Chapter 263 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Judging from its length, this should be a whale skeleton.
The huge skeleton sank quietly to the bottom of the sea. When others were attracted to it, they were shocked. But then they thought, no matter how big it was, it was just a bone. How could it be more scary than a living sea lizard?
After understanding this principle, people began to look at it with interest.
The whale's skeleton is so large that a person can easily pass through the middle. At this time, the whale bones have completely lost any flesh and skin. Instead, there are many fish and shrimps swimming nearby, and seaweed and corals growing from the bottom of the skeleton.
While others, including those on the cruise ship, were marveling at the whale bone on the screen, which was larger than any Bryde's whale they had ever seen, Lu Xuan walked around and picked up two large pieces of oddly shaped stones.
Those who noticed it were puzzled in their hearts.
Lu Xuan doesn't even pick up 'junk', so why is he picking up stones?
Some people in the live broadcast room were also puzzled, but after all, there were many people who were well-informed.
The stone I saw near the whale bones, could it be...
When Lu Xuan returned to the fishing boat, Zhang Chengming and others who followed him surrounded him curiously.
"Ah Xuan, why are you picking up these stones? Could it be that there are priceless gems hidden inside these gray stones?"
Lu Xuan dug out the detector from his space and explained, "There are no gems. These stones themselves are treasures."
Xiong Mao couldn't understand, "Stones can become treasures?"
Lu Xuan looked at the composition and origin displayed on the detector and said with a curled lip, "Because they are not ordinary stones, but the remains discharged from whales."
The people around were stunned for a moment, and Li Tuo blurted out: "Coming out of the body? Could this be the whale's SHI..."
Li Jing patted his shoulder hard, "Shut up."
Although he also guessed so, it was too rough to say.
Moreover, Lu Xuan was still holding those stones.
Lu Xuan didn't care.
These stones are indeed whales, or more precisely, sperm whale excrement or vomit, which are stones formed from the parts of the food they ate that they could not digest.
When he first determined the length of the skeleton, he thought it was a blue whale skeleton, but since these things could be found nearby, it was most likely a sperm whale.
Ancient sperm whales appear to have been even larger than modern thinking suggests.
Lu Xuan said: "These stones also have a very famous scientific name, ambergris."
"Ambergris!?" Zhang Chengming and others took a breath, and even Wu Yang's eyes changed when he looked at the gray and white stones in his hands.
"Is it the kind of incense mentioned in the play, the one used exclusively by the emperor?"
"The incense used by the emperor is actually from whales..." Li Tuo was halfway through his words when his eldest brother covered his mouth again.
Lu Xuan continued his explanation as if he hadn't noticed: "It is said that only one out of a hundred sperm whales will develop this type of stone. After that, only a very small chance of someone finding one in the sea or on the shore by chance would reveal how rare it is."
Scarcity makes things valuable. No matter whether it is SHI or stones, if it is rare enough, it will naturally become the favorite of the powerful and even the emperor.
What's more, ambergris has a good calming and soothing effect, and is a very useful thing for people in the palace.
Lu Xuan himself is not interested in these things, but the new emperor will probably like them if he gives them to him.
The others also thought of this, and their expressions immediately became restless.
When the emperor came to visit the cruise ship before, Lu Xuan gave the yellow snail pearl to the emperor on behalf of Su Ying, and the emperor rewarded Su Ying with a lot of jewelry and head ornaments.
Those are all jewels bestowed by the emperor, enough to be passed down from generation to generation as heirlooms.
If they offer the ambergris, maybe they can get some treasure to pass down to the family?
Thinking of this, when everyone went down to explore again, they wanted to peel off a layer of soil around the whale bones. Any stone that looked a bit similar to the ambergris picked up by Lu Xuan was picked up by them.
Later on, there were no more stones that looked similar, so I just took all the stones home. Maybe after washing them, they would look like the original one.
Although most of their efforts were in vain in the end, Wu Yang and Ye Lin were lucky enough to find two small pieces.
When Li Yue and Ye Jing on the cruise ship learned about it, they couldn't help but smile happily.
The other female relatives could only sigh in envy.
In addition, during their carpet search, the young men discovered a trench not far from the whale bones, or the underwater city.
There is nothing special about the trench itself. There are many of them on the seabed. The trenches that are too deep look so dark that it makes people feel creepy. In the past, young and strong people who went to the sea to fish would try to avoid them if they occasionally saw one.
But this time, an underwater probe accidentally fell into the trench and captured a picture of a huge monster with a somewhat blurry shape at the bottom of the trench in the darkness.
When the people on the cruise ship discovered it, they couldn't help but murmur, "Is it another whale skeleton?"
"It doesn't look like it. Whale bones are just skeletons, but this big guy in the camera looks solid."
The people on the boat squinted their eyes and looked closer, but because it was too dark under the trench, it could even be said that it was completely dark except for the little light from the detector, and the light from the detector could not illuminate a large area, so it was difficult to see the entire giant clearly.
However, after Lu Xuan received the message they sent, he took out a high-powered night vision telescope and looked over.
It was discovered that it was clearly a huge shipwreck, but because it was surrounded by barnacles and seaweed, its outline was partially obscured, making it unclear at first glance.
When the audience in the live broadcast room heard the word "shipwreck", they were excited again.
[Wow! Shipwreck!]
Is it really possible to hunt for treasure underwater now? In ancient times, ships capable of ocean voyages couldn't have carried valuable treasures, right?
[If it were cloth or spices, they would have been lost long ago, but fine ceramics, bronzes, gold, silver, and jewelry would have definitely survived.]
[It also depends on whether the ship is on its way out to sea or returning. If it's the latter, the items on board will probably be different.]
But no matter which one it is, since a shipwreck has been discovered, there is no reason not to explore it.
However, the location of the shipwreck is too deep, more than a thousand meters. Although the Covenant's diving suits and equipment can barely allow people to dive to a depth of a thousand meters on the seabed, the physique of low-level psychics cannot support such intensity.
Lu Xuan thought for a moment, then took out another remote control of the detector and controlled it to float into the shipwreck. He roughly circled the inside, focusing especially on finding the cargo hold.
After spending some time discovering that there were indeed quite a few wooden boxes in the warehouse that looked relatively intact, and even some gold coins from an unknown dynasty scattered on the ground, not only did Lu Xuan raise his eyebrows, but the audience in the live broadcast room and the men, women, and children on the cruise ship all became excited.
There is indeed a treasure!
There are also gold coins!
If those wooden boxes were also filled with gold coins, wouldn't they be rich?!
Lu Xuan: The wealth is right under my nose. If I don’t grab it, I would be doing myself a disservice.
Lu Xuan quickly came to his senses and signaled the others to step back and take out the submarine that had not been used.
This submarine was a guaranteed prize that was drawn from the Black Gold Blind Box a long time ago. It is definitely not as big as a military submarine and is more like a sightseeing submarine in nature.
The top is covered with transparent glass, so you can see the surrounding environment clearly. There are also many seats inside, including terraced seats and luxurious sofa seats, which can accommodate two to three hundred people in total.
Lu Xuan asked everyone else to enter the submarine's isolation chamber, drain the water inside first, then took off the diving equipment and talked about the shipwreck.
Everyone was excited after hearing this, and at the same time they were very curious about the submarine. They touched and looked around until Lu Xuan's submarine was about to start diving, then they each found a place to sit down and fastened their seat belts.
The submarine dived very quickly, in just half a cup of tea, or less than ten minutes, and through the lights on the submarine, the people inside had already seen the outline of the sunken ship.
Lei Yan was a little worried. "We can't withstand the water pressure a thousand meters deep. Xuan won't feel too good either, right? Are you planning to explore alone?"
If he encountered danger, how would he explain to Lu Qing and Lu Chen?
There was also some disapproval on the faces of the others.
Lu Xuan smiled, "I'm not that stupid."
He could use his supernatural powers to cover his body to isolate himself from the boiling water pressure, but this would consume a lot of his supernatural powers, which would not be worth the effort.
Lu Xuan said, "Who said that if you find a treasure somewhere, you can only retrieve it where you found it? The water pressure is deep here, so let's go back to the underwater city and explore it slowly."
The others didn't understand how to go back and explore for a moment, until Lu Xuan left the submarine alone and swam to the huge shipwreck in front of them. With a touch of his hand, the shipwreck instantly disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Ah!" Li Tuo slapped his thigh. "Why didn't I think of that? If I put the sunken ship into the space first, I can take it back."
He originally wanted to send the shipwreck directly to the shore for everyone to explore together, but when he thought about the fact that they were now at sea and there was not enough space to put the shipwreck, he swallowed the idea.
Forget it, the underwater city is only a few dozen meters deep, so it won’t delay anything.
After collecting the sunken ship, Lu Xuan did not float up immediately.
It was rare to dive to such a deep place, so he drove the submarine, took the hunting team and the villagers on the cruise ship who were watching through the detector, and circled around the trench.
The waters below the trench are generally dark, but not completely without light. From time to time, you can see deep-sea anglerfish living here. These fish have luminous appendages on their heads, which bring a little light to the dark seabed.
The people on the submarine sighed: "People can't stand the water pressure here, but these little fish can survive well. It's amazing."
“It’s just that these fish are so ugly.”
Lu Xuan: “…”
The deep-sea anglerfish has another more famous name, the anglerfish.
There is no good-looking anglerfish. Their ugly appearance is their characteristic.
In addition to the deep-sea anglerfish, they also found some other fish. Lu Xuan was not an expert on fish and could not distinguish all species, but these fish could all emit faint light without exception. This was probably a characteristic of many deep-sea fish.
It took longer to float up than to come down, and it took more than half an hour.
When we returned to the underwater city, everyone's faces showed a sense of reluctance.
But when he thought that there was a shipwreck waiting for them to explore, he quickly became energetic and looked at Lu Xuan expectantly.
The latter didn't make them wait too long. He folded up the submarine with his left hand and placed the sunken ship on the open space next to the whale bones with his right hand.
When the huge shipwreck, which was about 80% complete and several times larger than a whale bone, appeared, Zhang Chengming and others were shocked.
After a long time, at Lu Xuan's reminder, everyone came to their senses. Thinking of the large number of wooden boxes and gold coins in the cargo hold discovered by the detector, they rushed to turn on the underwater lights and entered the shipwreck.
Because they had already figured out the general layout of the ship in advance, everyone's search was very targeted.
First search the cargo hold, then look for important areas like the crew's room, the cockpit, and finally the rest of the place.
There is no need to rush to count the items you have found. First, tighten up the space and then go up to open the boxes with others!
During the search, they also found a lot of skeletons.
The ship sank, and the crew naturally could not escape the disaster.
Everyone was a little confused for a moment, not knowing what to do with these bones.
If you take someone else's treasure, you have to do something, right?
Should we take the skeletons with us and find a chance to bury them, or should we let them remain on the seabed with the ship?
Just when everyone was in trouble, Lu Xuan's communicator received another message.
Lu Xuan's eyes darkened and he gestured to the others.
Don’t worry about the skeleton for now. The person up there is in trouble, so go up first.
The young men's faces changed when they understood what was happening. Thinking of their relatives on the cruise ship, they no longer cared about the bones and swam upstream in a hurry.
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