Despite being watched hostilely by a group of Indonesian natives, the trio were given unexpected clues.

Soon, after returning to the ship, Sutina took the fan . The request for the Barron was sent to the team in the country.

Unlike the usual Q&A, this time, they waited an unusually long time for a response from the domestic team.

From daytime to early morning, until Song Wenbin curled up on the main salon of the yacht and fell asleep, Su tina suddenly ran out of the cabin in a nightdress and a notebook, and couldn't help but wake up Huo Yu and Song Wenbin, who were resting on both sides of the sofa.

The photographer sitting in the corner was also awakened by her movements, and hurriedly took the machine to shoot.

"Found it!"

Sutina held the notebook and said with excitement and excitement.

As soon as he heard Su tina say that he had found it, Song Wenbin couldn't care about being tired, so he quickly rubbed his eyes and started it, drank a sip of black tea and asked, "Did you find it?" ”

"That's right." Su tina excitedly put the notebook on the coffee table, pointed to a completely English document on the computer and said: "This is the most professional academic team in China to help us find the relevant model from foreign historical documents. Barron's account. ”

Huo Yu and Song Wenbin leaned their heads together, but Song Wenbin's head knew the match, and he couldn't understand any of the letters in the literature.

Fortunately, Sutina knew English well, and she pointed to the red-lined abstract in the literature and read: "Fan. Barron, full name, Mondrian. Fan. Barron, born in 1747, was born in 1747 by his maternal ancestor, Jean Hayingen van Linschoten, one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company, and a true explorer himself, who had an uncanny fascination with sailing and wealth from a young age.

According to the literature, in 1780, the then Chinese New Year's Eve three-year-old Fan. Barron led his fleet to what was then Dutch Indonesia, where he lived for eighteen years, during which time he made detailed studies and records of the seabed topography and social features of the whole of Indonesia......"

After a pause, Sutina shook her head and said, "I think this paragraph is a disguise of history, or a fan. Barron himself concealed his own aims, for during his nearly twenty years of scientific expeditions he left not a single book, not even a single word or an article. ”

"I see, you go on."

Song Wenbin listened to Su Tina's speculation, looked at the literature and said.

"There's not much to say about Van Ballen's activities in Indonesia, but what really matters is this paragraph."

Sutina pointed to the words in the English literature and translated them word by word: "In 1797, at the age of fifty-one, Fan. Balron ended his eighteen-year scientific expedition to Indonesia and sailed a ship of his own name from Jakarta to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but no sooner had the ship crossed the Strait of Malacca and entered the Indian Ocean than it was hit by a terrible storm that destroyed the Van Balen, which had 180 sailors, and sank it to the bottom of the sea for eternity. ”

"Where is it sinking?"

Song Wenbin immediately asked.

"No one knows, none of the 180 people on that ship survived." Sutina said softly.

Song Wenbin was stunned, he opened his mouth, and subconsciously looked back at the dark sea water outside the porthole of the yacht, and his back was a little cold for a while.

"Nobody knows...?" Huo Yu asked again.

"There is no living mouth." Sutina said firmly; "At that time, there were no satellite records, let alone navigation recorders. How do you know where you sank? In fact, it wasn't until two months later that Fan. The Barron did not return to the port of Amsterdam on time, and it was only discovered that it had sunk. It was later speculated that it encountered a storm in the Indian Ocean, as it was the biggest climate disaster of the year. ”

Huo Yu was silent.

Song Wenbin shuddered, couldn't help but light a cigarette, calmed down the surging fear in his heart, sat on the sofa and began to think.

After pondering for a long time, he asked, "If according to what the guy named Aconitum said today, Fan. The Barron carried tens of billions of dollars of wealth, and even if Van Barren wanted to hide this wealth, then I don't believe that the Dutch East India Company itself did not know about it, and so many treasures sank to the bottom of the sea with the Van Baren, and their company did not send people to find or salvage them? ”

Huo Yu also looked at Su Tina, and Song Wenbin's question also made her feel a little confused.

In the smoke, Sutina bit her finger and fell into deep thought.

The light of the notebook shone on Sutina's face, and she bit her fingers, her big eyes flickering in the night.

Biting her nails and thinking on the sofa for a long time, Sutina slowly spoke: "I don't know these things, but based on world history, it is speculated that in 1799, only two years after the sinking of the Van Balen, the Dutch East India Company was dissolved.

The background of its dissolution has nothing to do with the world environment, in that Age of Discovery, the Dutch and the British were constantly at war, and the two countries fought at sea for hundreds of years from the 17th century, and in the early days of the war, the Dutch had always occupied the absolute superiority on the sea. But in the eighteenth century, the sea was abrupt.

After a long battle between the Netherlands and France on land, the English aristocracy ousted King James II and established a constitutional monarchy, known as the Glorious Revolution, in a bloodless and peaceful manner.

Before the war, after nearly a hundred years of drunkenness and the consumption of European hegemony, the Netherlands was no longer the world hegemon that it was back then. At this time, the British Empire had won the Seven Years' War and annexed French colonies in India and North America. ”

Listening to Sutina's words, Song Wenbin seemed to hear endless shouts and artillery fire, and the girl's brief description made him travel through time and space and return to the treacherous Age of Discovery.

In the silent cabin, the white-haired girl described coldly: "In 1780, Britain unilaterally abrogated the treaties of the Anglo-Dutch alliance led by William III on the grounds that the Netherlands supported the American Revolutionary War, and launched the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War.

Relying on its superior navy, Britain completely defeated the disarmed Netherlands and plundered the Netherlands' rich caravan supplies and colonies.

The war not only brought down the Netherlands, but also caused an economic crisis for the Dutch East India Company, which was finally dissolved on December 31, 1799. The sea coachmen and colonial empires that once dominated the 17th century collapsed and declined with the war. Against such a background, who can have the energy and ability to search the entire sea to find the whereabouts of a sunken ship. ”

After a pause, Sutina said softly: "Not only that, I think that the Fourth Anglo-Dutch Naval Battle originated in 1780, which was the time of the last naval duel between the Netherlands and the British. And at that point in time, Fan. The reason behind Barron's coming to Indonesia to carry out a large-scale seabed salvage, coupled with his own identity, I don't believe there is no political element to it. ”

"Wonderful."

Song Wenbin groaned.

Sutina's analysis was very much to his appetite, and he instinctively felt that this analysis was correct. Even if a few of them searched in a small area in Indonesia, there was a shadow of the country behind them, so he didn't believe that no country was involved in the nearly twenty-year search of the Van Balen. ”

Huo Yu stared at the notebook with his arms in his arms for a while, and said: "This is good news for us, if the Van Balen has not been salvaged and is still lying on the bottom of the sea at the moment, then there is no doubt that even if there is no nine-pattern dragon treasure chest presented to Zhu Di by the fisherman Wang Jin on that ship, then its value is enough for us to complete this important mission." ”

"Not bad."

Song Wenbin nodded: "But just these clues are not enough for us to find the wreck, these information are too brief." ”

Sutina clicked on the computer with her mouse and said, "Although Van Baren himself died in the sea, the cemetery is still hidden in the national cemetery of the Netherlands. Including his descendants, they are still alive. You look at the byline of this article. ”

She pulled the document to the top and pointed to the title of the paper: "The title of this paper is 'The Location and Speculation of the Sinking of the Van Baren's.' Morality. Dr. Witte was published in the journal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Social Sciences in 1923. ”

She clicked on the person's name, and immediately another row of data appeared, and Sutina said, "This Dr. Pierre's ancestor is none other than Fan. Barron's family, by blood, is probably his great-nephew, and since 1893 he has been teaching in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, where he has devoted himself to researching and collating the history of the Dutch East India Company. These documents were also found by the national team from the library website of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.

But only a small part of the literature can be read, most of the content is hidden, and the originals are stored in the library of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, where outsiders cannot peep into it. ”

After a pause, Sutina said: "Another point worth mentioning is that the former site of the current University of Amsterdam is the former headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. ”

Song Wenbin's eyes widened instantly.

"Can you pay?" he asked subconsciously.

Huo Yu sneered: "You think this kind of information is an online article." ”

Sutina shook her head, "There is no such thing as paying to read, many of the materials of the University of Amsterdam are not publicly available, after all, this is the twenty-first university in the world, and there are many top-secret materials." ”

Song Wenbin exhaled a long breath and spread his hand: "Please, this is an unlimited special, there will always be a way." ”

Way.....

In the dark night, the three of them looked at each other.

"There's no other way."

"The power of the network is limited, and if we want to find out more about the Van Baren, we have to go to the University of Amsterdam and find all the information about the Van Baren," Sutina said slowly. ”

Huo Yu said softly: "Go to the Netherlands? ”

Su tina looked at Song Wenbin: "Brother Song, what do you think?" ”

"Holy shit..."

Song Wenbin sighed: "It's crazy, it's not enough to go to Indonesia, but also to go to the Netherlands?" As he spoke, he looked at director Bowley, who was squatting next to the camera, and asked, "Is there a time limit for our program?" ”

Bowley was silent, without replying, like a machine that could only shoot and record.

Song Wenbin shook his head and sighed: "Then let's go to the Netherlands, it's just that we don't know each other well, and that place is not a vegetable market, you can enter if you want, and you can go out if you want." We're going to that kind of place, and if no one cooperates, we probably won't be able to move an inch. ”

"I'll ask." Huo Yu stood up from the sofa and said, "There are probably people in the company who know more about that side. ”

After speaking, Huo Yu walked to the flybridge, took out his mobile phone and started calling.

Song Wenbin then thought that Huo Yu had won the European Championships before, and he must have been to Europe.

After a phone call, Huo Yu came back, and she said: "I just contacted the producer of our show, and the producer said that she is very familiar with the situation in the Netherlands and Europe, and she is willing to personally help us get the specific sinking location of the Van Balen." ”

"Really?" Sutina's eyes lit up.

"Producer?" Song Wenbin asked.

"Yes, producer and chief planner." Huo Yu said: "But the premise is that we must go to Amsterdam to meet her first. ”

Song Wenbin has been in the program team for so long, and he has always been at the executive end of the program, and he doesn't know anything about the people on the show, but since he is the producer and the planner..."

Song Wenbin's fist subconsciously hardened, Nigeria, the Caribbean, Seoul, Siberia, and even Indonesia this time, God knows how much he was tortured by madness.

And the person who tortured him was undoubtedly the group of planning team colleagues who had never met.

"yes, I can't wait to meet them." Song Wenbin gritted his teeth and said.