The lich stares longingly at a group of insects, imagining that she is wearing silk and satin. Can such a person keep her idle?
Of course not.
But a lot of the work now is trivial and boring, and she wouldn't be happy if it were handed over to her. And the machine she was exploring was even more distant from this person. Didn't look at her previous enthusiasm for the silver-bearded dwarf.
When the Peace Arms automatically controlled the program, Fen only edited the program. She would not touch the Peace Arms itself.
So someone suggested that this lich, who had nothing to do and thought about "Are you ready" all day long, should do something that she should be interested in and that is also in the category of high-end research: cross-breeding.
The first step is to record the DNA sequences of all collected moth species. This is not for genetic modification, but to determine the reproductive isolation between these moth species.
I still remember that I once studied Darwin’s theory of evolution. Many of them were compared by the old man, highlighting the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest. According to later generations’ research on their DNA sequences, many of them are simply different species of organisms.
, they just happen to look alike.
It's like aliens saw humans and chimpanzees and came to the conclusion of natural selection and survival of the fittest. So they came to the conclusion that one with more hair is stronger and the other with less hair is thinner. That's fucking bullshit! So
The condition of the moth species must be confirmed first before appropriate arrangements can be made for subsequent hybridization experiments.
Speaking of genetic modification, Fen is undoubtedly at the forefront of what someone knows. But what she did to herself was actually just creating a unique super human. However, an individual cannot be regarded as a species after all. If
If the target is silk, one or two super moths will not be of use. It must be able to reproduce continuously and produce silk cocoons.
Secondly, if this lich is really allowed to research in the direction of genetically modified species, who knows what kind of monster she will transform into. That part is too cutting-edge, and some people are not familiar with it, so I strongly recommend that she do cross-breeding.
good.
The reason why someone used it is also very good. Since you don’t know what kind of silk thread is most suitable, why take the equally uncertain and most troublesome road. Do the easy ones first, and then go to the more difficult ones if they are not suitable. Fortunately,
Fen accepted.
After determining the situation of reproductive isolation, Fen began to make early plans for different moth species that could hybridize with each other. Anyway, under Halumi's care, each pair of moths could produce three to four hundred eggs.
. Even if only half survive, 80% of the remaining half will be used to trial silk thread production, and the remaining 150% will be used for breeding, there is still half a percent left for her to mess around with.
Studying the collected moth species from a biological level still yielded some very interesting findings.
First of all, the eighteen kinds of magic moths and four kinds of ordinary moths actually belong to subspecies under three species. They are not classified as naturally possessing powers or without powers, but are distinguished according to the shape of their wings. There are front and rear wings.
There are three types: triangular ones, those with obvious eye patterns on the front and rear wings, and those with linear stripes on the forewings. All three types are born with their own powers? And those without powers.
But the DNA of these three moth species basically still has a double-stranded helix structure. But the only golden moth is different. She has a four-stranded helix structure? It is similar to the dragon family. It’s just that the genome and sequence are different.
The information contained? Far less than that of the Dragon Clan.
By the way, the Homo sapiens species that Lin has encountered so far include the original humans - Halumi and Kaya, the male Uzov Gantia, the silver-bearded dwarf Jermaine, and Marit the goblin Toto.
Carney and her daughter Polly? Lots of wood elves and elves? Dark elf Melchan and so on? The DNA sequence of all people is twenty-two pairs of chromosomes plus two? XY for males? XX for females.
In other words, there is no reproductive isolation among all the species of Homo sapiens that someone encounters now, and their origins may even be the same. As for why...a physics student is required to explore biological issues? It's too brain-intensive? So I jumped.
Pass.
However, dragons have strong cross-species reproduction capabilities. Not only can they reproduce with other creatures to produce offspring with dragon bloodline, these offspring may even become a species and continue to maintain their characteristics. The principle behind this is
How come, someone's biological knowledge is too weak to guess.
But I have a little guess, is it possible that the golden moth, which also has a four-stranded helix structure, has the same strong reproduction ability as the dragons? I mentioned this thought casually, and saw the lich with an excited smirk on his face,
Someone will know...forget it, let her be.
In addition to Fen preparing to show off his talents, Hallumi also discovered some very interesting phenomena during his observation work.
First of all, the larvae of all moth species can eat vegetarian food. It is not necessarily true that the adults will eat meat. The larvae must be fed meat. Of course, they will eat meat even if they are fed meat.
Secondly, the larvae of ordinary moths cannot do this, but the larvae of moths that are born with magical powers may have a chance to mutate if they grind the magic stone into powder and sprinkle it on the leaves or pieces of meat used as feed.
I don’t know whether it is good or bad; on the other hand, it will also accelerate its growth. It originally takes twenty days to enter the next molting period, but it can be reduced to the remaining ten days at most.
If the larvae of ordinary moths eat this kind of food with added ingredients, they will die suddenly. Moreover, the larvae of ordinary moths will not be able to identify whether the food has been added with food, and will just keep eating stupidly. If they accidentally eat the magic stone powder,
There will be no uncomfortable symptoms, but the whole body will turn black, become stiff, and die.
The grade of the magic stone also has an impact on the feeding effect. But it does not mean that the better you use it, the better the effect. Basically, when it reaches the Huang Shang level of magic stone, its powder becomes poison. The larvae of some moth species know how to avoid it, and some moth larvae know how to avoid it.
Otherwise, he would eat it stupidly and then die suddenly.
Feeding pure magic stone powder or feeding in large amounts will not work. The smarter moth larvae will look for food without added ingredients after eating to a certain limit. Those unsmart larvae will of course eat until they die.
Regarding this discovery, Halumi, who was originally very proud, immediately fell down after hearing the teacher's instructions. She almost burst into tears or cursed. Someone said: "Well, you did a good job."
. Then the observation group will be subdivided. All current classifications will be further divided into those who are fed magic stone powder and those who are not fed. And pay attention to the upper limit of feeding amount for each stage of the larvae. "
The original work doubled in an instant, and the blonde girl was about to cry.
But what made her even more sad was what someone did after the first batch of larvae spun silk and formed cocoons.
Although the reeling machine had been completed before that time, no one except Lin knew the operation process.
When someone threw the cocoon into the dryer, the two girls who had been assisting in the operation were stunned; because not many small creatures could survive under such heat. Halumi was even more reluctant to give up this time.
Although the larvae under care did not shed tears, they were still uncomfortable in various ways.
The performance of the two girls did not require comfort from others, and the two quickly adjusted to it. Speaking of it, the law of the jungle can be regarded as the norm in the world. They grew up in this world, and someone did not take good care of them.
It's completely free-range. Not to mention killing chickens, ducks, fish and rabbits, even robbers and uncivilized goblins have been killed before. Killing animals has long been normal.
It's only when someone does something unexpectedly without explaining it in advance that they are frightened.
For the first batch of silk cocoons, someone fumbled along according to the process in memory. Because the first round was mainly to test the operating status of the silk reeling machine, the enchanting mode was not turned on.
However, the trial operation did not go smoothly. The part of drawing the thread and finding the thread ends was because I couldn't think of how to automate it, so I had to have someone watch and do it manually.
One silk thread of the reeling machine uses seven cocoons, which is called seven-cocoon silk. The adjustment of the reeling force also bothers someone. Because the power of the machine is too high, the silk thread is always broken. When any silk thread is broken,
When the time comes, you have to let the machine stop automatically.
In order to solve these problems, there are also sensors for the flywheel, wire breakage, and lever adjustment. In order to keep the silk thread consistent, each part of the reeling machine is equipped with additional sensors to monitor air temperature, humidity, and wheel speed.
, water temperature, water level height and other data, and calculate and estimate the silk sheath length, reeling tension, etc.
When the entire semi-automatic reeling machine can run smoothly, it has been modified by someone so that the original appearance cannot be seen. Even someone has no way of knowing how different this is from the earth's version of the automated reeling machine. Because this
It's just something a layman made up by tinkering around with the head when it hurts and the foot when the foot hurts.
After the silk reeling machine was finally able to operate normally, Lin tried to enchant the silk during the reeling process. In the first stage, he did not consider adding too much magic, but his most basic requirement was to be able to travel between dimensions and resist alien energy.
protective magic.
If you can't even do this most basic enchantment, and all the cocoons made by all moth larvae don't work, then you have to find other ways to add this protective magic to your equipment.
Fortunately, the worst situation did not happen, and the silk threads of some moth species still passed the first stage of testing. Of course, all of them, without exception, were moth species that were born with magical powers.
The next step is to test the maximum number of enchantments of various silk threads, the continuous status after adding magic, the consumption of the enchantment process and the ratio of transformation effects. At the same time, we must also consider the growth cycle of the moth larvae, the difficulty of raising, cost, and processing.
Difficulty and other factors.
If you only consider the former, you can find the thread that is most suitable for enchanting and can get the best magic effect. If you consider the latter factor, you can find the thread with the best economic benefits.
In other words, the effect of adding magic may not be the best, but because it is the simplest to raise and can easily form an economic scale, such a moth species is the best choice. After all, it takes more than a few cocoons to make a piece of clothing.
It can be solved, but it requires thousands of pills.
If this dress is made and only you want to wear it, then you can just collect it slowly, but there are still people queuing up behind you. If you spend a long time collecting silk threads, it will only be enough for you. You don’t have to guess.
The ending is by no means a happy ending.
Therefore, how to achieve a suitable balance between economic benefits and magical effects is a test of wisdom.