Kim they brought submersibles, more than one.

In the evening of the next day, Lu Ao and the others finished their collection work for the day and went back to the restaurant to eat tiredly and prepare to rest.

There were very few people in the restaurant, and Lu Ao was so tired that he didn't want to talk, but just ate plate after plate of fried rice.

They have been at sea for six days, and there are not many fresh vegetables left in the kitchen. What they eat now is mainly dried vegetables, canned food, and sea fish.

Xiang Xingchang had no appetite, he ate two plates hastily, and smoked a cigarette.

After the chef finished cooking, he came out to see that Lu Ao was eating alone, and sat next to him with a smile on his face, "How is it? I'm good at cooking, right?"

"That's not bad!" Xiang Xingchang threw the cigarette case to him, "It's all cooked slowly, without the smokey smell of quick frying on an open flame."

"Who dares to use an open flame at sea? The electric frying pan is just like this." The chef took a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. .”

Xiang Xingchang said to him, "Even if we dare to eat it, how dare you cook it for those scientific examiners?"

The chef resented, he really didn't dare, these foreigners can be picky, let alone use stews to deal with it, even if there are not enough dishes, the higher-ups will come over and talk about it.

Xiang Xingchang turned his head and took a puff of smoke, and asked, "It's strange, why didn't you see that group of scientific examiners today?"

"They ate in advance, and they ate at four o'clock today, why do you think I'm so leisurely?"

Xiang Xingchang was taken aback, "It's so early, why are they going?"

"You ask me, who am I asking?" the chef complained, "Eat so early, maybe you will have to ask me for supper later."

Lu Ao finished the last plate of fried rice and asked, "Do you want to do a project?"

"It's late at night, what project are you doing?" The chef said casually, and then changed his words, "But maybe, I heard those ghosts calling at noon."

Lu Ao and Xiang Xingchang looked at each other with a little wariness in their eyes.

Their mobile phones have no signal at all in the open sea, and the only thing they can use to contact the shore is a satellite phone.

The satellite phones are all on the ship's boss side, and are generally not used for private use.

Xiang Xingchang pretended to be unintentional, "Why do these foreign devils have so many things? They are going back, and they are still struggling. Who are they calling? Could it be the concubine?"

The chef chuckled, "Who knows? If they have money, let them do it."

The three were chatting and eating.

One of Xiang Xingchang's team members came over and stopped again when he saw the chef.

The action was too obvious, and the chef was dissatisfied, "Why are one and two acting so mysterious? Just avoid me?"

The team member was vague, "Boss, I have something private to tell you."

Xiang Xingchang went over and patted him on the shoulder, and took him outside to talk.

The chef let out a sigh of dissatisfaction, and turned to look at Lu Ao, "I said you can really eat, do you want to make supper for you tonight?"

"Save some noodles for me, I'll do it myself." Lu Ao asked, "I haven't called back for a long time, can I borrow the phone from the boss of the ship?"

"I see Xuan. It's okay, what are you doing borrowing the phone, don't wait until the phone is not borrowed, and you will be scolded by the boat boss."

"Call and tell my brother, and I'll be back the day after tomorrow."

"Tsk, you've only been out for a few days, what can you say?"

"This is the first time I have traveled so far, I am a little homesick."

"Lu Ao—"

While Lu Ao was talking, Xiang Xingchang waved to him, gesturing for him to come over.

The chef muttered, "You guys are really weird today, one or two are so mysterious."

"Maybe it's my brother's private matter. I'll put the dinner plate away and collect it later. By the way," Lu Ao took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, "They gave it to me just now. I don't smoke it. You can smoke it."

The chef was overjoyed, and took it, "Good brother, that's interesting. Go and do your work, and I'll collect the dishes for you."

Lu Ao was not polite to the chef, and simply dealt with it, then turned and ran towards Xiang Xingchang.

Xiang Xingchang waited for him to run over, grabbed him, and said in a low voice: "It's bad, Jin and the others seem to know that there are speartail fish in this sea area, so they went down to catch them with their submersibles."

"Now?"

"Yes, those researchers are still on the deck, and they have been talking for half an hour." Xiang Xingchang lowered his voice, "What should we do now, will the lancetail really be caught by them?"

Lu Ao frowned, "We can't handle this matter anymore. I'll borrow a satellite phone and notify the Maritime and Shipping Police."

"Okay, I'll go with you, when the time comes, let the people from the Public Security Bureau go to the pier to block them!"

The two quickly ran to the boss of the boat to borrow a satellite phone.

The boss of the boat just had a full dinner and was picking his teeth. Before he finished speaking, he gave them a look, "I'm going back, what satellite phone do you borrow? I think the phone belongs to your family?"

Lu Ao stuffed a pack of cigarettes, "I want to call my brother and tell him to wait for me when I go back."

"I saw you when you got back, what's there to say?"

Xiang Xingchang took out the lighter and lit it for him, "Boss, please help, we will pay for the phone call."

The boss of the boat didn’t answer, “It’s not anyone’s fault, it’s just that the company has a rule that satellite phones cannot be used privately. I’ll lend them to you, and if they find out, even I will be sued.”

Lu Ao stuffed another pack of cigarettes, with 500 yuan under the cigarette.

The boat boss looked at him.

After a while, the boat boss pulled out the satellite phone and gave it to him, muttering a warning: "One minute."

"One minute is enough." Lu Ao picked up the satellite phone and ran out, the boat boss hurriedly chased after him, "Hey, you can just call here, why run?"

Xiang Xingchang had quick eyes and quick hands, and grabbed the honest body of the boat boss, "He's quite shy, maybe it's not easy for others to know his private affairs."

"What's the matter privately?" The boat boss blew his beard and stared, "I wouldn't have borrowed you if I knew it."

Xiang Xingchang hurriedly said: "Smoke, smoke, and scold him when he comes back."

Lu Ao ran out with the satellite phone, pressed the five-digit number of this satellite phone's special number while running, and then directly called Lao Zhang's office in the Maritime and Shipping Public Security Bureau of Qianyong City.

"Hello—" A police officer answered the phone over there, "Who is this?"

"I'm Lu Ao."

"Oh, Lu Ao, what's the matter? Who should I look for?"

"Yes, I want to report the crime, please turn on the recording." Lu Ao finished quickly, "I'm on the West Bay Passenger [-], and there are scientific research personnel from countries U and R on board. One of the goals is to catch the national first-level protected animal lanceolata, and now they have opened a submersible to dive into the seabed."

"Okay, received." The voice of the police officer over there suddenly became serious, "Can you report your coordinates?"

Lu Ao quickly reported the coordinates, and added, "We will probably return the day after tomorrow."

"Received, we will send law enforcement ships to follow up as soon as possible, thank you for your cooperation."

After Lu Ao hung up the phone and went back, the boat boss exhaled from his nose, "It's been 2 minutes."

"Sorry, my brother is more nagging."

"You young people are just not real at all." The boss of the boat took back the phone and chased them away like ducks with his hands, "It's alright, it's fine, you guys go back early."

Lu Ao and Xiang Xingchang had no choice but to come out.

When they passed the deck, they saw the scientific researchers of country U nervously operating the instruments.

Seeing Lu Ao and Xiang Xingchang, they lost the friendship they had a few days ago, and instead waved their hands away with rough voices, "Go back, don't look!"

Xiang Xingchang frowned, and Lu Ao winked, signaling him not to be impulsive.

When the researchers saw that they were not leaving, one of the tall and strong male researchers came over and stared at them unkindly, "What's the matter with you?"

Xiang Xingchang stared, and said arrogantly: "What's the matter? When I signed the contract, I didn't say that I was not allowed to come to the deck!"

"But we are working now, and your presence seriously interferes with our work."

"We are so far away, what can interfere?"

Xiang Xingchang quickly quarreled with them, and other diving team members came out to support them when they heard the movement.

Lu Ao knew that Xiang Xingchang did it on purpose.

No matter what those scientific researchers say, he just won't leave.

None of the other divers left.

Everyone knows the inside story, and they will never allow these people to fish their own country's resources under their noses.

For a while, the two sides stalemate.

The female researcher who had talked to Lu Ao used the walkie-talkie to call Angkor and others.

Angkor hurried over and asked after seeing the situation: "What's the matter with you? Interfering with the work of scientific researchers is a breach of contract."

"When the contract was signed, it was not stipulated that standing on the deck was not allowed. What kind of breach of contract is this?"

"You're talking too much, it's up to you whether there is any interference or not?"

Xiang Xingchang ignored him, "I don't care, you let me go, I don't like what you want. Dogs see people as inferior, today I'm going to blow the wind on the deck, do you dare to touch me?"

Angkor looked over one by one, with a threatening face, "What about you?"

Lu Ao said: "It's sweltering down here, let's enjoy the cool here."

The others nodded in agreement.

Some team members whispered: "We just take advantage of the shade and do nothing. Why are you so fierce?"

A group of people insisted on sitting here, but Angkor had nothing to do with them, so he just watched them from the sidelines.

Soon someone called the boat boss.

The boss of the boat looked at the scene, and then at Xiang Xingchang and his firm expressions. Combined with the satellite phone call in the afternoon, he understood something in his heart. During the mediation, he kept chattering and asked both parties to take a step back.

Both sides naturally refused to retreat.

Angkor was helpless, and led his men to a stalemate with them.

The scientific researchers were nervously operating the instruments and had no time to talk to them.

The sky darkened little by little, and soon, the fiery red sunset completely sank into the distant sea, and the fire cloud above the head gradually receded, replaced by a starry sky.

After eight o'clock in the evening, the sky had completely turned into a night sky. Jin operated the submersible and slowly surfaced.

There was a burst of cheers from the scientific researchers, and they went over to respond one after another.

Angkor also hurried down to help, directing the boatman to hoist the submersible up with a crane.

The diving team members leaned over to look, but were quickly driven away by them.

The researchers were very happy.

Everyone on board knew that they would gain something.

Xiang Xingchang stood on the deck and watched coldly.

With the help of his assistant, Jin got out of the cab, looked at Lu Ao and the others from a distance, and both sides looked at each other.

The female researcher beside him lowered her voice, "Jin, they seem to have discovered it."

"It doesn't matter, just send the things away tonight, they can't find any evidence."

The voices of their conversation were very low, but Lu Ao could hear them clearly.

Xiang Xingchang looked at it for a while, and wanted to go over the air defense to see what they had caught. "What did you catch? Is it a protected animal? This is China's waters, and you have no right to catch protected animals!"

"No, this is just one of our sampling tasks." The researcher denied, "You are too sensitive."

"Then I ask you to show what you have caught, do you dare?"

"Sir, this is our business secret, your request is too rude."

Xiang Xingchang became anxious, and pointed at them, "You are guilty! If you have the ability, you can show us what you have caught. Have you caught a lancetail?!"

"Sir, please don't make trouble for no reason. If we really catch your protected animals, there will naturally be customs inspections when we leave. You are not qualified to make such demands on us."

Lu Ao watched the two sides come and go, but did not move.

Jin mentioned tonight and didn't know what would happen tonight.

Lu Ao didn't know how they were going to send things away at night.

Xiang Xingchang made a fuss, but nothing came of it.

The stalemate between the two sides lasted until more than ten o'clock, and Xiang Xingchang and the others insisted on staying on the deck.

The scientific expedition team ignored them and returned to their cabin with the salvage from the submersible.

Xiang Xingchang and his men wanted to rob him several times, but they were separated.

Those salvaged items were packed in dense fishing nets, and no one could see what was inside.

Only Lu Ao could feel it from a distance, it was indeed a speartail fish.

Although Xiang Xingchang and the others couldn't see it, they felt it, and they were even more unwilling to compromise.

That night, none of them went back to the cabin to sleep, and just watched on the deck.

Lu Ao is also on the deck.

Xiang Xingchang and the others knew that they had quietly reported to the police with the satellite phone, and they would be fine when the maritime police arrived, so they were not too nervous.

Everyone sat next to each other on the deck, drowsy, and reminded each other not to go to sleep.

As time gradually approached the middle of the night, everyone was still asleep, and several of them were snoring.

Lu Ao also fell into sleep. He fell asleep and was suddenly awakened. When he subconsciously looked up, he saw another big ship that was not inferior to theirs was approaching.

The foreign letters on the big ship are clearly visible even under the starlight.

Lu Ao's heart sank.

He finally understood why this group of people had nothing to fear, so someone responded!

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