Printing, mathematics journals, and even the printing of magic scrolls were all temporarily put aside by Lucien. If he didn't put the matter of the silk on the agenda, he wouldn't be able to live in his new home in the Holy City.
There was a saying in his hometown, "three women make a show." It seemed that these creatures, which he could never understand, would develop in a bad direction as long as they were together. But when they burst forth with vitality and did things swiftly and decisively, it would still be amazing.
Just like now, almost all kinds of moths within a hundred kilometers of the Holy City of Estali had been caught by them in five or six days. They brought back at least five groups of male and female moths to raise. There were ordinary insects among them, as well as magic moths that were born with magic power.
The former was fine. Although the ordinary creatures in the mysterious land were more ferocious than the same species on Earth, no matter how ferocious the moths were, as long as they didn't carry any bacteria or viruses, they were just flies and mosquitoes. Even if they were looked at more highly, they were at most bees.
However, the latter would be a threat to ordinary people. No matter how docile a creature was, as long as it was born with magic power, sometimes it didn't have to deliberately target people or treat them as prey. However, its inadvertent actions would still cause trouble to people. For example, if someone was sleeping next to an elephant, the elephant might turn over, and the person would have to say goodbye in his sleep.
Not to mention the fact that the three women personally went out or entrusted adventurers to find the moths, many of which were carnivorous or at least omnivorous. As long as a creature could eat meat, it would enter the sequence of hunters. Other creatures that were weaker in the eyes of the moths would become their hunting targets. As long as such creatures were still wild, it wouldn't be so easy to raise them.
But strictly speaking, this situation wasn't a big problem in this home. Because as long as a creature was still wild, it would submit to instinct, and the instinct of a creature was to avoid the strong and prefer the weak. In this home where there was a humanoid Black Dragon and a Lich that no longer resembled a Lich, these two top-level creatures, other magical beasts could only flee in their territory. If they couldn't escape, they could only obediently lie down on the ground.
It was said that a group of adventurers caught a very rare golden moth. Just a single moth was bigger than the basketball that a certain someone used to play before she transmigrated. The strong wind created by the flapping of its wings could blow people away, the scale powder on its body could poison and paralyze people, and its innate magical talent could even confuse people in the dark. Unsurprisingly, it was a carnivore.
The adventurer team that caught this Demon Moth had injured many people, and some of them were even on the verge of death. Fen, on the other hand, readily treated all of their injuries and paid them the promised remuneration.
Because capturing a magical beast alive was a very difficult condition to begin with. Most of the work in this area was done by entrusting adventurers to collect the required objects. The rest were placed in the wild, allowing them to grow and flourish. No one had ever tamed a magical beast in order to collect something from it for a long period of time. The main reason was, of course, that old problem. Magical Beasts were wild and difficult to tame.
However, when the Golden Devil Moth entered the house, it naturally stayed obediently. Be it a human or a Magical Beast with a bit of intelligence, anyone who was constantly being stared at by a Dark Dragon that alternated between its dragon form and its human form, even occasionally drooling, would have a mental breakdown and be on the verge of despair. If it could escape, it would have done so already, but it was bound by Lich's magic array.
Not only this Golden Devil Moth, but all of the captured species were roughly classified by Fen, and the same species were placed in the same barrier. In the entire house, there was a group in the east and a group in the west.
Those that no longer ate after they became adults were fine, but some of them laid eggs in the corner or on the floor and then died. Those that continued to eat began to kill each other and eat the corpses of their own kind.
To put it simply, these three women quickly collected a bunch of moth seeds in a very short period of time. However, because a certain someone was busy with printing, he didn't make any follow-up plans, so the whole house was in a mess. It wasn't easy for the mathematics journal to be published, so the work of finding silkworm seeds had to be done quickly.
On Earth, a certain transmigrator's primary school curriculum included raising silkworm babies and observing them for a lifetime. However, they were all primary school students, and most of the silkworms died. Not many people could raise silkworms to the point where they could spin silk and spin cocoons. The important thing was that since the time of the Yellow Emperor, silkworm seeds had been fixed, and no one thought about why they should use the silk of this kind of silkworm instead of the larvae of other species.
However, in the mysterious land, everything had to be considered if they had to start from scratch. In particular, if they wanted to add magic to the silk or the finished product, they would definitely need more special silkworm seeds. That was why they had ordered Hallumi to collect all kinds of moths, hoping to find suitable silkworm seeds.
Before they could find any, they had to find a way to unify all the moths that occupied every corner of the house. It was definitely a bad idea to raise them together. Moths of the same species would eat each other, and no one could say what would happen to moths of different species.
Since Uzov Gantia went out to develop the technology guild, the workshop on the west side of the courtyard, which was originally used to make toilets for the craftsmen, was actually left empty after a short period of time. The house that had already been built was tidied up, and a compartment was created for the collected moths.
The moths that only mated after reaching adulthood and did not eat were easy to deal with. In the days after they were captured, many of the moths had already mated and laid eggs. After ending their life's mission, they passed away gloriously.
Looking at the pile of hundreds and thousands of eggs, some moths still had adult moths, and some did not. A certain person could only use his experience from before transmigrating to collect mulberry trees and the fresh leaves of the nearby trees when he found these moths. They were placed in the compartment that was full of eggs or about to be laid by adult moths.
As for the moths that still needed to eat after reaching adulthood, all of them were magic moths that were born with magic authority. Apart from the golden magic moth, the other moths were not small in size. However, compared to the carnivorous animals that were hunters, the insect-based magic moths were still considered small. Simply put, the amount of food they ate was not much.
First, Lin paired the male and female moths, and only raised one pair in each compartment. The same type of Devil Moth was further divided into three types of feeding methods: pure meat, omnivorous, and pure vegetarian. There were also many choices for each type of food. Even meat could be differentiated into fresh and rotten meat.
After everything was divided, the next thing was to take care of, observe, and record. Hallumi accepted this job without even thinking about it. Even though it was not taking care of flowers and plants, taking care of some moths was quite interesting for her.
However, the main points of recording were not just scribbling like an elementary school student's observation diary. For adult moths that ate, she had to record their food preferences, estimate how much they ate, and see if there were any obvious differences or characteristics between their estrus, mating, and laying eggs.
For larvae, she had to record similar things. Another important point was their growth period, which was the interval between each molt. She also had to know how long it would take for them to hatch and spin a cocoon.
In terms of taking care of the moths, because it was not one-on-one, she had to think of something that was more convenient and could be processed in large quantities. For example, cleaning the excrement.
Even though it did not seem to matter if she did not clean it up, after considering the survival rate and whether this would affect the quality of the cocoon, a certain person who was obsessed with cleanliness and perfection asked the poor apprentice to clean it up every day.
The blonde girl who received the instruction did not foolishly clean the larvae's excrement with her hands every day. After following a certain person for so long, she at least knew how to use her brain. After observing the larvae's activity for the first few days, she did not use any crude methods to gather the countless black dots. Instead, she added a woven net to the table where the larvae were cultivated.
After all, the larvae basically lived on leaves and ate with all their might no matter what. After eating to a certain extent, they would molt. After molting, they would rest for a while and then start eating again. Even if they ate all of a leaf, it was not difficult to follow the net to the next leaf.
As long as the size of the net was controlled just right, the excrement could fall straight down, and the rest of the larvae would be supported on the net. Below the net, a drawer-like collection box was needed. Periodically, it would be taken out and emptied to keep the table clean.
When Hallumi's work was on track and the larvae began to hatch, apart from Kaya's occasional help, it was time for a certain person to start making machines. The first machine to be made was the silk reeling machine.
The silk reeling process included drying cocoons, peeling cocoons, selecting cocoons, boiling cocoons, reeling silk, refining, and so on. A certain person had only seen the general appearance of the modern silk reeling machine on Earth from pictures. As for the internal structure, he was completely in the dark.
He had been able to make the Manroland printing machine before because he had seen and touched the real thing. Unfortunately, no one opened a textile factory near his house when he was young. It was impossible to directly use a machine of this level. However, the structure of the primitive silk reeling machine was not complicated. It was not too difficult to turn it into power.
The difficult part was enchantment during the silk reeling stage.
Generally, magic items or equipment that needed to be enchanted were processed after they were completed. Various magic materials were added to add magic effects to the item. Perhaps the design of magic arrays and runes could be added to the woven fabric during the weaving process to make the woven fabric produce magic effects.
However, this method had a congenital flaw. When the magic array was destroyed, the magic effects of the item would disappear. This was also why the mages in the land of mystery passionately pursued metal equipment that did not interfere with spellcasting and the right of perception. This was because in battle, even if the enchantment disappeared, the metal could still bring some of the most basic defensive power, and it would not be directly reduced to zero.
However, the successful experience of making the unique ring and the matching 19 rings made Lin Jin wonder if he could add the magic of hope to the silk thread during the silk reeling stage. Then, the silk thread that already had magic effects could be woven into the style he wanted at will, instead of wearing clothes full of runes on the body.
It was conceivable that the silk thread carrier that could be enchanted in such a way must have a considerable degree of magic tolerance and resilience.
Not just any silk thread could be enchanted in such a way. Just like the experiment of a certain person before making the ring, when ordinary metal was enchanted with a set of metal thread, the result was a heroic explosion.
Even if the enchantment was successful, how many magic spells could be added? Not to mention other things, just the Blink spell to travel through various dimensions and the protective magic that could resist the erosion of foreign energy was not a light magic.
If all of these ideas were to succeed, he would have to rely on the power of the moths in the land of mystery.
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