Chapter 402: Dragon Spirit Silk

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In the Ze Ding, the light blue water essence rose steadily, colliding with a pleasant tide sound.

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

Comfortable!

Taking out the small bag prepared in advance, Liang Qu placed the three Twenty Jiaoren Tears separately, avoiding them rubbing against each other and leaving scratches.

If the quality drops, the one who suffers is himself.

"The Twenty Jiaoren in this place left a bit hurriedly."

Successive Twenty Jiaoren Tears entering his pocket gave Liang Qu more thoughts.

He found the Dragon-man brothers who were helping to search and asked about the many matters of the Twenty Jiaoren.

The two races are both water tribes, so they should know a lot about each other.

"How do the Twenty Jiaoren view Twenty Jiaoren Tears themselves?"

Long Pinghe pondered for a while: "Sad things, I guess? Twenty Jiaoren Tears are quite like essence blood. Without a certain strength, one will almost never have them in a lifetime.

Coupled with the human race's bottomless pursuit, many Twenty Jiaoren view them as a Twenty Jiaoren curse, but most still cherish them, viewing them as relics of relatives and keeping them as souvenirs.

It stands to reason that they wouldn't be easily abandoned. They mostly left in a hurry, or encountered something."

"What is the difference in appearance between Twenty Jiaoren and Dragon-men?"

"The difference is huge!" Long Pinghe lifted a crossbeam with one hand and turned his head to answer, "Lord Liang, don't look at us both as water tribes. Actually, we Dragon-men are just naturally big. If we run to the shore, many martial artists will mistake us for having natural martial bones, but Twenty Jiaoren will definitely not be mistaken."

Long Pingjiang nodded. While pulling open a bookcase drawer to search, he touched the two sides of his neck.

"The Twenty Jiaoren have several layers of fish gills overlapping on both sides of their lower jaw. It's not very visible on weekdays, but when they are emotionally agitated or their breathing is short, they will vibrate at high speed, fanning out white vapor.

There is a layer of translucent membrane webs between their fingers and toes, and from the waist down is a whole long fish tail, mostly blue, green—in short, you can tell at a glance that they are not human."

"The difference is so big? Where did I hear the story of Twenty Jiaoren and humans falling in love?"

Long Pingjiang fell into deep thought: "Um, mostly compiled by scholars, I guess? Intermarriage between Dragon-men and humans is indeed possible, but Twenty Jiaoren... anyway, I haven't heard of it."

Long Pinghe asked curiously: "Where did Lord Liang see it? Twenty Jiaoren and humans cannot reproduce offspring!"

"Oh? Cannot reproduce offspring?"

"Dragon-men are human embryos enlightened by the Dragon Lord, while Twenty Jiaoren are half-human, half-fish, naturally so. Besides, their way of giving birth to offspring is vastly different from ours; it's the opposite, more like fish, outside the body."

"Outside the body!?"

Liang Qu was shocked.

Twenty Jiaoren reproduce outside the body?

"Uh, it's not that exaggerated... It's different from fish. They gestate in the body for a period of time, and then gestate outside the body for one to two months before they can break the fetal membrane and reproduce small Twenty Jiaoren."

Liang Qu suddenly realized.

Fetal oviparous.

The wonder of the world.

"Are there still Twenty Jiaoren tribes surviving in the Jianghuai Great Marsh today?"

"There are... I guess?"

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

"Without the Dragon Lord's protection, in my impression, all the large Twenty Jiaoren tribes that came to the Jianghuai Great Marsh have left, but there will more or less be small settlements surviving in relatively remote places. They probably left a part, right?"

"Were there very many Twenty Jiaoren in the Great Marsh before?"

"Very many!" Long Pingjiang's eyes were full of pride, but there was more sighing, "The Great Marsh in those years had the Dragon Lord, and it was prosperous and unparalleled, not just because the Jianghuai Great Marsh was the largest lake in the world.

The Jianghuai at that time was the first one that could communicate with the human race and carry out trade.

When the Dragon Lord had his birthday, he also invited many Martial Saints to the Dragon Palace as guests and left behind calligraphy and paintings.

For the water tribes, looking at the world, there was no place safer and more full of opportunities than the Jianghuai Great Marsh.

There were even many great demons who went downstream to plot development in the Great Marsh, just like human martial artists leaving their hometowns for towns, and towns for counties.

Previously, the Twenty Jiaoren only had the power to weave Twenty Jiaoren silk but no ability to turn it into wealth. Coming to the Jianghuai Great Marsh, they could communicate with other water tribes and the human race, and their lives were much better than in the sea, so they naturally gathered more and more.

It's just that you can't see it now, and we rarely contact the Twenty Jiaoren anymore."

The Dragon-man race is now unable to protect itself, and survival is only a matter of time. Where would they have the energy to find Twenty Jiaoren?

Liang Qu could understand how much commercial development affects a region.

Reasonable commerce is actually an elevation of efficiency, carrying out functional differentiation.

But for commerce to be prosperous, it cannot be separated from the support of the big background.

The Dragon Lord is there, the order can penetrate to the bottom layer, and there is a stable environment, so it naturally develops rapidly.

The Dragon Lord is not there, the order that penetrates to the bottom layer collapses, and according to animal nature, it is all black-eating-black, slavery and being enslaved.

Of course, the Dragon Lord himself must be a quite enlightened guy.

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

A sturdy boat stayed on the water surface, throwing down a black iron anchor, hooking the riverbed, dragging for a while, and then completely anchoring.

Splash splash~

Several figures jumped down from the boat, the water splashes dissipated, revealing Tatta Kai and the big beaver's soft fur.

No pleasantries, Liang Qu let the finless porpoise family and the beaver family all join the excavation.

With the addition of the two major water beast families who are "clever and skillful," the entire excavation work went much more smoothly.

Before long, Tatta Kai moved over two wooden boxes.

The wooden boxes didn't know what material they were, but they hadn't rotted.

Liang Qu broke the lock. Opening the first one, inside were several bolts of silk cloth, which were different from ordinary cloth, extremely thin, light as nothing, without any signs of being soaked, quite divine.

"Twenty Jiaoren Silk?"

Long Pingjiang was knowledgeable and recognized the material of the cloth at a glance.

"This is Twenty Jiaoren Silk?"

Liang Qu touched it; it was very soft, but unfortunately, there was no water essence to absorb.

The dance clothes are light without strength in the palm, cutting the Twenty Jiaoren silk to break the spring green.

The cloth is good cloth, not wet when entering the water, and there is no embarrassment of ordinary cloth changing color or sticking to the body when entering the water.

But it's useless; it's too thin, a see-through outfit, too much of a fetish, completely not something a man would wear.

It can only be sold, don't know how much it can sell for.

Opening the second wooden box, it was still cloth.

"Dragon Silk!"

"Dragon Silk? Is it different from Twenty Jiaoren Silk?"

"Different. Most ordinary people treat Dragon Silk as another name for Twenty Jiaoren Silk, but actually, these two are one for men to wear and one for women to wear."

Liang Qu suddenly realized. Looking carefully, the Dragon Silk was not as thin as the one in the first wooden box, very thick.

Not see-through!

That's okay. Dragon Silk is not that thin, so he can wear it too.

Night fell.

Tatta Kai lived up to expectations, led its family to dig three feet deep, and found a total of eighteen bolts of Twenty Jiaoren Silk, fifteen bolts of Dragon Silk, plus three Twenty Jiaoren Tears!

On the other side, the fat catfish dug for half a day, finally excavated a large box, and excitedly hugged it over.

Liang Qu originally thought it was Dragon Silk or Twenty Jiaoren Silk again, but when he opened it, it was indeed cloth.

But this cloth moves!

At the moment of opening, the white cloth inside swayed gently. Liang Qu thought it was undulating with the water, but who would have thought that after a while, the cloth actually followed the water flow, floating out of the wooden box and wrapping around him!

The posture of an entire octopus!

Liang Qu decisively used a water prison to control the cloth, and called Long Pingjiang to identify what kind of magical species was in the box.

Long Pingjiang swam over, and it didn't take much effort, recognizing it at a glance.

"Dragon Spirit Silk!" ===== CHAPTER 403 =====

"Dragon Dragon Lingxiao!"