Chapter 57 Activation
Liu Xingquan was in a good mood.
He uncorked the bottle and pulled out the latest message in the bottle.
The protagonists of the letter, "I" and Tita, also ushered in a new turning point in their lives. Tita decided to try a new way to make money.
He sold all his valuable things, added my savings and invested them into a small greenhouse, and started to breed a kind of worms. This kind of worm is a kind of raw material for medicine that is in short supply in the black market, and Tita has high hopes for it.
The worms are extremely demanding on temperature and humidity, so Titta's money goes into air conditioning and humidifiers. They only eat a type of keel fungus that grows on rotting wood.
Every day, Tita and I set up a small room and filled it with rotten wood to cultivate dragon bone fungus.
The worms are growing well and have a strong appetite. They can eat five or six boxes of dragon bone mushrooms a day. They are getting bigger and bigger. They can be sold after a few cycles. Judging from the average purchase price of worms on the market, Tita and "I" will have a pleasant profit.
"I" ended the letter by saying that everything is moving in a good direction now, and maybe one day Tita's dream will really come true.
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"Xingquan, what are you happy about?" Luo Qingxi asked her son.
"My pen pal wrote something ," Liu Xingquan said, and then he added, "Yan Zhen said my mother's wontons are delicious, and he will come often in the future."
Xiao Zhen stared at An Tianxin in the culture container.
An Tianxin's brain has been completely reconstructed and restored, but he doesn't look happy.
"If one day you wake up and find that your body is incomplete and only your head is intact, you will not be happy." An Tianxin's head in the container floated to the surface and said viciously.
Today, An Tianxin's head has basically recovered, and even the hair on his head has grown more luxuriantly than before. Unfortunately, the only thing that is left is his head. His body is separated from his head, and the thin spinal nerves are floating in the water. Under the unformed bones, the internal organs are exposed, the blood vessels are constantly pulsating, and some digestive tracts are floating up and down in the nutrient solution with the waves. To be honest, this is not a beautiful scene.
"Be patient, you are recovering very quickly."
"Patience? Try to imagine how it feels like to have only your head intact soaked in nutrient solution?" An Tianxin complained.
"If you feel unwell, I can give you sleeping pills and you won't wake up until your body recovers." Just like my classmate Wei Jingjing.
"Not now." An Tianxin's eyes rolled, "Where's that damn Pu Ni monster?"
"I was just going to say it's healing slower than you are."
The source of this tragedy, the Pu Mud Monster, has now only been reorganized by about one-tenth, and has been silent since it condensed into a light brown gel core a week ago.
"It's too slow." Xiao Zhen said, "My classmate Wei Jingjing recovered faster than it."
An Tianxin turned his head towards the culture container of the Pu Ni monster and said, "It is in a dormant state. You must activate it."
"activation?"
"Yes. The fact that the human girl and I are reassembling faster than it is only temporary." An Tianxin said, "If the Pu Ni monster remains dormant, the reassembly of my body and that of the girl will stagnate soon."
"ah?"
"When I took the job of settling the Pu Mud Monster, I looked up relevant information for fear of being bitten. If you are unfortunately decomposed into liquid by it, your life will not be in danger, but if the Pu Mud Monster loses its vitality, it will be very difficult to reassemble the victim. I forgot the specific principle, but it seems that whether it is decomposition or reassembly is determined by its factor vitality."
"..." Xiao Zhen came to the container and knocked on the outer wall. The core gel in the nutrient solution shook with the waves of the liquid, but there was no sign of waking up.
"How can I wake it up?"
"I don't know. Maybe you have to stew it in a pot." An Tianxin said viciously.
“…”
Captain Ban came in and said he knew how to wake the Pu Mud Monster up.
It is very simple to activate the Pu Ni monster, all you need to do is feed it.
"Now that An Tianxin mentioned that, I remember it." The chicken flapped its wings proudly. "It just needs a special kind of food."
“Is it slime mold?”
"No, slime mold is just its favorite snack. Its indispensable staple food is—" The chicken used its claws to open the floating screen, "This!"
Xiao Zhen stared at the screen in silence.
"It's a black cockroach native to the Wide Area Star Region. It's rich in trace elements that the Pu Ni monsters need."
"..." Xiao Zhen was silent for a while and said, "This is a cockroach."
“They just look alike.”
"No, it's the same thing no matter how I look at it."
"It's a black cockroach!" Chicken raised his voice, "If you want the mud monster to wake up, you have to give it this."
"Are you sure you don't want to eat it?"
"Don't insult my host's taste. Chicken's diet does not include cockroaches!"
"So do I have to get some alien cockroaches to wake this guy up?"
“It seems that this is the only way at the moment.”
"Black cockroach?" Boss Han on the screen said with a smile, "I have a way to get some, but there is a problem. This stuff can only be sold wholesale."
“What is the minimum wholesale quantity?”
"The minimum batch size is 10,000 eggs."
“Why would I buy 10,000 cockroach eggs to take home??”
"Sorry, this is the minimum order quantity for black cockroaches."
Looking at the black-hearted businessman on the screen, Xiao Zhen pointed out that it was because of the businessman's carelessness that the Pu Ni monster caused such an incident. Boss Han should also bear part of the responsibility for the aftermath. If Boss Han wants to shirk responsibility again, he will ask the Safety Committee to arbitrate, and no one will have an easy time.
After a lot of argument, Mr. Han reluctantly agreed to a 40% discount, but the minimum order quantity was still 10,000 eggs, because there were only so many eggs in the black cockroach egg pod and they could not be opened.
That afternoon, Boss Han’s customer service staff came to his door carrying a box of black cockroach egg pods.
"Reality is hell." Xiao Zhen whispered.
Mr. Cat asked him, "What are you talking about?"
"A bunch of rats brought tens of thousands of cockroach eggs to my door, and I had to pay for them. What else could this be but hell?"
“…”
In order to awaken the damned mud monster, Xiao Zhen had to open up a temporary black cockroach ranch in his room. He believed that no matter whether it was An Yuan or Aunt Li, if they knew that he was hatching tens of thousands of alien cockroaches at home, they would definitely burn him to death on the spot without any explanation.
The clay people built a greenhouse box, spread fine sand on the bottom, and then carried the egg pods in. Under Xiaozhen's command, they built a temperature controller and lighting device, and the black cockroaches officially began to hatch.
The black cockroach hatched very quickly. In less than a day, the tiny, light-colored larvae crawled out of the eggshell. The clay people scattered some rice grains, and the tiny larvae swarmed over and ate the rice grains.
Xiao Zhen looked gloomily at his cockroach ranch.
Mr. Cat said: "The larvae of the black cockroach don't look bad at all."
Xiao Zhen said softly, "Really?"
"You look a little scary."
"Oh?" Xiao Zhen whispered, "I was just thinking whether I should burn the ranch or throw it directly into the grinder after the mud monster wakes up."
The black cockroaches grow very fast. In less than a week, they grow to the size of half a finger. They look very smart. Whenever the clay people enter the greenhouse to clean and spread feed, these black cockroaches will spontaneously surround the clay people, waiting for their gifts.
Seven days later, the clay men captured the ten strongest black cockroaches and carried them out. The other black cockroaches seemed to be in good spirits, and only ran around in panic at first because of the men's capture. After the capture was over, they calmed down. In their eyes, the angels' gifts came at a price, and it was normal to offer a little sacrifice.
Xiao Zhen didn't know how to feed the Pu Ni monster, so he simply threw ten black cockroaches into the culture container. The ten black cockroaches struggled frantically in the nutrient solution. The originally stagnant light brown gel suddenly moved, and countless light-colored slender tentacles burst out from it , accurately wrapping around the black cockroaches. After only a few seconds, the black cockroaches fell into a coma and stopped struggling.
A small hole appeared at the core of the gel, and the tentacles threw the black cockroach into it, and the hole closed. Through the semi-transparent gel, the black cockroach could be vaguely seen inside. It was slowly digesting them.
On the tenth day, the Pu Ni monster woke up, and the first thing it said was: "I want Ren Anzhi's autograph."
Xiaozhen thought it was a good idea to stew it in a pot as suggested by An Tianxin.
