Chapter 65 Continuous Misjudgment

Xiao Peng was disappointed not because he didn't find any shipwrecks. He found a total of six shipwrecks in the search area, but in his eyes, none of the ships were worth salvaging!

Among these six boats, three are small sampans commonly seen by Corsican fishermen. They are three-meter-long pure wooden, non-powered boats. It is not known whether the fishermen deliberately sank them in the sea to serve as reefs to attract marine life, or whether they were brought here by undercurrents.

There's also a small fishing boat. Judging by the barnacles on it, it's probably less than three years old! It's unclear what accident it was in, and it's worthless. You can't just remove the engine and sell it for scrap, right?

The other boat was an old tugboat called the Ajaccio. The name suggested it belonged to a port in Corsica. Xiao Peng immediately recognized it. After much deliberation, he realized it resembled the tugboat Benjamin Button worked on in the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Xiao Peng searched the cabin but couldn't find a single hair. Instead, he found a pile of torn cables covered in mussels.

Xiao Peng is not here to eat seafood, so what's the use of these mussels?

'Nightingale' was enjoying herself there.

As for the last sunken ship, Xiao Peng didn't even go on board to search!

He had seen this kind of ship many times in the Old Port of Marseille! To be more precise, he had just seen it a few days ago.

This shipwreck is almost exactly the same as the sightseeing boat that was overturned by a cargo ship outside the Old Port of Marseille last time: the lower level is a cabin, and the upper level is an open platform for tourists to stand on and enjoy the scenery.

It may just be because it has been on the seabed for so long that it looks particularly old and dilapidated!

But no matter how old it is, it's just a sightseeing boat for tourists! What valuable things can be on it?

According to the information received, Alan and his team wanted to salvage a shipwreck from World War I or World War II. Among the six ships, only the tugboat looked like a product of that era, but there was not a single hair inside it!

Xiao Peng surfaced dejectedly, put the oxygen tank back on his back at the bottom of the boat, and climbed back on board.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment!

Bo Ke pulled Xiao Peng onto the boat and helped him take off his diving gear. "Xiao, you really are the person who loves diving the most I've ever met! You went for three hours straight without a break? Do you want me to change your fourth oxygen tank?"

Xiao Peng shook his head: "Forget it, I want to take a break!"

Bo Ke looked over and asked curiously, "Where's Nightingale?"

Xiao Peng pointed to the seabed and said, "I found a bunch of big mussels down there, happily gnawing on them. So I'm taking a break. Where's Felix?"

Felix ran out of the cabin: "Master, I'm here!"

"What are you doing in the cabin?" Xiao Peng sat down and prepared to take off his flippers.

Felix said, "I'm surfing the Internet inside!"

Xiao Peng was already in a bad mood, and Felix's words irritated him even more. "Damn, internet access is so expensive here! Satellite data is so expensive! You can't get online back home, so you have to go on the boat! You really don't know how expensive food and fuel are!"

Felix blinked. "I was just checking the news. This news has something to do with you."

Xiao Peng stopped what he was doing: "What news?"

Felix said, "There's a strike and demonstration happening in the Old Port of Marseille right now."

"Protest and strike?" Xiao Peng said helplessly, "You French people love protests!"

Felix replied seriously, "Well, we're not the most prone to strikes in Europe. Denmark is!"

Xiao Peng gave a thumbs-up. "You win! I've only ever experienced a taxi driver strike in China, and it died down quickly. I'm used to seeing it here! What's going on this time?"

Felix said, "This time, it's the employees working on the sightseeing boats in Marseille's Old Port who are protesting. They're demanding a replacement boat!"

"How did the sightseeing boat offend them?" Xiao Peng was confused.

Felix explained, "The report said the sightseeing boat that sank in the last collision was too old. Those sightseeing boats were actually converted from ferries that appeared at the end of World War I. At the time, transportation from mainland France to Corsica relied on these ferries, and they were still in use after the end of World War II. About forty years ago, these ships were uniformly modified, such as refurbished to enhance safety and replace engines, and turned into sightseeing boats. This way, they preserved their history without wasting resources. But after all, they were century-old ships, and they sank directly after the last collision, so the employees on the sightseeing boats organized a strike in protest!"

"You are all idle. You didn't save when you should have. So this sightseeing boat is already a 'centenarian' and still hasn't been replaced. What are you thinking..." Xiao Peng bent down and prepared to continue taking off his fins, but suddenly he stopped what he was doing. He seemed to have overlooked something.

"Captain, what's wrong with you?" Felix asked curiously.

Xiao Peng suddenly stood up, put on the fin he had just dragged down, put the oxygen tank he had just put aside on his back, and dived back into the seabed.

Bo Ke was stunned after seeing this: "Xiao, that oxygen cylinder was just replaced by you..."

As a result, Xiao Peng had already entered the seabed and disappeared.

He was so anxious because he had just overlooked an important thing!

He saw the sunken ship that looked like a sightseeing boat on the seabed but did not go in to search. Now he realized that he had made a wrong judgment from the beginning!

That wasn't a sightseeing boat at all! It was a ferry boat that was almost a hundred years old! No wonder it looked so rusty and old just now!

The chances of treasure being found on the sightseeing boat are slim, but it's very likely on the ferry! It's worth going back to take a look!

He dived all the way down into the sea, and 'Nightingale' appeared again from nowhere. Xiao Peng simply grabbed its dorsal fin and returned to the ferry again.

He hadn't observed the ship carefully before, so this time he swam around it and discovered the reason why the ship sank: there was a big hole in the back of the hull!

However, the hole was blown from the inside, and inside was the boiler room of the ship. The unfortunate ferry sank due to a malfunction and an internal explosion.

Xiao Peng asked 'Nightingale' to wait outside while he swam into the cabin. Such a small space could not accommodate such a large shark.

Due to the depth of the water, there weren't many marine creatures here, only a few moray eels that used this place as their nest. But as soon as Xiao Peng entered, he felt that his judgment seemed to be a little wrong:

The doors of almost all the cabins were wide open, indicating that there was enough time for the passengers to abandon the ship and escape before it sank, and there was no valuables in the rooms.

Well, it was all in vain!

He was about to return to the Redhead when something suddenly caught his attention: a thick iron rod stuck in the doorway of a hatch. The hatch was much larger than the others, and although it was open, the gap was not very large.

Xiao Peng swam over curiously and made an astonishing discovery!