Golden Fishing Village

When he saw Shen Zhifu before, Ao Muyang knew that the other person would definitely need his help when he came to his door, so he had let the word out before. As long as Shen Zhifu needed help again, he would do his best to help.

However, he didn't expect that the old man was so upright, and then he expressed his intention to ask for his help. This was quite open-minded.

Ao Muyang invited the old professor to sit down at home. He poured a cup of herbal tea and said, "Professor Shen, if you have anything else you need my help with, please just tell me."

Shen Zhifu said: "Yes, let me be honest, asking for your help this time is risky, because I need to go to a hydrothermal vent on the seabed to find new species."

Upon hearing this, Ao Muyang immediately hesitated: "Undersea hydrothermal vent? Undersea volcano?"

Shen Zhifu nodded heavily, which almost made his sunglasses fall off. He quickly reached out to hold them up: "You can say that."

Ao Muyang asked: "Are there submarine volcanoes in Hongyang Bay?"

Shen Zhifu explained: "It's not in Hongyang Bay, but in the outer sea of ​​Zhoushan Islands. In this way, Director Ao, if you have time recently, you might as well go with me to take a look at the sea area there. I will explain this topic to you in detail. Condition."

Ao Muyang wanted to refuse, but he couldn't refuse. They had just delivered a generous gift to his door. He had just promised that he would do his best no matter what he could do to help. Now he was a pawn crossing the river, and he could not retreat without advancing.

Moreover, Shen Zhifu came here because it was a fishing ban and fishing boats were not allowed to go out to sea. He had nothing to do here, so he had no reasonable excuse to refuse.

This made him secretly regret, he was a little too young and let the old man trick him.

After a brief thought, Ao Muyang sighed softly and said, "Okay, Professor Shen, let's prepare for dinner first and wait until the afternoon to discuss the rest."

Shen Zhifu temporarily stayed in Longtou Village for one night. In the afternoon, Ao Muyang could not go with him to the offshore area of ​​​​Zhoushan Islands. Although the two places were not far apart, if Ao Muyang wanted to help him go to the bottom of the sea to find the so-called 'new life' Species', it would take at least a few days, and Ao Muyang had to arrange the work of the village and the patrol team.

After he arranged his work properly, he took Heilong and Shen Zhifu with him and sailed to the sea off Zhoushan Islands the next day.

Because he had been going out a lot recently, the general was very reluctant to leave him. When he saw him boarding the ship this time, the general followed him closely and refused to get off the ship no matter what.

Ao Muyang saw that he had no choice but to take the general with him.

As the speedboat sailed toward the southeast, Shen Zhifu said: "My team has already gone to the surrounding waters to explore the seabed conditions. The local sea conditions are not very stable, and there are many black smokestacks on the seabed."

Ao Muyang asked: "Black chimney?"

Shen Zhifu smiled and said: "Yes, I didn't explain it clearly to you. I told you that I was going to work diving in a hydrothermal vent zone. You understood it to be a submarine volcano. In fact, it was not a volcano in the strict sense, but a volcano. Black chimneys on the seabed, do you know anything about black chimneys on the seafloor?”

Ao Muyang nodded, he really knew something about this.

Undersea black chimneys are also called undersea hot springs, or they are a type of undersea hot springs. Literally, they are fountains deep under the sea. The principle is similar to that of volcanic fountains. There are cracks on the sea floor, and hot gas, magma or soft metal are constantly ejected. flow.

Because of the water pressure and temperature, the hot gas emitted by the hot springs will instantly heat it to boiling when it encounters the cold water on the seabed, forming streams of water vapor that surge upwards, like exhaust gases from a chimney.

Since their discovery in the 1970s, hot springs discovered around the world include white chimneys, black chimneys, and yellow chimneys. Black chimneys are the most common. They generally belong to high-temperature hydrothermal activity areas rich in sulfides on the seafloor. When the liquid sprays out, it looks like "black smoke", and at the same time, the sulfide accumulation formed around it takes the shape of a cylindrical shape with a thin upper part and a thick lower part, like a chimney.

Hearing that they were going to find the black chimney, Ao Muyang frowned: "Professor Shen, the area around the black chimney is very dangerous. If you are not careful, someone may die."

Shen Zhifu smiled wryly and nodded to express his understanding. He comforted Ao Muyang and said, "Believe me, Director Ao, our team has prepared advanced diving equipment to avoid these dangers to the greatest extent."

Ao Muyang smiled noncommittally and said: "Do you know how high the temperature of the high-temperature hydrothermal activity area around the black chimney is? In that environment, even riding on a submarine is dangerous. It has nothing to do with the diving equipment. Once something happens , it’s a big deal!”

Shen Zhifu understood what he meant. Lao Ao was willing to help, but he was not willing to risk his life to help. He was not married yet.

After a few minutes of silence, he suddenly changed the topic: "Director Ao, you grew up by the sea, right?"

Ao Muyang nodded in agreement, and Shen Zhifu asked again: "Then do you know Cai Qian and Li Changgeng?"

These were two unfamiliar names, so he shook his head.

Shen Zhifu said: "Cai Qian was the most famous pirate after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and Li Changgeng was a senior general of the Qing Dynasty Navy. Their warships were frequently active in the southern seas of Zhoushan Islands. There are historical data to verify that both sides are here There have been many fierce battles in this area. More than ten years ago, I participated in a submarine shipwreck scientific research project. During that project, I discovered the flagship of Li Changgeng's fleet! "

Ao Muyang didn't understand why he suddenly mentioned this, so he asked: "Sorry, Professor Shen, I don't understand. Is this related to our black smokestack scientific research project?"

Shen Zhifu gave him an unpredictable smile, and then said earnestly: "Cai Qian is not an ordinary person. He has been operating on the sea for more than ten years. He calls himself the King of the Sea. The gold, silver and jewelry he plundered are piled up like mountains. It is said that he hid the jewelry in a remote island and left a treasure puzzle for it, called 'My way is to the north and south, the east XZ crust. The big watertight is sold, the small watertight triangle. Eighteen jars of wine camphor, one jar after another. Whoever can get it will pave the way to the river'."

Hearing him here, Ao Muyang reacted. He looked at Shen Zhifu in surprise and asked: "This time you are not looking for any new species, but for treasure hunting?"

Shen Zhifu laughed and shook his head and said: "No, no, I did come for this underwater black chimney, and I did want to discover new species around the black chimney. As for the treasure of the King of the Sea, someone else has a plan for it."

Without waiting for Ao Muyang to speak, he Then he said, "Do you remember the people around me when I came to see you last time? You talked to Lao Lu, do you have any impression of me?"

Ao Muyang said, "I have an impression of me."

Shen Zhifu said, "They are here this time too. They are the ones who are interested in the treasure of the King of Zhenhai. Lao Lu runs a salvage company and has been studying the treasure of the King of Zhenhai for some years. He believes that the treasure is hidden in a place called the Horseshoe Island Reef Group to the north of the Black Chimney. Now he is leading people to conduct detailed surveys and searches in that sea area. Do you understand what I mean now?"

Ao Muyang asked, "Do you want me to stop them to protect the national treasure?"

Shen Zhifu's mouth twitched, and then he helplessly adjusted his sunglasses and said, "No, I mean that your diving skills are superb. You may find the treasure earlier than Lao Lu and his group during the diving process. By then, you can become rich enough to rival a country in minutes!"