Chapter 669

"You... Ghost ship!"

After the rain, after victor and Wu Ming, the sailors and vidi who followed them all screamed sharply when they saw the sailing boat.

"Put down the lifeboat, I'll go up and have a look!"

As an old seaman, Victor obviously felt the difference of this ghost ship. In the sun, it was just like a dilapidated wooden ship. There was no more strange fluorescence and frightening atmosphere in the storm.

"Come on! Don't dawdle He yelled: "as a sailor, it's a very lucky thing to be able to explore on the ghost ship in person!"

Obviously, the captain was very brave and even made his own decision in spite of the opposition of the crew.

"In that case, how about I accompany you?"

With a smile, Wu Ming put forward a suggestion: "I'm also very interested in this kind of ship."

"That's... OK!"

After a pair of enigmatic eyes on Wu Ming, Victor hesitated and immediately agreed.

"Steven, are you crazy?"

Alice stood on the deck, her face full of tangled color: "if anything happens to you..."

"This is adventure! Do you understand? "

To Wu Ming's slight surprise, vidi put a life jacket on him and also got on the lifeboat: "ghost boat on the sea, this thing will be my bragging capital all my life!"

"It's really..."

Wu Ming smiles bitterly and shakes his head. He knows that the reason why Wei Di dares to come down is because of himself.

Although this guy's character and perseverance are not very good, he still has some sense of loyalty. I might as well help him in the future.

"Well, the two of us and a few seamen are enough. Alice, can you take care of Angelina for me?"

Wu Ming stares into Alice's eyes, making her unable to say no at all.

"All right, all right! With my many years of sailing experience, ghost ships that can float in the sun are not too dangerous... "

Victor clapped his hand, holding an oar with Wu Ming, and slowly approached the ghost ship.

The huge three masted sailboat was resting on the sea, with rotten boards and a stench.

"Be careful!"

The third mate on the yacht was about to grab a board and turn over. Suddenly, he heard a "click" and the board was pulled down by him. He was shocked and fell into the sea.

In the early morning, the sea was still very cold. This guy was immediately rescued from the lifeboat with shivering. Obviously, he couldn't participate in the later exploration.

"Be careful, the wood of this sailboat is rotten..."

With his pipe in his mouth, Victor looked at the sailboat with a look of remembrance: "I doubt that just one wave will make it fall apart. Such an old ship is very rare..."

Wu Ming carefully used his flying claws to catch a mast that looked rather strong. Victor was the first to climb up.

"This floor... Makes me feel a little guilty!"

Wu Ming immediately followed, and vidi was the last. He stepped on the deck of the three masted sailboat, sweating on his face.

After years of disrepair and being soaked in sea water, the board became very soft. Although it felt comfortable to step on it, Wu Ming doubted whether he would stamp a hole in the deck with his own strength.

"Don't worry too much, the keel of this ship is still strong..."

Victor looked at the boat carefully, with a look of doubt on his face: "she's stronger than I thought. Is it the addition of the ghosts?"

Click!

At this point, he did not hesitate, directly opened the cabin door and entered the cabin.

The gas searchlight glowed brightly, a stench came, the floor was wet, and even some seaweed and shellfish were crawling on it, full of a kind of gloomy and horrible atmosphere.

"Gollum! Grunt

Victor opened a door at will, and the whole door fell apart. In a moment, several white skeletons fell down, and the empty skeletons rolled around on the ground, which made vidi scream.

"This should be the rest room of the crew. I don't know what happened at the beginning. It seems that they didn't even struggle here..."

Victor looked at the scene, but his face was dignified.

He and Wu Ming looked at each other and went to the best position in the cabin, which was the private space of the captain.

Peng!

The wooden door was split directly to reveal a somewhat old cabin.

In the era of great navigation, due to the limited space of the ship, we have to make full use of it, load more goods, and have an independent cabin, which is absolutely the proof of identity on the ship!

Victor's fierce eyes immediately fixed on the desk. Wu Ming stood there and had already taken out a black and thick log book.

Obviously, this book has been treated with good moisture and moth proofing. Even though it has been washed for a long time, it can still be barely read.

"Log book? The captain's diary? "

Victor curled his lips, showing a somewhat ironic smile: "Mr. Steven, do you think it's still the era of pirates, and those captains will bury their private treasures on a desert island and leave a map?"

After entering the era of industrialization, this inefficient way has long been abandoned.

The private wealth of the captains is either directly deposited in the bank, designated successors, or squandered long ago, or purchased value preserving products such as stocks and funds. What else is left?

As for the more important private routes, after the great geographical discovery, even the map of the world has been drawn. Perhaps the route described by the late captain was very valuable at that time, but now it must have been full of merchant ships!

He was interested in the captain's collection.

Although some luxury goods have been rotten, but gold and silver will not rot.

"According to international practice, all discoveries in the high seas belong to explorers... Steven and Mr. Vidy, you participated in this expedition, and you can also share in it!"

Captain Victor said with a smile, regardless of the second officer's face.

After estimating the value of these "heritages", he gave up the idea of taking them alone. After all, there were not many valuable things on this ghost ship, which was not worth his risk.

When Wu Ming and others hired him, his appearance, name and ship had been registered for a long time. For such a little wealth, did he go to be a pirate? Especially when it comes to such a group of second-generation people who seem to have a good background?

After many years of life experience, Captain Victor immediately gave up the idea.

"We have a share too?"

Vidy's eyes lit up and cheered.

He doesn't care how much he can earn. He just thinks that he can get the "proof" of an adventure from here. As the capital for boasting and collecting in the future, it's a matter of great face.

"I'm very happy to participate in this expedition, but I don't ask for anything in return..."

Wu Ming smiles a little, but his words make captain Victor change his face: "just... Why should we auction these things? How about giving it away? "

"What do you mean?"

Before Victor could speak, the second mate with big arms and round waist jumped out and cried.

"Did the captain recognize the origin of the ship?"

Wu Ming didn't answer. He looked directly at Victor.

"If I read it correctly, it should have been a very active slave ship at that time. Of course, as long as it sank in the high seas, it would have become something without a master!"

Victor shows the extraordinary vision and accomplishment of a captain.

"Indeed, it was a slave ship, and it was also the famous hawk seamount at that time!"

Wu Ming clapped his hands on the log book.

"Hawk seamount?! Hawk... The Hawks

Victor let out a exclamation: "that kingdom of navigation and shipbuilding business group?"

"Well, even so, do they dare to go beyond the law to get into trouble?"

Vidi and the second mate both showed this meaning, but Victor was silent.

"The most valuable things here are some treasures in the captain's room, which are worth less than 10000 gold dollars!"

The appraiser's experience makes Wu Ming very qualified to say this, "but if we give it back to the Hawkes, we will get their friendship. Do you know if captain Victor is interested in other businesses?"

"Other business?"

"Good! I'm very interested in the relics and treasures in the high seas, and I'm going to set up a salvage company! Originally, I was still hesitating about the problem of manpower and channel, but now, everything has been solved! "

Wu Ming looked at Victor and said, "if you agree, I'd like you to be my partner and inject one million gold dollars in advance."

"A million?"

The second mate exclaimed that the purchasing power of Jin Yuan was very high in this era, which was obviously an amazing wealth. Compared with this, ghost boat was nothing at all.

"Ocean salvage company?"

Victor touched his chin. "Do you have any inside information?"

He strongly suspected that Wu Ming had obtained a sunken ship map before he paid attention to it. Otherwise, this kind of salvage company would be basically the same as the big luck, and most of them would lose money.

Wu Ming also gave an enigmatic smile. Of course, he would not say that he just wanted to explore the possible relics in the deep sea and was ready to pay for them.

Of course, we can't say that at this time.

"I just believe that once we have the friendship and contacts of the Hawkes, if captain Victor is willing to join us again, our career will be a great success!"

Wu Ming accentuated his tone.

"We can wait until we get back..."

There was a hesitation on Victor's face, and then he turned to a bitter smile: "at this age, you think so much. I finally know why I have been poor all my life..."