Chapter 218: Soil-Eating Silkworms and Flower Boat Virtual City
John came to the core area of the inner city and saluted respectfully towards the place where the Bowen Divine Envoy once lived.
He opened his mouth and said:
“Her Majesty Karl, I’m here.”
“Come in!”
"Yes."
John responded, pushing open the stone door that was a bit heavy for him, and came to Karl who was sitting cross-legged on the stone platform.
There was some dust floating in the empty room.
Look carefully.
The dust swirled orderly in the air like whirlpools and galaxies, and a little fell to the ground from time to time.
This is...
John’s eyes moved slightly:
‘Sacred Stone Powder! ’
‘I heard from Uncle Qim in the mine that all the sacred stones mined in the mines in the past half month have been ground into stone powder. Is it the Divine Envoy Karl who wants to use it? ’
“How are you doing with breeding?”
The questioning voice brought John back to his senses.
“Return to God.”
He said in a muffled voice:
“I’ve already started, but I don’t have any meat insects for me to test, so I don’t know to what extent. ."
"Huh..." Karl chuckled:
"You are very smart. If you had not given up the meat bugs to your sweetheart, I am afraid you would have succeeded long ago."
"That's it!"
Waving his hand, he waved his sleeves and threw a Thing:
“This is a soil-eating silkworm that I improved, using the genes of meat worms, queen ants and several other creatures.”
“You don’t understand even if I tell you. Go try to take care of it.”
"This is the method!"
Karl pointed his finger, and a flash of light fell into John's head, turning into some operational experience and instilling it into his memory.
“Yeah!”
John felt his head sink, like a mallet hitting his head, and his body tilted back involuntarily.
When I recovered, I suddenly had some more knowledge in my mind.
This is...
What a magical method!
“Yes.”
After calming down, he nodded heavily:
“I will take good care of it.”
Xucheng is currently in a state of severe food shortage. All the meat worms born by the female worms are minced and mixed in the mud to eat.
Even with the enhanced digestive ability of the people of Vucheng, it is impossible to absorb nutrients from the soil.
Eating dirt,
just makes people feel full.
The soil-eating silkworm is the size of a palm. According to Karl's experience, this creature is very delicate.
It must survive in a specific temperature and humidity environment, and its movement speed is terrifyingly slow.
So...
Someone has to prepare food for it.
Fortunately, just like its name, the staple food of soil-eating silkworms is soil.
The soil-eating silkworm, which is now in its juvenile stage, needs to eat fine soil that has been sieved. Mix the fine soil with water and stir it into a certain proportion of muddy water, which is its food.
Holding the 'soil-eating silkworm' in his arms, John quickly went to the breeding room in the city to adjust the humidity and temperature.
Add water and mud and carefully pour it into the nest.
"Gululu..."
Bullied by the bubbles in the muddy water, the white, pink and tender soil-eating silkworm rolled around and quickly shrank its body.
It has no mouth.
The skin of the body has many tiny holes, like mouthparts, swallowing up mud and water.
Soon.
It swallowed half of the prepared muddy water.
“What a huge appetite!”
John was not surprised but overjoyed. A good appetite showed that it was healthy, and in just a short time, the soil-eating silkworm had grown in size.
In the next few days, John worked tirelessly to take care of the soil-eating silkworms without any negligence.
One day.
The earth-eating silkworm, which is already the size of a human head, wriggles its body gently, and a layer of gelatin-like substance appears on the body surface.
“Meat glue!”
John’s eyes lit up.
This layer of gelatin is a nutritional supplement that can be taken by people. It is called meat glue by Karl.
Carefully scraped off the meat glue, collected it for the first time, and actually got a big bowl full.
“According to the knowledge in my mind, mature soil-eating silkworms can secrete meat glue four times a day, which is four large bowls, enough to provide more than a dozen people with the energy they need to survive for a day.”
“And its size will become larger in the future, and its meat glue production will be higher.”
John scraped out some meat glue with his fingers and put it in his mouth, tasted it carefully for a moment, and then Speak slowly:
"It has a little meaty smell, no wonder it's called meat glue."
A few days later.
With a sufficient supply of mud and water, the soil-eating silkworms grew in size as if they had been blown out of air, and are now as big as a two-year-old baby.
Twenty bowls of meat glue are scraped off each time!
Although it is far from being able to supply the entire population of Xu City, it is already comparable to farmed meat insects.
"Half a month."
John held a carving knife in his hand and wrote and drew on the stone slab:
"For the first three to four days, someone needs to be watching all the time, and It does not produce gum. "
"This is the juvenile stage."
"It matures for seven to eight days. During this period, its size expands rapidly, and its gum production also increases. Big increase.”
"Next..."
"It's a period of decline!"
Looking at the earth-eating silkworms in front of him, a complex emotion flashed in John's eyes. Over ten days of constant care from morning to night made him have some affection for this thing.
But he knew.
The decline period of the soil-eating silkworm comes quickly, and its short lifespan is the fundamental reason why it avoids mutation.
The once plump and pink skin has now become rough, tight and no longer produces gelatin.
"Poof!"
Suddenly.
A crack appeared on the surface of the soil-eating silkworm's flesh, and then it seemed as if it was deflated. The plump, round, soil-eating silkworm began to collapse inward, and its body was broken and scattered. .
John did not wallow in his sadness. He gathered his energy and peeled away the flesh of the corpse of the soil-eating silkworm, and carefully picked up three small larvae from it.
The newly born soil-eating silkworms are only a few circles larger than ants. If you don’t look closely, you will even be ignored.
Three days later.
The soil-eating silkworm once again reached the appearance he took over from Karl.
It’s just that the newly born soil-eating silkworms were too delicate. Even though John took good care of them, one of them died.
Four more days.
Start secreting colloid.
Ten days later
The two soil-eating silkworms died, leaving five offspring. This time John had experience and four survived.
…………
John walked out of the breeding room. The long period of not sleeping made him mentally exhausted and his feet felt shaky.
Standing at the door in a daze for a long time, he slowly came back to his senses.
Rubbing his swollen head, he walked towards the reservoir.
"Mr. John!"
"John!"
"..."
Along the way, the residents of the city greeted him one after another with enthusiasm, and some were even flattering.
The food supply in Xucheng has been sufficient recently, and they all see whose contribution it is.
Besides the Archangel Karl,
it’s John!
"Qiao!"
"Aunt Enpei!"
"Hello."
John enjoyed everyone's attitude towards him very much, smiling and waving hello to everyone, exhausted. His spirit was also lifted.
“Hey!”
"Yo!"
"One more time!"
The shouts sounded from the front.
John's eyes lit up and he walked over quickly.
“Abe!”
He nodded to someone in the field and said:
"Is this another reservoir to be built?"
"Yes."
Abe is tall and has a simple face. Hearing this, he grinned and nodded:
“Including this reservoir, there are five reservoirs in the city, and several more will be built in the future.”
"Drinking water will no longer be a problem by then."
"Good!" John rubbed his hands with excitement:
"Great!"
"I wonder if we can build one near my breeding room. As you know, soil-eating silkworms have a great need for water."
"The next one is." Abe said:
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"Uncle McGinn said that your breeding room needs to be expanded, and it is likely to be moved to another location."
"We will build a water reservoir after the location is determined."
" Really?" John grinned, with a smile on his face:
“With water and food, we can survive even if we don’t leave Vucheng.”
“Yes!” Abe nodded, looking toward the core of Vucheng. Go, eyes full of admiration:
"It's all a gift from the Archangel Karl!"
"Yes."
John nodded heavily.
He is now extremely grateful that he met Karl in the wild, otherwise Xucheng would not be what it is today.
Soil-eating silkworms are now able to steadily provide the daily nutrients needed by the people in the city.
And the cistern...
In the past, it could only be built by others at a high price, but now the Archangel Carl has taught him the construction method.
The new water reservoir has better water storage effect and is more convenient than before.
“Look!”
At this moment, someone suddenly looked up at the sky, stretched out his hand, and showed excitement on his face:
"It's a flower boat!"
"The flower boat that moved Xucheng, they came to us."
Flower boat?
John's heart moved.
He heard from the old people in the city that in this world, there is a type of virtual city that can move in the air.
There are women in the virtual cities. They will go to each virtual city and exchange the women on the boats for resources.
The last time a flower boat came to Xucheng was more than 20 years ago, and there was no John at that time.
“I heard that women in Hua Chuan can get pregnant easily, and they have a way to compress the pregnancy period to less than three months.”
“The offspring they give birth to are healthier.”
Someone muttered:
"Will Hua Chuan make a deal with us?"
(End of Chapter)