The plane passed through the Qiongzhou Strait, there was silence in the cabin, and all the passengers were already asleep.

A few hours ago, I entrusted Pan Zi to the hospital, and the two people who claimed to be from the International Ocean Development Company flew to Sanya overnight on a red-eye flight.

I hadn't exercised for a long time, and I was so tired after a long run that I fell asleep as soon as I got on the plane. As a result, after nightfall, I couldn't sleep.

On the way to the airport, we introduced each other, the man's name is Zhang Hao (my language is very poor, I can't read that word, so I have to call him Lao Zhang, secretly call him Zhang Bald). The woman's name was Aning, and both of them were professional expedition leaders.

Get along, Zhang Bald seems to be a good person, probably in the company is also the kind of old cow-type character, speaking more plainly, the woman is a little cunning, not much to say, from the car to now, I have spoken to her no more than ten words.

With half an hour left for the plane to land, I looked out the window and saw the lights of the city in the distance, and the colors were blurred.

A-Ning, who was sitting on the side, saw that I was awake, handed me a piece of information, and said: "We are about to arrive, after getting off the plane, there is a car to take us directly to the dock, the personnel on that side are ready, this is our schedule this time, do you want to take a look and know the itinerary this time?" ”

I came back to my senses, took the paper, flipped through it slightly, couldn't read a word, and shook my head and returned it to her.

A-Ning continued to hand me the documents: "There is also a list of equipment we have prepared here, please also take a look, if there is any gap, I can make up for the logistics immediately." ”

I took it and looked at it again, but the equipment was very complete, all of which were standard equipment for sea expeditions, all in English, and I still couldn't understand most of them, so I had to return them to her with a wry smile.

She looked at me and smiled wryly, thinking that there was a problem, and asked me, "How is it, what else do you have to prepare?" ”

I thought about it for a while, and casually asked her, "Can you help me get a few black donkey hooves?" ”

When Ah Ning heard this, he was stunned, and after a long time, he asked rhetorically: "Black donkey hooves?" ”

I was in a daze just now, and I thought I was going to go to the inverted bucket, but I only reacted when I saw her expression, they were engaged in a formal investigation, of course I hadn't heard of this thing.

The situation was embarrassing, and I didn't know what to say, so I waved my hand and said to her, "I'm sorry I didn't say it." ”

In fact, I am also a little skeptical, although this black donkey hoof will bring one for each inverted bucket, but no one knows whether it is useful or not, and the reason is a bit unreasonable, why do you have to have black donkey hooves, white donkey hooves except for different colors, other ingredients are the same.

A-Ning looked at me suspiciously, didn't say anything, and then handed me a lot of documents to look at, I still swept over, looked at what I could understand, and returned it to her directly if I couldn't understand it, and after the procedure was done, I lay down and rested again.

In a daze, I saw A-Ning looking at me with a very strange look, and I wondered in my heart, why did this girl take a fancy to me, or else, did she know what the black donkey's hooves were?

The three of us got off the plane and were taken directly to the port by their company's special car.

Inspect a rented 7-ton fishing boat, tattered, there are six sailors, the boss of the boat is a local, named Cai Wenji, the name is so elegant, when we arrived, the people of their company were still negotiating with him, because there was a tropical storm, the boat boss insisted on not going to sea, and said to us in stiff Mandarin: "Go out now, find a place to die, the wind is too strong, the waves are big, our boat is small, it may capsize." ”

After understanding the situation, Zhang Bald immediately doubled the price of the charter, and promised that in the event of a strong wind, the boat boss could decide where the ship went.

Twice the price is generally enough for a fisherman's expenses for a year, and the boat boss was still a little hesitant, but the sailors below him couldn't help it and persuaded him.

Zhang Bald looked at the boat boss a little relieved, and immediately called 50% of the price up, saying that he would go, and there were other ships waiting if he didn't go.

When things came to this point, the captain of the ship couldn't refuse anymore, so he had to agree.

The sailors carried supplies onto the ship, and the captain of the ship set up an altar on the bow of the ship alone, offering sacrifices to Ma Curse, praying that this voyage would be smooth, and I also gave each of the sailors a cigarette according to the custom of my hometown, which was regarded as handing over my life to them.

In addition to me, Zhang Balzi and A Ning, there were four people directly involved in the investigation on the ship, an old professor surnamed Gu in charge of the identification of cultural relics, Mu Ziqi, a technician in charge of instruments, and Wu Yong, a young engineer in charge of computers. There is also a big-nosed foreigner who is the ship's medical officer.

In addition, we will have to go to Woody Island, where we will meet up with their other team of frogmen before turning to Huaguang Reef.

In the afternoon, we set off from Qinglan Port, the first leg of the voyage was very tight, and if the weather was normal, it was expected to be completed in 12 hours, which was already the limit speed that the ship could reach. The first time I went out to sea, I was very excited, looking at the bow of the ship, the continent was gradually moving away, and in front of me was the world's most mysterious ocean, the South China Sea, since ancient times, there are countless secrets buried under this vast blue.

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