Chapter 164: The Talking Giant Clam

Leaving the headquarters, the rain outside has cleared.

Liang Qu carries the great bow on his back, takes his long spear, and doesn't go through the main gate, flipping out from the courtyard.

The main gate can no longer be walked through; it was long ago surrounded by people, and everywhere there is crying and wailing.

"My son! You died so miserably!"

"Why, why, the white-haired sending off the black-haired."

"Lord, Lord, spare my son's life. He is the only son left in my family. If he dies, how can I, an old thing, live!"

"Lord, spare my son! He is young and ignorant, young and ignorant!"

Of the hundreds of gang members, those who are bachelors are the minority; the vast majority have parents and wives.

Great Shun has collective responsibility, but it is not considered harsh.

The three gang leaders, as heads, have wives and children who cannot escape punishment, but the remaining hundreds of ordinary gang members have parents and children who are innocent, so naturally, they dare to come to the door to cry injustice.

It even started before the rain stopped, but they were blocked outside the door by government office runners.

Whether so many people blocking the door was spontaneous or the county magistrate was making trouble, Liang Qu doesn't know; he only knows.

Everyone has parents and relatives, and there is no reason for committing a crime not to pay for it.

Moonlight spreads, Liang Qu walks on the eaves until he can't hear the shouting, jumps to the street, runs quickly to the pier, and arrives at the boat.

Chasing waves and hitting water, the two beasts arrive at the sound. As the water waves ripple, the small boats around collide, making the muffled sound of empty boat boards.

Compared to the huge size of the two beasts, the small sampans on the pier are only three or four meters, and the covered boats are only five or six meters, no different from tree leaves; a flick of a tail could overturn them.

If ordinary fishermen saw them, their legs would inevitably go soft.

Thinking of the appearance when they couldn't move at the very beginning, twenty or thirty jin, it was truly something that even a fierce village woman could grab, making one sigh.

The fat catfish comes to the side of the boat, and the two long whiskers on the top draw a big circle, pointing at "Cannot Move."

"Go see first."

Previously in the spiritual link, the three beasts had described to Liang Qu what they found.

After Round Head's teaching, their descriptive ability has improved quite a bit. Liang Qu roughly guessed that they found a shellfish, the difference being it is huge, and just the length is about the same as "Cannot Move."

An eight-meter-long shellfish...

Liang Qu had never seen one.

It is said that some fishermen in Yixing Town have seen a giant clam a zhang long, inside which there is a pearl as big as a man's fist, flowing with light and color, but when someone reached out to take it, they were clamped by the giant clam and drowned alive in the water.

By the time the companions on the same boat found people to rescue, they couldn't find the trace of the giant clam.

Don't know if it's true or false.

Liang Qu manipulates the water flow to push the boat forward quickly, and under the guidance of the two beasts, heads toward the deep water area.

Arriving at a certain position, he throws down the sinking stone and dives into the water.

After swimming a few times, the figure of "Fist" appears in his perception, as well as the terrifyingly large shellfish beside it.

The shells on both sides are shaped like waves and are exceptionally thick.

A giant clam!?

There is this thing in the river too?

Liang Qu is very surprised. He controls the water flow and quickly arrives beside "Fist."

The giant clam before him is huge, with an overall width of nearly nine meters, even larger than the body length of "Cannot Move."

It is actually much more beautiful than imagined, entirely white, with an ivory-like texture, and dense patterns in circles on it.

The only pity is that this giant clam hasn't opened, and the shells on both sides are tightly sealed.

With such a large giant clam, there should be pearls inside.

Liang Qu doesn't know if there is water essence, but even if there isn't, taking it out to sell for money is an astronomical figure.

Giant clam pearls don't have the iridescence of clam pearls, but their advantage is that they are big, very big!

Liang Qu circles around and finds no place to start.

"Fist" runs over, knocks on the giant clam's shell with its double pincers, and spits bubbles.

The giant clam was open at the beginning, but as soon as it saw the three beasts, it closed quickly and never opened again.

Its shell is incredibly hard; no matter how "Fist" attacks, it's useless, and the fat catfish almost broke its teeth.

Hearing this, Liang Qu takes out "Fubo," his spine trembling, and strikes with a spear at the giant clam.

The flood surges, the spear blade tears out a white dragon, hitting the giant clam shell hard.

Clack!

On the giant clam's massive shell, a fragment the size of a fingernail breaks off and drifts away with the water flow.

This hardness...

Liang Qu feels it's a bit outrageous.

The thickness of the entire giant clam shell is measured in feet; how long will it take him to break it bit by bit?

He comes before the giant clam, aims at the gap in the middle, his muscles tense inch by inch, and strikes with another spear as he steps forward.

The water flow dances wildly.

Clang!

"Fubo" goes in, but not completely.

Liang Qu comes before the giant clam, the entire spear blade part goes in about a foot, and then gets stuck inside.

He doesn't dare to pry, fearing he will break the spearhead of "Fubo."

Spiritual weapons have materials that can self-recover, but those are all small cracks and small fissures, not including complete breakage.

Really tricky.

This is the first time Liang Qu has encountered such a situation; it's too torturous to face a delicacy but be unable to open the shell.

Take it back and let Master Yang try?

Or let Commander Xu come?

Liang Qu feels he seems to have path dependency.

No, can't rely on others for everything, think of another way.

【Water Essence +0.1】

Liang Qu is startled and looks around.

He spends all day in the water to absorb a little water essence, totaling 0.1 after more than two hours; with such a short time underwater, it shouldn't be that fast.

Did he eat some magical plankton?

No, that's not right!

Liang Qu turns his head to look at the giant clam.

It's this guy!

Liang Qu's eyes flash, he climbs to the top of the giant clam shell and sits cross-legged.

A moment later.

【Water Essence +0.1】

【Water Essence +0.1】

A quarter of an hour passes, Liang Qu opens his eyes suddenly and looks at the giant clam beneath him.

It really is it.

This thing can actually help him absorb water essence!?

0.2 points in a quarter of an hour, eight quarters in an hour, in a day, wouldn't there be a full twenty points of water essence?

Just standing outside has such an effect; what if the giant clam opens?

What exactly is the principle?

Liang Qu frowns and ponders, unable to understand what is going on.

Half a moment later.

He leans against the giant clam's outer shell, reaches out and pats it, his fingers sweeping across the entire water area.

"I don't know if you can understand words. I am the future River God of the Jianghuai River. Do you know the Jianghuai River? It's this whole place where you live.

Outside, I also know two powerful people; they can smash your shell with one punch.

If you are obedient, come with me; if you are not obedient, I will have people smash your shell and eat your meat."

As soon as the words fall, Liang Qu feels he is truly muddled. A wild monster hasn't opened its spiritual wisdom, how could it understand human words?

He actually tried to reason with a seashell.

Wasting control space is also not appropriate. Breaking through the blood barrier, Liang Qu's spirit has greatly increased, and he has vacated space again.

But a giant clam, currently not knowing why it can help him absorb water essence, is useless.

Whether the giant clam itself can move is a problem; it truly has nothing but hardness.

Unexpectedly, a voice rings in Liang Qu's mind.

"This person is very good at bragging. Having only slightly mastered water nature, he calls himself the River God of the Jianghuai River. Wouldn't I have been worshipped by people long ago?"

Liang Qu widens his eyes.

"You can talk?"

The giant clam trembles violently.

"Can you hear my words?" ===== CHAPTER 165 =====