The clams are difficult to pry open, and the fishermen are helpless without tools.

Liszt didn't force it, anyway, the black pearl didn't have to run inside. After the large squid had been mutilated and the rotting corpse had been thrown into the sea, Liszt ordered the clams to be carried back to the castle and studied slowly.

Huge clams, strange shapes.

Along the way, it attracted many onlookers of the townspeople, and when they arrived at the castle, all the servants also ran out to watch, and no one had ever seen such a strange thing.

"Mr. Marcus, what do you think of opening it?"

Marcus pondered for a moment and said, "Its strength is very strong, and the two shells are firmly fixed, but its shell is irregular, and there are many gaps, which can be pry open with a stick." Ordinary wooden sticks are not good, it is better to use thicker iron rods, however, there should be no such iron rods. ”

Iron is precious, and no one would use iron ore to forge a thick iron rod that pries open the crust of a clam.

"Maybe it can be burned with fire. Carter suggested.

"The shell is too thick, and it is very difficult for fire to hurt it. Liszt denied that there was still a black pearl in it, in case it was cooked......

"Use a hook, two hooks each hook a piece of the shell, and then pull the horse outward to pull the shell apart. Marcus finally came up with a stupid idea.

But it works well.

When the two horses each pulled a rope and almost broke it, they finally pulled the clam apart. The erected clams are like a flower opening at this time, and the opening degree is not very large, but it can already find its "band" that supports the shell, that is, the adductor muscle.

Marcus clenched his two-handed sword and slashed with a fierce spirit, cutting off one of the straps directly.

Smack!

The horses that pulled the shells hard pulled the shells in half, and they could no longer close them. Liszt's gaze was already on a group of protrusions on the inner wall of the clams, the protrusions were round and round, and what was hidden inside was pearls.

"Cut it open, be careful, it's a pearl inside, don't scratch the pearl. ”

"Yes, sir!"

Marcus himself carefully cut through the protruding membrane, and when the largest protruding membrane was cut, it directly revealed a black shiny pearl inside, the size of a washbasin.

"There are also those next to it, all cut open and take them out. Liszt was excited.

He hadn't figured out what these black pearls could do, but it was still incredible to find such a large black pearl. If this were placed in his hometown, it would definitely fetch an astonishing price.

When Marcus finished cutting, he took out a total of sixteen large and small black pearls.

The largest one is the one the size of a washbasin.

Then there were two pieces about the size of a basketball, then three bowls or so, and then a large pile of apples, oranges, and small black pearls the size of a ping-pong ball.

After cleaning, Liszt held the largest black pearl, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be traces of magic on the pearl. He quickly cast the Eye of Magic, and then, he saw the deep magic power like a swirl inside the black pearl, the color was pale blue, which was the color of the water attribute magic.

"It's magical?"

He had observed the Tridacnus with his magic eyes before, and he didn't find the slightest trace of magic power, who would have thought that the black pearl actually had magic power.

"My lord, these black pearls seem to have magical powers?" Marcus also noticed the anomaly, but he didn't know the magic eye, so he didn't dare to say for sure.

"It's magical. ”

Liszt sighed at the black pearl, and what came to mind was the knightly novels he had read. Among them is a knightly novel, which seems to have recorded that the song of the Siren can soothe the storms of the sea, and that a great knight captures the Siren and crafts it into a magical equipment.

This piece of equipment allows the ship to sail steadily even in the storm.

No one can say what a Siren is, some people swear that they have heard the Siren sing - Costor said just now that he once heard the Siren sing - but there is no record of what the Siren is, and most people believe that the Siren is just a story made up by sailors.

This story has nothing to do with Black Pearl.

What makes Liszt think of it is the Siren that is made into equipment to protect the sea ships against storms.

"Can these black pearls also be made into magical equipment to resist the storm? After all, they are magical items with water attributes, and their magic power is still very strong, almost no less than the gems produced by dragons. Suppressing the storm at sea, I don't know if it will work, but making magic equipment, it should be feasible. ”

Without a magician, you can't study black pearls.

Liszt felt that there could be other uses – for example, as an air conditioner.

"Mr. Marcus, Mr. Carter, guys, do you feel that the air is much cooler?"

Marcus carefully understood: "I didn't feel the coolness, but the moisture in the air seems to have increased a little, and it should be the black pearl that condenses the surrounding water vapor." ”

"Anyway, they're good things, and if they're going to sell, how many gold do you think they'll sell?"

"I've seen a white pearl the size of a fist, and I've heard people say that a black pearl of the same size will cost at least five gold coins, and I guess a black pearl of the same size will sell for ten gold coins? ”

"It's magical, and it's definitely worth more than a white pearl, but the castle isn't short of money for the time being, and its price will have to be weighed again. Liszt was not very satisfied with Marcus's estimate.

He felt that even if the price of black pearls was twice the price of white pearls, it was still undervalued, and its value was probably far greater than he thought.

So he said to Carter, "Mr. Carter, move them to my study." He himself kept a black pearl the size of a ping-pong ball in his hand and played with it.

"Yes, sir. ”

After a while, Carter came back and asked, "Sir, what about the clams that have been opened, and can its meat be eaten?"

"I think so...... Well, let Shake Sen taste it first, and if it's poisonous, throw it away. ”

"What about two shells?"

"I'm going to see if the inside of the shell is cleaned, and I'm going to see if it's jaded. ”

Jade clams, in Liszt's hometown, is a precious jewel and one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. In the West, clams, pearls, corals and amber are ranked alongside each other as the four major organic gemstones. Jade clams are the whitest substance in the world, and they are formed by the jade of the inner wall of clams.

"Such a big clam, there should be a jade part. ”

However, Liszt soon knew that he had made a mistake, and although the clams were huge, there was no sign of jade on the inner walls. It was only then that he remembered that it was impossible for a living clams to be jadeized. Jade takes time, just like the gestation of jade, which can only be produced after thousands of years of precipitation and carving.

The jade clams are buried in the sand and gradually form jade after thousands of years.

Without jade, it can't be made into jewelry, but Liszt has a brain-opening idea: "Mr. Carter, you say, what if you made it into a bed?"

As he spoke, he remembered the cartoon he had watched as a child - the mermaid princess in the Disney cartoon, who always slept in a shell.