Chapter 46: The Black Pearl
I didn't expect to be in such a confrontation with me, and the giant crab no longer used the giant turtle to entangle me, and instead attacked the old ghost next to me. Since the crab was walking sideways, I saw it scurrying to the side very quickly, and it was close to the old ghost. His situation suddenly became dangerous.
But after all, the old ghost is not a vegetarian, and he has not learned taekwondo in vain for several years, and his reaction speed is still nothing to say. Before the cancer could attack him, he had already escaped and dodged. made Cancer's "hunter" plan come to naught again.
I took the opportunity to run a few steps, and in an instant jumped on the back of the crab.
When the cancer saw that I had jumped on its back, it immediately became manic. Immediately jumped up and down, trying to break me free from its back. But since I have succeeded in it, how can I just let it go for nothing? I almost used my strength to suckle, and I grabbed the long thorn near the eye on the crab shell.
When the old ghosts saw this, they didn't dare to shoot at the crab lightly. There are only intermittent, back-and-forth strafing at the crab legs.
After all, crab legs are the weak link, and after only a while, they have become bloody. However, the blood of crab roe is generally transparent. And the blood of the giant crab in front of him turned out to be slightly white.
Once the crab leg is injured, it becomes more vulnerable. The big and small potholes on it, plus it was beating wildly, and it was too hard to throw me down. The crab leg poked on the ground like this, "click, click, click", and immediately broke three pieces.
The Cancer's body almost lost its balance and suddenly became staggered. The old ghosts, they saw the situation. He didn't stop shooting, but seemed to be encouraged. Immediately reload the bullets, and another shuttle of bullets is in full swing. kept beckoning for the bullets to run out before stopping.
This cancer was shot in the leg, and of course it was even more manic. However, the more manic it becomes, the more it is not good for it. The remaining legs were broken off one after another.
When I was actually mature, I immediately leaned forward and hugged the crab's arm-thick eyes. Legs in the next set. Hold the long cylindrical eyes of the crab with both hands. With a strong twist and a "click", the eye of the giant crab is abolished.
The cancer was so painful that it jumped straight away, but its leg was already broken. I can only do useless struggles. The body just swayed back and forth. I'm a tumbling. He came to the other side.
This time, it seems that the cancer has learned its lesson. Called me here, and quickly lowered his long eyes. Avoid the groove that you are born with and no longer come out.
However, a beast of prey is a beast of prey after all. Even in this little gap, it does not forget to ask for people's lives. Hurriedly used a big tweezer to pinch Lisa, but Lisa didn't react and didn't dodge. But the old ghost was quick and threw her to the ground. Only then did he dodge the fatal blow of the Cancer.
When I saw this, I was angry in my heart. Pull out the saber on the leg and shine it in the crab's eyes. The white knife goes in, and the black knife comes out. The long eyes of the giant crab suddenly flowed black juice, and they could no longer see the light. I struck while the iron was hot, and inserted several knives in the weak links of the two big crow roots of the crab before I stopped.
How can a cancer stand such a stimulus? Immediately jumped wildly. After only a few jumps, he broke all the rest of his legs. Towards the front, he fell hard to the ground. After a few moments, he came to a standstill, motionless. Exhausted, I jumped off the crab's back and gulped down. Due to the excessive exertion, I sweated all over my body, and I had to lie on the ground to recover my body.
The old ghost saw a big hole in the crab shell, and saw that something seemed to be glowing inside. I didn't care if I was disgusted or not, so I put my hand into the mucus crab shell and pulled out the glowing thing. If you look closely, it turns out to be a large mussel in the sea.
Since the shell of the sea mussel had been damaged, the old ghost broke it with a force, and it was opened. Surprisingly, there were several black pearls inside! Seeing this, the three of us were all amazed.
Black pearls are very rare and very expensive natural black pearls. Pearl, also known as true pearl, mussel pearl, Sanskrit for "mani", Buddhist scriptures as the end of the nun, mani.
Since ancient times, pearls have been one of the favorite treasures of the royal family and nobles. The Tang Dynasty tribute-grade pearl, called "Shangqing Pearl", came from the Western Regions, and King Zongbin once dedicated a "light room" Shangqing pearl to Tang Xuanzong.
In ancient times, when science and technology were not developed, pearl diving was an extremely dangerous job, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were mainly egg farmers who served as pearl diving laborers. Volume 5: "Cover the eggs and live in the sea boat to dive pearls, ring the pond with a large lot, hang the big wall with stones, don't tie the waist with a small rope, and take the pearls without water." If you are angry, you will shake the rope, the rope will move, and the people will feel it, and it will be twisted, and the popularity will be great......
It is rumored that at the beginning of Yongle, there was no water to take it, and more sharks were buried in the belly ......"
In ancient times, there was a description of the life of the pearl people: "Jiangpu is vast and the moon shadow is lonely, a boat only passes a boat, the boat boat is in the past, and the tears have withered when the pearls are picked." ”
At that time, they all used their lives to collect natural pearls in the sea, which showed their preciousness.
Pearl clams in the tropical regions of the South China Sea have a long life cycle and can produce large and perfect pearls, which were the main source of pearls in the Middle Ages. Freshwater clams in Heilongjiang can also produce pearls, but the color is opaque, pure white, and the production is very small, in the Qing Dynasty as a rare tribute, called "Dongzhu", only members of the royal family can wear Dongzhu jewelry.
The mother-of-pearl that produces black pearl is a black lipped oyster that secretes black nacre. The beauty of black pearls lies in the fact that they have a variety of colors on their natural black tone, the most appreciated are peacock green, purple, sea blue and other rainbow colors, and its strong metallic luster will change with the rotation of the pearl, which is not comparable to other color change pearls.
The annual production of fine black pearls is estimated to be no more than 150,000, 40% of which are sold through the annual international auction of Guò. Most black pearls are concentrated between 9mm and 10mm in size, and about 60% of black pearls are no more than 11mm in size. Therefore, 11mm is generally regarded as the limit of black pearls, and 15mm fine round black pearls are so rare that there is no ready-made reference market price, which shows that they are expensive and rare.
There are only two main natural sources of black pearls: one is the island of Tahiti in the Polynesian archipelago, which produces 95% of the world's black pearls; The second is Penlin Island and Majuhiki Island in the Cook Islands, which account for 4% of the total production. Other Pacific islands produce less than one percent. These two regions** are located in the south-central Pacific Ocean, so they are also called black pearls as black South Sea pearls.
And now the black pearl that the old ghost found was 20mm in diameter, and his tears were about to come down with excitement. At this moment, Lisa suddenly said loudly, "Hurry up and see!" (To be continued......)