Printing, mathematical journals, and even printing magic scrolls were all temporarily put aside by someone. If the silk matter is not put 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, three women, one drama. It seems that as long as these creatures that no one can understand get together, the situation will develop in a very bad direction. But when they burst out with energy and do things vigorously and resolutely, they still make people amazed.
Just like now, in just five or six days, they captured at least five groups of males and females of all kinds of moths within a hundred kilometers of the holy city of Estali and raised them. There are ordinary insects inside, as well as magic moths that are born with magical powers.
The former is okay. Although the ordinary creatures in the Lost Land are more ferocious than the same kind on Earth, no matter how ferocious insects like moths are, as long as they don't carry any bacteria or viruses, they are only as good as flies and mosquitoes. . Even if you look at it a little higher, it is still a bee at most.
But the latter would pose a threat to ordinary people. No matter how docile a creature is, as long as it is born with magical powers, sometimes it may not necessarily deliberately target people or treat people as prey, but its inadvertent actions can still cause trouble to people. It's like someone sleeping next to an elephant. Maybe the elephant turns over and the person has to say goodbye in his sleep.
Not to mention that among the magic moths retrieved by the three women themselves or by entrusting adventurers, there were many carnivorous ones, or at least omnivorous ones. As long as a creature can eat meat, it enters the hunter sequence. Other creatures that are relatively weak in their eyes will become the targets of their hunting. As long as such creatures remain wild, they will not be easy to raise.
But strictly speaking, this situation is not a big problem in this family. Because as long as creatures remain wild, they will obey their instincts, and the instinct of creatures is to avoid the strong and go to the weak. In this home where there are two top creatures in the land, a humanized black dragon and a lich that no longer looks like a lich, other monsters in their territory can only escape. If they can't escape, they just lie down.
It is said that a group of adventurers caught a very rare golden magic moth. Just one moth is bigger than the basketball someone played before time travel. The strong wind that flaps its wings can knock people down, the scale powder on their bodies can paralyze people with poison, and their own magical talent can also confuse people's minds in the dark. Not surprisingly, this guy eats meat.
The team of adventurers who caught this demonic moth injured many people, and some were even close to death. Fen happily treated all their injuries and paid them the agreed reward.
Because capturing Warcraft alive is a very difficult condition. For most of the work in this area, Lost Land entrusts adventurers to collect the required target objects. The rest are left in the wild to grow and multiply. No one tames a monster in order to collect something from the other person for a long period of time. The main reason is of course the old problem, Warcraft is wild and difficult to tame.
But when the golden moth entered this home, of course it nestled obediently. Regardless of whether it is a human or a slightly intelligent monster, anyone who is always stared at by a black dragon that switches between dragon and human form from time to time, and occasionally drools, will have a breakdown in will and be on the verge of despair. If he could have escaped, he would have escaped long ago, but he was bound by the lich's magic circle.
Not just this golden magic moth, Fen roughly classified all the moth species he caught, and kept the same species in the same barrier. The whole family has one group in the east and one in the west.
It's easy to say that those worms that no longer eat after they become adults are just kept like this, but some actually lay eggs directly in the corners or on the floor, and then die. Those who continued to eat began to kill each other and eat the corpses of their own kind.
Simply put, these three women quickly collected a bunch of moth seeds in a very short period of time. But someone was busy with printing and did not make any follow-up plans, so he made the whole house a mess. The mathematics journal has finally been released, so we must quickly get the search for silkworm seeds on track.
On Earth, a certain primary school curriculum includes raising silkworm babies and observing their life-long work. However, since most of us are primary school students, most of them raise silkworms to death, and few of them can raise silkworms until they can spin silk and form cocoons. The point is that since Leizu in the Huangdi era, silkworm species have long been fixed, and no one has thought about why the silk produced by this silkworm should be used instead of the larvae of other moth species.
But in Lost Land, if you start everything from scratch, you have to consider all aspects. Especially if you want to add magic to silk or finished silk, you will definitely need a more special type of silkworm. That's why I ordered Halumi to collect various moths in the hope of finding suitable silkworm seeds.
Before searching, of course, you must first find a way to manage the moths that occupy every corner of your home. Keeping them together is definitely a bad idea. Those of the same species will eat each other, and no one can tell what will happen to species of different species.
Because Uzov Gantia went out to develop the technical guild, the factory building originally used for craftsmen to make toilets on the west side of the courtyard actually fell idle in a short time. The house that has been set up was tidied up and a compartment was created just for the collected moths.
Those moth species that only mate as adults and do not eat are easier to deal with. In the days since they were captured, many moths have mated and laid eggs, completed their life's mission, and passed away gloriously.
Looking at a pile of hundreds or thousands of eggs, some moth species still have adults, and some don't. Someone had to use their experience before traveling to collect mulberry trees, and when they found these moth species, fresh leaves from nearby trees were spread in the compartments that were full of insect eggs, or where adult moths were about to lay eggs.
As for those moth species that still need to eat after becoming adults, they are all magic moths that are born with magical powers. Except for the golden magic moth, the other moth species are also quite large. But compared to those carnivorous animals that are hunters, insect-based moths are still small. Simply put, it’s not a lot to eat.
First, Lin paired up the males and females, keeping only one pair in one compartment. The same kind of magic moth can be divided into three feeding methods: pure carnivore, omnivorous, and pure vegetarian. There are also a variety of choices for each type of food. Even meat is divided into fresh and rotten.
After everything is sorted, the next thing is to take care of, observe, and record. Halumi accepted the job without even thinking about it. Although it is not taking care of flowers and plants, taking care of some moths is interesting to her.
However, the point of recording is not just to scribble things down like a primary school student’s biological observation diary. Adult moth species that can eat should record their food preference trends, estimate the amount of food they eat, and determine whether there are obvious differences and occurrence characteristics during estrus, mating, and egg-laying periods.
Of course, similar things must be recorded for larvae. Another important point is its growth period, that is, the interval between each molt. and how long it takes from hatching to spinning and cocooning.
In terms of care, since it is not a one-to-one care, it is necessary to think of some convenient methods that can be processed in large quantities. For example, cleaning up feces.
Although it didn't seem to matter if it wasn't cleaned, but considering the survival rate and whether it would affect the quality of the final silk and cocoon, a guy with a mysophobia and pursuit of perfection asked the hard-working apprentice to clean it every day.
The blond girl who accepted the instructions did not stupidly clean up the larvae feces with her hands every day. After following someone for so long, she at least knew how to use her brain. After observing the activities of the larvae in the first few days, she did not use any crude method to concentrate the countless small black spots, but cultivated the larvae. A layer of woven net is added to the table.
Anyway, the larvae basically live on the leaves, eating desperately at any time. After eating to a certain extent, it will shed its skin. After the skin is shed, it will rest for a while and then start eating again. Even if you eat up 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 downwards while the other parts are held above the mesh. Under the net, you only need to make a collection box similar to a drawer, take it out and pour it out regularly, and you can keep the cultivation table clean.
After Halumi's work is on track and larvae begin to hatch, in addition to Kaya occasionally coming to help take care of it, someone will also start to follow up on the subsequent machine production. The first machine to be made is the silk reeling machine.
The process of silk reeling includes the steps of drying cocoons, peeling cocoons, selecting cocoons, cooking cocoons, reeling, and refining. Some people have only seen the general appearance of Earth's modern silk reeling machine from pictures, but their internal structure is completely unknown.
I was able to build the Manroland printing press before because I had actually seen and touched it. Unfortunately, no one had a textile factory near my childhood home. There is no hope of directly using a machine of this level, but the structure of the original reeling machine is not complicated, and it is not too difficult to power it.
The hard part is enchanting during the reeling stage.
Generally, when magic props or equipment are enchanted, they are processed after completion, and various magic materials are added to add magic effects to the items. Perhaps the woven products can also be designed with magic circle runes during the weaving process, so that the woven products can produce magical effects.
However, this approach has an inherent flaw, that is, when the integrity of the magic circle is destroyed, the magic effect of the item will disappear. These are also the magicians who are obsessed with the land, passionately pursuing metal equipment that does not hinder the ability to cast spells and perceive power. Because in battle, even if the enchantment disappears, the metal can still bring some basic defense instead of directly returning to zero.
However, the successful experience of making the One Ring and the nineteen matching rings made Lin think about whether he could add the desired magic to the silk thread during the reeling stage. Then the silk threads that already have magical effects can be woven into the style you want, instead of wearing a dress full of runes on your body.
It is conceivable that the silk carrier that can carry magic in this way must have a considerable degree of tolerance and resilience of magic power.
Not just any thread can be so enchanted. Just like someone's experiment before making a ring, using ordinary metal to enchant the metal wire, the result was a heroic explosion.
Even if the enchantment can be successful, how many magic spells can be attached? Not to mention anything else, just the Flash Technique, which travels through various dimensions, and is a protective magic that can resist the erosion of alien energy, is not a lightweight magic.
The success of all these ideas depends on the strength of the pile of moth seeds in front of us.
