The huge whale shark swayed its tail and moved slowly along the ocean currents. It opened its abyssal mouth and continuously filtered the plankton in the sea.
Song Wenbin suddenly saw such a big thing, and he would be lying if he said he wasn't panicked. However, after he panicked, he was deeply shocked. Such a huge and magnificent creature, even if the real dragon is alive, it is nothing more than this.
At this moment, he had forgotten all the things, treasures and clues.
Almost instinctively, he kicked down, swung his feet and swam to the side of the giant creature. The contact at such a quiet distance made his mind sway. The body of the whale shark is dotted with pale spots and criss-crossing pale bands. Those spots are as beautiful as stars in space.
Song Wenbin placed his palms on the whale shark's back and stroked the little stars on its skin, trembling uncontrollably.
The huge whale shark swam gently past him, like other creatures in the ocean, neither warm nor indifferent. Groups of fish follow the whale shark, like a guard of honor when the emperor travels.
The shock of seeing a whale shark for the first time made Song Wenbin forgetful. He surfaced, took a deep breath and dived again. This time, he simply swam to the whale shark, gently held the huge vertical fin on its back, and let it carry him. Himself, swimming in the water.
Seeing Song Wenbin like this, Su Tina's eyes lit up. The sight of people and animals swimming in harmony made her forget the fear caused by the boundless ocean. She no longer tensed up, but pointed at the whale shark and looked at Huo Yu longingly.
Huo Yu understood, took her hand, shook his feet, and led her to swim to the whale shark. Together, the three of them swam aimlessly with the giant ocean beast.
Whale sharks don’t care how many people are behind them. For these ancient creatures, the appearance of three people is no different than how many more fish are there. They are born between heaven and earth, die between heaven and earth, and swim between heaven and earth. , no selfishness, no distinction.
Huo Yu swam to Song Wenbin. Song Wenbin glanced at her, let go of his arms, and gave the fins to his two colleagues. He swam to the belly of the whale shark and watched curiously as it opened its mouth and filtered it continuously. seawater.
It's unimaginable that a living creature can grow so large using only the most basic materials. The magic of the power of creation is evident.
However, when he swam to the side of the whale shark, Song Wenbin saw deep marks on its left fin. There was a fishing net as thick as an arm on the mark, and the net had been cut into the flesh.
Song Wenbin's heart ached when he saw this. He swam to Sutina, pulled up her arm, and pulled out a diving knife from the bcd on the forearm. Then, Song Wenbin swam to the whale shark and slowly cut off the tangle of it. Fishing net on the fins of a fish.
The huge sea creature seemed to realize something. When Song Wenbin helped it cut the fishing net, it stopped swimming. After the cutting was completed, it glanced at Song Wenbin indifferently, turned its head, swam toward the depths of the sea, and slowly disappeared from his sight.
Song Wenbin floated on the spot with a diving knife, watching the whale shark disappear, thinking that this trip to Indonesia was probably not in vain.
He exhaled a breath of filthy air and swam to the surface of the sea, breathing heavily, thinking it was almost time to go back. However, after he waited on the sea for a while, Huo Yu and Sutina did not come up, which made him a little strange.
Diving into the sea again, he found Huo Yu and Sutina floating two meters underwater, staring at a coral reef.
Song Wenbin swam to Huo Yu and Sutina, patted Huo Yu on the shoulder, and motioned for her to bring Sutina to the water.
However, Huo Yu pulled the breathing tube in Sutina's mouth, took a sip and stuffed it back, pointing to a bump on the coral reef in front of him for him to see.
Song Wenbin stared at the bulge and didn't think it was anything.
It's just a coral reef.
But after taking a closer look, he felt vaguely strange.
The strange thing is that the reef in front of us is a bit straight, and it looks a little dazzling among a bunch of coral reefs that are either in the shape of mushrooms, piles of plates, or crooked hills. It's the kind of thing that doesn't seem like much at first glance. If you take a closer look, you think there's something there. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong.
Song Wenbin took a closer look and saw that the surface of this reef, like other coral reefs, was covered with various sea anemones, polyps, sea anemones, and ascidians.
However, it is straight.
It was hard for him to imagine that nature could create such a straight coral reef.
So Song Wenbin took a sharp diving knife and scraped a few times on the slippery coral reef. The surface of this coral reef has accumulated a thick biological layer, which is as thick as muscles on bones. But he couldn't withstand the sharpness of the diving knife. After scraping randomly, Song Wenbin removed the thick biological layer and saw what was underneath the coral reef.
It is dark brown in color, with some vertical lines on the surface. The lines are obviously not of stone, but of wood...
Song Wenbin's eyes widened instantly, and a bunch of bubbles came out of his mouth. He swam to the surface of the water without any explanation, and began to gasp for breath like crazy. Although he had only dived two meters, he felt as if he had just come up from the bottom of 200 meters of water, and it was extremely difficult to breathe.
Coral grows on the wood, and it grows so thickly. This can only mean one thing, this piece of wood is at least hundreds of years old, and a piece of wood can be soaked in sea water for hundreds of years without rotting, which means that this is not an ordinary material.
Soon, Su Tina and Huo Yu also emerged from the water. They were floating on the water, breathing heavily.
Song Wenbin looked at them, and each could see the excitement and trembling in their eyes.
"Wood...wood..."
Sutina said tremblingly.
"Huo Yu, don't move." Song Wenbin said.
He looked around and after making sure there were no other ships around, he immediately pulled Sutina and swam towards the Sanbao.
After boarding the ship, Sutina quickly took off the mask on her face and took off her diving suit without her reminding her. After taking off her wetsuit, she put on a bikini and rushed into the cabin without even having time to wipe off the water. Song Wenbin didn't care about talking about her, rushed to the cockpit and put on a diving suit.
While wearing him, he held the communication equipment on the ship and said: "Kong Mao, arrange the lifting equipment for me."
Captain Kong Mao understood, came out of the captain's cabin, pushed a pulley motor unit from the warehouse to the cockpit.
At this time, the film crew also came up from the water one after another. Sutina rushed out of the cabin with a laptop and a big bath towel, and said excitedly: "You go into the water first, and we will put that The wood should be scooped up first and let the domestic team identify it.”
Before he finished speaking, Song Wenbin rushed out on a motorboat like flying.
The motorboat sped across the water and made a sharp turn to stop next to Huo Yu. Huo Yu climbed onto the motorboat from the sea. Song Wenbin handed the motorboat to him and jumped into the sea with the rope.
Under water, Song Wenbin came back to the coral reef. He swam to the bulge, tied the rope to the bulge of wood, and then swam up to the surface.
Huo Yu rode on the motorboat and asked, "How do you say, how do you take it off?"
"Try using a crane first."
Song Wenbin handed the rope in his hand to Huo Yu.
Huo Yu rode the motorboat back to the Sanbao not far away and handed the rope to Kong Mao. Kong Mao put the rope on the pulley motor unit. After confirming that it was correct, the motor unit began to rotate.
The underwater rope slowly tightened, and Song Wenbin swam underwater, paying close attention to the movements under the water.
But as the rope tightened, the piece of wood remained motionless. This motor unit, which can pull a heavy truck out of the mud on land, can't pull out a single piece of wood.
Years of sedimentation and coral growth have completely integrated it with the surrounding coral reefs. Song Wenbin looked at the seawater under the coral reef. This seawater is at least sixty or seventy meters deep, which can only accommodate whale sharks swimming in it. And this means that the coral reef here is not to mention a giant barrier reef.
At this time, Su Tina's anxious voice came from the earphones: "It's useless, Brother Song, the motor unit doesn't seem to be able to pull it."
The photographer on the side swam over and took an underwater photo album to capture this thrilling scene.
Song Wenbin swam to them and shook his arms to signal them to stay away. The fact that the motor unit could not pull the coral reef did not mean that it was not powerful. If the rope was broken and thrown away, and it hit a person, the skin and flesh would be bruised and the bones would be broken. normal.
After driving away the photographer, Song Wenbin swam to the surface and made a stop gesture. Not far away, Kong Mao stopped the motor unit.
Huo Yu rode a motorboat to Song Wenbin with a tacit understanding. Song Wenbin got on the motorboat and sat behind Huo Yu before returning to the boat. Sutina hurriedly came over and said, "What should I do if the motor can't pull it?"
Song Wenbin didn't even take off his clothes. He walked directly to the bow of the yacht and expressionlessly untied the cable from the bow to the anchor. The cable was as thick as a man's arm and was extremely heavy.
Song Wenbin threw the cable to Huo Yu and said, "Carry this thing under the water and use the boat to break the rocks."
Huo Yu immediately understood Song Wenbin's thoughts and carried the cable on his shoulders with him. Su Tina was so frightened by Song Wenbin's crazy thoughts that her face turned pale. She said loudly: "No! That might be a cultural relic! It can't be like this. Treated with violence!”
Song Wenbin asked: "Do you think that thing is shaped like a box?"
"No...not like..."
Sutina said.
"It's okay if it doesn't look like it. Our goal is to find the box, not to protect cultural relics, and this is Indonesia, not the country. We don't have time for you to brush slowly with a toothbrush. Besides, before you found it, it was already soaking in the seabed. For many years, without us, it would have been on the bottom of the sea until it rotted into slag and would not have been discovered.”
"But...."
"Get out of the way." Song Wenbin pushed her away and said with the walkie-talkie: "Send the boat over."
Kong Mao in the captain's room received the order and slowly drove the Sanbao forward.
Sutina turned around anxiously, but there was nothing she could do, her hands were twisted into twists.
The Sanbao stopped very close to the reef. Song Wenbin and Huo Yu jumped into the water with the cable. They untied the thin rope wrapped around the wood and tied the entire thick cable to the whole piece of wood attached to it. on a coral reef. After confirming that it was correct, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu swam out of the water.
When she returned to the boat to tie the cable, Sutina was still worried. She muttered: "No, the little thing we finally found is many years old. What if it breaks... .”
"Cultural relics also serve people." Song Wenbin ignored her concerns. After tying the rope, he ordered: "Set the boat and move forward at full speed."
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Kong Mao got the order and pushed the speed lever of the Sanbao to the bottom. The yacht worth tens of millions of dollars started at full speed. With the huge power of more than 4,000 horsepower and the huge impact of dozens of tons, there was almost no hindrance. There was a muffled roar all over the water, and a whole piece of coral reef broke apart.
Song Wenbin immediately led all the divers to swim underwater. Sure enough, the coral reef was completely broken. There was a thick piece of wood wrapped in the coral reef. It was about two meters long as a whole, and the part inserted into the coral reef was even longer. It is more than one meter deep and flat, like a wooden sword inserted into a stone.
At the bottom of the section, after the corals and marine life dispersed, Song Wenbin could clearly see that this was a piece of wood, a wooden deck from a certain ship. At the end of it, which was wrapped by the coral reef, a faint collision could be seen. Extrusion marks produced.
Soon, the two-meter-long piece of wood was carried to the Sambo.
Sutina almost couldn't wait to rush to the wood and start stroking it.
The director on the side couldn't hide his excitement, kneeling on the ground and filming wildly with a camera. Even the captain Kong Mao couldn't help but leave his post and came to the deck to look at the piece of wood salvaged from the sea by Song Wenbin's team.
The wood did not break because of Song Wenbin's quick and decisive move. It was as intact as the teeth that were pulled out of the mouth by someone with a rope. There are still some traces on the gums that have not been completely covered by the coral reef, even after hundreds of years. Due to the erosion of sea water over the years, the color there is vaguely woody brown, with clear texture, which is amazing.
"Hainan Huanghuali, Meizhou Shizhuimu..."
Sutina touched the wood tremblingly and shed tears with excitement. She stammered: "This is Shiimu... Shiimu... it was one of the materials used in the treasure ships back then..."
