After listening to Nanye Shimoda's so-called "evil door", Xia Feng felt that this matter was not evil at all, and it could even be explained by science.

Xia Feng wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and asked.

"So the villagers' boats were overturned by big fish?"

Minamino Shimoda sighed.

"It's not the big fish that capsize the boat."

"What's that? Could it be a submarine? ”

Minamino Shimoda stood up, took out a white irregular object from the bottom compartment of the cabinet, and handed it to Natsukaze.

"I don't know what you're talking about about a submarine, but the thing that capsized the boat is probably trickier than any known sea creature."

Xia Feng took the white object suspiciously, and his hand was heavy.

"Uncle Minamino, what is this?"

"It's that thing's teeth."

Later, Minamino Shimoda talked about the origin of this tooth.

....

On that occasion, the boat that was knocked over in Minamino Village suffered heavy casualties, and after the villagers fell into the water, blood immediately stained the sea water.

At that time, there were a total of 5 people on the boat, and 3 of them never floated up again, and the villagers who would go out to sea in Nanno Village were all very water-based, and they disappeared as soon as they fell into the water, and they must have been dragged down by something.

Seeing the blood stains that gradually spread out in the water, the remaining two villagers did not dare to dive to rescue them, so they could only swim desperately towards the coast, and in the process, the guy who was a little slower in swimming also disappeared.

In the end, only one person returned to the shore alive and informed the village of the incident.

This person is Minamino Shimoda's grandfather.

...

That incident gave the villagers a new understanding of sandworms.

They thought it was food from heaven for them to survive, but the truth was that it was a trap for the devil to trap them.

The villagers didn't know why the sandworms had to gather on that island, or what was guarding them.

It could be the king of the sandworms, guarding his children and grandchildren, or it could be the predator, who uses the island's sandworms as its own food and guards its hunting grounds.

The villagers of Minamino Village are good at facing the sea, but they don't know how to deal with this creature beyond their knowledge, and after discussion among the older generations in the village, they finally give up their desire for sandworm meat.

However, as the saying goes, support the bold and starve the timid, Nanno Village gave up Sandworm Island, but the news was inadvertently leaked.

A village dozens of kilometers away from Nanno Village heard about the existence of "Sandworm Island".

At that time, the entire village of the south coast lacked food diversity, except for Minamino Village, which was good at fishing, and the young people of that village simply picked up spears and sticks and prepared to start farming.

At that time, the village chief of Nanno Village was very serious and dissuaded, saying that there were "sea monsters" near Sandworm Island that could not be resisted by manpower.

But this kind of words sound to outsiders, it is clearly a manifestation of food protection, you don't dare to go to your own village and don't let other villages go, Lao Tzu believes in your evil.

In this way, the young people of that village formed a "sandworm expedition" of more than 30 people, and it was bound to completely occupy the island.

As for the ending, it is naturally not surprisingly tragic.

They went up, they Awent out, and they were all destroyed.

People thought the sandworms smelled of chicken, the sea monsters thought the young people were crunchy, the boat was flipped upside down, and none of the more than 30 people in the sandworm expedition came back alive.

.....

Afterwards, because of this incident, the village dozens of kilometers away from Nanno Village lost too many young people, and the remnants of silence disappeared a few years later.

And the villagers of Nanye Village naturally did not dare to provoke any more, and did not dare to ask for the delicacy of sandworm meat.

Not knowing what the "sea monster" was, the village chief was worried about whether it would climb from the sea onto land, so he built an altar on the shore corresponding to Sandworm Island.

At the beginning of each month, the villagers offer some food as a sacrifice.

This practice is a self-consolation of feudal superstition, if the sea monster is the "sea god", this can make it discourage.

The second consideration is that if it is some kind of large predator, then it will eat the things on the altar as soon as it lands, so that the villagers can also find out in time.

This practice of worship and precaution was used in Minamino Village for decades, until the then village chief and Minamino Shimoda's grandfather died, and it slowly became unpopular.

In recent years, the younger generation in the village has long stopped making offerings, but the rules of the older generation have been passed down, and this rule is.

....

....

Minamino Shimoda's home.

After listening to the complete story about the sandworm, Xia Feng's eyebrows were twisted, looking at the sandworm that he and Fengbao captured, there was only one thought in his mind.

To eat or not to eat, that's the question.

Minamino Shimoda lit a cigarette again.

"According to the rules handed down from our ancestors, sandworms are not preyed on in our Nanye Village, even if they are accidentally picked up, they will be released or discarded immediately, and I often warn Kongtai not to catch sandworms back, let alone close to the beach corresponding to Sandworm Island."

Xia Feng pondered for a moment, and then carefully examined the tooth that Nanno Shimoda had shown him just now.

"Uncle Minamino, you said this is a sea monster's teeth?"

"yes, it's scary."

"En......."

This so-called tooth is a triangular shape, a white sharp piece of bone with an overall length of about 20 centimeters.

If this is a tooth, then it is conceivable that its owner should have a terrifying mouth.

"Uncle Minamino, where did this tooth come from, did someone break off the sea monster's tooth?"

"No, no, no, no one can do it."

Uncle Minamino smoking a cigarette pouch.

"According to my grandfather, the team that went to fight against Sandworm Island was shipwrecked, and later, part of the ship washed up on the shore, and they found this inlaid tooth on the wooden hull, which I think should have been broken by the sea monster when it bit the hull and tore it."

"The ship disintegrated?"

"Yes, that power is unimaginable."

....

The ship that can carry more than 30 people must be very large, and with the strict character of the people of Dongguo, the hull must have been very strong even a hundred years ago.

At the beginning in Victoria, the Haimen Gang was also a gangster organization specializing in dealing with the sea, and for a long time, he had not heard from Lin Haikou that there were any big fish or sea creatures that could tear apart the hull of a ship.

Unless.......

As if he had suddenly thought of something, Xia Feng picked up the creature's tooth, which had dried to the point of turning into a fossil, and leaned it to his nose to smell it carefully.

Seeing that his face was serious, the empty man next to him was a little puzzled.

"Brother Xia Feng, what do you smell?"

Uncle Nanxia also explained out loud.

"Kazetaro, don't you think I'm making up stories to lie to you, don't worry, I never tell lies, it's true, this tooth really belongs to a sea monster."

....

Of course, Xia Feng believed Uncle Minamino's words, and this tooth was genuine.

Gently closing his eyes, he carefully discerned the faint breath that remained on this tooth.

Perhaps because too much time has passed, this aura is very weak, very faint, so small that it is almost imperceptible.

However, in the end, he was captured.

That's right, this should be the breath of the deep-sea species.