Ant-Powered Electricity: I Use Insects to Crush the Coal Barons

[Black-tech farming + exhilarating business success + extreme contrasts]

Two years after being reborn, Zhang Mayi lies flat and lives like a good-for-nothing, until a “ding” sounds in his head:

Volt Ant System successfully bound!

While others burn coal, I raise ants. While others lose money, I print it. One hundred million electromagnetic leafcutter ants feed on leaves and generate electricity. A hundred ants produce one kilowatt-hour a day, with zero cost, zero emissions, and zero pollution. Their battery life is steadier than a Nokia phone!

Coal prices skyrocketing? Who cares? My feed is fallen leaves. The power grid collapsing? Hilarious. My ants work all year round, around the clock, without even breaking a sweat. Energy storage running short? The System gives me a “super battery” for free, with a monthly loss of just 1 percent. It leaves the world's cutting-edge tech in the dust.

From a bankrupt power plant to an electricity empire, from coal bosses pushing him around to making the power bureau change careers overnight:

“Tenfold compensation for an outage?” “Right. I can afford it, because the power won't go out.”

When factories across the city are begging him for electricity, the coal bosses who once mocked him for “generating power with ants” are crouched in a corner counting ants. Can these things really eat their way into making electricity?

[Real ant-powered electricity. Tenfold refund if fake. Industry rivals welcome to report me. It's not like you can build it anyway.]