The shell of the clam is difficult to pry open, and the fishermen have no tools and are helpless.
Liszt doesn't force it, as long as Black Pearl can't run inside. After the large squid was dismembered and the rotting corpse was thrown into the sea, Liszt ordered people to carry the clam back to the castle and study it slowly.
Huge clam, strange shape.
It attracted many small town residents to watch along the way. When they arrived at the castle, all the servants came out to watch. No one had ever seen such a strange thing.
"Teacher Marcus, how do you think you should open it?"
Marcus thought for a moment and said, "It is very powerful. The two shells are firmly fixed, but its shell is irregular and has many gaps. You can put a stick in to pry it open. Ordinary wooden sticks will not work. It is better to use a thicker iron rod. However, there should be no such iron rod."
Iron tools are very precious, and no one would use iron ore to forge a thick iron bar specially designed to pry open clam shells.
"Perhaps you can burn it with fire." Carter suggested.
"The shell is too thick, so it is difficult for fire to damage it." Liszt denied. There is still Black Pearl inside. If it is cooked...
"Use hooks. Each of the two hooks hooks a piece of shell, and then uses a horse to pull it out and pull its shell apart." Marcus finally thought of a stupid way.
But the effect is good.
When the two horses each pulled a rope and almost broke the rope, they finally pulled the shell of the clam apart. The standing clam looked like a flower in bloom, not much, but the "belt" that supports the shell, which is the adductor muscle, could already be found.
Marcus grasped the two-handed sword tightly, bursting out fighting energy, and directly cut off one of the straps.
Snap!
The horses pulling hard on the shell directly pulled the clam shell into two halves, which could no longer be closed together. Liszt's eyes had already focused on a group of protrusions on the inner wall of the clam. The protrusions were round, and the pearls were hidden inside.
"Cut it open and be careful. There are pearls wrapped inside. Don't scratch the pearls."
"Yes, sir!"
Marcus personally operated the knife and carefully cut through the protruding membrane. When the largest protruding membrane was cut, a black shiny pearl was directly exposed inside, which was as big as a washbasin.
"There are some on the side, cut them all out and take them out." Liszt was very excited.
He hasn't figured out what these Black Pearls can do yet, but it is still unbelievable to find such a big Black Pearl. If it were placed in his hometown, it would definitely be auctioned for an astonishing sky-high price.
After Marcus is finished cutting, a total of sixteen large and small Black Pearls will be taken out.
The largest one is the size of a washbasin.
Next are two ones close to the size of basketballs; then three ones about the size of a sea bowl; and then there are a lot of Apple, oranges, and small Black Pearl the size of table tennis balls.
After cleaning, Liszt held the largest Black Pearl, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be traces of Magic Power's circulation on the pearl. He quickly used Magic Eye, then, you can see Magic Power as deep as the whirlpool inside Black Pearl, the color is light blue, which is the color of water attribute Magic Power.
"There is Magic Power?"
He had used Magic Eye to observe clams before and found no trace of Magic Power. Who would have thought that Black Pearl actually has Magic Power.
"Sir, these Black Pearl seem to have Magic Power?" Marcus also discovered an anomaly, but he didn't know Magic Eye and didn't dare to make a conclusion.
"There is indeed Magic Power."
Liszt whirled Black Pearl, and what came to mind was the knight novels he had read. One of the knight novels seemed to record that the song of the siren could soothe the sea Storm, and that a great knight captured the siren and made it into a piece of magic equipment.
This piece of equipment allows seagoing ships to remain unaffected and sail steadily even if they are in Storm.
No one can tell what the Kraken is. Some people swear that they have heard the song of the Kraken - Kosto just said that he once heard the Kraken sing - but there is no record of what the Siren is. Most people think that the Siren is just a story made up by sailors.
This story has nothing to do with Black Pearl.
What reminds Liszt is that the Kraken was made into equipment to protect sea ships against Storm.
"Can these Black Pearl be made into magic equipment to resist Storm? After all, they are Magic Power items with water properties. Magic Power is very rich, almost as much as the gems produced by dragons. I don't know if it is possible to suppress Storm at sea, but it should be feasible to make magic equipment."
Without a magician, Black Pearl cannot be studied.
Liszt thinks it can also be used for other purposes-for example, as an air conditioner.
"Teacher Marcus, Mr. Carter, everyone, do you feel that the air is much cooler?"
Marcus experienced it carefully. "I didn't feel the coolness, but the moisture in the air seemed to have increased a little. It should be that Black Pearl condensed the surrounding water vapor."
"Anyway, they are good things. If they were to be sold, how many gold coins do you think they could be sold for?"
"I have seen white pearls as big as a fist. I heard from others that one of them 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, sir, I cannot estimate its value. It is a brand new pearl."
"It has a very rich Magic Power, which is definitely more valuable than white pearls. However, the castle is not short of money for the time being, and its price needs to be considered again." Liszt is not very satisfied with the valuation of Marcus.
He feels that even if Black Pearl is twice the price of white pearls, it is still underestimated and its value may be far greater than imagined.
So he said to Carter, "Mr. Carter, move them to my study." He himself kept a Black Pearl the size of a table tennis ball in his hand and played with it carefully.
"Okay, sir."
After a while, Carter came back and asked, "Sir, what should I do with the clams that have opened their shells? Can their meat be eaten?"
"I think it's okay... Well, let Dousen taste it first. If it's poisonous, just throw it away."
"Where are the two shells?"
"Clean the inside of the shell. I want to see if it has become jade."
Jade clam, in the hometown of Liszt, is a precious jewelry and one of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism. In the West, clam, pearl, coral and Amber are considered as the four organic gemstones. Jade clam is the whitest substance in the world, and it is formed by the jade on the inner wall of the clam.
"Such a big clam should have jade parts."
But Liszt soon realized that he was wrong. Although the clam was huge, there was no sign of jade on the inner wall. Only then did he remember that it was impossible for a living clam to be jade. Jade transformation takes time, just like the gestation of jade, which requires tens of millions of years of precipitation and carving before it can be produced.
Jade clams are dead clams buried in the sand, which gradually form jade over millions of years.
Without jade, it cannot be made into jewelry, but Liszt had an imaginative idea. "Mr. Carter, what would happen if it was made into a bed?"
As he spoke, what came to his mind was the cartoon he watched when he was a child - the mermaid princess in the Disney cartoon who always sleeps in a shell.
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