Chapter 1019: A call from the fleet

"Boss, what was that sound just now?" Hua Chong's voice came from the phone.

The news Hua Chong had just given him was so shocking that Xiao Peng jumped up and hit the roof of the car hard. He was now holding his head with a look of pain on his face. Hearing Hua Chong's words, he said, "Don't worry about the sound! What did you say just now?"

Then Ma Xiao's voice came from the phone: "Let me tell you, let me tell you!"

Xiao Peng was still waiting to hear what Ma Xiao had to say, but Chen Cheng's voice came over the phone again: "What did you say? Of course, I'll say it!"

Then Ma Xiao's voice came again: "No, you must let me speak first, I want to express my gratitude!"

Xiao Peng coughed dryly twice: "Ahem, that's enough for you guys! If you have something to say, talk about it. If not, leave the court!"

Ma Xiao said hurriedly, "Boss, I really appreciate you letting me captain the Calypso. I've discovered that treasure hunting is addictive. Once you're hooked, you can't stop! Oh my God! It's become ingrained in me."

"Stop flattering me! Let's get down to business!" Hua Chong said.

Then there were all kinds of sounds of people snatching the phone.

Xiao Peng was completely helpless: "Hey guys, that's enough! Chen Cheng, tell me what's going on!"

There was silence on the other end of the line for a moment, then Chen Cheng coughed twice, trying to steady his voice. Even so, one could still hear the excitement in his voice: "Boss, we think we've found the 'Queen's gift'!"

After hearing this, Xiao Peng took a deep breath to calm himself down, muttering, "This is fucking hell!"

When he left, he gave Ma Xiao and the others ten shipwreck sites. He didn't know whether there was any wealth in these shipwrecks. He just wanted them to have something to do there so that they could do their own things. Unexpectedly, they actually got something out of it.

They found the 'Queen's Bride Price'.

"Are you sure that is the 'Queen's gift'?" Xiao Peng still believed his words too much.

Ma Xiao shouted from the side: "Boss! It's the 'Capitana'!"

It was Xiao Peng's turn to be stunned: "Did you salvage it?"

"No, such a good thing will of course wait for you to come!" Chen Cheng said.

"Are you sure it's the 'Capitana'?" Xiao Peng asked puzzledly.

Chen Cheng replied, "We found the coat of arms of the Spanish Van Gogh family. You told us to keep an eye on the Portuguese ship, but we didn't find any suitable for salvaging, yet we found this guy! Everyone on the ship is going crazy!"

Xiao Peng fell silent after hearing this. After a while, he muttered, "That's not right. Wasn't the 'Queen's Gift' caught in a storm between Florida and Bermuda? How did it end up here?"

Chen Cheng said, "Boss, when we were investigating Drake's treasure in the Dominican Republic, we also wanted to investigate the 'Queen's Gift'. But something happened to you, so we didn't investigate. I didn't expect to find its whereabouts here. I didn't believe we had really found the 'Queen's Gift' at the time, but then I thought about it. The fleet that transported the 'Queen's Gift' was only lost in a hurricane in the western Pacific. No one has evidence that they sank directly, right? The 'Capitana' was found here. It's very likely that they encountered a storm and got lost and ended up here. If they wanted to go to Spain first, it's basically correct, right?"

After hearing this, Xiao Peng said, "Wait a minute!"

He pulled out a PAD from his car, opened the nautical chart and calculator, and did some calculations: "Two degrees of error, you're right. Given the navigation technology at the time, it's not surprising that they ended up here."

"It's a shame it sank right on its doorstep," Chen Cheng said. "Boss, we're pretty confident we've found the Capitana, the flagship of the fleet that transported the 'Queen's Bride Gift.'"

Xiao Peng was silent again, then asked, "Since you found it, why didn't you salvage it?"

Chen Cheng said, "Boss, a discovery like this definitely needs you to oversee it!"

"It's not that I don't trust you, just take advantage of it!" Xiao Peng said.

Ma Xiao's voice came over the phone: "Boss, after Mr. Chen learned about this, he said that you haven't done a live broadcast in a long time. Such a good discovery should be shown to everyone!"

Xiao Peng's face was filled with rage. "Well, even though I'm hiding in Africa, you still don't forget to exploit me! Brother Chen really has a way!"

Chen Cheng said, "Boss, stop complaining. If you don't broadcast a discovery like this live, you'd be unworthy of your title of 'Salvage King'!"

"That's right! We can follow you and have some fun for once!" Ma Xiao said.

Xiao Peng thought about it and said, "Okay, you guys wait for me to come back! But you have to wait a few days. I have some things to take care of here!"

After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Hua Chong became anxious: "Boss, is there anything more important than salvaging a sunken ship?"

Xiao Peng sighed and said, "I didn't do anything in Africa except picking up things!"

"Picking up things?" Hua Chong and others were stunned.

Xiao Peng nodded and said, "Along the way, we found a steppe eagle, a caracal, a western gorilla whose mother had died, a mother and child drill baboon, and four cheetah cubs."

"What?" Several people exclaimed in surprise: "Boss, are you going to open a zoo?"

Xiao Peng sighed and said, "Don't even mention it. The further you go into the African rainforest, the more poachers you encounter. Just like that litter of cheetah cubs, their mother was skinned. Logically, these cubs should be more valuable, but for some reason the poachers didn't find them. When I saw them, they were almost eaten by striped hyenas. I bought that western gorilla from poachers, and the same thing happened to the pair of drill baboons. They were caught while stealing food from the village. If I hadn't saved them, they would have become food!"

"Wait!" Hua Chong asked, "You said people there even eat demon baboons?"

Xiao Peng laughed. "I was passing by a market where they were selling roasted green monkeys. There were piles of them, and the locals would buy one and carry it home to share with their families. Not to mention eating monkeys, I've even seen monkeys being fucked. How do you think AIDS is transmitted?"

There was silence on the other end of the line.

HIV was first transmitted to green monkeys, and about 70% of green monkeys carry simian HIV. However, green monkeys have strong immunity and healthy immune systems, so the virus will not show any signs in them. However, if it were to infect humans, it would be terrible.

The people here have a terrible custom of drinking green monkey blood raw or injecting it into their bodies to improve men's sexual abilities. In addition, some people really "fuck monkeys", so in the 1930s, the AIDS virus finally spread to the human body, and in the 1960s it began to enter Europe and the United States, and today it has spread to all parts of the world.

Hua Chong was still a little unwilling: "But that's a demon baboon! They even eat that?"