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Chapter 14 There is something wrong with this ship

We were very surprised when we heard the old man's words. We really didn't expect that the decisive old man who had just refused changed his mind so quickly.

Then we turned our eyes to Wen Mo again, but Wen Mo didn't say anything, just stared at the ship. I wanted to ask some questions, but I knew it would be useless to ask, so I simply shut up.

Fortunately, the ship was settled, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. During the conversation, we learned that the old man's surname was Lei, so we called him Old Lei. There was nothing wrong with everything, but the second uncle was a little suspicious of the rusty condition of the ship, so he asked Old Lei, would the ship be able to go to sea for a long time? Is it necessary to maintain and repair it?

Old Lei shook his head, "My old Lei head's boat, don't look old, even if it's a dragon sucks water, it's safe and sound!" Old Lei water absorbing refers to a tornado on the sea. This whirlwind has great destructive power. Although we don't believe it all about Old Lei's words, we can also see that he is very confident in his ship.

We made an appointment to meet here tomorrow at this time and then go out to sea officially.

When we returned to the hotel, we began to allocate our equipment. In order to keep our energy, I lay in bed early and prepared to rest, but the uncontrollable excitement made me toss and turn. I thought about a lot of things in my mind, and I didn't fall asleep until the second half of the night.

When we arrived at the beach the next day, Old Lei's ship was already waiting by the beach.

We got on the boat and greeted Mr. Lei, but he still had a cold expression. We probably knew his temper and didn't care. As Mr. Lei put away the anchor and then greeted him, the boat started and gradually drove away from the abandoned wharf and headed towards the vast sea.

I stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the sea where water and sky were connected, and a majestic and ambitious feeling surged in my heart. But soon the cold and salty sea breeze blew me back to the cabin.

Uncle Er and Mr. Lei explained the approximate route and direction of the journey, but did not explain the specific location, because we didn’t even know the specific location ourselves, so we could only rely on a few maps in our hands and add gps to search slowly.

When the second uncle walked into the cabin, he saw me trembling with cold, and found it a little funny. "Be careful, if you catch a cold and have a fever on the sea, you have to return." The second uncle sat down beside me and handed me a cup of hot water. "In fact, the sea in winter will be warmer than on land, but the Bohai Sea is more special. The coast of the Bohai Bay is affected by the Yellow Sea coast current, and the sea water is low in salinity and temperature. Moreover, the Bohai Sea is surrounded by the mainland on three sides, and the role of the Yellow Sea warm current is affected. Therefore, in another month or two, the Bohai Sea coast will even begin to freeze. By that time, we may not be able to go out if we want to go out. When the boat leaves the Bohai Bay, it will be better."

I took a sip of hot water and said, "Uncle Second, let's start from here and go west. Isn't it cold?"

The second uncle glanced at me, "Who said we were going west?"

After hearing the second uncle's words, I was stunned, "Didn't we go to the place where Xu Fu shot the big fish back then? It is recorded in ancient books that was not that place in Zhifu? Zhifu is in the northwest of Weihai?"

Uncle Er looked at my serious expression, smiled, took out the spliced ​​ink painting of Huangshan, and then took out the big fish picture of the sea view on the tomb door of the Qilian Mountain ancient tomb, and pointed it out to me, "Actually, the carved on the tomb door of the Qilian Mountain ancient tomb door should have been a ghost picture, but it was changed during the carving, and the characteristics of the ghost picture were lost, so when I received the fax, I didn't see it." Then Uncle Er took out the ink painting of the big fish in Huangshan, "This picture has obviously been repaired. According to these two pictures, I marked a location on the map, which should be where we are looking for." I saw a very small area circled on the map opened by Uncle Er at the junction of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea.

I couldn't understand when I heard Uncle Second said this, "Uncle Second, are all the records in ancient books wrong?"

"Big nephew, you have to learn a lot in our industry!" Uncle Er patted me, "In the tomb robbing industry, you have to remember that not only people today can lie, but the ancients can also lie. Only dead people will not lie. Therefore, only the written records found in the tomb are more credible. The ancient books passed down, hum," Uncle Er sneered, "That's all the statements that have been processed."

The first time I heard this theory, I listened with interest. Uncle Er continued, "If you were Qin Shihuang, there was a secret, would you announce it and write it into a book so that everyone in the world knows it?"

Of course, I shook my head, "Uncle II, do you mean that the current historical records about Xu Fu Dongdu are all fake?"

The second uncle shook his head, "Only the records in "Records of the Grand Historian" are true, which is also what I admire about Sima Qian. Because there is a solid information about this matter, only Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys and women from the Shandong Peninsula, saying that it was to find immortals. Therefore, in "Records of the Grand Historian", only these were recorded. There was nothing else. Of course, through our exploration these few days, we can confirm that Xu Fu shot a giant fish that year. As for the others, Xu Fu never returned, Xu Fu went to Japan, and Xu Fu made himself king overseas, all of these may be fake! Just think about it, who was Qin Shihuang? Can Xu Fu, the alchemist, deceived him? That's a joke!"

When the second uncle said this, I really think it makes sense. Qin Shihuang was registered at the age of thirteen. He suppressed Lao Ai's rebellion and forced Lu Buwei to commit suicide by taking poison, and eventually unified the people of the six countries. He was the most powerful hero in Chinese history. How could such a person be fooled by a alchemist many times? With Qin Shihuang's character, he would probably have killed Xu Fu and chose another person as soon as Xu Fu failed to go to sea for the first time. Why did Ying Zheng let Xu Fu spend a lot of money on going to sea again and again? It must be a purpose. It is very likely that Xu Fu discovered some secret when he first went to sea. Or, Xu Fu went to sea itself was not to find immortals, but to find a huge secret. In this way, everything seemed to make sense.

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill on my back. Many things are really terrifying to think about.

Qin Shihuang can be said to be the person who has mastered the most secrets in Chinese history. Because of his burning of books and burying scholars, a large number of documentary records were burned. The inheritance of countless cultures and historical materials was cut off. I am afraid that only Qin Shihuang knew countless ancient secrets and pre-Qin ruins. Perhaps because of this, Qin Shihuang built the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, known as the eighth miracle of the world. Moreover, because of this, the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum has been well preserved for thousands of years. Xiang Yu used 300,000 people to open the imperial tomb. But now, even if the location of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum has been determined, it is still impossible to open with modern technology. This is really unbelievable and full of imagination.

I was chatting with my second uncle. Wenmo walked in from outside and sat across from us without saying a word, frowned as if he was thinking, while he was holding a piece of something like a wooden stick in his hand.

Uncle and I looked at each other, not knowing what Wen Mo was doing, so I asked, "Wen Mo, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"

Wen Mo took a deep breath and said slowly: "This ship may have some problems."

"What!" I heard Wen Mo say this and I was shocked. It's already in the sea, so it's too late to have any problems.

The second uncle next to me quickly signaled me to whisper, then turned to ask Wenmo: "What have you found?"

Wen Mo looked at us, "Do you still remember it? Yesterday I asked Mr. Lei if he had seen a giant fish."

Uncle Er and I nodded. Wenmo continued, "When you were talking to him yesterday, I accidentally saw something covered by canvas at the back of the cabin. Later, a corner of the canvas was blown by the sea breeze. I saw that the one covered under the canvas was a large harpoon gun. Old fishermen like him disdained to use this kind of thing unless it had special uses. That's why I cheated him, but I didn't expect it to work."

Uncle Er frowned after hearing this, "What do you mean is he is looking for that giant fish too?"

I said, "Maybe he just wants to catch big fish, such as sharks or small whales or something."

"This possibility is not ruled out," Wen Mo nodded, "but looking at his performance after hearing my question yesterday, he must know something!"

I recalled Mr. Lei’s performance yesterday, which was indeed very abnormal.

Wen Mo raised the wooden stick-like thing in his hand to show us, "What's wrong?" I took it and looked at it, "Is there anything wrong with this wooden stick?" As I said that, I twisted it with my hand and snapped it, and the "wooden stick" was actually pinched into powder by me. I was stunned, "This!"

Uncle Er pinched a pinch of powder, twisted it, and then looked at Wen Mo with some surprise, "Is this amulet?"

Wen Mo nodded, "That's right, I just looked at it. There are many dry timber algae on the outside of the hull on the front, back, left and right sides of the ship."

Uncle Er frowned and said, "It seems that this ship is indeed a problem!"

But I didn't understand, so I asked my second uncle what is a woody algae. My uncle told me that this kind of algae lives in island caves where there is no sunshine all year round, or in a shipwreck with gas space. It is an extremely rare marine phytoplankton algae. Many cultural relics salvaged from the shipwreck sometimes attach this thing to it. The current algae on this ship shows that the ship once stopped in an island cave for a long time. It is impossible for such a place to be found on the coastal continent or even near the sea. Then this place must be deep in the sea, and the island where the cave that can accommodate a ship must not be too small. However, there is no such place on the map, so this place must be unknown and extremely mysterious.

After hearing what the second uncle said, I couldn't help but feel nervous, "Uncle II, Old Man Lei won't harm us, right!"

"Impossible!" Uncle Er touched the short knife on his waist, "There are only one of us, so it's not certain who will harm anyone! At that time, if there is really a problem, we will..."

As soon as Uncle Er said this, Wen Mo suddenly made a ban on the sound. We quickly stopped and heard a few footsteps on the deck, and Old Lei appeared at the warehouse entrance.

Mr. Lei glanced at us and said, "It's almost noon. We'll make something to eat later. Are there anything you don't eat?"

The second uncle smiled and said, "No, we eat everything, you can watch it and make it."

Old Lei nodded, then walked into the cargo hold below, opened the lock on the cabin door, went in and took out two black snappers, locked the door again, and then went to the deck to clean up the fish.

Uncle Er and Wen Mo winked, and then Uncle Er walked to the door of the cargo hold. He took out something and pried open the door lock in a few strokes, gently pushed the door open and walked in. Wen Mo leaned against the hatch door to let the air.

Soon, Uncle Er walked out again, but I saw his face turning pale and so gloomy. When I looked behind him, I saw something in his hand and a white lantern was carried on a wooden pole.
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