Wizard, I Have Another World

Chapter 218 Soil-Eating Silkworms and Flower Boats in the Virtual City

John arrived at the inner city's core area and respectfully bowed towards the place where Bowen's messenger had once resided.

He opened his mouth and said:

"Divine Envoy Karl, I have arrived."

"Come in!"

"Yes."

John pushed open the stone door, which was somewhat heavy for him, and came to stand before Karl, who was sitting cross-legged on the stone platform.

Dust drifted in the empty room.

Take a closer look.

The dust swirled in the air like vortices or galaxies, occasionally sprinkling a little onto the ground.

This is……

John's eyes flickered slightly:

"Sacred stone powder!" 』

"Uncle Chim from the mine said that the sacred stones mined from the vein over the past two weeks have all been ground into powder. Is it for Karl's use?"

"How's your animal husbandry training going?"

The question brought John back to his senses.

"The messenger of return to consciousness."

He spoke in a muffled voice:

"I've already mastered the basics, but I don't have any worms to experiment on, so I'm not sure how far I've progressed."

"Heh..." Karl chuckled softly.

"You're very smart. If you hadn't given the worm to your sweetheart back then, you probably would have succeeded long ago."

"That's enough!"

He waved his hand and tossed something out with a flick of his sleeve:

"This is a soil-feeding fattening silkworm that I improved, using genes from worms, queen ants, and several other organisms."

"You wouldn't understand even if I explained, just try to take good care of it."

"This is the method!"

Carl flicked his finger, and a streak of light entered John's forehead, transforming into some operational experience that was infused into his memory.

"Um!"

John felt a sudden heaviness in his head, as if a mallet had struck him, and his body involuntarily leaned backward.

Once I recovered, I suddenly had a lot of new knowledge in my mind.

This is……

What an amazing method!

"Yes."

Composing himself, he nodded emphatically:

"I will definitely take good care of it."

The city is currently facing a severe food shortage, and the flesh-eating insects laid by the mother insect are all chopped up and mixed into the mud for consumption.

Even with the enhanced digestive abilities of the people of the Void City, it's impossible for them to extract nutrients from the soil.

Eating dirt

It just makes you feel full.

The soil-eating fat silkworm is about the size of a palm, and according to Karl's experience, this creature is very delicate.

They can only survive in specific temperature and humidity conditions, and their movement speed is incredibly slow.

and so……

Someone must prepare food for it.

Fortunately, just like its name suggests, the main food of the soil-eating silkworm is soil.

The silkworms, which are currently in their larval stage, need to eat sifted fine soil. The fine soil is mixed with water to form a muddy mixture, which is their food.

Holding the "soil-eating fat silkworm," John hurried to the incubation room in the city to adjust the humidity and temperature.

They mixed water and mud, then carefully poured it into the nest.

"Gurgle..."

Amidst the bubbles in the muddy water, the plump, white, and pink silkworm rolled over and quickly contracted its body.

It has no mouth.

The skin of the body has many tiny pores, like mouthparts, which swallow mud and water.

soon.

It swallowed half of the prepared muddy water.

"What a huge appetite!"

John was not surprised but pleased. A good appetite meant it was healthy, and in a short time, the fat silkworm had grown a size larger.

For the next few days, John took care of the silkworms day and night, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

someday.

The fat silkworm, already the size of a human head, gently wriggled its body, and a layer of gelatinous substance appeared on its surface.

"Meat glue!"

John's eyes lit up.

This gelatinous substance is a nutritious product that can be consumed by humans, which Karl called meat glue.

Carefully scraping off the meat gelatin, the first harvest yielded a whole bowlful.

"Based on what I know, a mature fat silkworm can secrete four times a day, which is four large bowls, enough to provide a dozen people with the energy they need to survive for a day."

"And its size will increase later, and its collagen production will also be higher."

John scraped a little bit of the meat glue with his finger and put it in his mouth, savoring it carefully for a moment before slowly speaking:

"It has a slight meaty taste, no wonder it's called meat glue."

a few days later.

With an ample supply of mud and water, the silkworms that feed on the soil grow as if they've been inflated, and are now comparable to two-year-old babies.

Each time, the scraped meat glue would amount to as much as twenty bowls!

Although it is far from enough to supply all the people of the virtual city, it is comparable to farmed worms.

"Half a month."

John, holding a carving knife, wrote and drew on the stone slab:

"For the first three to four days, someone needs to keep a close eye on it at all times, and it doesn't produce any gelatinous substance."

"This is the infancy stage."

"The maturation period is seven to eight days. During this time, its size expands rapidly, and the production of gum also increases significantly."

"Next..."

"It's a recession!"

Looking at the fat silkworms feeding on the soil in front of him, a complex emotion flashed in John's eyes.

The constant care he received from morning till night for over ten days made him develop some affection for the thing.

But he knew.

The decline of the soil-fed silkworm comes very quickly, and its short lifespan is the fundamental reason why it is spared from mutation.

The once plump and rosy skin has now become rough and firm, and no longer produces collagen.

"puff!"

suddenly.

A crack appeared on the surface of the flesh of the earth-eating silkworm, and then, as if deflated, the plump, round earth-eating silkworm began to collapse inward, and its body shattered and scattered.

John did not wallow in sorrow. He roused himself and carefully peeled back the flesh of the earth-eating silkworm's corpse, picking up three tiny larvae from within.

The newly hatched, soil-feeding silkworms are only a few sizes larger than ants, and can even be overlooked if not looked closely.

three days later.

The fat silkworm that had been feeding on the soil returned to the state it had taken from Karl.

However, the newly hatched silkworms were too delicate, and even with John's careful care, one of them still died.

Four more days passed.

It begins to secrete collagen.

Ten days later

Two of the silkworms that had been feeding on the soil died, leaving behind five offspring. This time, John had learned from his experience, and four of them survived.

…………

John walked out of the incubation room. The long hours without sleep had left him mentally exhausted and his legs felt unsteady.

I stood at the door in a daze for a long time before slowly coming back to my senses.

He rubbed his throbbing head and walked towards the reservoir.

"Mr. John!"

"John!"

"..."

Along the way, the town's residents greeted him warmly, some even with a hint of flattery.

The food supply in Xucheng has been plentiful recently, and everyone has seen who deserves the credit.

Besides Karl the God Messenger

It's John!

"Joe!"

"Aunt Eun-pei!"

Hello.

John thoroughly enjoyed everyone's attitude towards him, smiling and waving to each of them, which invigorated his tired spirit.

"Hey!"

"Yo!"

"One more time!"

Shouts rang out from the front.

John's eyes lit up, and he quickly walked over.

"Abe!"

He nodded to one of the people in the room:

"Is this another reservoir they're building?"

"Yes."

Abe was tall and had a kind face. He grinned and nodded when he heard this.

"Including this reservoir, there are now five reservoirs in the city, and a few more will be built in the future."

"Then drinking water will no longer be a problem."

"Great!" John rubbed his hands together, his face beaming with excitement.

"Very good!"

"I wonder if we could build one near my breeding room. As you know, soil-feeding silkworms have a high water requirement."

"The next one is..." Abe said.

"Uncle McGinn said that your incubation room needs to be expanded, and it's very likely that it will be moved to a different location."

"We'll build the reservoir once the location is finalized."

"Really?" John grinned, his face beaming.

"With water and food, we can survive even if we don't leave the virtual city."

"Yes!" Abe nodded, his gaze fixed on the core of the virtual city, his eyes filled with admiration.

"These are all gifts from Divine Envoy Karl!"

"Um."

John nodded emphatically.

He is now incredibly grateful that he met Karl in the wild, otherwise the Void City would not be what it is today.

Needless to say, the soil-fed silkworms are already able to stably provide the daily nutritional needs of the city's residents.

And the reservoir...

Previously, we could only pay a lot of money to have others build it, but now the divine messenger Karl has taught us the methods of construction.

The new reservoir is more efficient and convenient than before.

"Look!"

Suddenly, someone looked up at the sky, pointed, and showed excitement on their face:

"It's a flower boat!"

"The flower boats of the mobile virtual city have come to us."

Flower boat?

John's heart skipped a beat.

He had heard from the old people in the city that there was a type of virtual city in this world that could move in the air.

The virtual city is full of women who travel to different virtual cities, exchanging the women on their ships for resources.

The last time a pleasure boat came to Xucheng was more than 20 years ago, before John even existed.

"I've heard that women on pleasure boats get pregnant very easily, and they have a way of compressing their pregnancies to within three months."

"Their offspring are also healthier."

Someone muttered:

Will the pleasure boats make a deal with us?

(End of this chapter)