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Chapter 116: Looking for a Needle in a Haystack (2)

When Zhuang Rui drove the bearded captain out, he said that he would evaluate the work of the ship's staff according to the monitoring to see if he was the captain competent, so frightened that Clyde ran back to the captain's room and used internal communication to warn the crew. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After closing the door, Zhuang Rui turned off all the more than ten monitors flashing in front of him, and sat quietly by the window, his eyes slightly closed.

The formless and colorless aura overflowed from Zhuang Rui's eyes, extending down through the deck, and after a while, Zhuang Rui only felt that his eyes were cold, but the aura had already entered the seawater.

"Huh, sharks, no......"

Zhuang Rui was suddenly within the range of aura, sensing several swimming creatures, all of which were more than one meter in size, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and hurriedly wrapped them with aura.

"Khan, turned out to be a diver?"

After "seeing" the situation in the aura group clearly, Zhuang Rui smiled dumbly, this is a few divers from the Maritime Safety Bureau have gone down to the sea and are traveling to the bottom of the sea dozens of meters deep with the help of thrusters.

The aura bypassed a few people and continued to infiltrate to the bottom of the sea, and a group of swimming fish seemed to be able to sense Zhuang Rui's existence, and they had been wandering around the aura, but Zhuang Rui controlled the aura to prevent it from overflowing, and those fish didn't get any benefit.

A few divers who followed behind couldn't help but take pictures with an underwater camera as they watched the colorful fish gather together and show an unusually beautiful scene under the sun.

Not to mention these unprofessional divers, Zhuang Rui's aura has already touched the bottom of the sea at this time, but he can't see the situation at the bottom of the sea intuitively, so he can only take the cruise ship as the center and overflow the aura in all directions.

"There's something ......"

As soon as Zhuang Rui saw the sensing range spread, he felt a wave of aura, but that thing was not big, only the size of a small fingernail, although the aura was abundant, it should not be a wreck.

"It's a pearl, right?"

Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, slightly overflowed the aura wrapped in the object, and suddenly felt that the aura was missing, and he understood in his heart that this should be the sea pearl in the body of a sea mussel.

"If you have time to go back, dig it out......"

Now the task is to find the wreckage, Zhuang Rui can only let the pearl aside, remember its location, and continue to search along the seabed.

"Ten meters...... Thirty meters...... Fifty meters ......"

Since the shipwreck was exploded and disintegrated and sunk at that time, the objects on the ship were likely to become scattered, so Zhuang Rui searched very carefully, and any place that felt a little aura would be carefully investigated.

There are endless treasures in the ocean, and this is not just a shipwreck for thousands of years, and the pearls contained in those sea mussels are also very collectible.

"Huh? Found ......"

When Zhuang Rui surveyed a place more than two hundred meters away from the cruise ship, he suddenly sensed a strong aura in front of him, Zhuang Rui was overjoyed, withdrew the aura scattered in all directions, and wrapped the objects in that position.

"This ...... It's supposed to be a box of gold, right?"

That object is about a meter long and wide, and the aura in it is very familiar, and he has sensed it in the Burmese gold mine not long ago, and he will definitely not go wrong.

"According to the records at the time, there should have been at least forty tons of gold on this Awa Maru, and there must be more than this box ......"

After Zhuang Rui remembered the location of this box of gold, his aura spread out again, and he surveyed around the gold, if there was any, it should not be far from here, after all, these objects were all placed together at that time.

Zhuang Rui's guess was right, more than ten minutes later, he found sixteen or seventeen more boxes scattered around, but many of them seemed to be rotten, and pieces of gold diamonds were scattered on the bottom of the sea.

Fortunately, these chests are all settled under the silt of the seabed, otherwise it would be difficult to preserve the gold, and it is long unknown where it has been washed by the ebb and flow of the tide.

"What about the skull? Is it really not on the Awa Maru?"

What made Zhuang Rui depressed was that although he found more than a dozen boxes, and not all of them were gold, some of the boxes contained some ceramics and gold and silverware, although they were antiques, but Zhuang Rui did not find the imaginary Peking Man skull fossil.

Now Zhuang Rui's search has expanded to more than two kilometers, and the wreckage of the shipwreck has been largely unfounded, which means that the hope of finding the fossilized skull of Peking Man is becoming more and more diminished.

"Xiaozhuang, where are you? Come down and ......"

Just as Zhuang Rui wanted to expand the search area again, the walkie-talkie on the table rang, and Professor Meng's voice came from inside.

"Teacher, I'll go down right away......"

Zhuang Rui agreed, reopened all the pictures in the monitoring room, and he found that several divers had returned to the deck under the sea, disarming their equipment.

This made Zhuang Rui a little surprised, his search time was only a little more than an hour, could it be that these divers had already discovered something?

"Teacher, have you found anything?"

Zhuang Rui came to the deck, a group of people were playing video in front of the temporary monitor, and when they saw Zhuang Rui, the deputy commander-in-chief, arrived, everyone made a way.

"Xiaozhuang, come and see ......"

Professor Meng beckoned to Zhuang Rui, pointed to the screen on the monitor and said, "It seems that it is unlikely that the wreckage of the Awa Maru can be found manually......

Zhuang Rui looked at the screen when he heard this, and the scene that appeared on the screen made him a little dumbfounded, where is the bottom of the sea? It looks like a garbage dump.

The picture taken under the strong light is very clear, the first thing that is revealed is actually all aquatic plants, Zhuang Rui carefully observed, dare to love this aquatic grass is growing in a fishing net.

In the middle of the fishing nets, there are countless gravel and silt, and the most stunned thing is that there are many disposable lunch boxes mixed in it, and I don't know how these things were swept into the bottom of the sea and into the fishing nets?

In such a situation, it is naturally impossible for divers to find out, so they can only take pictures of the scene on the bottom of the sea and bring it to the ship.

"Old ...... Teacher, this ...... What's going on? How did this seabed come to be like this?"

Zhuang Rui really couldn't understand that in this place not very far from the coastline, the general ebb and flow tide was enough to wash away the garbage, but the facts subverted his cognition.

"This ...... I don't know why......"

Professor Meng was also puzzled, he was an archaeologist, not an expert in the ocean, and could not answer the questions raised by Zhuang Rui.

"Ahem...... Xiao Zhuang, let me explain this problem......"

One of the people standing next to him spoke, Zhuang Rui turned his face and saw that he was Director Wu of the Maritime Safety Bureau, who was the deputy commander of the shipwreck salvage like himself, but others had real power than himself, and he was also a professional, and he was the highest representative of the Ministry of Communications on the ship.

"It's not an open sea here, and usually fishermen here in Fujian fish in this area, so over time, it has become like this......"

After listening to Director Wu's explanation, everyone understood that all of these were caused by **.

Nowadays, fishing is no longer used with small sampans and wooden boats, they are extremely modern fishing boats, and generally go out to sea to fish, there are more than two.

The two fishing boats spread out the two nets at a distance of 100 meters, then proceeded in parallel, and after a certain distance, the nets were pulled out of the water using the ship's hoisting system.

In this way, the huge dragnet can basically catch all the fish in the water, but there are special cases where the water is not deep enough and the net becomes entangled in the reef or wreckage of the shipwreck, in which case the fishing boat has to discard the net.

Year after year, day after day, the nets on the seabed have accumulated many thick layers, which are mixed with the silt, making the environment on the bottom of the sea worse and worse, and even the ebb tide cannot take it away.

As for those disposable lunch boxes, Director Wu's explanation made Zhuang Rui and the others even more speechless, daring to love this thing was in the trawl process, and the crew members on the ship threw it into the sea after eating.

"Ahem, Director Wu, you should pay attention to the publicity for the protection of the marine environment......"

Professor Meng didn't expect that the culprits who obstructed the salvage were actually these fishermen along the coast, and he couldn't help but complain a few words to the leader of the Maritime Safety Bureau in front of him.

After hearing Professor Meng's question, Director Wu smiled bitterly and said, "Cough, Professor Meng, where do we not pay attention to, but ...... It's too difficult to supervise, and now that the ban has begun, maybe it can get better......"

"It's still the quality of the Chinese people......"

Professor Meng shook his head, looked at Zhuang Rui, and said, "Xiao Zhuang, do you have any other way?"

Zhuang Rui was stunned when he heard this, scratched his head, and said: "Teacher, in fact, it doesn't matter if there is a fishing net covering it, this metal detector can detect a depth of seven or eight meters, if there is really a wreckage, it can still be found......"

The metal detector Zhuang Rui mentioned was just taken off by the divers, which is a diving metal detector specially used for marine salvage, which was first used on the battlefield, to put it bluntly, it was used to dig mines.

Later, metal detectors were used in battlefield archaeology, where most of the exhibits were metal, such as musket warheads, cartridges, bullets, cannons and shells, grenades and swords, depending on the historical period in which the battle took place.

Therefore, the most important tool for war archaeologists was a simple metal detector, which became a "weapon" for tomb robbers in the decades that followed.