Chapter 17: Tides (Part II)
Shirley Yang smiled and said, "Why do you have to quote scriptures for everything?" Doesn't that seem particularly convincing? But what you said does make sense, to be in the same boat, we need to be united, mutual trust is extremely important, can you trust the boat boss Ruan Hei? ”
I had expected to be asked such a question by her, but I still groaned a little, thought for a while, and then said: "I only heard that Nguyen Hei is a Vietnamese Chinese, and he was exiled to the island for refuge, I don't know his past experience, and I don't know what he thinks in his heart, but the essence can be found through the phenomenon Xiàn, and from the contact these days, I think he ...... I am still a trustworthy egg farmer, I have been in the mountains in the army, and when I was in the army and doing business, I have come into contact with countless working people, and I believe that my eye will not be wrong. ”
Shirley Yang said: "That's great, since you can trust him, you should be tolerant, and I believe that the ship boss also has his reasons, so you shouldn't peep behind the cabin and break the rules on the ship, although I also feel very curious, but I think we should respect the boat boss's construction, which is called using people without suspicion, and suspects don't need to use them." ”
Under the persuasion of Shirley Young, I had to forcibly hold back my curiosity, promising not to break this taboo unless I had to. Then we went back to the cabin and started to eat the rice cooked by Doling, which she prepared three meals a day, but there were strict restrictions on the amount of water used on board, so the diet was very monotonous. We took the opportunity of the meal to gather everyone together and discuss the most important things to prepare for the imminent entry into the Coral Spiral. We are in the sea from west to east, after the current bottomless trough, the topography of the seabed will suddenly rise, bounded by the ridge of the submarine ridge, the sea area to the east is completely a coral spiral, there seems to be a sunken archipelago, surrounded by the deep sea, the seabed shows a great drop, the spiral is very close to the sea surface.
The coral spiral is divided into two large coral reefs, the inner and outer layers, the extent is large, about 100 nautical miles in diameter, and its exact shape is completely unknown, and the area in the middle of the two layers of the spiral is subsided, and there are dense coral forests and trenches. Because of the two mountains under the sea in this area, tens of thousands of years of sea air condensation, air storms and thunderstorms continue to bring year after year, electronic equipment will often fail, and there are legends such as ghosts, fires and ghosts on the bottom of the sea, so in recent hundreds of years, few people dare to enter, some speculative rescuers and salvage ships risked their lives to go, and they all went without returning, I don't know if it was because they lost their course, or encountered any other shipwreck. Some egg farmers went to the sea to collect eggs in order to make a living, and at most they only dared to go to the bottom of the sea to collect eggs in the iron bushes outside the big spiral, and never dared to cross the thunder pond for half a step, even Uncle Ming and his uncle never entered. Uncle Ming's uncle was when he was working as an egg farmer in the outer spiral, and he encountered a vicious fish under the water and died, and the corpse was not allowed to return to his homeland.
The wreck carrying the "King of Thailand's Bone Mirror", called the "Mary Sannu", is a private luxury cruise ship that belongs to a wealthy man in the South Seas. The ship deviated from course in the storm and strayed into the spiral of Lake Shan and sank, and the only surviving crew described the sinking of the "Marisanne", the bottom of the sea was illuminated by the light of the submerged fire, and the scene seemed to witness the floating of the crystal palace on the bottom of the sea.
There is a lot of oil and gas in the seabed of the South China Sea, and there are active volcanoes underground, which often erupt, but the oil and gas gushing does not have such great energy, and there are no submarine volcanoes in the sea near the coral spiral.
In feng shui, the earth, mountains and rocks in the world are divided into nine categories, including tombs, sites, shrines, ruins, covers, etc., the land of the ruins, the yin qi is the most abundant, and the essence of the sun, moon and stars can be absorbed. Judging from the two unique clues of the undersea Yin Fire and Nanzhu, the "Mary Xiannu" must be near the sea eye of the coral spiral and enter the coral spiral, as long as the remaining veins of the southern dragon on the bottom of the sea are found, it is not difficult to find the shipwreck and the underwater forest where the old mussels are in groups.
The biggest difficulty that our salvage team is facing now is how to enter the dense coral spiral of the reef, and how to identify the direction without a compass if the weather is bad.
Fortunately, we have mastered the secret thaumaturgy of ancient Chinese tomb robbers, and the feng shui secret art of touching the golden school captain has an accurate discussion of the various residual veins of the southern dragon, although the southern dragon starts from Mount Emei and finally enters the sea from Zhejiang, but the largest residual vein in the sea extends to the end of the South China Sea. Feng Shui said sea air, there is a part of the concept of tidal movement, if the current principle, actually refers to the moon and the sun gravity and the action of the ocean tide, is a kind of periodic rise and fall of sea water, because of the astronomical phenomenon related, so it is also called "astronomical tide", although the phenomenon of the sea is the same, but in time to make an artificial difference, day for the tide, night for the tide.
The moon and the sun are different from the earth, the gravitational force of the moon is more than twice as strong as the sun, so the size of the tide and the time of rise and fall are not fixed, mainly with the operation of the moon, coupled with the depth of the terrain of various sea areas, as well as the influence of factors such as latitude and radius, in addition to the semi-diurnal tide that rises and falls twice a day, there is also a full day tide that rises and falls once a day, and a mixed tide that rises and falls twice a day.
In the coral spiral sea area at the end of the southern dragon, due to the disturbance of sea air, the most common occurrence is the chaotic mixed tide, and there is a high tide around the first and fifteenth day of each month, and the "Mary Xiannu" is at the full moon, encountered a storm surge and astronomical tide concurrent sea disaster, only to be swept into the coral spiral that is difficult for large ships to enter.
Last night at sea encountered the water dragon, almost the boat sank, but this time the luck of the voyage is not bad, because of the full preparation, even if there are some twists and turns, there is no danger, did not encounter any big difficulties, and got a rare stone mirror ancient coffin, people who know the goods are all excited. At this time, adjust the course and wander along the edge of the trough, and sail until the sky is almost dawn, the sky is still overpowered, the sun, moon and stars are not visible, the sea is high and the waves are rapid, and the compass begins to fail, which is the harbinger of reaching the coral spiral. After receiving the message from Uncle Ming in the microphone, Shirley Yang and I hurried to the cockpit, took out a wooden box and a black crockpot prepared in advance, and prepared to perform the secret technique recorded in the mountain moving and filling instruction, just waiting for the time to take advantage of the morning tide to cross the reef group on the periphery of the coral spiral in one fell swoop.