Traveling is incredibly boring, especially without internet access; it's extremely boring.
The five of them spent their days on the ship watching movies, playing games, and chatting.
Besides that, they had nothing else to do.
On the night of the 16th, Bai Yu and his group were still on their way when a point of light appeared in front of them.
"Brother Yu, there's a light ahead of our fishing boat. We should be close to our destination. Do you want to try calling it with the radio?"
Inside the cockpit of the fishing boat, Wang Hai sat in the driver's seat, pointing to the light spot ahead and speaking to Bai Yu beside him.
At this moment, Bai Yu was standing in front of the radar detector, checking the resources on the seabed through the detector.
Other resources may not be visible, but as long as the sea area they pass through has large fish, the detector can still detect them.
Bai Yu was focused on the monitor and hadn't noticed what was happening in front of him until Wang Hai reminded him, at which point he looked up.
Just as Wang Hai said, there was indeed a point of light directly ahead of them on their route.
However, although this point of light doesn't seem to be too far away, everyone should be familiar with the saying "looking at a mountain makes you want to run to death."
That's the situation right now. The point of light in front of us seems quite close, but no one can say for sure how far away it actually is.
"Ah Hai, isn't this a bit too far? We probably can't reach them by radio."
"Who knows? Why don't you give it a try, Brother Yu? If you can hear them, you can talk to them. If you can't, it's not a big problem. We're almost at our destination anyway."
Bai Yu then tried calling several times with the radio, but just as he had expected, their calls went unanswered.
Of course, the lack of response is not necessarily because the distance is too far. It could also be because the other party did not notice the radio signal, or perhaps their channel is not the same as the channel of Bai Yu and his fishing boat.
In short, anything is possible, and this is just a speculation on Bai Yu's part for now.
Since he couldn't reach the salvage boat, Bai Yu immediately turned on the broadcast on the fishing boat and started calling Lu Sheng and the others.
They were all resting in their cabins, but the ship's public address system reached all the crew quarters. Once the system was turned on, the sound could be heard from everyone on the fishing boats.
A short while later, Lu Sheng, Li Xue, and the others also arrived on the deck. They leaned against the railing, looking at the distant lights.
When Wang Hai first saw the light, he thought they would reach their destination in just a few minutes.
However, in reality, it took them forty minutes, at full speed of 24 knots, for their fishing boat to finally reach the vicinity of the light spot.
To put it in perspective, if they sail at full speed for forty minutes, they would have covered at least fifteen or sixteen nautical miles. Since one nautical mile is equal to more than 1.8 kilometers, fifteen or sixteen nautical miles is more than twenty kilometers, nearly thirty kilometers.
This is quite exaggerated, because there are no buildings at sea, which is very conducive to the spread of light.
Although the Earth is round and the sea surface has a certain curvature, a distance of twenty or thirty kilometers does not have a significant impact on a salvage ship.
After all, this is a salvage ship, and there are a lot of heavy machinery on board.
In particular, there is a gantry crane, and one of the lights from their salvage ship is mounted on the gantry crane. Any ship sailing on the sea can see this light from afar.
"Hey, Uncle Liao, are you resting? We're already near the fishing and salvage boat. Is someone on duty on your boat? Could you arrange for us to be received?"
Now that they were already close to the salvage ship, there was no need to use the radio anymore. Bai Yu simply took out his cell phone and made a satellite call.
He also gave Wang Hai a hand gesture, instructing him to drive the fishing boat over and get close to the salvage vessel.
"Mr. Bai? You're back? Why are you so late? Please wait a moment, I'll be right out."
When Uncle Liao received Bai Yu's call, he was instinctively stunned. He hadn't expected that Bai Yu would tell him that they were nearby so late.
Keep in mind that it's already 11 p.m., but in the city, this isn't considered too late; the nightlife is just beginning.
But now they are at sea, where there is no internet or entertainment facilities. After nightfall, all they can do is sleep.
Go to bed early and get up early to continue working the next day, and then you can finish work and go home earlier.
Uncle Liao and his team arranged for night watch personnel early on, and then the others went to rest.
As Wang Hai steered his fishing boat closer to the salvage vessel, several figures emerged from the other boat. They stood on the deck, shining flashlights at the fishing boat.
A dozen minutes later, Bai Yu and the others had already transferred to the salvage boat, and they all greeted Uncle Liao.
"Mr. Bai, you didn't even give me a heads-up before you came, so I could have made some arrangements. I don't need to make it a grand affair, but at least I should have prepared a meal."
But look at us now, all the cooks on our ship have gone on break, and all that's left are some braised dishes and semi-finished meals. Shall we make do with that?"
"No need, Uncle Liao. We just finished eating not long ago. We also came from Zhejiang Province. We were originally planning to go straight back to Sanya, but then we thought about it and decided to come and visit you."
Uncle Liao, how's the salvage operation going? Have any of the lower decks been recovered?
Bai Yu rejected Uncle Liao's suggestion, not because he looked down on the food on the salvage ship, but because they had just finished eating not long ago.
They are currently at sea, with little room to move around each day, so their energy expenditure is low, and they naturally eat quite late.
In addition, their main purpose in coming to the salvage ship this time was to check on the salvage situation and see if the remaining supplies had been salvaged.
"Mr. Bai, you've come at a really good time. We just salvaged a ship's hold the day before yesterday, and it was a hold that contained gold and silver ingots. Would you like to go and take a look?"
"Oh? The hold containing the gold and silver ingots has been salvaged? How much gold and silver ingots were there? Do you have a rough estimate?"
When Bai Yu heard that the ship's hold containing gold and silver ingots had been salvaged, his interest was piqued, since gold and silver ingots were equivalent to money!
"In terms of quantity, there will be slightly more silver ingots, about a thousand catties, and slightly fewer gold ingots, but still a few dozen catties."
However, the purity of this batch of gold and silver ingots isn't very good. Whether it's gold or silver, the purity is at most 70%. When it's refined again, some impurities will definitely need to be removed.
Uncle Liao remembered the quantity of this batch of gold and silver ingots quite clearly, as there were a large number of them, and their value was naturally very high.
With more money, memories naturally become clearer.
As for whether Uncle Liao might be keeping some for himself and not sharing it?
Bai Yu didn't need to worry about this, because even though Bai Yu and his team had left the salvage ship, there were still company staff on board.
In addition, in order to record the entire salvage process, Bai Yu also installed a large number of cameras on the salvage boat, all of which were recorded.
Therefore, Bai Yu doesn't need to worry about these things. What Uncle Liao was referring to was all the catch he had made.
Afterwards, Bai Yu and the others followed Uncle Liao to the warehouse, where they saw basket after basket of gold and silver ingots.
In addition to these gold and silver ingots, there was also a large pile of wooden boxes in the warehouse. These were not the kind of wooden boxes that were just made of wooden planks nailed together to hold porcelain, but the proper kind with iron plates on the sides.
Several of them are quite complete, and judging from their appearance alone, they are very beautiful and clearly not ordinary.
Especially the wood used to make the boxes; it's clearly not ordinary wood. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to remain intact after being submerged in the sea for hundreds of years.
It's a pity that Bai Yu and his group knew absolutely nothing about wood, let alone little about it.
Therefore, they did not recognize the wood used to make the boxes and could only wait until they returned to Sanya to have some professionals take a look.
As for the other baskets of gold and silver ingots, Bai Yu and the others reacted very calmly.
It's not that they don't like money or gold and silver products, but these gold and silver ingots have too many impurities and have been soaked in seawater for hundreds of years.
The surfaces of these gold and silver ingots have lost their former luster; they look dirty and tattered, and are not very attractive.
Prejudice is a mountain, and so is first impression.
These gold and silver ingots didn't give them a good first impression, so how could they possibly excite them?
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