Chapter 1016 – Finding a Needle in the Sea (I)

“Boom!”

The dark sky danced with silver, drawing out a streak of lightning splitting down on the surface of the sea, immediately followed by deafening thunder, as if it was exploding between the ears, making people smell the sound.

Zhuang Rui’s ship of ten thousand tons of cruise ship, under the heavenly might also became so small, gusts of more than ten meters high huge waves, the hull of the ship to sway from side to side, in the endless sea, as if a lone boat.

“King Kong, come on, put it on.”

Zhuang Rui tore a bed quilt, pulled out cotton wool from it, and stuffed it into Fang Fang Yuan Yuan’s ears respectively, and the always mighty King Kong also looked fragile under the lightning and thunder at the moment, squatting in a corner of the room, losing its usual spirituality.

And in the storm has just begun, the golden eagle is also a rainwater from the window rushed into the room, mouth constantly “gaga!” Screaming, seemingly complaining to Zhuang Rui.

In three days before the Ministry of Transportation organized that meeting, finally reached an agreement, the salvage of the “Awa Maru”, led by the Ministry of Transportation, by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Beijing University Research Institute as well as several units of the Museum of stereoscopic cooperation to jointly carry out.

The agreement states that the salvage with the national organization, private funding this way to carry out, salvage all the property, all belong to the state.

As a contributor and salvage main force, Zhuang Rui got such a promise: the salvage of all the cultural relics, after the identification of the relevant departments, in order to ensure its safety, to the exclusive exhibition of the museum of stereoscopic.

Years for five years, five years later, the Dingguang Museum must surrender the relevant cultural relics to the state, although this result and the heart of the expectations of a bit of a gap, but Zhuang Rui also promised.

After all, Zhuang Rui mouth said hard, but still want to make a contribution to the country, Awa Maru wreckage if you can all out of the water, whether it is from the economy, or from the international influence, the country are all parked on the great benefits.

And if you can really water what precious relics, five years is enough time for Huangfu Yun operation, absolutely in a short period of time will be the reputation of cultural relics into benefits, to the Dingguang Museum to bring substantial revenue.

Thought it was a very casual journey, so the salvage of the Awa Maru in Fujian waters, Zhuang Rui not only will wife and children are brought, but also in addition to the white lion who do not like the water in addition to a family of pets, but also to the ship to come.

Just Zhuang Rui did not expect, in the sea over the first night, even suffered a storm attack.

Zhuang Rui did not know, September and October is the typhoon season in Fujian waters, if not because of this then, Yu vice minister could not be single on his eyes this “luxury salvage ship”.

To know, although there is no domestic tens of thousands of tons of level salvage ship, but a few thousand tons of medium-sized salvage ship or have, if not taking into account the ability to resist storms, general salvage ship to deal with this sea water dozens of meters deep, no problem at all.

“Xuan Bing, tomorrow during the day, let the helicopter send all of you mothers back to shore!”

Looking at his wife’s white face, some guilt, he tossed outside even if, let his wife and children follow along and suffer, that really is not a man’s behavior.

“No …… I want to accompany you, Zhuang Rui, I really don’t know that your work is so dangerous.”

A lightning outside the window, followed by a thunderstorm, so that Qin Xuan Bing’s body could not help but drill into the embrace of Zhuang Rui, but the daytime play tired of the pair of children, was stuffed ears, at the moment is huffing and puffing it!

“Okay! Tomorrow you take the child and just stay in the room, don’t go to the deck.”

Zhuang Rui nodded helplessly, as the ship was his, in order to facilitate the command and coordination of work, this salvage gave Zhuang Rui the title of Deputy Chief Commander.

Of course, the deputy commander-in-chief plus he has a total of six, but this will also be Zhuang Rui tethered to the ship, many eyes can look at him, Zhuang Rui is embarrassed to take leave to send his wife and children back to Beijing.

Li Zhen at this time far away in Burma, Peng Fei’s daughter was just born, is in Beijing as a breastfeeding father, so Zhuang Rui can not draw manpower, can only let Qin Xuan Bing stay on the ship.

In the lightning and thunder, Zhuang Rui also do not know when to fall asleep, the next day when I opened my eyes, but found a ray of sunlight through the curtains shone in the house, sprinkling pieces of golden light.

“Shit, too much bullshit, right? This weather is a child’s face, huh? Cry when you say cry, laugh when you say laugh?”

Zhuang Rui pulled open the curtains as soon as he could, the piercing sunlight outside made him squint his eyes, yesterday’s torrential rain and thunder had completely disappeared, the seagulls flew on the sea in the distance, and the wind and clouds were light in the sky.

The sea is supposed to be changeable, one moment the breeze is gentle, the next moment may be a huge wave, but the weather has cleared up so that Zhuang Rui in a good mood, after serving the girl and son wash up, with his wife and son came to the deck.

Zhuang Rui this team is a little eye-catching, in front of the two bouncing powder like cute children, the center walking Zhuang Rui couple, followed by the back of the one is a little creepy.

Although King Kong is a primate like human, but it is not fully evolved, that all black hair plus more than two meters tall, let the ship in addition to familiar with King Kong’s old crew and security guards, all avoid far away.

“Xiao Zhuang, are you traveling or doing work?”

Professor Meng who came to the deck long ago, seeing Zhuang Rui in this manner, he was also a little crying and laughing, the country is quite attached to this salvage, Zhuang Rui in this manner will easily attract gossip.

“Come, call Grandpa Meng.”

Zhuang Rui teased his son and called out to Prof. Meng, and opened his mouth to say, “Teacher, this work can’t be delayed for the family, can it? I’m going to be doing a lot of marine salvage in the future, so I can’t just leave them all at home, right?”

Zhuang Rui said is the heart of the matter, if the choice of work must give up the family, then he would rather not do anything, anyway, with his current wealth, enough to own in front of this brat’s grandchildren squandered.

“Come, grandpa hug.”

Professor Meng bent down and picked up Little Fang Fang, his face was filled with a loving smile as he turned his face to Zhuang Rui and said, “It’s good that you can think this way, it’s certainly the best if you can take care of both your work and family.”

Said here, Professor Meng face smile slowly convergence, he himself why do not want to be so, just when the economic and political environment, simply can not allow him to do so.

In the early eighties, Prof. Meng was released from the Qin City Prison, the country was in a state of disarray, Prof. Meng also drilled headlong into the work, and even his partner suffered from a terminal illness are not aware of.

It was also because of this incident, after his wife’s death, Professor Meng’s son was quite critical of his old father, and later, after he left the country, he was no longer willing to return to the country, and if it wasn’t for his granddaughter’s presence in the country, the old man’s old age would have been even more miserable.

“Teacher, put it down! Don’t get tired, this little guy is heavy.”

Seeing Professor Meng frowning, Zhuang Rui hurriedly took over Little Fang Fang and let his wife take him to play, and due to the fear of weather changes, he specifically found two security guards to follow closely behind.

“Xiao Zhuang, you can’t say the word ‘sink’ when you go out to sea! If the old sailor hears it, he will be scolded.”

Standing on the deck, looking at the rippling sea, this mood is just like yesterday’s storm, it comes and goes quickly, after adjusting his mood, Prof. Meng and Zhuang Rui joked.

“Oh, turn around and go pay homage to the Sea Dragon King.”

Zhuang Rui smiled at the words, although he didn’t believe in ghosts and gods, but the mutation of his eyes made Zhuang Rui fearful of the unknown in this world, just as the old saying goes: the older the jianghu, the smaller the guts.

“It’s better to ask for help than to ask for help, Xiao Zhuang, it’s better to find a way to quickly survey the location of the wreckage and salvage it!”

Prof. Meng also felt a little bit of fear for that storm yesterday, in this season it might be possible to encounter one in a few days, that’s why he also wanted to complete this salvage mission as soon as possible.

“Don’t worry! Teacher, as long as there are shipwreck remnants in this sea, they can definitely be salvaged.”

Although he hadn’t used his aura to survey this sea, Zhuang Rui was confident enough that he wouldn’t dare to say that he could find a needle in a haystack, but as long as there were objects containing aura on the seabed, Zhuang Rui would definitely be able to find them.

Two people are talking, the day’s work also began, according to the scheduled program, the first is to be submerged by divers, real-time survey of the dynamics of the seabed, and then according to the discovery, targeted removal of silt salvage hull.

This sea area near the coastline is not far away, the depth of the sea water is only a few dozen meters, long-term by the ocean depths of the dark current raging, so the seabed architecture is more complex, the survey is very difficult.

Unlike the flat sandy seabed of the deep sea, most of the seabed here was a silt structure, and more than sixty years had passed since the sinking of the Awa Maru, and the seabed had long since looked completely different.

“Prof. Meng, the personnel are all assembled, you give a few words! Of the salvage personnel this time, only you participated in the last salvage operation.”

The people who went into the water this time were all divers from the Maritime Administration of the Ministry of Transportation, and a staff member came over and invited Professor Meng over to speak to these divers about the features of the Awa Maru.

As for Zhuang Rui, the deputy commander-in-chief, he simply couldn’t intervene, after staying beside him and listening for a while, Zhuang Rui simply turned back and walked back to the cabin, straight to the ship’s monitoring room.

“Boss, when are we going to the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean? That’s where a captain should go.”

As soon as Zhuang Rui stepped into the monitoring room, he saw that the bearded Clyde was staying inside watching an American adult action movie without doing his job, seeing Zhuang Rui come in, Captain Clyde hastily started to change the topic with a straight face.

“Captain Clyde, you should stay in the captain’s room now, right?”

Zhuang Rui secretly laughed in his heart, this old man actually still had this mind, but it was with a serious face that he drove Clyde out, someone was here, he always felt a little unnatural releasing his aura.