Chapter 388 - 195: Coconut Snail_2
If nothing went wrong, the monetary reward for unlocking the coconut snail should have been only 500, but what’s up with fifty thousand yuan?
Just as Lin Yang was shocked, he suddenly remembered a rumor.
It was said that the coconut snail itself wasn’t tasty at all; in fact, hardly anyone who had reviewed this delicacy had ever claimed it was delicious.
This thing was 100% guaranteed to have parasites inside it, so even if one was to eat it as sashimi, it had to be blanched first, but the problem was, once this snail was blanched, it became as chewy as a tire, extremely tough and unpleasant to eat.
However, this tough, unpalatable coconut snail could, by its own abilities, breed a very precious pearl called the Mei Le Pearl.
This kind of pearl could also be called Dragon Ball or Flame Pearl, mainly found inside the bodies of sea snails and incapable of being cultivated artificially.
Legend has it that there are fewer than 300 Mei Le Pearls in existence today, in ancient times, only the king of South Vietnam could possess such items, and they were never drilled into, preserved perfectly until the last Emperor of South Vietnam fled to Europe, where these treasures began to spread.
At present, most of the Mei Le Pearls in the world come from the collections of the South Vietnamese royal family, rarely found or auctioned.
In ’07, one was auctioned in Xiangjiang, and the final price was 125,000 US dollars. Considering inflation, that pearl would definitely be worth millions by now.