John came to the core area of ​​the inner city and bowed respectfully towards the place where the Bowen messenger once lived.

Opening his mouth:

"Emissary Carl, here I come."

"Come in!"

"yes."

John agreed, pushed open the stone door which seemed a bit heavy for him, and came to Carl who was sitting cross-legged on the stone platform.

There was some dust floating in the empty room.

Look closely.

The dust swirled in the air in an orderly manner like a whirlpool or a galaxy, occasionally falling to the ground.

This is……

John's eyes moved slightly:

'Divine Stone Powder!'

"I heard from Uncle Qim in the mine that the sacred stones mined in the past half month have all been ground into stone powder. Is it for Envoy Karl to use?"

"How's your breeding skills going?"

The question brought John back to his senses.

"Return to the Divine Envoy."

He said in a muffled voice, "I have already gotten started, but I don't have any fleshworms to experiment with, so I don't know to what extent."

"Heh..." Carl chuckled, "You're very smart. If you hadn't given the worm to your sweetheart, you would have succeeded a long time ago."

"That's all!"

He waved his hand and threw something out: "This is a soil-eating fat silkworm that I improved. I used genes from fleshworms, queen ants, and several other creatures."

"You won't understand even if I tell you. Go and try to take care of it."

“This is the Dharma!”

Carl pointed his finger, and a flash of light penetrated into John's forehead, turning into some operating experience and instilling it into his memory.

"Um!"

John only felt his head sink, as if it was hit by a wooden hammer, and his body leaned back involuntarily.

When I recovered, some more knowledge suddenly appeared in my mind.

This is……

What a magical method!

"yes."

After calming down, he nodded heavily:

"I will definitely take good care of it."

Xucheng is currently in a state of severe food shortage, and all the fleshworms born by the queen worms are chopped up and mixed with the mud for sharing.

Even with the enhanced digestive abilities of the people of Xucheng, it is impossible to absorb nutrients from the soil.

Eat dirt,

It just makes one feel full.

The fat soil-eating silkworm is the size of a palm. According to the experience transmitted by Carl, this creature is very delicate.

It must survive in a specific temperature and humidity environment, and its movement speed is terribly slow.

so……

Someone has to prepare food for it.

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

The soil-eating fat silkworms, which are now in the larval stage, need to eat fine soil that has been sieved. The fine soil is mixed with water into a certain proportion of muddy water, which is its food.

Holding the 'Fat Silkworms Eating Soil', John quickly came to the cultivation room in the city and adjusted the humidity and temperature.

Then he mixed some water and mud and poured it carefully into the nest.

“Gurgle…”

Bullied by the bubbles in the muddy water, the plump white and pink soil-eating silkworms rolled over and quickly contracted their bodies.

It has no mouth.

There are many tiny holes on the body's surface, like mouthparts, swallowing mud and water.

soon.

It swallowed half of the mixed mud and water.

“What a big appetite!”

John was not surprised but happy, because a good appetite meant that it was healthy. Moreover, in just a short moment, the fat silkworm had grown in size.

In the next few days, John took care of the fat silkworms without sleep and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

One day.

The fat, soil-eating 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 layer of gelatinous substance is a nutrient that can be taken by humans, and Carl calls it meat glue.

I carefully scraped off the glue and collected it for the first time, and I actually harvested a whole bowl of it.

"According to the knowledge in my mind, a mature soil-eating fat silkworm can secrete meat glue four times a day, which means four large bowls, which is enough to provide the energy needed for more than a dozen people to survive for a day."

"And it will grow larger in size and produce more meat glue later."

John scraped out some meat glue with his fingers and put it in his mouth. He tasted it carefully for a moment before speaking slowly: "It has a little bit of meat flavor. No wonder it's called meat glue."

A few days later.

With an ample supply of mud and water, the fat soil-eating silkworms have grown as if inflated, and are now as big as a two-year-old baby.

Each time, the scraped meat glue was as much as twenty bowls! Although it was far from enough to supply the entire Xucheng people, it was already comparable to the farmed meat worms.

"Half a month."

John held a carving knife in his hand and wrote and drew on the slate: "For the first three to four days, someone needs to be watching all the time, and no glue is produced."

“This is the larval stage.”

"It takes seven to eight days to mature, during which time its size expands rapidly and its gelatin production also increases greatly."

"Next..."

“It’s recession!”

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

But he knew.

The soil-eating fat silkworm's decline comes quickly, and its short lifespan is the fundamental reason why it is immune to mutation.

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

"puff!"

suddenly.

A crack appeared on the surface of the soil-eating fat silkworm's skin and flesh, and then, as if deflated, the fat and round soil-eating fat silkworm began to collapse inward, and its body shattered and scattered.

John did not indulge in sadness. He pulled himself together, peeled off the flesh of the fat silkworm's body, and carefully picked up three tiny larvae from it.

The newly born fat soil-eating silkworms are only a few times larger than ants and may even be overlooked if you don’t look closely.

Three days later.

The fat silkworm that eats soil once again reached the state he had taken over from Carl.

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However, the newly born soil-eating silkworms were too delicate, and even though John took good care of them, one of them still died.

Another four days.

Begins to secrete gelatin.

Ten days later

The two fat silkworms died, leaving behind five offspring. This time John had experience and four of them survived.

…………

John walked out of the cultivation room. The long period of sleepless nights made him mentally exhausted and his feet felt dizzy.

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

Rubbing his swollen head, he walked towards the reservoir.

"Mr. John!"

"John!"

“…”

Along the way, residents of the city greeted him one after another with warm attitudes, some even with a hint of flattery.

Xucheng has had sufficient food supply in recent times, and they all know who deserves the credit.

In addition to the Envoy Karl,

It's John!

"Joe!"

"Aunt Eun-pei!"

"Hello."

John enjoyed everyone's attitude towards him very much. He smiled and waved to everyone, and his tired spirit was lifted.

"Hey!"

“Yo!”

“Again!”

Shouts came from the front.

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

"Abe!"

He nodded to someone in the field and said, "Are we going to build another reservoir?"

"yes."

Abei is tall and honest. He grinned and nodded.

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

“Then drinking water won’t be a problem anymore.”

"Good!" John rubbed his hands together, looking excited: "Great!"

"I wonder if I can build one near my breeding room. As you know, soil-eating silkworms need a lot of water."

"The next one is it." Abe said, "Uncle McGinn said that your breeding room needs to be expanded, and it is very likely that you will move to another location."

“Once we have decided on a location, we will build a reservoir.”

"Really?" John grinned, smiling:

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

"Yes!" Abei nodded, looking towards the core of the virtual city, his eyes full of admiration:

"They are all gifts from the Divine Envoy Karl!"

"Um."

John nodded heavily.

He is now extremely grateful that he met Carl in the wild, otherwise Xucheng would not be what it is today.

There is no need to say much about the fat silkworms that feed on the soil. At present, they can already provide the daily nutrition needed by the people in the city in a stable manner.

The reservoir...

In the past, we could only hire others to build it at a huge cost, but now the messenger Karl has taught us how to build it.

The new water tank stores water better and more conveniently than before.

“Look!”

At this moment, someone suddenly looked up at the sky, pointed with his finger, and showed excitement on his face:

“It’s a flower boat!”

"The flower boats from Mobile Void City are coming to us."

Flower boat?

John's heart moved.

He heard from the old people in the city that in this world, there is a kind of virtual city that can move in the air.

The virtual cities are full of women. They will go to one virtual city after another and exchange the women on the ship for resources.

The last time a flower boat came to Xucheng was more than 20 years ago, when John was not yet there.

"I heard that women on flower boats can easily get pregnant, and they have ways to shorten the pregnancy period to within three months."

"The offspring they give birth to are also healthier."

Someone murmured: "Will Huachuan make a deal with us?"

(End of this chapter)