Chapter 310: The Mysterious Poseidon (Part II)
Chen Badai had reason to believe that the captain's control over his ship was gradually being lost, and that the decision was made by the non-commissioned officers with swords in their hands, and that the peasants seemed to be neutral, but Chen Badai felt that these peasants would fall to any side that was in his favor at any time.
Chen Badai read the entire record, and was 100% sure that the Poseidon was indeed sailing as Dick and the undersea hunters had envisioned, and that it sank somewhere else one night in the summer.
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"Wang, after reading all the information, what do you think?" After waiting for several days, Tchaikov finally couldn't hold back and urged Wang Xingguo.
"Chen Badai is really looking for the Poseidon in Beihai?" Wang Xingguo did not answer Tchaikov's words, but asked rhetorically.
"It's been more than a month since I've been out at sea, but I've already bought the three mates on board, and so far, they've only caught mud and sand." Tchaikov had a little smugness.
"Are you sure you have the exact same scans as Dick?" Wang Xingguo asked again.
"Of course...... Although Dick bought the manuscript, thanks to modern technology, the seller left the scans before he took the manuscript...... "Tchaikov was smug at his clever little smug about the yellow finch behind."
"The Poseidon isn't there." Wang Xingguo said.
βHATοΌοΌβ Now it was Tchaikov's turn to be amazed, and he almost fell out of his chair: "How is that possible? The logbook is very clear......"
"But have you noticed that there are big flaws in the logbook?" Wang Xingguo asked, "Since the beginning of the voyage, a date has been recorded, and all the logbooks after that have been written: ...... on the Xth day after the voyage."
"What does this prove?" Pandey, who had been holding back without speaking, finally couldn't help it.
"There's a lot of missing logs in the middle of him, and it's not recorded."
"Huh? Can you make that clear? Pandey didn't react at all.
"Let's put it this way, if the Poseidon had left France in October, it would not have been possible for him to sail that far in two months under the trade winds and currents of the time, and judging by the recorded course, the Poseidon had circled England and had been to Ireland, and if I am not mistaken, the Poseidon had stayed in Scotland and Ireland for a long time." Wang Xingguo drew the approximate trajectory of the Poseidon on the map. After the Poseidon departed from Calais, it crossed the English Channel, but did not go north along the coast of England, but followed the wind direction and ocean currents to the south, and arrived in Ireland after bypassing England from the south. Their impression of Norway came only from the interaction between Central and Viking Europe, and the relationship between Norway and Central Europe at that time was very delicate, and the Normans did not trust these knights very much.
"Huh? And then? Pandey was caught in a fog by Wang Xingguo's analysis.
"They set out from Ireland in late spring and early summer." "About a month after entering the North Atlantic, they were hit by a storm. β
"Why?" Tchaikov is also very strange, according to Wang Xingguo's inference, the actual time when the Poseidon entered the North Sea was more than half a year later than recorded!
"At that time, the navigation technology was very backward, the Spanish galleon still appeared 300 years later, they used the three-masted Caravel sailboat, this kind of dhows common in the Mediterranean against the wind is still very immature, only the most skilled crew and the most experienced captain can sail against the wind, if they want to go north, they can only wait for the wind, don't forget, when the Vikings invaded Scotland and Ireland, what season did they choose?"
"Autumn or winter, what's wrong?" Tchaikov was somewhat curious.
"Why did they choose to go south this season?" Wang Xingguo asked rhetorically.
"At that time, the north was already frozen, and they needed to go south to raid, weren't all the northern nomads like this back then?" Tchaikov felt that this was not a problem at all, because in ancient times, the nomads of the Caucasus Plateau in the north and the Mongolian Plateau would go south to raid every time the winter of the disaster year could not survive.
"The sea is different from the land, in autumn and winter, the trade winds blow from north to south, and in the warm spring and summer, the Vikings have to take advantage of the trade winds to transport the looted things back to the north, so if the Poseidon really enters the North Sea, it can't be in the winter, he can only wait, wait until the wind direction is right." Wang Xingguo said.
"Well, what do you mean, we'll never find the Poseidon again?" Pandey was in a hurry, if the logbooks were unreliable and hundreds of years had passed, how could it still be found?
"No, I guess it should have sunk near the Faroe Islands or Shetland, and based on the speed and timing of the Poseidon and a few other factors, I think it would be ...... in the Faroe Islands."
"Faroe Islands? OH!NOοΌ Tchaikov exclaimed.
The Faroe Islands is a nightmare of ancient sailing ships, when the Vikings, the northern sea merchants went south to Ireland, the Faroe Islands are a must pass through, this is the transit point on the ancient shipping route of the North Sea, some islands have also set up lighthouses, send people to guard, when the wind is calm, pirates, sea coachmen will call here to rest, in the event of a storm, sailing ships sailing on the North Sea will also desperately approach the Faroe Islands to seek refuge, but many ships have not been able to get the protection of the archipelago land, Instead, it was chiseled through those hidden reefs, with the advent of machines in the industrial age, after navigation no longer needed sails, the Faroe Islands lost the meaning of a transit station, and the poor sea conditions and reefs near it were not suitable for large ships to sail, so it was slowly abandoned in the past few hundred years, and became a paradise for explorers, those Viking pirates, shipwrecks left by sea merchants in the waters of the Faroe Islands, there have been countless underwater hunters to salvage, if it is really as Wang Xingguo judged, the Poseidon sank somewhere in the Faroe Islands, At this time, it is estimated that even the scum will not be able to take Tchaikov's turn to fish.
"Well, I'm just wondering, where the hell is this Poseidon? Can you still find it? Pandey lost patience, for these data analysis, Pandey has never been cold, in his opinion, instead of squatting here, it is better to sail out to sea.
"I remember that when the Hunters of the Sea were fishing for ancient shipwrecks in the Faroe Islands, there were indeed a few sensational news, but I don't seem to have heard of anyone fishing for the treasure of the Knights Templar." Wang Xingguo said again.
Wang Xingguo's meaning couldn't be more obvious, although the Faroe Islands have been visited by countless underwater hunters, but at this time, no one has found the Poseidon, because the treasures belonging to the Knights Templar will have a special octagonal cross symbol.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go immediately!" Pandey exclaimed that it was better to talk about three days than to do one day, this was his credo.
Xia Ruobing looked at Pan Di, and Pan Dee felt that he was a little out of shape, the sea area of the Faroe Islands is so big, it really has to be summed up.
This made Tchaikov scratch his head a little, thinking that according to the records of the logbook, he could quickly deduce the location of the sinking of the Poseidon, and the next thing was how to find a way to fish it up, to be precise, it would be over by salvaging an important thing inside, but he didn't expect the Poseidon to run so far......
"Excuse me, I'll answer the phone." The phone in Tchaikov's pocket vibrate, Tchaikov looked at it, took it out, and walked outside the room.
"What's new?" Tchaikov asked, answering the call.
"What you're looking for isn't here, the poor eight generations said, go to the Faroe Islands and try your luck." The person on the phone said in a suppressed voice.
"OK, I see." Tchaikov hung up the phone and returned to the room, "Gentlemen, we don't have to bother to find the Poseidon ourselves, we just need to be a hyena and follow the leopard." β
"Huh?!" Pandey didn't react.
"Dick's exploration ship is about to transfer to the Faroe Islands, Wang Xingguo, I don't think you're wrong." Tchaikov laughed.
"In short, what Dick does, I'll do it, even if I can't find the Poseidon, it's a very happy thing to make Dick's kid unhappy." Tchaikov laughed, "Then, let's quickly pack up and be hyenas." β
Wang Xingguo saw that Xia Ruobing was not there, and looked at Tchaikov very seriously: "You promise that you won't hide anything from us?" β
"Wang, do you think I'm going to be a villain like Dick?" Tchaikov laughed, "From the cannibal island to the underground tomb, I think I am enough to prove my character." β
"I mean Xia Ruobing......"
"Aha! Wang, I understand your feelings, she deserves your protection, and the brotherhood is also worth your redemption......" Tchaikov said slyly......