While Zhuang Rui and Captain Clyde were chatting, a small red light turned on on the electronic screen in the captain's cabin, and a beeping sound was made at the same time.
The chief mate, who was standing next to the electronic command console, checked it and turned around and said: "Captain, it's a Portuguese patrol ship requesting a call..."
The "Xuan Rui" is now within Portuguese territorial waters. Although it has notified several countries in the relevant waters in advance, routine inspections still need to be carried out.
Clyde stood up after hearing this and said, "Boss, I'll just go and deal with it. How about you wait here?"
Generally, it is okay for the first mate and second mate to come forward for an inspection like this, but Clyde knows that there are many defensive and offensive weapons on his ship that should not be equipped on a cruise ship, so it is better to personally come forward to be safer.
"Let's go, you and I will go for a walk..."
Zhuang Rui was bored in the captain's cabin, so he stood up and followed Clyde out.
After walking into the elevator, Zhuang Rui asked the bearded captain next to him with some worry: "Captain Clyde, will there be any problems?"
In the past, security checks were carried out by foreign affairs personnel at the port when stationed at foreign ports. This was the first time that Zhuang Rui encountered being inspected by a patrol ship, so he was somewhat worried. He knew that his "cruise ship"
Possessing great firepower.
Clyde laughed when he heard this and said: "Boss, it's okay. I have a very good relationship with General Lasco of Portugal. I greeted him before I came here. It's just a routine matter..."
When Clyde was young, he studied at the Royal Naval College. Many of his classmates now hold important positions in the naval departments of some European countries. The General Lascaux he mentioned was also one of his classmates.
After hearing Clyde's words, Zhuang Rui felt relieved and said with a smile: "That's good, Captain Clyde, you might as well bring some small gifts I prepared on the ship to your classmates..."
As the saying goes, it is not strange to give gifts to many people. Zhuang Rui now has many friends all over the world, so he prepared many burned-out works by Xu Guoqing when he was studying porcelain on the ship as gifts for some friendly people abroad.
Of course, after being "exquisitely packaged" in some gift boxes worth tens of dollars, when these waste products appear in front of the guests, they are exquisite products made by the master of art.
About five hundred meters away from the "Xuan Rui" on the sea, a patrol ship parked there. Although it was completely incomparable with the size of the "Xuan Rui", the two black muzzles still showed that the warship and
The cruise ship difference.
A speedboat was released from the patrol ship, and several soldiers took the speedboat to the bottom of the cruise ship. A few minutes later, they appeared on the deck via the elevator.
"Oh, old classmate, I didn't expect you to come here in person. You look so handsome in your military uniform..."
When he saw one of the leading soldiers, Clyde laughed and greeted him, hugging him very affectionately. The other man also had a smile on his face and whispered to Clyde in English.
"Boss, this is my old classmate, General Lasco of the Royal Portuguese Navy. He is two years younger than me and is now a major general..."
After hugging Lasco, Clyde introduced him to Zhuang Rui, but out of politeness, Clyde said Lasco's full name, which was more than thirty syllables, and Zhuang Rui heard it.
Almost collapsed.
Portuguese names are often composed of the names of their parents plus the names of their godparents, and some also add the names of their grandparents, and finally their own name, which is the best in the world.
"Haha, boss, just call him Lasco..."
Clyde laughed when he saw Zhuang Rui's embarrassment. Even he himself had specially reviewed Lasko's name yesterday, otherwise whoever was trying to remember his friend's name at this time would have connected him with seven names.
Can you please write down the names of your aunt and uncle?
"Mr. Zhuang, nice to meet you, welcome to beautiful Portugal..."
When shaking hands with Zhuang Rui, Lasco was obviously more reserved and spoke diplomatic language naturally, but his attitude was still relatively enthusiastic, much better than that of the foreign affairs personnel when he docked at the port before.
Sure enough, someone in the DPRK was easy to do. After boarding the cruise ship, Clyde and Zhuang Rui took Lasko for a tour on the deck and introduced the modified deep-sea salvage equipment to him.
The salvage platform on the "Xuan Rui" can be said to be the most advanced deep-sea salvage facility in the world. Lasko is very interested in it and has been asking about it. As for the inspection, he simply took a look.
The crew registration list is now complete.
After the "inspection" was completed, it was almost noon, Zhuang Rui invited Lasko and his party to the restaurant on the cruise ship. After several exquisite Chinese "arts" were presented, the relationship between the two parties became increasingly harmonious.
"Mr. Zhuang, every year many explorers from all over the world go to this sea area to salvage sunken ships. Some people do salvage some gold and jewelry...
But to be honest, the amount of gold and jewelry is not very large. I personally think that such salvage is not worth carrying out..."
Since he and Clyde were classmates, and he had received a gift from Zhuang Rui, after a conversation, Lasko expressed his views very straightforwardly.
Although Portuguese law allows explorers to enter relevant sea areas for exploration activities, they must also do so under their supervision. Therefore, over the years, Lascaux has seen countless adventurers come and return disillusioned.
You must know that the deepest seawater near Vigo Bay reaches about 1,000 meters. This kind of deep-sea salvage requires considerable financial resources. Many explorers invested huge sums of money, but the harvest was very little, and they lost nothing.
Return.
So for the sake of Clyde's face and Zhuang Rui's gift, Lasco said hello to Zhuang Rui very kindly.
Zhuang Rui laughed when he heard this and said: "Haha, General Lasco, I am an archaeologist. As far as I know, in the past history of this world, a lot of it has been tampered with. Maybe... those
Didn't the explorers find the true location of the sunken ship?"
As the saying goes, seeing is believing. In the seabed area that Zhuang Rui surveyed, there were more than a dozen sunken shipwrecks. Most of the property inside was gold. According to Zhuang Rui's rough estimate, the minimum value is
More than two billion US dollars.
Therefore, Zhuang Rui determined that those treasure hunters just failed to find the specific location of the sunken ship. Moreover, that area belonged to the deep sea area, and there was a suspected deep sea volcano at the bottom. The terrain was relatively complicated, so it was not discovered by the world.
However, all this is not a problem for Zhuang Rui. With Zhuang Rui's ability, he can accurately measure the location of the sunken ship, allowing the salvage equipment on the drilling platform to maximize its function.
"Oh? Zhuang, is this impossible? You have to know that in the past few decades, there have been surveys a thousand nautical miles near Vigo Bay..."
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Lasco shook his head disapprovingly. There are many people who want to make a fortune these days, but in the end they all left here in despair.
Zhuang Rui's expression changed when he heard this. A thousand nautical miles around have been surveyed by others. Even if those people's survey equipment is not as good as his own, there is no reason why they have not discovered the huge number of sunken ships on the seabed 300 nautical miles away from here.
Thinking of this, Zhuang Rui took out the navigation chart that Clyde had prepared, pointed to a coordinate point on it, and asked: "General Lasco, has anyone surveyed this location?"
Zhuang Rui doesn't mind announcing the location of the sunken ship, because salvaging the sunken ship requires a lot of preparations. Even if it is known to some powerful international marine salvage companies, I am afraid that by the time they are ready, Zhuang Rui will have already returned home with a full load.
The second is that the topography of the seabed is very complex, and the sunken ship has long been in decay. It will take a lot of time and energy to accurately detect the location of the sunken ship. Compared with them, Zhuang Rui has too many advantages.
"here?"
After seeing the coordinate point pointed by Zhuang Rui, Lasko's originally smiling face suddenly became a little unnatural, and even his breathing became a little tight. Zhuang Rui and Clyde looked a little strange.
"Old friend, what's going on here? Is there any problem?" Clyde and Zhuang Rui looked at each other and asked.
"has a problem……"
Lasco stared at the coordinates on the map, and after a while he turned to Zhuang Rui and said: "Mr. Zhuang, this sea area has exceeded Portugal's territorial waters and is the deepest place within a thousand nautical miles.
…
According to surveys, there seems to be a volcano below this sea area, which often triggers tsunamis and huge waves centered here. Moreover, some ships often disappear when passing through this sea area.
There have been adventurers who have searched in this sea area, but... they also disappeared, including people and boats, disappearing overnight..."
When Lasco said this, he took a deep breath and said: "So, Zhuang, I suggest you not to go to this sea area for salvage. Even if there is huge wealth down there, I think... life is more valuable than
Wealth is more important!”
As soon as Lasco finished speaking, Clyde, who was sitting next to Zhuang Rui, exclaimed, "Old friend, this... this sea is the devil's sea that is widely rumored in Europe???"
Obviously, Clyde also knew what Lasko said, but he had been away from Europe for a long time and did not know the specific location of the sea area where these incidents occurred. Now after hearing Lasko's words, he suddenly showed a look of shock.
