The smile on Duke Tarr's face subsided, and his frivolous expression became serious. His eyes lingered on Madam Butterfly's face for a moment, and then he said: "Madame Butterfly is very well-informed."
As soon as the beautiful woman put away the small folding fan in her hand, the tip of the fan was pointed at her chin, "The power of the New Religious Church may be greater than Mr. Duke imagined. Although our people have not come to District 011, we can also know about this place from other districts.
News, Rongxin Group is a word that appears frequently."
"I thought about it. Instead of communicating through a middleman, it would be better to come in person. It would be more convenient for us to communicate without the middleman."
Duke Tarr thought for a moment and then said: "I'll ask the people below about this."
Madam Butterfly nodded with a smile and changed the topic again.
The two then chatted happily in the garden, and neither party was in a hurry to broker the deal.
Soon it was dinner time, and the food on the table included both meat and vegetables. Although both guests expressed their wish to be vegetarian, Xu Huo did not fully accommodate their tastes.
Duke Tarr was a little unhappy, but Madame Butterfly was very interested in the dishes he prepared and took the initiative to talk to him twice.
"Madam, if you are interested, I can write you the recipe." Xu Huo said directly.
Dinner was uneventful after that.
After dinner, the two of them were going to stay in the castle. There was no show before going to bed, so Xu Huo proposed to take them to see the spiders raised in the annex at the back - he had obtained Mr. Dong's consent in advance.
Duke Tarr was not very interested, but he went there because of Madame Butterfly who was very interested.
Madam Butterfly has a wide range of knowledge. She knows most of the spiders kept in glass cabinets, and knows their habits and whether they are poisonous.
"Butterfly spider, I didn't expect there to be such a precious species here." She stood in a lighted glass cabinet and stared at the spider lying on the micro landscape inside, which was colored like a dead leaf butterfly.
"It looks very ordinary, is it poisonous?" Duke Tarr asked.
"Non-toxic." Madam Butterfly said calmly: "Although it is not as medicinal as other poisonous spiders, the number of this kind of spider is very small, and after evolution, it has developed a very magical habit."
She approached the glass cabinet and touched it with her fingertips. A weak wave of power was transmitted to the cabinet through the glass. The spider that hugged its legs and contracted its abdomen stretched out its legs. The dense hairs gathered on it all stood upright and overlapped front and back.
It actually looks like outstretched wings, and it moves lightly and nimbly, making it look like a butterfly flying.
"She looks very beautiful. Madam is very knowledgeable." Duke Tarr commented, not forgetting to compliment Madam Butterfly, "What is the very magical habit you are talking about? Can it fly?"
Madam Butterfly chuckled, "It doesn't have real wings, so how can it fly?"
Duke Tarr was obsessed with her eyes, "What is that?"
"The young spider will eat the female spider that gave birth to it," said Lady Butterfly.
"This cannibalism is not an isolated case in nature." Xu Huo, who had been acting as a foil, became more interested in the conversation. "Octopuses will even choose to die before they hatch in order not to eat their own eggs."
Madam Butterfly turned her head and looked at him, "Animals eat and hunt out of their survival instincts. They want to eat when they are hungry, and they may eat when they are half full and half hungry. However, butterfly spiders do not eat out of hunger."
"Under normal circumstances, the female spider will not leave the spiderlings from the time she lays her eggs until they hatch and then the spiderlings can eat."
"Some scientists have done experiments where male spiders, female spiders and young spiders are put together. The probability of the young spiders eating the female spider is 100%, but the probability of eating the male spider is only 70%."
"Regardless of whether it is hungry or not, even if the Academy of Sciences intentionally feeds the spider, the young spider will choose a time to give up other food and eat the female spider before it grows up."
"Why is this?" Duke Tarr couldn't help but ask: "Although animals are not intelligent, they don't have to eat their mothers, right?"
Xu Huo also agreed with this statement. After all, there are only a few intelligent animals like octopuses. Animals that cannibalize themselves are proof that they are not very smart. In this case, how can they choose specific foods? It is usually out of eating instinct.
, eat whatever is in front of you first.
"That's why I say this is a very magical characteristic. What's more interesting is that if the young spiders are male spiders and they are artificially separated, then the male spiders will follow the scent to eat the female and male spiders after they grow up. The ratio is also
One hundred percent and seventy percent.”
"But if the young spider is a female, then it will definitely eat its parents, eating the female spider first, and then the male spider."
"Spiders have a limited lifespan." Xu Huo mentioned.
Madam Butterfly's eyebrows arched, "This is the interesting part. Male butterfly spiders have a lifespan of decades, while female spiders are multiples of male spiders. It is said that some scientists have raised them since they were young, and they have raised them to their own age.
The dead spider is still alive and well."
"So if the young spider fails to eat its mother before it grows up, it will start a hundred-year hunt to kill its mother until the female spider dies or her scent disappears."
"It's really scary." The woman opened her fan to cover her red lips, "Most spiders that have not evolved have a lifespan of less than two years. The lifespan of butterfly spiders after transformation is equivalent to human immortality."
"Some scientists have also doubted whether the female butterfly spiders are really mortal. In order to ensure that the species will not spread, they have the habit of killing their fathers and mothers thousands of miles away."
Xu Huo laughed out loud, "Eternal life? Seeking eternal life in a kind of spider?"
Madame Butterfly also smiled, "No, that's why most butterfly spiders die in the laboratory. I don't know whether they really don't die naturally. Instead, this kind of spider is made into a rare species."
"Perhaps this is the bad thing about human beings. They want all good things, and they will trample everything for it. But if they really make it happen, it will be a benefit to mankind, but it's a pity that they are all mediocre people."
She was talking about only one kind of spider, but she also knew that there must be more species used in the experiment, and even humans themselves were one of the test subjects.
"That's why the world has to change. Why live so long? Love knows no bounds. If a person can make outstanding contributions beyond the limits of a single person, isn't it also a disguised form of immortality?" Madame Butterfly turned back and winked at Duke Tarr.
Blinking, "Mr. Duke, don't you think so?"
"It makes sense, it makes sense." Duke Tarr said with great admiration: "It turns out that this is the concept of New Wheel Religion. Madam's words can simply sublimate people's souls. Physical life and death are insignificant, and only the spirit of dedication can last forever."
Madam Butterfly lowered her eyes, looked away in boredom, touched her cheek and said, "I have to take a beauty sleep."