When she woke up the next morning, Shen Muhan was already busy making breakfast around the gas stove, and it seemed that Ding Ning's affairs had not had much impact on this girl. After breakfast, Professor Li convened the team members again to determine the action plan, because Wang Chuan and Ding Ning had gone into the water before, and this time Wang Chuan assisted me in going into the water for further exploration.

When preparing to go into the water, Shen Muhan said that he had never been in contact with front-line archaeology, and this opportunity was rare to insist on going into the water together. After the request was denied by me, there were all kinds of coercion and temptation, and I really had no choice but to agree to her.

Because it is far away from the mainland and the pollution level is low, the water in Longkeng is much clearer than that of the offshore water, and all kinds of creatures in the water are not afraid of people at all, and even if they accidentally touch it, they swim unhurriedly. Wang Chuan glanced at me, pointed to the direction of the shipwreck under him, and dived first.

The wreck was wooden, and had been slightly dilapidated after a long period of immersion in the sea, but much slower than a metal ship. Before, Wang Chuan and Ding Ning only determined the location of the wreck, and no one knew what was going on in the wreck, and they could only grope a little bit when they entered the wreck.

No one has been here for hundreds of years since the ship sank, and a relatively stable water environment has been formed inside the hull, as soon as we enter the hull, the stable environment is instantly broken, and the attachments near the hatch of the ship instantly rise, flying up and down in the water, and before I have time to look at the surrounding situation, the line of sight has become very poor, and I can only float in the water, waiting for the line of sight to recover.

After waiting for a while, there were a lot less floating objects in the water, but the vision was not much clearer, and the light of the flashlight formed a large circle of light in the water, and it was impossible to see things in the distance, so I could only look a little closer. When we came in, we came in through the front of the ship, and there was still a lot of space in the back, so it was really not a matter of time and a half to finish reading it all.

Since he was unable to speak with a breathing mask, he could only communicate by gestures. After dispersing with the two of them, I raised my flashlight to look at it carefully, and Uncle Li said that there might be clues about my life experience here, for fear of missing something. The keel and ribs of the ship are very strong, and it should have been a sea ship built for ocean transportation, but under the intermittent sea ban policy of the Qing Dynasty, there were not many opportunities to go to sea here, and this ship should have a special purpose. Although the ancestors began to exploit the resources of the South China Sea very early, the boats used by the fishermen were not as large as they are today.

After looking at the keel for a while and finding nothing unusual, I turned my attention to my feet. The ship has sunk for hundreds of years, and the hull has long been attached to a thick layer of sediment, and if there is any clue under this sediment, I really don't know how to find it.

When I was looking at the thick layer of attachment and didn't know where to start, Shen Muhan took the flashlight and shook it at me a few times, which is the code for us to realize the agreement, if we find a situation, we will shake the flashlight between each other. Shen Muhan pointed to her feet, and I noticed that there was a series of very inconspicuous marks in front of her, which were footprints that had been re-attached after stepping on them, and it had been a while to see the extent of coverage.

The footprints were clear in some places, blurry and difficult to find in others, and I could barely see them as close to the deck as I could. Fortunately, the footprint is a straight line, and even if a few of them are completely covered in the middle, you can see it again from the beginning.

I followed the footprints all the way, and I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't think of where it was for a while. In the end, I tried to imagine myself as the owner of this footprint, imagining the situation of walking here, looking at this series of footprints that looked like a wound that had just been scabbed and then cut off, I suddenly understood where something was wrong, these footprints were going forward, not coming back!

Before we came in, we looked around the wreck, except for the warehouse we entered, there were no holes in the hull, did this person encounter any danger in front of him or chose to swim back, if it was swimming back, it was fine, if it was an accident, wouldn't it be a death for me to follow in?

Thinking of this, I raised my head and looked ahead, and this glance was shocked by a white sweat. There was a person floating not far in front of me, just in the place where I couldn't see clearly by the light of my flashlight, lean, I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman for a while, although I couldn't see clearly, I could feel that he was looking at me. I stared at the figure in front of me, swallowed my saliva, and quietly put my hand on the diving dagger on my waist, thinking to myself who he was, what appeared here must not be a good person, as long as I dared to come over and give him a moment. After a stalemate, the man remained motionless, not even a bubble to breathe. Although he didn't threaten my movements for the time being, it was a hidden danger to let him play tricks there, so I pulled out my diving dagger and leaned over little by little.

It was indeed a man in front of him, but he had been nailed to the board of the ship and turned into a corpse. A swarthy dagger passed through the middle of the eyes, penetrated the entire skull and inserted into the back of the ship, the wound had begun to turn white after a long period of soaking in the seawater, the eyeballs did not know whether it was because of the corruption or the sea creatures had disappeared, and there were only two hollows left in the eyes, some plankton were swimming in and out, and even some remaining tissues around the eyes could be moved. An unknown small fish swims out of the corpse's mouth, swallowing some of the decomposing remains of the corpse's tongue.

Judging from the diving suit he was wearing, this corpse has not appeared for a long time, could it be that it is a sea Buddha?

In the past, wars and chaos broke out frequently in the old society, and the common people in many places could not eat, and some people had crooked ideas in order to survive, and some of them chose to reach out to the dead, which slowly evolved into a tomb robbery business. However, there are so many tombs of the ancestors, and one less is one to steal, especially in modern times, the protection of ancient tombs is getting stronger and stronger, and it is becoming more and more difficult for this industry to survive. When their livelihoods in the underground became impossible, some people turned their attention underwater to salvage the artifacts left behind in the sunken ship. Among all the cultural relics out of the water, Hailao porcelain is particularly hot, after the blue and white porcelain of the Qing Dynasty was auctioned for 210 million yuan, more and more people began to do Hailao this business.

Like tomb robbing, Hailao also has official and private distinctions, and there is a difference between north and south. In ancient times, the Silk Road was concentrated in the southern coastal cities, and the ships that went to sea carried more ceramics and silk, and only a few ships would enter the port from the north when they came back, and the ships carried most of the spices and gems that were traded were completed, so there was a big difference between the things that went out of the water in the south and the north. In addition, the northern near continent, the extreme climate at sea is less than that in the south, and the shipwrecks are much less than in the south, and the number of people fishing in the north is naturally much less than that in the south.

The difference between official fishing and private fishing is based on the main body of sea fishing. Official fishing naturally does not refer to the salvage organized by the government, but refers to the behavior of some people in the fishing industry getting together, using large ships, mobilizing a lot of manpower and material resources, and coordinating salvage. Illegal fishing is the behavior of some bold individuals diving into the underwater salvage, and the people who fishing privately have always been alone, and the treasure is also swallowed by one person.

The first people to do this business were forced by their livelihood, but they still knew that etiquette, righteousness and shame were not their own, although the things on the sunken ship were ownerless, but after all, they were not their own, and they were thieves who took things that did not belong to them, so they also entered the Buddha's door and called themselves the Buddha. Later, the Sea Buddha changed from generation to generation, and it was no longer for a livelihood, but the title of Sea Buddha was still left.

Most of the Sea Buddhas have lived by the sea for generations, first, they are familiar with the water, and secondly, they know more about the location of the shipwreck. In ancient times, the South China Sea was a necessary place for the Maritime Silk Road, and it was also the area where the Sea Buddha was most active. Once a shipwreck is found, go down to fish a few good porcelain and sell it, enough to eat and drink for half a lifetime.

The sea Buddha in front of him should be a private fishing, if it is an official fishing, there will be no trace of this person, but why did he die here? Hai Buddha is alone, there will be no black eating black, who killed him, and the means are so unbelievable. I tried to pull the dagger out of my forehead, and I was shocked to move, how strong it was to be able to pierce the entire human head and still nail it so firmly into the plank.

Just when I couldn't figure it out, Shen Muhan came behind me and patted me on the shoulder.