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Part 6 Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea Chapter 50 Scraping Mussels and Pearls


In addition, it is said that some "bead ponds" were emptied by egg collectors, and clam shells and clam meat piled up into mountains.

But at night, there was light reflecting the moon in the pearl ponds.

The egg people did not know the truth and thought there were still clam beads at the bottom of the water, so they The next day, they continue to dive for pearls, but they often never come back.

They are all swallowed by the clam, which is waiting for revenge.

It eats living people without even spitting out the bones.

But even if the pool of pearls is drained, it will be difficult to find a trace.

Therefore, when the eggmen who fight for their lives at sea talk about these legends, they can't help but turn pale with horror.

Moreover, touching the clam will cause tsunamis and hurricanes.

In short, the rumors are quite evil.

Without the fisherman's secret weapon, there is no way to induce it.

Benzu’s.

At this time, the shadows in the water were changing, and I could no longer see Guchai's whereabouts clearly, and I couldn't help but feel worried.

Just as I was about to go look for him, suddenly the mud and sand on the mother-of-pearl seabed surged, and a demonic mist rose.

I saw a flickering light, followed by a huge black shadow, and waves of blood gushed out from it.

Guchai's whole body was covered in blood, and he struggled to swim out with his hands and feet carrying the "corpse".

However, the water behind him was filled with demonic mist, and there seemed to be a strong suction.

Guchai had just swam out three to five meters, and was immediately caught again.

The water sucked back and suddenly disappeared into the thick fog.

The mother-of-pearl moves under the water, as if it has the potential to move seas and mountains.

The ever-changing rainbow aura in the water is covered by the lifted sand, and a thick mist rises over the water, making it impossible to see clearly the mussel inside.

What does it look like?

Guchai relied on the underwater skills of "Longhu" to use the "corpse claw" to attract the mother-of-pearl to move.

She opened her shell and divided her armor, wanting to swallow the sinister "corpse claw" and suck the water to form a The vortex.

Guchai was half a step slower and was sucked into the whirlpool.

Before he could struggle, he was already trapped deep in the thick mud and fog brought up by the mother-of-pearl.

I stared at him, feeling anxious, and immediately reached out for the diving explosives, wanting to go over and snatch Guchai out.

At the moment, saving people was more important, and I didn't care whether I could lure Bengzu out of the deep stream.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt the impact of the water in front of him, and Guchai also struggled to release the surging mud and smoke.

It turned out that after the mother-of-pearl swallowed the corpse with muscles and no bones, she couldn't bear the Yin Qi in the female corpse for a while, split her shell, and spat out the corpse like a pearl.

Guchai cut off a few pieces of clam meat inside the shell, mixed it with the blood mist and rushed out along the current.

I hurriedly reached out and grabbed Guchai's arm, dragging him in the turbulence.

I saw that he was also in shock.

He had been sucked into the shell by the mother-of-pearl no less than three times.

Seeing that Bengzu had been lured out, the two of us didn't dare to stay any longer, so we pulled on the diving rope and swam out as hard as we could.

The outline of Bengzu is vaguely visible.

Although it is not clearly seen, the strong fluctuations in the water are enough to feel that it is huge and moves slowly.

It is attached to the rocks and squirms out, chasing the corpses.

Moved by the Yin Qi, it climbed out of the sea of ​​pearls.

It is not unusual for Dan people to place bead matchmakers in the sea to attract pearls.

The materials used by ordinary "bead matchmakers" do not even include fish beads, but only the food that snails and clams like.

Mix some minced meat and use this as a guide to separate the armor surrounding the snails and clams, and take the opportunity to scrape the clams to get the pearls.

Only the ancestors of the Dan people would use this kind of corpse skull made of human skin.

Neither Guchai nor I expected that the "Corpse" would be so efficacious.

Inspired by its Yin Qi, Bengzu suddenly appeared.

We were a little unprepared and ran away in a hurry without caring.

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Looking back at the situation behind me, I felt that my back was like a hole, and the force of absorbing water was extremely strong.

If I hadn't grasped the tough diving rope, I would have been sucked away by the turbulent current if I let go.

Before reaching the exit of the mountain stream, the turbulent flow at the mouth of the stream and the force of the mother-of-pearl absorbing water form a pincer attack.

When you are in it, your hands and feet feel sore.

The chaotic undercurrent makes people feel like the world is spinning, and the effect of water pressure , my head was a little dizzy, and I couldn't help but have the idea of ​​letting go of the diving rope.

At the moment when my consciousness started to become hazy, I felt a chill behind me.

The ghostly feeling penetrated through my internal organs.

I subconsciously looked back.

Through the frog mirror, I saw a face with bright but extremely distorted features.

The woman's face just sticks to my frog mirror.

That was the corpse dragged behind Guchai.

It was carried by the turbulent current and entangled with the rope to the dead baby behind me.

Although I knew that the woman’s face was the result of a corpse that had swelled up after being soaked in water, and the longer it was in the water, the more vivid and lifelike it was, but seeing the facial features of this human skin at such a close distance, it almost looked like Are you smiling with a wink, or do you feel completely His body was so cold that he was bone-chilling, but his originally fuzzy mind became clear.

He was startled, and suddenly a force came out of his body.

He pulled the diving rope with all his strength, and Guchai was in the gap between the turbulent currents.

In the middle, he rolled out of the deep stream at the entrance of the Pearl Sea.

Although mother-of-pearl is greedy for the yin energy in the water and is naturally afraid of natural phenomena such as the "breaking of the moon", it may be that it has lived for too long, or it may be that the stillborn fetus in the ancient tomb has been transformed for thousands of years, and the eclipse of the sky has been eliminated.

There are not many left, so it can drive away the sharks, but it has no effect on the clam that has become a spirit.

So it ignored my stillborn fetus hanging on the oxygen bottle as if it was nothing.

It got closer and closer, closely following the corpse out of the Pearl Sea.

There are mostly strange-shaped coral fossils near the mouth of the stream.

When Bengzu arrived here, there was no longer any obstruction from the smoke rising from the sediment.

We felt the light floating behind us, bursts of light as bright as day.

We looked back in the middle of our busy schedule and saw a giant clam covered with barnacle-like camouflage right behind us. .

Its shape is not as big as a hill, it is about the size of a truck head, and its appearance is similar to a rare basin-shaped pearl oyster.

The surface of the wavy and convex shell is covered with a thick layer of lumpy marine sediments.

It has obviously been Haven't moved in years.

The clam shell of the ancestor of the clam is the most peculiar.

It is not two leaves in one, or a spiral body, but a clam shell with six hinged leaves, which can be opened and closed on the left and right sides and up and down.

There are unusually developed clam legs in the shell.

The plate, the clam armor opens and closes suddenly, even if the body with a bronze head and iron arms is caught by it, it will be amputated like being cut by a rolling knife.

Just now, Guchai was still intact after being sucked into it.

I am afraid that only Long Hu, who can advance and retreat underwater like lightning, can be so lucky.

I only glanced back, and I felt my eyes were dazzled for a while.

The oyster clam was very different from ordinary snails and clams.

Through the refraction of water waves, a rainbow aura is formed, which is dazzling to the eyes and frightening to the gods.

The light blue light waves of the surrounding deep water ghost octopuses, like ghost fires, were now overshadowed by each other.

The entire coral iron tree fossil was shrouded in the light of the hundreds of pearls hidden in the clam's armor.

It's just that the ancestor of the clam is hidden at the bottom of the sea, and there is no real bright moon all year round.

Compared with the ordinary pearls in the coral spiral sea, the clam pearls it contains are particularly cold and cold.

The six huge clam shells open and close, and there are thousands of rays of rainbow energy.

It also appeared and disappeared immediately.

I didn't expect that the mother-of-pearl was chasing so close.

When I looked back, I felt the white light was dazzling.

Suddenly, the cold air and the suction of the water increased greatly, and the giant clam's armor suddenly opened.

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Both Guchai and I were stunned.

Caught in the force of the clam's armor opening and closing, as long as the mother-of-pearl's six pieces of heavy armor are tightly wrapped, even if it is not pinched to death immediately, it will be sucked into the pearl sac by the clam.

Guchai became very violent and bloodthirsty when he was underwater.

When he saw this, he would repeat his old tricks.

He wanted to retreat while retreating, so he hid in the clam shell, and while the bead shell was closing, he poked the sperm inside.

A few blows from the old clam.

But I saw that after Benzu swallowed the corpse a few times, the resentment in the human skin of the female corpse gradually disappeared.

I was afraid that if Benzu swallowed it again, the yin energy generated on the corpse skin and pearl clothing would disappear, and the mother-of-pearl would probably It will be wrapped directly into the bead bag and will not be spit out easily.

With Guchai's short knife, trying to kill such a giant clam in its shell may not be possible.

He must not risk his life to fight at this moment.

This thought came to his mind, and he saw Guchai holding the knife and jumping back.

I hurriedly reached out and grabbed him, but Guchai slid under the water like a loach and moved like a black fish.

My hand was caught on his arm, as if I had caught an extremely slippery water snake.

It was difficult to stay and I could not keep my hand.

Send off.

But fortunately, I grabbed the rope binding the corpse on his back and immediately pulled him forward, dragging Guchai half a circle in the water.

At this moment, the mother-of-pearl's thick armor suddenly closed, missing Guchai's feet by only half an inch.

The corpse, which was dragging a kite in the water, had been swallowed into its shell by the clam.

Guchai and I were entangled in the ropes on the corpse, and we were so anxious that we couldn't get out.

After the mother-of-pearl swallowed the bead medium, she immediately closed her armor and remained motionless as a mountain.

The giant armor trembled slightly, as if she was enjoying the corpse.

The resentment in the skin.

I pushed the clam shell that was tightly closed like canine teeth with one hand, pulled out the water-dividing dagger with the other hand, cut the rope entangled in the back, and then I and Guchai got out.

At this time, Shirey Yang and others looked around under the coral tree.

They were frightened and wanted to swim over to help.

However, the incident happened suddenly.

At that moment of lightning, they were too late.

Fortunately, there were no casualties and they successfully rescued the old clam from The mother-of-pearl was drawn out of the sea, and she hurried over to surround the mother-of-pearl.

Pearl Sea is also known as "Yinghai".

"Ying" is the ancient name for the fairy mountain in the sea, and also means fairyland.

In fact, Dan people also called the underwater pearl pool or cave the same name.

In the Feng Shui method, it is called "Yinghai" or "Yingshu", which are the best places where vitality is immortal, and it is also the place where the sea air is the strongest in the sea.

Mother-of-pearl itself and the "Yinghai" are an indivisible whole.

It hides in the mother-of-pearl sea and can survive for a very long time by breathing out the yin essence in the sea.

It is often said among the people that "the king of a thousand years has eighty thousand years."

"Turtle, a hundred-year-old hedgehog".

In fact, there may not be any old turtles in the sea that can live for thousands of years, but the oldest turtle found so far is only 800 years old.

Although the life span of marine organisms is longer than that of life on land, the term "thousands of years" is still not realistic.

Most of them are described as "ten thousand years" because it is difficult to judge.

The lifespan of the mother-of-pearl clam should be about three to four thousand years.

Once the mother-of-pearl clam leaves the Pearl Sea and loses the aura of condensed vitality in the sea, it will be like an old and decaying candle in the wind, although it will not age and die immediately. , but loses vitality, the clam meat will become collapsed and shrunk, and after the pearl essence in the body is exhausted, it will begin to die.

The clam we brought out, after swallowing the corpse, closed its carapace and remained motionless, as if it was drowsy.

It was no longer as ferocious and fierce as it was in the "Yinghai", and would no longer attack the frogmen.

There is no real threat to the egg people.

I turned behind the giant clam and stroked its shell, thinking: "The ancestor of the clam is a spiritual creature of the South China Sea, and it has the spirit of the sea.

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Nowadays, resources in the world have been over-exploited, and there are very few natural seawater pearls.

There are about seven continents."

There are only three or two mother-of-pearls still alive in the eight oceans.

The total age of our group is probably less than that.

"It has a big head.

Although I deliberately left it unkilled, there is no other way to get pearls from such a big live clam underwater.

It seems to be harmless, so I had no choice but to be cruel this time."

So he did it.

With a gesture of cutting, Uncle Ming and the three Dan people, Guchai and Duoling, took action.

They had special skills, and killing clams to obtain pearls was naturally the best thing for Dan people, Longhu.

Uncle Ming waved his hands to us, which probably meant that there was no point in killing the ancestral clam.

He could just use the secret weapon passed down by the fisherman to scrape the beads directly, and then let the old clam fend for itself.

He then took it from my hand.

Using the ancient Fenshui sword, the three of them, Duoling Guchai, used their sword blades to scrape off the sea erosion sediment layer by layer on the clam shells.

When fishing for pearls in the sea, sometimes whole old clams are fished out together.

After taking out the clam pearls, the clam meat cannot be wasted.

Use a pick knife to scrape the clam meat alive from the shell, which is called "scraping clams".

But pearl fishers have an ancient method called "scraping clams", which is not the way ordinary fishermen use sharp blades to scrape clam meat.

The ancient clam scrapers used a bronze water-dividing tool that was dragged back and forth on the clam shell.

When the copper blade was dragged on the undulating clam shell, the clam body in the shell would feel a vibration.

This kind of vibration is extremely special, just like the "gold seedlings" used to mine gold in ancient times.

When you see a gold vein, you must recite a mantra, otherwise the vein will be short.

The method of scraping clams seems to be an ancient curse issued by bronze.

Only the bronze blade with the fish and dragon totem cast on it can have the effect of frightening the old clams.

The older the copper blade used, the more obvious its effect.

The mother-of-pearl carapace was scratched by a sharp blade, as if it was frightened out of its wits, or as if it was under general anesthesia.

All the muscle strength in the body was gone, and the carapace was loose.

Even if the Dan people picked out the bead sacs, they could not resist or struggle at all.

Fatty, Shiry Yang, and I didn't understand the mystery at all.

At this time, we could only watch from the sidelines, staring intently at Uncle Ming's "scraping clam" action under the water.

Although I usually think that Uncle Ming is an old thief who is used to bragging and showing off, and is an old gambler and old liar like "Guan Erye farts without knowing how to blush", but he does have some outstanding qualities, and he has rich experience in maritime affairs and the business of killing people. , all kinds of anecdotes about egg collecting are known in detail.

Because these ancient bronze swords were ancient secret weapons, there was no need to worship the fisherman anymore.

With Uncle Ming's weird technique, the colorful clam shells of the Beng Zu were exposed without much effort, and the shell surface The bright red inverted bone spurs were densely covered, like a huge piece of colorful coral.

As if it was hypnotized, it tremblingly opened a gap in the clam shell

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