Chapter 31: The Pearl in the Conch (Next)

Most of the rice cooked by Duo Ling is Vietnamese flavor, sour and sweet, coupled with the limited materials on board, the monotonous diet day in and day out, I ate it as painful as taking medicine, hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls, and then described the topography of the seabed on the map to the crowd, “Coral Spiral” is actually an oval ring of islands, and the periphery of the circle is a reef, which is what the Sea Wolf said about the outer spiral, the inner topography is complicated. This is what the sea wolf called the outer spiral, the outer spiral of the complex internal terrain, the more to the middle of the terrain gradually high, the highest point in the middle, should be the tide level is lowered to reveal the surface of the “Ghost Island”, this area is likely to be with the continental shelf sinking submerged island mountain range, the bottom of the sea there are a number of bottomless troughs leading to the outer sea.

Outer spiral and ghost island between a region, terrain depression, shaped like a basin, the seabed is full of coral iron tree, rows into a rolling seabed forest, some of the large coral trees up to dozens of meters high, according to the sky, although it is at the bottom of the sea, but it still looks spectacular, which belongs to a quality such as tortoiseshell translucent tree is the most conspicuous, that should be close to the eye of the sea, is a thousand years feel the essence of the sun and the moon! This old tree is the first target for us to collect eggs, the water depth is about 70 to 80 meters.

In addition in this tree side, there is a valley, it is difficult to judge its depth, according to the Mary Sennu shipwreck surviving crew recalled that their ship was swept by the hurricane into the usually insurmountable outer spiral, sunken at the bottom of the sea is as bright as day, that is the best proof of undersea dragon fire burning, I estimate that these undersea rift valley, is probably the South Dragon yin fire gushing, if the depth of more than 200 meters, even if we know that the Mary Sennu ship sank into the If the depth is more than two hundred meters, even if we know that the Mary Sinnoh has sunk into the sea trough, we can only sigh and do nothing about it. Moreover, the submerged currents in the sea trough are surging, and once it falls into the depth, God knows where the ship will be washed to.

After I finished, the boat boss Ruan Hei to add, Ruan Hei as a fisherman, but also did the egg people, in the Coral Temple Island to maintain one of the important ways to make ends meet, is to help salvage teams to fish the “green head”, and the egg people themselves can be considered semi-professional divers, with his experience in egg harvesting, and to fish the “green head” understanding, the egg people themselves even semi-professional diving, with his experience in egg harvesting, and to fish the “green head” understanding. Green head” understanding, this undersea forest in the evil fish is very much, the danger of going into the water to pick eggs is very big, but just in the diving bell to see clearly, deep water, those old mussels do not contain beads, the moon’s shadow of the essence of the Hua flash, the value of the value of the high is never seen in my life, this kind of heavenly creation, is the bottom of the sea by the bell of the spiritual qi, I’m afraid that only the coral spiral only have.

Since ancient times, the people of the South China Sea islands, the most bitter to the egg people, if their encounters are summarized, enough to get out of a thicker than the “Sea of words” and “egg people’s history of blood and tears”, the beads traditionally have “East Pearl” and “South Pearl” points, the Manchu Ningguta Linhe real estate “Dongzhu”, the average weight of each grain of about two or three money, most of the azure or white, there are a small number of pink, history records by far the largest one Dongzhu, is the Kangxi years, a local child swimming in the river, inadvertently picked up the pearl in the mussel, the bead diameter of one inch and a half.

If we talk about the beauty and rarity of the pearl, “Dongzhu” although there are superior, but it is still difficult to compete with the best “Nanzhu”, the former “Nanzhu”, are to the emperor into the offerings, the egg people are not Can not be private mining by decree, picking eggs are guarded by officials and soldiers, even if the sea is bad and difficult to get into the water, but also forced the egg people tied to the stone under the sea, once lost or overdue to pick the beads, are to be sentenced to chopping feet, from ancient to modern times, there are countless of the egg people to this death, and occasionally there are privately harvested beads of the egg people, most of them are exploited by unscrupulous merchants, risking their lives to get the harvest, only to be able to profit 1,000 percent.

Egg people are aware of the biggest “South Pearl” found, or the Ming Dynasty, three treasures eunuch Zheng He to the West when a treasure ship sailors fished out a large snail, put in a pot to cook, just urged the fire, the pot of water suddenly opened, a loud bang, the pot boiled half-dead snail jumped up in the air, the cabin is full of white gas, such as Smoke, face to face can not see the people, cooking snail people panic, have fled out of the cabin, after half a day did not see movement, which went back to check, only to see the giant snail has been dead for a long time, snail next to the pearl as big as a dragon’s eye, because after the water and fire boil, the essence of the light has been lost, and can not be regained.

“Coral spiral” under the sea with freshwater springs, seawater salinity moderate, breeding sea gas moonlight essence, here almost all the pearl as big as the dragon’s eye, in the underwater view, the strange light color, the world can rarely match with the person, this trip to the water if it goes well, at least to get a hundred or ten, Ruan Hei escaped from Vietnam after a hard time, today even waited for this opportunity. Ruan Hei escaped from Vietnam after the hard times, today even waited for this opportunity to go to France, finally have hope, look a little excited, said that the risk is worth it, the craft of picking eggs is not in vain.

Ruan Hei also talked about his speculation about the situation on the seabed, although there are gusts of submerged currents and eddies in the deep valley next to the seabed forest, it does not look too strong, but for some reason, the sea aquatic are not afraid to come close to him, he was in the diving bell, using a searchlight to shine inside, it seems to be a blur with the shadow of the giant ship, but do not dare to conclude that it is the “Mariceno ship! “, in a shallow sea near the Coral Temple Island, there is also a “shipwreck graveyard”, the location is precisely in a trench inside the nearby sunken ships, by the ocean currents, will fall into it, over time part of the trench is covered with sediment barnacles, forming a layer of hard shell, only a few entrances to dive into, many fighters have been to the sea. A few entrances can dive in, many salvage teams have gone there to try their luck, some people really fished a lot of good things, there are also several years of exhaustion of blood and treasure, in the end, the unlucky man who found nothing.

It is possible that the topography of the coral spiral also belongs to a similar, more obvious and prominent is inside and outside the two atolls, but here the sea sand deposits, under the sea floor of the ground, there may be a layer of mud and sand formation of slurry shell layer, shipwrecks will fall into which will fall into the formation of a channel similar to the sea trough like a rift, the grooves in the bottom of the sea is seen to see the traces of shipwrecks left behind.

Boatswain Ruan Hei said although it is speculation, but we all think that some reason, immediately develop a dive plan, diving operations at least two people in order to take care of each other, but the people on board naturally can not be a brain all go down, I divided into A, B, C three teams, I and Shirley Yang, Uncle Ming as “A team”, Ruan Hei with his disciple Duo Ling formed a team, and the boat is not a team. Ruan Hei with his disciple Duo Ling formed “B team”, fat man and Gu Guai is the third group “C team”.

A team and B team at the same time into the water, A team using only three sets of heavy diving equipment, dive into the mouth of the valley near the detection of the depths of the trench whether there is a shipwreck, once the target is confirmed, then immediately start the action, can not put the “King of the Qin bone mirror” fishing up, the main will be here, the B team and the C team to rotate to the coral tree under the egg harvesting, taking into account that we are carrying limited supplies, and the “King of the Qin”, the “King of the Qin” and the “C team”. Carrying limited supplies, and “mountain moving and reclamation techniques” also have certain limitations, while the walrus Tianhou allows, early completion of a moment to reduce the risk of a point.

The main reason for me to allocate the personnel like this is because I need manpower to search for the wreck, even though the strength of three people is still a bit thin, and Uncle Ming is more familiar with the structure of the ship and the things on the bottom of the sea, and he should be able to play a role as an advisor and assistant, and the most important thing is to bring him with me, so that I can rest assured that I will be able to dive into the deep water action, otherwise, who knows what kind of moths this old man will get up to again, and Shirley Yang is an elite diver and scout at the United States Naval Academy. Naval Academy’s elite, diving reconnaissance expert, with the three of us forming the A-team, diving into the sea trench in the coral forest, even if we encountered any accidents, it would not be difficult to get out in one piece.

Boat boss, Ruan Hei and Duo Ling are professional egg pickers, they go to the coral forest to work, they still do the same job they used to do, there is a certain degree of certainty that the three Ruan Hei split up, leaving the fat man, who is passionate about the business of egg picking, with them, and also prevent them from seeing the wealth of their intentions, leaving the A team to escape on the boat, but Ruan Hei does not know how to use the “Szetian fish” and “Szetian fish” and the “Szetian fish”. However, Ruan Hei will not use the “Sitian Fish” and “Kui Xing Pan”, I just want to be prepared for any eventuality, because I know that a person who is afraid of being poor can easily be overwhelmed by money and do something he does not want to do, but this kind of idea can not be told to Shirley Yang Ming, I just do not move to deploy.

Everyone readily agreed, only Uncle Ming face difficult: “coral spiral deep trench, no fish dare to approach, because the deepest all connected to the ocean sea, some of the deep sea sea monster will be that place as a nest, we go in is not to send death? Do not listen to the words of the old man to suffer in front of us ah, Hu Zai you listen to Uncle told you, the bottom of the sea is not the most powerful large octopus, the deep sea shrimp and crab in the big, not let the whale salamanders, especially the most fierce crab, even if it is as evil as sharks and dragons of the genus, but also do not dare to go to mess with them, you guys want to go to go their own, I …… I see that I still go to the egg picking is more appropriate. ”

I know he is probably sensationalizing, then said to Uncle Ming: “If there is really so big crabs, how much money a catty to sell ah? Besides, what kind of person is this old sea wolf of yours? He dares to scrape gold from the Buddha’s face and grab money from the frying pan, how can he be afraid of crabs? In addition, our trip to the sea, agreed in advance that the money we share, there are difficulties in the crowd block, but now just encountered the risk you hide, the future back to share the money to share the green head I want to avoid you, then you can not pick my reason.”

Uncle Ming listen to go back to share the money, they had to top hard on, under the sea of fire also have to go through, this time if the big thing can be done, can be the loss of the previous years all back, into and out of fifty-fifty, wrestle with, who let their black eyes can not see silver it, do not look at the previous time to run the ship is also a man, and now it is dedicated to the five buckets of rice folded.

The people have decided to plan, go all out to prepare, the surface of the sea with a number of positioning buoys, find the location of the largest old tree on the sea floor, the next step is to move the mountain Taoist’s “moving mountains and reclamation techniques” to deal with the underwater evil fish, I light up the bow of the old incense burner in the shape of a copper duck, ready to invite the “God of the melon”. I lit an old incense burner in the shape of a copper duck on the bow of the boat, ready to invoke the “melon god”.