The beach was quiet. Sun You seemed not to know Shen Shi. He looked at Shen Shi with an indifferent face and a sharp blade in his hand. Hou Sheng and the other three teenagers were also stunned. Even the girl Haixing of the red mussel family standing by looked at Shen Shi with a little surprise
Maybe it is because the body structure of the ghost faced shrimp is different from that of pigs, sheep and other domestic animals after all. Although Shen Shi shocked his companions with this knife, the effect was not as clean as that of the red mussel man who killed the sea urchin before. The ghost faced shrimp was still alive under this knife. Although he was dying, his hands and feet were still struggling to move.
Shen Shi frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then cut it down again, finally killing the blue shrimp this time. Then he inserted the thin and sharp blade into the crack of the belly hard shell of the ghost faced shrimp and began shelling, as the sea urchin had demonstrated before.
When the sea urchin killed the ghost faced shrimp, it then peeled the shell to get the meat. All the movements were smooth and fast. But when it arrived at Shen Shi, it suddenly became bumpy. The knife was inserted into the shrimp shell. When it moved a little, it was found that it was stuck by the hard shrimp shell. Shen Shi found that the shrimp seam was not a straight line, but there were many twists and turns in the inconspicuous dark. You must master the knife to keep changing directions when shelling, Only then can we find space to peel the shrimp shells.
The sharp blade then began a long and hard struggle with the hard shrimp shell. The blue blood kept flowing from the wound, stained the ground around his standing position, and his half was stained with blood. It looked like a monster bathed in strange blue, emitting thick blood and murderous gas.
The faces of the young people who were watching slowly changed. Two people suddenly turned around and left. Only Sun You and the little fat man Hou Sheng remained. Only when the blade in Shen Shi's hand kept making a toothless and even creepy clicking sound after fighting with the hard shell, he looked at some terrible scenes in the blood pool. Even the two of them could not bear it for a moment.
Hou Sheng twitched twice at the corners of his mouth and muttered a few words in a low voice, as if he were saying something like "you are cruel". He finally turned around and left. It seemed that he could not accept the strange task of Hongbeng Village. As for Sun You, who grew up in a noble family and lived in luxury, he certainly had never seen such a bloody scene before this day. To be honest, he even admired himself a little.
However, looking at the ghost faced shrimps with more than half of their shells peeled off on the ground and the huge pools of blue blood, Sun You asked himself that he couldn't stand the scene. He forced a smile, then walked to Shen Shi and said with a dry smile, "Shen Shi, you are powerful... I still can't do this, so I'll go back first." Then he stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to pat Shen Shi on the shoulder to encourage him, but looking at the thick blood smell from the blue and dark blood on Shen Shi's body, the palm suddenly froze in the air, and could not be patted down for a moment.
Shen Shi looked up at him and smiled. He nodded to Sun You and said, "Go back first."
Sun You took a deep breath, but it was all bloody. He almost vomited out of his stomach. His face was also white. He quickly said hello to Shen Shi and turned to run away. It seemed that he wanted to be as far away as possible from the village of Hongbeng.
The sea wind blows gently, the sea water is clear, and the sound of the roaring waves is not far away. The sky is high and the sea is wide, as if you are in a paradise, except for Shen Shi.
All the Terran teenagers finally left, except him.
He looked at the blue blood on his body, and at the ghost faced shrimp that was struggling to peel off the ordinary shrimp shell on the ground. Then he squatted down again silently. The blade struggled again in the small and hard shrimp shell, opening the blue shrimp shell bit by bit, and the blue blood was flowing with the blade.
After a long time, Shen Shi's forehead was already sweating. Finally, he completely cut the seemingly simple but actually sinuous, hard and unimaginable shrimp seam, and saw the white and tender shrimp meat exposed inside.
He threw down his knife, reached out and grabbed the shrimp meat, pulled it as hard as the sea urchin before, and finally completed the last step of the process, taking out the shrimp meat of the ghost face shrimp.
When the sea breeze blows, several clear calls of seabirds flying in the wind can be heard in the distance.
Suddenly, a sea bowl was handed to him. Shen Shi turned his head and saw that it was a big bowl that the beautiful red mussel girl starfish had found from nowhere. She was holding it gently on the ground beside him, and then said, "Just put the shrimp here."
At Shen Shi's close look, starfish seemed to be a little uncomfortable, and unconsciously stepped back two steps, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks. But now only Shen Shi is young. Starfish looks much braver than before. He looks up at him secretly and says, "Your shrimp peeling method is a little slow. You can't kill more than 100 shrimp in a day."
Shen Shi threw the white and tender shrimp meat into the big sea bowl, smiled at the starfish, and said, "Well, at the beginning, I'm not familiar with it. I can't get up quickly, eh
The starfish immediately shook his head and said, "That's not true. No matter how long it takes you, even if it takes three days, five days, ten days and a half months, as long as the number given to me is 100, I will replace you with a spirit crystal."
Shen Shi was relieved, nodded and said, "That's fine. I'll try again."
Then he stood up straight and stretched. After a moment of activity, he bent down to the shrimp cage and caught a live ghost face shrimp. Starfish had been watching this Terran teenager for a long time, and they said a few words to each other. Gradually, they became more daring and no longer shy as before. But she still seemed very disgusted with the ghost faced shrimp. When Shen Shi started to kill the shrimp, she hurried back a few steps, but she did not run far away from Shen Shi as before. Instead, she squatted on the beach a few steps away, and casually drew inexplicable patterns on the beach with her hands.
"Poof!" With a dull noise, the sharp blade once again pierced the vital neck of the ghost faced shrimp, and the blue blood also ejected again.
Starfish turned around and looked at Shen Shi. The Terran teenager was splashed with blue blood again, looking even more dirty and bloody. But she didn't seem to be afraid of this bloody scene. At most, she seemed to hate those blue blood. Instead, she looked at Shen Shi from time to time, a little more curious.
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Practice makes perfect.
When he did a lot of things, he always found some tips and gradually began to be handy, just like when he was very young, he began to draw those complicated runes.
The blue shrimp blood splashed and fell on the beach, rolled up and washed by the clear sea water, like being born in the sea and finally returning to the sea, completing a life cycle. In this, the knife rises and falls, and the bright knife light undulates and waves on the beach.
Shen Shi had a hard time killing every ghost faced shrimp. Every time he peeled the shell, he suffered a lot from the small, hard and tortuous cracks in the shrimp. But I don't know why, under the blue sky and white clouds, he never gave up in the sea breeze.
When he killed the second ghost faced shrimp, his clothes were completely wet, but he didn't know whether it was sweat or blue shrimp blood. That is, when killing this ghost faced shrimp, Shen Shi seems to have finally found a key point on the neck of the ghost faced shrimp. When he cut it, the ghost faced shrimp died. He didn't have to fight any more and finally didn't need to spend a second cut.
When he killed the third ghost faced shrimp, Shen Shi's blade inserted into the crack of the shrimp seemed to move faster when shelling. At least in the first few places, he seemed to know about several bends of the shrimp shell. When he reached the place, his wrist turned slightly, and the blade moved naturally past.
By the time the fourth ghost faced shrimp was killed, Shen Shi seemed to have known about some slight turning points at the front end of the shrimp seam, and the speed of blade sliding gradually had a smooth taste.
By the time he grabbed the fifth ghost faced shrimp, Shen Shi was already breathing heavily and looking tired. After he finally solved the ghost faced shrimp by biting his teeth and finally pulled out the white and tender shrimp meat and threw it into the bowl, he stood up and said to the starfish:
"Let's kill here today. I'll come back tomorrow."
The starfish, who had been squatting not far away, winked, looked up at the sky, hesitated, and said, "It's not too late now. The sun hasn't set yet."
Shen Shi smiled, turned his aching neck, waved his aching arm, and said, "It's almost enough. Don't be in a hurry, or it will cost too much today. Maybe we can't kill a few of them tomorrow."
Starfish looked at him, his eyes were obviously more curious, and said, "This is the first time I've heard you say that."
Shen Shi smiled and said, "My father once told me that it is useless for people to be anxious for a moment if they want to do a good job or learn a good skill. The most important thing is to calm down and stick to it for a long time."
The starfish said "oh", slightly wrinkled his pretty eyebrows, and the red clam shell beside him swayed twice, as if thinking about what Shen Shi said, but it didn't seem to understand.
Shen Shi picked up the sea bowl on the ground, walked up to her, handed it to her, and said, "Today there are five pieces of shrimp, and tomorrow I will come back. I think it will be more than today."
The starfish took the big bowl with ghost face shrimp meat and immediately jumped back like a frightened rabbit, covering his nose with his hand. Shen Shi looked at himself and smiled. "You red mussel people seem to hate this kind of shrimp blood."
The starfish waved his hand and walked two steps away from Shen Shi. Then his face became better and he said, "Yes. By the way, it's better to wash this kind of blue blood in sea water. It's easy to clean it. If you go back and wash it with spring water or fresh water on the island, it will get stained on your clothes and won't wash away for months."
Shen Shi was stunned for a moment and said, "There is still such a thing." He bowed his head for a moment, smiled and said:
"Well... starfish, would you please turn around?"
The starfish tilted his head and said, "Why?"
Shen Shi didn't know what to say for a moment, and said, "I want to wash in the sea."
The starfish waved his hand and said, "Go and wash it."
Shen Shi looks at her for a moment, nods, and then stretches out his hand to unbutton his lapel and begins to take off his clothes.