Sensing the sudden change on Tang Songyuan's face, Li Qingying asked curiously:
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this ship?"
Tang Songyuan said with a solemn expression: "That Victory Goddess is probably also a salvage ship."
"In the sea below its hull, there is also a Chinese-style sunken ship being towed. There are a lot of porcelain on the ship..."
"What do you mean?" Li Qingying didn't understand for a while. Just salvage it. Let the sunken ship be dragged on the seabed. What should I do if the porcelain in the sunken ship is damaged?
The seabed is not all flat terrain. Just like on land, there are mountains and basins. Such violent dragging will cause great damage to the treasures in the sunken ship.
But soon, Li Qingying figured it out.
She said: "Oh, this ship should be a sunken ship found in sovereign waters, but there is no authority or qualification to salvage it."
"That's why they used this method to tie up the sunken ship and drag it to the high seas."
"Then they can salvage without restraint."
"As for the things in the sunken ship being damaged, it's better than finding nothing at all..."
Tang Songyuan snorted coldly: "That's what it means."
Li Qingying raised her eyebrows and asked: "Then what are your plans, continue to the next salvage location, or..."
Just as he was talking, the Goddess of Victory stopped.
This area is an area of the high seas that no one cares about. It fully meets the requirements of the Victory. Moreover, it is getting late and the crew also needs to rest.
At this moment, the call from the Goddess of Victory came from the public channel of the ship's radio station:
"Dear Pipi Shrimp, Broken Leaf, and Qiuci..., this is the Victory Goddess, and I am Captain Andrew,"
"I see that you are also engaged in ocean salvage. Can I rent your floating crane?"
"Of course, we won't use it in vain. We can pay you rent according to international practice. Do you think thirty thousand US dollars a day is okay?"
The other party called in English, and Tang Songyuan's English level was just understandable after being tutored by Ni Sisi.
He couldn't help but laugh and said: "Gui Lao is really good at planning."
"Thirty thousand US dollars and more than 200,000 yuan a day can save them a lot of energy..."
He sneered and picked up the intercom, trying to reply in a calm tone:
"This is Pipi Shrimp. I think the rent of thirty thousand dollars a day is too little. It needs at least half a million dollars,"
"You can think about it and give me an answer tomorrow morning."
Encountering such a thing, Tang Songyuan suddenly decided not to leave.
The ship on the bottom of the sea didn’t know which country’s territorial waters the Victory was towed from, but the sunken ship was obviously Chinese-style.
Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties confirmed this through the identification function of perspective vision.
It was a merchant ship from the Ming Dynasty.
Many porcelain items in the hull and cabins were also severely damaged due to the violent towing of the Victory.
Less than half of them are well preserved.
This is simply a waste of natural resources. There is no basic respect for antiques. The evil capitalism only knows how to make profits.
Then Tang Songyuan ordered the fleet to stop, and the Victory Goddess did not reply for a long time. Tang Songyuan was too lazy to pay attention to it, and kept thinking about countermeasures in his mind.
Yes, the purpose of Tang, Song and Yuan's stop was naturally not to earn the 500,000 yuan a day's rent for the floating crane.
He deliberately offered an extremely high price just to make the other party give up.
At the same time, he was also trying to figure out how to get rid of the sunken ship that was dragged down by the Goddess of Victory.
At the very least, he should quietly get rid of the intact porcelain inside.
The rules of the world are shared by those who see them...
And I have to choose first!
Let this hateful Captain Andrew lose all his money!
At the same time, on the Lady of Victory, Captain Andrew also arranged for the fleet members to rest.
They are not equipped with a floating crane and can only rely on the noose on the ship, which is far less efficient than a floating crane.
Tang Songyuan's offer of half a million dollars a day immediately made him give up the idea of renting it.
Anyway, we have towed it from such a far away place, so it won’t take more than a day or two. Let the crew rest and fish slowly tomorrow.
Moreover, salvaging at night is very risky, and if you are not careful, it will cause safety hazards.
He just told the ship's sonar to be turned on in all directions. The fleet opposite was obviously a professional salvage team.
Don't let the other party send people to approach and discover that there is a sunken ship under your own ship.
...
Early in the morning.
A small team of twenty Pacific giant octopuses were slowly approaching the sunken ship beneath the Lady of Victory along the seafloor.
These octopuses were collected by Tang, Song and Yuan on motorboats for more than two hours in the nearby waters.
Arriving at the location of the sunken ship, Squidward's soft body smoothly got into the cabin from the damaged part of the sunken ship.
They were controlled by Tang, Song and Yuan, and had the clairvoyant vision of Tang, Song and Yuan.
Although it is an extremely dark environment, with perspective vision, these octopuses can clearly distinguish the scene inside the cabin.
They smoothly rummaged through the pile of porcelain to find the complete ones, and sucked them tightly with their smooth tentacles. Each octopus took at least two, and at most three, pieces.
Then he returned the same way and left towards the location of the Pipi Shrimp.
The sonar equipment on the Victory is somewhat old and does not have high-definition imaging. The sonar palette can only vaguely distinguish animals and humans.
Following Andrew's instructions, the sonar crew just had to make sure no one was approaching.
On the other side, Tang Songyuan and Li Qingying stayed up all night.
Waiting for the octopus team to cross four or five nautical miles and finally emerge from the water at the stern of the Pipi Shrimp.
"Wow, it's so fun..."
Li Qingying saw Squidward holding a piece of porcelain with two tentacles, and the remaining tentacles were used to maintain the balance of the octopus's body. This looked inexplicably joyful.
Tang, Song and Yuan didn't have time to express so many emotions and took the porcelains handed over from the sea by Brother Squidward one by one.
There were a total of forty-eight items in this batch, all piled on the stern deck of the Pipi Shrimp.
After giving the order to the Octopus Team again, he and Li Qingying slowly put the porcelain into the heated swimming pool of the Pipi Shrimp.
Li Qingying couldn't help but joked: "It's really a luxury. Only you, Boss Tang, can do such a thing..."
Tang Songyuan hummed and said, "What do you know? These porcelains have just come out of the sea, and they contain salt and are undergoing oxidation in the air."
"If you don't desalinate it as quickly as possible, you're going to cause some irreversible damage."
"It's called the lesser of two evils..."
...
