Chapter 18 I lost my Gu worms?
After breakfast, Shi Lin left the restaurant and prepared to return to his courtyard to start refining the Gu worms.
"Young Master, have you finished eating?" Shi An asked with a smile as he approached Shi Lin, who was coming out of the restaurant.
"I'm done eating. Oh, right, Brother An, bring the wine brewed from those insects to my room later. I need it." Shi Lin said to Shi An at the door.
"Yes, young master!" Shi An nodded without hesitation.
"Young Master, you're still young, you absolutely mustn't drink alcohol," Shi An said, looking up at Shi Lin with concern.
"Don't worry, I won't drink. You can bring some drinks to my room first, and then we'll go eat," Shi Lin said with a smile to Shi An.
"Alright, young master, I'll go arrange for someone to move the wine jars right away!" Shi An replied, then turned and left the courtyard to find someone to move things for Shi Lin.
If the Shi family wants to enter the liquor business, they need to test the waters with a large quantity of liquor products.
Therefore, Shi Lin must equip the brewery with enough wine Gu before it is completed.
Shi Lin was ready. Over the next two days, he needed to refine as many wine Gu as possible.
He did it right away.
When Shi Lin returned to his room, Shi An was just there with a dozen servants carrying jars of wine into Shi Lin's room.
"Young Master, all the wine brewed from those insects during this time is here!" Shi An reported to Shi Lin after placing the last jar of wine on the ground.
Shi Lin glanced at the drinks that Shi An had brought.
There are approximately twenty jars.
"It seems that after a while, once the number of wine Gu has increased, we'll need to arrange for someone to test the optimal brewing speed of the wine Gu." Shi Lin looked at the wine in front of him and stroked his chin.
Shi Lin needs to know how much water the wine Gu can convert into wine within a specified time.
Furthermore, it's important to know how much water to add to ensure the highest quality alcohol produced from the wine Gu.
These things don't need Shi Lin's quality testing; they can be left to Shi An or Fugui.
Of course, now is not the time. Shi Lin doesn't have double digits of Gu worms yet, so he can't conduct large-scale experiments!
When Shi Lin has more Gu worms in his possession in the future, he can work on them all at once, without saving any time.
"Young Master, if there's nothing else, I'll head back now," Shi An said softly, seeing Shi Lin deep in thought.
"Ah, Brother An, hurry up and go eat. Later, could you arrange for a few people to go to the bamboo grove in the backyard to dig up some bamboo worms for me?" Shi Lin said to Shi An after thinking for a moment.
Next, they need to refine a large number of wine Gu, which requires not only a large amount of wine but also some bamboo worms.
"Yes, young master, I'll go arrange for people to dig up the bugs right away!" Shi An nodded in response and then left Shi Lin's room.
After watching Shi An leave, Shi Lin picked up a jar of wine and went to the table, preparing to start refining Gu worms.
In the time that followed, Shi Lin devoted all his energy to refining the wine Gu.
After his soul power was completely depleted, he used the wine Gu to absorb the surrounding soul power. After replenishing his soul power, Shi Lin refined the Gu worms again.
And so, Shi Lin continued refining from noon until evening, until all the wine in the room was used up, before he finally stopped.
Looking at the wine jars scattered haphazardly in the room, Shi Lin smiled wearily.
In one day, Shi Lin refined wine Gu forty times, resulting in eight mid-grade wine Gu and fifteen low-grade wine Gu.
"Come on, let me see today's finished product!" Shi Lin rubbed his slightly swollen cheeks and then picked up the two wine jars beside him.
But just as Shi Lin peered into the wine jar, he froze.
The wine jar that should have contained eight mid-grade wine Gu now only has one wine Gu left!
"What happened? The Gu worm is missing?" Shi Lin looked at the last remaining mid-grade wine Gu in the wine jar, his eyes filled with uncertainty.
Could it be that his memory is faulty?
"Oh right, there's also the lower grade!" Shi Lin quickly picked up another wine jar and glanced inside.
As expected, only one Gu worm remained in the wine jar, but this Gu worm was a mid-grade wine Gu.
Both wine jars contain medium-grade wine Gu?
"Is this a supernatural event? Where did the other wine Gu he made go?" Shi Lin muttered to himself while scratching his head.
Suddenly, Shi Lin seemed to remember something and quickly took out the two mid-grade wine Gu from the wine jar.
The remaining mid-grade wine Gu in the mid-grade wine jar are much fuller and rounder than the remaining mid-grade wine Gu in the low-grade wine jar, and they are also more lustrous.
"I understand..." Shi Lin looked at the Gu worm in front of him with some helplessness and sighed.
To verify his idea.
Shi Lin placed the last two mid-grade wine Gu into the same wine jar, then leaned over the edge of the jar to look inside.
When the two wine Gu were first placed into the wine jar, they were quite quiet, keeping to themselves.
But after a while, the two wine Gu actually started to wriggle towards each other.
Then a fight broke out.
The mouthparts of the two wine Gu were exceptionally sharp, each one capable of tearing a large chunk of flesh from the other's body.
In less than a minute, the Gu worm in the original mid-grade wine jar had completely devoured the other mid-grade wine Gu.
After swallowing another wine Gu, this wine Gu turned belly up and began to absorb the wine Gu it had just swallowed.
"The Gu worms devour themselves! How could he have forgotten about that!" Shi Lin slapped his forehead, somewhat annoyed.
In the novels Shi Lin had read, the process of refining Gu worms involved putting several or even a dozen kinds of highly poisonous insects in a container and letting them devour each other. Only the one that survived to the end could be called a Gu!
Just now, Shi Lin put these wine Gu in the same wine jar, which triggered their natural instincts, causing them to devour each other!
Just as Shi Lin figured all this out, a familiar aroma of wine wafted from the wine jar.
"A mid-grade Gu worm devouring each other can actually evolve into a high-grade wine Gu." Shi Lin said in disbelief, looking at the high-grade wine Gu that had just completed its transformation in the wine jar.
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