Shirley Yang agreed, we started the underwater thruster and floated the same way, I saw that she had just taken a picture with an underwater camera, thinking that the Chinese Shang Dynasty civilization was only limited to the Central Plains, much smaller than the current Chinese territory, if the ruins of the Shang and Zhou civilizations were found at the end of the South China Sea, it would be of extraordinary significance for the study of human navigation history and civilization history, even if the Qin King bone mirror could not be found, just bringing these photos back would be enough to stimulate Professor Chen to be hospitalized again.

The three of us turned on the lighting equipment and slowly floated to the coral forest, but as soon as we came up, we found that something was wrong, the B team that was collecting eggs at the bottom of the translucent large coral tree was drawing a circle of diving searchlights in front of us, obviously needing our immediate support, I moved forward with my hands and quickly approached the coral tree with Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming.

Ruan Hei and Duoling, the boss of the boat under the coral tree, are desperately prying a giant mussel, this big mussel is hiding under the coral reef, three times larger than the largest grinding disc, the wavy mussel shell is tightly closed, no matter how hard Ruan Hei and the two of them can't move the shell, this giant mussel has grown for thousands of years, the shell is white and crystalline, almost integrated with the stones at the bottom of the sea, it is only a man-eating shell that is good at pinching people's legs and feet, and the mussels are born in the sea, which is really an ancient saying, because the egg people and fishermen are most taboo to hit the "back" net empty-handed, so all kinds of pearl oysters are still called mussels, Although the man-eating shellfish in the mouth of the egg people does not mention its scientific name "Tridacn", but often called it "white niche", I don't know how many egg people were caught by this kind of thing during pearl diving and ruined their lives, I don't know why the boat boss Ruan Hei wanted to pry it up, and before he could ask him, he couldn't wait to gesture to tell us that there was a person in the mussel shell!

I also said that I misunderstood what Ruan Hei meant, there are no other people in this turbulent coral spiral sea except us, even if this is a deep-sea clams commonly known as man-eating shells, how can there be "people" in its shell? Is it a living or a dead person? Uncle Ming seemed to suddenly wake up and made a gesture of swimming fish, this time it was developed, and the cannibal berry was caught by a rare mermaid in the sea, and its meat was twice as expensive as the same weight of platinum.

Uncle Ming pressed the man-eating mussel the size of a grinding disc, and was so excited that a long string of bubbles bubbled up, and told us by gesture that this old mussel may have caught a mermaid at the bottom of the sea, in fact, this is just his wishful thinking, what is in the shell of the mussel, only the boat boss Ruan Hei and his apprentice Duo Ling have seen it, and it is difficult to describe it carefully underwater.

I saw that the shell of this rare big clams was crystal white, it was a rare piece of green-headed goods, anyway, the watermelons in the rear cabin were thrown away, and there was a lot of empty space. So I made a gesture and asked Ruan Hei to wait at the bottom of the sea with Duo Ling, and Shirley Yang and I went back to the ship first, and let the fat man come down with a chisel crowbar to help and hoist the thousand-year-old clam back to the deck.

After the deployment, we immediately floated to the vicinity of the decompression line, and then returned to the water tank in order to take off the heavy equipment, I briefed the fat man and Gu Chai on the underwater situation, the fat man had already been holding back on the boat and wanted to scratch the wall, and immediately took Gu Chai to hand over to us, and went into the water with a chisel and a hydraulic separator to catch mussels.

Master Ruan Hei and the three of them are all good at prying mussels and eggs, and they are even more handy with equipment, but they still waste a lot of effort to chisel the "clams" away from the reef, and several of them used the buoyancy of the current to lift it to the surface of the sea, and trapped it with a steel cable.

The fat man had the intention to show off, stood on the giant clam shell suspended in the air, pushed the frog mirror to his head and shouted to me: "Old Hu, what do you think this guy that Commander Ben caught?" According to today's market, bring it back to the United States, at least you can change to a yacht, and then we will bring a few American girls...... "As the crane arm was raised higher and higher from the sea, the fat man began to feel dizzy before he finished speaking, and he screamed, and his feet fell into the water.

I was worried that he would get carried away and make too much noise to attract sharks, so I quickly asked Ruan Hei to drag him back to the boat, and I beckoned the boat boss Ruan Hei to hurry up as well, and it was almost time to withdraw, but Ruan Hei thought that the walrus was calm, the tide level was low, and there were many old snails on the bottom of the sea, so how could he miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to collect eggs, he ignored the danger of diving disease, and after replacing the scuba, he insisted on taking his two apprentices into the sea again to collect eggs.

Uncle Ming also has this intention, and advises me not to stop the behavior of the egg people, looking at the weather, it may rain, but there is no hyacinth, the surge must not be affordable, as long as there is no surge interference, even if it rains heavily at sea, it will not have an impact on the diving operation, but Uncle Ming himself doesn't want to dive again, anyway, Ruan Hei's master and apprentice are all helpers hired for money, and they have never lost half of their dividends, since they want to make a big profit, why stop it, although let them do it.

At this time, the sky was even more hazy, thick clouds like ink, covering the sea, there seemed to be a dangerous signal in the sea breeze, my heart moved, and my heart said that there must be no strong winds and waves tonight, but thinking that Uncle Ming and the boat boss Ruan Hei were very familiar with the walrus Tianhou, since they said that it was okay, it would be fine.

It is said that there is a storm surge in the Coral Spiral Sea all year round, except for the night when the moon is full and the sky will be clear, the clouds are usually thick, the turbulence of the clear sky accompanied by infrasound thunderstorms often appears, it is difficult for aircraft to fly overhead, and the low-frequency electromagnetic waves on the seabed interfere with the ship's electronic equipment, making the needle rudder lose its course, and many catastrophic accidents are caused by this, but this phenomenon has not been explained so far.

At this time, Shirley Yang was curiously looking at the captured man-eating mussel, because everyone was busy collecting eggs, and had no time to pay attention to it, but it was tied with a steel cable, ready to free up his hands to clean it up again, Shirley Yang said to me: "You see the white shell of the man-eating mussel is undulating, it seems to be a wave, and it is like the wheel of an ancient Roman chariot, it is a miracle of heaven and earth, it is really beautiful, looking at the texture of the mussel shell is extremely fine, which shows that it has also grown on the bottom of the sea for at least thousands of years, Human civilization has only been around for a few thousand years, and this man-eating mussel has survived for almost a few thousand years, which is really amazing to humans who can only live for a few decades. ”

I'm afraid that Shirley Yang will be merciful and want to release this old clam into the sea, so this green head that everyone has worked so hard to get will be lost, won't the fat to the mouth fly again? Since it has lived for so many years, it should be enough, because the Great Master once said that the meaning of life is not about its length, but about whether it can produce value.

But people's correct thinking did not fall from the sky, so I had to do work for her and said: "Many of the creatures in the sea are extremely long-lived, the thousand-year-old king is 80,000 years old, I don't think it's surprising that the thousand-year-old turtle is thousands of years, the man-eating mussel actually doesn't eat human flesh, but once its jagged two shells catch people, it will die and close, from ancient times to the present, there are often egg people who suffer from this, so they gave it the creepy name of the man-eating mussel, listening to Ruan Hei's words, he seemed to see a dead man sandwiched between the shells of this clams, For thousands of years, no egg farmer dared to enter the coral spiral to collect eggs, and I don't know if it was a mermaid in the South China Sea, or a shipwrecked crew member sea wolf, but this blood debt must be repaid with blood, let's find a guy to pry it open and take a look. ”

Talking in the sky began to rain, between the sea and the sky is dark and boundless, although it is daylight, but it is like evening, the sea in the distance is dark and vast, only a few buoys flashing and shining, but we must wait until the tide rises again to leave, helpless against the bad weather, fortunately, as Uncle Ming said, although the rain is urgent, but it has little impact on the walruses, the surge is still gentle, I think it is probably related to the catharsis of the sea the day before, the geography of the coral spiral sea area is difficult to measure, the sky is rainy, The sea is calm.

We all went back to the cabin to get a raincoat to wear on our bodies, brave the rain to deal with the man-eating mussel, because of the dim light in the rain, had to turn the searchlight on the top of the boat and hit the mussel shell, but also reflected the mussel shell is white, it seems a little seeping, the giant mussel out of the water is not dead, by the rain shower, and ready to move, but the mussel shell is still tightly closed, not showing the slightest gap, in the face of this thousands of years of living creatures, I and the fat man really don't know how to start, if the mussel shell is damaged, it is worthless.

Uncle Ming saw that he was going to break the mussel, and he was also busy, he decided that there was a priceless mermaid in this mussel, I had never heard of a mermaid in the South China Sea, and thought it was similar to the black-scaled shark who was made into a long candle in the tomb of the king, so he asked Uncle Ming if these two things are the same thing?

Uncle Ming said that mermaids and mermaids are two different things, one evil and one good, the habits and appearance are not the same, mermaids can not make sounds, meat is edible, and mermaids are evil, can make a seductive sound on the sea, botulinum poison can not be eaten, only its ointment can be used as permanent fuel, ignorant people are easy to confuse the two, but although the black scale mermaid is rare, but after all, someone has caught, this "mermaid", or "fish man" is too rare, rare in a hundred years, its meat is delicious and incomparable, there is a legend that the meat of the fish eater can live forever, but I have not seen anyone really eat, Once when he was running a boat in the South Seas, his sailors caught two mermaids alive in the sea, all of them were human shapes above the navel, no different from normal people, the lower body was similar to scaly feet, and could use wake wave water to stand in the stormy waves, just get close to see, the mermaid has a layer of slippery mucus wrapped all over the body, strange and unapproachable, after being caught in a large bucket full of water, the crew gathered around to watch, the pair of mermaids were not frightened, and swam and circled in the barrel.

At that time, Uncle Ming didn't know the goods, and he really caught up with a merchant who was willing to sell it for release, so he asked for a sum of money, and the merchant still took the mermaid away, and later learned that the price of the mermaid in the black market in North America and Europe was more than twice the weight of platinum, Uncle Ming knew that he was evil, beat his chest, and regretted it, after more than ten years of retrospect, he still had chest tightness and dreams and scolding, he was too kind and easy to believe in others, otherwise he would not have been pitted by the profiteer who suffered a thousand knives, and at this moment there is a chance to get another mermaid, And how can you not let him have a whim.