Small cargo ships bring a lot of things.
The personnel include Mike, Feilai, and Xu Zehong; the supplies include ropes for salvage, food, fresh water, oil, etc.
Before the next day, Zhang Jing immediately took Xu Zehong to the cargo hold on the first floor of the deck, pointed at the upper half of the stone statue that had been salvaged, and said, "Look, is it a good thing? It was fished from the bottom of the sea."
Xu Hongze is an expert on the cultural relics of the Dragon Kingdom. His most proficient work is on the cultural relics of Silk Road. It is really helpless for him to see Western things. Zhang Jingxin is no better than others.
Taking out his gloves and putting them on, he took out his flashlight and turned it on. Using his eyesight, Xu Zehong carefully observed the damaged statue at close range.
He spoke directly in a second, "The image of an ancient Roman soldier, wearing a vertical cockscomb helmet, is at least a captain, a tribune, or a flag bearer. What is strange is, why is he holding a standard dagger in his hand?"
Zhang Jing was taught that he thought this was just an image of an ordinary soldier. As for the problem that even Xu Zehong didn't know about, someone else didn't know about it.
Xu Zehong then knelt on the ground and inspected the body of the stone inch by inch. The result was regrettable: "There are no letters or logos left. I am not sure whether it was made by a famous person. Where is its lower body?"
"This is an equestrian sculpture," Zhang Jing introduced. "The lower body and the horse's body are still at the bottom of the sea and were torn apart during salvage."
Xu Zehong said distressedly, "I don't understand sculpture. It's best not to cause any damage. There's nothing we can do about it already."
The damage has been done, there is no point in regretting, just make dinner and start salvage again.
The submersible goes into the water with one end of the new rope and the other end stays on the boat.
In the deep sea, day and night, the submersible worked with its headlight on, carefully tying the rope to the half-sculpted horse body that failed to be salvaged the first time.
The underwater rope is tied, the winch motor is started on the ship, the rope begins to tighten, and the underwater sculpture slowly leaves the seabed. The process is very slow, and the sculpture is safe;
Unlike the first time, when an air bag was used in the deep sea, the stone statue was torn apart by an instant burst of force.
Fifteen minutes later, the sculpture reached the water, was hoisted high using a sling, and then placed on the deck.
There is more than one sculpture underwater. Put down the rope and continue to salvage the second one.
In the past seven days, the submersible has cleared a total of one chariot, five sculptures of soldiers, eight sculptures of slaves, and the flag guard that has been fished out, for a total of fourteen sculptures.
Among them, the two-horse chariot has two soldiers on it. The soldiers hold weapons similar to halberds. It is the largest.
The equestrian standard-bearer, broken in two, is the next largest.
This is bound to be a sleepless night, especially for tanks, which are very difficult to salvage due to their large size.
The Centaur was brightly lit and in full swing. Thomas on the Shirase, two kilometers away, felt very sad. For him, tonight was also a sleepless night.
"Oss," in the cabin, the assistant noticed that Thomas was in a bad mood and reminded him, "Will Zhang Jing send someone to cut our submersible signal line from underwater?"
Thomas knew that the assistant was comforting himself, "The signal line was obviously chewed by animals, not man-made."
The assistant also knew that it had nothing to do with Zhang Jing, but they came all the way here, not only did they lose the submersible, but they could only watch others fish for the treasure, which made them feel exhausted both physically and mentally.
"Go to sleep." Thomas was also very upset. "Out of sight, out of mind."
Zhang Jing did not know that Thomas was an old Yin man. After a night of salvage, when the sun rose high the next day, there was still the last chariot sculpture left on the seabed.
Because of the large size of the tank, it required very careful preparation. The winch and motor originally used could not bear the weight and needed to be replaced.
Fortunately, there is a mechanic on the ship who plans to modify a crane into a winch that can withstand heavy weight.
This was not an easy job, and two mechanics worked for ten hours to complete it.
In order to ensure that the new modified device is easy to use, repeated tests are also carried out to ensure that it is 100% reliable.
It’s busy on board, and there’s even more work underwater.
In order to salvage the tank, the submersible operation technicians took turns to remove as many as ten 0.5 cm thick rods.
The ropes are tied evenly around the sculpture to prevent the sculpture from snapping due to uneven force.
Because there are so many ropes, I worry about getting entangled with the submersible, so I put them down one by one every time and tied them little by little to the chariot sculpture.
Originally, the submersible moved slowly, but it seemed like a little work lasted for twelve hours.
They worked like this from morning to night, and finally came to the final moment. Everyone looked at Zhang Jing, waiting for his order.
Standing on the deck, his clothes wet with sweat countless times fluttering in the wind, Zhang Jingping gave the order, "Fetch it up."
The hoisting motor started, and the winch made a metallic grinding sound, as if it might collapse.
At the end of the submersible, ten ropes collapsed, and the huge chariot was pulled away from the seabed and slowly rose.
Thirty minutes later, the tank came out of the water, turned around, and moved it gently over the stern deck.
He raised his head and looked at the dripping sculpture. When the distance narrowed to ten meters, the corners of Zhang Jing's eyes jumped uncontrollably. There was actually a lot of metal hidden in it.
In the dark night, as the chariot settled down, everyone burst into cheers. Xu Zehong looked at Zhang Jing and congratulated, "You succeeded."
"This is the result of everyone's joint efforts," Zhang Jing said in a good mood.
The chariot is very large, with an overall width of about 2 meters and a length of about 5 meters. Because the Centaur is brightly lit, Shirase uses a telescope to clearly see it, and a drone is used to take videos of the chariot.
Seeing such a good thing being fished out from the bottom of the sea by Zhang Jing, Thomas's eyes went straight, and he cursed God for being unfair to him. Not only did he not make a dime, he not only lost the charter fee, but also lost the expensive submersible.
"OSS," Mike came over and reminded, "There is a drone flying nearby, do you want to shoot it down?"
"No need," Zhang Jing waved his hand, "Let's go back to Miami."
Having no choice but to abandon the July slave ship again, Zhang Jing gave up.
The first time I went out to find the slave ship July, I was forced to stop because the crew was slacking off and shooting the captain and first mate.
This was the second time I went out to look for the July slave ship. Unexpectedly, I picked up a treasure halfway and needed time to process the new discovery, so I had to stop.
Mike should be, and half an hour later the Centaur left at full speed.
Thomas stayed where he was just to see what Zhang Jing had caught. Now that Zhang Jing was gone, there was no point in staying, so he was ready to leave.
As for the lost submersible, there is absolutely no need to look for it. The cost is not cost-effective. The rental of a professional salvage boat is so expensive that it has no friends. Every day it is parked is an S-class Maybach.
Three hours later, at two o'clock in the morning, Zhang Jing appeared in the cab of the Centaur.
The first mate who was on duty looked at Zhang Jingqi and asked, "Sir, what's the matter?"
"Yes," Zhang Jing's voice was full of pride and ambition, "let's go back!"
"We're on our way back to Miami," the first mate replied confused, "We'll arrive tomorrow morning."
"No," Zhang Jing corrected the first mate, "Return to the salvage location, we have one more thing to find."
Yes, Zhang Jing saw on the boat route website that the Shirase had left its original location.
After losing the submersible, the Shirase stayed in place for another two days. Zhang Jing originally thought that it stayed in place to wait for the Centaur to leave, or to wait for rescue to find the lost submersible. Unexpectedly, they were gone, gone!
Zhang Jing is customizing a new boat, and he knows that some good submersibles are more expensive than boats. If such a big and good treasure falls into the sea, if you don’t go back and pick it up, you will be sorry to God!
.c
