The shells of giant clams are difficult to pry open, and fishermen have no tools and are helpless.
Liszt didn't force it, anyway, as long as the black pearl didn't have to run away inside. After the large squid was dismembered and the rotting corpse was thrown into the sea, Liszt ordered people to carry the giant clam back to the castle and study it slowly.
Giant clam, strange shape.
Along the way, it attracted many small town residents to watch. When they arrived at the castle, all the servants also ran out to watch. No one had ever seen such a strange thing.
"Mr. Marcus, how do you think you can open it?"
Marcus pondered for a moment, then said: "It's very strong, and the two shells are firmly fixed, but its shell is irregular and has many gaps, you can stick a stick in to pry it open. Ordinary wooden sticks won't work, it's better It’s a thicker iron rod, but there shouldn’t be such an iron rod.”
Ironware is very precious, and no one would use iron ore to forge a thick iron rod specially designed to pry open giant clam shells.
"Perhaps with fire," suggested Carter.
"The shell is too thick, so it's difficult for fire to damage it." Liszt denied that there were black pearls inside, in case it was cooked...
"Use hooks. Two hooks each hook a piece of shell, and then use the horse to pull it out to pull its shell apart." Marcus finally thought of a stupid way.
But it works well.
When the two horses each pulled a rope and almost broke the rope, they finally pulled the shell of the giant clam away. The erected giant clam is like a flower blooming at this time, the degree of opening is not large, but the "belt" supporting the shell, that is, the adductor muscle, can already be found.
Marcus clenched his two-handed swords tightly, and directly cut off one of the belts with a burst of vindictiveness.
Slap!
The horses pulling hard on the shells directly pulled the giant clam shells in half, which could never be closed again. Liszt's gaze was already on a group of protrusions on the inner wall of the giant clam. The protrusions are round and round, and the pearls are hidden inside.
"Cut it open, be careful, there are pearls inside, don't scratch the pearls."
"Yes, my lord!"
Marcus personally operated the knife and carefully cut the protruding membrane. When the largest protruding membrane was cut, a black shiny pearl was directly exposed inside, the size of a washbasin.
"It's still on the side, cut it all out." Liszt was very excited.
He hasn't figured out what these black pearls can do, but finding such a big black pearl is still incredible. If this was placed in his hometown, it would definitely fetch an astonishing sky-high price at auction.
After Marcus finished cutting, he took out a total of sixteen large and small black pearls.
The largest one is the size of a washbasin.
Next came two that were nearly the size of a basketball; followed by three that were about the size of a sea bowl;
After cleaning, Liszt held the largest black pearl and suddenly felt that there seemed to be traces of magic power flowing on the pearl. He quickly cast the eye of magic power, and then, he saw the deep magic power like the vortex inside the black pearl, the color is light blue, which is the color of water attribute magic power.
"There is magic power?"
He had observed the giant clam with the eyes of magic power before, and found no trace of magic power. Who would have thought that black pearls would have magic power.
"My lord, these black pearls seem to have magical power?" Marcus also noticed the abnormality, but he didn't know the magic eye, so he didn't dare to judge.
"There is indeed magic."
Liszt whirled the black pearl, and what he thought of was the knight novel he had read. Among them is a knight novel, which seems to record that the song of the siren can calm the storm of the sea, and a great knight captured the siren and made the siren into a piece of magic equipment.
This piece of equipment allows the ship to sail steadily even in a storm.
No one can tell what the siren is. Some people swear that they have heard the singing of the siren—Costo just said that he has heard the singing of the siren—but there is no record of what the siren is. Most agree that the Siren is just a sailor's tale.
This story has nothing to do with Black Pearl.
What reminded Liszt was that the Kraken was made into equipment to protect sea ships against storms.
"These black pearls can also be made into magic equipment to resist storms? After all, they are magic items with water attributes, and their magic power is very strong, almost comparable to gems produced by dragons. I don't know if it will work to suppress storms at sea. , but making magic equipment should be feasible.”
Without magicians, black pearls cannot be studied.
Liszt thinks it can be used in other ways—for example, as an air conditioner.
"Mr. Marcus, Mr. Carter, everyone, do you feel the air is much cooler?"
Marcus felt it carefully: "I didn't feel the coolness, but the moisture in the air seemed to increase a little. It should be that the black pearl condensed the surrounding water vapor."
"Anyway, they are good things. If you want to sell them, how many gold coins do you think you can sell them for?"
"I have seen white pearls the size of a fist. I heard from others that such a pearl costs at least five gold coins. I guess a black pearl of the same size should be sold for ten gold coins? As for the largest black pearl, my lord, I cannot Estimate its value, it is a brand new pearl."
"It has strong magic power and is definitely more valuable than white pearls, but the castle is not short of money for the time being, so its price has to be considered." Liszt was not very satisfied with Marcus' valuation.
He felt that even if the black pearl was twice the price of the white pearl, it was still underestimated, and its value might be far greater than expected.
So he said to Carter: "Mr. Carter, move them to my study." He kept a black pearl the size of a ping-pong ball in his hand and played with it carefully.
"Yes, sir."
After a while, Carter came back and asked, "Sir, what should I do with the shelled giant clam? Can its meat be eaten?"
"I think it's okay...well, let Dou Sen taste it first, and if it's poisonous, just throw it away."
"What about the two shells?"
"Clean the inner wall of the shell, I want to see if it has become jade."
Jade clam, in Liszt's hometown, is a precious jewel, one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. Tridacna, pearl, coral and amber are juxtaposed in the west as four organic gemstones. Jade clam is the whitest substance in the world, and it is formed by jadeization of the inner wall of giant clam.
"Such a big clam should have a jade part."
But soon Liszt realized that he had made a mistake. Although the giant clam was huge, there was no sign of jade on the inner wall. Only then did he realize that live giant clams cannot be turned into jade. Jade transformation takes time, just like the gestation of jade, which can only be produced after thousands of years of precipitation and carving.
Jade clams are dead clams buried in the sand, and gradually become jade after tens of millions of years.
Without jade, it cannot be made into jewelry, but Liszt has an idea: "Mr. Carter, tell me, what will happen if you make it into a bed?"
When he was talking, what came to his mind was the cartoons he watched when he was a child—the mermaid princess in Disney cartoons, who always sleeps in shells.