The Ranger departed from the port of Portugallet, and immediately after that, lost its trace, which actually attracted people's attention from the beginning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Spanish television made a special report on the whereabouts of the Ranger, but unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of others.

Because now the eyes of people all over the world are focused on Afghanistan, that small landlocked country.

On October 7, the United States demanded that the Taliban surrender **** negotiations, and launched a war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, and at the same time marked the beginning of the world war on terror.

The main countries fighting Afghanistan are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other NATO countries, and Kyrgyzstan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and other countries have provided logistical support to the US military.

After the United States received the support of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, the two sides signed an agreement to jointly overthrow the Taliban regime. At the same time, the US-led multinational force had attack bases in Afghanistan, and war officially broke out.

Today, the eyes of the world are on Afghanistan, how many people are killed every day, how many bombings are carried out, and how many civilian casualties are caused. The state of life in Afghanistan and the revelation of the Taliban's dark rule are the most eye-catching news today.

Although the Ranger went to sea and then disappeared without a trace, this incident attracted the attention of some people, but no one thought that the Ranger would run to the coast of the United Kingdom and quietly search for treasure there.

In particular, Britain, as the most loyal ally of the United States, is now known as an obedient dog of the Bush administration, and all their attention is also focused on troop dispatch and logistical support, and they do not care at all about news about non-economic and non-political dynamics.

The Ranger avoided the popular route, which is also twenty kilometers from the nearest route from Cork in Ireland to Roscoff in France.

Twenty kilometers seems to be a short distance, but in the vast ocean, twenty kilometers means that the arc of the earth has exceeded a critical point, and observing ships twenty kilometers away, even the tallest watchtowers, are hidden below sea level.

If it weren't for the deliberate search using satellites, no one would have been able to spot the Ranger at all.

The salvage in the first week went very smoothly, because the water depth was only one hundred and fifty meters, so when the Royal Merchant sank, it was not crushed by the strong water pressure, which also allowed the Royal Merchant to be preserved intact.

Only a small half of the antiques were scattered around the ship due to the cracked hull, and most of the antiques were still intact in the belly of the ship.

Coupled with the fact that they are covered in thick silt and cut off from the sea and air, the coins have not been corrupted by the sea, leaving most of the coins intact.

The first week of salvage was the fastest, with more than 200,000 silver coins and hundreds of gold and silver antiques recovered in just one week.

Although the wealth on this ship was far inferior to that of the Mercedes, in addition to the silver coins were less than 200,000, the antiques were also more than half. But the Mercedes is a registered battleship in Spain, and the wealth on it also belongs to the Spanish government.

However, all the wealth of the Royal Merchant now belongs to Zhou You's personal own, and if nothing else, more than 400,000 silver coins, nearly 500,000 silver coins, according to the market price, each antique silver coin more than 400 years ago can easily be sold for 1,000 dollars. These more than 400,000 pieces can be sold for more than $400 million.

And then add those gold coins, and a few hundred antiques, and if you sell them all, you can easily sell them for 500 million dollars.

Sanchez: They had become numb to the initial shock of the silver coins, and the daily work of more than 20 of them was to scoop them up from the improvised embalming pool, put them into plastic boxes, vacuum them, and pile them in the warehouse.

Each box contained a thousand silver coins, each weighing about thirty-two grams, and worked like this all day long, and everyone began to lose their excitement about the silver coins in front of them, and they were just ordinary commodities.

Zhou You almost stayed with them, whenever he found gold coins and other antiques, Zhou You would collect them separately, and these gold coins and antiques were worth more than silver coins, because these were not only monetary values, but also historical value and cultural relics value.

Because the water is not deep and there are no undercurrents, the salvage work went much more smoothly than the Mercedes, and nearly half of the antiques of the Royal Merchant were salvaged this week.

But the further you go, the more difficult it is to salvage, because the time to find may be more than the time to salvage. But in any case, it is still very certain to salvage all these antiques in a month's time.

In this week, Liang Hao deliberately let Feng Haijun start his own operation, supervising it on the side. Feng Haijun's performance is also quite stable, he knows that he is operating a robot worth tens of millions, so he is very cautious and very attentive to learning.

After a week, he was already able to operate alone, except for dealing with emergencies, he was still a little rusty, and the normal working procedures had almost been mastered.

The two robots work non-stop, plus the various cranes on the Ranger, the detection equipment can also be used at the bottom of the sea at 150 meters, so multiple equipment work at the same time, and the salvage is carried out very quickly.

One hundred and fifty meters of the seabed is not pitch black, only when the water depth exceeds 500 meters, the bottom of the sea is completely dark, completely dependent on the light on the tools.

However, in this dim ocean floor, if there is no light, you still can't see anything. So, in recent times, the biggest consumption on board is this high-power bulb.

However, this kind of thing has been prepared for a long time, and when I got on the ship, I bought hundreds of these light bulbs, which were enough for salvage use.

But the good times did not last long, on October 27th, the weather forecast typhoon came as scheduled, although the Ranger was extremely strong, but did not dare to fight against the typhoon, in front of nature, human beings are still too small.

The Ranger can withstand a typhoon of magnitude 10, but in the face of a typhoon of magnitude 12 or more at the center of the storm, even an oil tanker of hundreds of thousands of tons cannot resist hard. Therefore, the ship's external communication signal is turned on, and the typhoon forecast is received at any time, and the center point of the typhoon is evaded.

Since the typhoon was from east to west, the storm formed in the southern seas of Britain and France, and then moved to the central Atlantic, so it did not pose a threat to the mainland.

After receiving the satellite image, the Ranger avoided the center of the storm and headed south. However, for the sake of secrecy, the Ranger did not go to France to escape the storm, but stayed on the high seas fifty kilometers away from France.

In this area, the Ranger also encountered several freighters preparing to escape the storm, but the special appearance of the Ranger made people think that the Ranger was a French warship, and did not think that it was a civilian salvage ship.

Sheltering from the storm, almost all the crew members stayed in their rooms, and work on the ship almost came to a standstill.

Whenever a freighter passed by, Fernandez hoped that there would be a communication signal on the other side's ship, but in the end he was disappointed. Nowadays, there are not many freighters that will be equipped with satellite receiving systems on board, and one or two satellite phones can be enough to meet the needs of the ship.

Looking at the mobile phone like a waste, he only felt anxious.

During the two days of the voyage, he already knew from the ship's communications that he was now on the high seas between England and France, although it was a little far from Spain, but he did not think that his news was useless, as long as the Spanish side grasped the whereabouts of the Ranger and intercepted the antiques on the ship, he did not believe that Zhou You would dare to oppose a country, and he could also get a part of the huge wealth on the Ranger.

However, he had no channels to communicate with the outside world, the ship's communication equipment had been turned off, and the two satellite phones were all on Zhou You's body, and no one could contact the outside world except him.

He didn't know that because Zhou You turned on the jammer, even a satellite phone could only be used during the time when the jammer was turned off, and if the jammer was not turned off, even a satellite phone could not be used.

After two days of waiting 50 kilometers from Brest, the easternmost part of France, the storm moved to the middle of the Atlantic, and the Ranger returned to its original coordinates to continue the original salvage work.

Although the sea is still stormy and windy, because the Ranger has an indoor operation room, the wind and rain will not affect the normal salvage work in the slightest.

Fernández returned to his old job, wearing sheepskin gloves and packing the silver coins in good condition.

The weight of this kind of plastic box is the same, and the weight of the silver coin is about the same, so a stack of twenty, a box of fifty stacks, and after the box is loaded, it will be weighed on a precision electronic scale to ensure that each box is filled with 1,000 pieces.

This procedural work only requires monitoring the source to ensure that no one can steal a single silver coin.

Although other countries did not care about the disappearance of the Ranger, in Singapore, it caused a strong reaction, but these reactions were gathered at the top, and others did not know about it.

First of all, Temasek's cooperation negotiations with Sands Group have ended, and they are just waiting for it to be signed, at this time, Zhou You needs to come forward, but Zhou You did not come forward, but only asked Yan Fangqing to sign the investment agreement on his behalf, and transferred $500 million in cash directly to Adelson's private account, and completed the control of 9% of the shares of Sands Group with a Singapore-registered company that Zhou You fully controlled.

At the same time, Temasek also made an offshore company under their name the second largest shareholder of Sands Corp. at a cost of US$2 billion, owning 30 percent of the shares.

So far, in addition to the management and 10 percent of the dark shares, Temasek and Zhou You control a total of 39 percent of the shares, and Adelson still owns 51 percent of the shares of the Sands Group.

Another investment has also been put on hold due to Zhou You's absence, that is, Zhou You's investment in the UFC.

The Fertitta brothers acquired the rights to organize the UFC for $2 million, and in less than a year, Zhou You invested 20 million, but only accounted for 20 percent of the shares. From this point of view, Zhou Yu seems to have suffered a loss, and the Fertitta brothers seem to have taken advantage of it.

But the UFC company, in the hands of the Fertitta brothers, turned into a four-billion-dollar event in later generations, with annual profits of hundreds of millions of dollars.

With the help of Demosa, Yan Fangqing also took the opportunity to go to Las Vegas to sign a contract with Sands Group, and signed a contract with the Fertitta brothers on behalf of Zhou You.

Although Zhou You did not show up, but this time Yan Fangqing signed a contract on his behalf, which was quite good, at least when facing anyone, Yan Fangqing maintained a very graceful demeanor and did not lose Zhou You's face.

Paris, the little girl, heard that Yan Fangqing had arrived in the United States, so she couldn't help but sneak over to take a look. Although she has seen Yan Fangqing many times in the newspaper and on TV, she has never seen Yan Fangqing with her own eyes.

However, she appeared with great fanfare, wanting to take a sneak look, but she never thought about how she kept a low profile, and it turned out to be the first meeting between two women.

When they first met, Paris actually looked down on Yan Fangqing, in terms of appearance, she didn't say that she was compared to Gracia, and even she was more beautiful than her. Looking at Yan Fangqing's figure, Paris has to admit that Yan Fangqing's figure is similar to herself, because she likes tall and slender women when she travels, and she and Gracia, including Yan Fangqing, are all of this size.

Because Yan Fangqing gave birth to a child, she has become a little plumper than her and Gracia, but her long legs are still so thin, and her small buttocks are also exciting.

Yan Fangqing also recognized Paris, although this woman was meeting for the first time, but from the news, she already knew that there was a woman by Zhou You's side.

It's just that Yan Fangqing has always restrained herself from thinking about their relationship, and wants to occupy a good position in the competition with them.

She now has Long Long, and no matter what, Long Long will be the eldest son. And the promise of traveling around also puts her in the most important position, so Yan Fangqing faces Paris, although she knows that she is a famous socialite in the United States, but she still has a certain psychological advantage.

Yes, even if Zhou You joins ******, even if he has several women in the future, he is the most important one.

So, seeing Paris appear in front of her, she just panicked for a moment, then took Long Long from the nanny's arms, and said to Demosa, "Go ahead, call Miss Hilton over and talk." ”

Demosa was well aware of the relationship between Zhou You and several women, and now that Zhou You was away, he only hesitated for a moment, and then walked towards Paris on the other side of the hall.

(To be continued.) )