Chapter 403 Long Lingxiao

Chapter 403 Long Lingxiao

Chapter 403 Long Lingxiao

[Water Essence +2786]

[Water Essence +2846]

[Water Essence +3147]

In the ze cauldron, the light blue water essence rose steadily, colliding with a pleasant sound of the tide.

In two hours, the excavation progress of the ruins was only a small part, and Liang Qu easily earned 8,600 points of water essence!
Comfortable!

Taking out the small bag he had prepared in advance, Liang Qu placed the three mermaid tears separately to prevent them from rubbing against each other and leaving scratches.

If your appearance declines, you are the one who suffers.

"The merman tribe here left in a hurry."

The receipt of three mermaid tears in succession gave Liang Qu more time to think.

He found his dragon brothers who were helping him search and asked them about many things about the mermaids.

Both races are aquatic creatures, so they should know a lot about each other.

"What do the mermaids themselves think of the mermaid tears?"

Long Pinghe thought for a while: "Sad things, right? Mermaid tears are quite similar to blood essence. Without a certain level of strength, it is almost impossible to have them in a lifetime.

Coupled with the human race's unbridled pursuit, many mermaids regard it as a mermaid curse, but most of them still cherish it, treating it as a relic of their loved ones and keeping it as a commemoration.

It stands to reason that they won’t discard it easily, most of the time they leave in a hurry or because something happens.”

"Is there any difference in appearance between mermaids and dragon people?"

"There's a big difference!" Long Pinghe lifted a beam with one hand and turned back to answer, "Master Liang, don't think that we are all water creatures. In fact, we dragon people are simply big in size. When we run to the shore, many martial artists will mistake us for being born with martial bones, but we will never be mistaken for mermaids."

Long Pingjiang nodded. He opened the drawer of the bookcase and while searching, he touched both sides of his neck.

“There are several layers of gills on both sides of the mermaid’s lower jaw, which are usually not visible, but when they are excited and short of breath, they will vibrate at high speed and fan out white steam.

There is a layer of translucent membrane webs between the toes, and from the waist down is a whole long fish tail, mostly blue or cyan. In short, you can tell at a glance that it is not a human. "

"Is the difference so huge? How come I've heard of stories about mermaids and humans falling in love?"

Long Pingjiang fell into deep thought: "Well, it was probably compiled by scholars, right? Dragon people do marry humans, but mermaids... anyway, I have never heard of them."

Long Pinghe asked curiously, "Where did you see this, Lord Liang? Mermaids and humans can't reproduce!"

"Oh? You can't have children?"

"Dragon people are human embryos transformed by the Dragon King, while mermaids are half human and half fish, born this way. Moreover, the way they give birth to offspring is very different from ours. Instead, it is similar to fish, outside the body."

"in vitro!?"

Liang Qu was shocked.

Mermaid in vitro reproduction?

"Well, it's not that exaggerated... It's different from fish. It grows inside the body for a period of time, and then grows outside the body for another one to two months before it breaks the fetal membrane and reproduces into a little mermaid."

Liang Qu suddenly realized.

Viviparous.

The wonders of the world.

"Are there still merman tribes living in the Jianghuai Lake now?"

"Yes...right?"

Long Pingjiang's tone was hesitant and full of uncertainty.

"Without the protection of the Dragon Lord, the mermaid tribes that came to the Jianghuai Lake have all left. But there will be some small settlements living in more remote places. I think some of them will stay, right?"

"Were there a lot of mermaids in the Great Lake in the past?"

"A lot!" Long Pingjiang's eyes were full of pride, but more of a sigh, "Back then, the Great Lake was prosperous because of the Dragon King, and it was definitely not just because the Jianghuai Great Lake was the largest lake in the world.

At that time, Jianghuai was the first large lake that could exchange what it had and what it needed with humans and develop trade.

On the occasion of the Dragon King’s birthday, he invited many martial saints to visit the Dragon Palace and left their calligraphy.

For the aquatic people, there is no place in the world safer and more full of opportunities than the Jianghuai Lake.

There are even many big monsters that go downstream and seek development in the swamp, just like human warriors leave their hometowns for towns and leave towns for counties. Previously, mermaids only had the power to weave mermaid silk, but they could not turn it into wealth. Only when they came to the Jianghuai swamp could they exchange what they had with other aquatic creatures and humans. Their lives were much better than in the sea, so naturally they gathered in greater numbers.

But we can’t see them anymore, and we rarely contact them anymore.”

The dragon people are now in a difficult situation and even their survival is in question, so how can they have the time to look for the mermaids?
Liang Qu could understand how important business was to the development of a region.

Reasonable business is actually about improving efficiency and differentiating functions.

But for business to prosper, it needs the support of a broader background.

With the Dragon King around, order can penetrate to the grassroots level, and with a stable environment, development will naturally be rapid.

In the absence of the Dragon King, the order at the bottom has collapsed and people are in a state of animalistic nature, with gangs robbing gangs and slaves being enslaved.

Of course, Lord Dragon himself must be a pretty open-minded fellow.

During the discussion, a large shadow fell over Liang Qu's head.

A tall and broad Fujian ship stayed on the water, dropped a black iron anchor, hooked into the riverbed, and after dragging for a while, it finally anchored completely.

Thump thump thump~
Several figures jumped off the boat one after another, the water dissipated, revealing the smooth hair of the big beaver.

Without any greetings, Liang Qu asked the otter family and the beaver family to join in the excavation.

With the participation of two "clever and skillful" families of water animals, the entire excavation work went much more smoothly.

After a while, Taotao started to move in two wooden boxes.

I don’t know what the wooden box is made of, but it’s not rotten.

Liang Qu broke the lock and opened the first one. Inside were several pieces of silk cloth. However, they were different from ordinary cloth. They were extremely thin and light, and there was no sign of being wet at all. It was quite magical.

"Shark rice?"

Long Pingjiang is knowledgeable and can recognize the material of the cloth at a glance.

"Is this Jiao Xiao?"

Liang Qu touched it and it felt very soft, but unfortunately no water essence was absorbed.

The dance clothes are too light in my palms to be used, and they cut off the mermaid and break the spring green.

The cloth is of good quality and does not get wet when put into water. It does not change color like ordinary cloth and does not feel awkward when worn next to the skin.

But it's useless, it's too thin, see-through, too sexy, and totally not something a man should wear.

I can only sell it, but I don’t know how much I can get for it.

I opened the second wooden box, and it was still filled with cloth.

"Long Xiao!"

"Long Xiao? Different from Jiao Xiao?"

"No, most people think of dragon silk as another name for shark silk. In fact, one is worn by men, and the other is worn by women."

Liang Qu suddenly realized and looked carefully. He found that the dragon silk was indeed not as thin as the one in the first wooden box, but very thick.

Not see-through!

That’s okay, Long Xiao is not that thin and you can wear it yourself.

Night falls.

Dada Kai lived up to everyone's expectations and led his family of otters to dig three feet deep into the ground. They found a total of eighteen pieces of mermaid silk, fifteen pieces of dragon silk, and three mermaid tears!

On the other side, the fat catfish dug for a long time and finally dug out a big box, which he excitedly brought over.

Liang Qu originally thought it was dragon silk or shark silk, but when he opened it, he found that it was indeed cloth.

But this cloth moves!
The moment it was opened, the white cloth inside swayed gently. Liang Qu thought it was just the movement of the water, but after a while, the cloth actually followed the movement of the water, floating out of the wooden box and wrapping around it!
The whole posture is like an octopus!
Liang Qu immediately used a water cage to control the cloth and called Long Pingjiang to identify what kind of magical species was in the box.

The fat catfish was feeling uneasy, poking its long whiskers at each other, thinking that it had accidentally dug up something dirty.

It didn't take much effort to recognize Longpingjiang from the water.

"Long Lingxiao!"

(End of this chapter)