The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 20 Drifting Melons and Fish (II)
The Seawillow Trident is equipped with heavy-duty deep-sea diving equipment, made of high-strength pressure-resistant materials, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, and it is impossible to enter the water as light as ordinary divers when using, the British designer uses the ingenious structure of the hull to set up a special small water tank in the bilge, and the deep-sea diving equipment is fixed in it, and we can only dive to the bottom of the sea after the water filling tank is filled with water.
Once we entered the water, only the C team was left on the ship as a support mission, I explained a few words to the fat man, and then took Gu Chai down to the bottom cabin, with the assistance of Gu Chai equipped the submersible, turned the valve to inject the water dive, with the breath of the human body, the scuba filled with mixed gas immediately began to operate, in the dull exhaust sound, I and Shirley Yang, Uncle Ming three out of the bilge, under the effect of the underwater thruster slowly down the diving rope.
The location of the "Trident Trunk" stopped next to the translucent coral tree with the quality of tortoiseshell, I saw the lights flickering between the old trees, it was the boat boss Ruan Hei and Duo Ling pearl diving next to a big green snail, a few sharks were circling around them, sharks do not have the moon-gazing nature of the underwater aquarium, and they can't help the trick of fishing melons and fishing. In the sea, the greatest threat to the egg farmers who collect eggs, is these fierce and invincible sharks are the most, at that time there was no electronic shark repellent can be used, "mountain movers" when collecting eggs, generally use an ancient formula but very effective shark repellent, dive with a leaky tank full of sieve holes, which is full of coagulated shark repellent, as the body moves underwater, the shark repellent melted by the sea water is released from the pores one after another, can prevent sharks from approaching divers. Ruan Hei and Duo Ling also brought shark repellent bottles from the mountain movers, but there were still sharks circling around them from a distance out of curiosity.
Fortunately, Ruan Hei's master and apprentice have been egg people for some years. What the egg people do is this kind of dangerous trick of picking tiger whiskers, and the psychological elements during underwater operations are relatively stable, and they have not been messed up under the prying eyes of the sharks. There are three ways for egg farmers to collect eggs, if the environment allows, they generally directly break the mussels and take the pearls; If the coral iron tree is limited in size, the whole coral iron tree is uprooted and hung on the water, because the iron tree with good texture can also be sold for a large price; Then there is to pick the mussels out of the water, and then smash the mussel shell to take the eggs when they go to the boat, and the mussel meat can also be eaten, but whether there are eggs in the mussels is not necessarily.
Ruan Hei and the two of them dived to the root of the tree, those giant mussels have been at the bottom of the sea for a long time, almost connected with the reef near the coral tree, if these snail mussel pearl oysters are chiseled away from the attached tree body rock, and then one by one hanging on the water, some are too troublesome, only to collect eggs on the spot, with diving spotlights or fine sand as a guide, while the mussel shell is slightly open and closed, pierce the anesthetic, so that the giant mussel man to perceive, then sled open the mussel shell, reach in and take out the south pearl.
Ruan Hei's master and apprentice don't like diving knives, and they still carry the stone sand water knives that the egg people have been accustomed to since ancient times, but in order not to cut the snail meat and attract nearby sharks to seek blood, they had to carefully grope in the mussel meat little by little, take out the Nanzhu and immediately wrap it, hide it in the jar and put it away, not daring to leak its essence.
Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming and I passed by Ruan Hei's master and apprentice, and when we saw that they were proceeding in an orderly manner, we felt a lot more relieved, and we gestured to them and continued to dive into the depths. The roots of the large iron tree, which is dozens of meters high, are rooted in the fine sand layer of the underwater forest, and the mud and sand raised after landing make the sea water very turbid. Suddenly, an undercurrent poured into the deep valley at the bottom of the trees, and our bodies were only slightly shaken by the weight of our equipment, and I held on to a touch of coral to stop, and pointed down to Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming, indicating that this was the trough I had seen in the diving bell earlier.
If the large black fissure in front of you is not a sea slag, but a hard shell formed by a layer of sediment in the sea, then the wreck is likely to be stuck in it, but it is difficult to determine until further confirmation is made. I know that with our equipment and hasty preparation time, it is more difficult to salvage the "King of Thailand Bone Mirror" in Mary Sannu, but I also want to try my luck, if we can fish it out, it is naturally good, otherwise we can only find the wreck and have an explanation, because as long as we get some relics in the ship, we can claim the ownership of this ship, and other salvage teams will not think about the idea of fighting it. As long as there is enough time, you can let Shirley Yang hire a professional salvage team.
Shirley Yang raised the diving searchlight and wanted to explore the situation in the depths of the fault, but the strong searchlight seemed to have lost its effect here, unable to penetrate the sea water with too many impurities, and could not shine far away at all.
Uncle Ming came up with a way to throw the underwater lighting smoke into it, and a dazzling light suddenly illuminated the surroundings. When the light flashed, I saw that there were many stones in the valley, as if there were some kind of ancient architectural remains, but the water in the deep sea was swirling, the undercurrent was disordered, and the lighting smoke was quickly swept up by the undercurrent, and I don't know where it fell into the dead end, and the light was completely gone.
But at that moment, I seemed to see a huge black shadow in the valley, which seemed to be a shipwreck, but it was too far away to be sure, and what surprised us most was that the boulders, though covered with barnacle-like sediments, were neatly and orderly, not as if they were born of nature. There are the remains of the ancient city in the valley at the bottom of the sea, reminiscent of the Siren hexagram statue found on Coral Temple Island, and the floating coffin found near the coral spiral, coupled with what you see in front of you, it seems that there was really a prosperous civilization here, because it sank at the bottom of the sea, even if there are occasionally some relics that are caught as "green head goods", most of them are difficult to identify because of the sea erosion, and it has become a lost page in human history after all. This is probably the place of return to the ruins recorded in ancient books, the eye of the South China Sea that cannot be filled with all the water of the world, leading to the eternal and endless nothingness.
I saw that there seemed to be a ship in the depths, and it was in such a mysterious place, and I couldn't help but see the joy of hunting, and wanted to go over to find out, and when I saw that Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming were still watching, I patted their diving helmets from behind and asked them to turn their heads to look at me. I first pointed to the depth gauge, and then pointed down to the trench, if I have diving propulsion equipment, I will not be easily swept away by the undercurrent, and I brought an underwater speargun to defend myself, with reliable equipment, it is better to dive deeper for a while to see the details.
Shirley Yang hesitated slightly, but it was Uncle Ming who saw the wealth, he probably thought that now that the eggs have been picked, if he can fish a few more green heads in the ruins of the seabed, wouldn't it be double the full load, and now he said that he can take a risk, greed is not enough to swallow elephants, as long as it is profitable, he has no place where he dare not go.