The next night, after a long day and night of sailing, Song Wenbin returned to the Semarang area from the Java Trench.
As time became extremely tight, they didn't care about the night, so they rented a van that night and went straight to the Yamuza Market in Semarang.
As the van was driving in the mountains outside Semarang, Song Wenbin looked at the profile of Sutina sitting in the passenger seat from the corner of his eye.
After the sudden quarrel, Su Tina, who had always been talkative, became extremely silent. She sat in the car and neither participated in the conversation between Huo Yu and Song Wenbin, nor in their analysis of the mission. If she were a colleague When asked about something, the most she could do was hum a few times to show off.
Song Wenbin has never seen Su Tina like this, and he doesn’t know whether it’s because she is a mixed-race minority or because Su Tina is born in the 2000s. Song Wenbin feels that Su Tina’s personality is much more open than his. She has almost no overnight breaks. Even if there is a conflict, she can sleep for one night. Enough.
Song Wenbin felt vaguely guilty for Sutina. He didn't expect that Sutina would really come up to her that day. To be honest, the panic at that moment was even more intense than that in the Caribbean Sea.
He didn't want to have a stiff relationship with his colleagues, but God always liked to make fun of his weaknesses, and there was nothing he could do about it. If he really wanted to kiss her, his life would be over.
Until the car stopped by the suspension bridge, Sutina still didn't speak. She just silently opened the door and followed Huo Yu towards Wutou's cabin. At this time, Ramadan has ended, and this breeding farm used for selling private meat seems a bit calm. Compared with last time, there are much less sounds of animals around.
After the three of them arrived at the wooden house, Song Wenbin stepped forward and knocked on the door. After knocking for a while, a small crack opened in the door, and in the crack there was a pair of eyes staring straight at the visitor.
"Is it Aconitum?" Song Wenbin asked.
The person inside didn't speak. Song Wenbin saw the sinister look in his eyes and his short stature, so he said, "I'm looking for Wu Tou, can you help me inform him."
The small slit was closed, and after waiting for another five or six minutes, the door opened. A short and thin Indonesian man stood at the door and said to Song Wenbin and the camera crew behind him: "You guys, come with me. They, stop."
Song Wenbin nodded to his colleagues in the film crew, and then followed the man into the wooden house, but Wu Tou was not in the house. The three of them walked along the front door to the back door, passed through a hidden courtyard and came to the woods. There was a mountain road in the woods. The river curves down to the cliff.
After descending more than a hundred meters to the bottom of the mountain, Song Wenbin saw a canyon here, and a winding river flowing down from the mountain to the sea in the distance.
In the river, there are several fishing boats parked. Those fishing boats have their headlights on. There is a large group of people on the beach next to the fishing boats. They are either lying on the engine for repairs, assembling the motor, repairing the fishing net, or The fishing boats were being painted, and the air was filled with the strong smell of engine oil and paint.
Song Wenbin saw those fishing boats. The surface of the fishing boats was painted with eye-catching white paint in Chinese - "Zhedai Fishing". They looked like fishing boats imported from China.
Seeing Song Wenbin and others coming over, those people stopped what they were doing and looked at him. The Indonesian took Song Wenbin to a fishing boat, where Wu Tou was repairing a motor unit with a wrench. When he saw Song Wenbin coming, he stood up with a smile and said, "Hey, long time no see."
"Long time no see." Song Wenbin said in greeting, "What are you doing?" he asked, pointing to the painted fishing boats.
"Oh, these are fishing boats imported from China. We locals are here to eat." Wutou said easily: "By the way, you have been here long enough. Have you found the sunken treasure?"
Song Wenbin glanced at the Indonesians next to him, his face was not very good, and asked: "Did you report us to the Indonesian official?"
"Report?" Wutou said in surprise: "No, what are you talking about, my friend? How can I report you to the government? We are all treasure hunters. I still expect you to help me. We should help each other. That’s it.”
Song Wenbin looked into Wu Tou's eyes and saw no sign of lying. This made him more certain that he was reported by Odyssey Company.
"We did find rumors about the Van Balen in the data, but unfortunately, we were not able to find the Van Balen." Song Wenbin said.
Wu Tou shrugged, wiped the engine oil on his hands and stood up, and said: "I'm not surprised at all. Young people always have to suffer a little to understand that the experience of the old is always right. It would be great if you agreed with me earlier. It's for no reason. Why are you taking so many detours?"
"If you join the team, can you lead us to find the Van Balen?" Song Wenbin asked.
Wu Tou shook his head and walked to the fishing boat. There was a small coffee table with a pot of tea boiling on it. He began to make tea slowly, with an unhurried attitude.
"If you want to cooperate, if you want to join us, then you have to share resources with us, so that we can share resources with you." Song Wenbin said.
"What about the conditions?" Wu Tou asked as he took a sip of tea.
"What conditions?" Huo Yu interrupted and asked.
"The condition is 50/50." Wu Tou said slowly: "The condition is to send me to Malacca."
Song Wenbin nodded, "As long as you can lead me to find the treasure, the conditions are easy to negotiate."
"Is it just easy to talk, young man, I advise you not to tease me." As he spoke, Wu Tou's eyes were a little sharp: "If I tell you a lot, and you run away again like last time, do you think I am Taken advantage of?"
The men repairing engines and weaving fishing nets all around stood up one after another.
Huo Yu also stood up, but Song Wenbin raised a hand to stop Huo Yu and said, "Do you think we didn't find the Van Balen this time, but we met other ships?"
"Other ships?"
"Explorer, do you recognize it?"
Song Wenbin asked.
Wu Tou's expression became very ugly for a moment, but quickly returned to normal. He took a sip of tea and asked casually: "The Explorer, the flagship of Odyssey Company, I have heard of it."
"You can cooperate with me, or not." Song Wenbin said calmly: "But no matter you cooperate with me or not, Odyssey Company will not stop exploring. I heard that this company We have always been very good at cooperating with the authorities. I think they came to Indonesia because they thought there were some great treasures here."
Wu Tou said nothing and stopped drinking tea. He looked at Song Wenbin with a sinking face for a long time, stood up with a cold snort, returned to the fishing boat behind him, tossed around in it for a while, then walked out, and threw an envelope to Song Wenbin.
Song Wenbin took the envelope, opened it, and found that it was densely packed with English and incomprehensible Indonesian characters. There were bright red handprints on the envelope, and there were several photos inside. Song Wenbin didn't know why, so he handed the envelope to Sutina. After taking it, Sutina looked at it for a while and said coldly: "This is a confession and testimony. It records the details of Odyssey Company coming to Indonesia to apply for a counterfeit salvage certificate."
Song Wenbin's expression changed slightly.
Wutou said proudly: "I am not someone who is unprepared. Although Odyssey Company is salvaging in Indonesia, their salvage certificate was forged by someone with connections. I know this very well. As long as I hand over this document to Indonesian officials or media reporters, I don’t believe they can continue to salvage it.”
Good guy.
Song Wenbin weighed the documents in his hand and thought that there was indeed enough intrigue in this sea.
Wutou continued: "If we want to find the Van Balen, the first task is to let the Odyssey Company leave. If the Odyssey Company is always nearby, we will not be able to find the treasure. All the locations where the Van Balen may have sunk, Odyssey Company There are all controls. Even if we find the treasure before Odyssey, we will be discovered by Odyssey immediately. Being discovered by Odyssey means being discovered by Indonesian officials, because in terms of salvage of cultural relics, Indonesia and the United States are almost one. .”
Wu Tou had already used us in his words, but Song Wenbin was not surprised. He put away the envelope and asked calmly: "If it is so easy to get rid of Odyssey Company, why don't you do it yourself."
"Huh." Wutou shook his head helplessly and sighed: "I don't have the strength to participate in that level of struggle. Odyssey Company has been deeply involved in the salvage industry for many years, and I am just an ordinary treasure hunter. Neither they nor the Indonesian government will pay attention to it. I'm just a little guy. But I've been paying attention to the Van Balen for a long time, and I don't want the Van Balen to fall into the hands of the Americans, what do you think?"
"So you want us to help you get rid of Odyssey Company, is that true?" Song Wenbin asked.
"Yes, as long as you drive away the Odyssey Company, I am willing to take you to find the sinking site of the Van Balen."
"Wuhu~"
Song Wenbin turned to look at his two colleagues and asked, "What do you think? I think this deal is quite worthwhile."
Sutina looked at him coldly and said nothing.
Huo Yudan said calmly: "Just do it when you come back."
Song Wenbin stretched out his hand to Wutou and said with a smile: "Welcome to join us, friend."
…
After shaking hands, Wutou decided to wait until Odyssey Company left before taking Song Wenbin to search for the sunken treasure, and asked him to find the treasure and send him to the Strait of Malacca. Song Wenbin smiled and accepted all Wutou's requests. .
However, when Song Wenbin left the woods where Aconitum was and returned to the van, his face became gloomy and unhappy.
Huo Yu was worried about an extra member of the team appearing out of thin air. She asked, "Do you really want to cooperate with that person?"
"Cooperation?" Song Wenbin sneered and said: "The old guy is playing tricks on us. The clues received by domestic museums were most likely released by him and lured us here to Indonesia to work as his gunmen. I will It's such a coincidence that if there is no meat, I will send a card, and if there is no clue, I will send a clue. It turns out that the co-author is an old American."
"What do you want?"
"Deal with him for a while and buy some time."
"Still putting it off!" Huo Yu said anxiously: "How can we put it off even if we don't have time?"
"We must hold on, this is the last chance!"
Song Wenbin breathed tremblingly and said: "This guy is deliberately going around Nanyang to go around in circles with us. He will do this if there is no benefit? This guy must have information. Maybe he has seen the Nine-marked Dragon Treasure Box himself."
Huo Yu's eyes widened: "Then what are you going to do to hold you back?"
Song Wenbin thought for a while, came up with an idea, and said, "I plan to go to Odyssey Company."
"What, what the hell?"
Even though she and Song Wenbin were in a cold war, Su Tina was shocked by his words.
"Who are you looking for?" Huo Yu exclaimed.
"Odyssey Company, didn't you hear?"
Song Wenbin looked at the envelope in his hand and said bitterly: "What I hate the most in my life is people trying to take advantage of me. The old guy wants to play tricks on me, but it's too late for me to be happy."
"Hey, have you forgotten that we were followed by him in Surabaya?"
Sutina reminded coldly: "God knows how he discovered us in Surabaya. Now there are his people everywhere. If we hadn't gone to the official to find Odyssey Company and he would have found out, I'm afraid we would have been arrested too. If he reports it, it will not be as simple as being deported, but he will probably be imprisoned in Indonesia."
"That's right." Huo Yu said with concern, "Although I'm better at fighting, I can't dismantle a tank with my bare hands. Being discovered by the authorities would be the most troublesome."
After Song Wenbin thought for a moment, he said: "In this case, we have to split up. Huo Yu, you stay here and spy on Wutou. If he makes any move, he will notify us immediately. Sutina, you and I go find Odyssey Company. "
