When the boat arrived at the platform where Eco's laboratory was located, Mo Bei docked the boat and waved to Akali and the others:
"I'm going to ask Elder Eco for something. He is an alchemist and is using witchcraft to cultivate giant spiders that can be controlled by humans. Let's go and have a look."
The three of them nodded happily, and were very curious about what Mo Bei mentioned before. Mutated creatures that humans can control have never been seen before.
Once a creature mutates, it will turn its back on others. Even the raven hatched and fed by one's own hands is like this. Once it is let go, it may last a lifetime.
Including the delayed reply. . .
If you are unlucky and send it out several times in a row without any news, it will probably be a disappointing ending.
Some people have discovered that the profession of messenger has good returns, because now gems can be synthesized, and the cost of long-distance transmission can be measured in gold coins.
As long as you can endure the pain caused by the mental shock, you can shuttle back and forth between various human strongholds with large packages of letters or even packages.
Mo Bei and the others are not the only ones to realize the importance of mental resistance. Many people have also repeatedly tempered their mental strength through this kind of work, so now there are people hanging around the letter collection offices in various strongholds every day, and the competition in the industry is quite fierce. . . .
"Elder Eco."
Mo Bei stood at the door of the laboratory and called out cautiously, as if Eco was actually assembling a nuclear warhead inside.
Considering that this was the first time for this alchemist to experiment with witchcraft and insect refining, he was really afraid that something would go wrong because of his interruption.
At this time, the laboratory seemed smoky and filled with the smell of burning herbs. Eco was holding a small, smoking copper stove and carefully baking something. When he heard Mo Bei's voice, he raised his head and raised his head. He looked back with heavy eyelids.
"Huh? You're here, just in time, these little guys will hatch soon, take a look."
"So fast? Well...what have you been through..."
Mo Bei's eyelids jumped when he saw that he looked haggard, his lips were gray, and his arms were full of knife marks that had not yet completely healed. However, Eco ignored his question and continued to move slowly with concentration. Small copper stove in hand.
Bloodletting and refining insects?
It doesn't have to be so extreme, right?
Mo Bei guessed in his mind, and walked closer to a copper basin where Eco was smoking and took a look. Dozens of soybean-sized spider eggs inside looked like tick abdominal sacs that had been filled with blood, and they were still trembling slightly. It really looks like it's about to hatch.
"I think you'd better drink this..."
He took out a bottle of Life Mixture and handed it over. After all, he was an old man with gray hair. Although a large amount of bloodletting would not damage the physique of a career changer, the current appearance was still unbearable.
"No, I've taken the medicine, look! It's out, it's out!"
Eco stubbornly refused, pointing to one of the spider eggs that had been punctured with a small needle hole and screamed excitedly.
Akali and the other three people also poked their heads around and saw that the egg skin of the young egg was being eaten by the spiderlings from the inside. The opening continued to expand, and soon a small spider with some transparent limbs came out. .
The newly hatched spiderling was only the size of a fingernail after unfolding. Eco carefully moved it alone to a small jar so that it could continue to eat the egg skin.
As the other spiderlings revealed their broken shells, he was busy for a while. Mobei and others also stood around to help pass the jars prepared by Eco and put them on the shelves.
With the ears of several people, they can hear the rustling sounds coming from these jars. The young spiders swallowed the egg skin soaked in blood and medicinal juice. The color of the body became much darker, and the eight jointed limbs seemed to have They were quite flexible and crawled happily in the jar, but none of them climbed out of the jar.
"Can you control them now?" Mo Bei asked.
"They are too young and have not developed the consciousness to communicate. It may take a few days before they will stay in the jar honestly because the mouth of the jar has been smeared with medicine."
Eco took out another large basin, which contained dark red minced meat.
"This is chopped liver, a favorite food of baby spiders."
As he spoke, he winked at Mo Bei with approval, and then began to feed the spiderlings one by one. It is self-evident where these livers come from.
"I'll come, I'll come."
Mo Bei reached out and took the basin, then took out a piece of papyrus and handed it to Eco and said:
“Can you give me some of the materials on this list?”
This is the list given by Perona. It contains the things Milor needs for training. Novices practice soul separation from the body. Just having an isolation circle is not too safe. Some arrangements need to be made to protect the separated soul.
"No problem, just keep feeding here and I'll find it for you."
Eco took the list, scanned it, glanced at the newborn spiderlings with some reluctance, and quickly left the laboratory.
Mo Bei and the others watched the little spiders inject venom into the liver fragments. Soon the livers showed signs of corrosion and then began to suck.
Watching this scene made them feel a little numb, but also felt like feeding an exotic pet.
While the four of them were watching dozens of newborn spiderlings feasting, several more members of the Iron Wolf Guard arrived outside the laboratory.
Each of them is carrying a dozen silk sacs in their hands. These silk sacs should contain unhatched eggs. They are not stored in the inventory to preserve the vitality in them. These live eggs should also be among the dozens. Only human food is tested.
Witch Gu Refinement Insects are inseparable from cannibalism and cannibalism of different species. Absorbing nutrients from other species can make them stronger, and devouring a large number of their own species will allow them to naturally produce an aura that can deter ordinary giant spiders when they grow up. .
The two complement each other, and this group of carefully cultivated spiderlings will have a high probability of becoming the leaders of the population in the future.
These iron wolves had never met Mo Bei before. They left the silk sacs and left directly. However, Eco didn't come back until more than half an hour later. It seemed that the materials on the list were quite difficult to find. , which took him a lot of time.
His eyes lit up when he saw the baby egg sacs delivered, and he handed all the prepared materials into Mo Bei's hands.
He was very surprised to see that the spiderlings had finished eating their livers, and the backs of some of them had cracked.
After some slight twisting, the spiderlings with split backs slowly retreated from the old gray-brown skin starting from the head and chest.
The four of them in Mo Bei were amazed to see that the spider had already begun to shed its skin for the first time less than an hour after it hatched. This growth rate seemed to speed up the time process and was completely contrary to common sense.
After molting, the body of the little spider is already as big as a gold coin. In Eco's eyes, these little spiders are countless times cuter than gold coins.
He took two basketball-sized silk sacs and cut them open, poured all the milky-white eggs into a basin, poured in a bottle of blue-green concoction, mixed well, and then used a spoon to scoop out the beans, like scooping beans. Give each newly molted spiderling two spoonfuls.
Seeing the little spiders eating happily, his old, sickly face was also happy, and his complexion improved a lot.
The overflowing happiness made Mo Bei seem to see Zhuo Genan tending the seedlings in the glass greenhouse.
A man's happiness is really simple.
