Ghost Blowing Lantern II

Shirley Yang agreed. We started the underwater propeller and floated up the same way. I saw that she had just taken pictures with the underwater camera. I thought that the civilization of the Shang Dynasty in China was limited to the Central Plains, which was much smaller than the current territory of China. , if the ruins of Guixu, which were deeply influenced by the Shang and Zhou civilization, are really discovered at the end of the South China Sea, it will be of extraordinary significance to the study of human navigation and civilization history. Even if the King of Qin's bone mirror cannot be found, just taking these photos back will be enough. It was enough to stimulate Professor Chen to be hospitalized again.

The three of us turned on all the lighting equipment and slowly floated to the coral forest. But as soon as we came up, we discovered that something was wrong. Team B, who was collecting eggs at the bottom of the large translucent coral tree, circled the diving searchlight towards us. Obviously, We need immediate support. I put my hand forward and led Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming to quickly approach the coral tree.

Ruan Hei and Duo Ling, the bosses of the boat under the coral tree, were desperately trying to pry a giant clam. This giant clam was hiding under the coral reef. It was three times bigger than the largest millstone. The wavy clam shell was tightly closed, letting Ruan Hei No matter how hard the two of them tried, they couldn't move the shell. This giant clam has been growing for thousands of years at least. Its shell is white and crystal clear, almost integrated with the rocks on the seabed. It is a man-eating clam that is good at pinching people's legs and feet. It lives in the sea. Clam, in fact, is an ancient saying. Because Dan people and fishermen are most afraid of empty-handed fishing, all kinds of pearl oysters are still called clams. Although the man-eating oyster is not mentioned by its scientific name "Tridacna" in Dan people's mouth, it is It is often called "white niche". I don't know how many Dan people were killed by this kind of thing when fishing for pearls. I don't know why the boat boss Ruan Hei wanted to pry it up. Before I asked him, he couldn't wait to pry it up. Tell us with gestures that there is a person inside the clam shell!

I also said that I misunderstood what Ruan Hei meant. Apart from us, there is no one else in this turbulent coral spiral sea. Even if this is a deep-sea clam commonly known as the man-eating clam, how can there be "people" in its shell? ? A living person or a dead person? Uncle Ming seemed to suddenly wake up and made a gesture like a swimming fish. This time it became more powerful. The man-eating berry probably contained a rare mermaid from the sea. Its meat is twice as expensive as platinum of the same weight.

Uncle Ming held down the man-eating clam as big as a millstone, and he was so excited that a long string of bubbles appeared. He gestured and told us that the old clam might have caught the mermaid on the bottom of the sea. In fact, this was just his wishful thinking. The clam shell Only the boss of the ship, Ruan Hei and his apprentice Duo Ling, had seen what was inside, and it was difficult to describe it in detail underwater.

I saw that the shell of this rare giant clam was crystal clear and white. It was a rare young product. Anyway, all the watermelons in the back cabin were thrown away, leaving a lot of space. I couldn’t stop working on it, so why not give it to it? The whole nest is over? So I made a gesture and asked Ruan Hei and Duo Ling to wait at the bottom of the sea. Shirley Yang and I and others went back to the ship first, and asked the fat man to come down with a chisel and crowbar to help lift the thousand-year-old clam back to the deck.

After the deployment, we floated to the vicinity of the decompression line, and then returned to the water tank step by step to take off the heavy equipment. I briefed Fatty and Gucai on the underwater situation. Fatty had already been thinking about it on the boat. I was scratching the wall. After I understood, I immediately took Guchai to hand over to us, and went into the water with a chisel and hydraulic separator to catch clams.

The three masters, Ruan Hei, are all good at prying clams and collecting eggs, and they are even more handy with the tools. However, it still took a lot of effort to carve the "tridacna" off the reef. The three of them used the buoyancy of the ocean current to lift it. It was lifted to the sea and tied with a steel cable. Uncle Ming used the crane on the boat to hook it up and finally caught this thousand-year-old giant clam out of the water.

The fat man wanted to show off. He stood on the giant clam shell suspended in mid-air, pushed the frog mirror to his head and shouted at me: "Old Hu, what do you think this guy caught by this commander is? According to the current market, Bring it back to the United States. At least it can be replaced with a yacht. Then we will bring a few American girls..." As the crane was raised higher and higher from the sea, the fat man began to feel dizzy before he finished speaking. , ah yo screamed, his feet became weak and he fell into the water.

I was worried that he would get carried away and make too much noise and attract sharks, so I quickly asked Ruan Hei to drag him back to the boat. I called the boss of the ship, Ruan Hei, to come up quickly. It was almost time to withdraw, but Ruan Hei thought that the walrus was calm, the tide was low, and there was still water on the seabed. There were many old snails, so how could they miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to collect eggs? Regardless of the risk of contracting diving disease, after changing to scuba, he insisted on taking his two apprentices into the sea to collect eggs again.

Uncle Ming also had this intention, and advised me not to stop Dan Min's behavior. Looking at the weather, it may rain, but without wind trust, the surge will definitely not be strong. As long as there is no surge interference, no matter how heavy the rain is on the sea, It will not have any impact on the diving operations, but Uncle Ming himself does not want to dive again. Anyway, master and apprentice Ruan Hei are paid helpers, and they have not lost half of their dividends. Since they want to make a big profit , why bother to stop it, just let them do it.

At this time, the sky was even more hazy, with thick clouds covering the sea surface. There seemed to be a dangerous signal coming from the sea breeze. My heart moved, and I thought that there must be no strong winds and waves tonight, but I thought of Uncle Ming and The boss of the ship, Ruan Hei, is very familiar with Walrus Tianhou. Since they said it was fine, there was nothing wrong with the news.

It is said that there are storm surges all year round in the Coral Spiral Sea. Except for the night when the full moon is eclipsing, the sky will clear up. The clouds are usually thick. Clear-air turbulence accompanied by infrasonic thunderstorms often occurs, making it difficult for aircraft to fly over it. Low-frequency electromagnetic waves on the seabed Interfering with the ship's electronic equipment, causing the needle to lose track and deviate from the course, many catastrophic accidents have occurred as a result, but this phenomenon remains unexplained.

At this time, Shirley Yang was curiously looking at the captured man-eating clam. Since everyone was busy continuing to collect eggs, they had no time to pay attention to it. They just tied it with a steel cable and prepared to pick it up again. Shirley Yang said to me Said: "Look at the undulations of the white shell of the man-eating clam, which looks like waves or the wheels of an ancient Roman chariot. It is a wonder of the creation of heaven and earth. It is really beautiful. Looking at the appearance of the clam shell, The texture is extremely fine, which shows that it has been growing on the seabed for at least thousands of years. Human civilization has only been around for a few thousand years, and this man-eating clam has survived for almost a few thousand years. It really only lives for a few decades. of humanity is amazed."

I'm worried that Shirley Yang will be merciful and want to release this old clam into the sea. If this green-headed thing that everyone worked so hard to get is lost, wouldn't it mean that the fat in the mouth will fly away again? Since it has lived for so many years, it should be good enough, because the great teacher once said that the meaning of life does not lie in its length, but in whether it can produce value.

But people's correct ideas do not fall from the sky, so I had to do her work and said: "Many creatures in the sea have extremely long lifespans. Turtles can live for thousands of years, and turtles can live for thousands of years. It is not strange for me to live for thousands of years. Cannibalism is not surprising." In fact, the clam does not eat human flesh, but its jagged shells will close tightly once it pinches a person. From ancient times to the present, egg people have often encountered this difficulty, so they gave it the man-eating clam shape. It was a name that made people feel horrified. Listening to what Ruan Hei said, he seemed to see a dead person trapped in the clam shell. For thousands of years, no egg people have dared to enter the coral spiral to collect eggs, and they don’t know if it is in the South China Sea. It’s a mermaid or a shipwrecked sea wolf, but this blood debt must be repaid with blood, let’s find someone to pry it open first and then take a look.”

While I was talking, it started to rain. There was endless darkness between the sea and the sky. Although it was daytime, it felt like it was evening. The sea in the distance was dark and vast, with only a few buoys shining brightly, but we had to wait until We had to leave after the tide surged again, and we were helpless against the bad weather. Fortunately, as Uncle Ming said, although the rain came hard, it had little impact on the walruses, and the waves were still gentle. I think it was probably related to the release of sea air the day before, and the corals The geographical climate of the spiral sea area is difficult to predict by common sense. There are heavy rains in the sky, but the sea surface is actually calm.

We all went back to the cabin to get raincoats and put them on, and braved the rain to deal with the man-eating clam. Because the light was dark in the rain, we had to turn the searchlight on the roof of the boat and shine it on the clam shell. The shell was even more pale and made it look... It was a bit seeping. The giant clam was still alive when it came out of the water. It was soaked by the rain and was about to move again. However, the clam shell was still tightly closed, not showing any gaps. Facing this living creature that had been thousands of years old, the fat man and I really I don’t know how to proceed. If the clam shell is damaged, it will be worthless.

When Uncle Ming saw that the clam was about to be broken, he hurriedly followed suit. He concluded that the clam contained a priceless mermaid. I had never heard of mermaids in the South China Sea, so I thought they were similar to those made into immortal candles in the tomb of King Xian. The black-scaled shark asked Uncle Ming if these two things were the same thing.

Uncle Ming said that mermaids and mermaids are two different things, one is evil and the other is good, and their habits and appearance are also different. Mermaids cannot make sounds, but their meat is edible, while mermaids are evil in nature and can make seductive sounds on the sea. Their flesh is poisonous and cannot be eaten. Ointment can be used as permanent fuel. Ignorant people tend to confuse the two. However, although black-scaled sharks are rare, some people have caught them after all. This "mermaid" or "murloc" is too rare. , a rare encounter in a hundred years, and its meat is unparalleledly delicious. There is a legend that people who eat fish can live forever, but no one has actually eaten it. Once when he was running a boat in Nanyang, his sailors captured him alive in the sea. The two mermaids are human-shaped from the navel up. They are no different from normal people. Their lower bodies are similar to scaly feet. They can use wake water to stand in the rough waves. But when you look closer, you can see that the mermaids are covered with a layer of slippery mucus. The fish was so fishy that it couldn't be approached. After being caught, it was placed in a large bucket filled with water. The crew gathered around to watch. The pair of mermaids were not frightened and just swam around in the bucket.

Uncle Ming didn't know much about the goods at that time, so he met a businessman on a boat who was willing to sell the mermaid for release, so he demanded a sum of money, and the businessman took the mermaid away. Later he learned that mermaids were sold on the black market in North America and Europe. The price was more than twice that of platinum of equal weight. Only then did Uncle Ming realize that he had been deceived. He beat his chest and regretted it. When he thought about it more than ten years later, he still had chest tightness, dreaming, and kept cursing him. He was too kind and easy to trust others back then. , otherwise he wouldn't have been tricked by the profiteer who suffered a thousand cuts. Now that he had the chance to get another mermaid, how could he not let it happen on a whim.

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