Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 365 Plan
After solving the problem about the ship, Liang En and the three of them quickly discussed in a low voice the details of what to do.

Because this time is related to the Discovery Channel, it is likely that the entire filming will be done, so Skold said that not only Liang En and the others can use the boat for free, but he will not ask for a penny of any gains in the end and will not ask for any share.

But correspondingly, he hoped that during the filming process, he could show himself and the group of sailors under his command more shots, and at the same time allow himself to display his company's logo in the documentary.

"This may require you to find a professional person to talk about." Pierce nodded and said, "Anyway, we don't have the requirement to advertise in this area at this time, so we haven't prepared anything about it."

"Of course, I'm naturally responsible for these things." Skold nodded with a smile. This cooperation is a good thing for both him and Liang En.

Because through this cooperation, Liang En and his side solved a series of problems they are facing about the boat, diving equipment and expedition team, and Mr. Skold got the opportunity to promote the family business and a valuable reputation.

"By the way! That kind of polar expedition may take a long time to prepare, but now we only have one month." Liang En said at this time, who was reading the details on the Discovery Channel letter.

"You don't have to worry about this." Scudder seemed full of confidence. "I can assure you that our next actions will definitely not have problems in this regard."

According to the previous relationship, Liang En also knew that Scudder was not the kind of person who would talk freely, especially when it comes to those important issues, he would be very serious, so he didn't worry about the details, but nodded to the other party.

In the next few days, the negotiation process with the Discovery Channel went very smoothly, and the other party also obviously knew that this type of expedition required a lot of wealth, so sponsorship was inevitable, so a sponsorship agreement was signed soon.

On the third day after the press conference, that is, on the day when the sponsorship was fully negotiated, Liang En and the others who were preparing to start the expedition gathered together at Mr. Skold's residence in London.

This is a three-story Victorian-style house, which has a meeting room that can accommodate up to 15 people and is equipped with a projector and a screen. Everyone's meeting is held in this room.

"Besides us this time, there is another group of people who will set off at the same time as us and carry out exploration work at the same time." Pierce told everyone a news at the beginning of the discussion.

"Who is the other party?" Scudder asked curiously, because there are absolutely not many people who can support this kind of exploration work, so he wanted to know if he knew this person himself.

"William Nelson." Pierce said and clicked on his laptop, and a photo of a young man was immediately displayed on the big screen connected to the laptop.

"William Nelson? I haven't dealt with this person before." Mr. Scudder recalled and said, "After all, he may look about the same age as you, and I was more used to being with people of the same age before."

"William Nelson?" Looking at this person's name, Liang En remembered something else. "What does this have to do with the historical Horatio Nelson?"

"As far as I know, he should be a descendant of one of Lord Nelson's brothers. In fact, there is not much blood relationship." Pierce shrugged.

"However, the other party used his own boat for this search. His family has lived in London since his grandfather's father's generation, and the business is also very large. In addition, the family traditionally loves sailing and exploration, so there are professional vessel."

"More importantly, his ancestors also participated in the search work back then. As a result, they returned home after paying the cost of a ship and more than 1/3 of the crew casualties, so he also has the idea of ​​​​inheriting the wishes of his ancestors in this operation."

"It seems that our search work this time will be very lively, but we don't know what attitude the other party will choose to get along with us." Liang En nodded, "What's worse, we only have one month to prepare."

"This requires you to find out what we need from the known clues." Skold said, "Don't worry about other preparations. I originally planned to explore the Arctic Circle this winter, so everyone The preparations are complete."

The reason there is only one month of preparation time is because they have to leave there before mid-September, and the extremely harsh conditions in the Arctic Circle will be obviously dangerous after that.

That is to say, they have to start the search work in mid-August, and then compress the time to spend one month on the search work. Once the one month is up, they will leave there regardless of success.

Thinking of this, Liang En realized that Mr. Nelson obviously should have prepared in advance, and he even suspected that the Discovery Channel might have originally planned to film Nelson's story, and the invitation to him was just incidental.

"Don't worry, the search for clues is not a matter of whoever prepares for a long time will win." After thinking about these things, Liang En was also aroused to fight.

"I guarantee that I can find a general direction before boarding the boat. The direction may be vague, but I can guarantee that the direction is correct."

The reason why Liang En seems so confident now is because he watched a translated TV series called "Polar Evil Spirit" in his previous life, and this TV series was based on that failed expedition.

Although a horror TV series has a strong scientific style when the mystery is finally revealed, it makes people feel a little uncomfortable, but out of curiosity, Liang En still checked the background of this TV series.

What made him interesting at the time was that this TV series was not based on a purely fictional background, but was adapted from a famous tragedy in history.

The event began in May 1845 when John Franklin and his 5-man expedition set off for northern Canada in search of the Northwest Passage aboard two Arctic-navigating experienced Royal Navy ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.

The so-called Northwest Passage is a sea route from Greenland to the northern coast of Alaska through the Arctic Islands in northern Canada. It can shorten the distance between Europe and Asia by 5000-7000 kilometers.

However, although the navigators successively paid painful sacrifices, it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the Norwegian explorer Amundsen, who was the first to land on the South Pole, arrived in Alaska for the first time through the Northwest Passage and determined the direction of this passage. exist.

And this John Franklin expedition was one of the previous tragic sacrifices. The entire expedition was wiped out due to the harsh weather, and no one survived.

In Liang En's last world, a search team named John Ray was the first to learn about the last whereabouts of the search team in 1854, and then discovered the remains of some of the dead.

But until 2014, with global warming, the ice and snow melted. The "Underworld" was discovered on the bottom of the sea, and then two years later, in 2016, people found the wreck of the "Terror" on the other side of the island.

However, compared with the other world, this world has changed in many details. For example, the scripture cave in the Mogao Grottoes in China was not discovered until the 20s during a cleaning operation, and John Franklin’s The exploration team has not been found too many traces.

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