Section 13 Unexpected Gains
The salvage was carried out much faster than expected. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Squidward's ability to sell cuteness is very poor, but his ability to salvage is very strong. Having said that, among all the large carnivorous beasts on the planet, only the giant panda has successfully evolved the ability to sell cuteness. This is the only example of this, and nothing else. Even if the big octopus knows how to sell cuteness, he doesn't know how to sell cuteness himself, which is a horror movie for ordinary humans. A cold, slippery, powerful, and most importantly go-to beast that can eat you at any time isn't cute at all when you're around - unless you look like a panda and are born with a cute face.
With eight huge brachiopods and suckers on them, the octopus is like a natural salvage machine, able to bring things up to the bottom of the sea with ease. And its innate high intelligence allows it to understand the meaning of Amber and Lu Wu, and will not bring meaningless garbage with it. Therefore, the progress of the work is very fast, exceeding Lu Wu's expectations. And the octopus is really smart - so smart that Lu Wu is a little staggered. Because there is basically no need for Amber to assist in command, it is completely capable of carrying out salvage operations on its own, bringing the contents of the wreck with it. And incredibly, it seems to know what Lu Wu and Amber need, and it is almost impossible to go wrong with what is salvaged.
From head to toe, Squidward never fished up useless rocks and rotten wood. Even if Squidward made a mistake, it was a reasonable mistake - to pick up the porcelain that was relatively broken and didn't seem to be of much value.
And the wages of such a good salvage worker are very cheap: some fish, shrimp and the like will do.
Maybe it's not easy for Squidward to hunt fish, but for humans, sea fish are really easy to catch, and they don't even have bait, and they will bite the hook. Especially at night, as long as the lights are lit, the fish are attracted like moths, and fishing is not a difficult task.
At dusk, the salvage work ended today. The octopus finished the last round of fishing of the day, and after a full meal, it went into the sea tank to rest. I don't know what happened to Squidward, it's just a big octopus, but the schedule is no different from that of humans - a typical sunrise and sunset.
After a day's salvage, a large amount of stuff was placed on the deck of the yacht.
Although the salvage work is handled by the large octopus, there is still a lot of other work. The antique porcelain salvaged had a lot of silt in it, which had to be washed away. Then all kinds of porcelain must be classified, especially some porcelain has been damaged, and it is necessary to decide how to deal with it according to the actual situation. As people know, not all porcelain is valuable. Valuable porcelain must have at least one premise: it is in good condition. Those incompleteness are usually only valuable for academic research, or in other words, only worthy of academic research.
Although Squidward is smart, he is not smart enough to value porcelain, so when it is salvaged, it is salvaged in all directions, and those defective products will not be spared.
Squidward's work efficiency is higher than that of Lu Wu. It had already slept in the sea tank, and Lu Wu's work would continue. In order to illuminate, Lu Wu lit the searchlight on the ship. On the one hand, it is to illuminate itself, and on the other hand, it is also to help amber fishing. As mentioned earlier, sea fish are almost all fools. These lights can attract a lot of fish in the water, making Amber fishing much faster.
Fishing has now become a very important job, because the fish caught have to feed the big octopus, which has been depleted of the fish that had been piling up in the refrigerator. Lu Wu cares a lot about this work, because Lu Wu really doesn't want octopuses to work hungry at all - if you want to stay safely next to large carnivores, an important premise is to feed them.
"It's almost a thousand. Lu Wu stood up and stretched. Because of the continuous work, his body muscles are sore, but he is in a happy mood. Although he didn't know much about antiques, he also understood that the salvage he had salvaged this time must be valuable.
It's not just porcelain that's been salvaged. In addition to porcelain, precious metals can withstand thousands of years in the sea. It's also a shame that Squidward is a giant beast, otherwise without professional salvage equipment, it would be extremely difficult to get those things up by manpower.
Under the light, a pile of silt could be seen with obvious deformation, and Lu Wu walked over and picked up a container that was not porcelain from the pile of silt. After washing the mud with water, it was clear that it was a metal vessel. The one that seals well.
"This is...... Bronze box?" Lu Wu picked up the box and looked left and right. The chest is not very large, but it instantly reminds people of the word "treasure". In fact, if you think about it, you also know that in the era when there was no modern navigation equipment and knowledge, it was impossible for such a ship to go to sea at great risk, and it was impossible to carry just a shipload of porcelain.
You know, the reason why these modern porcelains are rare and valuable is because they are antiques. In ancient times, they could only be regarded as general commodities (although there were many bottles and jars, but they looked relatively simple, and they should not be worth much in ancient times), although the profits should be good, but there must be many goods with profits on porcelain. According to normal logic, merchant ships must first load valuable goods when they go to sea, and wait until all the valuable ones are loaded before it is the turn of more ordinary goods such as porcelain.
"What's wrong?" Amber, who was fishing on the side, noticed the change in Lu Wu.
"Amber, can you open this?" Lu Wu had already pried it with his hands. However, it turns out that the lock may be rusty, or it needs special tools, and it can't be opened with bare hands.
But magic is different.
Amber materializes herself and takes the bronze chest. A few seconds later, with a tooth-aching sound of metal grinding, the box was opened.
"This is ......" Lu Wu looked inside the box.
Unexpectedly, the inside of this bronze box was very dry. Maybe it's relatively small, and its walls are very thick, or maybe it has something to do with its own structure, but in short, it actually withstood the pressure of the deep sea, and it was incredibly not in the water.
Originally, Lu Wu wanted it to be gold and silver jewelry, preferably something similar to diamonds or gemstones. But the truth is that there are no such things in it, but there are a few things that Lu Wu has never seen before.
"This ...... I guess it's a cup. "The main body looks like a cow's horn, but the base is made of gold (it should be gold?!) underneath. Lu Wu looked at it for a long time, but he only thought of a similar horn cup.
"Horn Cup...... Wait! Could it be this...... Rhino horn cup?!" Lu Wu immediately realized how extraordinary this thing was.
It is an irrefutable historical fact that rhinos once lived in ancient China. "Rhinoceros armor" used to be a common equipment for Chinese soldiers. But then, over time, the climate changed, and the Chinese rhinoceros became extinct. But the tradition of making cups from rhino horn remains. And, for as long as records have been, rhino horn cups have been considered a luxury.
Could it be that this is the legendary rhino horn cup?! Lu Wu was overjoyed. The value of the ancient rhino horn cup is hard to say! Perhaps so many antique porcelain pieces that he worked so hard to sort out are not as good as such a box.
"What's the matter, Lu Wu, these are ......"
"It could be a rhino horn cup!" Lu Wu said. "A real luxury!" he had already made up his mind. Be sure to search the wreck, there may be many more such precious things!
The electronic calendar in the cab automatically passed by another day.
Ten days have passed since the salvage began, the day the spirit descended to the bottom of the sea.
This shipwreck really deserves to be called a "treasure ship". Because it is indeed facing a myriad of treasures. And the antique porcelain that Lu Wu had seen in the cabin before was actually just the most insignificant of its many treasures. It's no wonder that Lu Wu has no vision, after all, the records about this treasure ship are not very detailed, so even experts have different opinions about what goods are in the treasure ship. The only thing that can only be determined is that the ship should have been loaded with a significant amount of porcelain. In fact, even porcelain is controversial. Otherwise, it might have caught the attention of treasure hunters long ago.
The entire yacht is now stuffed to the brim. In the drawing-room, there were all kinds of precious metal objects, including ancient silver, gold, and bronze objects, among which there were several bronze chests—all of which were small, with thick walls, and fairly well sealed. But after all, it's the deep seabed, and only two of these boxes are able to stay sealed. And in the warehouse, there are plastic boxes full of porcelain. In the bedroom, there are some things that can be regarded as "precious ancient jewels", mainly some jade, rhino horn, ivory products that have survived in the bronze chest.
Speaking of which, it stands to reason that the age of this ship has long been entered by the Chinese in the Iron Age, but the number of bronzes on this ship is quite large. In addition to the chests, there were a number of bronze weapons - of course, the wooden parts of the weapons had rotted away, but the bronze parts had withstood the immersion in the sea and could still be said to be intact.
According to Amber, the shipwreck at the bottom of the sea has now been dismantled for better salvage - to make it easier to search for the treasure in the wreck, the obstructive hull is simply dismantled and thrown aside. It was easy, because the shipwreck at the bottom of the sea was rotten, and Squidward got the job done with a hitch. Now, the one on the bottom of the sea is no longer called a treasure ship, and the yacht Lu Wu deserves this name. If all the property can be sold at the normal market price, it is definitely an astonishing price, and it is definitely no problem to calculate it with "100 million".
As a result, Lu Wu had to face a new trouble: when he was salvage, he was desperately fishing, fishing, trying to bring up all the valuable things. But now, he has to worry about how to move down.
If you go straight back to the dock like this...... I guess someone will find out. There are so many bottles and cans, and they are too eye-catching. Even if it is not discovered, it is not safe, because I am afraid that I will not be able to get back so many things at once. When the yacht is parked at the dock, if a stranger touches it, then you can only hope that person does not know the goods, otherwise you will become a thief if you are not a thief.
Luckily, there's the slut guy to help...... Maybe you should get in touch with the slut first and ask him to find a suitable place and arrange the car. However, Lu Wu had a faint fear. Although he can be said to be a partner with Ren Jian on this treasure hunt...... However, after all, they had never faced such a huge fortune together.
Of course, in addition to this faint worry, there is also a very real trouble. It's the big octopus, or rather, Squidward. Well, although Lu Wu has already explained to Amber that they can't keep this octopus as a pet at all. But in fact, the problem is not on Amber's side, but on the Octopus's side. The octopus seemed to think that this kind of day with so many fish to eat every day was good, so it actually wanted to stay on the yacht and refused to leave.
At first, Lu Wu didn't care, because the salvage work was inseparable from the help of the big octopus. But now, the salvage work is over! I knew that I would catch fewer fish every day to feed this octopus that is obviously not cute at all (not cute, it is quite scary), but is trying to sell cute every day.
According to Lu Wu's idea, it is to trick the octopus into the water, and then drive the boat away. At the speed of an octopus, it is impossible to catch up with this yacht. But this idea is refuted by Amber - if you do this, it is too much, at least I'm sorry that Squidward works so hard every day to beg for support.
(Squidward: It's not my fault that I'm ugly, beg for support, beg for favor......= ̄w ̄=)