Chapter 50 Scraping Mussels and Pearls

In addition, it is said that some "pearl pools" are emptied by the egg pickers, and the mussel shells and mussel meat are piled up into a mountain, but at night, there is a fine light in the pearl pond, and the egg people do not know the truth, thinking that there are still mussel beads under the water, so they continue to dive and dive pearls the next day, and there is often no return, they are swallowed by the "mussel ancestor" who is waiting for the opportunity to retaliate, it eats the living person, and even the bones are not vomited, but even if the pearl pond is poured out, it is difficult to find its trace, so the egg people who fight for their lives at sea talk about these legends, and they are also shocked to lose their "color", and moving the "mussel ancestor" will cause a tsunami hurricane, in short, it is very evil, there is no fisherman's secret weapon, and it is impossible to attract the "mussel ancestor" in any case.

At this time, the water shadow was chaotic and changing, I couldn't see Gu Chai's whereabouts clearly, and I couldn't help but worry in my heart, and I was about to go over to look for him, when suddenly the mud and sand at the bottom of the "Pearl Mother Sea" were surging, and the demon fog was great, and the fog cage saw the dark light flickering, followed by a huge black shadow, waves of blood gushing out from it, Gu Chai was full of blood, carrying the "corpse beard" on his back, and swam out with his hands and feet, but behind him was full of demon fog of water, there seemed to be this strong suction, just swam out of three or five meters, and was immediately sucked back by the current, Suddenly it disappeared into the thick fog.

"Mother-of-pearl" moved under the water, it really seemed to have the potential to fall into the sea and move mountains, only to see the unpredictable rainbow in the water, all covered by the mud and sand, the thick fog flooded the water, and it was impossible to see clearly what the "Mussel Ancestor" inside looked like, Gu Guess relied on the underwater skills of "Longhu", and attracted the mother of pearl to move stupidly with the "corpse beard", and opened the shell to divide the armor, wanting to swallow the "corpse" with deep yin energy, sucking up the water to form a vortex, Gu Guess was a little slower than half a step, and was sucked by this whirlpool, and he didn't have time to struggle, he had fallen in" "Mother-of-pearl" brings up the depths of the mud and sand fog.

I stared at it, and I was anxious, and immediately reached out to "feel" the diving explosives, wanting to go over and snatch Gu Chai out, and now it was important to save people, and I didn't care if I could lead the "Beng Zu" out of the deep stream, but at this moment, I suddenly felt the impact of the water in front of me, and Gu Chai also struggled out of the surging mud and sand smoke at the same time.

It turned out that after the "mother-of-pearl" swallowed the "corpse mustache" with muscles and bones, she couldn't stand the yin qi in the female corpse for a while, and the clam armor was divided, and the "corpse mustache" was sprayed out like a pearl, and Gu Chai cut a few pieces of mussel meat in the mussel shell, mixed with the blood mist and rushed out along the water flow.

I hurriedly reached out and grabbed Gu Chai's arm and dragged him in the "chaos" current, seeing that he was also in a state of shock, he had been sucked into the shell by the "mother-of-pearl" no less than three times, and the two of us saw that the "Mussel Ancestor" had been introduced, and did not dare to linger any longer, so we tried our best to swim out with the diving rope.

The silhouette of the mussel ancestor is faintly visible, although it is not really visible, but with the strong fluctuations in the water, it is enough to feel its huge body and slow movement, attached to the reef and wriggled out, chasing the yin qi emitted by the "corpse" and moving, crawling out of the "pearl sea".

The materials used in the ordinary "pearl media" do not even have fish beads, but only choose the food that the snail likes and mix some minced meat to mix, so as to separate the strong armor surrounded by the snail mussel, and take the opportunity to scrape the mussel to get the pearl, and this kind of "corpse" made of human skin will only be used by the ancestors of the Tan people.

Gu Chai and I didn't expect that the "corpse" would be so effective, and was provoked by its yin qi, and the mussel ancestor suddenly appeared, we were inevitably a little unprepared, and fled in a panic, and didn't care about looking back at the situation behind us, only to feel that the back was like a hole, and the power of absorbing water was extremely slippery, if it wasn't for the tough diving rope, I was afraid that it would be sucked away by the "chaos" current as soon as I let go.

Before reaching the exit of the mountain stream, the "chaotic" flow at the mouth of the stream and the power of mother-of-pearl to absorb water formed a front and back pinching momentum, in which I only felt that my hands and feet were sore, and I felt that the world was spinning in a burst of chaotic undercurrent, coupled with the effect of water pressure, my mind was a little dizzy, and I involuntarily had a desire to let go of the diving rope.

At the moment when my consciousness began to blur, I felt a chill behind me, and the ghostly feeling penetrated through my internal organs, and I subconsciously looked back, and through the frog mirror, I saw a woman's face with bright facial features, but extremely distorted, which happened to be attached to my frog mirror.

It was the "corpse beard" dragged behind Gu Chai, driven by the "chaotic" current, and the dead baby behind me was wrapped around the rope, although I knew that the woman's face was the "corpse" swelling and appearing after being immersed in water, and the longer it was in the water, the more vivid the description was, but at such a close distance, I could see the facial features of this human skin, it was like a smile squeezing my eyebrows, or I felt that my whole body was cold to the bones, and the original vague consciousness became clear, and in a panic, a force suddenly appeared in my body, and I used up my "milk" The strength of the diving rope was frantically pulled, and Gu Chai rolled out of the deep stream at the entrance of the "Pearl Sea" in the gap of the "chaotic" current.

Although the "mother-of-pearl" is greedy for the yin qi in the water, and is naturally afraid of natural phenomena such as "moon breaking", it may be that it has lived too long, or maybe the stillbirth in the ancient tomb has been qualitated for thousands of years, and there is not much left of the sky-eroding qi.

Most of the coral fossils near the mouth of the stream are strange-shaped, the mussel ancestor has arrived here, there is no smoke from the mud and sand rising, I feel that the light behind me floats, a burst of light like day, I looked back in a hurry, only to see a giant mussel full of barnacle-like camouflage is behind us, that is the egg people spread the god of the "mussel ancestor", its shape is not as big as a hill, about the size of a truck head, the appearance is similar to a rare basin-shaped "pearl oyster", wavy concave and convex mussel shell surface, The marine sediment, which adheres to a thick layer of pimples, has apparently not moved for many, many years.

The mussel armor of the mussel ancestor is the most peculiar, not two in one, or spiral one, but there are six-petal hemorrhine mussel armor, left and right up and down can be opened and closed, there is an abnormally developed mussel foot clam disc in the shell, the mussel armor suddenly opens and closes, even if it is the body of the copper head iron arm is clamped by it, it will also be amputated and cut off like a rolling knife, and the suitable ancient guess can still be intact if it is sucked into it, I am afraid that only the "dragon household" that advances and retreats underwater like electricity can be so lucky.

I only glanced back, I felt that the eyes were in a trance for a while, the mussel ancestor is very different from the ordinary snail mussel, it is very big, the mussel armor is separated, the pearl flashes, by the refraction of the water waves, the rainbow gas, the eyes are snatched, the gods are frightened, the light waves of the ghostly fire like the "deep water ghost beetle" around are also reflected in the "color" at this time, the entire coral iron tree fossil is shrouded by the light of the hundred pearls hidden in the mussel ancestral armor, but the mussel ancestor is hidden at the bottom of the sea, and the real bright moon is not seen all year round. Compared with the ordinary pearl of the coral spiral sea, the cold and clear air is particularly deep, and the six huge mussel shells open and close, and thousands of rainbow gases also loom out.

I didn't expect the mother of pearl to chase so close, looking back, only to feel the white vast light dazzling, in an instant, the cold air and water suction greatly increased, the giant clam armor suddenly opened, I and Gu Chai were both enveloped by the combination of the mussel armor, only the six pieces of heavy armor of the mother of pearl were wrapped tightly, even if they were not immediately clamped to death, they would be sucked into the bead sac by the mussel ancestor.

Gu Chai became very irritable and bloodthirsty underwater, and when he saw this, he had to do it again, wanting to advance as a retreat, shrinking into the clam armor, and taking advantage of the closure of the bead shell, he poked the old clam in it a few times.

But I see that after the Beng Zu swallowed the "corpse" a few times, a resentment in the skin of the female corpse gradually disappeared, I am afraid that if I am swallowed by the Beng Zu again, the yin energy generated on the corpse skin and the bead clothes will disappear, and the mother of pearl will probably wrap it directly into the bead sac, and will not easily spit it out, with the short knife of Gu Chai, if you want to slaughter such a giant clam in the clam shell, you may not be able to succeed, and you must not give up your life at this moment, this thought turned in my heart, and I saw Gu Chai pounce back with a knife.

I hurriedly reached out and dragged him, but Gu Chai slid under the water like a loach, moving like a black fish, my hand grabbed his arm, as if I had caught a slippery and abnormal water snake, it was difficult to stay at all, and I didn't leave my hand to get rid of it, but fortunately I pulled the rope on his back that bound the "corpse", and immediately pulled forward, dragging Gu Chai in the water for half a circle.

At this time, the heavy armor of the mother of pearl suddenly closed, only half an inch, and Gu Chai clamped his feet, and the "corpse mane" that dragged a kite in the water had been swallowed in the shell by the ancestor of the mussel, and Gu Chai and I were entangled by the rope on the "corpse mane", and it was difficult to withdraw in a hurry, and after the "mother of pearl" swallowed the pearl medium, the armor was immediately closed, not moving like a mountain, and the giant armor trembled slightly, as if he was enjoying the resentment in the corpse skin.

I pushed the clam armor tightly closed like the interlaced canine teeth with one hand, and pulled out the water-splitting short sword with the other hand, cutting the rope entangled in the back, and then he and Gu Chai came out, at this time Shirley Yang and others looked at the coral tree full of eyes, and they couldn't help but be frightened, and wanted to swim over to help, but the incident happened suddenly, but it was too late at that moment of lightning and fire, fortunately, there were no casualties, and successfully led the old clam out of the sea of pearls, so they hurried over to surround the "mother-of-pearl".

"Pearl Mother Sea" is also known as "Ying Hai", "Ying" is the name of the fairy mountain in the sea in ancient times, also has the meaning of fairyland, in fact, the egg people also call the submarine pearl pool or hole "hole", in the way of feng shui, called "Ying Hai" or "Ying Tree", are the best place of vitality, but also the most prosperous place in the sea, the mother of pearl itself and "Ying Hai" is an inseparable whole, it is hidden in the pearl sea, through the sea of yin essence breath to absorb the form, can survive for a long time, in the folk often say "the thousand years of the king of 80,000 years of turtle, A hundred-year-old hedgehog", in fact, the old turtle in the sea can live for 10,000 years, but it is currently found that the oldest turtle is only 800 years.

Although the life span of marine organisms is longer than that of life on land, but the millennium is still not in line with reality, most of them are described as "ten thousand years" because it is difficult to judge, the life span of the mother of pearl should be about three or four thousand years, once the ancestor leaves the pearl sea, loses the aura of vitality and condensation in the sea, it will be like a candle in the wind of old age, although it will not age and die immediately, but it will lose its vitality, and the mussel meat will become collapsed and shrunk, and after the essence of the pearl in the body is exhausted, it will begin to die.

The "Mussel Ancestor" we brought out, after swallowing the "corpse", closed its carapace and froze still, as if drowsy, it was no longer as fierce and fierce as in the "Yinghai", and it would no longer pose any substantial "sexual" threat to the frogmen and the egg people.

I turned behind the giant mussel, caressed its mussel armor, and thought: "The ancestor of the mussel is a spiritual creature of the South China Sea, the spirit of the sea, now the world's resources are overexploited, there are very few natural seawater pearls, about seven continents and eight oceans are still alive in the mother-of-pearl, there are no three or two in total, the age of our group combined, I am afraid that it is not as big as a fraction of it, although there is a intention to keep it and not kill, but there is no other way to take pearls from such a large live mussel underwater, it seems that it is not poisonous and not a husband, this time I have to be ruthless." So he made a gesture of cutting down, and let Uncle Ming, Gu Chai and Duo Ling, the three egg people, specialize in the art industry, and "slaughtering mussels and taking pearls" is naturally the best thing for egg people.

Uncle Ming waved his hand at us, which probably meant that he couldn't kill the mussel ancestor at all, and used the secret weapon handed down by the fisherman to scrape the beads directly, and then let the old mussel fend for itself, and then took the water-dividing ancient sword in my hand, and the three of Duoling Guchai used the blade to scrape off the sea erosion precipitation material on the mussel shell layer by layer.

Pearling in the sea, sometimes the whole old mussel will be fished up together, take the mussel beads, the mussel meat can not be wasted, scrape the mussel meat alive from the shell with a knife, called "scraping the mussel", but the pearl diver has the ancient method of the Tan people, the so-called "scraping the mussel" in the ancient method, is not the method of ordinary egg people scraping the mussel meat with a sharp blade, the ancient Tan people scraping the mussel is a water-dividing knife made of bronze, dragging back and forth on the mussel shell, and the copper blade is dragged on the undulating mussel armor, which will make the mussel body in the armor feel a special vibration.

This kind of vibration is very special, just like the ancient gold digging "gold seedling", see the gold vein to chant the mantra, otherwise the vein will be short, the method of scraping the mussel seems to be such an ancient spell issued with bronze, only the bronze blade with the fish dragon totem can play a role in deterring the old mussel, the more ancient the copper blade used, the more obvious the effect, the mother-of-pearl carapace is scraped by the sharp blade, as if scared to lose the soul, and as if it is a general anesthesia, the muscles in the body are completely eliminated, the shell armor is loose, let the egg people pick the pearl sac, and the slightest resistance can not struggle.

I and the fat man, Shirley Yang and the three of them don't understand the mystery at all, at this time only on the side to see it, under the water intently looking at Uncle Ming's "scraping mussels" move, although I usually feel that Uncle Ming, the old thief, is used to boasting and showing, is an old gambler and old liar who "Guan Erye farts and doesn't know how to blush", but he does have some outstanding points, and he has rich experience in maritime affairs and the tricks of the dead, and he knows all kinds of anecdotes about egg picking, because this pair of bronze swords is a secret weapon in ancient times, and there is no need to worship the fisherman, With Uncle Ming's strange technique, it didn't take much effort, the colorful mussel armor of the mussel ancestor had been exposed, and the surface of the shell armor was covered with bright red bone spurs, like a huge piece of colored "colored" coral, it seemed to be hypnotized, trembling and opening a gap in the mussel shell.