Chapter 624: Moth Seed
Whether it's printing, math journals, or even printing magic scrolls, someone has temporarily thrown it aside. If we don't put the silk thing on the agenda, there will be no way to live in the new home in the Holy City.
There is a saying in my hometown that three women play a play. It's as if this kind of creature that someone can never figure out just gets together and things are going to go badly. But when they burst out with vitality and do things vigorously, they still make people amazed.
Just like now, almost all kinds of moths within a radius of 100 kilometers in the holy city of Estali have been caught by them in at least five groups of male and female groups and raised them in just five or six days. There are ordinary insects, as well as moths that are born with magical powers.
The former is okay, although the ordinary creatures of the mysterious land are more ferocious than the same species on the earth, but no matter how fierce the insect is 'moth', as long as they do not carry any bacteria or viruses on their bodies, it is only the level of flies and mosquitoes. Even if you look at it a little higher, it's a bee at most.
But the latter will pose a threat to ordinary people. No matter how docile a creature is, as long as it is born with magical powers, sometimes it is not necessarily deliberately aimed at or treats people as prey, but inadvertent actions can also cause trouble to people. It's like if someone is sleeping next to an elephant, maybe the elephant rolls over, and the person has to say goodbye in his sleep.
Not to mention the moths found by the three women themselves or commissioned by the adventurers, but there are many carnivorous, or at least omnivorous. As long as the creature can eat meat, it itself enters the sequence of hunters. Other creatures that are weaker in their eyes become targets for their hunting. As long as such creatures are still wild, they are not so easy to raise.
But this situation is not strictly speaking a problem in this family. Because as long as living beings are wild, they will obey instinct, and the instinct of living things is to avoid the strong and weaken. In this home of two top creatures in the mysterious land, a humanized black dragon and a lich that no longer looks like a lich, other magical beasts can only flee within their territory, and if they can't escape, they will obediently lie on their stomachs.
It is said that a group of adventurers caught a rather rare golden moth. A moth alone is bigger than the basketball someone played before they crossed over. A strong wind that flutters its wings will blow people down, the scales on their bodies will paralyze people with poison, and the magical talent that comes with it can confuse people's minds in the dark night. Not surprisingly, this one eats meat.
The team of adventurers who caught this moth injured many people, and some of them were even dying. Fen happily treated all their injuries and paid the agreed payment.
Because catching monsters alive is a very difficult condition. For most of the work in this area, the adventurer is entrusted with collecting the required targets. The rest is left in the wild and left to grow and multiply. No one domesticates Warcraft in order to collect something from each other for a fixed period of time. The main reason, of course, is the old problem, that Warcraft is wild and untamable.
But the golden moth came into this house, of course, obediently nesting. Whether it's a human or a slightly intelligent monster, anyone who is constantly stared at by a black dragon who switches between dragon and human form from time to time, and occasionally drools, will collapse and be on the verge of despair. If he could escape, he would have escaped a long time ago, but he was bound by the lich's magic array.
Not only this golden moth, but all the captured moth species, Fen roughly classified, putting the same species in the same enchantment. The whole family is a group of Dongguan and Xiguan.
After the adults, those who no longer eat are better said, and they are just kept closed, and some of them lay eggs directly in the corner or on the floor, and then die. Those who will continue to eat will start killing each other and eating the corpses of their own kind.
To put it simply, the three women quickly collected a bunch of moth seeds in a very short period of time. But someone was busy with printing and didn't make any follow-up plans, so they made a mess of the whole house. Mathematics journals have finally been published, and the search for silkworm seeds must be put on track as soon as possible.
On Earth, there is a silkworm baby in the curriculum of a certain primary school that travels through the public, and observes their life's work. However, everyone is a primary school student, and there are many silkworms who die in silkworms, and few people can raise silkworms to the point of spinning silk and cocooning. The point is that since the time of the Yellow Emperor, the silkworm seed has long been fixed, and no one thinks about why the silk spit out by this silkworm is used, without considering the larvae of other moth species.
But in the dizzy, if you start from scratch, you have to think about everything. Especially if you want silk or finished silk to be magical, you definitely need a more special silkworm species. That's why I told Harumi to collect all kinds of moths, hoping to find suitable silkworm seeds.
Before looking for it, of course, you must first find a way to manage the moths that occupy all corners of the home. It's definitely a bad idea to keep together, the same kind will eat each other, and no one can say what will happen to different kinds.
Because Uzov Gantya went out to develop a technical guild, the factory that was originally used to make toilets for craftsmen on the west side of the courtyard actually did not take long to become idle. The house that had been built was tidied up and a compartment was set up, just enough for the moths that had been collected.
Those moth species that only mate after the adults and do not eat are easy to deal with. In the days since they were captured, many moths have mated and laid eggs, and after ending their life's mission, they have passed away with honor.
Looking at a pile of hundreds or thousands of eggs, some moth species still have adults, some do not. Someone had to use their pre-crossing experience to collect mulberry trees, and when they found these moth species, the fresh leaves of nearby trees were spread in the compartment full of insect eggs or adults about to lay eggs.
As for the moth species that need to be eaten after becoming an adult, they are all moths that are born with magical powers. Except for the Golden Demon Moth, the other moth species are not small. But compared to the carnivorous animals that belong to hunters, the insect-based magic moth is still small. To put it simply, the amount of food eaten is not much.
First of all, Lin paired male and female, and only raised one pair in a compartment. The same kind of magic moth is divided into three types of cultivation: pure meat, omnivorous, and vegan. There are also a variety of options available for each type of food. Even in the case of meat, there is a distinction between fresh and rotten.
When everything is sorted out, the next thing is to take care of, observe, and record. This job, Harumi took the initiative to accept without thinking about it. Although it is not to take care of flowers and plants, it is interesting for her to take care of some moths.
However, the point of the record is not to be smeared like an elementary school student's biological observation diary. Adult moth species that can eat should record their food preference tendency, estimate the amount of food they eat, and whether there are obvious differences and occurrence characteristics during estrus, mating and oviposition periods.
In the case of larvae, of course, similar things should be recorded, and another important point is the growth period, that is, the interval between each molt. and how much time it takes from the start of hatching to the cocooning.
In terms of care, because it is not a one-to-one form of care, it is necessary to think of some convenient ways that can be processed in large quantities. For example, the cleaning of manure.
Although it doesn't seem to matter if it is not cleaned, considering the survival rate and whether it will affect the quality of the final cocoon, a guy with a habit of cleanliness and a pursuit of perfection asks the hard-pressed apprentice to clean it up every day.
The blonde girl who received the instructions did not stupidly clean up the larval feces with her hands every day. After following someone for so long, she at least knew how to use her brain, and after observing the activities of the larvae for the first few days, instead of using any rough method to concentrate on the countless small black dots, she added a woven net to the table where the larvae were raised.
Anyway, the larvae basically live on the leaves and eat desperately whenever they want. After eating to a certain extent, the skin will be molted, and after molting the skin for a period of time, it will start to eat again. Even if you empty one leaf, it is not difficult to follow the network cable to the next leaf.
As long as the size of the mesh is controlled just right, the feces can fall directly down, and the other parts are supported above the net. At the bottom of the net, you only need to make a drawer-like collection box, take it out and pour it regularly, and you can keep the cultivation table clean.
By the time Harumi's work was on track and larvae began to hatch, in addition to Kaya's occasional help in taking care of it, someone's subsequent machine production would also start to follow. The first machine to be made was a silk reeling machine.
The process of silk reeling includes cocoon baking, cocoon peeling, cocoon selection, cocoon boiling, silk reeling, refining and other steps. The earth's modern silk reeling machine, someone has only seen the general appearance from the picture, and how the internal structure is completely dark.
I was able to make a Manroland printing press before because I had really seen and touched the entity. It's a pity that when I was a child, there was no one in the vicinity of my home who opened a textile factory. There is no hope of going directly to a machine of this level, but the structure of the original silk reeling machine is not complicated, and it is not too difficult to motivate it.
The hard part is that it is enchanted at the stage of reeling.
Generally, magic props or equipment are enchanted, and they are processed after completion, adding various magic materials to add magic effects to the items. Maybe the weaving can also add the design of the magic array runes in the weaving process to make the weaving produce a magical effect.
However, there is a congenital flaw in this practice, that is, when the integrity of the magic circle is destroyed, the magical effect of the item will disappear. This is also the mage of the Lost Land, passionately pursuing the kind of metal equipment that does not hinder the ability to cast spells and perceive it. Because in combat, even if the enchantment disappears, the metal still provides some of the most basic defense, instead of directly zeroing.
However, the successful experience of making the unique ring and the nineteen rings that accompanied it made Lin think about whether he could add the magic he wanted to attach to the silk thread at the stage of silk reeling. Then the silk thread, which already has a magical effect, can be woven into the style you want at will, instead of wearing a dress full of runes.
It is conceivable that the silk thread carrier that can carry magic in this way must have a considerable degree of tolerance and resilience of magical power.
Not just any thread can be so enchanted. Just like someone's experiment before making a ring, ordinary metal used the same method of enchanting and drawing wire, and the result was a heroic explosion.
Even if you can successfully enchant it, how many spells can you attach to it? Not to mention anything else, the light is the shuttle of the flashing technique through various dimensions, and if it is a protective magic that can resist the erosion of alien energy, it is not a lightweight magic.
If all this is to be successful, it depends on the strength of the moth seed in front of you.