Chapter 1052: Gold!
Huo Sining used the eye of the sky to conduct a carpet search of the cargo hold, and searched the third cargo hold, which was also the last one near the stern, and as soon as she pushed the door in, she saw dozens of large cargo boxes in this cargo hold, either tilted or stacked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
These boxes were locked, but these boxes were rotten, Huo Sining just reached out and grabbed it at random, and peeled off one of the corners of the container, revealing a golden color from the inside of the container.
Gold!
Huo Sining's eyes suddenly lit up, knowing that she had found a place, it seemed that she ran so far with Fujiwara Qingpu this time, she should not return empty-handed.
She quickly opened the cargo box, and there were hundreds of gold bars neatly placed inside, and those gold bars were also engraved with traditional Chinese characters and patterns, and at a glance, she knew that these gold bars were probably looted from China.
Huo Sining picked up one of the gold bars and checked it, so that a gold bar was about 3 kilograms.
Huo Sining estimated that the weight of each of these gold bars should be three. 125 kilograms, because the engraving and patterns of these gold can be seen before the Republic of China, the weight unit used before the Republic of China is the catty, this catty is different from the modern catty, the ancient catty is sixteen taels, and one tael of gold is equivalent to 31 now. 25 grams.
When the ancients minted gold, the largest unit of denomination was the ingot, and one ingot of gold was equivalent to 100 taels, that is, 3. 125 kilograms, so Huo Sining guessed that although these gold bars in her hand were not minted in the form of gold ingots, the weight should be equal to the weight of a gold ingot.
Huo Sining roughly estimated that there were about 300 in this box, and such a box of gold weighed almost a ton. And there are dozens of cargo boxes in this hold, which means that this gold, as rumored to be, is indeed as much as 40 tons.
With such a heavy amount of gold stored in the aft cargo hold, it's no wonder that when the ship sank, it would be turned upside down into the bottom mud, because the stern was too heavy, and the ship lost its balance, right?
Rao has seen a lot of good things, and when he saw such a golden mountain, Huo Sining was inevitably a little short of breath, his blood was swelling, and the whole person was excited.
But this is not the time to delay, she didn't bother to open each box to check, after deliberately suppressing her excitement, she began to act, quickly put these boxes into the storage space, and looked around the cargo hold, even the gold bars scattered on the ground.
It wasn't until she had swept the entire cargo hold empty that she stopped satisfied, and began to walk out, returning the way she came, and as soon as she poked her head out of the hole where she had entered the hull, she saw that the underwater explorers had made it to the foot of the wreck.
The eight divers approached the wreck and prepared to enter through the hatch.
The structure of the hatch has long been corroded, and they are all big men with high oxen and horses, and it is of course easy to open the rusty hatch, and the hatch is broken with a jack, and the hatch quickly pops open, and then, after gesturing and discussing, several divers decided to send six divers to explore the way first, and the remaining two are outside to watch the wind, waiting for help at any time.
Salvaging the shipwreck seems to be thrilling, but in fact it is not a simple matter, after the shipwreck sinks into the silt, the internal passage of the shipwreck may be damaged, and the hull is metal, even if the entrance to the shipwreck hatch is opened, it may not be so smooth to enter.
In addition, the inside of the wreck is soaked with mud and sand, the water is turbid, and it is overgrown with seaweed, and there may be dangerous fish hidden inside, so it takes a lot of time and effort to explore the whole ship.
Those crew members entered the hull one after another, I don't know why, after seeing those divers enter the wreck, Huo Sining's eyebrows jumped involuntarily, as if he felt some unknown danger, and there was a feeling that those people would not be good if they entered the wreck.
Huo Sining was feeling inexplicable, but he didn't expect that after the crew entered the wreck, but less than four or five minutes later, the two divers who stayed outside seemed to hear something from the walkie-talkie, their expressions became panicked, and they held the underwater communicator and shouted loudly without saying a word, and grabbed the searchlight in their hands to the entrance and began to shoot continuously into the wreck.
I don't know what sound came from the sonar system, the two divers looked a little flustered, the two looked at each other, one of them nodded, and also swam towards the hatch with his toes, and soon entered the wreck, apparently wanting to see the situation, and at the same time preparing to help his companions.
There are also rules for diving and salvage operations, when salvaging and exploring the wreck, there must be a special person outside the hull, and the person who stays behind is called the lookout, if there is no very difficult incident to deal with, the lookout is absolutely not able to leave his post without authorization.
The remaining lookout had been restless outside, occasionally talking into the intercom, but after a few minutes, the diver who had entered the wreck behind him was silent.
The depths of the ocean are mysterious, countless treasures are waiting to be picked up, but at the same time, there are huge dangers hidden in this unknown field, Huo Sining felt a little puzzled, she didn't know what happened in the cabin that those divers entered, but looking at the nervous and panicked appearance of the two divers who stayed outside, she also guessed that these people should have encountered something in the boat.
There was silence under the sea, and the divers seemed to have disappeared, if it weren't for the diver standing outside, Huo Sining would have thought that the scene just now was not her delusion.
Seeing that the diver who entered behind did not come out, Huo Sining couldn't suppress the strong curiosity in his heart, slowly slipped out of the boat, and secretly poked in through the wide open hatch.
Because it was invisible, Huo Sining could be completely silent underwater, and the lookout was restless, eager to report the situation to the people on the shore, and did not notice that another person had entered the cabin.
Huo Sining's figure walked quickly in the boat, and before she had gone far, she smelled a strong smell of blood, which was different from the fishy smell of seawater.
Turning a corner, Huo Sining was shocked by the thrilling scene not far away. (To be continued.) )