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Everyone spent a day identifying the water area containing metal substances. The area was vast, far beyond everyone's expectations!
  No reclamation projects have been carried out in this sea area, and no optical cables or other infrastructure have been laid on the seabed. Since the distribution of the detected metals is discrete, there is a high probability that they are not metal deposits. In other words, it is very likely that they are iron meteorites. high!

Perhaps, as the magician said, a group of meteorites landed here for some unknown reason ten thousand years ago, and were then buried deep under the sea by the rising seawater, never to be seen from the sky...

All the previous doubts were instantly forgotten, and everyone was as excited as if they had been given a shot of chicken blood.

After returning to the shore, Wang Ansu immediately went to the relevant departments to discuss salvage matters with the local supervisor.

The salvage work is tentatively scheduled to start next spring. On the one hand, it is because winter is approaching and it is not suitable for offshore operations. On the other hand, salvage is not as good as detection. Moreover, Zhang Tian said that there are at least hundreds or thousands of tons of meteorite buried under the sea. , with such a huge volume, Wang Ansu needs time to recruit manpower and purchase related equipment.

However, it is necessary to obtain salvage permission from the relevant departments as early as possible to avoid unnecessary complications.

Although the current domestic laws and regulations do not stipulate the act of salvaging meteorites, the lack of regulations does not mean that they ignore it. It only means that the relevant departments can turn a blind eye. Whether to open or close their eyes depends on The relationship is not in place.

Wang Ansu's relationship is obviously quite good.

Three days later, he got the salvage permit without any additional terms. Except for matters clearly stipulated by laws and regulations, such as salvage of ships, equipment, cultural relics with historical value, etc., they should be disposed of after appraisal by relevant agencies; salvage at home and abroad Currency, gold, silver, treasures, etc., shall be turned over to the national treasury.

Wang Ansu didn't think much about it. After all, they were salvaging meteorites, and meteorites were not in this category.

However, Zhang Tian kept an eye on it and reminded him: "The Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-] was fought in the Yellow Sea. A few years ago, the wrecks of the Zhiyuan and Jingyuan ships were discovered in the waters of Liao Province. We’ve made a relatively big archaeological discovery. It’s better to be careful.”

What Zhang Tian is really worried about is digging out the ruins of the Star Tribe. After all, the meteorite held by the Star Tribe is also mixed in, and this part of the meteorite has obvious traces of processing, and has extremely high scientific research, cultural and even for collection value.

Of course, these meteorite irons processed by the ancestors are cultural relics, and Zhang Tian firmly supports handing them over to the country.

However, when to turn it in is a matter of knowledge.

If it attracts the attention of superiors and archaeologists prematurely, it is difficult to say whether other meteorites can be saved, let alone cultural relics. If they are confiscated together, it will be a big loss.

Wang Ansu was a little surprised: "You still know about archeology?"

Zhang Tian smiled and said: "The game I am developing now is related to this, so I need to understand it a little bit."

Wang Ansu nodded and said: "Don't worry, don't you understand me? My brother's way to get rich can be summed up in two words: low-key! I only look for my own people for this salvage operation. No matter what I salvage, I will never leak anything." Wind!"

"One more thing. I want to participate in the whole process of this salvage operation."

"Of course! You provided the information. My brother has settled the score. You will get what you deserve, and you won't lose a cent!"

"No, I'm not worried about you kicking me out... I mean, I want to be on the front line throughout the entire process, including diving, excavation, and salvage..."

Wang Ansu was stunned for a moment: "Are you sure? This is not an easy job."

Seeing that Zhang Tian had made up his mind, Wang Ansu shook his head helplessly: "Is your restless heart ready to move again? I said that urban life is not suitable for you, you are just a savage... However, you haven't dived in the water for many years. Right? Do you still remember how to operate it?"

"I've been rusty for a long time. I have to find a coach to learn from scratch. There's still another winter, so there's still time."

"Sometimes I really admire you. Now that I have everything, I have lost interest in many things and can never find the passion I once had. You ask me to go to the mountains and seas like before, get up early and stay late at night, but I really can't do it... "

Wang Ansu lamented that his youth was gone and his passion was gone.

Zhang Tian just listened silently and did not answer. Lao Wang really thinks highly of him. It's not that he is full of enthusiasm and will always be young. He just has a reason why he has to do this.

……

Zhang Tian returned to Yanbei and took care of the studio matters first.

Wang Ansu injected a sum of money into his studio. Compared with the value of the submarine meteorite, this was only a small amount of money, but it solved Zhang Tian's urgent need.

He announced to his employees that the angel investor was not satisfied with the design of the game and made some suggestions for modifications.

Everyone thought it was another "layman guiding an expert". When they got the new plan, they were shocked and they all said: This is the game they want to make!

If not forced by life, who wouldn’t want to make a novel and high-level game? It’s a bullshit game, just die!
  Zhang Tian finally saw the passion Wang Ansu said in these young people.

It was then that he suddenly realized that after all these eight years, although his age had not changed, his mentality had become that of an old man.

He cheered up and drew some vitality from these young people. Then he flew to the warm southern hemisphere and spent a lot of money to hire a professional diving instructor for special training in scuba diving and underwater operations.

Three months later, the God of War returns!
  The salvage operation is tentatively scheduled for the end of April, but in early April, people from all walks of life have gathered from all over the world.

This will be an unprecedented meteorite hunting operation. Wang Ansu has concentrated almost all the manpower and resources scattered around the world into this small seaside city. There are experts and scholars from home and abroad; there are divers who are good at underwater operations; there are people who are familiar with various fields. Engineers who build shipboard instruments...

Various equipment is also arriving one after another: sonar systems, high-sensitivity measuring instruments, acoustic ranging instruments, remote sensing instruments, stereoscopic photography equipment, lighting equipment, diving equipment, and so on; as for salvage ships, dredgers, and transport ships , and even more crowded the entire pier.

When Zhang Tian arrived, everyone was discussing enthusiastically, and everyone was visibly excited.

"Come on, Lao Zhang, let me introduce you."

Wang Ansu brought a foreigner and an old man to Zhang Tian.

"These two are the most authoritative meteorite identification experts at home and abroad, Professor Leonard and Professor Chen Huapei Chen. They will bear witness to this salvage operation."

Professor Leonard is a permanent director of the International Meteorite Association, which was founded in 1933. It is the earliest academic group to study meteorites. It is also the most authoritative identification organization in the world and the only internationally recognized authoritative organization. The organization that names meteorites.

Professor Chen Huapei is a professor at the School of Earth Sciences at China University of Geosciences. Four years ago, his team successfully applied for the University of Geosciences to become an international meteorite identification and storage institution, and completed the classification and naming of an S-type Martian meteorite, which finally passed the review. Included in the Meteorite Bulletin database for that month.

Two years ago, this Martian meteorite was auctioned by the British Royal Nobles Auction Co., Ltd. for a transaction price of US$1800 million, causing quite a stir among domestic meteorite enthusiasts. This Martian meteorite belongs to Wang Ansu, and it is also the meteorite with the highest unit price that Lao Wang has ever sold.

Zhang Tian knew Wang Ansu's intention.

The price of meteorites adheres to the principle of "rare things are more valuable". Among many meteorites, the most precious are lunar meteorites, followed by Martian meteorites, then iron meteorites, stone meteorites, glass meteorites, and so on.

But no matter what kind of meteorite it is, it must be authenticated by an authoritative organization. Meteorites that have not been authenticated are collectively called "unnamed meteorites". Let alone selling them, regular auction houses and sales platforms will not accept them at all.

Wang Ansu specially invited two professors to come in person, naturally in order to sell it at a good price in the future.

"Mud Howl!"

Professor Leonard, who knew a little bit of Chinese, greeted him with Wai Guoren’s unique accent.

Zhang Tian shook hands with this enthusiastic foreign scholar and said "Hello!"

Chen Huapei was very interested in Zhang Tian's intelligence source: The ocean is so vast, how did he know the specific location where the meteorite was buried?
  Zhang Tian couldn't explain anything, so he could only muddle through and muddle through.

Meteorites are not as fragile as ancient shipwrecks and can be salvaged using rougher methods. After discussions among experts, the salvage plan was quickly determined. In simple terms, it was just one sentence: first send a dredger to remove the silt from the seabed, and then fish out the exposed meteorites.

Zhang Tian only made one request: "In the entire Yellow Sea, there is one area where the meteorites buried are the most precious and fragile. Only by salvaging them manually can their integrity be ensured."

Then he said that he was willing to take on such hard work.

Zhang Tianke didn't dare to take risks. If the dredger went down with a bucket of mud and dug Dr. Lin into two pieces, wouldn't it be a horror story?
  The personnel and equipment were all in place, and the plan was determined. So on a calm morning, everyone gathered at the dock. Wang Ansu conducted a simple mobilization, and then gave the order: Start fishing!
  More than ten dredgers, dragging large or small mud buckets, slowly drove to their respective areas to carry out dredging work.

Only the salvage ship that Zhang Tian was on took the lead and rushed straight to the sea area where Lin Yu was.

Three divers, including Zhang Tian, ​​put on one-piece diving suits, put on flippers, and carried diving knives, underwater cameras, portable underwater metal detectors, special communication equipment for diving, and related underwater excavation tools. .

After arriving at the target location, they put on underwater breathing masks and carried oxygen tanks on their backs. The team was led by McDonald, a professional diving instructor from Australia. With his gesture, the three of them dived straight into the water one after another.

In the Yellow Sea at the end of April, the water temperature is slightly cool.

The moment you dive into the sea, you feel as if you have fallen into another world, and the hustle and bustle of the world is completely cut off.

It was quiet, with only the faint sound of electricity coming from the communication equipment in my ears.

The light becomes dimmer as we dive deeper.

Zhang Tian's eyes quickly adapted to the dim light and distorted colors underwater. He kept his breathing rhythm and followed closely behind the leader. Fortunately, the water quality in this area is not bad, there is no turbid sediment interference, and the penetration of the headlight light is high, so we will not proceed in complete darkness.

Reached the bottom of the sea successfully.

Zhang Tian was slightly dizzy, as if he was drunk. He knew that this was a nitrogen narcosis reaction caused by the increase in the partial pressure of oxygen and nitrogen in the compressed air, so he calmed down. This level of nitrogen narcosis is a normal phenomenon. As long as he maintains the rhythm of breathing and does not panic, he will be fine. It won't be a big deal.

The water depth in this sea area is mostly between 24 and 26 meters, and in some places it exceeds 30 meters. At this depth, if you dive without decompression, you can only stay for about 30 minutes at most.

Considering the physical work required, this time will be greatly shortened.

One dive was obviously not enough to dig out the unique treasures hidden deep in the seabed. Therefore, Wang Ansu arranged a total of three diving teams to rotate.

Zhang Tian determined the specific location based on his perception and gestured to the two of them to mark it. The three of them inserted long poles with guide ropes tied to the ends around the target, so that the two teams behind could directly feel the ropes to get down without digging in the wrong place.

McDonald used a metal detector to detect it at close range. The reading on the dashboard showed that there was a large amount of metal buried under the mud!
  He reported the news to the correspondent on the ship through the communication equipment. A moment later, boiling cheers erupted from the headset.

Dig!
  Only when you have truly been underwater can you truly feel the resistance of the water and understand how difficult it is to work underwater.

The excavation progress was slower than Zhang Tian expected in advance, but the three groups of divers had no complaints. They ate immediately after returning to the boat to replenish energy, and took the time to rest to restore their physical strength. When it was their turn, they could easily land and change to dive. The equipment returns to the ocean floor.

They continued to work like this until evening. The other ships had completed their tasks for the day and had called it a day. They were still fighting on the front line.

Zhang Tian dived into the seabed for the fifth time. By this time, the silt originally accumulated on the seabed had been dug out into a large pit two meters deep through the efforts of a group of divers.

It's close, it's close!

Zhang Tian gestured to the two teams, reminding them that the target was close at hand, and told them to be gentle to avoid damaging the treasure.

After Zhang Tian made the gesture, he picked up the tool and shoveled it down, but he seemed to have dug something extremely hard, and it bounced back to him!

……

When the good news came from the communication equipment, everyone on the ship suddenly fell into a fanatical atmosphere!
  Wang Ansu couldn't wait any longer and asked anxiously: "What kind of treasure is it?"

"We'll find out when we fish it out!" Zhang Tian pretended.

Everyone swarmed to the side of the ship, vying to have a look at the peerless treasure.

Even Professor Leonard threw aside the elegance and calmness of scholars and rushed to join in the fun.

Shen! Very heavy! The salvage rope was stretched straight, and even the robotic arm made a creaking sound.

After waiting for a long time, finally, the peerless treasure surfaced, revealing her true face in Lushan.

Professor Leonard immediately fell to the ground, pointed at the salvaged piece of human-shaped meteorite and exclaimed: "Crooked, crooked... Crooked Star Man!" (End of Chapter)