Printing, mathematical journals, and even the printing of magic scrolls were temporarily put aside by someone. If the silk issue is not put on the agenda, there will be no way to live in the new home of 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 vitality and do things vigorously and resolutely, , it will still amaze people.
Just like now, in just five or six days, they captured at least five groups of male and female moths from almost all kinds of moths within a hundred kilometers of the holy city of Estali and raised them. There were ordinary insects in them, There are also magic moths that are born with magical powers.
The former is fine. Although the ordinary creatures in the Mysterious 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 or mosquitoes. . Even if you look at it a little higher, it is still a bee at best.
But if the latter is the case, it 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 may not deliberately target people, or treat people as prey, but its inadvertent actions will still cause harm to people. It causes trouble. 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 the magic moths retrieved by the three women themselves or entrusted by adventurers, but there are many carnivorous ones, at least omnivorous ones. As long as a creature can eat meat, it has entered the order of hunters. . Other creatures that are relatively weak in their eyes will become the targets of their hunting. As long as such creatures are still wild, they will not be so easy to raise.
But strictly speaking, this situation is not a big problem in this family. Because as long as creatures are still wild, they will obey their instincts, and the instinct of creatures is to avoid the strong and go to the weak. In this case, there is a humanized black dragon, and In the home of a lich, two of the top creatures in the world, which no longer resembles a lich, other monsters in their territory can only escape, and if they cannot escape, they will just lie there.
It is said that a group of adventurers caught a very rare golden magic moth. Just one moth was bigger than the basketball someone played before traveling through time. The strong wind flapping its wings would blow people down, and the scales on their bodies would be covered with powder. It can paralyze people with poison, and its inherent magical talent can also confuse people's minds in the dark. Not surprisingly, this guy eats meat.
The adventurer team that caught this magic moth injured many people, and some were even close to death. Fen happily treated all their injuries and paid the agreed reward.
Because capturing Warcraft alive is inherently difficult. Most of the work in this area is entrusted to adventurers to collect the required target objects. The rest are left in the wild and allowed to grow and multiply. No one has domesticated them. The purpose of Warcraft is to collect something from the opponent for a long time. The main reason is of course the old problem, Warcraft is wild and difficult to tame.
However, when the golden magic moth entered this home, of course it nestled obediently. Whether it was a human or a slightly intelligent monster, no matter who it was, it was always a black dragon that switched between dragon and human forms from time to time. Watching and occasionally drooling, his will will collapse and he will 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 kept one group in the east and one in the west.
Those who no longer eat after becoming adults can be said to be just locked up like this, but some actually lay eggs directly in the corners or on the floor and then die. And those who continue to eat start to kill each other and eat the corpses of the same kind.
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To put it simply, these three women quickly collected a bunch of moth seeds in a 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 primary school course in a time-travelling world has silkworm-raising subjects and observes its life-long work. However, since most of them 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 the Lost Land, if you start everything from scratch, you have to consider all aspects. Especially if you want to add magic to silk, or the finished silk, you will definitely need more special silkworm seeds. That's why I ordered Haru before
rice, collecting various moths, hoping to find suitable silkworm species.
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. Moths of the same species will eat each other. No one can say what will happen to moths of different species.
Not allowed.
Because Uzov Gantia went out to develop the technical guild, the factory building originally used for the craftsmen to make toilets on the west side of the courtyard actually did not take long before it became idle. The house that had been built was tidied up.
Separate a compartment just for these collected moths.
Those moth species that only mate after adulthood and do not eat are easier to deal with. In the days after being captured, many moths have already mated and laid eggs, ending their life's mission and passing away gloriously.
Looking at a pile of hundreds or thousands of eggs, some moth species still have adults, and some do not. Someone had to use their experience before traveling to collect mulberry trees, and the fresh leaves of nearby trees when they found these moth species.
Place it in a compartment full of insect eggs or where adult insects are about to lay eggs.
As for the moth species that still need to eat after becoming adults, they are all magic moths that are born with magic power. Except for the golden magic moth, the other moth species are also quite large. But compared to those carnivorous ones that are hunters
Animals, insect-based moths are still small. To put it simply, they don’t eat much.
First, Lin paired up the males and females, and only raised one pair in one compartment. The same kind of magic moths were then divided into three types of raising methods: pure carnivorous, omnivorous, and pure vegetarian. Each type of food has a variety of choices.
Even meat is divided into fresh and spoiled.
After everything was sorted, the next thing was to take care of, observe, and record. Halumi accepted this job without thinking. Although it was not taking care of flowers and plants, taking care of some moths was interesting to her.
However, the key point of recording is not just smearing and smearing like a primary school student's biological observation diary. Adult moth species that can eat should record their food preference trends, estimate their food intake, estrus, mating, and whether there is any egg-laying period.
Obvious differentiation and occurrence characteristics.
Of course, similar things need to be recorded for larvae. Another important point is its growth period, which is the interval between each molt. And how long it takes from hatching to spinning silk and cocooning.
In terms of care, since it is not a one-on-one care, it is necessary to find some convenient and large-volume processing methods. For example, the cleaning of 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 instruction did not stupidly clean up the larvae feces with her hands every day. She had been with someone for so long, and at least she knew how to use her brain. After observing the activities of the larvae in the first few days, she did not use any rough methods to clean up the larvae.
Instead of concentrating these countless small black spots, a layer of woven net is added to the table where the larvae are cultivated.
Anyway, the larvae basically live on the leaves, eating desperately at any time. After eating to a certain extent, they will shed their skin. After molting, they will rest for a while and then start eating again. Even if a leaf is empty, follow the network line.
It's not difficult to get to the next leaf.
As long as the size of the mesh is controlled just right, the feces can be dropped directly down, and the other parts are held above the mesh. Under the mesh, you only need to make a collection box similar to a drawer, and take it out and pour it out regularly to maintain it.
Cultivate table cleanliness.
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 built is the silk reeling machine.
The process of silk reeling includes steps such as cocoon drying, cocoon peeling, cocoon selection, cocoon cooking, silk reeling, and refining. For the modern silk reeling machine on earth, someone can only see the general appearance from the picture, and the internal structure is completely different.
His eyes went dark.
I was able to build a Manroland printing press before because I actually saw and touched it. Unfortunately, no one opened a textile factory near my childhood home. There is no hope of directly building 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, magic props or equipment need to be enchanted after they are completed and then processed, adding various magic materials to add magic effects to the items. Perhaps the knitted items can also be enchanted with the design of magic circle runes during the weaving process.
Knitted items create 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. This is why the magicians in the world are passionately pursuing metal equipment that does not hinder spellcasting and perception.
.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 it would already have magical effects.
With silk thread, you can weave it 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 the method of enchanting metal wires to enchant ordinary metals, the result was a heroic explosion.
Even if the enchantment can be successful, how many magic can be attached? Not to mention other things, just the flash spell can travel through various dimensions, and it is not a lightweight magic that can resist the erosion of alien energy.
The success of all these ideas depends on the strength of the bunch of moth seeds in front of us.