Chapter 1149: Are you satisfied with just finding a box?

The weather in the English Channel is similar to that in the Netherlands, with strong winds, high waves, and a dark sky. At night, it's practically pitch dark. Occasionally, you might see a few tiny white specks on the sea. If someone saw them in the Middle Ages, they'd have mistaken them for sea monsters!

The white lights came from the headlights of the crew on the Ifrit.

Hua Chong, holding a cigarette in his mouth, nudged Chen Cheng beside him with his elbow and said, "Old Chen, do you think the boss has become a god after returning from Africa?"

Chen Cheng was stunned: "Why do you say that?"

Hua Chong said, "Boss, you used to be able to find shipwrecks. Those ships were at least still on the seabed. This time, you even found a ship buried in the mud? You saw the ROV footage just now, right? Given the situation on the seabed, who knows where there are shipwrecks? You can't just look it up in the literature! Who says where a ship is buried? Even a grave needs a tombstone, right? There's no such thing as a shipwreck! And yet, Boss says to dig the mud there! He says there must be a shipwreck underneath... Let me ask you, Old Chen, if this hook really does pull something up, should we worship Boss?"

Chen Cheng said, "That's going to have to wait until the hook comes up. I mean, the ROV camera wasn't visible to the crew on the Ifrit, right?"

"No." Hua Chong said, "Old Liu gave them sleeping pills for dinner! They slept so soundly!"

"Hey, you're such a thief!" Chen Cheng said.

Hua Chong handed Chen Cheng a cigarette. "Old Chen, you haven't responded to what I just said. Don't you think the boss has become a god after returning from Africa?"

Chen Cheng said, "When has the boss ever stopped being awesome? We just do what he says. He tells us what to do, and we do it. Hua Chong, don't say I'm trying to scare you. I've received about 140,000 resumes. There are so many talented people waiting to work for our boss! If we don't do our job well, there won't be any room for us on the ship."

After hearing this, Hua Chong casually threw his cigarette butt into the sea. "Damn it! Even if someone wants to come later, they'll have to queue up! If the boss adds more boats, they'll go to other boats to make a living. We'll always be the main force. Apart from anything else, what we're doing now, can ordinary people do it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Xiao Peng's curse: "Fuck, are you crazy? I said night work, I didn't say dark work! Are you all crazy? How dangerous is this? Whose stupid idea was this?"

It turned out that for such a large project, Hua Chong did not turn on the lights on the ship at all, and relied on headlights for lighting and then carried out the work.

Hua Chong smiled and said, "Boss, don't worry, we have it figured out!"

"What the hell! Who's responsible if someone gets hurt?" Xiao Peng cursed. "Chen Cheng, turn on the lights on the boat!"

Chen Cheng said at this time: "Boss, this is not appropriate. I just calculated the time and orbit. There are at least twelve remote sensing satellites overhead. If we turn on the lights, we will be easily discovered."

Khedira said: "Boss, Chen is right. Don't underestimate the British intelligence agencies and their satellite technology."

Xiao Peng pointed at the creaking winch road over there and said, "You don't understand the environment of this ship. What if someone gets hurt while working without lights?"

Hua Chong said, "Boss, don't worry. We've already cleared the rear deck while you were resting, so we can operate without lights."

Just as Xiao Peng was about to speak, he heard Yang Zhibin's voice on the intercom: "Everyone, get away from the rear operating platform! The hook is coming up!"

Hua Chong hurriedly gave a series of orders and then said to Yang Zhibin on the intercom, "Old Yang, all right, the boss is watching here, show him your skills!"

"Okay!" After Yang Zhibin shouted, he heard the sound of waves crashing. Not long after, Xiao Peng felt something heavy falling onto the boat. A little later, he heard the creaking sound of the winch and the sound of something heavy falling into the water. The winch didn't stop working when Yang Zhibin's voice came from the intercom: "Hua Chong, it's up to you!"

Hua Chong directly called some sailors to the rear deck. After Xiao Peng arrived, he found that there was a large pool of silt here - it was dug up from the seabed.

Hua Chong commanded the men to split into two groups. One group stood at the stern, pulling the nets, while the other group used hoses connected to water pumps to flush the silt, using the current to disperse the silt and then search for objects in the silt. The nets were used to prevent objects from being washed into the sea.

"A discovery!" someone shouted at the stern.

Hua Chong ran over after hearing this and asked, "What is that?"

Not long after, he came back, holding a rotten wooden board in his hand and walked up to Xiao Peng: "Boss, look!"

To be precise, this template is three wooden boards stacked together, which at first glance looks like terraced fields on a mountain.

Xiao Peng took a look with the help of Hua Chong's headlamp and said, "The Vikings' ships had this overlapping design, known as the 'stacked construction method.' This method eliminates the need for waterproof planks and was the Vikings' ultimate shipbuilding technology. Finding this means we've found the Vikings' ship. This is the right place. Let's keep looking!"

Hua Chong didn't say anything after hearing this. He clasped his hands together and bowed to Xiao Peng before turning around and continuing to lead the team in flushing the silt. Xiao Peng was confused. What did this mean? Why was he bowing to himself?

As they continued to wash away the silt, they made new discoveries.

"Boss, is this... an axe?" Hua Chong asked Xiao Peng while holding a rusty object.

Xiao Peng nodded: "Probably."

Hua Chong said, "We've already found the fourth one. Why are there so many axes on the boat?"

Xiao Peng explained: "The Vikings couldn't live without axes. Whether they were hunting, working, or looting, they relied on axes. An axe would accompany them throughout their lives, right up to the day they died. Let me put it this way, even when building ships, they only used two tools: a mallet and an axe."

"You can build a boat with just an axe and a mallet?" Hua Chong was stunned. "Don't you have a saw or something? Then how do you make the planks?"

"They took a large log, cut a hole in it with an axe, then hammered a wooden wedge into the hole and used a mallet to hit the wedge to prop the log apart, repeating this process to make planks." Xiao Peng gave the answer: "A good shipwright could make four planks from a one-meter-diameter oak log. It might seem a bit wasteful now, but the Vikings weren't afraid to waste wood!"

"Boss, look what this is?" At this time, a crew member came over with a silver cup and a silver box in his hands. Both the cup and the box were carved with exquisite patterns. When the box was opened, it was empty.

But Xiao Peng whistled excitedly after seeing this: "Alright, even if we don't find anything else, we've already made it! I'll be content with just finding these two things! Haha! You guys keep discovering, and if you find anything else, let me know. I'll go back and research!"

"Uh..." Hua Chong and others looked at Xiao Pengli and each other in confusion.

Is Xiao Peng content?

This doesn't look like something valuable at all! Even when he salvaged real gold and silver, he was never this happy!

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I have a bad cold, so I owe you a chapter. I’ll make it up later. . . . .