Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan excitedly jumped out of bed, put on his coat, and went out in his slippers.
In the living room, there was a strangely shaped machine, quite different from what she had imagined, and Grandma looked helpless.
"This...this is a silk reeling machine?"
"Yeah, what's wrong? You look down on my handicrafts, kid?"
Lu Yuan quickly shook his head. He didn't want to offend the old man. After all, the old man had spent the whole night making this thing. If he said anything to discourage him now, the old man would probably be very hurt.
The product is decent, and although the design is odd, it's quite easy to use.
After a simple breakfast, the family sat around Grandma, who was holding a tray covered with silkworm cocoons.
Grandma used a hand crank to slowly pull out the silk thread and place it on the rollers. Soon, dozens of rollers were filled with layer after layer of silk.
Then, the silkworm silk was twisted into raw silk little by little using a hand-cranked machine.
Lu Yuan was filled with emotion as he carried the raw silk. Then, he couldn't wait to take the raw silk to the spinning mill across the street.
When the factory manager saw the raw silk in Lu Yuan's hands, he was immediately taken aback.
"Boss, where did you get this raw silk from? It looks really good quality."
Lu Yuan smiled mysteriously: "It's a secret, but everyone should be using these things very soon."
"That's wonderful! We were just worried about not having enough materials for the fabric, and you solved the problem for us. We don't know what to say!"
"Alright, hurry up and find someone to gather up all this raw silk and see how the processed fabric turns out."
"Okay, I'll go find someone right away. Please wait a moment."
The factory manager jogged all the way out of the factory area and then brought over a few trembling workers to introduce himself.
After several people worked for two or three hours, the first batch of raw silk was finally processed into silk fabric. A piece of silk fabric, ten meters long and two meters wide, was neatly transported out of the spinning machine.
The entire piece of fabric looked shimmering silver and felt incredibly comfortable to the touch. Although Lu Yuan had handled silk fabrics before, this was worlds apart from it.
The last section of the cloth had some burrs, and the factory manager prepared to use scissors to cut them off. However, after cutting for a while, he discovered that the stiffness of the silk was beyond his expectations. It took a lot of effort for him to finally cut the two-meter-long piece of silk, but the scissors were covered with nicks.
"What... what is going on? How can it be so hard? I've never seen this kind of silk before!"
Lu Yuan was also quite surprised. He hadn't expected the silk to be so hard, and it took him a pair of scissors to cut it open beforehand.
Otherwise, Lu Yuan would have thought that these silkworms were produced by himself in the dimensional space without the use of external catalysts, and compared with the silkworms outside, they would definitely be beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
"By the way, let's test it with a knife and see if this thing can stop a blade?"
As Lu Yuan pulled a dagger from his pocket, intending to stab the cloth, the factory manager looked on with a pained expression.
"Boss Lu, hold on. We can just use some scraps to test this. There's no need to test the whole piece of silk. It's too wasteful. If this kind of thing existed before the apocalypse, it would be priceless."
Hearing this, Lu Yuan could only nod.
I tested it with some scraps of fabric. I swung the dagger down hard, but the silk remained as smooth as new, without even a single burr. It had clearly blocked the dagger.
"It's so sturdy, if you wore this on your clothes, could it be used as a bulletproof vest?"
Both were shocked. The factory manager was about to ask for the silk, but Lu Yuan had already taken the silk home. He took out his gun, aimed it at the hem of the silk, and pulled the trigger.
After a gunshot, a hole appeared in the silk, but there weren't many marks on the wall behind it.
"It seems that it can't be bulletproof, but its sturdiness is indeed quite good. If a few more layers were added, it should be able to stop bullets without any problem."
Lu Yuan planned to use this silk to make a garment for each of his family members.
If he wanted to make clothes, he would have to find a grandmother. However, he didn't have any tools that could easily tear the fabric, which annoyed Lu Yuan.
After thinking for a while, Lu Yuan had no choice but to pick up a glass cutter. At the tip of the glass cutter was a tiny diamond. When using this diamond to cut other things, it was basically invincible. Silk finally couldn't withstand it and was easily cut.
He handed the silk to his grandmother. Lu Yuan planned to popularize this technology. As for how much the people below could produce, that was up to them. However, this time he didn't intend to give it away for free. Instead, he chose to have these people work in exchange for these precious silkworms.
The news was shared with the factory manager, who readily agreed. Although the production volume of this product was limited, after testing, it was found that its ability to keep out the cold far exceeded that of ordinary cotton-padded clothes. In addition, the material was very durable and could be worn for several years without any problems. If it was double-layered, a fairly strong heat insulation layer could even be formed in the middle.
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