He naturally understood this principle. After all, when Fugui evolved, most people didn't accept it and wondered if Fugui's evolution was some kind of mutation.
Only after Zhaocai also evolved did everyone believe that the Super Brain Gravity Dog's path could be replicated.
The evolutionary path of the cloud-belt worm is the same today.
Qinglong can take center stage in the live stream to showcase the training results, while other samples will provide control data to verify whether this training program can be stably effective.
After the group assignments were completed, the first phase of training officially began.
After all, today was the first day of the experiment, and Su Mo did not immediately increase the extension rate of the velvet worms.
After all, Professor Sun had previously said that the original mental strength and nervous system of the green worm are relatively weak. Once the body is stretched out significantly, it may not be able to control the latter half of the body in time.
To solve this problem, Su Mo decided to first use the most primitive method to test the limits of the body coordination of the blue worm.
Su Mo had He Ya hold a leaf in front of them to lure the caterpillar. After the caterpillar stretched out its body to eat, Su Mo picked up a small soft brush and gently poked its tail while the little guy was eating heartily.
As expected.
The velvet's head was still crunching away at the leaves, while its tail, which had been poked, showed no reaction.
A full half second passed before it seemed to realize what was happening, its body shuddered, and it belatedly shrank back.
This severe delay made Lu Junfeng and He Ya shake their heads in disbelief.
If experiments were conducted in this state, even if the body were stretched to an extreme length, it would only become a deformed worm with hemiplegia, completely unable to make any agile dodges in battle.
Seeing the somewhat comical, sluggish reaction of the green worm, Su Mo stroked his chin.
It seems that the first problem to solve in order to breed long worms is the control of each segment of the body by the velvet worm.
As for the specific training methods, Su Mo would have to figure them out himself.
Because when other people conducted research on blue worms, they didn't encounter this problem!
"Since there's no ready-made solution, we'll just have to figure it out ourselves."
Su Mo watched the green caterpillar still carelessly munching on the leaves, and his mind began to race with calculations.
The essence of training pets is nothing more than the carrot and stick approach.
For a voracious eater like a blue worm with a strong appetite, the allure of carrots is clearly off the charts.
What's lacking now is a training method.
"Senior, go get a brush. Senior, take the leaves further away and hang them directly in front of it, forcing it to stretch its body to its longest length."
Without hesitation, Su Mo immediately began setting up the testing environment.
Soon, in order to eat the leaf in He Ya's hand, the green worm stretched its round body into a thin green strip once again.
Su Mo stared intently at the changes in the Azure Dragon's body and said, "Senior, use a soft brush to sweep across its tail, middle section, and neck in turn. Be careful to use light pressure."
Upon hearing this, Lu Junfeng took a soft brush and, like a bath attendant, began to scrub the tail of the green worm back and forth.
At first, the velvet caterpillar's attention was entirely focused on the leaves in front of it. Its tail was brushed by the brush, and it only twitched a little after a while.
But as the brush swept more frequently, the slight itching and foreign body sensation made the velvet worm feel very uncomfortable.
It wanted to shrink back to hide, but the leaves in front of it smelled sweet, making it reluctant to let go.
Faced with the choice between eating rice and avoiding harassment, a miraculous scene unfolded.
When Lu Junfeng's brush swept towards its tail again, the velvet did not retract its entire body. Instead, it forcefully controlled the muscles in its tail and arched upwards, managing to avoid the brush bristles!
Chapter 71 Satan Wakes Up and Becomes the Second
Professor Sun has lived for over sixty years; what hasn't he seen?
But this was the first time he had ever seen a velvet caterpillar actively control its tail muscles so as not to be disturbed while eating leaves.
"This...can a blue worm really do this?"
At this moment, Professor Sun spoke in disbelief, like a greenhorn.
"This is it! I know how to train from here on out!"
Just then, Su Mo's voice suddenly rang in everyone's ears.
Seeing the situation before him, Su Mo instantly understood how to train the green velvet worm.
Hearing Su Mo's words, He Ya and Lu Junfeng looked at Su Mo with puzzled expressions.
They were a little confused. How could the velvet caterpillar know the next training method just by raising its tail?
Is there any necessary connection between the two?
Feeling the gazes of He Ya and Lu Junfeng, Su Mo said, "Didn't Elder Sun say before that once the green worm stretches its body too long, it will lose control of the muscles in the second half of its body and become paralyzed?"
"So we initially thought that the nerve and muscle control of the mitten worm in this extreme stretching state would fail."
"But this velvet worm proves to us that the muscles and nerves in its hindquarters have not disappeared, they are just very weak."
"Since there's a response, there's potential for development! So, our next step is to elongate their bodies through targeted breeding, while also giving them special training for their tail muscles!"
"Just keep stimulating its tail, forcing it to exert force on its own, and let it get used to this muscle movement."
"Once it develops control over every muscle group, it can perfectly solve the problem of losing control after stretching the body!"
Upon hearing this, Professor Sun, who was standing to the side, also spoke up, saying, "This idea is indeed good, but whether it will succeed depends on the performance of these green worms."
After finding a way to break the deadlock, Su Mo immediately sat down in front of the terminal and typed rapidly on the keyboard, scientifically upgrading the method of eliminating harassment while typing out his ideas.
“When you sweep with a brush by hand, the force and frequency are not very controllable, and the velvet worms will quickly adapt to this single stimulus.”
While sketching on the screen, Su Mo said to He Ya and Lu Junfeng beside him, "We need to order a small training platform from the academy's psionic equipment room... and lay a layer of thunder vines at the bottom of the device."
"The velvet needs to be stretched out to reach the food in front of it. While it is feeding, tendrils with a slight lightning-type paralyzing effect will randomly rise up to stimulate different segments of its body."
At this point, Su Mo's lips curled into a smile that would make even capitalists weep: "The rules are simple: once it reacts too slowly and gets shocked by the Thunder Vine, the psionic traction device in front will automatically pull the food back one centimeter, making it visible but unable to reach it."
"If it can control its body to avoid the stimulus, the traction device will move forward one centimeter and reward it with a bite."
"And this experimental table... let's call it the Raito Tactile Stretching Table."
Hearing Su Mo's words, He Ya and Lu Junfeng were dumbfounded.
Goodness, for a bite to eat, the velvet not only has to stretch itself into a long noodle on the lab table, but also has to play hide-and-seek with it.
This isn't training; it's hellish torture for mites!
Hearing Su Mo's words, the viewers in the live stream couldn't hold back any longer.
Good heavens, Satan woke up to find himself in second place.
[Even Satan should have Su Mo tattooed on his body.]
[Let us observe a moment of silence for the lives of the blue worms.]
He Ya glanced at the green worms who were still happily eating leaves, completely unaware of what life awaited them, and slowly said, "Director Su... isn't this training intensity... a bit too devilish?"
"How is this a devil?"
Su Mo said nonchalantly, "I'm just teaching according to aptitude!"
Then, under the watchful eyes of He Ya and Lu Junfeng, Su Mo printed out the "Training Program for Limb Coordination of the Blue Velvet Worm" that he had just completed.
Thanks to the efficiency of Tianfu Beast Taming University, the Lei Teng tactile stretching platform was manufactured and delivered to Su Mo's laboratory the next morning.
As soon as the experimental platform was powered on, purple arcs of electricity flickered on the Thunder Vine at the bottom.
Looking at the scene before him, Su Mo nodded in satisfaction, then looked at the incubation box beside him and picked out a green worm from the comprehensive experimental group and placed it on the experimental table.
"Number 18, begin the experiment!"
Following Su Mo's instructions, He Ya silently prayed for the number eighteen green velvet worm in her heart, and then placed a tender leaf of the Evergreen Tree on the traction device directly in front of her.
The Evergreen Tree is a high-level spiritual tree. Its leaves not only retain a rich fragrance for a long time, but also have an incredibly tender and smooth texture.
And its price is even higher, with just a small piece costing over a hundred yuan.
For the velvet worms, it was an unparalleled delicacy that none of their ancestors had ever tasted.
Therefore, even if there are mountains of knives and seas of fire ahead, it is worth risking one's life for this one bite.
When viewers in the live stream saw that Su Mo was even using the leaves of the Evergreen Tree as a tempting ingredient, they flooded the chat with comments:
[Wow, they actually can afford to use the leaves of the Evergreen Tree as experimental material. It seems Su Mo is really rich.]
Indeed, it's heartbreaking to see Fugui's original material consist of nothing more than a worn-out slipper.
[Fugui: I'm not even as good as a worm?]
The number eighteen velvet worm on the lab table smelled the fragrance of the leaves, and its two antennae immediately straightened as it hurriedly crawled toward the leaves.
Soon, number eighteen arrived on the tracks.
The tracks sensed Number 18's weight and began to roll, gradually elongating Number 18's body.
However, Number 18's attention was entirely focused on the leaves, and he was completely unaware of the change beneath him.
Five centimeters, three centimeters, two centimeters...
Just as Number 18 opened its mouth, about to bite the leaf.
Snapped!
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