[Ancient Sword II] Morning Light Shadow

The time between the sacrifice ceremony and Shennong's birthday is not far away. Shen Xi has been there every year in the past, and she doesn't think it is new and interesting. In addition, after recovering from illness, she has become a young girl who has not grown up, and her mentality has not yet fully adjusted. It's fine to go out quietly. At this time, she doesn't want to go out to show her face at all, and people will look at her with sympathy and pity.

Shen Ye coaxed her for several days, but failed to trick her sister out of the room. In the end, she could only sullenly follow the high priest to attend the ceremony, and then began to prepare for the annual Shennong birthday. There are many praises such as "the son is like his father", "he is quite like his father", and so on.

Of course, Shen Xi had to make fun of him afterwards.

What Shen Xi said to Cangming in the forbidden area of ​​Jumu that day, Shen Xi didn't think about it carefully beforehand, but after thinking about it later, she herself felt that there was something inappropriate.

Fortunately, Cangming's eyes and ears are much smarter than Shen Xi's, and his spiritual power is inherited from the same strain, so he didn't notice anyone nearby at that time.Otherwise, if those words were spread, and then they were intentionally or unintentionally embellished or misrepresented, it would not be enough to give Shen Xi ten lives.

While thinking wildly, Yun Yu sent a wooden basin.The first batch of silkworms in the silkworm room this year had cocooned. After reeling, Canniang remembered Shen Xi's previous request. When she came to the temple to report to the high priest, she brought some silkworm chrysalis to Shen Xi.

"Didn't daddy ask me what I want these things for?" Shen Xi took the wooden basin and put it on the ground, squatting down and poking out those shiny brown-red pupae.

Back when she saw bugs, she would get goosebumps all over her body, but now she can catch bugs and play with bugs without changing her face. This weird change seems to have started from that intravenous injection of Gu bugs...

Sure enough, the lower limit of the Sanguan morality and so on, it is the lower the brush, the faster it falls - it is almost impossible to look directly at it.

Seeing the little girl slowly stirring the chrysalis with porcelain-white slender fingers, Yun Yu's face turned a little blue. "The high priest didn't ask. He said that although Miss Xi's spiritual power is wasted, she is still a child after all. Now that there are more and more Gu, Miss Xi may not be able to feed them all..."

Sure enough, she couldn't hide any plans from her parents, so Shen Xi looked away silently.She really wanted to try to use silkworm chrysalis as feed to feed Gu worms.

"What about brother?"

"Uh...this..."

"It must be enough to hold back a look of disgust and say that Xiaoxi likes it, right?"

All in... Yun Yu really wanted to hide her face.

Seeing that Yun Yu's expression was not very good, Shen Xi could also guess that this girl was probably disgusted by the silkworm chrysalis, so she casually ordered some chores and sent the maid out.

After drying the silkworm chrysalis with moisture and dividing them into three piles according to their size, Shen Xi dragged out one of the Gu jars under the bed, lifted the lid, grabbed two silkworm chrysalis from the smallest pile, and was about to Throwing it into the jar, I felt as if something was wriggling in my hand.

She turned the lid of the Gu jar over, put the two silkworm chrysalis in her hand on top, and poked them with a bamboo stick. She quickly saw that the silkworm chrysalis with a lighter color moved from time to time. Wrapping something alive.It's just that the pupa skin is a little tough, and the things inside can't be struggled out for a while.

It should be noted that the so-called silk reeling is to put silkworm cocoons into boiling water to soften and expand them, then draw the silk by hand and wind it around a silk basket.Therefore, the silkworm chrysalis sent by Canniang are actually boiled dead chrysalis.

Didn't it boil to death?Is it a mutant variety resistant to high temperature?

Shen Xi found a new Gu tank, numbered it, put the moving silkworm chrysalis in it, closed the lid, and continued to feed other Gu insects.

Because it can devour Shen Xi's spiritual power, Gu insects actually don't need much food. A medium-sized silkworm chrysalis can feed about four to five Gu jars.After busying around, there were still a lot of silkworm chrysalis from the silkworm weaving field, so Shen Xi decided to dry them.This work is not troublesome, but considering how common people accept chrysalis, it is best to find a secluded place so as not to obstruct the view.

So Shen Xi thought for a while, and jumped to the Jumu forbidden area with the wooden basin in her arms. Under the almost collapsed gaze of Cangming, she spread out the silkworm chrysalis on the ground, and sprinkled insect repellent powder around them, so as not to drag the silkworm chrysalis back to store food by ants. .

Cangming remembered that time Shen Xi made a joke about touching the bugs and not washing his hands, his already pale face became more and more haggard...

After a few days, after storing the dried silkworm chrysalis in a clean container, Shen Xi remembered the mutant species.

Find out the Gu jar and look, there is only a little gnawed pupa skin left in it, and there seems to be a white mass coiled at the bottom of the jar where the light cannot shine.

Shen Xi put on deer leather gloves, carefully pinched the white thing, and took it out.The appearance looks the same as ordinary silkworms, but the whole body has a faint ice-blue luster, and it feels quite firm when pinched, not as soft as silkworms, and the shape is still... Shen Xi twisted the silkworm expressionlessly. The strange silkworm like Xiang stuffed it back, and went out with the Gu pot in its mouth.

"Xiaoxi?"

The little girl with a bunny doll tied to her body was poking her head at the door, and it was hard for Tong to ignore it, "It's already at the door, why don't you come in?"

Shen Xi took a few steps forward, handed the Gu jar in front of Tong, and pulled the rabbit's ears.

"I found a strange insect a few days ago. I haven't seen it before. I want to ask the priest of Seven Kills to help me take a look."

Although both of them raise Gu, they usually don't have much communication. The Gu art in Liuyue City is a typical master who leads the door to practice personally. The same Gu art scroll is taught to different people, and the finally cultivated Gu insects are quite different.Just like the Chinese of the later generations, the elementary teaching is taught to recognize characters, the intermediate teaching is to teach composition, and the advanced teaching is to teach grammar. Even if it is a composition with all propositions, the articles written are different from person to person.

If you want to use an analogy, Shen Xi's way of raising Gu is a bit like grafting and parasitism, choosing a suitable insect as an anvil, and then implanting the Gu insect that devoured one's own spiritual power to grow up, so that the two can co-exist.And Hitomi's method is to select excellent individuals, stimulate them to change with spells and drugs, and get better Gu worms.

Although the methods are different, in the end they will be screened by the original Gu breeding method of survival of the fittest, and drugs will be selectively added during the cultivation process to promote changes in the nature of Gu insects.

Tong Tong took the Gu jar, took a look at the lid, then returned it to Shen Xi, saying with certainty: "The ice silkworm produced in Buzhou Mountain."

"Don't ice silkworms form black cocoons?" Shen Xi has also read some of the mountains and rivers handed down from ancient times, and has a slight impression of ice silkworms. "I went to the silkworm weaving field before I came here, and there is nothing unusual there."

"Probably... it was a seed mixed in a long time ago."

Floating Moon City has been closed for a long time, so it is naturally impossible for outside species to enter, so it is only possible that they were brought to Floating Moon City before it was closed.

So, is this throwback?Shen Xi silently looked at the silkworm that continued to coil into a flying shape, and then thought about its high-end and elegant scientific name... This style of painting is slightly different!

"Now there is only this one. If we breed it with ordinary silkworms, can ice silkworms be produced?"

Although many animal breeds require pure bloodlines or close relatives or even inbreeding, there are also exotic breeds such as the Scottish Fold cat... Shen Xi doesn't want to spend all his time and only end up raising a jar of ordinary silkworms.

Tong shook his head, picked up the ball of ice silkworm under Shen Xi's disappointed gaze, straightened and pinched the head and tail, with a little force, pulled it into two pieces with a puff, and put it back into the Gu jar.

"It can be reproduced like this."

A large amount of ice-blue mucus quickly gushed out from the fracture of the worm body to seal the wound, and then the serious injury that was equivalent to a half cut also quickly healed under the mucus cover, and the missing part grew out.

... Fuck mitosis or hermaphrodite?Isn't this the setting of earthworms? !

Shen Xi was dumbfounded.

"A few new apprentices came in yesterday, and the high priest asked me to ask if the Seven Kills Palace needs some helpers... Uh, Xiaoxi?"

Seeing two insect lovers, one big and one small, looking at each other, Huayue felt that something was going to go wrong.She really doesn't want to see that tomorrow's Ziwei Palace will become like today's Qisha Palace...

Every day when I go home, I see my sister playing with worms... Maybe Ah Ye will break down?Huayue twitched her lips in thought.