Farmers quickly sprang into action, gleefully heading to the Annan Insect Farm to collect a batch of larvae, leveraging their Annan Country citizenship, and then carefully bringing them home for cultivation.
Others chose to catch insects in the wild, traversing mountains and fields, meticulously searching for insects that met the breeding requirements. To earn more money, many even involved their entire families, with elders and children helping to search, while the younger generation focused on catching and breeding.
In a remote village, Ah Qiang's family was a typical example. Ah Qiang originally barely made ends meet with a few small plots of land, living in extreme poverty.
After learning about the insect farming policy, he and his wife discussed it and decided to give it a try. They brought their children to the Annan Insect Farm, where they received Yellow Mealworms larvae and a batch of feed.
Upon returning home, the family meticulously cared for these larvae according to the breeding manual provided by the insect farm.
Every day, they carefully fed the Yellow Mealworms a diet mixed with special feed, constantly monitoring the temperature and humidity inside the breeding boxes.
Their child was also very sensible, proactively helping to clean the breeding boxes after school. Watching these small insects grow day by day filled the family with anticipation.
As time passed, the scale of Annan Country's insect farming industry grew larger and larger.
The Annan Insect Farm's acquisition volume also continuously increased. To ensure the efficiency and quality of acquisitions, the insect farm continuously expanded its scale, added more acquisition points, and trained a large number of professional acquisition personnel.
These acquisition personnel went deep into various villages and towns, providing convenience to the farmers.
Zhou Qi was very satisfied after receiving the good news about the insect farm from Wang Yufei.
However, he knew that this was just one step in his vast plan. He was well aware that behind this seemingly prosperous facade, there were many potential dangers and challenges.
The three major forces of the Geocentric World, the Iron-Blood World, and the unknown forces behind the Antarctic Space Rift, could all pose a threat to his development. Therefore, he highly valued every step of his development plan.
Now, with the continuous expansion of breeding scale at places like the White Snake Mountain Insect Farm and the Annan Insect Farm, the Evolution Points obtainable daily were approaching ten billion.
Under Zhou Qi's meticulous management, insects like Yellow Mealworms and cockroaches bred faster and faster under the dual effect of special feed and the evolution origin point, and the Evolution Points income also rose accordingly.
Moreover, as time went on, various insect farms continuously optimized breeding techniques and explored new breeding varieties, and the amount of Evolution Points obtained continued to climb. This was undoubtedly a major Breakthrough for Zhou Qi's force development.
May 1, 2017
Current Evolution Points: 1 Trillion
The next day, Zhou Qi, as usual, stared intently at the light screen, his eyes full of anticipation.
As time passed minute by minute, the Evolution Points number slowly flickered under his gaze, finally breaking through the trillion mark.
In an instant, a crisp notification sound rang out from the light screen: "Evolution Points have exceeded one trillion. You can choose two out of the following three options:
1. Add one Talent Extraction Slot
2. Add two Plant and Animal Enhancement Slots each
3. One Trillion Evolution Points."
Zhou Qi frowned slightly, falling into a brief contemplation.
One trillion Evolution Points were certainly tempting, allowing him to immediately strengthen many of his dependents, but from a long-term development perspective, the addition of the Talent Extraction Slot and Plant and Animal Enhancement Slots could bring him more unknown possibilities and broader development space.
After a moment of hesitation, he firmly chose the Talent Extraction Slot and the Plant and Animal Enhancement Slots.
Instantly, Zhou Qi felt his connection with the Evolution Space deepen a few more points.
He opened the interface to check and found that the Talent Extraction Slots had become 6, and the Plant and Animal Enhancement Slots had also increased to 10. This change filled him with excitement and anticipation, as if a door to greater power was slowly opening.
Zhou Qi thought for a moment and then used the newly acquired Talent Extraction Slot to extract the Five煞 Insect Soldiers' primary source ability.
As the extraction command was given, he felt a strange Creep within his body, as if a mysterious force was reshaping his physical structure.
Soon, in his perception, a pale blue organ slowly grew within his body. This organ was like an energy hub, connecting to his limbs and bones.
In an instant, pale blue Qi flowed along his meridians. Wherever it went, Zhou Qi felt a tingling and powerful sensation. Every inch of his muscle and every meridian seemed to be reawakened, full of vitality and vigor.
Zhou Qi could not suppress his curiosity and excitement. He extended his right hand and slowly opened his palm.
The pale blue energy quickly converged from all parts of his body, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, surging towards his hand.
Soon, an apple-sized pale blue light cluster formed in his palm. The light flowed within the cluster, containing astonishing energy. Zhou Qi exerted a slight force, and the light cluster instantly shot out, transforming into an energy wave that rushed forward at an extremely fast speed.
In the blink of an eye, the energy wave shot over a hundred meters, accurately hitting the ground. Accompanied by a dull roar, a bathtub-sized pit was instantly blasted into the ground. The soil at the edge of the pit was blown back, and the surrounding dust rose like smoke.
Looking at the results before him, Zhou Qi was pleasantly surprised.
He could clearly feel that this newly formed organ was not only continuously enhancing his physical fitness but also, as his physical fitness improved, the energy contained within the organ was constantly strengthening.
This was like a virtuous cycle, making his strength continuously climb as if he were stepping on his own foot.
He tried to condense energy again. This time, the light cluster was larger, and its light was even more dazzling. He controlled this energy in his hand, feeling its immense power, and thought to himself: If used in combat, this power would surely have unexpected effects.
Amidst his excitement, Zhou Qi did not forget the key to improving his strength—Evolution Points.
Now that his Evolution Points had exceeded one trillion, it was time to prepare to continue strengthening the twelfth-order Ant Queen. However, with the Ant Queen's continuously increasing size, the White Snake Mountain Underground Base was slowly becoming unable to accommodate her.
Zhou Qi thought that he still needed to transfer the Ant Queen to the Geocentric Base. After a brief thought, Zhou Qi directly tried to upgrade the Evolution Space.
He wanted to see if the area of space teleportation could be expanded after the upgrade.
"Beep, congratulations Host for consuming 9 billion Evolution Points (90%), Evolution Space has been upgraded to Level 11 Evolution Space, newly added: one Plant and Animal Enhancement Slot each, one evolution origin point."
Zhou Qi immediately opened the Evolution Space and found that the area within the space had expanded dramatically, now reaching a hundred meters in circumference, a full ten times larger than before the upgrade.