Chapter 469 - 30. Shadow of the exploration company_2
Alagina walked and observed with Fisher, pausing her gaze when she heard the vendor’s introduction, but she stopped completely in front of a shop selling sea ghost body materials. Fisher noticed her action, recalling their previous failed hunt of a sea ghost.
"The body parts of sea ghosts are sold here... They also hunted sea ghosts."
Alagina, however, shook her head and suddenly spoke,
"Something’s off."
"Something’s off?"
"Yeah."
Fisher was not very familiar with sea hunting and ecology, but the tradition of the Sardinia Female Country involved going far out to sea for hunting, and Alagina knew more about these matters.
Hearing Fisher’s words, she crouched slightly, pointing to the two lumps of "Sea Ghost Fragrance" displayed on the stall. This was a pale yellow natural spice found within sea ghost bodies, useful for refining perfumes or making soaps. However, those two pieces on the stall were only about as thick as Fisher’s arm, which seemed too little compared to the massive sea ghosts they had seen before.
"Both pieces of Sea Ghost Fragrance are intact, but they don’t come from the same sea ghost... And I don’t know why, but the clusters are too small. The texture of the sea ghost meat has also lost its natural elasticity, which is why the price is so cheap..."
The vendor selling Sea Ghost Fragrance, realizing he was dealing with someone knowledgeable, quickly rubbed his hands and approached with an awkward smile to explain,
"Indeed, I don’t know what happened this year. There were so many sea ghosts at sea... Perhaps luck? Or maybe their homes were taken over by other, more dangerous sea monsters? Anyway, we acquired a lot of these things. But as you said, the quality is poor; who knows what they experienced at the sea floor."
The sea floor?