Chen Yong swam toward the bottom of the canyon. As his body approached the entrance of the canyon, he felt an inexplicable resistance that pushed his body out.

Chen Yong couldn't help but be shocked, what was going on? He clearly saw that the water was calm and waveless, so how could there be any resistance?

Chen Yong was puzzled. He did not give up and slowed down to approach the canyon. This time he was no longer reckless, but used the fish-shaped Tai Chi method to see if he could withstand this unknown resistance.

Chen Yong tried several times in a row, but couldn't stand the invisible pressure and retreated. This kind of pressure is like a sharp knife, piercing your chest with all its strength again and again. You can imagine how great the pressure is.

Fortunately, Chen Yong's body has a self-regulating function. After more than ten attempts, he gradually got used to this kind of pressure.

Chen Yong successfully passed through the pressure area and reached the bottom of the canyon. When he saw the terrain clearly, he knew what the pressure was about.

It turns out that the canyon is relatively deep, with a drop of about 100 meters from the seafloor. In addition, the water flowing through the English Channel is turbulent, and a vortex is formed due to the drop, and this pressure comes from the whirlpool.

There is no silt, no seaweed, shells or the like at the bottom of the canyon, nor is there a single sea fish. The bottom of the entire canyon is bare, filled with fine, soft sand.

Chen Yong stepped on the sand and walked towards the front of the canyon. He walked about 100 meters. Suddenly he felt his right foot stepped on a hard object. He removed his right foot, squatted down and dug away the sand with his hands.

Quickly, Chen Yong dug out a bowl from the sand.

Chen Yong picked up the bowl and looked at it carefully. At first glance, he saw that it was a porcelain from the Ming Dynasty of China.

This bowl is well preserved. There is no trace of it having been soaked in seawater for hundreds of years. It does not have the characteristics of porcelain found in the sea. It seems as if someone has just thrown it into the sea. The only flaw is that the color of the glaze is dim.

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Let’s talk about sea fishing. After porcelain sinks to the bottom of the sea, seabed organisms must go through the process of adhering to, surviving, and dying on the porcelain. They will also be impacted by sea currents along with the porcelain, and will eventually be buried by the sand. Therefore, it is possible to "grow on the porcelain"

The remnants of undersea organisms that have "parasitized" all have obvious characteristics of the times. They look "dry" and "old". There are basically no remains of undersea organisms that have recently "moved to a new home". After hundreds of years, they can "parasitize" on porcelain.

The remains of seabed organisms that have come down have been completely calcified, and some have turned into fossils and have no freshness. When you break open the remains of individual seabed organisms and observe them, you will find that the degree of calcification is the same inside and outside, the color is basically the same, there is no smell, and there is basically no smell.

Acute angles and particularly protruding parts. But there are also special situations: some porcelain pieces just fall into the gaps between seabed rocks or coral reefs, and are less affected by ocean currents and sediment impact. Some seabed organisms such as corals can also grow to a certain extent on the porcelain pieces.

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But these features cannot be seen in this bowl, which makes Chen Yong puzzled. What is going on?

Countless ships pass through this English Channel every day. Could it be that someone threw modern handicrafts into the sea?

However, based on Chen Yong's experience, he could tell at a glance that this bowl was an official kiln bowl from the Xuande Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Yong quickly found the answer. Because of the pressure in the canyon, no living thing could survive.

Therefore, there are no living creatures at the bottom of the entire canyon, and the sand has been washed over and over again, becoming clean and tidy. Except for the slight corrosiveness of sea water, pressure and other factors, the impact on this bowl is minimal.

This bowl is a blue and white lotus seed bowl with floral patterns from the official kiln in Jingdezhen, Xuande, Ming Dynasty. It is 9 cm high and 15.9 cm in diameter.

It has a straight round mouth, deep curved walls, small circle feet, a concave center with a pointed bottom, and a slightly convex bottom. It is commonly known as a chicken heart bowl. Generally, because the shape of the bowl resembles a lotus chamber, it is also called a 'lotus seed bowl'.

The inner rim of the bowl is painted with a pattern similar to the lotus mountain pattern. The upper and lower spaces are filled with glyph-shaped circles, plus a pattern line and four upper and lower string lines. A circle on the inner wall is a twining dianthus flower. The center of the bowl is a four-petaled flower with a circle of flower leaves. Then make a circle of peach-shaped hooks to connect the pattern, and add four string patterns. The outer wall is decorated with lotus branches and patterns one circle each, and four string lines are added. The four-season flowers in the bowl mural include lotus, chrysanthemum, and peony. , pomegranate flowers, each decorated with four precious silver ingots, rhinoceros horns, corals, yin and yang plates, lotus petal patterns on the bottom, three-point patterns on the petal tips, and a curly grass pattern around the foot circle. The blue and white flowers are darker in color, with white glaze. green.

The foot is exposed and the white glaze is delicate. The inside of the foot is in blue and white with the six-character double-line regular script "Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty" written in blue and white, plus a double circle frame.

The decoration and shape of this lotus seed bowl follow the Yongle Dynasty style, but the Yongle style has no style, is lighter in body, and has a smaller circle foot.

After Chen Yong finished reading the bowl, a bright smile appeared on his face, but in fact he was even more excited inside.

Because he is very sure that this canyon is the location of the sunken ship, but he is not sure yet whether all four ships sank here.

He immediately activated his perception, and soon he discovered that dozens of porcelains of different sizes and shapes were buried under the sand more than 10 meters in front of him.

Chen Yong did not dig out the porcelain, but continued to move forward.

After walking about 100 meters, Chen Yong saw two wooden boats about 60 to 70 meters long not far ahead, on the left side of the canyon. One of them turned to the left and landed at the bottom of the canyon, with half of its hull buried. In the sand.

Another wooden boat rolled over to the right, and half of its hull was also buried in the sand.

Chen Yong quickly walked forward to check the situation. Chen Yong used his senses to examine the ship that turned to the right. He found that the ship was filled with gold, silver, jewelry, gold bars and the like.

This ship should be a famous British merchant ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

With the deepening of the Industrial Revolution, the improvement of shipbuilding technology, and the need for the expansion of British maritime trade, the total number of British merchant ships has increased astonishingly. In 1788, the total number of British merchant ships was 12,464, and the total tonnage of merchant ships was 1,278,000 tons. ; By 1870, the total number of merchant ships increased to 26,367, and the total tonnage increased to 5,691,000 tons.

This ship is 70 meters long and about 15 meters wide. How much is it worth with so much gold and silver jewelry? It would take several lifetimes to salvage this ship and sell the gold, silver and jewelry inside. over.

Chen Yong walked towards another ship that capsized to the left.
Chapter completed!