Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

The visit of people from the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the official media was just a sideshow, and Li Mo and the others didn't take it to heart. Their focus is to salvage all the treasures from the steel behemoth, and they have already completed almost half of the work.

Next, in the other half of the broken warehouse, there are many melted gold nuggets, silver nuggets, rare metals, rough diamonds, rough jade stones, complete ivory, beeswax, amber and various finished gold, silver and jade products.

However, most of them are stored in the other half of the cargo hold, and the remaining amount is only about 30%, but the real good things are also in the remaining heavy treasures.

It has been the eighth day of salvaging sunken treasures. After all the remaining sunken treasures are salvaged, you can enter a space behind the warehouse. It should have been used for offices. There is a tin box lying inside, similar to a safe. Hidden inside is the skull fossil of Kyoto people that shocked China and the world. What is lost will eventually be reborn.

From the perspective of cultural relics, the complete Kyoto Man skull fossil and several skull fragment fossils are the most precious. This is also the most important goal of Li Mo in salvaging the sunken treasure this time, and he has decided that the final salvage must be done by himself.

In the cabin, Li Mo stared at several cameras. After a week of running in, the salvage team's cooperation was getting better and better. Half of the people went in and out to carry the sunken treasures, and the other half sent them back to the salvage ship for preliminary sorting.

"Teacher, the first batch of treasures has arrived. Forty or fifty Asian ivory tusks have been salvaged. Do you want to go out and take a look?"

The one who came in to report the situation was one of Li Mo's five students. Now he had already married and had children. Li Mo had always assigned each of them to be responsible for a project before. This time, there was nothing he could do to transfer all five of them. Some well-known archaeological experts are already inseparable, and they have even called on researchers from many archaeological institutes and museums.

They were all busy with Li Mo's previous archaeological project to search for undiscovered treasures. This time, even the experts from the marine archeology base in Suzhou could not find the manpower to salvage the sunken treasures in the South China Sea, so Li Mo had to ask the five cheap students to come over and do the work. .

"I'll go out and take a look." Li Mo walked in front and asked as he walked, "Shan Bing, how is the completion of the project in your hand now?"

"Teacher, the project has entered the final stage. It will take about half a year to complete the project."

"What about the rest?"

"The progress is probably about the same. There will be a month's delay in the time."

Li Mo nodded: "That's good. After this salvage of sunken treasures is completed, you must finish all the work on hand in a steady and orderly manner, and then you will have new arrangements."

"It's teacher, we all follow your arrangements."

"The country will build a new large-scale economic development zone on the outskirts of the city and build the world's largest Southeast Asian culture and art museum. When the time comes, the five of you will each serve as deputy director of a museum. Wait for experience It's almost done. You can stay there to take over the position of director, or you can be transferred back to Yandu to take up the position of director of one of the museums. If you choose in the future, I won't force you. You can just make your own decision."

Shan Bing's face showed surprise. He originally thought that the qualifications of the five people were too young, and they would probably work on the front line of archaeology until they were forty years old, focusing on archaeological research. Who knew that Li Mo would arrange for them to enter management positions so quickly, which would mean that they would become the director of a museum in a few years.

In the future, whether they are in Yandu or Modu, it will be fine for them. However, based on his thinking, there is a high probability that he will stay in the Magic City, because the Magic City is close to Suzhou, and there is a high probability that Li Mo and the others will live in Gusu in the future.

"Teacher, we will do our best."

They respect Li Mo from the bottom of their hearts. Since you became Li Mo's student, although you, Li Mo, have not led them seriously, the road you have taken has been well paved. They are currently teaching at Beijing University, and they are currently assistant professors. Associate professors have only been in the past one or two years.

In the future, he will also hold the title of deputy director of the museum, which will skyrocket his social status and reputation. The most important thing is that when they got married, Li Mo also gave each of them a needed commercial house as a wedding room, and a car worth more than 300,000 yuan as a dowry. The living allowance he usually gave was quite considerable. high.

When they walked on the Beijing University campus, the professors and associate professors would greet them warmly when they saw them, and even some leaders would say hello when they saw them. That was all because the aura behind them was too strong.

After leaving Beijing University, they are also famous in the archaeological world. Of course, that is more because they are Li Mo's students, but many people have seen that their future will definitely be heavyweight authority figures in the archaeological world.

Twenty wooden boxes that had just been salvaged have been placed on the deck. The wooden boxes have rotted after decades of seawater soaking. They are now in pieces, exposing the ivory inside, and the surface is covered with mud.

Staff members are already cleaning them one by one with water, and then put them aside to dry. Li Mo picked up one and looked at it with a smile: "In terms of the number of ivory collections in the world, no one can surpass our museum. However, the quality of Asian ivory is far inferior to that of African ivory. I guess if I want to collect more African ivory, it will take a long time." We’re going to Europe to look for shipwreck treasures.”

"Teacher, when the domestic archaeological project is almost over, we will accompany you to go to sea to find other sunken treasures."

Another student also said with a smile.

"I guess I might be invited to drink tea as soon as I show up in foreign waters. It's a good idea to go out to sea to search for sunken treasures, but it will be very difficult to operate. After all, there are many unknown dangers at sea, and you can lose your life if you are not careful. In the sea.”

Li Mo put the Asian ivory back on the ground to dry for a while, and then put it back into the prepared wooden box when the water stains on the surface were dry. These will be sent to the Southeast Asian Culture and Art Museum for display in the future.

"You guys just keep doing what you're doing."

"Good teacher."

In the next five days, the huge salvage team took turns working and finally recovered all the sunken treasures in the cargo hold. In the end, they entered the cargo hold one by one and scanned every corner again, trying not to miss anything. A heavy treasure.

"Boss, all the treasures in the sunken ship have been salvaged. These salvaged treasures can be sent to the marine archeology base in Suzhou."

After repeated confirmation, the head-shaving and salvage teams came over to report the situation.

Li Mo walked out of the cabin and looked up at the sun. It was so hot. Those salvage workers who have returned are taking off their equipment. After nearly two weeks of non-stop high-intensity salvage operations, their faces also show signs of exhaustion.

"Li Mo, the work of salvaging the sunken treasures at sea has ended. Do we want to return to the port?"

After Qiu Guangyao gathered his team, he also came over to inquire. The end of the salvage work also meant that they had achieved great achievements. These were the strongest capital for their promotion.

"Don't worry, I want to go down there."

Qin Sijun said quickly: "There should be no sunken treasures missing from the sunken ship on the seabed, but there may be some outside the sunken ship. After all, after the steel behemoth was blown up, gold sticks flew out of the cargo hold. I just wanted to find those scattered outside the ship. Gold is very difficult and almost impossible to complete.”

Li Mo waved his hand and said, "I'm just going down for the last time and looking around. I'll come up soon and then return to the port."

Seeing that Li Mo insisted on going down, Qiu Guangyao quickly waved to the distance and shouted: "Come ten people."

Ten soldiers immediately walked out of the assembled team.

"Put on your equipment again and protect Academician Li as he enters the seabed for the last time."

"Yes." Ten soldiers saluted at the same time and began to put on their diving equipment again.

Li Mo put on his equipment and made an OK gesture to the people on the boat, telling them it was okay. With ten people accompanying him, no one was worried about any accidents.

Entering the sea, Li Mo suddenly felt that the light in front of him suddenly dimmed, and there was pressure all over his body. He had experience in going to sea, so with the help of propellers, he kept swimming towards the sunken ship on the seabed, while Qiu Guangyao and Qin Sijun stayed in the cabin and looked at the camera.

At the bottom of the sea, under the light, Li Mo could only see part of the steel behemoth. The huge tear opened by the explosion gave people a lot of imagination. He swam along the crack into the cargo hold, and with a glance of his strange eyes, the cargo hold was indeed clean. However, he still pretended to walk around the cargo hold twice before stopping in front of a door.

After thinking for a moment, he reached out and grabbed the handle of the iron door and pulled hard. The iron door was difficult to open. Even though I can't do it with one hand, I still can't shake it with both hands. Maybe it's because the pressure at the bottom of the sea is too strong. It's very difficult to open the iron door and enter the office.

At this time, a soldier swam up to him and gestured at him a few times. Seeing Li Mo nod, he took out a tool from the tools he carried, and then fiddled with the edge of the iron door a few times. Soon he saw that the edge of the iron door was deformed.

Then the entire iron door was severely deformed, revealing a space large enough for people to pass through.

Li Mo gave the soldier a thumbs up and gestured a few times, indicating that he would violently dismantle the entire iron gate.

People can come in and out freely, but the huge iron box inside cannot be taken out.

After the explanation, Li Mo first got into the inner space of another sunken ship. The outline of the original desk and chair could still be clearly seen, and there were several iron boxes lying in the corner, containing different things. They were used for Apart from the iron box containing the fossilized skull of a Kyoto man, there wasn't much left inside, including Wenjing's secrets.

Li Mo swam over and tried to move the iron box. It was quite heavy. Although he was strong, it was difficult for one person to move it under the influence of water pressure.

The iron gate was finally completely opened, and then the remaining soldiers swam to Li Mo's side.

"A group of four people will try to see if they can move all these iron boxes out and use a crane to get them all back."

It was much easier for four people. There were six iron boxes in total, and it took three trips to move them all into the crane basket.

"Academician Li, is there anything else that needs to be moved?"

Li Mo waved his hand to the soldier who asked, and then pointed upward, meaning that he could come back.

He went to sea for less than an hour and a half, and returned to the salvage ship before the sun completely disappeared.

"Be careful."

Li Mo took off his diving equipment and gave instructions loudly and worriedly.

After the six iron boxes were placed on the deck, everyone present gathered around to take a look. Who said that there are no other relics in the sunken ship, so what are these six iron boxes that are as tall as a person?

It was a sunken ship filled with countless treasures. If there were iron boxes inside, perhaps the things inside would be even more valuable.

"Boss, do you want to open it now?"

"While it's not completely dark yet, just use tools to open it immediately. If there's nothing inside, we'll wait to return to the port."

There were many tools on the ship, including several electric saws. After a fierce operation, the iron box door was cut open. Unfortunately, there were no treasures worth paying attention to in the first iron box. The faces of the staff around him couldn't help but express their feelings. A look of disappointment.

When he arrived at the fourth iron box, Shao Tou took out a short knife from it. It had been severely corroded by seawater erosion and could not be pulled out of its sheath.

"It's completely ruined. There's no point in keeping it."

Li Mo took the dagger, examined it, and threw it aside.

The fifth iron box was also opened successfully, but apart from some discarded miscellaneous things, it had no research value.

Shao Tou twisted his waist, took a deep breath and said, "Boss, this is the last iron box. I hope I can gain something."

As the cutting machine sounded, sparks flew everywhere. When the iron door was cut open, Shao Tou immediately let out a sigh and said, "Boss, there are four more boxes in the iron box."

"I come."

Li Mo walked up to him, reached out and took out the first box. The skin on the surface of the box has disappeared, revealing a layer of iron inside. He grabbed the lock and twisted it gently to break it, then slowly opened the box.

"Skull!"

Sha Touyan immediately exclaimed. He thought there should be a better treasure in the box, but he didn't know that it contained a skull.

Five of Li Mo's students gathered around, and Shan Bing watched as the skull held in Li Mo's hands was rinsed with water, revealing its true face. His expression moved slightly and he said softly: "Teacher, is this a skull fossil?"

After a long silence, Li Mo nodded and said: "This is the skull fossil of a Kyoto man that has been missing for decades. I really didn't expect it to appear in the sunken ship."

Kyoto Man skull fossil?

Others didn't know it clearly, but the five students were all shocked when they heard it. Then they stared at the skull fossil and looked at it carefully. It was so famous. I thought it had disappeared completely, but unexpectedly I found it on a treasure shipwreck in the island country at the end of World War II.

"Carefully take out the remaining boxes and open them. I estimate that the other skull fossils that disappeared are all inside."