After returning from the city, Fang Jing was busy preparing to go to sea.

The tugboat he bought was relatively large, and there was a complete set of tools and instruments for surveying the wreck on board, Fang Jing himself must operate it in the studio as an instrument to detect the location of the wreck, it was impossible to let Cen Jiu drive the boat day and night for so many days, so he recruited a skilled driver, if he had more money at hand in the future, Fang Jing also planned to recruit a few special surveyors, so that he could have more time to do other things.

The newly recruited crew member is called Xiao Ze, Zhang Yue's fellow countryman, he is very tall and sturdy, with tendons and flesh, he looks a little silent, he used to be a soldier, or the navy, it is said that he was admitted to the non-commissioned officer, and when the future was bright, I don't know why he suddenly retired from the army, Zhang Yue did not explain, and when he heard that Fang Jing wanted to recruit a crew member, he introduced it.

Zhang Yue is Fang Jing's college classmate, and now he is a famous barrister, he followed Zhu Zhi to the fishing village in the summer, and Fang Jing, the person he introduced, was still relatively relieved.

Previously, Fang Jing used that navigation software to detect six similar navigation positions, three of which were in a certain sea area northeast of the sky, two in the South China Sea, and one within a certain range of more than 60 nautical miles southwest of the treasure island.

Fortunately, these positions are all in the Tianchao sea area, and there is no need for crew certificates, and Fang Jing has successively completed the documents such as the four small certificates required for domestic routes, otherwise Cen Jiu would not have been able to get on the ship.

However, Fang Jing planned to let Cen Jiu study after coming back this time, and then get a crew certificate, no one could guarantee whether they would cross the domestic route and land at the ports of other countries when they went to sea in the future.

At this time, it was already November, and the sea area in the northeast was considered to be frozen, which was not conducive to surveying, so Fang Jing decided to survey the two points in the South China Sea first, and if there was no harvest, then go north to the southwest of Baodao, and wait for the sea area in the northeast to go to sea for exploration in the spring of next year. This can be regarded as Fang Jing's first time going to sea in a real sense, in the past, at most, he was hanging around the fishing village, this time he wanted to explore the specific coordinates of the wreck with Cen Jiu, and he didn't know how long he would float at sea, fortunately, the previous owner was doing wreck salvage, and the equipment on the ship was very complete, which saved Fang Jing a lot of things.

But other necessities, such as clothes, food, daily necessities and first-aid medicines, need to be prepared by Fang Jing himself, everything is ready, and the money is used up like flowing water, now Fang Jing only has less than 20,000 cash in his account, if there is no harvest on this trip, it is estimated that they will not even have the money to refuel and return home.

In mid-November, everything was finally ready, Fang Jing chose a sunny day, waved goodbye to Ye Chi who was seeing off Cen Jiu, and embarked on an unknown treasure exploration journey.

There was a roar, and in the tumbling waters, the tugboat started.

Fang Jing stood on the deck at the bow of the boat, watching the peaceful fishing village grow smaller and smaller in his field of vision, and finally only a small dot remained, and an indescribable mood arose in his heart.

The days of going to sea are actually far from being as romantic and beautiful as imagined, very monotonous and boring, the boat is swaying badly, looking around, in addition to the blue sea water or the blue water, you may feel fresh at first, and after a long time, it is simply a kind of mental torture.

Fortunately, Cen Jiu was by his side.

Fang Jing turned his head and glanced at Cen Jiu, who was standing beside him studying the route, and felt a little comforted in his heart.

Xiao Ze is a veteran at a glance, the boat is more stable than Fang Jing, Fang Jing observed for a few days, and was very satisfied with Xiao Ze's boating skills, and Xiao Ze is quiet and steady, after getting on the boat, he only wanders around in his own acre and three points, in addition to driving the boat every day, he goes back to his cabin to sleep when he replaces, and never asks about other things, and Fang Jing's workshop is not even interested in glancing.

The three of them worked in shifts, and finally didn't want Fang Jing to stare at it all day long, and they could free up their hands to do something else, Fang Jing suddenly felt that this fellow villager introduced by Zhang Yue really couldn't be more intimate.

Xiao Ze drove the boat in the wheelhouse, and Fang Jing and Cen Jiu seized the time to rest, recuperate, and prepare to do a big job when the time came.

didn't arrive at the survey site, except for the boat, in fact, there was not much to do, except for the occasional large fishing group, he would cast two nets to catch some fish, and the rest of the time was basically more leisurely, Fang Jing spent most of his time in addition to resting, he was tinkering with the pile of survey instruments.

There was a knock on the door twice, Fang Jing raised his wrist to look at the time, wiped his face and walked out.

Xiao Ze stood at the door, he was very tall, even a little taller than Cen Jiu, when Fang Jing stood with him, he inexplicably had a feeling of being a dwarf.

"Ah, it's a shift." Fang Jing smiled at Xiao Ze and said, "Thank you for your hard work, take a good rest." ”

Cen Jiu was studying the nautical chart in the wheelhouse, obviously he drove a boat with him in the middle of the night last night, and got up early in the morning to help Xiao Ze, and at this time he was still in good spirits, he was simply not human.

"Go to sleep for a while, and I'll call you then."

"I'm not tired." Cen Jiu shook his head, insisting on refusing to go to rest first.

Fang Jing knew that he was afraid that he would be bored alone, so he said it twice, and Cen Jiu didn't listen. Long nights, no intention of sleeping, and having someone by your side is better than a person.

"I'll be in that shipwreck area tomorrow." Cen Jiu took the nautical chart and compared it for a while, and asked, "What instruments can be used to survey the location of the shipwreck?" ”

"Well, use a sonar detector, connect to a computer, scan the topography of the seabed, if the sound wave hits a shipwreck or other west, the information reflected back is different, and you can judge what kind of terrain and something is on the bottom of the sea according to this general situation." Fang Jing explained to him the methods of modern surveying and the functions of sonar, and Cen Jiu's face was full of surprise.

"You're really smart." After a long time, Cen Jiu sincerely admired.

"No, no, no, it's all the work of scientists." Fang Jing said humbly, "Modern society is very convenient, everyone performs their duties, does what they are good at, smart people do research, and make a lot of opportunities to facilitate people's lives; Beautiful artists sing and dance to entertain everyone and make everyone's life more colorful. But most people are like me, ordinary people who are not very smart and not very beautiful, and do what they can to support themselves, this is life. ”

"You're smart and drifting...... Handsome. Cen Jiu said.

Fang Jing smiled at him: "Okay, I don't know what kind of person I am." ”

"No, you know a lot." Cen Jiu said stubbornly, "It's just very smart and beautiful." ”

In his eyes, there is probably no one who is better, smarter and more beautiful than Fang Jing, and everywhere is the best.

Fang Jing snorted, turned his head and smiled at Cen Jiu: "I know, there is Xi Shi in the eyes of the lover, oh, no, out of Pan An." ”

The tugboat has been sailing at sea for nearly half a month, searching the two possible sunken areas in the South China Sea, but it has found something, but it is just two modern ordinary civilian shipwrecks, which have no salvage value.

Seeing that the diesel fuel was only enough for the tugboat to sail for ten days, Fang Jing decided to search around for another day, if there was still nothing found, he would turn to the side of the treasure island, and then the fuel on the ship would probably run out, and there was no water gas station nearby, if they didn't dock in advance, they would only be floating on the sea.

When Fang Jing was about to let Xiao Ze set sail for the next survey site, the sonar that was detecting the topography of the seabed suddenly reported different information, showing that there was something unusual on the bottom of the sea, just two hundred meters in front of the tugboat, there was a strange protrusion about three meters long on the seabed, and it showed that there was scattered metal on the bottom of the water.

He hurriedly asked Xiao Ze to stop the ship, planning to change into a diving suit and go down to investigate, but because he had previous experience in exploring two ordinary civilian shipwrecks, Fang Jing didn't have much hope this time.

Because there was an extra person on board this time, Cen Jiu also changed into a diving suit, and he must dive with Fang Jing.

Fang Jing couldn't resist him, so he had to agree.

After the two jumped into the water, they swam towards the front of the boat, the diving equipment can only continue to supply oxygen, but the pressure effect on the sea water is not so great, after diving for more than ten meters, Fang Jing summoned the water bubble, because it is underwater, the summoned water bubble and the sea are integrated, and there is no difference with the naked eye.

Fang Jing tried to shroud Cen Jiu in a bubble, Cen Jiu seemed to feel something, turned his head to look, found nothing, and Fang Jing then swam forward.

Swam forward for nearly three hundred meters, and found no trace of the shipwreck, there were marine debris floating around, and occasionally fish swam around, Fang Jing was a little disappointed, and then swam forward for a hundred meters, still found nothing, Fang Jing was about to give up when he suddenly aimed not far ahead, and there seemed to be a flash of silver light.

The underwater visibility is low, and Fang Jing can see normally underwater because of the golden finger with water bubbles, but this is at the bottom of the sea hundreds of meters deep, how can there be silver light?

The light was fluttering, one moment east and one time west, as if it was alive, and it didn't look like the scale light on the fish.

Cen Jiu raised his arm and touched Fang Jing lightly, pointing ahead, obviously he also saw the silver light.

Fang Jing nodded at him, and the two of them swam along the place where the silver light flickered, the more the silver light flickered forward, the bigger it became, moving left and right, left and right, this was really weird.

Cen Jiu suddenly stopped Fang Jing and stopped in place vigilantly.

Fang Jing wanted to ask him what was wrong, but he couldn't make a sound underwater, so he could only make messy gestures, and he didn't know if Cen Jiu understood it.

Cen Jiu shook his head, very cautiously blocking Fang Jing behind him, and the two swam forward for a long time, the light and shadow became clearer and clearer, until Fang Jing finally saw what it was, and suddenly opened his mouth in surprise, a little unable to believe his eyes.