The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 50 Scraping Mussels and Pearls
In addition, it is said that some "pearl ponds" were emptied by egg pickers, mussel shells and mussel meat piled up into a mountain, but at night, there is a fine light reflecting the moon in the pearl pond, 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, they often have to go and have no return, they are swallowed by the mussel ancestors who are waiting for the opportunity to retaliate, it eats the living people, and even the bones do not vomit. But even if the pearl pond is dumped, it is difficult to find it. Therefore, when the egg people who fight for their lives at sea talk about these legends, they are inevitably shocked, and moving the Beng Zu will cause a tsunami hurricane, in short, it is very evil, without the secret weapon of the fisherman, it will not be able to lead the Mussel Zu in any case.
At this time, the shadow of the water was chaotic and changing, and I could no longer see Gu Chui's whereabouts clearly, and I couldn't help but worry in my heart. Just as he was about to go over to look for him, suddenly the mud and sand on the bottom of the pearl sea were surging, and the demon fog was great, and he saw the dark light flickering, followed by a huge black shadow, and a ** blood gushed out of it. Gu Chai was covered in blood, carrying the "corpse" on his back, and swam out with his hands and feet, but behind him was full of demonic mist, which seemed to have a strong suction, Gu Chai just swam three or five meters, and was immediately sucked back by the current, and suddenly disappeared into the thick fog.
Mother-of-pearl moved at the bottom of the water, as if it had the potential to fall into the sea and move mountains, only to see the changing rainbow in the water, all covered by the mud and sand, and the thick mist flooded the water, and it was impossible to see what the mussel ancestor inside looked like. Gu Chai relied on the underwater skills of "Longhu", and used the "corpse beard" to attract the mother of pearl to move, and opened her shell to divide her armor, wanting to swallow the "corpse beard" with deep yin energy, and sucked the water to form a whirlpool. Gu Chai was half a step slower, but he was sucked by this swirl, and before he could struggle, he had already fallen into the depths of the thick fog of mud and sand brought up by the mother-of-pearl.
I stared at it, and I was in a hurry, and immediately reached out to find the diving explosives, wanting to go over and snatch Gu Chai out, but now it is important to save people, and I don't care if I can lead Bengzu out of the deep stream. But at this moment, he suddenly felt the impact of the water in front of him, and Gu Chai also struggled out of the churning mud and sand smoke at the same time.
It turned out that after mother-of-pearl swallowed the muscular corpse with muscles and bones, she couldn't stand the yin qi in the female corpse for a while, and the mussel armor was separated, and the corpse squirted out like a pearl. Gu Chai cut a few pieces of mussel meat in the shell, mixed with the blood mist and rushed out along the current.
I hurriedly reached out and grabbed Kuchai's arm and dragged him in the turbulence, and saw that he was also in a state of shock, and had been sucked into the shell by Mother-of-pearl no less than three times. When the two of us saw that Bengzu had been introduced, they didn't dare to linger any longer, so we pulled the diving rope and tried our best to swim out.
The silhouette of the mussel ancestor was faintly visible, although it was not really visible, but with the strong fluctuations in the water, it was enough to feel its huge size and slow movement, and it wriggled out of the reef, chasing the yin qi emitted by the corpse, and crawled out of the sea of pearls.
The egg people put beads in the sea to attract beads, which is ordinary, and the materials used by ordinary "bead media" do not even have fish beads, but only choose the food that snails like. Mix some minced meat and mix it to separate the nails surrounded by snails and mussels, and take the opportunity to scrape the mussels to extract the beads. And this kind of corpse made of human skin was only used by the ancestors of the Tan people.
I and Gu Chai didn't expect that the "corpse" would be so effective, by its yin qi plucked, the mussel ancestor suddenly appeared, we are inevitably a little unprepared, in a hurry to escape, and do not care about looking back at the situation behind him, only to feel that the back is like a hole, the power of water absorption is extremely slippery, if it is not for the tenacious diving rope, I am afraid that it will be sucked away by the turbulence as soon as I let go.
Before reaching the exit of the mountain stream, the turbulence 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 in a burst of chaotic undercurrent, people felt that the world was spinning, coupled with the effect of water pressure, the mind was a little dizzy, and I involuntarily had the idea of wanting 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 with bright facial features, but an extraordinarily distorted woman's face, which happened to be attached to my frog mirror.
It was the corpse that Guchai dragged behind his back, driven by the turbulence and wrapped around the dead baby behind me along with the ropes. Although I knew that the woman's face was enlarged after the corpse was soaked in water, and the longer it was in the water, the more vivid it was to describe it, but at such a close distance, seeing the facial features of this human skin, it was almost like smiling with eyebrows, and I still felt that the whole body was cold to the bones, and the original vague consciousness became clear, and in a panic, a force suddenly appeared in the body, and with all the strength of the milk, he pulled the diving rope wildly, and Gu Chai rolled out of the deep stream at the entrance of the Pearl Sea in the gap of the turbulent 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 for too long, or maybe the stillbirths in the ancient tomb have been qualitated for thousands of years, and there is not much left of the qi that erodes the sky. So it looked at the stillborn baby I was hanging on the oxygen cylinder as if it were nothing, and it got closer and closer, and followed the corpse tightly out of the sea of pearls.
Most of the coral fossils near the mouth of the stream are strangely shaped, and when the mussel ancestor arrives here, there is no smoke from the mud and sand gushing here. I felt that the essence light behind him was floating, and it was as bright as day, and I looked back in my hurry, and I saw a giant clam covered with barnacle-like camouflage behind us, which was the ancestor of the mussel that the egg people passed on to be amazing. It was not as large as a hill, about the size of a truck's head, and resembled a rare pot-shaped pearl oyster, with a wavy concave shell surface clinging to a thick layer of pimple marine sediment that had apparently not moved for many years.
The mussel armor of the ancestor of the mussel is the most peculiar, not two in one, or a spiral in one, but there are six petals of the mussel armor, the 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 the body of the copper head and iron arm is clamped by it, it will be amputated and cut off like being cut by a rolling knife. Shicai Guchai can still be intact if he is sucked inside, and I am afraid that only the dragon family who advances and retreats underwater like electricity can be so lucky.
I only glanced back, and I felt that my eyes were shaking for a while, and the mussel ancestor was very different from the ordinary snail mussel, its bead sac was very large, and when the mussel armor was separated, the pearl flashed. Through the refraction of water waves, the rainbow qi is turned into a rainbow of energy, which is eye-catching and god-terrifying. The light blue light waves of the surrounding deep-water ghost ghosts were also discolored at this time, and the entire coral iron tree fossil was shrouded in the light of the hundred beads contained in the mussel ancestral armor. It's just that the mussel ancestor hides at the bottom of the sea, and the real bright moon is not seen all year round, and the mussel beads it conceives are compared to the ordinary pearls of the coral spiral sea, and the cold and clear air is particularly deep, and the six huge mussel shells open and close from time to time, and thousands of wisps of rainbow gas also loom and haunt.
I didn't expect the mother of pearl to chase so close, looking back, only to feel the white and dazzling, in an instant, the cold air and water suction increased greatly, 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 by the mussel ancestor.
Gu Chai became very irritable and bloodthirsty underwater, and when he saw this, he wanted to repeat his old tricks, wanting to advance and 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 saw that after Beng Zu swallowed the corpse a few times, a resentment in the skin of the female corpse gradually disappeared, but I was afraid that if I was swallowed by Beng Zu again, the yin qi generated on the corpse skin and bead clothes would disappear, and the mother of pearl would probably wrap it directly into the bead sac, and would not spit out lightly. With Gu Chai's short knife, if you want to slaughter such a giant clam in the shell of the mussel, you may not be able to succeed, and you must not sacrifice your life to fight hard at this moment, this thought turned in her heart, and she saw Gu Chai pounce back with the knife fit.
I hurriedly reached out and grabbed him, but Gu Chai slid like a loach and moved like a black fish, and my hand grabbed his arm, as if I had caught a slippery water snake, and it was difficult to stay at all. But fortunately, he grabbed the rope that bound the corpse on his back, and immediately pulled forward, dragging Guchai in the water for half a circle.
At this moment, the heavy armor of the mother of pearl suddenly closed, and it was only half an inch away, and it would clamp Gu Chai between his feet. The corpse that dragged a kite in the water had been swallowed in the shell by the mussel ancestor. Gu Chai and I were entangled in the ropes on the corpse, and it was difficult to get out in a hurry, and after the mother swallowed the pearl medium, she immediately closed her armor, motionless like a mountain, and the giant armor trembled slightly, as if she was enjoying the resentment in the corpse skin.
I pushed the clam armor that was tightly closed like a dog's teeth with one hand, and drew the water-splitting short sword with the other, cutting the rope that was entangled in my back, and then I and Gu Chai withdrew. At this time, Shirley Yang and the others looked at the coral tree, and they couldn't help but be frightened, and wanted to swim over to help, but the incident happened suddenly, and it was too late at that moment of lightning and fire, but fortunately there were no casualties, and they successfully lured the old clam out of the sea of pearls, so they hurried over to surround the mother-of-pearl.
The Pearl Sea is also known as "Yinghai", "Ying" is the name of the fairy mountain in the sea in ancient times, and also has the meaning of fairyland. In the way of Feng Shui, it is called "Yinghai" or "Yingshu", which is the best place where life is immortal, and it is also the place where the sea qi is the most prosperous. Mother-of-pearl itself and "Yinghai" is an inseparable whole, it hides in the sea of mother-of-pearl, by the breath of the yin essence in the sea to absorb the form, can survive for a long time, in the folk often say "the king of the millennium 80,000 years of turtle, a hundred years of old hedgehog", in fact, the old turtle in the sea can live for 10,000 years is not necessarily nothing, but at present it is found that the oldest turtle is only 800 years.
Although the lifespan of marine life is longer than that of life on land, the theory of thousands of years is still not very realistic, and most of them are described as "10,000 years" because they are difficult to judge. The life span of the mother of pearl should be about three or four thousand years, once the mother of pearl leaves the sea of pearl and 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 atrophied, 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 it was drowsy, it was no longer as fierce and fierce as in the "Yinghai", and it would no longer pose any substantial threat to the frogmen and the egg people.
I turned behind the giant mussel, stroked its mussel armor, and thought: "The ancestor of the mussel is a spiritual creature of the South China Sea, and it has the spirit of the sea, and now the world's resources are overexploited, and there are very few natural seawater pearls. The combined age of our group is probably not as big as a fraction of its size, although it is intentional 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 and Gu Chai and Duoling do it, and the three egg people have a specialization in the art industry.
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 clam fend for itself, and then took the water-splitting ancient sword in my hand, and the three of them used the blade to scrape off the sea erosion precipitation material on the mussel shell layer by layer.
In the sea pearl diving, sometimes the whole old mussel will be fished up together, take the mussel beads, the mussel meat can not be wasted, with a knife to scrape the mussel meat out of the shell alive, called "scraping the mussel". However, pearl divers have the ancient method of the Tan people, and the so-called "scraping mussels" in the ancient method is not a method for ordinary eggers to scrape mussel meat with sharp blades. The ancient Tan people scrape 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 vibration.
This kind of vibration is very special, just like the "golden seedlings" that dug for gold in ancient times, and when you see the gold vein, you have to recite a mantra, otherwise the vein will be short. The method of scraping the mussel seems to be such an ancient spell issued with bronze, and only the bronze blade with the fish and dragon totem can play a role in deterring the old mussel. The older the blade used, the more obvious it is. The mother-of-pearl carapace was scraped by a sharp blade, as if she was scared and lost her soul, and it seemed to be anesthetized, the muscles in her body were completely gone, the shell armor was loosened, and the egg people could not resist and struggle at all.
The fat man and Shirley Yang and I didn't understand the mystery at all, and at this time, we could only watch from the side, watching Uncle Ming's "scraping mussels" intently under the water. Although he usually thinks that Uncle Ming, the old thief, is used to boasting and showing, and is an old gambler and old liar who "Guan Erye farts and doesn't know how to blush", he does have some outstanding features, and he has rich experience in maritime affairs and the inverted dead, and he knows all kinds of anecdotes about egg picking in great detail. Because this pair of bronze swords is a secret weapon in ancient times, there is no need to worship the fisherman, with Uncle Ming's strange technique, and it didn't take much effort, the colorful clam armor of the mussel ancestor has been exposed, and the surface of the shell armor is covered with bright red inverted bone spurs, like a huge colored coral, it seems to be hypnotized, trembling and shaking the mussel shell opened a gap.