Chapter 70

Hearing the old fisherman's words, Tang Zhendong had to reassess the giant clam. Such a large clam indeed had an astonishing suction force. If he were not careful and got sucked in, he might end up being turned into a pearl.

When he accidentally sat on it in the afternoon, he almost got sucked in.

"When will such a large clam open its mouth on its own? What does it eat?"

"Clams generally eat small plankton and seaweed. However, if a clam becomes a spirit, then what it eats is hard to say. Perhaps it might even eat fish and shrimp!"

Tang Zhendong asked the owner if there was a way to make the giant clam open its mouth if it didn't do so on its own. However, after hearing the old fisherman's words, he realized he might just have to wait.

After dinner, Yu Qingying suggested taking a walk with Tang Zhendong, and he happily agreed.

"Zhendong, do you know how I felt when I didn't see you for so long? I really felt like I didn't want to live. Promise me, never do such dangerous things again."

"Uh," faced with Yu Qingying's heartfelt expression, he could only nod in agreement.

"By the way, how could you stay underwater for so long without coming up for air? Were you already taken away by the giant grouper?"

"Probably I was led out of the area you were observing. At first, it ran, and I chased it. It seemed to be playing with me. When I was tired, it would stop and wait for me, and when I chased it again, it would run."

"It seems that such a large fish has developed intelligence, almost like a human."

"Yes, that's very possible." Although Tang Zhendong said this, he didn't really believe it. If the giant grouper had intelligence, why would it lead him to the treasure? This was clearly a sign of low intelligence.

Tang Zhendong was unconvinced.

As they walked, Tang Zhendong suddenly saw several pieces of I-beam steel over a meter long by the roadside. He stared at the I-beams in deep thought.

"I heard that steel prices have plummeted."

Yu Qingying's seemingly random comment left Tang Zhendong puzzled. Why was she talking about this?

"Huh? Dropped?"

"More than half, the steel sellers have lost a fortune, and those who stockpiled at home are almost bankrupt."

"I'm not a superhero, I can't save them. But why are you saying this? Are you afraid I'll steal and sell these?"

Yu Qingying giggled, with a hint of mischief, as if her plan had succeeded.

"Even if I wanted to sell, I probably couldn't find a buyer on this Penglai Island." Tang Zhendong laughed. This Penglai Island was almost as safe as the legendary place where doors were left unlocked. Besides fish and boats, there was nothing else. Fish were caught by every household, and boats couldn't be stolen. Outsiders couldn't even get in. Although they had tourist attractions, the visitors wouldn't be interested in old metal, even if they were, they couldn't take it away.

"Alright, let's take one piece when we leave." Tang Zhendong joked, and the two walked hand in hand toward the fishing village.

Tang Zhendong's biological clock usually woke him up around three in the morning, a habit from years of practicing with his master. He quietly got out of bed, opened the door, and slipped out.

Tang Zhendong picked up a slightly longer piece of I-beam steel from the roadside. He also had a small knife he had taken from the landlord's house to pry open oysters.

Carrying the steel beam was quite a strain for Tang Zhendong, but fortunately, Penglai Island wasn't too large. The fishing village where he stayed was in the middle to the back of the island, not far from the back mountain. Otherwise, the steel beam, which had no buoyancy, would have exhausted him in the sea.

He threw the steel beam down the back cliff and followed the dim light of dawn down as well.

The morning seawater was really cold!

But for Tang Zhendong, with his deep internal strength, it was nothing. He identified the spot where the giant clam was underwater from the previous afternoon and dived in.

Finding the giant clam this time was easy. Carrying the steel beam, Tang Zhendong quickly located the well-hidden giant clam.

Although he found the giant clam, Tang Zhendong was again troubled. The giant clam seemed to be asleep, and he had no way to make it open its mouth. He tried hitting it with stones, dancing on it, and even hitting it with the steel beam, but the giant clam remained motionless, leaving Tang Zhendong helpless.

Why wouldn't the giant clam open its mouth? Why did it open twice yesterday?

Tang Zhendong then recalled the relationship between the giant grouper and the black pearl. If the giant fish had intelligence, why would it lead him to the giant clam? Could it be that he was wrong, and the giant grouper wasn't the guardian of the black pearl but wanted to steal it?

Yes, that's right. The grouper must have used its agility to help steal the black pearl. Otherwise, why would the giant clam suddenly open and show him the pearl when he was facing off against the grouper?

Perhaps the grouper used some mechanism to make the giant clam open its shell. This might explain why, when he sat on the clam shell later, it opened but he didn't see the black pearl.

The giant clam might have lived with the giant grouper for many years, and the grouper had long understood the clam's habits. It might know exactly how to make the clam open its shell.

Tang Zhendong swam to where the giant grouper had stayed the previous day and tried to mimic the grouper's movements. However, this position was directly behind the giant clam, so the clam couldn't see his movements.

Suddenly, a thought struck Tang Zhendong. The old fisherman had said that the giant clam liked to eat plankton. And when he and the giant grouper had thrashed around in the water yesterday, it had stirred up the water. With this in mind, he quickly swam around the giant clam, using the steel beam to stir up the water, then quickly hid behind the clam.

Sure enough, not long after the water was stirred up, the giant clam opened its massive shell, which was about three to four square meters in size. The large, fan-like shell slowly opened, and a current of water carrying plankton, small fish, and shrimp rushed into the giant clam's mouth, and then a jet of water spurted out from the bottom of the clam.

Tang Zhendong clearly saw the jet of water in the water, as it was moving very fast.

The giant clam's mouth opened wider, and the many corals and shellfish attached to it also trembled. Tang Zhendong, behind the giant clam, felt the strong current caused by the clam's movement.

Seeing the opportunity, Tang Zhendong quickly picked up the steel beam and thrust it into the giant clam's open mouth.

The giant clam seemed to notice the danger, and someone daring to snatch food from its mouth. The shell closed much faster than it opened.

The water squeezed out by the closing shell surged toward Tang Zhendong, exerting an incomparable force that pushed him backward.

At this moment, Tang Zhendong understood why even the fierce giant grouper, which could swim so fast in the water, couldn't snatch the large black pearl from the giant clam. The giant clam's speed was extremely fast, not inferior to that of the giant grouper.

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