Alchemy Greater China

"Good question, Xiaoyu, you have to learn more from your junior sister. Listening to stories is not to be surprised, but to learn to find doubts from them!"

Long Hao smiled and praised Xiao Ke, and then said: "Of course they didn't divide up the gold, not only that, on that day, not only the Zhongmei, but also four gunboats sank, two belonged to Spain, and two belonged to U.K……"

"What about America?"

"The United States does not have gunboats. They did not directly participate in the sea scramble, but sent a company of cavalry to watch the wind off the coast of Panama..."

According to the records of the British Museum, the Zhongmei was sunk by a Spanish gunboat, but the British gunboat temporarily changed its mind about dividing up the spoils and asked for a new division...In short, the gold on the Zhongmei was carried to Panama land, stayed for three full days.

And three days later, when the Spanish and British gunboats that had finished dividing the spoils did not leave the Bay of Panama again, they were really shipwrecked. All four gunboats sank, accounting for about [-]% of the total gold, and buried it on the seabed.

"Ah, is this some kind of karma?"

Xiao Yu grabbed her collar, her face turned pale: "Xiao Ke, I think those four gunboats were dragged into the bottom of the sea by the ghosts of the Zhongmei..."

"Three robbers, I think they played tricks on each other, and finally they all died together!" [

Ke Mitong did not believe in Xiao Yu's "ghost story", but judged rationally.

"What is the truth of this accident, we can't pursue it! Anyway, according to the data, there are [-]% of the gold of the Sino-US in that coordinate. If we fish it out, we will send it!"

Long Hao giggled and started rubbing his palms together.

Because I told a little story, I didn't know it.The sapphire dragon boat has arrived at the coordinates of the sunken ship.

The story is just an appetizer, and the salvage of the treasures in the sunken ship is the feast. This is the first business of Longyan Strategic Investment Company. From Long Hao to the two daughters, they are all excited and eager to try.

"Dive, continue to dive. Drizzle, pay attention to the situation at the bottom of the sapphire dragon boat, and report anytime..."

"Yes, sir."

"Xiao Ke, your task is to pay attention to whether there are tides or abnormal water patterns around you... If you encounter large fish or unidentified marine life, please notify me in time."

"Understood, door master."

Deep in the Gulf of Panama, somewhere.

A cyan object in the shape of a big shuttle egg, just like a whale.Slowly sinking, the reason to describe its color is because its body is shining brightly, and it looks very eye-catching in the dark and silent sea.

The sapphire dragon boat itself will not emit light unless Long Hao spends energy to change its texture.

Shining light is a good thing for dragon boats, ship companion.It was originally born to provide convenience for ships.

There is light in the deep sea, which has advantages and disadvantages.It is convenient to use the naked eye to find the sunken ship, but it will also attract marine life that 'hate' the light source.

Although Long Hao wasn't sure whether the sea creatures in the 19th century were as ferocious as those in the later generations, one thing less is better than one thing more. If he had to salvage the sunken ship, he would never let the sapphire dragon boat 'light up'. [

While the three of them waited nervously, the passage of time seemed to slow down.

The sapphire dragon boat quickly dived to 100 meters.This can be seen from the increasingly perfect console instrument panel, this depth is enough to make all mariners in this era dumbfounded.

However, this is nothing to alchemy weapons, but to Xiao Yu who is trying to find the trace of the sunken ship with his naked eyes.It is far from enough.

"It's too blurry and the brightness is not enough. My line of sight can extend up to five meters away. Now let alone a sunken ship, I can't even see a piece of metal..."

Xiao Yu squatted down, raised her increasingly plump buttocks, and yelled while staring at the 'glass opening' seriously.

"Master, do you want to dive a little longer?"

Ke Mitong saw the peach heart shape under Xiao Yu's waist, her pretty face flushed slightly, and she tried to calm herself down, and said, "I don't know if the sapphire dragon boat can withstand the pressure..."

The 100 meters has put Ke Mitong under a lot of psychological pressure, and she will feel difficult to breathe any further down... This is related to the water pressure, which is entirely psychological.

"Continue to dive, the target is 200 meters! The sapphire dragon boat is completely fine."

Long Hao frowned vaguely, and waved his palm to give orders.

Generally speaking, the sinking depth of the sunken ship varies from tens of meters to several thousand meters, and there is no rule at all.

The luck factor is also very important in salvaging sunken ships. Now it seems that it is a bit too naive to find the four gunboats with the naked eye.

Xiao Ke died, and the sapphire dragon boat continued to dive.

Unfortunately, until it was 200 meters deep, it still did not touch the bottom of the sea, that is to say, the sunken ship may still be at the bottom!

"Ah, my eyes are so sore, I can't open them, young master, I ask for a rest!"

Staring at the turbid sea water for a long time, Xiaoyu's eyes reached the limit of fatigue.

"Master, is it not a solution to keep diving like this? The ocean is so big, if you search with your eyes alone, even if you have the coordinates, it's still like finding a needle in a haystack."

Ke Mitong only felt his chest swell: It's already 200 meters, have we really dived so deep?Huh, I'm a little out of breath, so uncomfortable.

People who have not received submarine training will have symptoms similar to Xiao Ke's for the first time when they dive deep. This is a psychological effect, just adjust it.

"Don't scare yourself!"

Long Hao snorted coldly, patted Ke Mitong's pink back, and said, "Sapphire Dragon Boat dives to 1000 meters without any problem, it's only 200 meters, Xiao Ke, don't worry about it, and kill yourself!"

The virgin salvage process was not as smooth as imagined, and Long Hao was not going to continue sinking, so he decided to use the dragon boat and spend some gold energy to find out the specific location of the sunken ship first.

Dragon Boat Skills: Sense Metal!

This is an alchemy skill that uses energy numbers to perceive the concentration of metals within a certain range. To a certain extent, it is the same principle as when Ramos discovered the gold mine back then.

However, Ramos is a low-level alchemy creature, but the dragon boat is a top-level alchemy weapon!

Ramos can only draw a rough range, but the dragon boat can be accurate to meters!

Of course, this is at the cost of massive gold energy.

Fortunately, the shipwreck is in the sea, and the free metal elements in seawater are much more active than those on land, so it is reduced.The energy consumption of this 'sensing metal' skill is not so large that Long Hao can't bear it.

It is estimated that it will cost more than a hundred quah.

In the vast sea, with a depth of 200 meters, the sapphire dragon boat suddenly darkened as if the electricity was cut off, and the surroundings returned to the same dark and cold for thousands of years.

In the area out of sight of Drizzle and Xiao Ke.A faint golden light flashed from somewhere in the sapphire dragon boat, and a light source extended out, thin and faint, faintly visible, like a searchlight, spreading out of the boat.

But this light source is by no means exactly like a searchlight, because after it leaves the sapphire dragon boat, it seems to transform into a liquid, like the tiniest swimming snake, 'swimming' around.

In the sea on the dark side.The yellow light flickered slightly, and circles of mosquito coils appeared in the ripples, spiraling towards the periphery.

About ten minutes later, Long Hao in the sapphire dragon boat raised his head, walked to the console, grabbed the joystick himself, and suddenly moved in one direction.

"Found it?" Xiao Yu and Xiao Ke's eyes showed surprise.Both asked.

"Basically, the coordinates in the data are quite accurate. This direction is 40 meters, and the depth should be more than ten meters deep."

The information sent back by sensing metal told Long Hao that there was a large amount of metal accumulation in that place: what else could it be besides a sunken ship?

Sure enough, the sapphire dragon boat just sailed to that position.Xiaoyu, who had already opened the mouth of the probe, half-covered her small mouth, and shouted in surprise: "Wow, look, it's a ship! It's a sunken ship! It's so long and big..."

Hearing this, Long Hao, who was fixing the sapphire dragon boat, tilted his body.Black lines all over the forehead: Hey, women should be cautious when using adjectives like "long and big", especially ladies, otherwise it is easy to cause misunderstandings.

But at this moment, the surprise of discovering the shipwreck had already overwhelmed the inappropriate wording. Not only was Xiao Yu so excited that he seemed to have discovered a new continent, even Ke Mitong, who had always been quiet, came to his mouth, his eyes twinkling, staring at the scene. Very vague shipwreck to watch without blinking!

The lights came out, and it was a land of wrecked ships. There were four ships. The hulls were all main battle gunboats 50 years ago, but the specifications were slightly different.

There is no doubt that this is what Long Hao said, the Yingxi gunboat that carried [-]% of the gold of Zhongmei, but sank due to a shipwreck.

Only more than 30 years have passed, and the hull has not been corroded too much, and many of the paint patterns on the hull can still be distinguished clearly.

However, this is not the focus of Long Hao's three people. Their goal is gold, the gold in the sunken ship!

"Starting to salvage..."

"Ah, how to salvage, is anyone going out?" Xiao Yu and Xiao Ke Ru woke up from a dream, and hurriedly asked foolishly.

"Hey, this is 200 meters deep sea, no equipment, people go out... Do you two want to be crushed into meatloaf?"

"Oh, we don't know...Young master, are you going to use the sapphire dragon boat to pull the sunken ship to the surface?"

"Don't be so troublesome. I don't want these four broken ships. I just need to 'select' (zh) the gold inside."

"How to choose?"

"You are optimistic, the magic of alchemy will always break through the boundaries of your imagination..."

Compared with the sunken gunboat, the sapphire dragon boat is small in size, but it's just this 'little thing', a long tube sticks out from the egg-shaped center.

If it wasn't in the deep sea, someone else might be inspired to think about the tank if they saw it.

But it's still different, because the tube of the sapphire dragon boat is flexible and bendable, like a tentacle... Pooh, it should be like a claw of an octopus, lightly inserted into a sunken gunboat .

The gunboat, which has been sleeping for decades, seems to be the Sleeping Beauty of the castle. Under the provocation of the tentacles, a series of bubbles popped up, as if to tease the sapphire dragon boat: Work harder, harder, there are treasures here, you want to Explore more, go deeper...

The image at the end of the tentacles was fed back to the control room of the sapphire dragon boat. Like a probe, the three of Long Hao were all on the 'glass port' and saw the interior of the sunken gunboat.

This feeling, like an immersive adventure, really made Xiao Yu and Xiao Ke feel fresh and exciting.

Skipping the broken parts, rotting corpses and other indecent things, the tentacle finally found the warehouse after a few 10 minutes. The black iron boxes were neatly arranged.

"Is it gold? Is that a box of gold?"

An excited voice came out of Xiao Yu's throat, under the excitement.She tightly pinched Long Hao's waist and eyes.

"Hey, calm down."

Long Hao patted the female disciple's hands and feet away, and said, "Is it gold? Pull it back and have a look and you'll know?"

As soon as the words fell, the box in the mouth image suddenly became bigger, and then.It was dark.

"What's going on? Why can't I see anything?"

"Don't be nervous, Xiao Ke, you go to the door of the storage room and watch it. You can only open the door when the scale on the door points to zero. Hehe, of course, if it is less than zero, the door cannot be opened. This is a safety measure..."

Ke Mitong ran over as promised, but Xiao Yu still scratched his head and asked, "Master, you haven't answered me yet. Why can't you see the box all of a sudden?"

"Idiot Xiaoyu, don't ask such stupid questions, okay?"

Long Hao rolled his eyes and said, "I'm sucking those boxes into the boat one by one through the pipe. The image is amazing, so it will naturally be suspended! Here, the first box has arrived in the storage room, and the image will resume soon. ?"

Xiao Yu hurried to see.Sure enough, the image in the mouth appeared again, although it was not clear whether one of the many boxes was missing, but immediately, a box suddenly became larger, and the image became pitch black again.

This time I was prepared.Xiaoyu saw it clearly, the enlarged box was sucked in by the pipe.

The storage room of the sapphire dragon boat was not worthy of its name before, it was daily necessities or something.Under Long Hao's coercion, they were actually placed in the newly opened kitchen.

This made Xiaoyu a little dissatisfied, but this time she finally understood that this was Long Hao's preparation for salvaging the treasure of the sunken ship.

"Xiao Ke, is the box we saw behind the door?"

One by one sucking the boxes, chatting boringly, Xiao Yu gave up Long Hao and came to Ke Mitong's side.

"Yes, do you see the scale value? This is the pressure value. When it becomes zero, you can enter."

Ke Mitong pointed to the dashboard on the door and said.

"Why can't I go in now? I really want to know if there is any gold in the box!"

"... Now the outside of the door is equivalent to the outside of the boat. Leaving aside the pressure, sea water can drown people. Sister, do you want to look at gold, or do you want to die?"

"Uh, so that's the case, hehe, pretend I didn't say...Xiao Ke, you know a lot, you're so smart!"

"Senior sister, you are also very smart, you need to learn more and ask more questions, otherwise, you won't feel guilty if you can't help the young master?"

"Guilty? A little bit."

"That's it. Don't look at the young master's cheerful look towards us, but I know that if you can't help him, he won't always take you around!"

"Ah? Xiao Ke, don't scare me."

"I didn't scare you. Yesterday I heard the young master say that the drizzle is much worse than the breeze, and I would have left her in the United States if I knew it earlier..."

"Damn it! I can't compare to Breeze? Huh, I want to practice my cooking skills so that I can firmly tie the young master's stomach!"

"..."

It took a total of more than an hour to suck the box. Long Hao breathed a sigh of relief, and the scale on the storage room door also returned to zero.

With a bang, the door of the storage room was forced to open impatiently. Inside was the damp after ebb tide, some seaweeds, sea-type microorganisms... But these are not important, what is important is the dozens of large iron boxes placed on the ground .

Opening the iron box did not disappoint the three of Long Hao. It was full of gold, solid gold, mechanical cutting, and lettering from a certain bank... It can be seen that these gold bars are all top-grade gold products. False has to be questioned.

After counting, there were a total of 26 iron boxes, eighteen of which were loaded with gold bars, six were gold coins of various styles, and the last two were jewelry.

Purely in terms of value, two boxes of jewelry are far inferior to a box of gold, but the faint blood stains on them make people understand the origin.

"Wow, I got rich, a lot of gold coins, how much does it cost!"

Xiaoyu's little hands scooped up all kinds of gold coins, grabbed them, and let the gold coins fall from between her fingers. The clear and crisp sound of impact seemed to be the singing of fairy music in her ears.

"It's not much money, a box is less than [-] kilograms, and the total amount of gold is only more than two tons! Compared with the gold in the western gold rush, it's a small part!"

Long Hao pouted and said disdainfully.

He estimated that the Zhongmei ship should have 20 to 35 tons of gold, and now it has only gotten less than one-tenth of it. Although there is the joy of a good start, it is far from the time for carnival.

"The revolution has not yet succeeded, and you all need to continue to work hard! Let's go back to the cabin and continue looking for gold!"

Long Hao no longer looked at the tempting gold, and walked back to the control room. Although Xiao Yu was reluctant, but obedient, he returned with Ke Mitong.

When the door of the storage room was closed, the gold in the 26 boxes began to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye...

The tentacles continued to move, and in the next six hours, Long Hao did not stop for a moment, and finally searched all four sunken gunboats, basically missing any dead spots.

The results were no surprises, but not far from expectations.

The sunken ship that was searched at the beginning was probably a weaker Spanish gunboat. There were two gold storage places in it, which added up to more than 3 tons.

However, the two gunboats that were searched later probably belonged to the powerful British Empire, and the gold inside them added up to a total of 18 tons!

It took Long Hao four and a half hours just to take out the gold from these two gunboats, and he was almost exhausted.

In the end, the gold salvaged by the four gunboats was 234 tons, which should be within a reasonable range based on [-]% of that of the Zhongmei.

The gold absorbed by the dragon boat was only a small part, and the remaining gold was at least 20 tons, which was placed in the storage room, which brought a heavy and sweet burden to the sapphire dragon boat.