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The system shook its head, [I don't understand.]
"This time, Chen Ge started with a deviation of -35. There is a difference between -20 and -35, so the punishment he received would definitely be different, but the difference shouldn't be this large."
"Whether it's a broken leg or arm, as long as Black Stone doesn't use the limb regeneration potion, this damage will be permanent for him. -20 and -35 are only 15 points apart. The penalty given by the main system shouldn't increase so suddenly."
The system blinked, [I don't understand.]
Yu Tong sighed.
"The explosive barrel was dropped by the clam monster as revenge for Brother Chen. Brother Chen was completely unprepared, and the explosion was bound to happen. Regardless of whether the main system intervened or not, he would have been injured. The problem lies in the extent of the injury."
"We have no way of knowing how badly Brother Chen would have been injured if the main system hadn't intervened. But based on our experience in the previous world, we can roughly infer that the punishment the main system would have inflicted on Brother Chen would most likely have been a broken leg or arm."
"Two legs plus your dominant right hand, this punishment is excessive."
[It's not excessive, right? Brother Chen's deviation value is exactly -35. Two legs and one arm, which adds up to exactly three places that are damaged.]
"If that's the case, then why was Chen Yanli in the previous world struck by a Silencing Curse instead of a Blinding Curse? He only has one mouth, yet the deviation value is -20."
Chapter 94 The Fourth World (7)
Previously, when Yu Tong saw the deviation value dropped when the Black Stone killed the razor clam monster, he thought that the razor clam monster was protected by law.
In addition, he later discovered that the razor clam monster was transformed from a human, so he had a preconceived notion and became even more convinced that the razor clam monster could not be killed.
Now that Yu Tong had calmed down and was carefully thinking through his thoughts, he could see that there were many contradictions between his previous thoughts and the clues at hand.
The clam monsters in this world cannot be protected by law.
Although Yu Tong has not been in this world for long, he has not had the opportunity to specifically understand the background of the world.
But the clues he already knows already explain a lot.
It is not difficult to see from Heichenshi's dream that there was a special law in the country where he lived in his childhood.
It stipulates that all those who have lost their ability to work need to be injected with limb regeneration potion. They become razor clam monsters, producing pearls for their families and sharing the financial burden.
Hei Chenshi's mother was turned into a clam monster by her father because of her physical disability, and she spit out pearls day and night at home.
In addition to causing physical discomfort, his horrific and bizarre dreams also revealed two very clear messages.
First, pearls from inferior waters are not very valuable. They are worthless now and will be even less valuable in the future.
Hei Chenshi's mother continued to produce pearls every day, but his family was still poor. He and his father still had to go to the sea every day to search for valuable items that had sunk into the ocean.
The Sky Star Pirates, who have millions or even tens of millions of pearls on hand, do not have a very high status in the lower sea areas.
A thing that is not worth much can make people so cruel as to transform their relatives, and it can also be valued so much by the pirate group.
In daily transactions, they would also use pearls to buy things such as guns, food, and puppies.
All these phenomena undoubtedly indicate that in the lower sea areas, pearls have been integrated into the monetary system and become a common currency here.
The difference between pearls and copper coins in this world is roughly the difference between one hundred yuan and one yuan.
To the people of the Lower Seas, razor clam monsters are like ATMs. Pearls are not a rare treasure, far less valuable than gold.
People raise razor clams to make them spit out hundred-dollar bills.
Pirates kill razor clams to rob ATM machines.
The virus or curse that turns people into razor clam monsters is spreading rapidly in the lower sea area.
Even pirates who live on the sea all year round, away from people, will experience physical changes.
The number of razor clam monsters will increase dramatically in the future.
As time goes by, pearls become less valuable.
From its current purchasing power being approximately equal to that of gold coins, it has depreciated to being approximately equal to that of silver coins, or even copper coins.
Under such circumstances, the island nations in the lower sea areas also plan to have all citizens uniformly injected with limb regeneration drugs.
When most people in the lower seas are transformed into pearl-producing razor clams, pearls will completely lose their value and become just pretty pebbles you can see everywhere on the streets.
This will lead to a very serious consequence.
People who turn into clam monsters will have their physical strength greatly reduced, and their bodies will be more fragile than humans.
They have lost their normal ability to speak and can only make strange squeaking sounds that only clam monsters can understand.
There is no way to perform physical labor, fight for a long time, learn existing knowledge, or communicate with people in other sea areas.
The only thing they could produce had lost its value.
By then, the Lower Sea Area will become a hell on earth, and everyone here will have no choice but to wait for death.
This is a very simple truth. It is impossible for the managers of the island countries in the lower sea areas to fail to see the huge crisis hidden behind the infestation of razor clam monsters.
It is intriguing that they strongly advocate the production of razor clam monsters.
Behind this outrageous incident, there must be the shadow of medium-sized sea areas or even superior sea areas.
Yu Tong had too few clues and no evidence to support his claims.
But he had a reasonable suspicion that the lower-grade sea area was being artificially manipulated and was rapidly becoming an upper-middle-grade sea area, a factory for mass production of pearls.
Heichenshi was very smart and he clearly sensed the crisis hidden in the dark.
So he always wanted to lead his pirate group to escape from the inferior waters.
In addition to the first clue, Hei Chenshi's dream also revealed another message.
Currently, the razor clam monsters do not spit out pearls on their own. You need to hit their abdomen to induce vomiting of pearls.
This is how Hei Chenshi's father beat his mother.
He dreamed that he turned into a razor clam monster and his father was beating him with a stick.
In the Lower Sea Area, it is legal and reasonable to obtain pearls by beating razor clam monsters.
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