N-M Chapter 137 Physics-Based Dissuasion!
Chapter 137 Physics-Based Dissuasion!
Clearwater Bay was pitch black at night.
The beam of the flashlight swayed underwater, illuminating the seabed up to a depth of thirty meters.
Lin Chen stood on the side of the Pioneer's ship, staring at the beam of light.
A large, round metal base, half of which is buried in the mud and sand.
Zhou Dazhuang sidled up to Lin Chen: "Boss, this thing looks pretty big, it must weigh at least a hundred tons."
Lin Chen remained silent.
The information provided by the system only mentioned the special titanium steel plates of twenty-four standard shipping containers, without mentioning the huge metal base at all.
But now is not the time to think about that.
The sound of motors could be heard on the sea.
Two large salvage ships with searchlights sailed in from the bay entrance, their bows painted with the words "Xingyang Shipping" in large white characters.
The searchlights illuminated the sea around the Pioneer as if it were daytime.
The loudspeaker on the other ship announced: "Listen up, fishing boats ahead!! This is Xingyang Shipping's special operations area! We have a shipment of important supplies that fell into the water in this area, and we are now sealing off the area for salvage! Any boats that don't need to be here, get out of here!"
Sun Heizi retorted immediately, "Bullshit! Do you own this sea? I'm fishing for ribbonfish here, what's it to you? Don't try to act tough with me!"
The other salvage boat ignored them completely and sailed straight towards them, squeezing into the main channel of Clearwater Bay.
The two iron anchors plunged into the water with a splash.
Inside the cabin of the Star Ocean Shipping ship, Gao Zhiyuan held up his binoculars and saw Lin Chen on the Pioneer.
Gao Zhiyuan held a walkie-talkie, his voice coming through the speaker: "President Lin, you've moved pretty quickly. But tonight, Xingyang Shipping has booked this entire stretch of sea. If you know what's good for you, you'd better take your men and get out of here, don't delay everyone's fortune."
Lin Chen stood on the deck, looking at Gao Zhiyuan's ship, where several salvage workers were putting on heavy diving suits.
"Dazhuang, how's the preparation for Deepdiver One going?"
Zhou Dazhuang: "We can go down anytime. The gas cylinders and robotic arm have been checked and are working properly."
Lin Chen called out to the system in his mind.
"System, switch to a more potent ocean current disruptor."
Ding!
3000 points have been deducted, and the potent ocean current disruptor has been issued to your system inventory.
Lin Chen reached into his pocket and took his hand out again. In his palm was a glass tube about the thickness of a finger, filled with a pale blue liquid.
He walked to the other side of the ship and poured the liquid from the glass tube into the seawater.
The liquid dispersed instantly upon entering the water.
At this moment, on the salvage ship of Xingyang Shipping, two divers wearing heavy diving suits had already slid down the ladder into the sea.
Gao Zhiyuan sat on the deck, a cigarette dangling from his lips, staring at the bubbles on the water's surface.
As long as we can salvage this batch of special titanium steel plates, we can not only make a fortune, but also thwart Lin Chen's shipbuilding ambitions.
Less than three minutes later, the salvage ship's walkie-talkie crackled with the divers' screams.
"Pull me up! Pull me up now! There's a ghost down there... the water flow is weird!"
Gao Zhiyuan leaned closer to the walkie-talkie and asked, "What's going on? What kind of undercurrents could there be in thirty meters of water?"
"This isn't an ordinary undercurrent! It's a whirlpool! My safety rope is about to snap! Pull it out!"
The sea surface suddenly began to churn.
Several eddies swirled around the Star Ocean Shipping salvage vessel, causing the hull to creak and groan.
"Quick! Hoist! Pull him up!!"
Gao Zhiyuan roared.
The winch spun rapidly, and the two divers were forcibly dragged to the surface.
Their diving suits were covered in scratches, their helmets were filled with water, and their faces were all pale.
A diver, spitting out seawater, shouted, "The current down there is too strong; you can't stand up at all. Going down is suicide!"
Gao Zhiyuan stared at the still churning sea, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.
Just then, in the shadow of the Pioneer, the Deepsea 1 silently slid into the water.
Lin Chen and Zhou Dazhuang sat in the cockpit.
The water-repellent beads form a shield around the submersible.
The undercurrent outside hit the cover and then slid down the shell.
Lin Chen: "Dazhuang, turn on the heat map."
Zhou Dazhuang pressed a few buttons on the control panel.
The system's three-dimensional marine heat map unfolded in Lin Chen's mind.
Green lines outline the shape of the shipwreck.
In the cargo hold of the sunken ship, there is a large red area, representing high-value metals.
"It looks like this batch of steel is quite well preserved."
Lin Chen said.
The submersible descended, avoiding the tattered fishing nets in the water.
These fishing nets are the most dangerous; if they get tangled in the propeller, Deepdiver One will be doomed.
Lin Chen placed his hand on the robotic arm sensor on the main control panel.
The two titanium alloy robotic arms at the front of the submersible began to move.
The hydraulic shears at the front of the robotic arm snapped the rusty chain on the cargo door with a "snip".
The rusted hatch was suddenly pulled open.
The flashlight beam shone in, revealing bundles of steel plates wrapped in moisture-proof oil paper.
"Special titanium steel plate, military-grade standard, not a speck of rust on the surface. Truly top-quality stuff!"
Zhou Dazhuang exclaimed, "If we used this thing to build our Leviathan, it would save us at least half a year of time finding materials!"
"Stop talking nonsense and get to work."
Lin Chen controls the robotic arm.
The robotic arm hangs a specially designed buoyancy bag on a steel strip on a steel plate.
Lin Chen pressed the inflation button, and high-pressure gas hissed as it poured into the buoyancy bag.
The bag bulged up and, along with the steel plate, floated towards the sea.
On the sea, Sun Heizi was already waiting with several wooden motorboats without lights on.
As soon as the buoyancy bag appeared, the ship's crane arm extended down, hoisted the titanium steel plate onto the deck, and then quickly covered it with a tarpaulin.
In four hours, Deepdiver 1 made more than a dozen trips back and forth on the seabed.
As Lin Chen was maneuvering the robotic arm to hang the last batch of steel plates, the beam of a flashlight swept across a corner deep inside the cargo hold.
There was a black box about half a person's height there, half of it buried in the mud.
The box is made of a very special material; it was soaked in seawater for ten years, yet nothing grew on its surface.
On the top of the box, a spiral-shaped fish pattern was laser-engraved.
The Eye of the Deep Sea.
Lin Chen had seen this symbol in his grandfather's diary, in the lower deck of the Poseidon, and on the Black Shark.
This Panamanian cargo ship, which sank ten years ago, is related to the Eye of the Deep Sea.
Lin Chen manipulated the robotic arm to clamp the black box and fix it to the rack under the belly of Deep Diver 1.
"Let's go, heading back."
Lin Chen said.
The sky began to lighten.
With the ocean current disturbance agent no longer effective, Gao Zhiyuan directed the divers to dive a second time aboard the Xingyang Shipping salvage ship.
Half an hour later, the diver came up with a piece of broken iron plate in his hand.
The diver immediately shouted upon surfacing, "Mr. Gao, there's nothing down there... nothing at all. Besides a few tons of rotten rails, there's not even a single piece of steel."
Gao Zhiyuan snatched the scrap iron plate and slammed it onto the deck, yelling, "Bullshit! I paid a fortune for this intelligence; there are clearly three hundred tons of special steel here! How could there not be?!"
He turned his head sharply, looked at the Pioneer that was starting to head back, and then looked at the several wooden motorboats with deep drafts next to him, and suddenly understood.
"Lin Chen! You fucking dare to mess with me!!"
Gao Zhiyuan slammed his fist on the sonar monitor next to him, and the screen cracked with a "rip".
Meanwhile, Longji Fresh's exclusive dock.
Heavy trucks lined up in a long queue, and cranes lifted bundles of special titanium steel plates from the ship onto the trucks.
Looking at the steel, the old factory director, Lu Guoqiang, was so excited he could barely speak: "This...this is truly special titanium steel! With this batch of material, let alone building a 100,000-ton ship, we could build a warship!"
Lin Chen crawled out of Deep Diver One, soaking wet, his hair covered in white sea salt.
He took the towel Sun Heizi handed him, wiped his face, and said to Lu Guoqiang, "Director Lu, this batch of steel, valued at 80 million, will be directly added to the shipyard's assets. We'll have our trump card at this morning's creditors' meeting."
Lu Guoqiang stared intently at Lin Chen.
Lin Chen hadn't even changed out of his wet clothes when Lu Guoqiang's phone rang.
Lu Guoqiang answered the phone.
Upon hearing this, his expression changed.
"President Lin... something's wrong."
"Gao Zhiyuan... Gao Zhiyuan has united all the creditors in the city. They've brought forward the liquidation meeting! They're going to forcibly auction off the shipyard at the city's property rights exchange center! The auction is starting in half an hour!!"