Since fishermen generally did not return to Hong Kong at this time, most of the vendors in the fish market were not there. Only Old Porter, the owner of the largest fish stall, was eating grilled shark fins at his stall.
"Hey! Isn't this Father Pound? Have you returned to Hong Kong so early?"
Potter saw the father and son pushing a trolley from a distance, and immediately put down the food in his hands to say hello.
Pound's father waved and smiled: "Haha, isn't this a good catch? Old Potter, come and see what the price should be?"
Old Porter took a closer look and said with surprise: "Shark tooth fish? Is it still such a big one? You really caught something good!"
"Haha, stop inking and get an estimate quickly."
Pound laughed and pushed the fish to Old Porter's stall.
After looking back and forth at the fish in the car, Old Porter said: "I visually estimated that this thing weighs about 280 kilograms. According to the current market price of shark tooth fish meat at 53 copper coins per kilogram, you can probably sell it for 10,000 yuan this time."
five."
"No, no, this thing must weigh three hundred and forty kilograms. You underestimated it by sixty kilograms. And why has the market price of shark tooth fish increased so much now? Old Potter, please don't cheat us."
Father Pound didn't believe what Old Porter said. After all, it was something he pushed over. An old fisherman like him knew how much the prey he caught didn't need to be weighed, just by feeling.
"Hey, I've been in the fishery business for thirty years, and I've always been honest. And I can guarantee that this shark-toothed fish will not weigh more than three hundred kilograms."
But Old Porter's judgment is not nonsense. He is also a very experienced fishery boss and thinks that he will not cause problems.
Seeing the heated atmosphere between his father and Porter, Pang couldn't help but shout, "What if it exceeds the limit? Porter, do you dare to bet?"
Old Potter raised his eyebrows, put his hands on his waist and said, "If you win, I will pay you sixty copper coins per pound."
"Okay, if not, I will sell it at the smoked fish price."
Not to be outdone, Father Pound proposed a bet.
Old Porter shouted to the strong men in his shop who were processing fish fillets: "Come on, guys, weigh it!"
The guys in these shops responded, and two of them went to the shop to bring out a large ceramic tank with a little water in it. After they poured out the water, with the help of Pang De and his son, they took out the shark.
The toothfish was put into the tank, and then with the help of other workers, it was lifted to the big scale in the middle of the shop.
"Weighs three hundred and forty-eight pounds and seven taels, what's going on?!"
In full view of everyone, the total weight of the weights was calculated. Father Pang was right, it was indeed around 340 pounds.
Pound smiled and said: "Haha, I'm willing to admit defeat, old Potter, don't cheat."
When Old Porter saw this result, his brows suddenly turned into knots. He blushed and said, "No, the number of shark toothfish I have taken over is almost three digits. I am not a shark tooth fish of such a big size."
I’ve never seen it before, it’s only that heavy at most, it can’t weigh more than 300 pounds, there must be something wrong with it.”
These words immediately caused Pound's expression to change. He glared at Old Porter and said, "Eh? Aren't you cheating?"
However, the fishmongers around him came closer. When Pound saw this wall of people, he had to control his anger and retreated.
Old Porter, whose face was full of doubts, clapped his hand on the fish belly and found that his palm touched a strange hard object.
"Wha, what! Is it so serious?"
"If you want to survive, be smarter!"
After that, Father Pound held the crystal in his arms and took his son to a small wooden house beside an abandoned old dock where he had lived for decades.
That night, Father Pound and Pound prepared all the luggage that could be taken away. The father and son went to bed early together, preparing to leave in the early morning of tomorrow when the checkpoint out of the town was just opening.
However......
They did not usher in tomorrow.
"These humans reek of blood."
A man in a black robe with his face covered with bandages glanced through the hotel window at the sneaky figures passing by on the street. He muttered something in his mouth, then raised his head and raised the wine glass on the table, pouring the wine inside.
He poured the wine onto the strange cracked mouth under the bandage, and drank the cold winter spirit brewed by the Northern Norma people in one gulp.
Then the black-robed weirdo looked up at the moonlight outside, and asked in a hoarse voice to the blue-robed priest who was sitting on the bedside reading a book:
"Vosini, do all humans like to do this?"
"Yes or no."
The blue-robed priest gave an ambiguous answer as always. He closed the page and sighed before continuing: "Greed exists in the hearts of any living creature, not just humans."
"Tsk tsk...the scene of cannibalism really makes me happy."
The weird man in black robe made a weird laugh, poured himself another glass of wine, and drank it in one gulp with the same weird posture as before.
"You tried to warn them, but their greed made them become food for the greedier ones. It's so sad and ridiculous, and it fascinates me so much. I really want to taste the flesh and blood of these humans and listen to the voices from their souls.
Trill...that would be such a wonderful thing."
"But I'm here, you can't do that, and you won't do it."
The blue-robed priest who continued to lower his head and read the book did not react to the weirdo's terrifying words. Apparently he was used to it.
The weird man in black robe turned to look at the priest and said: "The crystal core of the King of the Deep Sea fell into the world like this. This cause and effect is destined to flow into a river of blood. I am surprised that you are so calm."
The blue-robed priest re-closed the page of the book and once again let out an imperceptible sigh. He said: "This is a cause and effect that I cannot cut off. It has been doomed from the beginning. The ending that I intervene to change will not change."
It will be better than what it is now.”
"Tsk tsk... As an omniscient person, you know the past and the future. However, it is precisely because of this that you have no past and future."
The weird man in black robe continued to make strange laughter, his hoarse and weird voice was like two layers of sandpaper rubbing against each other.
"That Hedhela would never have thought that her crystal core would actually fall into the hands of the weak person she destroyed, inheriting its destructive obsession."
The weakling mentioned in the words of the weird man in black happened about seven thousand years ago.
At that time, humans were only the weakest of the terrestrial intelligent races, and this was also the case even longer ago.
Countless powerful and ancient creatures compete with and devour each other in this vast and cruel world. Human beings without strong bodies, long lifespans, or even without many special talents are not surprising or even insignificant in it.
In that era, the giant race that once dominated the world disappeared, and the giant dragon, the natural enemy of the giants, naturally became the only overlord under the sky.
Apart from Warcraft, the two most powerful intelligent groups: ancient elves and ancient dwarves, are still competing for the barren plains and mountains. As the real masters of the world, Warcraft rule the lush forests and vast mountains and rivers. At that time,
Humans and demi-humans (the predecessors of the orcs) still live in the cracks between various races, and are in a very difficult situation.
In that era, a giant beast called "Hedhela" was already entrenched in the North Sea. This terrifying monster single-handedly defeated Kraken, the former lord of the North Sea, and his descendants, completely
Controlled the North Sea.
But no matter how powerful Hedhela is, it is only an ocean monster after all, and the changes in the ocean controller will have no impact on other land creatures.
Marine creatures and terrestrial creatures generally do not interfere with each other due to their different living environments. Moreover, in the vast ocean, the food and spiritual energy required by the ocean monsters are sufficient. As the overlord of the North Sea, Hedhela has no reason to invade the land.
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However, Hedhela launched an attack on a human island nation one day for unknown reasons, leading to the destruction of the island nation. The cold seawater submerged this once prosperous country.
Wandering in search of fresh prey.
The survivors of the island nation tried to seek asylum from other human groups. However, it was winter and resources were scarce. No one could be a good Samaritan when none of their own people had enough to eat.
The land of their hometown no longer exists, and other lush lands on the mainland are occupied by ferocious monsters or other humans. However, they have no power to fight against those monsters, and they have no way to compete for the land of other human settlements, so they have to fight in this dangerous land.
Wandering on the mainland.
The cold and arduous journey with no end in sight caused the survivors who survived the disaster to collapse one by one. Just when these homeless refugees lost hope of survival, a man in a linen robe holding a
The young traveler with the bamboo stick told them that the ocean monsters that were raging in their hometown had disappeared, and there was still a piece of unsubmerged land on the island country, which could just be enough to build a village.
These desperate survivors of the island country believed the young travelers' words and embarked on a journey back home.
Everything was as the young man said, Hedhela and other ocean monsters disappeared, so they re-established their home on the remaining fertile soil. As the population grew, they moved toward the coast.
With the development of land, a new nation gradually formed, relying on fishing and shipping in the North Sea, and this nation was the Noma people.
The Norma people have brown hair, brown or blue eyes, large and straight noses, white skin, and sharp facial features. Three hundred years ago, they established one of the most prosperous northern kingdoms, the Norma Kingdom.
But under the invasion of the Sharjah Empire in its heyday, the kingdom perished.
Later, the Kingdom of Noah united with other human kingdoms to counterattack the orcs, and recaptured the northern territory of the Norma Kingdom in the "Blade Battle". After that, the region was divided into north and south. The Southern Norma people living in the south of the Blade Mountains were still under the control of the Orc Empire Sharjah.
rule, and the Northern Norma people living in the north of the Blade Mountains surrendered to the Kingdom of Noah.
Shortly thereafter, King Baroni I of the Kingdom of Noah, who had gained a large amount of territory and allies, was named Emperor Noah at the Holy Mountain Wilancono, and the Kingdom of Noah was renamed the Holy Empire of Noah, marking its sixty-seventh anniversary.
The co-owner of a piece of human territory and a feudal state.
Seven thousand years later, these two fishermen and their son from the North Norma discovered this strange crystal in the belly of a caught sea fish, which was about to usher in a storm that would sweep the entire human world!