How to become a mermaid

Chapter 174 Open the door!Let me be healthy!

The so-called pearls are the "stones" that grow out of clam shells.

Samantel has been looking for clam shells in the sea for the past few days, trying to get beautiful pearls out of them.

Many mermaids use pearls to grind their teeth when they are young, so they have a lot of experience in how to choose the right clam shell and how to take out pearls without harming the sea clam as much as possible.

Shamanlael had learned a little from Alicia before, and had a vague impression.

Good pearls start with picking shells.

The pearls on the bottom of the sea are not the kind of artificial cultivation. The shells grow freely on the bottom of the sea. It is normal for foreign objects to enter the interior occasionally. Generally speaking, the larger the shell, the greater the possibility of pearls appearing in the shell. And the pearl grows bigger.

Well, it is to be big!

While swimming, Samantel inspected the seabed environment to see if there were any suitable large clam shells.

Suddenly, two huge giant clams appeared in his sight.

Tridacna are the second largest shells in the ocean after [Mirage]. Their shells are thick, and there are wavy tooth-like structures on the edges of the shells. This feature makes them look very different from other shellfish. can recognize.

This kind of shell can exceed two meters in diameter when it is an adult, and the largest can even exceed ten meters.

The two giant clams in front of Shamanleir are not considered the kind of talented players with a diameter of more than ten meters, but the diameter of three or four meters is also very impressive.

Seeing these two behemoths, Samantel hesitated for a moment, but swam over.

In fact, he was looking for pearls. Although giant clams can also produce giant clam beads, the color of these beads is only white, the shape is not round enough, and they don't emit neon-like colorful pearls.

However, they are huge!
The bigger the shell, the bigger the beads, and the bigger the "stones" in a giant clam.

It is rare for ordinary pearls to grow to the size of a pigeon's egg, but giant clam pearls can even grow to be bigger than the head of Samantel, which can be said to be stronger than ten.

Shamanleir approached the two huge giant clams and circled them a few times.

In addition to the wavy shell, the biggest feature of giant clams is the symbiosis with zooxanthellae.

On the edge of their thick mantle, commonly known as the skirt, there is a structure called the vitreous body, which can gather light and allow zooxanthellae to multiply on it.

These algae grow inside the giant clams, showing extremely colorful, not only peacock blue, pink, emerald green, brown red and other bright colors, but also often have various patterns, making these shells look gray and inconspicuous Shells become extremely ornamental.

Of the two giant clams in front of Shamanleir, one skirt is bright blue with circles of light spots, and the other is bright red, which looks like flames, and they are both quite beautiful.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr." It seems that they have not noticed that the "danger" is approaching. The thick skirts of giant clams are gently swaying in the sea water, spreading out like a carpet, so that the zooxanthellae growing on them can fully absorb the sunlight and provide themselves with Nutrition.

Samantel broke off a few thick growths of seaweed from a nearby reef and swam to the top of the giant clam.

"Boom...boom..." He stretched out his hand and tapped twice on the shell of the giant clam whose mantle was blue.

Suddenly felt the knock on the shell, this is the Tridacna seems to be stunned for a moment, the skirt wriggling in the sea suddenly stopped moving.

"Boom...boom..."

"Excuse me for interrupting, do you need to remove the foreign body?" Shamanlael asked the giant clam.

He just asked casually, Tridacna has no brains and no mouth, so he can't answer Shamanleir's question.

However, they have instinct, an instinct specially "trained" by merfolk.

Mermaids have a long history of prying pearls, tens of thousands of years at least. They have patronized many sea clams in the sea, and these shellfish have even derived an instinct engraved in their DNA.

That is--

When being knocked on the shell by a mermaid, take the initiative to "open the door to welcome guests"!
"Boom...boom, boom...boom..." Samantel knocked on the clam shell a few more times.

This is not random knocking, but regular, first knock twice quickly, pause for a second and then knock again, and then pause for a few seconds before repeating the action just now.

This set of actions is the "sign" that the mermaids and shellfish match together.

The body of this giant clam that was beaten shook twice, and seemed a little reluctant.

"Boom...boom..." Samantel continued to knock, while holding the seaweed and flirting back and forth on the skirt of the giant clam.

[If you encounter shells that are unwilling to cooperate, use seaweed to scratch their shell skirts severely. If they retract the skirts into the shell, pry open a seam and stretch in to scratch! 】

Shamanleir echoed Alicia's previous teaching to him in his head, and strictly implemented it.

"Boom...boom..." Under Shamanleir's perseverance, the fat skirt of the giant clam squirmed for a while, as if he was a little impatient, but also seemed to want to cooperate.

Seeing this scene, Samantel took advantage of the victory and pursued, knocking on the giant clam shell again.

"Open the door, and I'll help you clean up the debris in your body!"

"Guji Guji..."

Perhaps it was too much annoyance, so the giant clam retracted the hem of the skirt and closed the shell a little.

But Samantel did not give up, and continued to tire of it persistently.

He held the soft seaweed and stretched it through the seam of the giant clam's partially closed shell, brushing the soft flesh inside it back and forth.

Such a move is like scratching the soles of a person's feet with a feather.

Being "violated" so recklessly, the giant giant clam trembled violently.

In the end, it succumbed!

"Kakaka…"

The thick and rough shell of the giant clam slowly opened, and a gap about [-] centimeters long appeared in front of Shamanleir.

Different from the rough outer shell, the inner shell of the giant clam is smooth and delicate, and the color is extremely white, which looks like the best suet white jade.

There are some handicrafts made of clams in the human world, which use this smooth and delicate inner shell.

But Samantel now has no intention of killing this giant clam to get its shell, he just wants the giant clam pearl.

In the white inner shell of the giant clam, it wraps its core part - a mass of light yellow soft meat.

Due to exposure to water, the mass of soft flesh is now wriggling uneasily, and the shell shakes for a while, as if it is about to close again.

The time to open the shell is only a few tens of seconds, or even only a dozen seconds, and Shamanlael needs to hurry up to take out the beads inside.

He tilted his head and observed the situation inside through the gap opened by the giant clam.

Finally, Samantel saw a huge hard lump on the right side of the giant clam.

After finding the target, Shamanlael didn't hesitate anymore, and reached in to get the beads.

The first thing I touched was a soft touch, which is the soft flesh of giant clams.

Pressing down hard, Samantel touched the hard giant clam beads.

It was a large piece, probably as wide as half his tail fin.

You must know that Shamanleir's caudal fin is very long, and it is one meter wide when it is fully expanded, and half of the caudal fin is half a meter wide. This is really a giant stone!

Shamanleir cut open the soft flesh of the giant clam with his sharp nails, and pulled out the huge group of giant clam beads.

"Guji Guji..."

Maybe it felt the pain, the giant clam's flesh shrank suddenly, and the shell was also closing rapidly.

Seeing that it was about to close the shell, Samantel had to put his other hand in, and pull out the giant clam beads with both hands like pulling a carrot.

Facing his movements, the white and jade-like giant clam beads slowly detached from the flesh.

This bead is not a rounded sphere, but a fan-shaped shell similar to the shell of a giant clam.

Although it is a bit flat, it is fairly regular overall and does not grow into strange shapes.

Seeing that half of the bead had been pulled out, Shamanleir's eyes were fixed, and he swung his tail vigorously to give himself a boost.

When the clam shell was closed to only a few centimeters wide, Shamanlaer exerted force suddenly and pulled out a giant clam bead weighing hundreds of catties!
"Crack!" The clam shell snapped shut.

"Ow~"

Samantel suddenly let out a cry of pain.

Damn, the meat is caught!
(End of this chapter)