The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 202 Old Turtle, you took the Special Affairs Bureau personnel out of contact? !
"captain?"

The old turtle was stunned for a moment. Shen Le popped half of his head out of the shell, winked at the temple keeper, and then went back to his work.

However, the temple keeper next to the shell and the members of the Special Affairs Bureau behind the camera have already paid close attention.

In the absence of lie detector equipment and corresponding data from the polygraph, it is up to them to determine whether the old turtle is lying and whether he is the culprit of the museum accident!

"The captain of that ship..." The old turtle fell into a long silence, his eyes covered with layers of wrinkles, slightly raised, as if searching for something in his memory.

After a long while, he let out a long sigh:

“…I don’t know him.”

I don’t know, who are you meeting with the compass?
At this moment, even Shen Le, who was pretending to work, emerged from his shell again and stared at him intently. The old turtle seemed unaware and sighed sadly:
"But I know the leader of that fleet. Or, I know the leader of that pirate gang... I have known him for many years..."

The temple keeper nodded slightly. Under the power of Mazu, she could feel that the old turtle's mind was pure, without wavering or pretending.

So, what the old turtle said was the truth, at least this sentence was the truth.

"What's his name? Is he the master of the compass?"

In the museum, the restoration workers who were listening to Shen Le's conversation became excited at the same time.

First-hand information!
First-hand!

Even if it was said by a monster, we can go back and look for it according to the information he gave. It is much easier than groping in the dark in a sunken ship!

A group of people stared with wide eyes and pricked up their ears. The two students at the edge, one on the left and one on the right, had already opened Baidu, as if they were ready to look up information on the spot.

Then, they heard the old turtle's voice, slowly, with a little nostalgia and regret:

"His name is... Tian Bao Zai..."

That was the original name, and also the only name that child used in all the times they met him, from infancy to adolescence, to adulthood, and then to death.

"Ugh……"

There were long and short sighs from behind the screen. The name Tianbaozi is rare in modern times, but it was very common in ancient times.

Just like in Shen Congwen's "Border Town", there are two male protagonists, one is called Tianbao and the other is called Nuosong. There is only one in a novella, and in reality, God knows how many there are.

"Okay, pirates, the pirate leader is called Tianbaozi, the era is confirmed, and there are already a lot of clues. Don't complain, hurry up and investigate!"

"..."

"No way! In that era, there really was a pirate named Tian Bao Zai! A great pirate! Boss, come and see..."

"We won't be so lucky! A random ship and a celebrity's ship are two different things! If we can prove that this is Zhang Baozai's ship, we can get a huge grant!"

The students were in a frenzy. After a brief discussion, they quickly quieted down and listened attentively to the conversation on the beach:
"When I got this compass in my hand, the yin energy and resentment almost suffocated me - can you feel this resentment? Do you know why it is so resentful?"

"Yin Qi? Resentment?"

The old turtle waved its left forelimb indifferently. A beam of moonlight flowed across its shell, and it spoke calmly:

"There is too much Yin energy in the sea. The deeper the water, the thicker the silt, the more Yin energy there is. If there is a shipwreck, there is even more Yin energy. Which shipwreck doesn't have a bunch of drowned ghosts?"

In other words, the ocean is too big and has a strong purification capacity. It won't have scapegoats popping up from time to time like in the river?
Shen Le thought silently, glanced at the temple keeper, and got a positive nod from him. He continued to ask the old turtle:
"What about resentment?"

"I don't have much resentment! This little bit of resentment is nothing at all...Isn't it just that I was forced to live by the official family?

I told him a long time ago not to go that way… Those who went that way all died! I’ve seen too many of them! Only by running away, and running away in time, can you survive…”

"The good thing about the book Water Margin is that it surrenders..." In the museum, several graduate students who had looked up the characters' information whispered:
"So we should follow Li Jun's path... You see, almost all of the 108 generals are dead, and only Li Jun and his friends who escaped are still alive..."

"Do you think the old turtle has ever met Li Jun?"

"It's hard to say...it depends on how long he has lived...if he has lived for more than 1,500 years, then maybe he has really seen it?"

"Wake up! Water Margin is a novel! Not history!"

If Shen Le knew what they were whispering about, he might really ask the old turtle this question.

Unfortunately, he didn't know, so he continued to ask leisurely:

"So... when you brought the compass near the museum, did you feel the resentment of the sunken ship?"

"Ah? No." The old turtle shook his head in astonishment. He thought about it carefully, and then thought about it again, and looked towards the museum for a while, and continued to shake his head:
"That wreck, I've been around it for so long, I even built a nest on it! And it didn't react! It didn't react when it was pulled away--

If there was any resentment, it would have been there long ago when we were startled and towed away! - You even towed the whole boat away!"

Shen Le quickly looked at the temple keeper, who relaxed his brows and nodded slightly. Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief: With this attitude, the old turtle must be telling the truth?

Did he really not intentionally use the compass to stir up resentment in the sinking ship? Did he not know this would happen?
That's good, then their deal can continue. Otherwise, he would have to kill the old turtle even if his reputation was damaged...

The old turtle didn't notice Shen Le's thoughts. He became unhappy again as he spoke, crawled around the shell, and looked at the museum angrily:
"You humans are going too far! I've used this nest for a hundred or two hundred years, and you just demolished it without even telling me!
You guys have to pay for demolition! You demolished my nest and didn’t give me a single pearl or coral!”

Ah this...

Shen Le was a little embarrassed. The keeper of the Mazu Temple was very calm and smiled slightly:

"It's hard to say what the demolition fee will be. But you can designate a few places where we used to build coral reefs - we are now very good at making artificial coral reefs.

Also, you can designate a few beaches, and if anyone damages them, feel free to call us! ”

Building reefs and islands in the South China Sea requires a long and drawn-out survey. It would be great to have an old sea turtle do the survey for free!
During the reef-building period, the old turtles can provide free protection. After the construction is completed, humans will live on the island and the old turtles will live on the nearby coral reefs. It is a win-win situation for both sides!
In addition, the nesting grounds of several species of sea turtles in our country have been destroyed on a large scale, to the point where protection is necessary.

Human protection is always limited. It would be good for everyone to have an old turtle that has become a monster watching over us, right?

The old turtle's eyes lit up, and he went to discuss the details with the temple keeper.

Only Shen Le was left crawling around in the shell, working hard to adjust the position of the pearl over and over again.

After the adjustment, I took out my phone and looked through WeChat. I looked for him in private chats and mentioned him in group chats. There was a lot of messages:

"Ask him where the things that were left on the ship are along the way!"

"Ask him if he can show us the way!"

"Ask him for details about the ship owner! The more details the better!"

"Ask him if he has any other items of the ship owner! Even better if they have words on them! We'll use our funds to buy them from him!!!"

Shen Le had a headache looking at these requirements. So, is archaeology going to open up a new branch now, asking monsters for details directly and then writing them in their archaeological reports?

The physical and chemical properties of many things collected by monsters do not conform to the characteristics of long-term collection and long-term burial. How are you going to explain this to the archaeological experts?

While adjusting the position of the pearl, he chatted with the old turtle. During the chat, the old turtle said something that almost made him stumble:

"Speaking of which, there has indeed been a lot of resentment in the area recently. So I need to quickly customize a shell bed...

Without the filtering of the shell bed, my child, God knows when he will grow crooked! "

"What!!!" Shen Le's voice cracked. The place where this sunken ship was salvaged was not far from the museum!

Less than 100 kilometers!
Fishermen go in and out of the port, cargo ships come and go, this is the only way! A lot of resentment rises, even old turtles will find it hard to bear, how can fishermen bear it!
"Give us an area and we will send someone to check it out as soon as possible." The temple keeper's face also became serious.

"Mr. Shen, how long will it take you to make this shell bed? Is three days enough? Then, during these three days, can you take us to check out the situation?"

She hurriedly began to negotiate with the old turtle.

Soon, when Shen Le followed the old turtle's request and said, "Just the first plan, let me feel it again," the two sides reached an agreement:

The old turtle led the people from the Special Affairs Bureau to conduct a survey in the designated area;

The Special Affairs Bureau paid a number of cultivation drugs as compensation, and at the same time, artificial coral reefs were created at three locations designated by the old turtle;

The old turtle promised to do his best to rescue fishermen who were stranded on the sea...

Early the next morning, Shen Le was still in the museum's studio, carefully carving shells and embedding pearls into them, when the Special Affairs Bureau personnel came on board with measuring instruments.

The survey ship sailed against the wind and headed out to sea at full speed in the direction pointed out by the old turtle. At noon that day, news kept coming in:

"There is indeed an abnormal outflow of Yin energy in this sea area!"

"We are putting down equipment to conduct seabed surveys... At present, it seems that the Yin energy on the seabed is much denser than that on the sea surface, about 10 to 50 times."

"We found the location where the Yin Qi was pouring out... It seems to be a hole or a crack. The concentration of Yin Qi inside is more than a thousand times..."

"The old turtle went down with the equipment..."

"It's foggy... we might have to come back a day later..."

"Where are we……"

"Help!!!"

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