Chapter 36 giant clam (on)

Shirley Yang agreed, we started the underwater thrusters floated on the original way, I saw her just use the underwater camera in the four shoot a pass, thinking that China’s Shang Dynasty civilization is limited to the Central Plains area, much smaller than the current map of China, if you really found in the South China Sea at the end of the far-reaching influence of the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty civilization of the ruins of the return of the ruins for the study of the history of mankind’s seafaring history and the history of civilization has a remarkable meaning, even if you can not find the Qin King Bone Mirror, single bring these photos back will be enough to stimulate Professor Chen hospitalized again. Even if we can’t find the Qin Wang Bone Mirror, these photos alone can stimulate Professor Chen enough to be hospitalized again.

The three of us will be fully open lighting equipment, slowly floating to the coral forest, but just came up to find that something is not right, at the bottom of the large translucent coral tree egg harvesting B team, is to us to the diving searchlight drawing circle, obviously need our immediate support, I will hand forward everything, with Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming quickly approach the coral tree.

Coral tree under the skipper Ruan Hei and more bell is desperately prying a giant clam, this big clam hidden under the coral reef, than the largest millstone but also three times larger than the wave-like clam shells are tightly closed, let Nguyen Hei how hard the two shells do not move the slightest bit, this giant clam at least said to have grown a few thousand years, the shell is white and crystalline, and almost with the seabed stone into a body, it is only good at clamping the legs and feet of the cannibalism of the shell, the sea in the mussels, the reality is the The old saying, because the egg people and fishermen are most afraid to play “back” net empty-handed, so a variety of pearl shells are still known as mussels, cannibal shells in the mouth of the egg people, although it does not mention its scientific name “giant clams”, but often to “white niche “call, I do not know how many egg people in the pearl harvesting by this kind of thing clamped bad life, I do not know why skipper Ruan Hei want to pry it up, not waiting to ask him, he could not wait to gesture to tell us that there is a person in the clam shell!

I thought I misunderstood what Ruan Hei meant, there is no one else but us in this turbulent coral spiral sea, even if this is a deep-sea giant clam commonly known as man-eating shells, how can there be “people” in its shell? Is it a living person or a dead person? Uncle Ming seems to suddenly wake up, made a swimming fish gesture, this time developed, cannibalism shells are likely to be caught in the rare sea mermaid, its meat can be equivalent to the weight of the platinum is twice as expensive.

Uncle Ming pressed the millstone-sized man-eating mussel, so excited that a long string of bubbles, gesturing to tell us that this old mussel may be clamped on the bottom of the sea mermaids, in fact, this is just his wishful thinking, the mussel shell in the end what is the thing, only the boss of the boat Ruan Hei and his apprentice Duo Ling two saw, underwater is also difficult to carefully describe.

I see this rare large giant clam shell crystal white, is a rare piece of green head goods, anyway, after the cabin of the watermelon are thrown clean, leaving a good big place, no matter what, why not give it to the end of the nest? So make a gesture, let Ruan Hei with more Ling at the bottom of the sea to wait, I and Shirley Yang and others first back to the ship, let the fat man with a chisel and crowbar down to help, will be a thousand years old mussels hanging back to the deck.

Deployment is complete, we floated along to the decompression line near the next, and then step by step back to the water tank to take off the heavy equipment, I briefed the underwater situation to the fat man and Gu Guchai, fat man has long been on the boat suffocated want to scratch the wall, listen to understand and then immediately take Gu Guchai with us for the handover with chisels and hydraulic separators into the water to catch the mussels.

Ruan black master three are prying clams and eggs of good hands, with equipment is more at ease, but still waste a lot of effort, before the “giant clam” chisel away from the reef, a few of them borrowed the buoyancy of the currents will be its support to the surface of the sea, with a steel cable trapped tied, Uncle Ming start the boat boom hooks hanging, and finally the millennium of the giant clams captured out of the water.

Fatty intention to show off, standing in the suspended in mid-air on the shell of the giant mussels, the frog mirror pushed to the head of my shout: “Old Hu, you see this commander caught this guy is a thing? According to today’s market, the whole of it back to the United States, at least can change a yacht, when we bring a few American girls ……” With the boom lifted up from the surface of the sea more and more high, the fat man did not finish the sentence, began to feel dizzy, ah yoo yelped, feet soft flip into the water.

I was worried that he got carried away and made too much noise to attract sharks, and hurriedly asked Ruan Hei to drag him back to the boat, and I greeted the captain of the boat, Ruan Hei, also hurry up, almost time to withdraw, but Ruan Hei thought that the sea was calm, the tide was low, and there are still a lot of snails on the bottom of the sea, how can we miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to collect eggs, despite the risk of diving disease, after replacing the water lungs, insisted on taking two of his apprentices with him to go into the sea again to collect eggs.

Uncle Ming also has this intention, advised me not to stop the behavior of the egg people, look at the weather, there is a possibility of rain, but there is no wind letter, the surge will not be able to, as long as there is no interference from the surge, even if the sea is raining even more rain, the diving operation will not have an impact, but Uncle Ming he does not want to dive again, anyway, Ruan Hei master and disciples are paid to help, and has not been less than half of their dividends, they want to contribute to the effort of a large Why stop them from doing a good job when they want to make a big contribution?

At this time the sky is even more hazy, thick clouds like ink, covered the sea, the sea breeze seems to have a kind of danger signal came, I moved in my heart, I said tonight can not have a big storm, but think of Uncle Ming and the boss of the boat Ruan Hei on the walrus Tianhou is very familiar with them since they said it’s okay, the material is also no harm.

It is said that the coral spiral sea all year round there is a storm surge, in addition to the full moon want to eclipse the night sky will be clear, usually are thick clouds, accompanied by the second sound of thunderstorms in the clear air turbulence often appear, the aircraft is difficult to fly over the air, the seabed of the low-frequency electromagnetic interference with the electronic equipment of the ship, so that the needle is lost rudder lost deviation from the course of the many disastrous accidents are produced, but this phenomenon so far can not be explained.

At this time Shirley Yang is curiously measuring the captured man-eating mussels, due to the crowd to be busy to continue to pick eggs, there is no time to pay attention to it, just to steel cable bound, ready to free up their hands and then clean it up, Shirley Yang said to me: “Look at the man-eating mussels of the white shell concave and convex undulation, as if it is a wave, but also like a chariot of the ancient Roman wheel bar, the creation of heaven and earth, the wonder of the world, is really beautiful Huanmei The wonder of the earth and sky, is really beautiful, look at the texture of the clam shell is very fine, which indicates that it is at least in the seabed growth for thousands of years, human civilization is only a few thousand years, and this man-eating mussels have survived for almost a few thousand years, which can only live for a few decades of human beings feel amazing.” I was worried that Shirley Yang was going to make a big fuss about it.

I worry that Shirley Yang to mercy, want to release this old clam back to the sea, then this people have made a lot of effort to get the green head of goods lost, is not to the mouth of the fat meat and flew away? Since it has lived for so many years, it should be enough, because the great teacher once said that the meaning of life is not in the length, but in whether it can produce value.

But people’s correct thinking does not fall from the sky, I had to do her work and said: “Many sea creatures are extremely long life, thousands of years, thousands of years of turtles, I see thousands of years is not surprising, man-eating mussels in fact, do not eat human flesh, only its jagged two shells once clamped to the people, it will be dead closed, from ancient times to the present day, there are often the people of the egg suffered from this disaster, so it is given to the press of a! Cannibalism clam such a hair-raising name, listen to Ruan Hei said, he seems to see this giant clam shell clamped a dead man, thousands of years no egg people dare to enter the coral spiral egg, I do not know is the South China Sea in the mermaids, or shipwrecked crew of the sea wolves, but this debt of blood is bound to be used to pay back, let’s look for a guy to pry it apart to see and then say.”

Between the words of the sky began to rain, the sea and sky between the darkness, although it is day, but as in the evening, the distant sea is dark and pale, only a few buoys a flash of light, but we must wait until the tide rises again to leave, on the bad weather at our wits’ end, fortunately, as Uncle Ming said, the rain is falling quickly, but not much impact on the sea phenomenon, the waves are still gentle, think probably with the I think it is probably related to the day before the release of sea air, coral spiral sea geography is difficult to measure the weather, heavy rain in the sky, but the surface of the sea is calm.

We all back to the cabin to take a raincoat to wear on the body, braving the rain to deal with the man-eating mussels, due to the rain dark light, had to put the roof of the ship on the searchlight turned over to play on the clam shells, but also reflecting the mussel shells bleak white, appear to have a few points of oozing, the giant mussels out of the water is not yet dead, with the help of the rain, and then stupidly, but the mussel shells are still tightly closed, do not show half a bit of a gap, in the face of the thousands of years of living creatures, I really do not know how to start, if the damage to the mussels, I would not know what to do. In the face of this living creature of thousands of years, Fatty and I really do not know how to start, if the damage to the clam shell, it will not be worth it.

Uncle Ming see to break the clam, also followed the busy, he decided that the clam clamped a valuable mermaid, I have not heard of the South China Sea mermaids, thought it was similar to the black-scaled mackerel in the tomb of the King of the Consecrated was made into a candle of longevity, then asked Uncle Ming these two things are not the same thing?

Uncle Ming said mermaids and mermaids are two different things, one evil and one good, habits and appearance are not the same, mermaids can not make a sound, the meat can be eaten, and mermaids human nature is evil, can be issued on the surface of the sea sound and color seduction, meat poison can not be eaten, the only oil can be a permanent fuel, the ignorance of the people are easy to confuse the two, but the black-scaled mermaids are rare, but ultimately there are people who have been captured, the “mermaid”, or rather, a mermaid. “, or “fish man” is too rare, a hundred years hard to come by, its meat is delicious, there is a legend to eat the meat of the fish man can be immortal, but I have not seen who really ate, once in the South China Sea when he ran the ship, his sailors, in the sea captured two tails of the human fish, above the navel for the human form, with Normal people do not have any difference, the lower body is similar to the scaly feet, can use the tail wave water, standing in the waves, just close to see, mermaids have a layer of sinuous slippery mucus wrapped around the whole body, strange fishy can not be close to be caught and loaded in a large barrel full of water, the crew gathered to watch, the pair of mermaids are not frightened, in the barrel to swim away from the circling.

At that time, Uncle Ming did not know goods, really catch a boat merchant is willing to sell to release, and asked for a sum of money, still by the merchant to take the mermaids, and then learned that the price of mermaids in North America and Europe black market, more than twice as heavy as the platinum, Uncle Ming only knew that he had fallen for the bad guys, chest thumping, and regretted, and after more than 10 years of thinking back, and also chest boredom dreaming cursed, that year is too generous and too easy to believe in others, otherwise it would not have been the victim of a thousand years, but it is also too easy to trust others. Otherwise, would not have been that knife-ridden traitors pit, at the moment there is a chance to get a tail of mermaids, and how can not let him heart.