Chapter 630: Hercules

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After cutting off contact, Wang Zheng stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the night sky around him, which had completely darkened, and stood quietly for a while. After knowing that he had straightened out all the thoughts in his head, he let out a long sigh.

The growth of wealth and power was certainly a pleasant thing, but the troubles and problems that accompanied it also made him deeply distressed. In contrast, the carefree days when I was still in college are more nostalgic.

"Boss, dinner is ready for you!" Wang Qian walked over and said respectfully.

"Got it!"

Shaking his head, he pushed the extra thoughts out of his mind, and turned and walked towards the cabin.

After eating the bluefin tuna he caught, Wang Zheng looked at the time.

"Let's get started!"

Wang Qian nodded, picked up the wireless walkie-talkie in his hand, "Let's start!"

At the same time as his words fell, Wang Zheng saw a layer of light blue light curtain spread out from the cabin in an instant, and in less than a second, the entire 'Taoyuan' with an output of nearly 20,000 tons was enveloped.

Wang Zheng, who was already accustomed to the working state of the 'situational occlusion', only glanced twice, and then turned his gaze to the western sky. At this time, in the outside world, a giant salvage ship that was originally floating on the sea surface disappeared out of thin air. If it weren't for the faint sound of turbines stirring the waves, I'm afraid no one would have thought that there was a huge ship with a displacement of 20,000 tons hidden here.

"Slow it down. We still have time to get there before dawn!" Wang Zheng said.

Although the night gives the 'Taoyuan' a good cover, it is not far from the busy Strait of Gibraltar. As a strategic passage between Europe, Asia and Africa, dozens of passenger and cargo ships pass by here every day, and it is inevitable that these guys will bump into the Taoyuan that has hidden its figure, of course, in order to avoid being detected by them, Wang Zheng still feels that it is better to be careful.

Captain Cyborg obeyed Wang Zheng's order and reduced the speed of the Taoyuan to 5 knots. Except in the era of sailing before the invention of the steam engine, there were hardly any ships so slow at sea.

However, even so, the Taoyuan, which was not very far away, arrived at its destination at half past three in the morning.

"Boss, do you want to do it now?" Wang Gan said.

Looking at the faint lights coming from the autonomous city of Ceuta, the African territory of Spain, and Gibraltar, which was under the control of the British, Wang Zheng nodded.

"Let's go, go over and have a look!"

With Wang Gan and a few people, he walked to the 'Hercules' deep-sea salvage device placed in the center of the Taoyuan, and looked at this silver-white giant machine controlled by the artificial intelligence mastermind, just like Doctor Octopus in the Hollywood movie "Spider-Man", with a length of nearly 150 meters, a diameter of 80 centimeters, an extreme telescopic capacity of 5,000 meters, and a total weight of more than 500,000 tons. Wang Zheng felt shocked in his heart, but also full of confidence in success.

"Let's get started!"

After receiving the order, the cyborg nodded respectfully to Wang Zheng, walked to the virtual display screen of the 'Hercules' deep-sea salvage device, and cooperated with the artificial intelligence mastermind above to manipulate it.

Then Wang Zheng saw that the 'Hercules' salvage device, which was originally in the center of the hull, was coiled into a silver-white cylinder with a diameter of 20 meters and a height of 10 meters, and quickly decomposed. In just five seconds, in addition to the silver-white cylindrical base with a diameter of 5 meters in the middle and a height of 2 meters, eight silver-white steel tentacles like giant pythons pierced the night sky. Immediately afterward, all the steel tentacles fell nimbly, six of them submerged from the port side of the Taoyuan, and the remaining two plunged into the water from the starboard side.

Through the enlarged virtual display, Wang Zheng can clearly observe the cameras on the eight steel tentacles, and Wang Zheng can clearly see the state in the water.

After the 150-meter steel tentacles were used up, a relatively narrow tentacle was quickly pulled out of them, similar to a crane boom pulling out a section.

In just a dozen seconds, Wang Zheng saw the situation at the bottom of the sea. Although it is night, the seabed at a depth of several hundred meters is almost invisible. However, the camera equipment on the 'Hercules' deep-sea salvage device is a high-tech from the super civilization of the universe, and at this time, Wang Zheng can see the underwater situation from the virtual display screen more clearly than sitting in the cinema and watching those 3DMIX Hollywood blockbusters.

"Why didn't you see the ship?" Wang Zheng frowned.

"Boss, for hundreds of years, the shipwreck has long been flooded with sediment and the excrement of various marine fish. If you want to see it, you need to clean it up!"

As if to confirm Qian Hai's words, after he spoke, the heads of the eight mechanical arms located in the deep sea suddenly bloomed twelve three-meter-long 'petals' like open flowers!

Then Wang Zheng saw these 'petals', which quickly rotated, and the huge kinetic energy generated by them stirred up the entire seabed. The rising mud and sand quickly filled Wang Zheng's sight.

However, after the cyborg man who manipulated the 'Hercules' quickly switched the video mode, Wang Zheng found that all the sediment in front of the huge virtual display had disappeared, and he only saw that as the sediment disappeared little by little, the originally empty seabed slowly sunken.

First two straight masts, then the aft deck, and soon the wreckage of a wreck slowly emerged from the mud and sand.

Perhaps because it sank too quickly, or for other reasons, Wang Zheng found that the whole ship was very well preserved. Except for the broken mast in the middle, the rest is largely intact.

"This is the Sussex?"

"Yes, young master!"

Wang Zheng nodded, and after looking at it expectantly, he suddenly found that after the 'Sussex' appeared, the action of the eight robotic arms to clean up the sea sand and dirt did not stop.

Facing Wang Zheng's questioning eyes, Qian Hai hurriedly explained: "Young Master, in addition to the 'Sussex', we have also found other shipwrecks near here. ”

Wang Zheng suddenly said, "Don't waste too much time, our main purpose is the 'Sussex'." ”

"Yes!"

As it turned out, Wang Zheng's worries were unfounded. The efficiency of the 'Hercules' deep-sea salvage machine is incomparable, and in just one minute, with the 'Sussex' as the center, the figures of the 12 shipwrecks around him appeared in his eyes through the huge virtual display.

"Could it be that this is the escort of the 'Sussex' and the twelve warships that are silent?" Looking at the cannon barrels on the wreckage, Wang Zheng had a guess in his heart.

Although there is no more evidence, Wang Zheng believes that most of his guesses are not far from ten.

After clearing all the wrecks out, the eight robotic arms began to perform a full-body scan of them. After measuring the structural stability of the vessels, eight robotic arms drilled into the cabins and began to clean up the sediment and feces left behind by the marine life. Try to reduce the total weight of these wrecks so that they can be salvaged to avoid breakage as much as possible.

Cleaning up debris is undoubtedly delicate work. Even with the high-tech level of Hercules, it will inevitably take a lot of time.

"Boss, why don't you go and rest first, I'm afraid there will be no way to salvage it in a short time. Qian Hai said.

"How long does it take to clean up a wreck like this?"

"Look at the damage to the ship and the size of the interior space, as well as the length of time the ship has been wrecked. It takes different times to clean up in different situations. But generally speaking, it takes about 20 minutes for a shipwreck between 100~500 tons, and about 40 minutes for a 500~1200 ton shipwreck. ”

Wang Zheng nodded, "So if you wait for the thirteen shipwrecks to be cleaned up, it's already dawn?"

"Yes!"

In this case, Wang Zheng did not stubbornly stay here.

"I'll go to sleep first, and remember to let me know when I'm done cleaning up. ”

"Yes!"

Qian Hai nodded respectfully.

By the time Wang Zheng returned to this place again, it was already 9 o'clock in the morning. With the help of the 'Pretender' scenario mask, no one has spotted the 'Taoyuan' anchored here, even though it is in a busy international shipping lane, no more than 100 nautical miles from the strategic Strait of Gibraltar.

"Young master, it's done!" Qian Haidao.

Wang Zheng, who was staring at the virtual display screen with a size of twenty square meters, nodded clearly. In the clear picture provided by the Hercules deep-sea salvage, the thirteen warships were more like one warship than when they were first cleaned out of the mud, without corals, sediment, and foul calcifications.

"You can start salvage, right?"

"That's it!" said Qian Haidao.

"Let's get started, and after the salvage is completed, we should leave early. ”

Although there is a 'pretender' scenario mask, Wang Zheng is unwilling to stay for a long time in the end.

Qian Hai, who nodded, began to direct the scene, and soon Wang Zheng saw that two of the eight mechanical arms of the 'Hercules' deep-sea salvage device were deeply inserted into the seabed, forming a stable triangle with the main body of the ship, and after being fixed. The remaining six mechanical arms, in pairs of two, like octopuses, wrapped around the ends of a sunken ship, slowly pulling them up towards the surface.

Considering that the change in sea pressure would cause damage to the wreck, this salvage process did not dare to be too fast. It took nearly 10 minutes for the three wrecks to finally come out of the water.

Looking at the three ancient warships that had sunk for nearly three hundred years that were exposed to the sea and emitted a black light under the morning sun, Wang Zheng's mood was excited at this time. This feeling is as if the dealer who has worked hard for a year has finally ushered in a rich harvest, and the joy is overflowing.

When the 'Hercules' deep-sea salvage device put the three warships into the specially prepared cabin on the 'Taoyuan' in turn, the cyborgs who had been waiting for the shipwreck repair immediately surrounded it. After a simple cleaning of the hull, Wang Zheng was sprayed with the 'art restoration agent' he received from the Shennong system.

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