Chapter 196: 430 Jewel Chests

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"It's so beautiful, look there, the water is so blue, I can't help but want to jump down and swim around. Looking at the island, it originally felt like it was not small on the island, but how could it not be seen on the boat? Xinyu stood on the yacht, looked at the Maldives Islands in the distance and asked Wang Chao

Although they were going to salvage at night, they couldn't really sleep on the yacht during the day, so they simply sat on the terrace on the top floor of the yacht, drinking coffee and looking into the distance.

Wick was also very sensible, and knew that his boss was on vacation, so he drove the yacht very slowly, and even stopped altogether, and a few of his own people hid in the cabin drinking whiskey.

It is worthy of being a paradise for vacation and leisure, the Maldives archipelago is scattered like pearls in the Indian Ocean, here is not so much the Indian Ocean, it is better to say that it is a shallow sea, the bottom of the sea is densely covered with reefs, so it can generally only be a yacht and other ships to stay here, other large cargo ships, ships pulling crude oil, do not dare to come here at all, so as not to run aground, and there are few hurricanes and typhoons here all year round, it is simply a natural haven given by God to the Maldivians.

Although this yacht is not the largest, but in terms of yachting, it is not small, Wang Chao remembers reading the previous report, there are very few yachts over 100 meters in the world, and his own is also considered to be among the superyachts, so such a huge yacht, only two people here, is indeed a bit of luxury.

After watching the sunset on the yacht, the yacht slowly sailed towards the island, because Wang Chao bought it from this island, so Blake applied for a special dock for him, as long as the yacht stayed here for a day, this dock would only belong to him.

On this day, Wang Chao made an excuse and learned to drive a yacht with Wick, which he quickly mastered with his talent, and when he entered the dock, Wang Chao was at the helm himself - nothing else, mainly to prepare for the salvage at night, otherwise he would not even be able to drive the boat. How do you go about salvage.

Wick and the others had their own homes on the island, so after parking, they also went home, Wang Chao and Xinyu returned to the hotel, had dinner, rested in the room until ten midnight, and the two quietly left the hotel and came to the dock.

At night, with the stars in the sky, the yacht – in fact, it would be more appropriate to call a luxury cruise ship – looks even more majestic, and the marina at this time has only one administrator who is drowsy. Seeing them coming over, I hurriedly stepped forward to ask, I heard that I was going to go to the sea at night to enjoy the stars, and I was not too surprised, I guess I saw more of the quirks of rich businessmen, and I saw that there was a beautiful woman following, who looked at Wang Chao with "understanding" eyes.

Wang Chao simply took out a stack of dollars from his pocket and handed it to me, telling him not to spread the news that the two of them would go to sea at night, and the administrator was even more convinced of his judgment. Therefore, after Wang Chao and the two of them got on the boat, he took the initiative to untie the cable and wished them a happy time.

Driving the cruise ship slowly out of the dock, it was not long before we reached the location of the trench. Even in the middle of the night, the water here is very different from the water next to it, and it is even deeper.

Park the yacht and anchor it, so that Xinyu is familiar with the use of the crane. After that, Wang Chao stripped naked and pierced his head.

When he was about to go down, Xinyu asked him if he wanted to bring an underwater thruster and a diving oxygen cylinder, and Wang Chao shook his head. Those things are actually not of much help to the current Wang Chao, and the reason why he is prepared is to prepare for Xinyu as a precautionary measure.

The sea water was still not very cold, Wang Chao quickly sank to the place where the log pillar was first found, and then used the net pocket he carried with him - it is said that it is a net bag, which is actually a special fishing net used by fishermen to catch sharks, which can withstand huge tension and impact, which is for the time and process of provincial binding.

After holding it, Wang Chao quickly returned to the water, commanded Xinyu to put down the wire rope on the crane, hung the rope, and under the slow force of the crane, the log slowly left the bottom of the sea and rose in the sea water.

Then Wang Chao went into the water again, and the other log was held again, and the first log had been lifted by the crane to the cruise ship, temporarily parked on the deck, and then launched again for the second lifting.......

Then several other log columns were hoisted onto the cruise ship, and after looking at the table below, it was already half past two in the morning, which was already very efficient for the two of them who had never done this work before.

Wang Chao then got on board and moved the columns to the yacht's cargo hold - you know, you can't always put them on deck.

Xinyu was originally going to come to help move, but she worked hard, and she didn't even move one end, so she couldn't help but smack her tongue secretly.

Looking at Wang Chao again, he easily picked one up and carried it on his shoulder, turned around and put it into the cargo hold

After resting a little, seeing that the time was already three o'clock in the morning, Wang Chao went into the water again, this time with an underwater excavator.

The so-called underwater excavator, different from the land, is the following is a work, propeller-like thing, connected to a long pipe on the water surface, which is placed in the wire, and the motor of the cruise ship drives the propeller to rotate, so as to clean up the sediment on the seabed to the side, which is called the underwater excavator.

Coming to the largest shipwreck, because the sea sand was too deep, the excavator was asked to drive the power to the maximum at the beginning, turning the sediment on the bottom of the sea upside down, Wang Chao had to hide far away, relying on his own perspective and watching the progress.

It took about an hour, the sediment was gradually cleared out, the shipwreck on the bottom of the sea had an outline, looked at the table below, the sky was about to brighten, I had to put away the underwater excavator back to the cruise ship, clean the deck a little, and then drive the cruise ship back to the dock, at this time the red sun rose in the east, and people on the beach had come out one after another.

The two of them returned to the hotel for breakfast, Xinyu was already sleepy and wanted to make up for sleep, Wang Chao didn't care, let her sleep by herself, and strolled to the dock by herself.

Wang Chao also got on the cruise ship, thought about it and said to Wick, "Wick, I won't leave in the past few days, and the cruise ship is only nearby, so I will give you a vacation for the time being, rest assured that the salary will be paid, I will drive it myself, if you return to China, you will come back then." ”

Wick listened and said, "Boss, how can you do it, although you can also drive this cruise, but you are not familiar with the surrounding waters, in case you touch the reef, it will be troublesome." And you are the boss, how can you do it yourself, this kind of rough work can only be done by us"

Wang Chao had no choice but to find another reason, why his wife is not used to wearing swimsuits in front of many people, look, I didn't come here today, and besides, this cruise ship is very well-equipped, and I won't go far away, just turn around. There are also some distinguished guests who are coming, and those who do not want outsiders to see them.......

It wasn't until he said almost all the reasons he could find that he could persuade the dedicated captain, and several people were a little suspicious that the young boss was still remembering the past, and then Wang Chao took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket to leave with complete peace of mind.

However, before leaving, he instructed Wang Chao for a while, and explained the various instruments on the ship, especially the cockpit, before leaving.

In fact, the main reason why Wang Chao sent a few people away was because the underwater excavation progress was too slow, and he was ready to take the risk of salvaging during the day. Of course, you can't let these people be around.

Then he returned to the hotel and woke up Xinyu, the sleepy bride was really sleeping, and she woke up several times. Then he said what he thought,

"I sent those men away, and from now on we will live on the yacht day and night, as long as you have the energy. We can go into the water and salvage, what do you say? ”

Xinyu nodded in agreement, and then the two of them packed up their things. Retired from the room, moved all the luggage to the cruise ship, then sailed away from the dock, parked near the trench, stopped the boat, Xinyu continued to make up for sleep, and Wang Chao went into the water again to start the underwater excavator to clean up.

It wasn't until about 3 p.m. that the sediment deposited on the wreck was cleared, revealing the appearance of the ship.

The length of the ship is about 20 meters, and the width is about five or six meters, which is a typical Baltic ship type, and the bow and side of the ship are basically unchanged because they are covered by sediment on the seabed

Wang Chao stood on the deck, stomped his feet vigorously, the deck was quite strong, and went down the deck to the building of the cabin, and there were more than fifty rectangular wooden boxes neatly arranged in the cabin, the boxes were locked, but under the perspective, they were filled with all kinds of jewelry, gold ornaments, silverware, and so on.

Carry these boxes to the deck one by one, in groups of five, in groups of five, all with net pockets, and then float to the surface, let Xinyu open the crane, lower the wire rope, and lift it out of the water one by one.

When all the water was placed on the deck, it was already dark, Xinyu made a simple sandwich on the ship, warmed the milk, and waited for Wang Chao to move all his boxes to the cabin and serve him food.

"It's really people who die for money, and birds die for food" Seeing Wang Chao eating big, Xinyu suddenly said such a sentence in his heart, and said it involuntarily

"Yes, hehe, what you said is very consistent, it is indeed very similar, but it is really a little unwilling to watch these things at the bottom of the sea without digging them out. Okay, I'm resting and getting ready to get in the water again."

The two of them lay side by side on the deck on the rest bed, looking up at the starry sky, the gentle night breeze was blowing slowly, much cooler than during the day, and the yacht was gently swaying under the impetus of the waves, and for a while, they forgot where they were, and they fell asleep quietly.

In the second half of the night, Wang Chao went into the water again and came to another wreck, still using an underwater excavator to clean up the covered sediment, and then hoisting the boxes on the wreck onto the cruise ship.

In the next three or four days, the two of them fell asleep when they were tired, ate when they woke up, and went into the water after eating, during which Xinyu also went down to the bottom of the sea to see those sunken ships, and of course she was most interested in Wang Chao, this guy is really not human, on the bottom of the sea and on land is almost the same, very casual, it seems that oxygen and water pressure do not exist zài, "Hmph, when you are empty, you must let him explain"

It wasn't until all the boxes on the last wreck ship in the vicinity were moved to the cruise ship that this amateur but more professional salvage work was over.

The 100-meter-long cargo hold of this cruise ship is full of these large boxes, a total of 430 boxes, the boxes are of different sizes, and the materials used to make zuò are also different, it seems that it should not be a unified system, nor does it come from the same place

Encouraged by curiosity, Xinyu opened the last box, which contained several layers of oil-paper-like things, and when the oil-paper package was opened, there were more than a dozen small oil-paper bags in it, and one of them was slightly longer opened, and his eyes lit up, this was a cane made of gold, about twenty centimeters long, about three centimeters thick, heavy in his hand, with words engraved on it, but unfortunately the two did not know each other.

I opened an oiled paper bag casually, revealing a few turquoise and blood-red beads, which should not be ordinary jewelry at first glance; He opened the others one by one, and found that they were all gold, silver, and jade

The two of you look at me, I look at you, and they both smack their tongues secretly, thinking: Just with the contents of this box, it is estimated that it can be worth hundreds of millions, so these hundreds of boxes?

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a whistle in the distance, and then a bright searchlight shone over, and someone shouted with a loudspeaker, "Please stop the cruise ship in front for inspection"

It turned out that the Maldivian coast guard had arrived.

Wang Chao re-covered the box, put it in the cargo hold, and then walked to the deck.

At this time, the coast guard ship had arrived, and several people drove to the cruise ship with flashlights in their hands and boarded the cruise ship along the gangway

The leader was a big police officer who was two meters tall, holding a flashlight in his hand to shine on Wang Chao and the others, "Who are you, why are you still stranded at sea in the middle of the night?" ”

"Hello officer, we are Chinese tourists who came to the Maldives for tourism, we just bought this cruise ship a few days ago, we returned the hotel room and have been staying on our own cruise ship, what? Is this also illegal? ”

"Chinese tourists? Get out your papers."

Wang Chao and the others took out the passport they had prepared a long time ago and handed it to the man, the other party looked at it, checked it and returned it to them, "Mr. Wang, you have been stranded at sea for a long time, why don't you return to the dock?" What to do here? ”

Wang Chao shrugged his shoulders, "Your Excellency, we like the sea of the Maldives very much, so we like to stay on the boat day and night, and besides, what's the difference between stopping here and stopping at the dock?" By the way, our cruise ship was purchased from Frans Yachts, you can go to Mr. Black to investigate, we are legitimate"

Wang Chao deliberately diverted his questioning, and the policeman seemed to be routine, so he asked a few more questions, and then got off the boat and left.

However, this incident also gave Wang Chao a reminder: it seems that the stranded in this sea area in the past few days has attracted people's attention, and it is time to leave.

The next day, Wang Chao drove the cruise ship back to the dock and informed Wick that he was ready to leave the Maldives for China on the third day. (To be continued......)