Chapter 2 Treasure Hunting in the Deep Sea

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On the street of the night market in the "Gangcheng" Higher Education District, an "Aston Martin Va

tage" parked on the street, attracting the attention of many college students. There were also some fashionably dressed student girls. Seeing no one in the car, they stood in front of the car or leaned against the car door, holding up their mobile phones and taking pictures frantically. .

In front of the barbecue stall opposite the sports car, a young man wearing a black shirt and a lean cropped haircut was eating skewers with relish. There were already several empty beer bottles on the small table. Opposite him, a young man with a strong build and a strong T-shirt was not paying attention at all, and was looking straight at the Aston Martin.

"I'm talking to Ling Hao, you're really messing with this car. If I drive this car like yours, I'll have to be a handful of girls every day." The sturdy young man looked at the short skirt photographed beside the car. Girl, your eyes are burning blue.

The young man in black shirt named Ling Hao raised his eyes and looked in the direction of his car, then glanced disdainfully at the sturdy young man opposite and said: "Yuan Bing, I think you are hopeless. Logically speaking, your conditions are not bad. If you want Don't you act like a 'pig brother' every day, and now you can't chase a girl? You are like a ball of 'walking hormones', which good girl dares to get close to you? You have to follow Zuo Peng Fei and Dr. Jiang should learn from each other and become more civilized and bookish. Even Xueting thinks you are a 'rough guy'. How vulgar do you think you are?"

"Hey! Just the two of them. If I were the 'walking hormone', they would be the 'walking cholesterol'. We haven't been in the water for a while. Those two hold a computer every day. I estimate that each of them will grow at least I've lost five kilograms of meat. I won't argue with you. I saw a trick online, and I just want to borrow your car." As he said that, Yuan Bing picked up a black tea bottle and an energy drink can from the ground. He was very cunning. He ran across the street, placed them on the roof of the car, then ducked and ran back.

"What are you doing?" Ling Hao was confused.

"You are so stupid, don't make any noise, the time to witness the miracle is coming soon." Yuan Bing's small eyes flashed with excitement.

Ling Hao's face was full of black lines: "You are the one who is stupid. I saw your behavior on the Internet ten years ago. I am not afraid of people laughing at me. Go and take the dirty bottle away from my car."

"Doesn't it mean that the old method is useless now? Just wait and see." Yuan Bing did not believe in evil.

The two unexpected things on the roof of the car really attracted the attention of many people, but most people chose to ignore it, and some people whispered quietly. Half an hour later, Yuan Bing still didn't wait until he thought about it. Wait until the situation arises. On the contrary, an old woman carried a big bag and walked over slowly. She very skillfully pulled the two items from the roof of the car to the ground and crushed them with her foot. Then she put them in the bag and drove away, which made Ling Hao laugh. Laughing, Yuan Bing looked like he had eaten shit, grabbed a handful of skewers bitterly, and turned his grief and anger into food.

"You two made it easy for me to find you. If I hadn't located the car, I really wouldn't have been able to find you." A female voice as clear as a silver bell suddenly sounded from behind Yuan Bing. I saw a girl with short hair, a delicate face, wearing a A cute girl wearing colored lenses, wearing a cartoon T-shirt, holding a lollipop in her mouth, walked over with her hands behind her back with a quirky expression, and unceremoniously picked up a handful of lollipops from the table, "Gah Bang, bang, bang." He chewed the lollipop first, and then began to skillfully pick up the skewers.

Yuan Bing turned around and smiled immediately: "You're kidding, is there anyone in this world that you can't find? Even if we don't drive, the cameras all over the street look like yours. If anyone marries you, basically There is no privacy at all."

The cute girl rolled her eyes at Yuan Bing and said, "If you dare to slander me again, I will remotely delete all the video files on your hard drive, which cannot be restored!"

Yuan Bing immediately wailed: "Sister, I don't dare to do it anymore!"

Ling Hao couldn't listen anymore and interrupted the conversation between the two and asked: "Shi Si, do you have a problem with me?"

The girl named Shi Si said vaguely while picking up her skewers: "You left your phone in the office. Uncle Liang couldn't find you, so he came to find me. He had work, so at nine o'clock he brought his clients to the company and asked us all to go there. I have notified everyone else. If I find you making skewers here, I will come to you personally and check whether it tastes good or not."

Yuan Bing's little eyes immediately became as big as bells: "Why are you locating the car and saying you didn't monitor us? Even Lu Chuan'er saw it!"

Ling Hao stood up and handed the boss a hundred yuan, then threw the car keys to Shi Si and walked to the car across the street: "What kind of client has to meet at night, are you in such a hurry? I'm drinking, you drive, Yuan Bing is too wretched and doesn't fit in with my car." Shi Si's small cherry mouth immediately turned into a "big mouth of the abyss". He took off all the skewers in his hand, puffed out his little cheeks and chewed while raising his nerve reflex arc. Yuan Bing, who was half-slow, ran towards the sports car in a hurry.

In a relatively remote part of the port city, in an inconspicuous old office building that has existed since the 1990s, only the office of "Nautilus Diving Service Company" still has the lights on. Professor Yu, who was carrying a briefcase that was probably much older than this office building, followed a gentle middle-aged man and looked at everything in the company curiously.

The rented office space of this company is quite large, covering five to six hundred square meters. In addition to office desks, computers, filing cabinets and other things that all companies have, there are also various kinds of things on a large row of shelves beside the wall. Such diving equipment, even the air seems to be filled with a faint salty smell of sea water.

The gentle and elegant middle-aged man is Li Liang. Although he is nearly sixty years old, he is very well-maintained and looks like he is in his forties. He is wearing a custom-made suit and European calfskin handmade leather shoes, as well as a trace of meticulous care. The messy hair and the faint smell of cologne all showed his extraordinary identity and style. On the contrary, the comparison with Professor Yu was even more miserable.

"Professor Yu, please sit down for a moment. They will be here soon." Li Liang led the professor into the reception room, sat him down on the sofa, took out a glass bottle of pure water from the refrigerator and placed it on the coffee table in front of him. .

Professor Yu was still worried that no one in the military could handle the job. Can such a so-called "diving service company" handle it? There was a company brochure on the coffee table. He picked it up and looked at it. The company had only been established a few years ago and had less than fifty employees. They seemed to take on all jobs related to diving, such as high-end private diving instructors, Engineering-grade underwater blasting, underwater clearing, deep-water salvage, underwater welding, etc. are their business scope, which basically covers all projects of underwater engineering companies and tourist diving companies.

Li Liang had already seen the other party's thoughts and explained: "Professor, don't worry. The reason why we were able to get on the line was because of the introduction from the military. We have a top international diving team here. If even they can If this task cannot be completed, then basically no one will be able to complete this task.”

Before he finished speaking, footsteps sounded outside the reception room, and several people seemed to be coming. A young man in a black shirt walked into the reception room first with a smile, followed by four men and two women.

Li Liang hurriedly introduced: "Professor Yu, this is Ling Hao, the boss of Nautilus Diving Service Company and the chief diving expert." Ling Hao also shook hands with Professor Yu enthusiastically.

The two parties exchanged a few words before getting down to business. Li Liang explained the professor's entrustment in detail. Almost everyone on Ling Hao's side had expressionless faces. Only Ling Hao had a polite smile on his face, and then gave Li Liang After winking, they both smiled apologetically at Professor Yu, got up and went outside the reception room.

"Uncle Liang, why don't you take this kind of job? Last time, you sent Jiang Mingyu to be a personal diving instructor for a rich woman. Have we fallen to this level?" Ling Hao complained in a low voice.

Li Liang rolled his eyes at him and said: "You are a businessman now, why are you so arrogant? There are more than forty people who need to be supported by you. Are you qualified to choose clients? Besides, no one else can do Professor Yu's job, so you just agreed readily. Come on, I've already negotiated the price. One-and-a-half million dives, but they have allocated one-third of the department's funds, so you should hurry up and get the work done. Don't forget, the company has already had two I haven’t had any big work for a month. If this continues, I’ll see how you pay your employees!”

Ling Hao immediately put out the fire, went back and signed a contract with Professor Yu, and the next day he took his elite team and equipment and went to sea with Professor Yu.

The sea was sunny and windy, with vast expanse of blue waves. It was the right weather for diving. Shi Si was wearing a beach flower shirt, holding her lollipop in her mouth, and threw pieces of detection equipment into the sea like garbage. Professor Yu and his students were stunned for a while.

"Girl, what are you doing, environmental protection?"

Shi Si chuckled and narrowed his eyes: "Don't worry, I can take back a few if I throw them away. There are hundreds of thousands of them. I can't afford to throw them away."

Back in the cabin, the girl opened her laptop and clicked, then said: "The waves and weather will not change much until 5 p.m., which is suitable for diving. The salinity of the seawater is normal. There is a channel 65 meters underwater." The parallel undercurrent from north to south has a flow rate of 45 centimeters per second. There are no organisms longer than 50 centimeters. The visibility is 15 meters. The depth of sunlight exposure is about 20 meters. The water temperature is 21° to 13° Celsius. You can go into the water."

Ling Hao and a diver named Tian Yong had already put on their diving suits and were staring at the screen of Professor Yu's students watching the images of the underwater photography robot. Professor Yu said to Ling Hao with an awkward smile: "Be careful, safety first." , in addition to the relic stupa, if you find any other cultural relics, bring them back together if it is convenient. These are valuable items and must be handled with care."

Ling Hao looked at Professor Yu in surprise and said: "Have you ever heard of decompression sickness? You must also know how high the water pressure is at a depth of 250 meters. It will take us half an hour to dive, and it will take 5 seconds to rise every time we rise. We had to stop and decompress for a few minutes when we reached the meter, and the entire floating process took at least more than two hours. We breathed compressed gas mixed with helium, nitrogen, and oxygen. Each person carried two cylinders, which was barely enough for an hour, so we still had to Tie four more air bottles on the diving rope at different depths. If we want to come up without any sequelae, we only have 20 minutes for underwater operations. During this time, I try to do as much as possible, but It won’t work beyond this time, it’s a matter of life, I hope you can understand.”

During this period, Professor Yu also crammed in some deep diving knowledge online. He knew how dangerous deep diving was and it was definitely not a child's play. He patted Ling Hao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I understand, I understand, safety first." ,Do your best."

At 10:30 in the morning, Ling Hao and Tian Yong checked their equipment again, then leaned back from the side of the boat into the water and began to dive along the diving rope. Shi Si, on the other hand, was operating another underwater photography robot in his company to clear the way for the two of them.

For deep diving, descending is not the most difficult thing. Just pay attention to balancing the ear pressure, keep a constant speed and don't go too fast, and it will not cause any harm to the body.

After 20 meters, the sunlight is basically unable to reach this depth, and the visibility suddenly decreases. The helplessness and fear in this pitch-black darkness are the biggest obstacles for human beings to dive deeply. This is a kind of instinctive fear that divers can pass through. Train to overcome it, but never make it go away.

After 60 meters, you have entered another professional field. Most divers do not have the qualifications and ability to operate below this depth. The water pressure here is seven atmospheres and the visibility is less than five meters. In the sea water, except for diving suits and photography robots There are no other luminous objects except the light source above. Just through the light of the diving light, you can see that the seawater is full of fine floating objects like snow, including algae, plankton, organic matter fragments, and Coral debris and other strange things were swept away by gentle parallel undercurrents.

After 150 meters, the water pressure has become very uncomfortable. Even simple things like breathing are very laborious. You must take long and deep breaths to ensure that enough oxygen circulates to the extremities of the limbs. At this moment, there are actually more living creatures in the water. Flashing fluorescent shrimps, squids and some unknown fish with huge eyes can be seen everywhere. Countless plankton are jumping around. They are staying at this depth now, but when they reach It will float to the surface at night, feed on algae, and attract a large number of fish to participate in a gluttonous feast.

250 meters finally arrived. Shi Si's positioning was a bit exaggerated. The counterweight of the diving rope fell less than 3 meters next to the sunken ship. Ling Hao saw the golden little tower at a glance. He took out a phone with the positioning He picked up the filament soft bag of the container, gently picked up the relic tower and put it into it, and then pulled the inflatable rope on the soft bag. A balloon was quickly inflated, and it quickly rose towards the water with the baby lump.