Chapter 263: Searching for the Shipwreck
All the spectators cheered up.
People seem to be born with the gene of treasure hunting, no matter whether they have done it or not, but there will always be such a "dream" to get rich overnight through treasure hunting.
Knowledgeable viewers began to introduce the general information of the wreck in a serious manner.
In the 19th century, when China was still at the end of the Qing Dynasty, its national strength was weakened.
On the contrary, it was Britain's most glorious moment. They are most famous for their warships adrift at sea, plundering the whole world and reaching the pinnacle of life.
In particular, the YP war against our country was launched, unequal trade relations were established with the Qing Dynasty, and YP was illegally smuggled to be sold all over the world, which also made a lot of wealth for Britain. It was a great and prosperous time for the British at the time.
In 1850, Britain was the first to complete the Industrial Revolution and became the "factory of the world", accounting for more than half of the world's total steel production.
At that time, the strongest warships in Europe were still built of pine or fir wood, lacking durability and resistance to blows, but the British Empress ordered to lead the world in building ironclad warships that could prevent shelling and never sink.
And the shipwreck that everyone sees now is also one of the masterpieces of that time.
I have to say that netizens are still powerful, and they quickly revealed the origin of the shipwreck.
"I don't know if there is any treasure in this shipwreck."
"What if there are treasures? We can only get over it, even if it is the owner of the island, does he dare to take it? ”
"Yes! It's not good, there are people from the cultural relics department watching the show in the live broadcast room. ”
"If there is a treasure, they will be faster than the police."
……
As netizens expected, there are really young people in the cultural relics department watching the show.
The cultural relics department is usually very idle, and it is normal to go to work to pass the time and brush up on videos or something.
Liao Fan is one of them, the moment he saw the shipwreck on the seabed, the occupational disease instantly came to his head, put down the coffee in his hand, and immediately rushed to the office of his leader.
"Director, Director, good news, good news......"
"Little Liao! What's up? Panicked. "His leader, at the moment, is drinking tea.
When they go to work, they drink tea when they have time, and they drink tea when they don't have time, so many leaders are addicted to tea.
If it was usual, the director might be displeased. But Liao Fan just said that there was good news, so he forgave him for his recklessness this time.
"Director, someone has found a shipwreck on the bottom of the sea."
Director Hao was stunned for a moment, and then rejoiced.
"Oh? What's the treasure...... Cultural relic? Clear? ”
It's just a shipwreck, it's not worth their dispatch, it depends on whether there are valuable treasures on the shipwreck.
I almost missed my mouth just now.
"I don't know yet, Director." As he spoke, Liao Fan handed over his mobile phone, which was playing pictures of Zhang Yaohua, Shui Wang, and the photographer exploring the shipwreck.
Director Hao took a look, the wreck was quite large, estimated to be about 100 meters long.
In the 19th century, such a long warship was already quite remarkable, at least pirates would not dare to provoke them.
The row of gun windows on the battleship makes people feel a little hairy.
"This kind of shipwreck?" Director Hao frowned slightly.
Obviously, in his opinion, this kind of shipwreck has no salvage value, wastes manpower, material and financial resources, and is a thankless job.
"Director, someone just said that this is a British battleship more than a hundred years ago. More than a hundred years ago, the British came to us, which time did not return with a full load? Liao Fan has his own unique opinions.
He expected that the wreck must have contained a great deal of Chinese wealth.
Well?
When Director Hao heard this, he was immediately interested.
Makes sense!
At that time, the British were robbing and looting all over the world, and returned empty? Is it possible? Even if they get to some barren land, they have to dig three feet into the ground and find a way to get something valuable back.
The history of Britain is actually the history of robbers.
"Director, do you think we should send someone over immediately? I'm afraid that the brother departments in other places will take the lead, and we will ......," Liao Fan expressed his concerns.
For a shipwreck suspected of having a lot of wealth, the cultural relics departments everywhere must be salivating.
Regardless of whether there are dates or not, let's talk about it after knocking a few strokes first, anyway, they don't have any big losses, at most it's just empty joy.
"Hmmm! Know where they are? Inform our people, prepare immediately, and don't lose time. "Director Hao is not stupid.
How can a person who can sit in such a position be stupid?
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At this moment, Zhang Yaohua and Shui Wang walked in front and officially entered the inside of the wreck.
To tell the truth, this kind of shipwreck is a bit eerie and terrifying, it is dark inside, and it always feels like there is some monster hidden, and many viewers who watched the show sweated for Zhang Yaohua.
The photographer is also a timid person, so he hurriedly followed, as if he was afraid that Zhang Yaohua and Shui Wang would leave him behind.
The audience couldn't help but be amused.
The men in this program group seem to be as timid as mice, and the last time they were looking for the missing person, everyone saw it.
On the yacht, Director Wang of the program team has received a call from the relevant departments, asking him to provide relevant information and so on. In short, the attitude is not particularly good, and there is a kind of commanding posture.
When Director Wang heard it, it was just a county-level Qingshui department, and he didn't bother to talk to him.
It's not that he looks down on county-level departments, if it's those departments that are more powerful, he can't do it inappropriately. But the cultural relics department is not a power department in the first place, and it is still at the county level, so it is completely a small Karami.
"Director Wang, there is another call, this time it is the cultural relics department of Jiang City, the attitude is okay, do you want to ......" A staff member of the program team came over and asked.
Municipal?
The most important thing is attitude.
In this case, Director Wang doesn't want to be unpleasant with others. He asked the assistant director to watch and went to answer the phone first.
When he answered the phone, Zhang Yaohua took Shui Wang and the photographer into the wreck.
Surprisingly, the wreck didn't have much silt. I don't want other shipwrecks, and when I find them, they are often buried under the silt on the seabed.
In fact, Zhang Yaohua and others, who are at the bottom of the sea, will understand the reason.
In this sea area, there are torrents on the bottom of the sea, and the sea water is surging. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that this sea is so "prosperous", full of vibrant scenes, that attracts dugongs.
Unlike some of the seabeds, it is very desolate and devoid of life.
Zhang Yaohua: They came to the negative floor of the deck.
Here, you can see cannons that have been eroded by the sea for so many years, and the surface is rusty.
Suddenly, the camera flickered, and whether it was Zhang Yaohua, Shui Wang, or the photographer in the lens, they all seemed to be frightened to a certain extent.
Many viewers were also taken aback.
In the darkness, suddenly a huge shadow rushed over and swept past Zhang Yaohua and the others, and the speed was very fast.
"! What is it? I'm scared to death. ”
"Too fast, I didn't see clearly."
"It looks like an octopus! Look and scare you. ”
"Bullshit octopus, is the octopus that big? I feel about the size of a human being. ”
"Brother, then you probably haven't seen the king octopus."
……
Someone began to popularize the king octopus.
Actually, it's the king squid.
The record holder for the largest octopus in the world is a Pacific giant octopus with a circumference of 9.1 meters and a weight of 272 kilograms. An octopus of that size can fight with sperm whales.
In the past, technology was not very developed, and this deep-sea giant became a nightmare for many sailors, thinking that it was some deep-sea monster.
Even if this thing looks scary, it's still very smart, like a sapient creature, which once made human scientists wary.
It is said that octopuses have nine "brains". In addition to a large central brain, their eight tentacles are also filled with tens of thousands of neurons.
This means that each tentacle is like another "brain", and each tentacle has its own thoughts.
Nine "brains" act in a dispersed manner, quickly sensing and detecting changes in the surrounding environment, and making judgments in a short period of time.
In addition, they have three hearts, a complex nervous system, and two memory systems, allowing them to react autonomously and even solve complex problems.
If the thing just now is a giant octopus, it can only be said that it is still a baby octopus.
At this time, Zhang Yaohua shone the light behind him and pointed with his finger.
The photographer turns the camera away.
Forgive him for his bad eyesight, he really didn't see anything. Seeing Zhang Yaohua and Shui Wangxu having an affair, his heart trembled, and he secretly thought that he couldn't have seen something dirty, right?
In fact, the vast majority of viewers, like photographers, can't see anything.
"Hey! What's there? Don't scare me! "There was an audience speaker.
For a while, the audience watched the show and became "the whole people find fault".
A powerful audience has already seen the problem and preemptively announced: "The octopus just now, right there, didn't you see it?" ”
The others were still confused.
There's an octopus in the shot?
Are you kidding?
The octopus just now looks the size of an adult, if it is in the camera, it is impossible not to see it, right? Moreover, the shadow I saw just now seems to be red, which is easy to recognize.
Some people have cross-eyed eyes, but they don't notice it, and some are annoyed and angry and say nonsense, what kind of octopus?
Shui Wang's courage was a little bigger, and he walked over alone.
In fact, he dared to go over because he knew what it was. If it was something unknown, he wouldn't have the guts.
At the moment when Shui Wang approached, the "ship skin" suddenly jumped out and fled deeper into the cabin.
Only then did everyone see that it was really an octopus.
"Mom! This camouflage technique is too strong, I can't see it anyway. ”
"I'm the same."
"Convinced, how did they see it?"
"Those of us who live by the sea can basically see the octopus." Someone boasted.
……
Some people only know that octopuses can change color, just like chameleons.
As everyone knows, skin discoloration is just a basic operation for people.
The skin of an octopus is made up of pigment-filled elastic cells that are able to stretch and stretch at will, changing size and color to suit their surroundings.
In addition to changing color, they can also deform.
Octopuses are able to mimic a variety of animals, such as banded flounders, sea snakes, and lionfish, and these imitations are not limited to color changes, but also include changes in shape and texture, allowing them to blend in with different environmental backgrounds.
In fact, if you look closely, you will find that many creatures in nature have "special functions".
Except for the fact that human beings are a little more intelligent, they are weaker than other creatures.
This may be a gain and a loss!
Zhang Yaohua and the others continued to go down, and they saw the engine of the sunken ship.
This kind of old and toothy engine, I'm afraid only people who know how can explain it to you.
The "wisdom group" of the program group is obviously no longer enough, and there are no more narrators.
You must know that after Zhang Yaohua and them went into the water, because they couldn't speak, someone narrated them, all to increase the watchability of the program group.
Some viewers questioned whether a ship that was only about 100 meters long needed such a large engine?
The professional explained to everyone on the spot that because the steam engine technology in the past was not very mature and the compression efficiency was very low, it was made very large.
Like the engine in front of you, there are 10 coal-fired boilers, each with four furnace openings for coaling.
At full power, the ship requires nearly 20 Popeye underneath the ship to shovel coal, consuming nearly a ton of coal per hour and about 850 tons of coal on the entire bottom deck.
"So, there's no need to keep exploring, it's definitely coal down there." The professional spoke very firmly on the public screen of the live broadcast.
Coal isn't worth much, unless you own large coal fields, coal hills.
Fishing for coal at the bottom of the sea is a laugh-out.
Some expressed disbelief.
The professional even had to bet with someone that if he guessed wrong, he would give 10,000 gifts to the live broadcast room.
As Zhang Yaohua and the others continued to go down, what entered the camera was really a mountain of coal.
The crowd was speechless.
Isn't this a waste of expressions?
I thought I could see a treasure hunt! Who knows if you find a pile of coal, that thing is not worth anything.
Some people said that such a large shipwreck can be sold for a lot of money when salvaged and sold for scrap iron.
was immediately complained by many people.
You don't mention the cost of salvage!
Not to mention these scrap iron, there is now a serious surplus of steel just baked in China. Those abandoned giant ships, they are troublesome, some of them directly drive abroad to deal with, and even pay for others to dismantle.
How stupid is it to salvage a sunken ship to sell scrap iron?
Since there is nothing to see here, Zhang Yaohua took Shui Wang and the photographer to other areas to have a look.
On the way, Shui Wang picked up a dagger-like short knife, which was still shiny and shiny despite being soaked in the sea for so long, and the handle of the knife was inlaid with something similar to a gem.
Anyone can see that it's a good thing.
Zhang Yaohua picked up a box of gold coins, estimated to be as many as hundreds, which made the photographer's saliva almost drool with envy.
In the end, he was reluctant to leave the shipwreck, and wanted to continue the search, maybe he could also pick up some treasures! However, seeing Zhang Yaohua and Shui Wang leaving, he also had to follow.
(End of chapter)