Fisherman's Secret

After returning from the city, Fang Jing was busy preparing to go to sea.

The tugboat he bought is relatively large, and there is a complete set of tools and instruments for surveying the sunken ship on board. Fang Jing himself must operate the instruments in the studio to detect the location of the sunken ship. It is impossible for Cen Jiu to sail the boat day and night alone for so many days. , So he recruited another skilled driver. If he has more money in the future, Fang Jing also plans to recruit a few special surveyors, so that he can have more time to do other things.

The newly recruited crew member is Xiao Ze, who is from Zhang Yue’s hometown. He is very tall and strong. At that time, I didn't know why he was discharged from the army suddenly. Zhang Yue didn't explain, but when he heard that Fang Jing wanted to recruit a crew member, he introduced him.

Zhang Yue is Fang Jing's college classmate and is now a well-known barrister. He visited the fishing village with Zhu Zhi in the summer, and the person he introduced Fang Jing is quite at ease.

Previously, Fang Jing used the navigation software to detect six similar navigation locations, three of which were in a certain sea area in the northeast of Tianchao, two in the South China Sea, and one in a certain range more than 60 nautical miles southwest of Baodao. Inside.

Fortunately, these locations are all in the sea area of ​​​​the Celestial Dynasty, and no crew certificate is required. Fang Jing has successively arranged for Cen Jiu to complete the four small certificates required for domestic routes, otherwise Cen Jiu would not be able to board the ship.

However, Fang Jing plans to let Cen Jiu study after returning this time, and then get a crew certificate. No one can guarantee whether they will cross domestic routes and land in ports of other countries when they go to sea.

It was already November at this time. Considering that the sea area in the northeast would freeze, which would not be conducive to surveying, Fang Jing decided to survey two points in the South China Sea first. If there was no harvest, he would go north to the southwest and northeast sea areas of Baodao and wait for the next year. In the spring, we will go to sea for exploration.This can be regarded as the first time that Fang Jing really went out to sea. He used to wander around the fishing village at most. This time he and Cen Jiu went to investigate the specific coordinates of the sunken ship. The owner of the ship salvages sunken ships, and the equipment on the ship is very complete, which saves Fang Jing a lot of trouble.

But other necessities, such as clothes, food, daily necessities, and first-aid medicines, need to be prepared by Fang Jing himself. Everything is prepared properly, and the money is spent like running water. Now Fang Jing’s account has only Less than [-] in cash, if there is no harvest this trip, it is estimated that they will not even have the money to refuel for the return trip.

In mid-November, everything was finally ready. Fang Jing chose a sunny day to bid farewell to Ye Chi with Cen Jiu, and embarked on an unknown journey of treasure hunting.

With a roar, in the tumbling sea, the tugboat started.

Standing on the deck at the bow of the ship, Fang Jing watched the peaceful fishing village getting smaller and smaller in his field of vision until there was only a small dot left. An indescribable feeling arose in his heart.

The days of going out to sea are actually far less romantic and beautiful than imagined. They are very monotonous and boring. The boat is swaying a lot. Looking around, except for the blue sea water, it is still blue sea water. At first, it may feel fresh. After a long time, it is simply a A kind of mental torture.

Fortunately, Cen Jiu was by his side.

Fang Jing turned his head and glanced at Cen Jiu, who was standing beside him studying the route, feeling a little relieved.

Xiao Ze looked like a veteran at first glance, and he sailed the boat more steadily than Fang Jing. After observing it for a few days, Fang Jing was very satisfied with Xiao Ze's sailing skills. Moreover, Xiao Ze was taciturn and steady. I wandered around the one-acre three-quarters of the land, and went back to my cabin to sleep every day except sailing, and never asked about other things, and Fang Jing's workshop was not even interested in glancing at it.

The three of them worked in shifts, and finally they could do other things without having Fang Jing staring at them all day long. Fang Jing immediately felt that the fellow from the same country introduced by Zhang Yue couldn't be more considerate.

Xiao Ze was sailing in the cab, Fang Jing and Cen Jiu seized the time to rest, recharge their batteries, and prepare for a big fight at that time.

Before arriving at the survey site, there was not much to do except sailing the boat. Except for occasionally passing by a large fish school, he would throw two nets down to catch some fish. The rest of the time was relatively free. Fang Jing spent most of his time resting, just tinkering with the pile. surveying instrument.

The door was knocked twice, Fang Jing raised his wrist to check the time, wiped his face and walked out.

Xiao Ze stood at the door. He was very tall, even a little taller than Cen Jiu. When Fang Jing stood with him, he somehow felt like a dwarf.

"Ah, the shift has changed." Fang Jing smiled at Xiao Ze and said, "Thank you for your hard work, let's have a good rest."

Cen Jiu was studying the nautical charts in the cab. He had sailed the boat with him in the middle of the night last night, and got up early in the morning to help Xiao Ze. At this moment, he was still in good spirits, he was not human at all.

"Go to sleep for a while, and I will call you later."

"I'm not tired." Cen Jiu shook his head, resolutely refusing to go to rest first.

Fang Jing knew that he was afraid that he would be bored by himself, so he said it twice, but it was fine if Cen Jiu didn't listen.It's a long night and you don't want to sleep. It's better to have someone by your side than to be alone.

"Tomorrow we will be able to reach the shipwreck area." Cen Jiu compared the nautical chart for a while, and asked, "With which instruments can we find the location of the sunken ship?"

"Well, use a sonar detector, connect it to a computer, and scan the seabed topography. If the sound wave hits a sunken ship or something else, the reflected information will be different. Based on this, you can roughly determine what kind of terrain and something there is on the bottom of the sea." Fang Jing explained to him the methods of modern surveying and the functions of sonar, and Cen Jiu was surprised.

"You are really smart." After a long time, Cen Jiu praised sincerely.

"No, no, this is the contribution of scientists." Fang Jing said modestly, "Modern society is very convenient. Everyone performs their own duties and does what they are good at. Smart people do research and create many machines that facilitate people's lives. ;Beautiful artists sing and dance to entertain everyone and make everyone's life more colorful. But most people are like me, ordinary people who are not too smart and not too beautiful, and do a job within their ability to support themselves. It's life."

"You are very smart and beautiful...handsome." Cen Jiu said.

Fang Jing smiled at his canthus: "Okay, I don't know what kind of person I am."

"No, you know a lot." Cen Jiu said stubbornly, "You are very smart and beautiful."

In his eyes, there is probably no one better, smarter and more beautiful than Fang Jing, and he is the best everywhere.

Fang Jing snorted, turned his head and smiled at Cen Jiu: "I know, Xi Shi is in the eye of the beholder, oh no, it's Pan An."

The tugboat has been sailing at sea for nearly half a month, and searched the South China Sea for the two possible shipwrecks. They found something, but they were just two modern ordinary civilian sunken ships, which were worthless to salvage.

Seeing that the diesel fuel was only enough to tug the boat for ten days, Fang Jing decided to search around for another day. If he still found nothing, he would divert to Baodao. By then, the oil on board would probably be exhausted, and there was no water gas station nearby. , if they don't stop in advance, they will only be floating on the sea.

When Fang Jing was about to let Xiao Ze set sail for the next survey site, the sonar that detected the seabed topography suddenly fed back different information, showing that there was something strange on the seabed. Just 200 meters in front of the tugboat, there was a section about three meters long on the seabed. Strangely protruding, and showing loose metal on the bottom.

He hurriedly asked Xiao Ze to stop the boat, intending to put on a diving suit and go down to investigate, but because he had the experience of discovering two ordinary civilian shipwrecks before, Fang Jing didn't have much hope this time.

Because there were more people on board this time, Cen Jiu also changed into a diving suit, and must dive with Fang Jing.

Fang Jing couldn't resist him, so he agreed.

After the two jumped into the water, they swam towards the front of the boat. The diving equipment could only supply oxygen continuously, but the effect on the pressure of the sea water was not that great. After diving down for about ten meters, Fang Jing summoned the water bubbles. , because it is underwater, the summoned water bubbles are integrated with the sea, and there is no difference at all with the naked eye.

Fang Jing tried to cover Cen Jiu in the water bubbles. Cen Jiu seemed to sense something, turned his head and glanced, but found nothing, and then swam forward with Fang Jing.

Swimming forward for nearly 300 meters, there is no trace of the sunken ship. There are marine garbage floating around, and occasionally there are schools of fish swimming around. Fang Jing is a little disappointed. Then he swims forward for more than [-] meters, but still finds nothing. When he gave up and went back, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly glanced not far ahead, as if a silver light flashed.

Underwater visibility is low, and Fang Jing is able to see normally underwater because of his golden finger with water bubbles, but this is hundreds of meters deep on the bottom of the sea, how can there be silver light?

The light flickered, going here and there for a while, as if it was alive, but it didn't look like the scales on a fish.

Cen Jiu raised his arm to touch Fang Jing lightly, and pointed to the front, apparently he also saw the silver light.

Fang Jing nodded to him, and the two of them swam along the place where the silver light was shining. The silver light became bigger and bigger as they moved forward, moving left and right, it was really weird.

Cen Jiu stopped Fang Jing suddenly, and stopped on the spot vigilantly.

Fang Jing wanted to ask him what's wrong, but he couldn't make a sound underwater, he could only make messy gestures, and he didn't know if Cen Jiu understood.

Cen Jiu shook his head, and kept Fang Jing behind very cautiously, the two of them swam forward for a long time, the light and shadow became clearer and clearer, until Fang Jing finally saw what it was, he opened his mouth wide in surprise, a little Can't believe my eyes.