"Most East Asian Scorpions are five or six centimeters long, so ones over eight centimeters are rare. I have about eight boxes here, roughly four thousand in total."
Although Chen Miao had not asked why the eight-centimeter ones cost more, Shi Lang explained anyway.
"How many of those are males?"
"Two-thirds."
Chen Miao did the math. That seemed just enough for him to produce the Second Phase scorpions.
At three yuan each, 2,400 scorpions were hardly expensive.
Chen Miao casually asked how many five-to-seven-centimeter scorpions there were.
"About a hundred boxes."
A hundred boxes?
Five hundred per box meant fifty thousand in a hundred boxes, still seventy thousand short of what he needed for the third stage.
By that calculation, Chen Miao could spend two hundred thousand yuan on enough East Asian Scorpions to cultivate them to the third stage. That was much cheaper than the prices he had seen online.
But the problem was that this meant over two hundred boxes-more than half a breeding farm!
Moving them all to Tianmen Funeral Home would draw far too much attention.
So even if Chen Miao could afford the East Asian Scorpions, he had no way to buy so many at once.
Unless he cultivated them here, which would save him the trouble of moving them.
But if Chen Miao quietly wiped out over two hundred boxes of scorpions in a short time, who knew what ideas Shi Lang might get?
Suo Kun bought Emperor Scorpions in batches, and certainly from more than just this breeding farm. Otherwise, he could never have gathered enough.
If even Suo Kun was that cautious, Chen Miao had no reason to be conspicuous.
After some thought, Chen Miao decided against cultivating them to the third stage for now.
Perhaps he could buy this scorpion farm