Daomu Biji

In the next few days, I found a local tour guide and took a tour around various places in Jinan. However, I came from Hangzhou and saw too many cultural sights. The more I looked at it, the less interested I became. So I just went looking for it. A fishing factory drops fish.

The decadent life passed for another week, and was interrupted by two uninvited guests.

That day, I came back from the fishing factory as usual. As soon as I entered the hotel, a waiter came over and said, "Mr. Wu, there are two people looking for you."

I was stunned. Only my third uncle knew that I was in this hotel. Could it be that he was back? No, my third uncle also had the key. He would definitely go directly to the room when he came back, and would he wait for me in the lobby?

I felt strange and asked her where she was. She pointed to the hotel lobby lounge on the side.

I walked over with her, and saw a man and a woman sitting there, looking very strange.

When the two people saw me passing by, they both stood up. The man stretched out his hand to shake mine and asked, "Mr. Wu?"

I nodded and took a look at him. He was a fat man in his thirties, slightly bald, but he was very clean and it was hard to tell what his occupation was. The woman was wearing a lace shirt with the buttons unbuttoned all the way to her chest. It was billowy. I didn't dare to look at it, so I asked them, "Who are you two...?"

The man handed me a business card, and I looked at it: International Marine Resources Development Company

When I saw it, I found it a bit baffling. The so-called development of marine resources actually means inferring the location of certain sunken ships and salvaging sunken ship materials based on the analysis of various existing route information and historical records.

This kind of trading has been around since ancient times, but the real boom came after the reform and development. At that time, the so-called Nanyang fishing industry was diverted to the northwest, and a large number of tomb robbers flocked to the ancient tombs in the northwest. On the Maritime Silk Road in the South China Sea, a large number of people from all over the world also gathered. Overseas pirates of cultural relics have looted almost all the sunken ships off China's coast in the past few years.

Compared with the native masters, these people did more harm to the entire archaeology. Due to the large loading capacity of the ship, there has been a saying of "ten tombs in one ship" since ancient times. Usually, an ordinary medium-sized merchant ship can carry more than 100,000 pieces of porcelain. The profit gained from a salvage is an astronomical figure. Therefore, compared with them, a master tomb robber of the Third Uncle's level can only be regarded as a piece of cake.

The reason I find it very strange is that I have never interacted with such people. Why did they come to me? Moreover, only my third uncle knows what happened to me here. How did they find me.

When the man saw me looking at him without speaking, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable. He smiled awkwardly and said, "You probably think it's a bit... abrupt for us to come to you suddenly like this, but you will know what's going on when you hear our purpose. "

I still didn't speak and looked at him noncommittally. He had no choice but to continue: "It's actually very simple. Last week, a gentleman named Wu Sansheng came to us..."

I said "Oh" and suddenly realized that this is really obvious. Only my third uncle knows my whereabouts here, so if they come to me, they must be related to my third uncle.

Seeing my reaction, he softened his expression and continued: "Mr. Wu Sansheng and our boss are very good friends. After they met, they had a detailed discussion. I was also present at the time, and Mr. Wu Sansheng He told us a very interesting story about a possible... undersea tomb. I wonder if Mr. Wu knows about this?"

I saw that he was hesitant in speaking and very unhappy, so I made a gesture and said, "Don't worry about how much I know. Please tell me the matter simply."

He glanced at the woman next to him, as if asking for instructions. The woman nodded, and then he said: "Yes, I'll try to be as simple as possible - Mr. Wu Sansheng proposed at that time that he would jointly develop this with us. underwater ruins,

Because the clues he provided were very convincing, our board of directors agreed. Our company lent him some idle equipment and personnel in the form of a layered guarantee to search the waters near Beijiao. The situation was very bad at the beginning. Everything went smoothly until five o'clock in the afternoon the day before yesterday, when their ship suddenly disappeared from the satellite positioning system and has not appeared until now. "

His Mandarin had a strong Cantonese accent. I didn't understand it very well, but I roughly understood what happened. It seemed that the third uncle went to Xisha. He had no experience in going to sea, so he passed this international marine resources company The development company prepared the boat and equipment, but as a result, the boat disappeared after going to sea.

I had a rough idea in my mind, but when something happened suddenly, I didn't feel very worried. I asked the bald man: "Is there something wrong with the instruments on the ship? As a result, the satellite signal cannot be received?"

He patiently explained to me: "No, it won't be a malfunction. This instrument is very complicated and it's hard for me to explain it to you. But it can be likened to this analogy. This satellite positioning system is actually a black box on the ship. Unless it is affected by A very serious injury, otherwise it would not be easily damaged, so this situation is very abnormal. Something must have happened on the ship."

I looked at him and said, "A company as big as yours should go to the rescue if something happens. Why do you come to me?"

The man shook his head: "Unfortunately, we have looked for them. 48 hours after they disappeared, our ship has searched the missing sea area, but found nothing. The ship seems... as if it disappeared out of thin air."

His expression was very strange when he said it, and it seemed that he didn't quite believe his wording. He added: "Of course, how could the ship disappear out of thin air? I think it may have been an accident."

I smiled and said very politely: "Please pay attention to the point of my question. It is not what you found, but what you came to me about. Please tell me directly."

The two people looked at each other with awkward expressions, and finally the man spoke: "That's right, there are clues that your third uncle and two other people found the ancient ship three hours before the ship disappeared. Preparations are being made for entering the exact location of the ruins. So...according to time calculation, your third uncle should not have been on the boat when the boat disappeared, but in the underwater ruins..."

I was suddenly shocked. I already understood what he meant. The third uncle entered the underwater ruins, but the support from the sea suddenly disappeared. Even if they could come out smoothly, they would be in a dilemma - there was no one on the sea. Boat.

This is really a very tricky thing.

The woman saw the change in my expression and immediately continued: "We estimate that the research ship may have been hijacked by pirates. If the three investigators on the ship had entered the ruins at that time, they might have survived, but because they lost their lives at sea Support, their condition won't be any better, you know, they can't swim back."

I yelled and asked them: "After they complete their inspection, they should return the same way. By then, your rescue ship should be able to find them?"

The woman was silent for a moment and said: "In fact, in the early discussions, Mr. Wu Sansheng estimated that there is a certain amount of air in this underwater ruins. If they find that the air is breathable, they will stay in it for a while Time to prepare for the second entry, so it is very likely that the people in the ruins still don’t know that the ship above has been lost.”

"You mean, the third uncle already knows how to enter this tomb?" I asked in surprise, how is this possible, and how did he solve that key problem.

The woman shook her head: "I'm not an expert in this field. I don't know what you are talking about."

I rubbed my temples. I hadn’t used my brain for a long time, and I had a headache. I sorted out these things in my mind, and then asked them: "Then why did you come to me? What can I do about this matter?" "

The man said: "We plan to send another team down and bring up the people inside."

I thought about it and said with a smile: "It's not necessary. The people inside will come out after they finish their work. You just need to wait for them on the nearby sea."

The man shook his head and said: "This is impossible now, because a low pressure group suddenly appeared in that place, and soon, that sea area will..."

I naturally know what will happen when a low pressure group appears on the sea. If the pressure group is small, a tropical storm will appear on that sea. If it is slightly larger, then I don’t know what kind of typhoon will be generated. In this case In the harsh climate, not to mention rescue, even parking the ship there was impossible.

The man continued: "Mr. Wu, now that you understand the whole thing, we estimate that in terms of time, we still have at least three days. The most difficult situation now is not the climate at sea, but that we don't know the ruins Where is the entrance to the ruins? The last sea area located by GPS is three square nautical miles. We need someone to help us find the exact location of the ruins. It concerns your relatives, so I don’t think you can refuse..."

I remained calm on the surface, but in my heart I already knew that I had to go. Compared with others, I still knew a little about this matter, and even if I couldn't help, I could still do some assisting there. Work.

However, I always felt that there was a hint of subtle cunning in the expressions of these two people, as if something had not been explained clearly.

Out of caution, I did not express my position immediately. I smiled and asked, "Three square nautical miles is not very big. Why did you notify the Coast Guard?"

When I asked this question, both of their faces turned ugly at the same time. They looked at each other and didn't know how to answer me.

I spread my hands and looked at them, saying that I would never agree until I knew it clearly.

The man hesitated for a moment, with a strange expression on his face, and said softly: "It's our fault for this matter. I can't tell you the specific situation, but I can tell you that your third uncle got a salvage permit from Vietnam for this trip, but The location of the salvage is a bit different from what he estimated. It is in Chinese waters, so you should know what I am talking about."

I slammed the table and almost jumped up, yelling: "What! You actually did-"

Halfway through my words, I saw everyone around me looking at me, and several security guards also turned their heads. I had to swallow the second half of my sentence, shaking my head and secretly scolding my third uncle for being confused. His behavior has already involved cultural relics. Cross-border smuggling, if caught, might be shot.

The woman smiled charmingly and asked me: "How is it, Mr. Wu, we have told everything, what are your plans?"

I decided to bite the bullet, nodded, and said: What choice do I have? We'll leave immediately.