Chapter 19: The Pearls in the Snail (II)
Most of the rice cooked by Duo Ling is Vietnamese, sour and sweet, coupled with the limited materials on the ship, the monotonous diet day after day, I was really painful to eat as much as taking medicine, I hurriedly ate a few bites, and described the topography of the seabed to everyone on the map, the "coral spiral" should actually be an oval annular island group, and the outer circle is full of reefs, this is the outer spiral in the mouth of the sea wolf, the outer spiral has a complex internal topography, and the terrain is gradually higher in the middle, and the highest point in the middle should be the "ghost island" that exposes the sea surface after the tide level is lowered, This area is likely to be a mountain range of islands that have been submerged as the continental shelf has sunk, and there are several bottomless troughs on the ocean floor leading to the open sea. /。 qΒ⑸. CoM\\
There is an area between the outer spiral and the ghost island, the terrain is concave, shaped like a basin, the bottom of the sea is full of coral iron trees, and it has become a rolling underwater forest, some of the big coral trees in it are tens of meters high, rising from the sky, although it is at the bottom of the sea, but it still looks magnificent, which belongs to a translucent tree with a quality like a tortoiseshell is the most conspicuous, that place should be very close to the sea eye, it is the essence of the sun, moon and sea for thousands of years to condense it, this old tree is the primary target of our egg collection, the water depth is about seventy or eighty meters.
In addition, on the side of this tree, there is a valley, it is difficult to judge its depth, according to the surviving crew of the Mary Xiannu shipwreck, their ship was swept into the usual insurmountable outer spiral by a hurricane, the sinking place of the seabed is as bright as day, that is the best proof of the burning of the submarine dragon fire, I estimate that these submarine rifts, it is likely to be the place where the Nanlong Yin fire gushes, if the depth exceeds 200 meters, even if we know that the Mary Xiannu sank into the trough, we can only look at the ocean and sigh powerlessly, and the undercurrent in the trough recites, once it falls into the depths, God knows where that ship will go.
After I finished speaking, it was supplemented by the boat boss Ruan Hei, who had been a fisherman and an egg farmer. One of the important ways to make a living on Coral Temple Island is to assist the salvage team to go to the sea to catch "green heads", and the egg farmer himself can be regarded as a semi-professional diver, with his experience in egg collection, and the understanding of fishing "green heads", there are many evil fish in this underwater forest, and the danger of going into the water to collect eggs is very great, but it has just been seen clearly in the diving bell. Those old mussels in the deep water are all beads, the moon shadow and the yin essence flash, the value is unprecedented, this kind of heavenly thing, is the spirit of the seabed, I am afraid it is only in the coral spiral.
Since ancient times, the people of the South China Sea Islands have suffered the most from the egg people, and if their experiences are summed up, it is enough to produce a "History of the Blood and Tears of the Egg People" that is thicker than the "Sea of Words". The pearl has always been divided into "East Pearl" and "South Pearl". The Manchu Ninggu Pagoda's riverside real estate "Dongzhu" weighs about two or three cents on average, and most of them are azure or white. There is also a small amount of pink, the largest East Pearl recorded in history so far, is the Kangxi period, a local child swimming in the river, inadvertently picked up the mussel pearl, the diameter of the pearl is more than half an inch.
When it comes to the beauty and rarity of the pearl, although the "East Pearl" also has outstanding features, it is still difficult to compare with the best "South Pearl", and the previous "South Pearl" is all for the emperor to make offerings. Egg people can not be picked without orders, there are officers and soldiers to take care of the eggs, even if the sea conditions are bad and difficult to go into the water, but also force the egg people to tie the stone to the sea, once lost or overdue to pick the pearls, they must be punished by beheading, from ancient times to the present day, there are countless egg people who have died for this, occasionally there are egg people who pick Nanzhu privately, and most of them are exploited by profiteers. The harvest obtained by risking one's life is only one thousandth of a profit.
The egg people all know that the largest "Nanzhu" found at present, or when Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures of the Ming Dynasty, went to the Western Ocean, there was a sailor on a treasure ship fished out a big snail, put it in the pot to cook, just urged the fire, the water in the pot suddenly opened, there was a loud bang, the giant snail boiled half dead in the pot jumped into the air, the cabin was full of white gas, like smoke, face to face can not see people, the people who boiled the snail panicked, they escaped from the cabin, after a long time without movement, only to go back to check, only to see that the giant snail has been dead for a long time, There is a Nanzhu next to the snail as big as a dragon's eye, because after boiling with water and fire, the essence has been lost and cannot be recovered.
"Coral Spiral" has a freshwater spring gushing under the sea, the sea water is moderately salty, giving birth to the essence of the sea air and moonlight, the South Pearl here is almost as big as a dragon's eye, it is seen underwater, the strange light is fantastic, there are few people in the world who can match it, if this trip is smooth, let alone can get a hundred and ten grains, Ruan Hei escaped from Vietnam after a difficult life, today I actually waited for this kind of opportunity, I finally have hope to go to France, I seem a little excited, saying that it is worth taking a big risk, and the craft of egg picking is not in vain.
Ruan Hei talked about his speculation about the situation under the sea, although there were bursts of undercurrents and whirlpools in the deep valley next to the underwater forest, which did not seem too strong, but for some reason, the aquarists in the sea did not dare to approach, he used a searchlight to shine inside in the diving bell, vaguely like the shadow of a giant ship,
But I dare not conclude that it is the "Mary Sannu", there is also a "shipwreck cemetery" in a shallow sea near Coral Temple Island, the location is in a trench, the ships sunken nearby, pulled by the current, will fall into it, over time part of the trench is covered with mud and sand barnacles, forming a layer of hard shell, only a few entrances can dive in, many salvage teams have gone there to try their luck, some people have really caught a lot of good things, and there have been several years of exhaustive efforts, to the last unlucky bastard.
It is possible that the topography of the coral spiral is similar, and the more obvious prominence is the inner and outer layers of the atoll, but here the sea sand is deposited, and under the ground of the seabed, there may be a slurry shell layer formed by layers of sediment, and the shipwreck will fall into it, forming a trough-like rift, and the trench seen on the seabed is the trace left by the shipwreck.
Although what the boat boss Ruan Hei said was speculation, we all felt that there was some truth, and immediately made a diving plan, and the diving operation was at least a group of two in order to take care of each other, but the people on the boat naturally couldn't go down all at once, I divided everyone into three teams: A, B, and C, and I and Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming were the "A team", Ruan Hei and his apprentice Duo Ling formed the "B team", and the fat man and Gu Chai were the third group of "C team".
Team A and Team B were launched at the same time, Team A used only three sets of heavy diving equipment, dived near the mouth of the valley, detected whether there was a wreck hidden in the depths of the trench, and immediately launched an operation once the target was confirmed.
Distribute the personnel in this way, I mainly consider that it takes manpower to find the wreck, even if the strength of the three people is still a little thin, and Uncle Ming is more familiar with the hull structure and things on the bottom of the sea, with him as a consultant and assistant, he should be able to start a role, and the most important thing is to take him with me, so that I can rest assured that I can dive into the deep water operation, otherwise who knows what kind of demon moth this old guy will make, Shirley Yang is the elite of the United States Naval Academy, diving reconnaissance expert, there is a team of three of us, diving into the trench in the coral forest, Even if there is an accident, it is not difficult to get out.
The boat boss and Ruan Hei and Duo Ling are all professional egg pickers, they go to the coral forest to work, still do their previous set of work, have a certain degree of certainty, break up Ruan Hei and the three people, leaving the fat man who loves the egg picking business with them, and can also prevent them from seeing their intentions, leaving Team A to escape by boat, but Ruan Hei does not use "Si Tianyu" and "Kui Astrolabe", I just want to prevent in case of preparedness, because I know that a poor and afraid person is easily carried away by money, Doing something he didn't want to do at all, but that kind of thought couldn't be said to Shirley Yang Ming, I just quietly deployed.
Everyone readily agreed, only Uncle Ming looked embarrassed: "In the trench in the depths of the coral spiral, no fish dare to approach, because the deepest part is connected to the outer sea, and some deep-sea sea monsters will use that place as a nest, won't we go in and die?" Don't listen to the old man's words and suffer in front of you, Hu Zai, you listen to Uncle tell you, the most powerful thing on the bottom of the sea is not the big octopus, the shrimp and crab in the deep sea are so big, don't let the whale salamander, especially the giant crab is the most fierce, even if it is as evil as the shark dragon, don't dare to provoke them, you have to go yourself, I ...... I think it's better for me to go egg picking. ”
I knew that he was probably sensational, so I said to Uncle Ming, "If there really is such a big crab, how much does it cost to sell for a catty?" Besides, who are you, an old sea wolf who can't afford to lose? That's a ruthless person who dares to scrape gold on the face of the Buddha and grab money in the oil pot, and can he still be afraid of crabs? In addition, we went to sea this time, and we said in advance that everyone would share the money, and everyone would block it if there was difficulty, but now you will hide as soon as you encounter a risk, and I will avoid you when I go back to share the money and the green head, and you don't want to find fault with me when the time comes. ”
As soon as Uncle Ming heard about going back to divide the money, he had no choice but to go hard, and he had to go to the sea of fire, if the big thing can be done this time, he can get all the losses of the previous years back, whether he succeeds or not, he can fight, who makes his black eyes can't see the silver, don't look at the time when he ran the boat before, he was also a man, but now he is bent over for five buckets of rice.
Everyone has decided to do their best, and they went all out to prepare, and there were several positioning buoys on the sea, and the location of the largest old tree on the bottom of the sea was found, and then it was necessary to use the "mountain moving reclamation technique" of the mountain movers to deal with the evil fish under the water, and I lit the old incense burner in the shape of a copper duck at the bow of the boat, ready to invite out the "melon god".
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