Zhou Qi looked bewildered, then as if enlightened, his eyes filled with brilliance.
The new abilities brought by the Rank 3 Evolution Space were too exaggerated; not to mention the single enhancement slot for plants and animals, just the Talent Extraction Slot alone made Zhou Qi's heart pound with excitement.
Ignoring the late hour, Zhou Qi got up and summoned all his Dependents who had reached Rank 5, excluding the two Five-Ranked Army Ant Queens, to the greenhouse.
He began to ponder which talent would be most suitable for him.
Currently, the highest Rank talents were undoubtedly the Five-Ranked Army Ant Queen's Mental Power and Faith Crown, both five-star talents with strong developmental potential.
However, these two talents were best used in combination to maximize their effect, and he only had one Talent Extraction Slot at the moment.
"One-Star Talent: Ant Strength: Strength increased tenfold from the original base."
"One-Star Talent: Ant King Summon: Can summon 1000 Ants to fight for him."
"Two-Star Talent: Cockroach Body: Physique enhanced tenfold (recovery and stamina based on original foundation)."
"One-Star Talent: Elementary Defense Enhancement: Cuticle defense increased fivefold."
"Two-Star Talent: Blood Drain: Blood-sucking ability increased fivefold."
"One-Star Talent: Fast Movement: Short-distance movement speed increased fivefold."
"Three-Star Talent: Thought Imprint: Ants bred by the Army Ant Queen cannot escape her control, and she can use the Mental Network to imprint Thought Imprint on other species for control."
Dozens of faintly glowing talent slots flickered continuously on the light screen.
...
"Super Body Reproduction? Exclude that. How would I give birth?"
The thought of himself constantly having children, with everyone in the world eventually calling him 'father,' just popped into Zhou Qi's mind, and he found it perverse, quickly shaking his head to banish such an unfilial idea.
Ultimately, Zhou Qi's gaze settled on the two-star Cockroach Body and the one-star Ant Strength.
After a moment of contemplation, he finally decided that Cockroach Body was more suitable for him.
With so many Dependents, he wouldn't need to personally take action.
What's more, this was a tenfold increase in Physique! Zhou Qi couldn't even imagine how happy his future girlfriend would be!
No sooner said than done.
"Beep, congratulations to the host for transplanting the two-star Cockroach Body into your body. The Talent Extraction Slot is currently used up. You can spend 1 million Evolution Points to replace it.
Or upgrade to Rank 5 Evolution Space to gain another Talent Extraction Slot."
As soon as the prompt ended.
Zhou Qi felt a warmth spread throughout his body, and increasingly powerful warm currents surged from his abdomen to every corner of his body.
“Hoo-hoo,” Zhou Qi's whole body was like a cooked shrimp, and he began to exhale hot air.
Zhou Qi squatted on the ground, feeling like his body was on fire, with flames burning his blood vessels, meridians, and bones, even threatening to dry up his blood.
After a long while.
Zhou Qi lay spread-eagled on the ground, the ground soaked with sweat into a human shape, feeling completely drained.
He let out a deep breath; the heat from his abdomen had now subsided.
Zhou Qi got up and went to the duty room, turning on the shower to wash away the grime on his body.
He looked up at himself in the mirror.
At this moment, Zhou Qi was completely different from before; not only was his slightly chubby Physique now filled with complete muscle definition.
His original height of 1.76 meters had increased to 1.8 meters, and his skeletal frame was larger, more robust, and stronger.
His six-pack abs and chest muscles were like finely tempered steel, full of explosive power.
Even his face, which originally had a hint of baby fat, now appeared slightly gaunt; even athletes who had trained for many years would feel ashamed in comparison.
Zhou Qi felt surges of vitality flowing through his body, and he felt completely revitalized.
Cockroach Body primarily strengthened Zhou Qi's Physique, including stamina, recovery, etc., and while it provided an additional boost to physical strength, it was far greater than before.
Far ahead.
Zhou Qi got down, ready to try how many push-ups he could do with the Cockroach Body talent.
Before, Zhou Qi occasionally worked out and could do about 50 push-ups in one go.
Now with Cockroach Body, he did 100 in less than a minute, feeling as if it were nothing.
Two minutes...
Zhou Qi kept going for half an hour, his speed not slowing down at all, yet he showed no signs of fatigue, nor did a single drop of sweat fall. Only his breathing rate slightly increased.
Immediately, he opened the light screen.
Host: Zhou Qi
Race: Human Race
Gene: Ape Gene
Life Essence: Carbon-based life form
Talent:
Two-Star Talent: Cockroach Body: Physique increased tenfold (recovery and stamina based on original foundation, and slightly boosts self-strength).
One-Star Talent: Human Race Brain (very small chance to gain innovative ability)
Life Strength: 5.2 (Universal unified calculation of life form strength)
Evolution Points: 1070.
"This is the body that matches me," Zhou Qi thought with a slightly chuunibyou expression as he looked at the light screen. (He imagined that if his body talent could be a perfect chapter in a novel, it would be great.)
He continued to feel his body's strength, experiencing it until early morning, yet without a trace of sleepiness.
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October 15, 2016
Current Evolution Points: 4200.
Early in the morning, just as the sky was faintly brightening, Zhou Qi woke up and checked his phone; it was only 6 o'clock.
He had stayed up until 2 AM the night before, sleeping only 4 hours.
But Zhou Qi felt full of energy, like an old ox with endless vigor.
Mainly, he woke up early and realized he had missed a crucial part, which made Zhou Qi almost burst into tears.
He felt he had disgraced his colleagues who could dominate everything with their Golden Finger.
After breakfast, Zhou Ruhai herded a group of piglets from the nursery to several breeding pens.
The new piglets began the same Reincarnation.
Zhou Qi spent the entire morning preparing the feed for the piglets in all 6 breeding pens.
"I should have transplanted Faith Crown. I wanted to be a mage, but this damn Cockroach Body is pure hard labor," Zhou Qi couldn't help but regret it at this moment.
He only wanted to be a Dominator of the Zerg, strategizing from behind, yet he was working like an Army Ant every day.
In the afternoon, Zhou Qi came to the greenhouse.
Everything was still orderly; some of the Yellow Mealworms that had been cultivated for a few days had already turned into pupae.
After a few more days, when the pupae molted into beetles, they could start laying eggs.
Zhou Qi thought, maybe he should try strengthening a Yellow Mealworm; he had always just used them as feed and hadn't paid them much attention.
Now, on a whim, he thought he might as well try to strengthen one.
With that, he took a Yellow Mealworm out of the breeding box.
"Beep, consuming 0.5 Evolution Points, Yellow Mealworm evolves into Rank 1 Yellow Mealworm. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Elementary intimacy with Rank 1 Yellow Mealworm."
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