The brief disappointment did not last long. Soon, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu had to go out of the water again to refill the oxygen bottles. Coming out of the water thirty meters deep, the huge pressure difference made Huo Yu couldn't help but feel severe discomfort, let alone Song Wenbin.
The moment he came out of the water, he felt joint pain, muscle soreness, and even difficulty breathing. This was due to the sudden drop in pressure and the bubbles blocking the blood vessels.
Fortunately, the photographers on standby on the boat were all professionally trained. They dragged Song Wenbin to the kayak in a hurry, massaged his body continuously, and put a pure oxygen mask on his mouth to let him Intermittent breathing.
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After alternately breathing pure oxygen and air for more than ten minutes, Song Wenbin felt that the pressure in his body and the external pressure had reached a balance, and he slowly recovered.
However, this is not the end, on the contrary, it is just the beginning.
Atolls are no better than reefs. They are small and easy to explore. An atoll is more than ten kilometers wide. After a short rest and replenishment, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu had to go into the water again.
This time, they searched for another hour under the water, but only found a few glass bottles, discarded fish hooks, and rusted iron buckets.
Undaunted, the two men waited from noon to dusk until the sun went down before returning to the water-friendly platform of the yacht.
Su Tina squatted beside the water platform, holding a camera and looking through the objects salvaged by Song Wenbin and Huo Yu. Her expression could be as ugly as it was.
There is no doubt that this day's search once again severely rubbed her predictions against the ground. Apart from these garbage, there was no trace of so-called historical relics underwater.
Song Wenbin and Huo Yu rested against the cabin wall with their bodies soaked all over. The photographers and directors on the side were filming with cameras. The atmosphere in the cabin was heavier than ever.
"how so..."
Sutina turned over the rubbish and murmured: "Is it because the records are wrong, or is it because we arrived too late..."
Looking at Sutina's devastated look, Huo Yu straightened up with difficulty and comforted her and said: "It's okay, we just explored a few shallow water areas. There are many deep water areas in this coral reef that we haven't explored yet. Wait until I get the Shenxing Taibao Come over here and continue exploring in the deep water, maybe you will get results."
As of now, there is no other way.
Song Wenbin looked at the lost Su Tina and Huo Yu who was pretending to be calm. He leaned against the bulkhead and let out a long sigh.
If possible, he really didn't want to experience helium-oxygen diving or even crazier saturation diving. He swore that it was one of the last things he wanted to experience on this planet.
...
late at night.
Song Wenbin stood alone on the yacht flybridge, holding a bottle of beer, silently looking at the dark sea and smoking. The magnificent seawater during the day looks so majestic at night. It maintains eternal silence, coldly and ruthlessly isolating all eyes that dare to pry into its mysteries from the seawater.
After drinking beer for a while, soft footsteps came from behind.
Even if Song Wenbin didn't look back, he knew who was coming. After spending such a long time together, he already knew the footsteps of his colleagues very well.
"The Shenxing Taibao has already set off and will arrive at this sea area at eight o'clock tomorrow morning." Huo Yu said standing beside him.
"I understand." Song Wenbin said softly.
Huo Yu looked at Song Wenbin's side face and the bright cigarette butt between his lips, and couldn't help but said: "Stop smoking, it's not good for your lungs. You have to go into the water tomorrow."
Song Wenbin felt that he had already dived deeply with helium and oxygen. Do you still care about this cigarette? He shook his head, took a deep breath of cigarette, and asked: "If I can find it, I don't mind some physical damage. But if helium and oxygen I still can’t find it after using it, what should we do?”
Huo Yu couldn't answer Song Wenbin's question.
It has been ten days since they arrived in Indonesia. However, after ten days, they have made no progress at all. This was almost unimaginable in previous missions. There is no doubt that compared with this task, any task in the past seems so easy.
"If we really can't find it, we have no choice but to go back."
Huo Yu calmly said: "This is reality and we must accept it. There are only so many clues that the country can give us, so we just do our best."
"Yeah."
Song Wenbin blew out a puff of smoke and sighed: "It's difficult to invest so much and end up with nothing."
"Failure is normal." Huo Yudan said: "Actually, what I care more about is whether the show can continue to be filmed in the future if it fails this time."
"It won't make any difference to you."
Song Wenbin said: "The show is no longer being filmed. Wouldn't it be great if you continue to be your security director, run the dragon farm, and be a rich little woman?"
"Is life just a life to you?" Huo Yu asked, "Is this show just a job to you?"
Song Wenbin was stunned for a moment. He couldn't help but look at Huo Yu beside him. Under the cover of the night, the lines on her face were softer than at any time in the past. The weak sea breeze lifted her short hair and outlined it. Under the neck, he seemed to be able to read some unusual history on the other person's face.
"You...mother...should be a very gentle person."
Song Wenbin couldn't help but ask.
Huo Yu took a step back in shock and looked at Song Wenbin in disbelief.
"Ah, don't mind, I was just talking casually."
Song Wenbin realized that he had temporarily lost his composure. He suppressed the strangeness in his heart and said, "I'm sorry, I never think about these things, but maybe you are right, life to me is just life. .”
After saying that, he put out his cigarette, passed Huo Yu, and returned to his cabin.
...
The next morning, Song Wenbin woke up from his sleep, feeling that every bone in his body was slightly aching, and his eardrums were bulging and painful. This was the sequelae of yesterday's diving, and it was the result of his greatly improved physical fitness. He simply couldn't imagine that if this were the same physical condition a year ago, he would have been in the ICU of the hospital by now.
However, there was no room for him to complain any more. There were hurried movements outside the cabin. Song Wenbin got up and opened the door and came to the deck to take a look. It turned out that the Shenxing Taibao had arrived, even faster than the scheduled time. One hour.
At this moment, the Shenxing Taibao was just like his ancestors, lying quietly on the sea not far from the Sanbao. The more than seventy-meter-long hull was majestic, and ten huge sails were hunting on the sea. .
Unlike its ancestors, the wooden cabin belly of the Shenxing Taibao was opened on the sea surface, revealing a small platform inside, on which more than a dozen staff members were working nervously and busily.
Those are all professional teams from China. They look serious at this moment, walking through various high-tech instruments, comparing various parameters and data.
Song Wenbin thought that if anyone came over and saw this, they would definitely be shocked by the black technology under the ancient appearance of the Shenxing Taibao. Fortunately, it was early enough and the atoll was far enough away from the shore. The Sanbao not far away It can also serve as a warning. As long as they can resolve the fight quickly, they may be able to avoid the risk of detection.
"Brother Song."
Sutina called him on the kayak.
The two colleagues had already prepared the kayak. Without saying too much, Song Wenbin got on the boat, and the three of them rode the kayak to the platform on the belly of Shenxing Taibao.
At this moment, the director was already communicating with the professional team on the platform. Due to the difficulty of this dive, the accompanying photographers were no longer able to follow them. All filming could only be completed with the cameras they carried.
Song Wenbin stood on the platform and silently changed into his wetsuit. This time, the depth was far deeper than before. Their wetsuits also changed from ordinary diving suits to full wet suits with buoyancy adjustment devices. The wetsuits were covered with thick of weights as well as a pressure gauge, depth gauge, dive timer and compass.
After changing, they sat on the platform and were pushed into the water with the platform.
But now is not the time to dive.
Song Wenbin was sitting on the platform. The doctor onboard the Shenxing Taibao came over and measured the blood pressure and heart rate of Song Wenbin and Huo Yu. After confirming that they were correct, someone on the side handed Song Wenbin and Huo Yu special breathing masks.
There is a yellow rubber tube on the breathing mask, which is connected to the slender metal bottle in the belly of the cabin.
The two had practiced several times while in China, and now they were familiar with biting the breathing valve in the mask, breathing deeply and steadily.
These inhaled gases are not normal air, but heliox, which is composed of helium and oxygen.
Since ordinary air is composed of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen, under the huge pressure of the deep sea, the excess nitrogen in the air will merge into the body and cannot be eliminated in time, which will cause nitrogen drunkenness.
Nitrogen narcosis itself will not cause harm to people, but the pressure in the deep sea is very fatal. Nitrogen narcosis causes different reactions in everyone. Some people will move slowly, while others will be severely comatose and lose their functions. This is extremely dangerous in the deep sea.
Therefore, when diving in the range of 30 meters to 100 meters, Song Wenbin must inhale helium and oxygen distributed by a professional team and eliminate nitrogen from the body to complete deep water operations.
On the one hand, high-pressure helium can help him adapt to the pressure of the deep sea. On the other hand, helium has low solubility in the blood and will not cause discomfort. Of course, helium can also reduce decompression time and allow divers to return to the surface faster.
Although there are many advantages, this technology is far more professional and difficult than ordinary diving. Even the concentration of helium and oxygen they use will change due to different water pressures, but Song Wenbin does not know the specific ratio. Just responsible for diving to find lost artifacts, that's all.
While Song Wenbin and Huo Yu were sitting on the platform inhaling helium and oxygen, the doctors on board the ship attached many small electronic components to the bodies of Song Wenbin and Huo Yu, just like the ones doctors put on patients in hospital wards.
In this way, various parameters of his body will be uploaded to the computer on the Shenxing Taibao platform in real time.
After attaching the components, the doctor warned: "You can only dive seventy meters, do you understand? You must end the deep dive and return to shallow water before the air pressure is reduced by half, okay?"
Song Wenbin and Huo Yu nodded and made an OK gesture.
This is the first time Sutina has seen such a precious diving. The more the doctor does, the more scared she becomes. Although helium and oxygen are assisted, it is the deep sea after all. In the deep sea, every ten meters of elevation will increase the pressure by one atmosphere. Seven Ten meters is seven atmospheres of pressure, which is equivalent to the whole body having to withstand more than 100 tons of water pressure. You can imagine the difficulty.
She was holding her notebook and chewing her fingernails with a pale face. She kept asking the accompanying doctor if something would happen to her colleague. However, facing the unknown of the deep sea, all the doctor could give was silence.
After ten minutes of inhaling oxygen, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu's bodies were filled with helium and oxygen.
The doctor took off the breathing mask and handed them the cylinder filled with helium and oxygen. Seeing Song Wenbin and Huo Yu carrying the gas bottles, Su Tina could no longer restrain her nervousness and said loudly: "Please pay attention to your safety! If you don't feel good, we will come back. If the cultural relics are gone, they are gone, but life is still important."
Song Wenbin looked at Sutina's nervous look, smiled, and opened his mouth: "Quack."
Huo Yu also opened his mouth and quacked like a duck, "Quack."
Due to inhaling a lot of helium, their voices have changed at this moment, becoming very sharp and weird.
Sutina was stunned for a moment, then stamped her feet anxiously: "You still have the intention to joke, I wonder if you heard me."
"I don't know who said before that he would commit suicide if he couldn't find the treasure chest." Song Wenbin chuckled.
"oops!"
Sutina was so anxious that she almost cried. She said with red eyes: "You know, you know, if you don't work, you have to give up!"
"Okay, okay, we know."
Huo Yu said in a strange voice. After saying that, she hugged Sutina and said, "Look carefully for us and don't miss anything."
After speaking, she made a gesture to Song Wenbin.
Song Wenbin nodded.
The two took their equipment and jumped off the platform.
Entering the seventy-meter deep sea.
