Chapter 1,298 Forced
The King of Demonic Insects and the King of Demonic Beasts are named based on different concepts. The latter is a super powerful monster with regional dominance, but the former is just the peak form of a type and has special abilities.
All magic moths have the opportunity to evolve into the golden magic moth king after meeting special conditions. The eggs laid by the magic moth king have a chance of being the offspring of this species, but they may also degenerate. This is also because insects have a special developmental process called complete metamorphosis.
Demon Moth Kings originating from different types of Demon Moths may have different abilities and may have slight differences in appearance. In short, the insects in the lost land are just like the insects on the earth, and their types and characteristics have not yet been fully understood. There are still unknown species.
While raising so many types of moths, Lin's only thought was that the lost moths were really easy to breed. I have never encountered any difficulties in reproduction and breeding. Anyway, as long as you feed them, they will eat. When they are old enough to breed, the male and female will lay eggs as a pair.
The most special point is that there is no reproductive isolation between the powerful demon moths and other types of moths, so it is not difficult to do cross-breeding. The hard part is... all the stuff that comes out. Nine out of ten will be destroyed on the spot.
In terms of breeding, of course some magical machinery has been introduced to monitor and simplify the breeding process. In this part, someone very humanely liberated his poor apprentices and replaced them with a group of orphans without fathers and mothers.
Anyway, they are taken care of by themselves and learn knowledge from themselves, so it makes sense to ask them to help with some trivial matters. Of course, pick some older children, because raising silkworms is dangerous.
...however I hear this sentence, I find it strange. But it is a fact in this house. After all, there are carnivorous moths, and it is possible to bite off a piece of flesh instead of an arm.
However, now that automated machinery is abundant, the biggest role of these children is to transport moth larvae food from other places into the silkworm chamber, and then pour it into a specific type of feed trough, and the machinery will automatically distribute it. Then there is the regular cleaning of the larval environment, cleaning up feces and other trivial tasks.
As for those monitoring facilities, it is not so much to prevent thieves as it is to prevent these naughty kids from causing damage. Sometimes it's not that these children intentionally sabotage, it's just that they are lazy and save trouble and problems. With monitoring, you can detect and solve problems early to avoid problems becoming substantial or their impact expanding.
When Lin led the guests into the silkworm room, he happened to see a group of older children carrying several buckets and pouring chopped meat into the meat trough. Several others were cleaning the mulberry leaves and pouring them into the vegetarian trough.
These mulberry leaves were commissioned from a farm family living near the holy city of Estali to plant mulberry trees deliberately. Of course, they paid for it in advance. Somewhat similar to the contract farming method in earth agriculture, ensuring the source.
Also let the group of older children pick the amount needed for that day, and then return it to the larvae after simple processing. In addition to mulberry trees, there are also some special plants that are included in the food of moth larvae in small amounts.
According to experiments, minced meat is not popular. Large pieces of meat take more time to eat. Properly cutting the meat into small pieces can speed up the eating speed of carnivorous and omnivorous moth larvae. Cooked food will lose some nutrients and slow down the growth rate of moth larvae, so it is mainly raw food. Moreover, the food these moth larvae eat is quite clean and leaves no residue. It saves a lot of effort in cleaning up the environment.
Another group of children were cleaning the troughs, specifically collecting moth larvae droppings. This is listed in the Compendium of Materia Medica and is called silkworm excrement. But that was the excrement of fixed silkworm moth species. Lin did not dare to use the excrement of so many types of moth larvae as medicinal materials. However, these things can be used as magic materials, and are surprisingly popular in alchemy.
After entering the silkworm room, several grown men were dazzled by the large number of moth species. Princess Xindu is worthy of being called the embroidery girl. She knows something about the work of collecting mulberry and raising silkworms, even if she doesn't do it herself.
She was more frightened than curious about the fact that raising silkworms requires feeding them meat. Especially those golden moth kings, which are bigger than the face and colorful. These are symbols of danger in the Lost Land. What separates these demon moths from people is only a layer of glass that looks very thin and transparent.
Thinking of the secret experiments in her hometown, Princess Xindu asked with a trembling voice: "Your Majesty the Great Magician, how did you tame these magic moths?"
It seemed like a simple question, but it made someone stunned. Because this problem is just like the breeding of moths, it seems that they have never encountered any difficulties. So Lin said with some hesitation: "I didn't do anything to tame them. Anyway, after I caught them and raised them, they all behaved well and didn't cause any problems."
As soon as the words were spoken, someone knew what the problem was. Think about who is in this family, a crippled black dragon, a former demon king who was originally a lich, and now an existence that I don’t know how to define. There is also a warrior who was originally stitched together but now also doesn’t know how to define him. In terms of level, it used to be enough to kill a god alone in the Dark Legion. Their mere breathing can make lower-level creatures tremble.
Especially the black dragon, who was born to be at the top of the circle of creatures in the world. Although the black dragon Augustus is disabled, even if it is a dead black dragon, the power of the dragon is still there, how can ordinary creatures dare to make mistakes! It’s all about running as far as you can. If you can't run away, you can only lie down.
With these powerful beings living around, even the Golden Moth King is still suppressed. But as soon as he leaves, the viciousness will naturally return.
This also reminded Lin of an incident that happened before, which was related to that group of children. Someone can enter the silkworm room, and combined with someone's attitude of not selling magic silk to the outside world, it is not that no one has used their crooked brains to find the most obvious loophole in the family, which is the children from the streets.
These children have no parents and live on the streets, stealing or doing simple jobs to make a living. Survival is the most important thing to them, then profit. Credit and benevolence may be there, but they will be ranked quite low.
It's normal for some people to be tempted when someone offers them a large sum of gold. All they have to do is steal the moth seeds from the silkworm room.
Based on the misunderstanding that the stronger, the better, these children with double intentions ran towards the demon moths listed as high-risk in the Adventurer's Guild's Monster Manual. Anyway, these moths seem to be quite good in the silkworm room. As long as they can be stolen, whether they are adult moths or larvae, they can be exchanged for money.
This idea is not wrong. The silk threads of these high-risk magic moths have relatively good magical affinity. But to weave a piece of magical silk, depending on the type of enchantment and the characteristics of the clothing, it is not suitable to use silk threads of a single moth species.
Of course, those children haven't learned this kind of knowledge about materials, and they don't even know the importance of formulas. In short, those children with unclean hands and feet stole these most dangerous magic moths and moth larvae, and then died miserably outside.
Thinking about it now, even if they lost the suppression of the black dragon, how could these insects not rebel.
Some were poisoned, some were drilled into the body and gnawed at the internal organs, and some were directly bombarded to death by the innate magic of the demonic insects. And the people who died were not just the children who made mistakes, but also the people who were in contact with them. Of course, there were also a lot of dead bugs.
Whether anyone left alive or whether any insects escaped, the children who chased the betrayers didn't know. They just endured the nausea and cleaned up the aftermath.
The bloody lesson really taught these children a solid lesson.
Now, after the people from the Kingdom of Silk entered the Jamsil, except for Princess Xindu who asked questions excitedly, everyone else had a thief-like look. It doesn't seem difficult to guess what he is thinking.
But Lin has no intention of putting a stop to these sneaky behaviors, as long as they don't get too blatant. The moth species currently being bred are basically wild species captured from the wild. Although there is some breeding work going on in Fen, there is not much progress.
In other words, as long as you are willing, you can actually collect all the moth species in this silkworm room from the wild. Someone did the same thing back then, offering huge rewards to a large number of adventurers to do things for him.
Besides, if they really took away any bad breeds, after they left the range of the black dragon, they wouldn't be the ones who were troubled. So should we remind them? Someone is in distress.
However, the guests of the Haider Empire and the Kingdom of Silk did not find any excuse to approach the breeding area and touch up one or two larvae or adult moths. Perhaps the impression of being in the jacquard machine shop made them a little cautious about approaching.
After all, if you make the same mistake once, it can be said to be unintentional. You don't know that you will make a mistake by doing so. But if you commit it a second or third time, it becomes unjustifiable.
On the one hand, it is also because their plans are more direct.
After everyone left the silkworm room where the children tried their best to keep it clean, but there was still a strange smell, before Lin could speak, the most excited guest of the Kingdom of Silk, Kuwada Kazunosuke, took the lead and said: "Magician, you Even now you still refuse to admit that all of this was stolen from the Kingdom of Silk. With such obvious evidence, what else do you want us to say?——"
Now someone is confused. Why can't I win the trust of this group of people despite showing so much? Is it possible that the technology of the Kingdom of Silk is beyond my imagination? Even magic silk has been developed, but my level is too low to access it.
"——It is not impossible for us to forgive you. Hand over the machine and all the silk moths here. And promise not to get involved in silk-related matters in the future, then we will consider not holding you responsible. " Kuwata Kazunosuke said proudly.
A few words once again made someone confused.
This is considered to be a fancy, just find any reason and plan to rob it, right?
Lin didn't know how to talk to these smug-looking bandits. But in fact, not everyone showed such a greedy look. At least the princess seemed a little ashamed and did not dare to look at someone head-on. However, she did not dare to stop Sangtian, who was also from the Kingdom of Silk. Is this the default? Or is it an internal factional fight?
Wang Chao's expression was a bit struggling, and he couldn't say whether he agreed or objected to this matter.
However, among Count Guha's entourage, there was one person who did not have the same attitude as the others and coveted what the magician in front of him showed. The sinister eyes did not stare directly at anyone, causing the magician to notice it unnecessarily. I just scan it occasionally and then hide it deeply.
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