicken carcasses arrived.

After paying and closing the door, Jiang Yiming felt a pang at the expense.

He had already spent more than the two thousand-odd yuan he had worked so hard to earn yesterday...

"At this rate, I'll never have enough money to open the System Store!"

He waved the Gu insects over to eat, then sat down to think it over.

"Should I keep collecting every insect I see and cultivate them properly? Or should I give up cultivating Gu insects and focus on opening the System Store first?"

"I don't even know what's in the System Store..."

As he pondered, the system notification sounded in his mind once more!

[Congratulations, host. You have successfully cultivated a level-five Gu insect. It has reached the highest level for primordial Gu. Skill rewarded: Void Spiderweb!]

He looked down and saw that a spider on the floor had indeed shed its shell and grown as big as a porcelain plate!

At the same time, he automatically learned the Void Spiderweb skill.

The skill was simple to use. With a casual wave of his hand, he could shoot out an invisible spiderweb.

The web was circular, about two meters in diameter, and intangible and invisible. Only Jiang Yiming himself could sense its presence.

"I wonder how strong this thing is..."

With that question in mind, he tossed the chair beside the bed into the air, then flicked his hand and shot out the web.

"Bang!"

The web struck the chair in midair and slammed it straight into the wall, where the invisible web held it firmly in place! He waved his hand again, and the web dispersed, letting the chair fall.

"This skill looks pretty good. But... what's it useful for?!" Jiang Yiming demanded. "System, are these useless skills all you can come up with?"

[Advanced skills can only be obtained by unlocking advanced Gu insects or purchased directly from the System Store.]

The system's answer was as good as telling Jiang Yiming that there were powerful skills in the System Store!

He had been hesitating over whether to save up and open the shop first or make money to raise more powerful Gu first.

Now, he made his decision in an instant—he had to save up and open the System Store first.

With a clear goal in mind, Jiang Yiming said to himself, I can't catch any more new Gu insects.

If I buy gold bars from a bank, a 1,000-gram gold bar will cost a little over four hundred thousand yuan!

At the rate I'm making money now, a year should be about enough.

As he was calculating, the phone in his pocket rang.

"Are you the cockroach exterminator?"

Hearing that question, Jiang Yiming smiled—business had finally come!

The timing was just right. The four hundred jin of chicken carcasses had just been eaten. Unfortunately, no more Gu insects had reached level five afterward.

He put the Gu insects away, wheeled out his bicycle, and began his day's work.

For the rest of the day, business came in a rush again. The calls came one after another—when none came, none came at all, but when they came, they all came together!

Jiang Yiming pedaled back and forth between one residential complex and another, exhausted like a mad dog... but very happy.

He stayed busy until after ten that night, when he finally finished the last job, collected his payment, and prepared to go home.

Suddenly, the phone rang again.

The number looked a little familiar, but he didn't think much of it and answered.

"Hello, handsome~ There are cockroaches in my home. Could you come over?" A voice that made him tingle came from the other end of the line.

That voice sounded a little familiar.