Zhou Qi felt dizzy and disoriented, as if his worldview had been profoundly shaken. It took him a while to recover.
“I should have thought of this when I first got the Evolution Space,” Zhou Qi muttered to himself, looking at the livestream that had been directly banned.
“The world behind the Antarctic Ice Wall,” Zhou Qi murmured, the confusion in his eyes gradually turning into determination.
“I have the Evolution Space; I’ll go there and experience it sooner or later.”
With that, Zhou Qi got up, checked on his dependents, patrolled the various breeding rooms, and then returned to the duty room to sleep.
The next day, at dawn, Zhou Qi, who was sound asleep, was woken up by Zhou Haidong, who told him to go home for breakfast.
The September sun, carrying a hint of dryness, shone in through the duty room window.
Zhou Qi rubbed his eyes and climbed out of bed.
Hearing Zhou Haidong’s calls from outside, he responded, then got up, washed up, and went home for a meal.
After eating, Zhou Qi returned to the breeding farm and finally had time to look at the light screen.
Current Evolution Points: 117.5
“Wow, that’s a lot,” Zhou Qi said, opening the light screen’s record.
Amidst the dense records of killing various small insects, one entry suddenly caught his eye.
“Ding! Your dependent, the Five-Tier Mosquito, has gained 10 Evolution Points by sucking blood.”
“Sucking blood can also earn Evolution Points?” Zhou Qi’s mind sparked when he saw this.
He immediately had the Five-Tier Mosquito summon its kin, and soon dozens of mosquitoes gathered into a dense mass the size of a human head.
The buzzing sound was incessant.
Zhou Qi extended his hand, and a few mosquitoes landed on it.
With a thought,
the 9 mosquitoes on his hand were enveloped in red light. Evolution Points continuously decreased, and the mosquitoes’ bodies steadily grew larger.
“Ding! Consumed 0.2… 3.2 Evolution Points. The mosquito has evolved into a Five-Tier Mosquito. Congratulations, Host, you have gained the Five-Tier Mosquito’s sworn allegiance.”
…
In a moment, all 9 mosquitoes were strengthened into Five-Tier Mosquitoes. The 10 Five-Tier Mosquitoes gathered together in a dense swarm.
The 9 Five-Tier Mosquitoes consumed a total of 55.8 Evolution Points, leaving a little over 60 remaining.
Zhou Qi immediately gave the order for these 10 Five-Tier Mosquitoes to assemble an army and search for animals nearby to suck blood.
A Level 1 Evolution Space can only collect territory within a 1-kilometer radius centered on the Host.
He still needed to upgrade to a Level 2 Evolution Space as soon as possible, but just thinking about needing to accumulate 10,000 Evolution Points made Zhou Qi’s head ache.
After arranging the Five-Tier Mosquitoes, Zhou Qi went to the breeding room and finished all the work for the pig farm.
He then lay down on a lounge chair in the yard and started browsing short videos on his phone.
Zhou Qi thought about watching the livestream yesterday and began searching for Antarctic Weirdo. The result showed that the account had been blocked!
He clicked on videos recorded and uploaded by people who watched the livestream yesterday, but all the comments claimed that the Antarctic Weirdo’s livestream was a script, specifically designed to attract fans and generate buzz.
Moreover, these videos were also quickly blocked.
“The official response is too fast,” Zhou Qi thought, seeing all the debunking.
He, however, didn’t believe any of it; instead, it further solidified his desire to go beyond the Antarctic Ice Wall.
As someone who grew up watching explanations about aliens, water monsters, and Bigfoot, Zhou Qi felt that seeing them with his own eyes would truly make his life complete.
While scrolling through videos, Zhou Qi pondered how to maximize the effectiveness of the Evolution Space in the future.
Should he stop strengthening other dependents and prioritize accumulating Evolution Points to upgrade the Evolution Space?
Or should he strengthen more dependents first to earn Evolution Points faster?
“Only 10 of the same species can be strengthened; strengthening more wouldn’t be very useful,” Zhou Qi thought, frowning and scratching his hair.
“That’s right, the Ant Queen is also an insect! I’ll just strengthen the Ant Queen to breed other ants,” Zhou Qi’s mind lit up.
No sooner said than done, Zhou Qi immediately used the Evolution Space to command the 10 Five-Tier Ants to capture a live Ant Queen and bring it back.
On the other side,
in a dark corner of Zhou Qi’s pig farm, emitting a pungent odor,
a fierce battle in the microscopic world was quietly unfolding as Zhou Qi’s command was issued.
The 10 Five-Tier Ants stood majestically at the front of the formation.
Their bodies were more than ten times larger than ordinary ants, exuding a hard, metallic luster. Their antennae rapidly twitched, as if planning a precise battle strategy.
Behind them, ten thousand ants swarmed densely, like a surging black tide, restless and numerous.
Not far away was their target—a massive ant nest.
Around the ant nest, worker ants scurried busily, and soldier ants patrolled vigilantly.
The battle erupted instantly. The ordinary ants, like a surging black tide, roared as they charged towards the ant nest.
They tangled with the defending soldier ants, creating a chaotic scene.
The 10 Five-Tier Ants, relying on their agile movements and powerful strength, quickly breached the defenses, heading straight into the depths of the ant nest like a Dragon.
Soldier ants guarding the Ant Queen were injured if brushed by a Five-Tier Ant, and died if touched.
After a fierce melee, one Five-Tier Ant finally discovered the Ant Queen hidden deep inside.
It flashed its body, and the few guards that came to block it were crushed by its thick front mandibles.
The other guards tried to clamp onto the Five-Tier Ant’s leg but found it to be like metal, completely impenetrable.
The Five-Tier Ant instantly subdued the Ant Queen and dragged her out of the ant nest.
The battle ended, and the corner of the pig farm returned to peace, only the “owner” of the ant nest had quietly changed.
On this side,
Zhou Qi was scrolling on his phone when he sensed a dependent rapidly approaching him, so he got up to check.
At his feet, a Five-Tier Ant was holding a large-bodied Ant Queen with its front mandibles, a creature no less impressive than the already strengthened Five-Tier Ants.
“In ancient times, Guan Erye warmed wine and beheaded Hua Xiong; today, a Five-Tier Ant captures an Ant Queen in the blink of an eye.”
Zhou Qi looked at the Ant Queen, which had been delivered to him by the Five-Tier Ant not long after he gave the command, and couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.
Without another word, Zhou Qi pointed his finger at the Ant Queen and began to prepare for strengthening.
“Ding! Detected a Queen-level life form. At this stage, only one Queen of the same species can be strengthened at a time.”
“Ding! Consumed 1 Evolution Point. The Ant Queen has evolved into a First-Tier Ant Queen. Congratulations, Host, you have gained Elementary intimacy with the First-Tier Ant Queen.”
“Ding! Consumed 10 Evolution Points. The Ant Queen has evolved into a Second-Tier Ant Queen. Congratulations, Host, you have gained Advanced intimacy with the Second-Tier Ant Queen.”
“Ding! Evolution Points are insufficient.”
Zhou Qi stared at the Evolution Points increasing tenfold and was stunned.
“Third-Tier requires 100, Fourth-Tier requires 1,000, and Fifth-Tier will be 10,000!”
“I want to see what this Second-Tier Ant Queen looks like.”