Originally, Xia Duo planned to wait for the new wizards from the Tower of Time to start a business in the territory and promote the development of civilian magic in the territory. After all, it was too weak to rely solely on the Magic Affairs Officer to promote it.
However, considering that the Tower of Time has recently notified the Intermediate Examination, and even new middle school courses will be opened after the Intermediate Examination, not many new mages have chosen to return to their hometown to develop.
So when he heard Leiden mention the yield rate of the magic glue monster breeding pool, Sha Duo immediately realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to carry out magical transformation in the general's workshop!
If nothing else, the first magic workshop in the territory should be the porcelain workshop!
Making plans silently in his mind, he followed Leiden to another building of the breeding farm. Like the previous one, there was a breeding pond about four meters wide and one meter deep.
But the difference is that there is only one magic glue monster in the pool.
At this time, a worker wearing a gelcoat went down to the pool, stretched out his hand and pulled out a ball of flowing transparent colloid. With the help of the different refractive index of light in the air and colloid, the outline of the colloid can be seen.
"Lord, this is the mature magic glue monster!"
As he spoke, the worker lifted the ball of glue directly above his head as if he were pulling noodles, but the properties of the magic glue monster were far softer and tougher than dough.
Even if it was pulled as high as a person, it could not be separated from the main body of the magic glue monster.
Of course, this was not the actual step of picking glue, but was just to demonstrate the special effects of the glue monster to Chateau. Next, under Leighton’s reminder, the worker took out a gray-black ceramic knife from his waist.
With a slight stroke between the extracted glue and the glue monster's body, they were immediately divided into two parts very smoothly. The lower part fell back into the pool, while the upper part slowly shrank.
The worker was holding the ball of glue, just like holding a relatively thin ball of dough. Although he was holding it in his hand, it had a tendency to flow out.
But the next moment, another worker next to him handed over a porcelain bucket. The rubber tapper quickly put the glue in his hand into the bucket. While putting it back, he used the other hand that put away the knife to pick up the glue.
Keep stroking your hands down.
Seeing this scene, Layton on the side explained in time: "Although it is a transparent magic glue monster that grew up drinking water, it still shows strong acidity, so workers must wear protective clothing made of magic glue when picking glue.
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"On the one hand, this is protection, and on the other hand, it uses the compatibility between the magic glue products and the magic glue itself to facilitate grasping. If it is replaced by other materials, the magic glue cannot be grasped at all, and it is also easily corroded."
"How long can this protective suit be used?" Xia Duo asked.
"We have tested using double-layer protective clothing, and they can collect glue ten times. However, for safety reasons, I asked them to replace the protective clothing with new ones after collecting glue five times," Leiden replied.
"It's a bit wasteful to replace one set of protective clothing every five times, isn't it?" Xia Duo was a little puzzled, "Is the glue collected in five times enough to make a protective suit? Have you considered using other methods of collecting glue?"
"The glue collected five times is indeed not enough to make a protective suit, but the used protective suit will not be wasted. It can also be fed to the magic glue monster as more efficient feed, or it can be reprocessed into protective suits."
With that said, Layton further explained, "At this stage, we don't know enough about magic glue, and the quality of related products is not reliable yet, but Inuvich and the others are already stepping up their research, and I believe there will be a breakthrough soon."
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As for other glue harvesting methods, Leiden also gave his explanation——
It’s not that I don’t want to use other methods, but the characteristics of the magic glue monster itself determine that no matter what method is used, two key steps cannot be avoided:
One is control, because the glue monster is too slippery, so you must use glue products to more easily capture the glue monster tissue.
For cutting, because it is in direct contact with the tissue of the magic glue monster, something resistant to corrosion must be used. Considering the cost, it is a ceramic knife.
Of course, you can also design a special breeding pond structure, leaving a gap at the bottom to allow the magic glue monster to leak out and cut directly, but the more complex the design, the more likely it is to make mistakes.
Although the magic glue monster seems benign, its nature is actually not that harmless. Living people who come into contact with it, even for just a moment, will receive corrosive damage. The longer it lasts, the more damage it will cause.
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So now this kind of artificial glue mining, which seems a bit dangerous, is actually the best choice considering cost and safety.
Leiden and Inuvich discussed that most of the safety design of the breeding farm is aimed at the glue monster itself. As long as there is no problem with the glue monster itself, there will be no big problems.
Even if an accident occurs, it will be limited to a small area.
Although Leiden didn't say it clearly, Xia Duo could roughly guess that the biggest accident in a breeding farm with this model now is simply that the rubber tapping workers are swallowed by the magic glue monster, but such an outcome is relatively controllable.
There will be no scene where the magic glue monster runs out and causes uncontrollable accidents.
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After watching the glue picking process, Xia Duo went to see the production process of magic glue products. Of course, so far, the only ones he had seen were the low-quality protective clothing.
Since the magic glue product workshop in the workshop area has not yet been built, even low-quality protective clothing is actually produced in a laboratory.
Specifically, it is the secondary laboratory that Jay temporarily provided to the Magic Glue Research Center.
Now the portable laboratory has been moved from the barracks to the workshop area, in a small temporary house next to the magic glue farm.
It's not that you can't summon a portable laboratory if you don't have a house, but in order to reduce the onlookers of the people in the territory, if there is no house on the main plane to cover it, then there will be a situation where there are multiple buildings in a small space.
It was winter at this time, and although the territory had engaged in winter development for the first time this year, after all, the weather was freezing, and individuals did not need to work every day.
This means that at least half of the citizens are usually at home. Excluding those preparatory citizens who are using their leisure time in winter to make up for classes, the official citizens do not have that much to do.
Either go to the theater to watch a play, watch the Phantom, or go out for a walk, or even go to a pub to drink, or go to the floating city, but in this era, there is always a lack of entertainment options.
There are only a few of them in total, and formal citizens have never experienced any of them, so for formal citizens, the greater pleasure is actually watching the excitement.
Whether it is a neighborhood conflict or a public trial in Codex Square, it can attract a large crowd of people to watch, and the new construction of the Workshop District has undoubtedly attracted a lot of attention.
But so far, nothing special has appeared in the workshop area, except for the magic glue monster, but that was half a month ago, and when the magic glue monster was first discovered, there was a worker whose foot was
Corroded.
Fortunately, the magic glue monster at that time swallowed a large amount of soil and was dormant and digesting, so its corrosiveness was reduced, so it would not cause disability.
But even if there was a precedent of injury, the process of transferring the magic glue monster still attracted a large number of people from the territory to watch, which inevitably caused a certain degree of chaos.
Then some residents stepped on the residual glue that had not been cleaned up during the transfer of the magic glue monster, and more than one of them was injured!