People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

When you are immersed in something, time often passes very quickly.

When Chen Ziyan emerged from the water again, he deeply understood this sentence.

He felt like he hadn't been practicing for long, so how come it was dark before he knew it?
But since it was already evening, he couldn't continue practicing.

If I don't go back for a long time, others will worry about me.

When Chen Ziyan returned to his rented place, he saw that everyone else had already returned and were talking about their experiences today.

Shirley Yang stopped talking immediately when she saw Chen Ziyan coming in, and walked over to him and said, "I just received news that the people you asked me to hire have arrived at the edge of the coral spiral, and they are asking what to do next."

As she spoke, she did not conceal the confusion in her eyes at all.

Shirley Yang has always been confused. Since they were going to sail out to the sea by themselves, why did Chen Ziyan ask her to spend a lot of money to hire a professional salvage team to set off in advance?

If you ask the other party to help, there is no need at all.

Although there are no professional salvage personnel among them, they can do all the related tasks. In terms of professional ability, they are not much weaker than those people.

If they wanted to use this salvage team to divert attention, then they shouldn't have let them enter the Coral Helix ahead of time and meet up with them here. Wouldn't it be more effective if they all set out together then?
Hearing Shirley Yang's words, Chen Ziyan suddenly remembered that he had made this arrangement.

He was so busy studying the special abilities of the Xianbao Spirit Fish that he didn't even think about this.

To be honest, he had never thought about how to arrange this salvage team, because they were purely tools he asked Shirley Yang to find.

The purpose is to obtain the reward of the treasure fish.

After thinking about it, Chen Ziyan said, "Let them wait in that sea area for a few days, and then go in with us."

But since the money has been spent, it cannot be wasted, so just let the salvage team go in with us.

You never know when you might need each other.

After all, anyone who can join a professional salvage team must at least be a good water expert.

Moreover, the Trident has limited cargo capacity, so the salvage team's ship can just be used as an external cargo hold.

"Okay, I'll notify them later." Shirley Yang responded.

Although Chen Ziyan did not answer her question, she did not ask any further questions.

She believed that Chen Ziyan must have his reasons for doing this.

After all the personnel were ready, the rest of the things became easy. Within two days, Chen Ziyan and his team had everything ready.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to go out to sea.

Maybe because the date was relatively good, many people went out to sea that day. Various kinds of ships were docked at the dock, all making final preparations.

The temperament and behavior of some of them made it easy for Chen Ziyan to tell that they were his colleagues, and they must have been following in his footsteps.

He was happy to see this happen, otherwise there would be no need for him to prepare for so long, just to lure the Wang family to the sea.

Because of the appearance of these people, Chen Ziyan was completely relieved. Even unknown people came, so the Wang family would definitely not remain indifferent.

Before raising anchor and setting sail, Ruan Hei specifically reminded everyone that they must remember when they are at sea that words like "flip", "hook", and "upside down" should not be mentioned, and that they should not whistle, otherwise they would easily break taboos.

The others were fine and said they would respect these customs.

After all, there are many such taboos in the tomb-robbing business, so it is understandable.

Only Fatty Wang was a little impatient. As a newcomer to the profession, he always followed his mother. Upon hearing this, he wanted to say something to refute, but fortunately, Hu Bayi was staring at him and suppressed him before he could open his mouth.

Because Ruan Hei was familiar with the nearby waters and had rich experience in steering, Chen Ziyan directly appointed him as captain.

The journey to the Coral Spiral was very peaceful. Ruan Hei was indeed an experienced sea wolf. He was able to determine the approximate route based solely on the direction of the ocean current. With the help of nautical charts and compasses, he never let the ship deviate from the route.

However, what no one knew was that on the night they set sail, Chen Ziyan had secretly used his reward, the ghost, on the Trident.

It can be said that as long as the Trident now has an accurate route map, it can take them to their destination even if there is no one at the helm.

Moreover, after turning the Trident into a ghost ship, Chen Ziyan had an unexpected gain, which was the salvage team sealed in the mezzanine of the bottom cabin.

He had been ignoring this, just wanting to see if these ghosts trapped on the ship would bring any additional benefits when the Trident became a ghost ship.

The result was as he expected. The moment the Trident became a ghost ship, the ghosts trapped on the ship also became part of the ghost ship.

So now on this ship, there is actually a group of crew members that ordinary people cannot see.

However, Chen Ziyan did not deploy these ghosts, but let them continue to hide in the mezzanine as a backup.

If the people on the ship were all ordinary people, then it would be fine to use these ghosts, but the problem is that many of the people on this ship are not ordinary.

Shirley Yang, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan should all be able to sense the existence of ghosts, but Chen Ziyan is not sure whether the rest of the people can do so.

For example, Gu Cai, the dragon household, who knows if he has any other abilities besides being good at swimming.

Huo Ling and Chen Wenjin were also cursed. If they were to receive a blessing as a result, they might be able to notice it.

Everything was normal in the first few days of sailing, with clear skies and calm seas.

But soon this peace was broken. First, the waves became turbulent, and then the sky began to become overcast, and it looked like a storm was about to come.

"Look at the sky, is there going to be a storm?" Wang Kaixuan had nothing to do, so he walked around the deck and then returned to the cabin to ask.

Everyone is gathered here at the moment. A few days ago, some people would go out to see the scenery, but no matter how beautiful the scenery is, people would get tired of it after looking at it for a few days.

Not to mention that the ocean is boundless, and apart from the occasional whale or dolphin surfacing, there is nothing else the rest of the time.

Especially as they went deeper, even the flying birds could no longer be seen, so the people with nothing to do had to stay in the cabin, chatting and playing cards to kill time.

"Not really. There is enough moisture in the sea, so rain is not surprising." Hu Bayi, who was studying the Book of Changes, said after hearing this.

Although there are no reference objects on the sea, his Feng Shui attainments have greatly improved recently by watching the stars every night.

Then, Hu Bayi looked at Chen Ziyan and said:

"Master Chen, there should be a trench below us. Do you know any information about it?" His family's ancient books once recorded that under the sea near the coral spiral, there was an unfathomable rift valley, which was the remnant of the 'Nanlong' entering the sea. Sea air grew in it, and incomprehensible strange things often happened. There were also many giant sea monsters living there.

Hu Bayi was very curious about this, but it was impossible for him to go down and find out. He had to ask Chen Ziyan, who inherited the Xiangling tradition, to see if he knew the inside story.

"I don't know about that." Chen Ziyan could more or less guess what Hu Bayi was thinking, but he really didn't know.

Although the Xiangling lineage has a long history, they have been living in the mountains all year round and have only explored the big rivers a few times, let alone the deep sea far away inland.

"Old Hu, are there any treasures in this trench?" Wang Kaixuan suddenly became interested and asked over.

"There must be treasures, and they are all rare natural treasures in the world, but no one can get them." Hu Bayi said without thinking.

He had also thought about Wang Kaixuan's question, and then he was certain that there must be no shortage of treasures in this strange place below, and with countless years of accumulation, there might be treasures everywhere in the depths.

But like he said, no one can get it!

"Why?" Wang Kaixuan was puzzled.

Hu Bayi explained to him: "The first is the depth. The trench below is estimated to be no less than 10,000 meters, but the deepest exploration so far is only about a few thousand meters. Even professionals with advanced equipment can't reach the bottom. How deep do you think we can dive?"

"Secondly, places like this must be hiding some real sea monsters. Those creatures are probably bigger than the whales we saw a while ago. If we encounter one in the sea, all of us combined will probably be just a bite away."

"That's a bit of a pity." After listening to this, Wang Kaixuan realized that this was indeed a place that was difficult to explore with human power.

He had not forgotten the whale he saw two days ago, and that big guy was probably about to catch up with their boat.

If you were besieged by aquatic creatures of that size in the water, you would be dead for sure.

"It's better to touch the balls." Then, Wang Kaixuan thought of touching the balls again.

Although the plot has changed, they have stayed on the island for so many days and they can find out a lot of information by asking around.

What Wang Kaixuan cares most about is the "egg" inside the coral spiral.

He kept saying this along the way, saying that it was so hard to get into the sea and he must bring a few back.

Chen Ziyan didn't care about this. If they didn't go deeper, it would be fine to go into the water and fish some out.

After listening to the fat man's chatter for a long time, the others also became interested in the egg-collecting matter, and immediately asked Gu Cai and Duo Ling about it.

At this moment, Ruan Hei's voice suddenly rang out from the megaphone on the bulkhead: "Boss Chen, there's something going on up ahead, come over here and take a look."

Hearing this, Chen Ziyan hurried to the driver's cab.

The others stopped chatting and followed.

When he got into the cab, he immediately understood what was going on.

They saw thick fog rising from the sea in front of them. If they moved forward a few dozen meters, they would enter the fog.

"This fog came in a strange way. It wasn't there just now, but suddenly it appeared. And look there." Having said this, Ruan Hei pointed above the fog.

Chen Ziyan looked in the direction he pointed and found that the fog was indeed strange. It was only a dozen meters high and pressed down on the sea surface in a gray manner.

From their perspective, the sky, the sea and the fog were clearly distinguished, and the visibility of the fog was extremely low. They had just approached and were already affected.

"This is indeed strange. Can we go around it?" Hu Bayi said after thinking for a while.

He felt that it was better not to get involved in such an obviously weird thing.

"I'm afraid it's no use. The fog is coming towards us on its own." Ruan Hei shook his head and then explained, "I slowed down my speed after I realized something was wrong. It shouldn't be that close now."

The others immediately understood what he meant. Their boat slowed down, but the fog surrounded them.

"Then let's just rush over. Are we afraid of this bird fog?" said Wang Kaixuan.

"We can't speed up at this time. This should be normal sea advection fog. As long as we don't hit other ships, there will be no danger." Shirley Yang hurriedly stopped them.

She had encountered this situation before and knew it was a very common phenomenon at sea. She just had to be careful not to collide with other ships.

At this moment, as if responding to Shirley Yang.

Suddenly, five wisps of black smoke emerged from the sea ahead, and even the thick fog could not cover it.

The black smoke rushed straight into the sky, looking like a giant black claw grabbing at the sky.

Coincidentally, not long after the black smoke appeared, the already gloomy sky turned completely dark.

For a moment, no one could tell whether it was because it was getting dark or because of the black smoke.

Chen Ziyan looked around and first signaled Ruan Hei to reduce the speed of the boat to the minimum, then said to the others: "Whether this is a normal phenomenon or there is something wrong in the water, everyone should be careful and don't stay on the deck if there is nothing to do."

After letting Shirley Yang take the ladies back to the cabin, Chen Ziyan looked at Hu Bayi and said, "Old Hu, we have to work harder tonight and take turns to accompany Master Ruan. We need to be careful when sailing at night, especially in such a thick fog."

"Okay." Hu Bayi naturally had no objection.

Even if Chen Ziyan didn't mention it, he would take the initiative to say it.

If an accident occurs, everyone on the boat will probably become fish feed.

"Fatty, take Gu Cai with you and turn on all the lights on the boat." Then, Chen Ziyan also assigned a task to Wang Kaixuan.

In this case, the lights must be turned on.

It is better to be safe than sorry. What if we really encounter other ships in the fog?

Moreover, the lights on the ship are all customized high-intensity searchlights. Even if they cannot shine far away due to fog, they can still take care of the area around the ship.

"Okay." Wang Kaixuan responded and took Gu Cai to work.

When the three of them were the only ones left in the cab, Chen Ziyan looked at Ruan Hei again and asked in a low voice, "Master Ruan, you have been active in this sea area for many years. Do you have any advice for us when we encounter this fog?"

He didn't think Ruan Hei knew nothing about this. How could it be such a coincidence that he encountered a situation that had never occurred before when he first came here? (End of this chapter)