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.

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 bottom of the sea at the sinking place 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 two hundred meters, even if we know that the Mary Xiannu sank into the trough, we can only sigh and do nothing, and the undercurrent in the trough surges, once it falls into the depths, God knows where that ship will go.

After I finished speaking, it was supplemented by the ship's boss, Ruan Hei. Ruan Hei has 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 fish for "green heads", and the egg people themselves can be regarded as semi-professional divers, with his experience in egg picking and 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 just in the diving bell to see clearly, the deep water of those old mussels without beads, the moon shadow yin essence flashed, the high value is never seen in life, this kind of heavenly thing, is the bottom of the sea aura clock, I am afraid only in the coral spiral have.

Since ancient times, the people of Nanhai Zhudao 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 "Ci Hai". The pearl has always been divided into "East Pearl" and "South Pearl", the real estate of the Manchu Dynasty Ninggu Tower near the river "East Pearl", the average weight of each piece of paper is two or three dollars, most of them are azure or white, there is also a small amount of pink, the history records the largest East Pearl so far, it is the Kangxi period, a local child swims in the river, and inadvertently picks up the bead traces in the mussel, the diameter of this bead 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". In the past, the "South Pearl" was a tribute to the emperor. Even if the sea conditions are bad and difficult to go into the water, the egg people are forced to tie the stones to the sea, once they are lost or the pearls can not be picked within the time limit, they will be punished by beheading. From ancient times to the present, there are countless egg farmers who have died for this, and occasionally there are egg farmers who pick and Nanzhu privately, and most of them are exploited by profiteers, risking their lives and harvesting, and they can only make a profit of one thousandth.

The egg people all know that the largest "Nanzhu" found in the front of the Ming Dynasty, 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 flames, the water in the pot suddenly opened, a loud bang, the pot boiled half dead giant snail 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, have escaped from the cabin, after half a day without movement, only to go back to check, only to see 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 moonlight of the sea air, the south pearl here is almost as big as a dragon's eye, it is seen under the water, the strange light is fantastic, there are few people in the world who can match it. If this trip into the water is smooth, let alone you can get 100 grains, Ruan Hei had a hard time after escaping from Vietnam, and today he actually waited for this kind of opportunity, and he finally had hope of going to France, and he was a little excited, saying that it was worth taking two big risks, and the art of egg picking was 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 sea creatures did not dare to approach, he used a searchlight to shine into the diving bell, vaguely like the shadow of a giant ship, but he did not dare to conclude that it was the "Mary Xiannu". There is also a "shipwreck cemetery" in a shallow sea near Coral Temple Island, the location is in a trench, the nearby sunken ships, pulled by the current, will fall into it, over time part of the trench is covered by 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 really caught a lot of good things, and there are also unlucky people who have spent several years of hard work and financial resources, and finally found nothing.

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 Ruan Hei, the boss of the boat, said, it was speculation, but we all felt that there was some truth and immediately made a diving plan. The diving operation is at least a group of two people, so as to take care of each other, but the people on the boat naturally can't go down all at once, I divided everyone into three teams: A, B, and C, and I was the "A team" with Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming, 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, and Team A used only three sets of heavy diving equipment to dive near the mouth of the valley to detect whether there were shipwrecks hidden in the depths of the trench. Team B and Team C took turns to collect eggs under the coral trees, considering that we had limited supplies to carry and that the "mountain moving and reclamation" technique also had certain limitations, so we could reduce the risk by completing it as soon as the walrus weather permitted.

Distributing 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 write a fun pavilion www.biquge.info 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 to operate, otherwise who knows what kind of demon moth this old guy will make. Shirley Young is the elite of the U.S. Naval Academy, an expert in diving reconnaissance, and a team of three of us dives into the trench in the coral forest, even if there is an accident, it is not difficult to get out.

The boat boss, Ruan Hei and Duo Ling are all professional egg pickers, and they still do the same work as they used to do when they go to the coral forest, and they have a certain degree of certainty. Breaking up the three of Ruan Hei and leaving the fat man who is sincerely passionate about the egg picking business to be with them can also prevent them from getting rich and leaving Team A to escape by boat. However, Ruan Hei doesn't use "Si Tianyu" and "Kui Astrolabe", I just want to be prepared in case of emergency, because I know that a poor and scared person can easily get carried away by money and do something he doesn't want to do at all, but this kind of thinking can'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 had decided on it, and they went all out to prepare. I lit an old incense burner in the shape of a copper duck at the bow of the boat, ready to invite the "melon god".