Activating the thruster downward, he rushed to the bottom of the ocean at breakneck speed as the water gushed out.

Such a speed is unimaginable for ordinary people, the sea pressure is huge, and diving and ascending at too fast speed will cause diving sickness.

When he reached the bottom of the sea, Ao Muyang reached out and touched it in the mud.

The tentacles were warm, and as he felt yesterday, the sea mud here was much warmer than the water, and he guessed that there were hot springs or geothermal fissures on the bottom of the sea.

Landing at the bottom of the sea, he took the rake he was carrying in his hand and danced a few times, and then smiled bitterly: "Brewed, Lao Tzu has become a second senior brother!"

Using a rake, he began to stir up the mud, and as the water became muddy, he pulled out a palm-sized shell shortly after.

The two shells of this shell are not the same size, some are large and some are small, and the shell has stony scales on it, which is rough to the touch, and it does not look good.

But among the so-called ruined gold and jade, this unremarkable shellfish produces one of the most beautiful jewels in the world, white pearls!

Yes, this is pearl oyster, there are multiple varieties of pearl oysters, and Ao Muyang can't be sure which variety this is.

In addition, as far as he knows, pearl oysters prefer to live on muddy and sandy substrates in shallow seas with clear water, low currents, and gravel.

The depth of water that they normally require for their normal life is not more than fifteen meters, but what about now? The depth of the sea where they are located is more than 150 meters!

However, Ao Muyang guessed that the reason why they could survive here was not that the pearl oysters had mutated and changed their living habits, but that they hid in the sea mud here to survive.

The reason why pearl oysters live in shallow water is that they are warm-temperate species, and they cannot move when the temperature of their living environment is below 13 degrees.

The temperature of the mud on the seabed is about 20 degrees, which is the temperature they like to live in.

Ao Muyang used a rake to look in the sea mud for a while, but the harvest was not large, and the number of pearl oysters here was not much.

Even if the temperature is right, this place is not the best living environment for pearl oysters, and there are predators such as devouring eels, so their population cannot expand.

Ao Muyang put the pearl oyster he found back into the sea mud and buried it, he wanted to know how many shells there were in this sea, so he pondered for a while, and he released a little gold droplet.

When the gold drops into the water, it turns into thousands of tiny droplets, which slowly spread out with ocean currents, covering a large area of the ocean floor.

Slowly, the quiet mud came to life, and some shells popped up from it, and then floated gently, the shells opened, and they caught gold droplets in the water.

Everything is as Ao Muyang expected, pearl oysters, like fish and shrimp, will be tempted by golden drops.

In addition to pearl oysters, some fish that slipped through the net devoured the eel.

The devouring eels are very cheerful, there are gold drops and shells, and you can have a full meal today!

Soon they were not happy, Ao Muyang took the net over and fished it, and caught the fish that slipped through the net yesterday......

If the devouring eel has emotions, it will definitely say: "Knock on it!" Do I knock on it! You fish for law enforcement?!

Unlike Ao Muyang's guess, there are not a lot of pearl oysters here, and there are thousands of them coming out before and after, but they are widely distributed on the bottom of the sea, so they can't be collected on a large scale by rakes.

The pearl oysters surfaced one after another, and this scene amazed him greatly, as if space warships appeared in the starry sky, large and small, spinning and fluttering......

What surprised him the most was that the largest pearl oyster that appeared was the size of a basin, which was beyond his knowledge, and the limit of the size of the pearl oyster he knew was only the size of a football cross-section!

They floated in the sea for a while, and then returned to the mud.

Ao Muyang swallowed his saliva and swam to grab a pearl oyster slightly larger than his palm, he wanted to test his guess and see if the pearl was from them.

Surfacing, he got on the fishing boat, first put the devouring eel in the ice tank for storage, and then he began to open the pearl oyster.

He picked it with his hand for a while, and the two shells didn't move, which made him laugh: "The little thing is clamped quite tightly, I don't believe you can't open it!"

Unable to open it with his hands, he put on pliers and an awl, chiseled and pulled, and finally opened the pearl oyster.

Wild saltwater pearl oysters are sturdy, and the shells are very thick, and when you knock them with tongs, it looks like knocking granite!

Inside the open shell is milky white shell, and there are some pearls distributed in it, some are round, some are flat, and some are slightly angular, this shell is densely packed with pearls!

Presumably, pearls are essentially impurities that enter the shell, and shellfish secrete nacre to wrap around it and form pearls.

Pearl oysters here live in sea mud and have a higher chance of entering sand and gravel impurities in their bodies.

Sitting on the bow of the boat, Ao Muyang's eyes lit up: he found an excellent pearl oyster habitat, and the value it contained was probably tens of millions of yuan.

The trench yellow croaker, the red reef crab and the treasure fish, and the pearl oyster group, he looked out to the vast ocean, and what he saw was not a desolate sea, but a vibrant marine ranch!

Returning home in high spirits, he had just come ashore and received a text message from Land Rover, who had helped him find a jeweler to sell his pearls.

Ao Muyang called, the jeweler's name is Zhu Zinai, the homonym is a bit interesting, that is, 'pig milk', when he saw this name, he smiled maliciously for a while.

You can smile in private, but when he gets to the phone, he has to be serious: "Hello Boss Zhu, my name is Ao Muyang, Mr. Land Rover introduced you as a jeweler, right?"

Zhu Zinai smiled and said: "Xiao Ao, hello, hello, Brother Tiger told me about you, you see when you have time to come to Hongyang, I will take a look at your pearls, and then give a price." ”

didn't say anything, Ao Muyang went to Hongyang the next day to purchase some daily necessities by the way.

There were a total of 265 pearls in his hand, and there were only about 220 pearls, but the pearl oysters he caught yesterday contributed another batch.

More than half of these pearls are in good condition, a full 150 pieces, and the rest are irregular in shape but good in color.

Zhu Zinai, who runs a jewelry store, found two pearl masters to study it, and then graded it according to the quality specifications, which are generally ABCD grades.

The pearl grading is very strict, and it is necessary to identify the diameter, shape, gloss, finish, and thickness of the pearl layer one by one, and then give a comprehensive score.

Among them, A1 is the most valuable pearl, and only two of them in Ao Muyang's hands meet this classification standard, and one can be sold for 20,000 yuan.

Then there are grades A2, B1, B2, and so on, and the value decreases in turn.

In the end, the value of the 150 pearls in good condition was 250,000, or more than 1,000 pieces per pearl on average.

The remaining pearls in poor condition were sold for 10,000 yuan in total, and these pearls were either used for special pearls or ground into powder to make cosmetics, and the value was very low.