Chapter 679
Not only Adelaide, but also the captain, first mate and the staff present all looked at Xue Chen with very strange eyes, all full of one meaning: How dare you say that the cargo is under here?
You know, this sea area has already been surveyed.
Amanda asked the radar observer, "Is it possible that there is a cargo accumulation down there?" ”
The observer hesitated, "Based on the images coming back from the radar, I think this is very unlikely, because I don't see any special seafloor bulges......"
Andrew glanced at Xue Chen deeply, didn't ask anything, turned his head and said seriously: "Uncle Adelaide, send someone into the water!" ”
Adelaide relented, said yes, and immediately arranged for the diving salvage personnel to prepare to enter the water.
Amanda's beautiful eyes flashed: "Xue Chen, why do you think that the goods are right down here?" ”
"Guess." Xue Chen smiled faintly.
Amanda threw a coquettish look.
Many people gathered on the deck to watch the professional underwater salvage crews wearing wetsuits and carrying oxygen cylinders diving to the surface with the assistance of machinery.
Everyone's eyes immediately involuntarily shifted to another person, that is, Xue Chen, and they were all full of doubts.
Hans, who was swept away by Xue Chen yesterday, said with some resentment: "Mr. Andrew and Mr. Adelaide would believe that this oriental boy is talking nonsense, he is not an underwater radar, how can he know about the cargo spilled by the Oasis, this is a complete waste of time and energy!" ”
These words represent the true thoughts of many people, and they can't help but nod their heads.
Time passed little by little, about an hour passed, and the mechanical platform went up, and a diving salvage crew followed.
As soon as the salvage personnel in diving suits came out of the sea, they waved their arms vigorously, took off their breathing apparatus, and shouted excitedly: "Mr. Adelaide, we have found it!" Got it! ”
"Found it?!" There was a commotion on the deck.
When the diver got on deck, everyone saw that the person was holding something in his hand, and it was the same thing that he had just waved.
Adelaide stepped forward, took the thing in his hand, and suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "It's a gold bar!" ”
For a moment, everyone looked over with round eyes, and saw that Adelaide was indeed holding a gold bar in his hand, although there was a lot of salt and marine algae attached to the surface, but some of the exposed places were shining golden in the sun.
Andrew was shocked and hurriedly asked, "What is the situation underwater, quickly explain clearly." ”
"Mr. Andrew, the underwater situation is like this, there is a large annular coral reef below, and in the center of the coral reef should be an open space, but now there are a lot of foreign objects spilled and filled, we have a brief look, those foreign objects should be the cargo of the Oasis!"
"What?! The cargo spilled by the Oasis in the sea is really down here? Hans, who was huge in size, shook his body in surprise, and almost fell on the deck, and his mouth grew long.
"Great, the goods have been found! Hey, but how does he know? ”
"yes, how did he know all this?"
When he received an affirmative answer, Adelaide was very excited, and his hand holding the gold bar was shaking.
Andrew also couldn't hide his excitement, turned around and hugged Xue Chen hard, patted Xue Chen's shoulder vigorously, and gave a thumbs up!
Amanda's beautiful eyes rippled with brilliance, and she also looked up at Xue Chen with incredible eyes.
Andrew almost didn't think about it, turned around and said, "Uncle Adelaide, I plan to give Xue Chen a portion of the salvaged proceeds!" What do you think? ”
"Ichisei?" Adelaide held the gold bar in his hand, and quickly calculated in his heart, if all the cargo of the Oasis was below, then according to the previous calculation, the value could reach 200 million US dollars! Even if not all of them, but to be able to fill a hole in a coral reef, it will certainly not be less, at least 100 million US dollars, and 10 million US dollars for one achievement, which is not a small number.
But after thinking about it for less than ten seconds, Adelaide nodded: "Andrew, I agree with your proposal. He agreed, because this was proposed by Andrew, and the salvage companies are all owned by Andrew's family, although he is Andrew's elder, he is only a senior employee, what reason is there to refuse?
Moreover, it can be found that this batch of goods is also because of this person, otherwise this salvage trip will inevitably fail, so the reward of one percent is really not much.
"That's it, Xue Chen, I will make the decision on the income from this salvage, and I will give you a percent." Andrew said with a grin.
Xue Chen did not refuse Andrew's kindness, because he was well-deserved and very calm.
The depressed crew members were in high spirits at the moment, and under Adelaide's orders, they all worked excitedly and officially began the salvage work on the bottom of the sea.
Speaking of which, Xue Chen was the most calm on the entire ship.
Another half hour had passed, and a tin box was lifted to the deck with a thud as it was lifted to the deck.
The lid of the box was pried open vigorously, and in an instant, both eyes were filled with gold!
It was a box full of gold bars, soaked in seawater.
"That's a lot of gold!"
Some of the crew members were so stunned that their eyes almost flew out.
Xue Chen looked at a gold bar that Andrew took out, stretched out his hand to take it, glanced at both the front and back, and saw that the front of the gold bar was engraved with three words, the top was a "treasure" word, the bottom was engraved with the word "Xu Pu", and the other side of the gold bar was engraved with four words "red gold on the top".
Amanda asked softly, "Xue Chen, what do these words mean?" ”
Xue Chen had been in contact with the gold bars of the Qing Dynasty before, so he was no stranger to it at all, and explained: "The word 'treasure' is very easy to understand, which means that this gold bar is a treasure, and the word 'Xu Pu' should be the name of the gold shop that created this batch of gold bars, and 'red gold on the top' means that the fineness of this piece of gold, that is, the gold content is very high." ”
After a few glances, he tossed the gold back into the box.
According to Andrew's introduction to the sunken Oasis, it was a trading ship in the mid-19th century, during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the period when opium was sold into the country, but I am afraid that many of these gold bars were plundered through opium trafficking.
All the crew members, including Andrew, were busy, and Xue Chen was very idle, finding a fishing rod and carrying a bucket of fresh sea fish as bait to the side of the boat to fish.
Amanda looked at Xue Chen with radiant eyes, and approached with amazing beautiful legs: "Xue Chen, can I ask you a question?" ”
"I can't." Xue Chen hung a fresh fish segment on the hook and threw it out.
Amanda, who was about to ask a question, was choked up, and looked at Xue Chen with beautiful eyes.
"You can ask, but I'm not going to answer it." Xue Chen smiled lightly and stared at the fishing line on the sea.
Amanda looked at Xue Chen's side face obsessively, a little distracted, full of worship, although Xue Chen's appearance was not very handsome, but at this moment in her eyes it was so obsessed, giving her an indescribable mysterious feeling, making her heart tremble and throb, prompting her to get closer to Xue Chen and look up at him more carefully.
After all, it has been less than three months since he met Xue Chen, but every time he comes into contact, Xue Chen always inadvertently makes some admirable actions to the core.
As Andrew's assistant, she has seen too many multinational group companies, many of which are very good talents, but they don't have the mysterious and unpredictable temperament of Xue Chen.
I don't know when it started, as long as Xue Chen was there, she always habitually shifted her gaze...... Crash.
The fishing rod was picked up by Xue Chen, and a silver-white fish weighing more than 30 centimeters and weighing ten kilograms broke through the sea, and the scales were very beautiful and shining in the sunlight.
"Amanda, what kind of fish is this?" Xue Chen turned his head and asked.
"It's Atlantic cod, a delicious fish." Amanda said.
"Okay, I'll eat it tonight." Xue Chen said happily.
The salvage work continued from the identification of the sunken cargo until the evening, and the salvaged cargo was piled on the deck and moved to the prepared hold after a simple clean-up.
At the dinner table, everyone at the table praised the deliciousness of the Atlantic cod.
Andrew's excitement was overflowing, and he said: "According to speculation, the amount of cargo on the bottom of the sea is very large, if not all the cargo of the Oasis at that time, at least seventy percent, and less than two percent of it was salvaged this afternoon." ”
For a while, everyone in the restaurant paid attention to Xue Chenxing.
Even those crew members who had opinions about Xue Chen before were all like this, and they didn't despise Xue Chen in the slightest, let alone say bad things behind their backs.
Because if it weren't for Xue Chen, this salvage trip would be doomed to be fruitless, and then they wouldn't be able to get the bonus at all!
Even, the crew had a little unspeakable awe of Xue Chen.
They were frightened, and the professional radar did not detect these goods, but Xue Chen directly pointed out the specific location, and they couldn't understand what was going on.
At the beginning, some crew members privately told others that Xue Chen might have the blood of the sea god Poseidon, and he could probe the situation under the sea through the fish in the sea, so he could find the precious goods hidden deep under the sea.
Adelaide glanced at Xue Chen twice, he heard the crew's speculation about Xue Chen, he didn't care at first, but suddenly thought that Andrew had talked to him about it, this young man from the East had jumped into the surging sea in a stormy weather to save Miss Connie who had fallen into the sea, and now, without warning, he said the sunken cargo of the Oasis very bizarrely...... He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could it be that this young man in the East really had the blood of the sea god flowing in his body?
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