66, 100 meters deep
"Eh, no?"
Facing Song Wenbin's answer, Huo Yu was not much surprised.
"No, no, these things are enough for us."
She pointed to the gold and silver around her and said: "We have found treasures, we have made enough films, this is quite a wonderful show, both for the country and for the audience, it is enough." ”
There was an indescribable relief and relief in her tone, and it was clear that she really felt that these things were enough.
But Song Wenbin doesn't think so, gold and silver jewelry, gold statues, ancient porcelain, or these piles of artifacts are not what the country ultimately wants, or even what the audience ultimately wants, if they come to find the nine-pattern dragon treasure chest, they end up bringing back a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the box. This feels no less than the audience obviously came to see him misogynistic, but in the end they saw him making love with a beautiful girl, which was unbearable... Intolerable... Intolerable...
He tugged at the panicked collar around his neck, climbed down from the hill of gold coins, and climbed back from the sampan back to the Shenxing Taipo without looking back. Sutina was squatting beside Aconitum to guard him, and when she saw Song Wenbin coming back, she stood up and asked, "Brother Song, how is it?" ”
Song Wenbin didn't answer, he walked directly to the black head, directly pulled out the gun, pointed at his head and suppressed the restlessness and said, "What about the Nine Pattern Dragon Treasure Chest?" ”
Su tina was startled by Song Wenbin's sudden movements, and hurriedly grabbed him and exclaimed, "Brother Song..."
Song Wenbin pushed her away and asked the aconite in a loud voice: "Where is the nine-pattern dragon treasure chest!?" ”
At this time, the film crew and Huo Yu also hurriedly climbed up, and they couldn't help but shudder when they saw Song Wenbin pointing a gun at the aconitum with a gun.
Aconite looked up at Song Wenbin's face, and when he saw his appearance, he couldn't help but smile: "I don't know..... What are you talking about.... Friends...."
"A box!"
Song Wenbin squatted down, grabbed the collar of the aconite, and said sharply: "A box with nine dragons tattooed!"
There are three treasures inside!
”
As he spoke, the wind and waves on the sea seemed to be stronger.
"Oh, you said that....."
Aconite suddenly realized, "I seem, I do remember such a thing.... But I don't know what the box contains, it's possible, it's really something valuable, but there are so many valuable things on the Van Balen that I can't react at once......"
"Where did you put it!?" Song Wenbin asked impatiently.
"It's on the Queen of Poison."
"Why hasn't it been salvaged?"
"How long has it been? Can they be salvaged? ”
Aconitum sneered, "Do you know what the concept of ten billion dollars of treasure is? Do you know how deep the sea is down here? ”
Song Wenbin was silent.
"I chose this place carefully because the seabed here is sloped, 40 or 50 meters shallow and more than 80 meters deep."
After a pause, Aconitum said: "Although my Indonesian friends are all outstanding in water, it is still a little difficult to dive below fifty meters, as for the box with nine dragons you said, I remember that there were many boxes in the Van Balen at that time, so I put it in the cargo hold of the bow, and the gold bars were placed in the stern for secondary salvage later." I think that box is still in the bow. If you want, go down and salvage it now. ”
Song Wenbin stared at the eyes of the aconitum for a while, then silently withdrew the gun, handed it to the captain on the side, and finally walked under the cabin.
Everyone saw Song Wenbin's thoughts and followed behind him.
Huo Yu said a few words in Su Tina's ear, Su Tina suddenly became a little nervous, she caught up with Song Wenbin, and asked beside him, "Brother Song, do you really want to go down?" ”
"Why not."
Song Wenbin said expressionlessly.
"But, I think..... We're pretty much there. ”
Sutina said with some uneasiness: "Huo Yu thinks so, I also think it's about the same. ”
"Almost."
"Yes." Sutina said: "We have found enough treasures, if we return to China now, no one will say anything about us, but if we continue to enter the water, I don't know how long it will take, if it drags on for a long time, it will not be good when the Indonesian coast guard comes." After all, so many people have just been arrested, and no one knows if they have ....."
While speaking, Song Wenbin came to the place where the diving equipment was stored in the cabin of the Shenxing Taibao, and the medical engineers and engineers in the team greeted him.
If nothing was found, Song Wenbin felt that he would leave if he left, and it would make no difference if he returned to China anyway, but now, when the Nine-Pattern Dragon Treasure Chest was close to Chi Chi, he said that he didn't want to leave like this.
"Brother Song..."
Sutina also tried to persuade him.
"Do you think like this before the college entrance examination?" Song Wenbin asked.
"No, what are you thinking, of course not."
Sutina said in surprise, "But.... There's no comparison to this kind of thing. ”
"It's all the same for me." Song Wenbin said: "I don't want to disappoint others. ”
"You don't want to disappoint people."
Sutina repeated, her expression a little glazed.
"Not bad."
Song Wenbin decisively began to take off his shirt: "I don't want to go back like this, give an ambiguous answer to the above, I've had enough, almost life." ”
In the blink of an eye, all he had left was his underwear and he was starting to put on his wetsuit.
Sutina looked at Huo Yu helplessly, Huo Yu put down the arm he was holding, sighed, and silently took off his shirt.
"Huo Yu?" Sutina was surprised.
"I'll go down with him, and if anything happens, I'll have a baby."
Song Wenbin, who was wearing a diving suit, said: "You don't have to go down with me this time, the goal is not big, I am enough alone." ”
"You don't want to disappoint others, I still hate other people's gossip, if I don't get tired of the teacher and don't come up, I'm afraid I'll be sprayed into a sieve by your group of brainless fans."
Song Wenbin was stunned, he didn't expect Huo Yu to find such a reason: "I ....." What else he wanted to distinguish.
"Don't be long-winded, I don't need you to teach me how to do things." Huo Yu interrupted him directly, she skillfully changed into her wetsuit, and ordered, "Zip it for me." ”
Song Wenbin was silent, he hesitated for a moment, but still walked behind Huo Yu and helped her zip up her wetsuit. After putting on the wetsuit, Huo Yu walked up to him and helped him zip his back.
Sutina bit her lower lip and looked at the two colleagues, and said softly, "In that case, I'll help you watch it from above." ”
"I'm sorry for you." Huo Yu said.
Seeing that the three members of the team all agreed on their opinions, all the personnel of the entire Shenxing Taibao were operating at the same time.
Soon, the front hatch of the Shenxing Taipo opened, the platform for underwater exploration was pushed out, and the helium oxygen cylinders and medical team were all in place, and the helium oxygen used in the saturation dive began to be in full swing.
The night grew thicker, and the moonlight shone on the water, not only did not make it brighter, but set off the deep sea below.
Before finally entering the water, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu sat on the diving platform together, waiting for the rest of the team to be ready.
If nothing else, this will be their last deep dive, and at this time, it would be a lie to say that the mood is not complicated.
Song Wenbin looked at the bottomless swell under him, his eyes turned to the colleague next to him, and saw that she still had bruises and blood marks from the aconitum on her face, he couldn't help but persuade: "Are you really okay, you are still injured." ”
Huo Yu glanced at him and didn't answer his question, but asked to himself, "Is this how you have achieved a million fans?" ”
"What?" Song Wenbin didn't understand why Huo Yu asked him such a question at such a time.
"Want to prove yourself?"
Huo Yu said in a voice that only they could hear.
Song Wenbin looked at her, not knowing how to answer, he didn't think about this kind of question in detail, why did he do a live broadcast, why did he want to be misogynistic, why he wanted to insist on going into the water. Something had become part of his instincts, like his breath, a part of his life.
"Perhaps." Song Wenbin replied in a low voice.
"It's okay." Huo Yu lowered his head, lightly dabbled his feet with water and said, "I have also had such a time. ”
Oh, yes.
Song Wenbin thought to herself, how can she not be a person who wants to prove herself if she can win the European Championships at such a young age, it's just that she has probably proven herself a long time ago, won the championship, opened the dragon field, and became a supervisor, and he is just a twenty-five-year-old street walker who has achieved nothing, and he doesn't know what to do except for the live broadcast.
"But ....."
Huo Yu raised his head and looked at Song Wenbin seriously, wanting to say something.
Song Wenbin also pricked up his ears, but at this time, the medical doctor behind him came over and handed them the breathing mask connected to helium and oxygen.
"This time the depth of the water is eighty meters, or even deeper. I'm not sure how long you'll have to look down there to find it, but remember to end the search before the air pressure is halved, otherwise it will be very dangerous. The medical doctor admonished in a solemn voice.
"Roger." Song Wenbin said, putting the breathing mask on his face.
Huo Yu thought about it, but after all, he didn't say anything, and silently put the breathing mask on his face.
The two took a deep breath of helium and oxygen, and the film crew members on the side also changed into diving suits, and as an assistant, they wanted to go into the water with Song Wenbin and Huo Yu.
At this time, there are no more words, and every minute and every second is extremely precious.
After a short and long ten minutes of oxygen inhalation, helium and oxygen filled every cell in Song Wenbin, Su Tina personally helped them carry the heavy oxygen cylinder, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu made an OK gesture to each other, and the two nodded. With a kick of his legs, he sank into the inky water with the members of the film crew.
With the bubbles rising and the rumbling sound of water in his ears, the moment he entered the water, Song Wenbin's restless heart calmed down, and he felt that he had never longed for the final victory as much in his life as he did now, nor had he been so focused.
The distance of twenty meters was almost fleeting, and soon, the companions of the film crew were left behind by him, and he and Huo Yu entered the deeper waters together. Unlike every previous dive, this dive was late at night, there was no light on the bottom of the sea, and the only thing used for lighting was the spotlight on his and Huo Yu's shoulders.
Soon, when he dive to a depth of forty meters, under the illumination of the spotlights, Song Wenbin saw a behemoth of a model lake on the seabed. It lay leaning on the seabed, the icy waters flowing slowly, enveloping the wreck like a gray curtain, sealing it like a coffin, so that it would be buried forever under the deep seabed.
The Queen of Poison.
Twenty years ago, the salvage ship of the Van Baren was salvaged.
Sutina's voice with electricity came from his ears: "The sonar shows that the overall length of this ship is ninety meters, sinking at forty-five degrees, and the height difference between the bow and stern is forty meters, you take your time, don't let the pressure increase too quickly." ”
Song Wenbin made an OK gesture to the camera on his forehead, and after his body was almost used to the water pressure, the two continued downward.
Closer to the wreck, Song could see the steel structures wrapped in silt and coral reefs, which, unlike the Van Ballen, were very modern, almost indistinguishable from Jiaolong's parent ship, the Xiangyanghong. Due to the short period of time since it was sunk, the messy steel frame and equipment had not yet been completely encased by microorganisms, and some faint letters of English could even be seen on its surface.
Of course, in addition to the broken structures, Song Wenbin could also see a large number of coins and porcelain fragments scattered on the deck, and these items were so numerous that after Song Wenbin and Huo Yu landed on the sand, they could still see scattered cultural relics everywhere.
Even Song Wenbin, who didn't know much about archaeology, couldn't help but feel a little tingling in his heart when he saw these fragments. Obviously, those Indonesians don't want to think about the value of cultural relics at all when salvage, they just want to quickly finish the salvage and leave, as for protection, that is completely out of their consideration.
Of course, he didn't have time to think about this, every second of time on the bottom of the sea was extremely precious, and the cultural relics in the stern were not in his consideration, he and Huo Yu stepped on the gold coins that could be seen everywhere, along the sloping seabed, little by little, to the depths.
After descending twenty meters, sixty meters underwater.
He and Huo Yu came to the middle of the Queen of Poison, where they could vaguely see the red English sign of The Queen of Poison on the side of the cabin, but the English was broken from it.
What caused it to break was a large gap, radial, a full ten meters in diameter, from which the internal structure of the hull could be clearly seen, as well as some of the marine fish that had made their home here.
Song Wenbin and Huo Yu glanced at each other, although they were already mentally prepared, but when they saw this kind of rift, they still couldn't hide the horror in their hearts.
The people at Odyssey didn't lie, the former Ronald. In order to prevent the ship from being found by Indonesia, Hatcher blew it up and sank it to the bottom of the sea.
Huo Yu grabbed Song Wenbin, pointed to the bow of the boat, waved his hand, and pointed to the gap.
Song Wenbin understood what she meant, this was to let him enter through the gap and search for the wreck from the inside. After all, in Aconite's dictation, the nine-patterned dragon treasure chest was placed by him in the cargo hold at the bow of the ship.
Song Wenbin tapped the camera on his head.
Sutina's voice immediately came from the headphones: "Go in, I'll help you look around, but remember to be careful, I don't know the internal structure of this ship, don't let those steel structures damage your equipment." ”
Song Wenbin made an OK, jumped up lightly with Huo Yu, and drilled into the sunken ship from the huge gap that had been blown open.
Through a massive crack the size of a radiating petal, the two swam into the rusty, chaotic cabin.
The cabin was pitch black, and the water was rich in microorganisms, and only two bright round spots could be seen under the spotlight on the shoulder.
Tables and chairs are broken, decks are collapsing, and rusted ceilings look down on dead silence. Passing through the rusted steel doors, you can see the broken and twisted cabins, which have been torn apart and crushed in the explosion, twisting the original passage like a labyrinth. As Song Wenbin slowly swam past it, some frightened thick moray eels quickly retracted their heads from the twisted slits.
Due to the complicated terrain in the cabin, Song Wenbin took off the flashlight on his shoulder and shone it around. Broken gauges were scattered all over the tattered seats, and a few curious sea fish hovered high on the ceiling, staring at him curiously.
Suddenly, Huo Yumeng grabbed Song Wenbin's arm and pointed to a place, Song Wenbin turned his head to look, and his heart stopped beating half a beat. Even in the headphones, there was the sound of Sutina gasping.
Five meters away from them, in the hallway, an iron cabinet full of coins was overturned, and under the cabinet, three gray-black skeletons twisted and entangled, and the outstretched arm of one of them could be faintly seen.
They soaked in the flowing waters, motionless, as if witnessing the despair of the terrible explosion decades ago.
Although Song Wenbin had seen some people who died in shipwrecks when he was on the Van Ballen, at that time they were separated by the thick Jiaolong, and they were far less shocked by such close and intuitive contact, and besides, these people did not die from shipwrecks, but from conspiracy.
Obviously, Aconite didn't talk to his crew when he sank the ship, or rather, he didn't even think about letting these people leave alive with secrets. As witnesses of great treasures, these lonely souls are eternally sealed under the sea.