Chapter 486: Pearl Fishing
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The next day, Scott led them on a tour of other properties under the Governor's Palace.
One of them is the Pearl Field. This pearl field is not a cheap pearl field where pearls are stuffed with small stones and kept in cages, but it makes full use of the shallow sea between the inner islands of Ahti Island and the surrounding islands, and specially built a dam to isolate a large inland sea as a pearl field, and introduces a variety of high-quality pearl oysters into it, allowing them to grow in a natural way.
According to Scott, the pearl field, which was discovered by his great-great-grandfather during his reign, was originally home to pearl oysters due to the abundance of coral reefs and caves on the ocean floor.
When the developers discovered that artificiality led to the rapid extinction of these pearl oysters, they began experimenting with increasing the rate and number of pearl oysters, as well as increasing the variety of shellfish in the area.
After the accumulation of generations, his grandfather's generation succeeded in building a dam with a depth of 100 sub-seas in a shallow seabed, designing a seawater replacement system, and expanding the scope of the pearl field to the entire inland sea.
While Duchamp was amazed by this pearl field, it suddenly occurred to him that this was not the same as his plan to raise fish in the southern part of the Biluo Sea. To this end, he earnestly asked Scott how to carry out the natural displacement of seawater, how to prevent the attack of typhoons, monsters and other natural disasters, and how to manage it.
After the visit, Scott once again announced his own welfare: everyone can go down to the sea to fish for mussels, and the pearls they peel are considered their own.
As soon as the words fell, several people who were good at water let out malicious smiles.
Fang smiled and said, "Hmph, don't be so generous, don't you have a time limit or something?" ”
Scott scoffed: "Don't think too beautiful, although this is an inland sea, but also the sea, in order to ensure the quality of pearls, the introduced varieties are mainly fishermen caught high-quality deep-water mussels, the pearls in the mussels are all naturally formed, among which the most valuable golden pearl shells, all parasitic in the caves at the bottom of the inland sea, even if it is a professional pearl diver, it is difficult to collect." The inferior black pearls, which are concentrated on the coral reefs at the bottom of the ocean, are also very deeply hidden, and the area that ordinary people can reach is only a shallow sea area rich in white pearls, and I don't know what kind of white pearls you can fish. ”
Fang and Dietri were a little deflated, but Duchamp took out his fishing rod and asked seriously, "Does that catch count?" ”
Scott couldn't help but laugh and said, "Count, count, you can fish as much as you want." He thought to himself that pearl oysters don't live by eating small fish and earthworms.
The other fellows saw the spot and went into the water, but Duchamp saw a deep water, took out his fishing rod, and put the bait on the hook - an innocent little mollusk snail, and he did a little trick on the bait while there was no one left or right.
This hand and foot is the flare chip.
Demonic beasts in the natural world are very fond of finding flare chips from the earth to swallow in order to continuously enhance their own strength, which is an ability they have cultivated in evolution. And since Scott said that there are hundred-year-old mussels in it, then maybe there are guys who have evolved to be able to digest flare chips. Besides, even if they can't evolve, pearls are originally made from pebbles swallowed by shellfish.
The terrestrial mollusk with the hook dive had been diving for seventy or eighty meters before Duchamp felt the hook touch the bottom of the sea.
He stood a hundred meters away from everyone, and saw that Fang and Dietrie were competing to show off their diving skills.
Some of the other guys who had only swam in the river had to plunge down indiscriminately, touching indiscriminately at a distance of three or four meters from the surface of the water.
And Learmour, a city child, was standing in shallow water with a wooden pole in an unauthentic manner, and using the wooden pole to drive the pearl oyster to the shore.
Some of the pearl oysters that the bears had scooped up with all their might were immediately thrown back by the management staff, while others were washed under the water so that they could open their mouths to pick up the pearls smoothly. After the pearls are removed, the shells are released back into the sea. Looking at Fang's arrogant smile, it seemed that his harvest was richer.
Shortly after Duchamp put the bait down, a large lobster saw its prey, and it pounced on it and bit the bait.
Prawns, what are you doing to join in the fun! Duchamp laughed and caught the big red lobster, knocked it out, took out the snail and the spark, and put it in another bait.
This time, Duchamp carefully changed the place to ensure that the hook could be caught smoothly after it fell.
By monitoring the speed of the creatures around the water, he could roughly estimate what was happening in the water. After driving away several fish in succession, a linear fish still pounced on it and swallowed the snail into its stomach.
Duchamp laboriously pulled the snail and the sparkle out of the fish's mouth, and put the desperate fish into the bucket in disgust. He pondered for a moment and felt that he could no longer use snails as bait. He searched for a long time, and finally found a small shell with a complex shape on the seashore, carefully stuffed the flare wafer into the depths of the shell, and then used a fish hook to pierce the shell that had long been dried up.
He thought indignantly that if there were still fish to pounce on him, it would be completely useless.
This time, sure enough, no fish were interested in this coin-sized scallop.
After a long time, near the fishing place, a sightseer slowly rowed over, and he looked around the small shell for a long time, and even pushed the small shell with its body several times, trying to shake the dazzling chip out.
Duchamp couldn't help but didn't take the hook, and there was not the slightest force at the end of the fishing rod, so he could only throw an empty rod at this time.
Finally, the guy at the bottom finally got impatient, opened its mouth, and swallowed the whole shell, ready to go back and digest it slowly.
Duchamp was waiting for now, when he struck a shock, desperately reeled the line, and with a flick of the fishing rod, a huge pink clam was caught.
Duchamp rushed to find Scott with the unusual mussel.
When Scott saw this, his mouth immediately opened wide. "Pink, pink pearl oyster, you can catch it."
"What, is this mussel rare?"
"Of course, this is the most cunning of all pearl bairy, in the past, fishermen occasionally caught it, and sent it to the pearl field to raise, who knows that this kind of shellfish is extremely cunning, hiding in the underwater cave that humans can't reach, and refusing to come out, although there are more and more of them, but only occasionally can one be caught."
Duchamp laughed: "Of course, people are also demonic beasts, and they must be smarter than ordinary pearl oysters." ”
"This thing has become a monster?" Scott asked curiously, tapping on the pearl oyster the size of a basin.
"Well, the level is not low, this is already a third-order demonic beast." Duchamp said, gently tapping on the surface of the pink pearl oyster. Bei, who had evolved into a demonic beast, sensed Duchamp's strength and pretended to be dead with all his might.
"Then you have to be careful, this level of demonic beast will definitely hurt people." Scott commanded a few workers to carefully carry the rare scallop to retrieve the pearls.
A long time passed.
"It's definitely not going to work with the ordinary method of taking beads." Duchamp said as he stared at the pink shell who had been napping for a long time under the water of the pearl pool.
"Then what to do, do you want to kill it and forcibly open the mussel shell? Such a large pearl oyster is extremely rare. Scott said with a look of regret.
"I'll try it anyway." Duchamp decided to take matters into his own hands.
"Brother Bei, my fish hook is still in your mouth, please spit it out and return it to me." Duchamp walked over, intending to have a good discussion with Pearl Oyster.
"Only if you open your mouth, this piece of flare will be yours." Duchamp took out another piece of flare.
One of the sensing organs on the surface of the pink shell moved slightly.
Duchamp simply activated the suggestion skill.
"As long as you give me your pearls, I'll give you more flare chips, and those things won't be of any use to you anyway, and you'll be in a panic."
Pink shellfish was indifferent.
Duchamp upped his stacks.
"As long as you exchange the pearls with me, I will give you a bunch of dazzling crystals, like a golden mountain!"
This time, the pink pearl oyster was noticeably having mood swings.
"Wahaha, this hint skill also has the effect of interracial chat!"
Duchamp happily took out a handful of dazzling wafers.
Pink Bei glanced at it, and her mood swings faded.
What does that mean?
Duchamp used his experience of dealing with man's best friend, the dog, and he took out a red flare chip and sent it to Pink Bei's mouth.
Pink Bei looked disgusted.
"I don't like red, but what about blue? White? How about gold? ”
Pink Bei suddenly let out a flurry of emotions.
"I didn't expect it to be a picky eater!" Duchamp hurriedly changed a handful of empty attribute Yao Chip.
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