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All supplies are sent from the middle and upper seas. People in the lower seas rely on salvaging items from the seabed to trade.

Hearts in exchange for pearls.

Then use the pearls to buy daily necessities.

As a result, pearls quickly became the currency in the lower sea areas.

After listening to Yu Tong's explanation, the system fell silent.

After a long time, it shook its head and said, "I don't understand."

Yu Tong sighed, "The conclusion is that the resources in the lower sea area are extremely scarce. There are no plants or animals here, and the people here must

They can only survive by relying on the supplies provided by the middle and upper seas.'

Why is this happening?

"I don't know, but it might have something to do with what the small ship's doctor said, that this was a punishment for humanity's defeat."

[So the meat the pirates usually eat, and the jerky they feed you, are all fake meat?]

'It tastes just like real meat to me, but the pirates have lived in this world longer than I have and are more familiar with it than I am.

Since they say that the meat is fake, there must be a reason behind it.'

Are they eating real meat all the time, only to have the meat sellers tell them it's fake?

As soon as the system finished speaking, Yu Tong began to look at it as if it were a fool.

In a place where all buyers are eager to eat real meat, guess whether the seller will point to real meat and say it is fake meat, or point to

Fake meat is real meat?

The system smacked its lips.

The butcher must be crazy to sell real meat as fake meat.

The fake meat, vegetables and fruits that the pirates ate tasted and tasted just like the real ones.

Without raw materials, there is no way to make synthetic food.

These "fake goods" can only be provided by the upper and middle sea areas as necessities for survival in the lower sea areas.

They buy in bulk and bring them to the market to sell to other people.

Yu Tong couldn't understand why the upper and middle sea areas provided fake goods, and why there were no plants or animals in the lower sea areas.

There are still many things he can't figure out.

However, when the Sky Star docks, he will have the opportunity to go ashore, and he may find answers to some questions.

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The system pondered Yu Tong's words for a long time, becoming more and more confused.

[That's not right, Xiaoyuyu. If the lower-class sea areas are really so poor, why did that senior executive just now still talk about self-sufficiency?

What is the explanation? 】

'They are not the first humans in the world. They can say such things because humans can grow crops and raise animals before.

Live your own life.'

There was still a meeting going on in the captain's room. Yu Tong listened to the content of the meeting while distractedly explaining it to the system.

"As for why it's no longer effective now, it's probably because humans were defeated in the war and driven to this desolate place called the Lower Seas."

"It's also possible that humans never left their homeland, but something happened to the Lower Seas, causing them to become barren."

【Why? 】

"Everything, Xiaoyuyu doesn't know why, Xiaoyuyu is not an encyclopedia."

【Why? 】

'……'

Ignoring the CPU burnout and only wondering why, Yu Tong lowered his eyelids and continued to sort out the clues in his mind.

The original text mentioned that the protagonist's father named him Long Shi because he saw a beautiful dragon-shaped figure in the sea trench.

stone carving.

The people here generally cannot write, have no culture, and have no access to education. Most people have names that are very random.

Convenient.

Yet, I can still come up with some words that don't sound like they belong to this era.

Art development is lagging behind and the technology tree is crooked.

In addition to humanity’s defeat in the war, current survival resources are still controlled by the upper and middle seas.

Combining various information, Yu Tong suspected that human civilization in this world had been interrupted.

What he is now exposed to is the civilization after the interruption.

Just like the world he lives in.

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The meeting in the captain's room was still going on. After the senior leaders of the action team and the combat team had finished their reports, it was the turn of the ship's doctor to report on the situation.

Qingman, who had previously gone to the cruise ship to carry out a mission, was a smart person who was very meticulous.

Before disposing of the iron barrels on the cruise ship, she collected some of the white powder in a small porcelain bottle and brought it back for the ship's doctors to study.

Study.

After the ship's doctors examined the ship for a day and a night, they discovered something very strange.

The white powder on the cruise ship is the powder made from ground pearls.

The only difference is that these powders are mixed with a lot of unknown pollen.

When the results first came out, the ship's doctors thought the white powder on the cruise ship might not be as scary as they had expected.

To be on the safe side, they went to the dungeon to find a volunteer.

Ask the crew members who have undergone mutations if anyone is willing to cooperate with the research.

The Sky Star pirate ship is well managed by Hei Chenshi, and the crew members regard it as their home.

Even if the ship's doctor did not offer attractive conditions when looking for volunteers, there were still two or three crew members willing to do their best for the Sky Star.

In the future, take a risk.

The ship's doctors found a crew member with the most serious mutation and sprinkled some of the white powder brought by Qingman on him.

Immediately afterwards, the crew member quickly turned into a clam monster in full view of everyone.

It is still a high-yielding razor clam that can spit out pearls continuously without any external force.

One pearl per minute, each pearl is full of color.

Unlike other clams, the crew members who were turned into clams by the white powder seemed to regard spitting out pearls as their mission.

If he can't spit out the pearls, he will be depressed, irritable and irritable.

climb.

If he is unable to spit out pearls for several hours in a row, or if his pearl production is too low, he may even engage in self-harm behavior.

With no one to guide him, he kept hitting the wall and pounding his abdomen, forcing himself to spit out pearls.