Collecting pearls in the shell market is also risky.
The ocean is a great treasure that can be obtained by those with strength; humans are invading, and the sea people are the masters. When interests conflict, there will be countless disputes of this kind, and even life-and-death fights.
Over the years, similar vicious incidents are not uncommon in various harvest seasons in the shell field. In fact, it is not right or wrong. What is unowned, why can you pick it and I can't pick it?
Human pirates will not attack at this stage because they are unable to go to the bottom of the sea to collect pearls themselves and will die from exhaustion.
Pirates usually finish their pearl fishing in January and then attack when they have returned home with a full load. However, the sea tribe is just the opposite. They will cause trouble during pearl fishing. As for their motives, only God knows.
Three monks took turns to be on guard duty. Lu Shilun was the first, and was on duty for ten days; Hou Zi was the second, and Zeng Ji was on duty for the last ten days.
The sea area with a radius of hundreds of miles can still be seen clearly from an altitude of hundreds of feet. This sea area is mostly calm in April and May every year, with few huge waves and complex weather, which is more conducive to pearl fishing operations. After all,
Those who work are ordinary people, and they have little resistance to bad weather.
Hou Zi found a fishing boat at random, sat on the top of the mast, and swayed with the waves; because there was no need to set the sail, the fishing boat kept a very low speed when casting the net, so even if it was very high, it was nothing to him.
The monks in the Third Realm of Tongtian are still unable to adapt to the practice of flying in the air all the time. They will always fall down.
The fishermen were all working hard. They pulled up the heavy fishing nets on the wheel, spread a large number of luminous clams on the deck, divided them into piles, and nervously searched for the luminous clams containing the spiritual beads. This process required a rough process.
Sieve it carefully, and then push those ordinary noctilucent clams back into the water.
Spirit beads are very valuable and have no exchange relationship with the currency of the secular world. Just one may be enough for them to live for a lifetime, but they cannot hide even one.
The reason why in the entire fleet, except for Hou Zi and three other cultivators, all others are ordinary mortals is to guard against this; if there are low-level monks mixed in, it will be difficult for anyone to resist such a temptation.
Mortals are different. They have no way of hiding even a single spiritual bead, not even swallowing it.
Interests determine the entire pearl fishing process, including the personnel composition and everything.
Hou Zi sat on the top of the mast, continuing his practice amidst the swaying, waiting for news of possible attacks. In Zeng Ji's words, the probability was even more than 30%.
The only thing that reassures them is that the big monsters will not come to such close waters. For those big monsters, can water with a depth of 20 to 30 feet be called the ocean? Some of them are even larger than this depth.
It's as ridiculous as humans swimming in a stream that's only up to their ankles.
Ten days later, it will be his turn to fly on patrol, basically flying around the entire shell field, and there is no speed requirement. How fast you fly depends only on your sense of responsibility.
He has become somewhat accustomed to the ocean environment, and now has a certain understanding of some things. He is no longer as confused as when he first arrived; this sea area is relatively shallow, and if there is anything unusual, it will be difficult to conceal his whereabouts.
The most important thing is that the fishermen on each fishing boat must be the first to discover it. If there is any disturbance, they will send out a distress signal.
Several times he flew around because of such a surprise, but in the end he found out that it was just a false alarm.
There are always some strange creatures in the ocean. They look like monsters, but in fact they are just ordinary sea creatures looking for food.
At the edge of the shell field, he found an uninvited guest secretly devouring spirit shells; it was his neighbor, the red cockroach and its few remaining children.
The red croaker's mother didn't eat, probably because she knew that if she ate, she would inevitably expose her hidden body, and those dozens of small red croakers would be the ones swallowing the spirit shells, so her appetite was limited.
It was normal that Lu Shilun didn't notice it. This guy was really good at disguise, but Hou Zi was too familiar with the Chiqu family, so he couldn't escape his ears.
He didn't stop these little guys from eating, how much could they eat? Moreover, the resources on the seabed should be shared by all living creatures, so when he took a closer look, he pretended not to know and left.
The ten days of Hou Zi were also uneventful. Twenty days have passed. It seems that there is a high possibility that the pearl fishing will be passed safely.
Not only did he think so, but Lu Shilun and Zeng Ji also thought so. So, according to the usual laws of heaven, when everyone thought they were close to safety, trouble suddenly struck.
Zeng Ji's iconic roar echoed over the sea. He was very depressed. The two companions were fine when they were patrolling before. Now it was his turn to have a problem on the first day. This was not an ordinary luck.
Here comes a group of killer whales. This is a group of creatures that are not picky about their food. They will eat anything, including fish and shellfish, as long as they can fit into their mouths; their super strong gastric juices cannot even eat hard shells.
How long do you insist? The most important thing is that they know that the noctilucent clams in this season are the most nutritious.
They swallow spirit shells just like humans swallow pills; but there is a limit to how humans swallow pills. These killer whales don't think about it so much. The powerful vitality of the sea monsters makes them not afraid of any form of supplementation, especially the naturally formed spirits.
cowry.
Killer whales are called whales, but their body shape is relatively compact among the whale family tree. Of course, this is also compared to their giant cousins in the deep sea. In the eyes of humans, they are still huge.
An adult killer whale is four to five feet long, has a body thicker than a shark, has sharp teeth, and you can feel the indescribable pressure when you open its mouth.
This group of killer whales migrated here, and there were dozens of them. They were attracted by the noctilucent clams, which were a great source of nourishment to them, so how could they let them go so easily?
The leader among them is a dozen demon whales, and there are seven or eight that can initially transform. According to the understanding of the human cultivation world, this is basically the same level as the three realms of human Tongtian. Therefore, under some pressure, Xiao Sheng
That's why it's so sad.
When Hou Zi and Lu Shilun arrived, they saw such a situation. Fortunately, there was no conflict yet and the two sides were still in a confrontation.
"What's going on?" Lu Shilun came from Lihai Jiedu Mansion, so he was naturally the leader among the three.
Zeng Ji's face turned livid, "These killer whales suddenly appeared and want to divide half of the playground! The leader's attitude is resolute, I'm afraid it will be difficult to continue the discussion."
Lu Shilun stepped forward and said, "Fellow Taoists, the Crab Island Shell Market has been operating in the southwest countries for hundreds of years. The state has national laws and the sea has its own regulations. Everyone is doing whatever they want. Isn't it a violation of the rules?"
There are countless similar places in the ocean. With the capabilities of the whale clan, there is no place where we can't go, so why bother worrying about it here, not getting much, and ruining the harmony between you and my clan."
A killer whale emerged from the crowd, half in human form, with the lower body of a human being, but it had a huge whale head on top of it. It was very ridiculous, but with its big mouth open, its ferocity seemed undiminished.
"Is there harmony between humans and our sea tribe? I've never heard of it! The sea tribe can live in peace with any race, but they won't have any friendship with bandits.
Human beings have been operating here for hundreds of years, so this place belongs to humans? What a joke, then our sea people were born and raised here, and our ancestors have been here for tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, what should we say?
Letting you leave is already an act of kindness outside the law, but you still have to impose conditions. Do you really think that Lizhihai is the territory of mankind?"
