Chapter 3: Brother is Going to Become a Mosquito Breeder

Next, he decisively went to the market and bought a fish and a chicken.

He didn't buy these to eat, but to try to collect more blood essence.

Half an hour later, Li Feng was disappointed. He suddenly realized that he still had many things to learn about his ability to collect blood essence, and the mysterious voice in his head didn't give him any more hints.

"Killing fish and chickens doesn't yield blood essence? Why? Can I only kill small insects? Or is it because my current permission level isn't high enough, so I can only start from the basics?"

Li Feng had discovered a great opportunity to turn his life around, and he wasn't about to give up so easily.

If he could only kill small insects, then mosquitoes and flies would be his best choice for collecting blood essence.

The reason was simple: these annoying creatures were numerous.

For the entire afternoon, Li Feng racked his brain trying to figure out how to collect more blood essence. Fortunately, it wasn't the ancient times when people had to work in isolation. This was the age of the internet and information explosion.

He opened his repaired laptop, connected to the internet, and after a moment's thought, posted the same question on various major forums.

"If in real life, you had the ability to gain experience points by killing small insects, how would you quickly level up?"

Even though he posted based on his actual situation, he was cautious and modified the details, changing the ability to collect blood essence into leveling up by killing monsters.

In less than two hours, when Li Feng opened his post, he was surprised to see that quite a few people had replied.

First floor: "OP, you're sick, you need help!"

"Damn, just pure spam, no useful suggestions at all." Li Feng rubbed his forehead, feeling an endless headache.

In the past, he had also spammed forums, but now that he was on the receiving end, he found it extremely annoying.

Second floor: "Go to a mental hospital, it's faster than leveling up by killing insects..."

Third floor: "What's going on? Is the OP a student? Another one misled by online games, tragic."

Several useless replies made Li Feng's mood sink, but fortunately, on the fourth floor, a kind-hearted person finally gave a direct answer.

Fourth floor: "Can you only kill small insects? If so, then kill ants, mosquitoes, and flies. Find an ant nest, burn it, and you'll get a lot of experience, hahaha."

"Damn, this guy is violent and cruel, but I like it."

Fifth floor: "The fourth floor's suggestion isn't bad, but it's a bit crude. If I could gain experience by killing insects in real life, I'd raise a bunch of mosquitoes, dumbass."

Raising other small animals might be difficult, but raising mosquitoes is easy. As long as you raise them for a while, you'll have as many as you want.

...

Seeing the fifth floor's suggestion, Li Feng couldn't sit still. "Damn, this guy is a genius, a real genius. Why didn't I think of it before?"

Killing mosquitoes isn't hard; just raise a bunch and then kill them. With their reproductive rate, you can have as many as you want. Damn, this is going to be big.

Moreover, mosquitoes have incredible survival and reproductive abilities. Every year, health departments often spray insecticides to control them, but who can say that the number of mosquitoes has ever decreased?

"There's no doubt about it, I'm going to raise mosquitoes. I'm going to become a professional mosquito breeder."

At this thought, Li Feng felt like he had been injected with adrenaline, his whole body becoming uncontrollably excited.

After a while, his excitement gradually cooled down. Calming down, Li Feng suddenly realized that raising mosquitoes wasn't as simple as he thought.

The problem wasn't in the process of raising mosquitoes, but in the necessary facilities and environment.

Well, the simplest issue was that he needed an independent room. Otherwise, if others saw, they might think he was crazy, and he could even be taken away by the authorities.

Thinking about the room, Li Feng felt a pang of bitterness. Although Qin City wasn't a first-tier city, as a coastal city, its housing prices weren't cheap. Even renting a place would cost a significant amount.

He calculated his total money, which was 2,365 yuan.

Damn, this was mostly the 2,000 yuan left by Qin Ming before he left, but 2,000 yuan wasn't enough to rent a place.

Even for a cheap 900 yuan one-bedroom apartment, with a three-month deposit and one month's rent, it would cost nearly 4,000 yuan.

"A penny can indeed trouble a hero." Li Feng couldn't help but feel a headache.

But soon, he suddenly froze, staring at the robust ant he had raised. A crazy idea sprang to mind.

Although he didn't know what would happen if he continued to input more blood essence into this ant, it was clear that under his current conditions, it wasn't worth spending blood essence to raise an ant.

The reason was simple: no matter how big the ant grew, it couldn't change his financial situation.

But, but... what if he used the blood essence to raise a cricket? How much would a strong cricket be worth?

Suddenly, Li Feng had an epiphany!

If before he was just excited about having a unique ability, now he had discovered the greatest hope in his life.

Unconsciously, he had found a path to wealth. And this was just one example he could think of.

Damn, I'm going to raise crickets.

Li Feng sat up and quickly searched online for the value of crickets.

Ordinary crickets weren't worth much; a trip to the mountains and some simple methods could get you plenty.

But the value of fighting crickets was impressive!

Fighting crickets are a type of cricket, but they are stronger and are specifically raised for fighting. A well-trained fighting cricket with a strong fighting spirit could be worth over a thousand yuan.

If it was a better fighter, it could be worth several thousand yuan. The best fighting cricket kings could be worth tens of thousands of yuan, and people would still fight to get them.

"Unbelievable."

Seeing this, Li Feng couldn't stay calm. He forced himself to slowly calm down.

What he needed to do now wasn't to raise fighting crickets, but to prove whether his blood essence could raise crickets.

After all, crickets were much larger than ants, and he needed to know how much blood essence he could collect.

Based on his experiments in Yellow Stone Park, the amount of blood essence he could collect depended on the size of the insect he killed.

For example, the smallest ant yielded only 0.03 units of blood essence, while a mosquito yielded 0.1 units.

A ladybug yielded 0.3 units, and a nearly centimeter-long caterpillar yielded 0.8 units.

Based on this, a cricket would likely yield more than 1 unit of blood essence.

"Stop thinking, action is better than words. I hope this test will be successful." Li Feng shook his head. With only four days left before he had to leave school and no job pressure, he could only pin his hopes on successfully raising crickets.

It was still midday, and he was back in Yellow Stone Park. This time, he was quite lucky. He soon found several nameless caterpillars on tree trunks and in grass piles. Their plump bodies suggested they would yield a good amount of blood essence.

Sure enough, after killing several ugly caterpillars, he successfully collected nearly 5 units of blood essence.

Next, Li Feng targeted larger insects. After a few hours, he had a full harvest.

"Already 30 units of blood essence." Thirty units of blood essence were more than enough to raise an ant once. If he used it only for raising ants, Li Feng couldn't imagine what kind of monster his ant king would become after 30 feedings.