Chapter 167: Return
To the north of Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands, the map shows that there are no other islands.
This area is also known as the uninhabited sea.
There are no islands, and there are no ships in these waters.
Sea and sky.
Mo Fan climbed to the top of the yacht and seemed to be able to see the end of the sky.
The wind was very strong, standing at the highest point of the yacht, the wind was whistling in my ears. The sea was undulating, and the yacht's powerful power tore through the sea, splashing four or five meters high.
The telekinesis is extended, and it can even detect the bottom of the sea at a depth of 3,000 meters. The bottom of the sea is a large plain, with the occasional sight of strange fish and deep-sea animals......
Professor Zhao and the other old men pulled up the fishing rod again, but unfortunately there were few fish in this area, and there was not a single fish that bit the hook all morning.
Zhao Jiyang and his grandmother were basking in the sun below, not knowing what they were talking about, and laughing from time to time.
The long journey is also less boring.
Mo Fan sat cross-legged on the observation platform, and could feel the yacht shaking slightly, and then calmed his mind and cultivated.
Mo Fan seems to have found the way to cultivate recently, not only self-cultivation, but more importantly, heart cultivation.
The 'aura' in the outside world is so scarce that it can almost be ignored, and cultivation is more important to calm one's mind.
In the Atlantetic era, Xiaobai did not have much contact with the outside world, especially after the death of the captain of the Guangmao, Xiaobai has been in the pyramid. It has no impression of the civilization of the Mu continent. But it is certain that in the time of Atlantis, there were many, many islands in the Pacific Ocean, the largest of which was more than 100,000 square kilometers, and now, these islands have disappeared by almost 90%.
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The birth and disappearance of islands actually did not take too long.
For example, in the Laptiv Sea in northern Siberia, there used to be an island 14 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide, which was home to sparse hardy plants and some migratory birds. Due to the island's cold climate, the expedition left the island after completing its measurements and plotting it on a map. When I returned a few years later, the island mysteriously disappeared.
For example, in 1831 in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily, an island was formed by a volcanic eruption. The birth of the new island attracted the attention of the surrounding countries, and each country declared that it would be their own territory, but while diplomats were fighting over the island, the island had already sunk into the sea......
In modern times, there are many islands that have disappeared or are disappearing due to climate change.
Speaking of the disappearance of the islands, I have to say that the Chobavo people in the Tuamotu archipelago. They live on a small island in the middle of the Akalati Atoll, which was submerged more than a decade ago, or should I say sunk. The island is a coral island that is still sinking to a depth of about 1 meter above the surface.
The Chobawo are a sparsely populated tribe of more than a hundred people in the village, who have only the possession of the sunken islands in the Tuamo Islands. When the island sank and the Chobawo tribe was prevented from moving to the atoll, they built houses on the sunken coral island......
The Chobawa almost became the same tribe as the Haibayao people in Malaysia, who have no nationality and no land ownership, and have called the sea their home for generations, and their houses have been built on the sea. The Chobawo tribe almost became such a tribe, and later the Tahitian government intervened to solve the problem, but there were still people who stayed in the same place and did not set foot on land for more than ten years.
Mo Fan couldn't calm down after all, and his mind was full of thoughts.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Jiyang climbed up and stretched out his finger to poke Mo Fan.
"Think about things. Mo Fan gave up his position and held Zhao Jiyang in his arms.
"Is Blackstone Island important?"
"It doesn't matter. ”
"Then why are you sad? ”
Mo Fan smiled, too, Black Rock Island is not important to him, why are he frowning and crying.
In the evening, the yacht passed by Ducey Island, an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands, which was the last place the professor's team would visit.
Mo Fan didn't want to go to the island, but he couldn't resist Zhao Jiyang, so he landed on the island on a small yacht together.
The island is not big, but the scenery is good, but it is an uninhabited desert island with too many sharp things on the beach, especially the coastline near the lagoon.
There are a lot of crabs on the island, they are not big, but they are edible. Caught some crabs and returned to the yacht to steam and eat......
After staying here for two days, the Xinghai returned directly to Tahiti, the waters of the Southern Islands, and carefully searched along the sea area where the accident occurred in Maloya, a radius of thousands of miles, and the islands marked on the map were searched again, and nothing was found. But find a couple of very interesting places......
The pinnacle of an undersea mountain range.
There are several peaks that are less than 100 meters above the sea, which can be seen from the radar footage of the yacht's cockpit.
But only Mo Fan knew that the rocky soil layer under the coral still had tree roots that had not completely decayed. This shows that hundreds of thousands of years ago, this mountain peak was still exposed to the sea.
The boring search work at sea, not to mention Mo Fan, but several professors and the crew of the ship, all felt depressed and depressed.
It has been more than a month since the Xinghai came out, with a total range of 11,200 kilometers, or more than 6,000 nautical miles. The rest of the fuel could not be returned to Tahiti, so it had to go to the Southern Isles.
It is now almost certain that if Blackrock Island does exist, it should be in the Muluroa Atoll. France has conducted nearly 200 nuclear tests in two atolls, Moolooa Atoll and Fangataufa Atoll.
These two atolls are uninhabited, and they are still military restricted areas, so it is definitely not possible to take the Xinghai to go there. And when it comes to the military restricted area, Mo Fan doesn't want to participate, so he leaves it to the professors to figure out how to do it themselves......
The yacht drove into the harbor, and Geeyang's father stood on the shore. Li Zhifeng was on the side, watching the yacht slowly sail by: "Which company's cruise ship is this?"
"A private yacht. Geeyang's father looked at the blue sky.
"Damn, private yacht? ”
Geeyang's father smiled and jumped onto a speedboat on the dock, and Li Zhifeng followed: "Go over and take a look, I've never seen such a big yacht in my life." ”
The southern port is not big, and the 225-meter yacht still can't dock, so it can only anchor in the harbor and wait for the refueling ship to come. With a fuel capacity of 1.8 million liters, it takes one day and one night to refuel the ship's facilities.
"Boss, are you going to Antarctica next?" James said with a smile as he handed over the quotation for the refueling ship.
It needs to be filled up with 1,500 tons of fuel oil and all kinds of messy auxiliary oil, with a total price of 1.67 million US dollars.
Zhao Jiyang secretly glanced at the bill, puffed out his face and did not speak.
"Leave it to Matt, they set their own routes, and they pay for the fuel themselves. "Mo Fan is very painful, this time he came out to run too many wrongful roads, and as a result, he didn't gain anything but made a lot of confusion.
James' face was full of sadness, and Matt taught the old guy the notorious miser: "Boss, I suggest postponing the trip to the South Pole and selling the tickets for the VIP and ordinary cabins before going to the South Pole." The yacht Xinghai is too expensive. ”
"Okay, you and Hudson are in charge of this, let Kane help. ”