Fisherman's Secret

The skeleton mountain on the bottom of the sea shocked Lu Yang and the others. Six people stood in front of the pile of skeleton mountains, unable to speak for a long time.

Every skull represents a human life. If Fang Jing hadn't accidentally discovered it by chance, who would have known that there were so many unjust souls of Chinese laborers buried under this reef?

Thinking back to that period of the darkest, most chaotic and most painful history, and thinking about the vast Pacific Ocean, I don’t know how many such souls are left under the sea. What they see today is just the tip of the iceberg.

Fortunately, everyone has experienced major events. After the initial shock, they quickly returned to calm, and everyone turned their attention to Fang Jing in unison.Although he has the lowest force value among all, but now he is the boss, he is the boss, and everything is under his command.

Fang Jing waved his hand, pointed to the scale on the oxygen cylinder, and pointed to the iron box hanging in front of him, signaling for everyone to start working.

The six people first set up underwater cameras around them, and the images were transmitted to the ship through cables, so that Xiao Ze would be able to know immediately if there was any unexpected situation, and then dispatched the command.

The oxygen in the oxygen cylinders can only support them for an hour and a half at the bottom of the sea, which is 70 meters above the sea level. Even if they wear decompression diving suits, they should not spend too long working underwater in a day.

The crowd dispersed and silently put the surrounding skulls into iron boxes.Because Cen Jiu had the highest force value, Fang Jing decided that he would be in charge of guarding, and the other five people would be in charge of packing the boxes.

The decompression diving suit is clumsy and inefficient, and the skull has been soaked in seawater for nearly a hundred years, covered with moss and sand, and occasionally strange unknown creatures can swim out of it, which is really a challenge tolerance.

It took five days to clean up the skulls. The skulls were put into an iron box and pulled up by a crane.

After the skull was cleaned up, a corner of the mast underneath was faintly exposed.

There really is a sunken ship underneath!

Although Fang Jing had already expected it, he was not surprised.

More than a month ago, in order to salvage the Siamese treasure ship, Dr. Li had already searched the sea area. Even a single stone on the surrounding seabed was found out. Weird thing!

Fang Jing can only attribute everything to the hidden function of the ghost flower. As for why this hidden function is so powerful that even the most advanced measuring sonar can't scan it, this is not within the scope of his consideration.

Since he changed his career, he has seen too many strange things like this. The atheist, materialistic and good young man who was born in Hongmiaozheng has already disappeared into the sea like a rolling wave, and he is moving forward on the road of theism. I don’t know return date.

Putting the last piece of skull fragments found into the iron box, Fang Jing made a K gesture to the camera.

The iron box was hung on the hook and slowly left the bottom of the sea, floating towards the surface of the sea unsteadily.

Fang Jing looked at the oxygen cylinder, which could last for four to ten minutes, and decided to explore the sunken ship first.

Because of the explosion, the hull of this transport ship was torn apart. The rear half of the hull was almost completely destroyed, leaving only the front half. It's like a giant steel pipe poking out suddenly from the bottom of the sea.

Fang Jing gestured to the people on both sides, and the six people divided into two teams to observe the sunken ship.

The still intact half of the hull was nearly ten meters wide. The iron and steel hull was full of rust, and there were many large and small fragments scattered around the hull. Fang Jing estimated that it should be the part of the hull that exploded during the explosion.

The six people circled the sunken ship cautiously and came to the broken stern.Looking at the irregular and neat gap, it is not difficult to imagine how violent the explosion was on the transport ship.

Fang Jing raised his hand to touch the broken section, and boarded the sunken ship first.

Cen Jiu followed closely behind, and Lu Yang and the others looked at each other before boarding the sunken ship.

This sunken ship is obviously different from the two sunken ships that Fang Jing salvaged before. The hull is almost all made of metal, and the valve of the sealed hatch is rusted together. Fang Jing tried to open it, but it did not move.

Cen Jiu patted him on the shoulder, motioned him to step aside, and twisted the valve on the top with both hands.

Fang Jing only felt the surrounding water surge, a small water vortex rose at the valve position, a gust of air bubbles surged up, and the valve slowly opened.

Everyone stepped forward together and moved the hatch cover to one side in a hurry, revealing a round passage.

Fang Jing took off the overhead light and scanned the inside. It was dark inside, and he didn't know what was there.

It is inconvenient without water bubbles, and you can't see anything.

Fang Jing fixed the light on the diving mask above his head, held a speargun in his hand, and was about to jump in.Cen Jiu grabbed him from behind, pointed behind him, let him step aside, and swam down first.

"..." Fang Jing.

Cen Jiu entered the cabin, followed by Lu Yang and two other divers, leaving Fang Jing and another diver outside to watch out for the wind.

While Fang Jing was paying attention to the movement of the sea water around him, he also had to keep an eye on the scale of the oxygen cylinder.

Time passed little by little, and there was no news of the four people who dived into the sunken ship. At this time, the scale of the oxygen cylinder indicated that the oxygen in it was only enough to last for 10 to [-] minutes.

Fang Jing's heart began to become agitated. Although he believed that there should be no great danger on this ship, but Cen Jiu and the others had not heard from them for a long time, and Fang Jing's originally determined heart began to become uneasy.

Why hasn't it come up for so long?Obviously there is only half of the hull left, the four people should be able to detect it quickly, or did they encounter some danger underwater?

Just when Fang Jing couldn't wait and planned to enter the cabin in person, some light finally appeared in the dark cabin.

Fang Jing suddenly lifted his spirits.

There is no light on the seabed at a depth of 60 meters, so there is no need to think that this light must be Cen Jiu and the others.

He floated at the door of the cabin, poked his head to look in, and after a while, the calm water surface was stirred up with splashes, and a black head swam up from it.

Lu Yang swam up first, followed by the other two divers, and Cen Jiu was last.

Fang Jing wanted to ask them how the situation in the boat was, but he couldn't speak, so he gestured anxiously.

The four looked at each other, Lu Yang shook his head, and Fang Jing was stunned.

Is there no treasure in this cabin?He clearly saw in his dream that the captain brought several boxes of gold, silver and jewelry onto the ship, did they all sink to the bottom of the sea in the end?

Although he has a strong golden finger, the sea is vast and the tide ebbs and flows. The treasures scattered in the sea have been affected by ocean currents and tides for decades, and no one knows where they have sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Is he really going to be a white worker this time?

An indescribable disappointment welled up in Fang Jing's heart. He even spent a lot of manpower, material resources and energy on the salvage this time. The routine salvage was just to make the sunken ship appear in the public eye. Could it be that he wanted to salvage an empty ship? ship?

Oh no, there are more than 500 skulls!And he also made a wish towards the ghost flowers in this sea area, to send these skulls back to their hometown!

Now that even a single valuable item has not been salvaged, he reckons that even his trousers will be lost this time.

Why is it that others can only get a treasure worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions of meters, while he can only trade at a loss?

Fang Jing felt the malice from the entire universe.

Obviously he just wanted to do a good deed and make a little money by the way, why is it so difficult?

Probably his resentment was so deep that Lu Yang and the others could feel it through the diving suit. Lu Yang raised his heavy hand and stretched it out in front of him.

The thick mechanical hand stretched out, revealing a silver coin with a black surface in the palm.

Only then did Fang Jing realize that Lu Yang and the others were only lying to him, and he was immediately overjoyed.

He just said it!After doing so much preparation work, and even making such troublesome wishes, how could it be an empty ship?

He wanted to ask something else, but the oxygen in the oxygen tank was only enough for another 10 minutes, and no matter how many questions he had, he was pressed in his heart. Fang Jing gestured for everyone to go back to the boat first.

When they were launched into the water, they were hoisted down by a crane, but when they returned to the boat, they had to swim up by themselves.

Back on the tugboat, Fang Jing took off his diving mask, and with the help of Xiao Ze and the others, carefully took off his hundred-jin diving suit, and asked impatiently, "How is it?"

Besides gold coins, have you found anything else?

Lu Yang handed him the gold coin he got, and Fang Jing took it over and took a look.

The diameter of the silver coin is about 30, nearly forty millimeters. On the front of the silver coin is a winged eagle standing on a cactus with one leg, with a long snake in its mouth. "; on the back of the silver dollar, there is a soft hat of freedom in the center, surrounded by a circle of light beams of different lengths, and the brim of the hat is also engraved with a string of Spanish words for freedom.

This is actually a Mexican straight-edged eagle ocean.

Fang Jing was immediately overjoyed. He thought that most of the coins he salvaged were the coins of the Republic of China, but he didn't expect it to be Mexican Eagle Ocean.

Mexican Eagle Ocean is a new coin used after Mexico's independence in 1821. Because it is of the best quality and has remained unchanged for many years, it became a market currency after it entered the Chinese Empire, and it is considered a relatively valuable currency.

Even if such a pure Mexican eagle is sold separately, it can be worth 90 yuan at the current weak silver price. For those collectors of ancient coins, it will be even more expensive. It's worth four or five hundred.

"How many?" Fang Jing asked.

"A lot." Another diver answered, "It's estimated to be two or three tons."

Fang Jing: "?!!"

so much!

Let him do the math.

The standard weight of a Mexican eagle is 27.7 grams, about 400 pieces per catty, and three tons of six thousand catties. How many pieces are there?One hundred and eight thousand pieces.One piece is [-] yuan, how much is one hundred and eight thousand pieces?

Fang Jing, who is a scumbag in mathematics, said that he seemed to be a little lost.

It's all money!

Get rich!

Fang Jing made a fist with his right hand, and punched the palm of his left hand firmly.

"Fill! No matter how hard it is, we must salvage this ship."

In the days that followed, everyone on board entered the intensive salvage phase.

Because there were only six sets of decompression diving suits, Fang Jing and the others went into the water in turn to salvage silver coins. Boxes of silver coins were put in iron boxes and hoisted up from the bottom of the sea. It took a full month and a half to finally remove the scattered silver coins. All were salvaged, and a total of eight boxes were hoisted. In addition, there were a small number of gold and precious stones.

Fang Jing cleaned up a cabin and neatly stacked the salvaged silver coins in the box.In the small cabin, there are eight boxes of the same size. These are salvaged treasures, carefully placed together.

Fang Jing pushed open the cabin next door.There are forty or fifty larger boxes in that cabin, and the skulls that were scooped up here are placed in them.He tidied up these skulls and put them in airtight boxes, pumped out the air and sealed them up. After landing, he asked a professional to confirm their identities, and then sent them back to their hometown.

There are more than 500 complete skulls, as well as a pile of broken skull fragments, packed in 46 sealed boxes.

"Please be patient and wait a little longer, I will be able to take you home soon."

Fang Jing closed the last box and said in a low voice.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew around Fang Jing several times before disappearing without a trace.

Goosebumps all over Fang Jing's body immediately, and he danced on his arms, refusing to think about the closed windows of the ship, and being close to the innermost cabin, where did this cool breeze come from?

Compared with the treasures on the ship, salvage of the hull part is more difficult.

Part of the shipwreck was buried by the seabed silt, and the bow part of the hull was covered with several meters thick silt, which made it more difficult to salvage.

After more than two months of dredging and salvage work, the sunken ship finally surfaced slowly under the tug of two tugboats.

Standing on the deck, Fang Jing looked at the broken transport ship with only half of its hull left, so excited that tears filled his eyes, and he was speechless for a long time.

This is the first ship he salvaged in the true sense, which is of great significance.

Fortunately, everything went well.