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Chapter 988: Chapter 867 Salvage (Please Subscribe!)
Previously,
Tang Qing thought bankers were pretty impressive. no𝚟𝚙u𝚋.c𝚘m
No, it should be said they were impressive to the point of reaching the skies.
With never-ending money, they could control people’s lives with capital.
But now,
things were getting bigger and bigger.
His own financial strength, power, and rights were also growing stronger and stronger, so strong that he himself was a bit afraid, afraid he couldn’t control his own ambition. With the fighters, Tang Qing could have everything he wanted.
Or rather, he had already reached the pinnacle of life.
To this day,
he had picked up thousands of tons of gold.
The weariness in Tang Qing’s heart actually outweighed his joy.
Currently, the number of employees he had on the record exceeded twenty thousand. Just the Sheng Tang Group had over fifteen thousand, and the number was still increasing, which meant over twenty thousand families were depending on him for their livelihoods.
Not to mention the Myanmar Economic Zone.
The employees of Myanmar Bank Group and its holding companies had already surpassed six hundred thousand.
Plus people from various global industry alliances.
The distance to a million employees wasn’t much, and it could possibly be exceeded after flipping the calendar year.
If he replaced the Myanmar Kyat, the numbers might even multiply exponentially. But no matter how much money he made, the thought of the increasing number of mouths to feed in the future made him worry about their livelihoods.
Even if ten trillion were to fall from the sky, Tang Qing felt it wouldn’t be enough.
Standing on the float,
he listened to the echo of the massive waterfall from afar resonating within the cave.
Tang Qing shook his head.
Why think so much, making money vigorously was what he should be considering.
At this moment, Tang Yi’s voice reached Tang Qing’s ears: "Commander, the salvage ship is in position, the Type 3 deep-sea submersibles have been assembled, and have been transported to the Transmission Area, ready to teleport at any time."
"Mm, I’ll be right there."
Tang Qing finished speaking.
After one last glance at the place, he flashed back to his room, and then ordered Tang Yi to retract the teleportation node in the underground space. With teleportation nodes in such high demand, how could they afford to waste one by keeping it underground permanently?
The filtration device came with its own collection and packaging functionality.
Once it collected a certain amount, it would automatically package it and then throw it into the Underground River. Due to the heavy weight of the mineral particles, they would not be washed away by the river water.
There was a fighter on site watching over it, replacing worn parts.
They would come to collect it every one to three months.
The method was simple: after drilling for the last few days, they had drilled a hole to the surface from here, only the size of a fist. They brought down the teleportation node with a miniature robot.
Not long after,
a small sphere appeared in Tang Qing’s hand, which he handed to a fighter outside the room.
...
The Atlantic Ocean,
off the west coast of Africa.
A massive salvage ship quietly lay upon the sea surface. At that moment, the sky was overcast, a heavy rain was pouring down, and the sea was whipped into waves several meters high. However, these could only cause the ship to sway slightly.
Not a single person could be seen on the deck.
It was like a ghost ship.
Only the crew members moving about inside the ship indicated it was under operation. They all worked in silence, without a word being spoken.
Cabin,
a flash of light passed by.
Tang Qing surveyed the unfamiliar surroundings.
Very clean.
Not the rust-streaked scene he had imagined.
Instead, it was tidy and bright.
Ever since purchasing the salvage ship, for the past few months, the fighters hadn’t made any significant moves. They hadn’t salvaged a single sunken ship but had used the underwater detectors, worth 1.6 billion RMB each.
They had been running all over the world.
He marked the places where treasures were suspected to be found.
The two ships had a bountiful haul.
A large number of sunken ship locations had been identified.
What took Tang Qing by surprise was that the place where the most sunken ships were found turned out to be the Atlantic Ocean—there were more here than all the other historically busy sea lanes combined.
Tang Qing was startled.
Once he had a clear look at this treasure map that had been marked,
a realization suddenly dawned on Tang Qing.
As it turned out, these numerous sunken ship locations were on the original Triangle Trade routes, which had been discussed in high school textbooks—the discovery of the New World had initiated a Triangle Trade among Europe, the Americas, and Africa that lasted for hundreds of years.
It was no exaggeration to say
that its trade volume far exceeded that of all other routes combined.
Therefore,
the first batch of salvage sites
was set here by Tang Qing, while the other routes were put aside for the moment, as they were going nowhere, and many were close to the coast and had been explored by countless treasure seekers over the years.
But the waters here in the Atlantic are very deep.
Other salvage ships usually wouldn’t bother to visit, with an average depth of three thousand meters deterring those vessels, as currently, most can only salvage a few hundred meters down.
They can only operate in shallow waters.
The world’s equipment capable of salvage at depths above three thousand meters is only present on four ships, all used for scientific purposes, while salvage ships capable of operating at depths over five thousand meters are still in design.
It would be another two years before they came out.
So,
Tang Qing had to seize the opportunity and "sweep" this place clean now.
Following the fighter,
Tang Qing arrived at the midsection of the ship’s cabin.
This area, having been modified, contained a twenty-meter diameter ’pool’ that was connected to the sea outside, thus allowing the work of the salvage ship to be carried out almost unnoticed from the deck.
Here,
was also the docking station for the deep-sea submersible.
"Tang Yi, teleport it over," Tang Qing commanded.
"Yes, Commander," came the reply.
As soon as the voice fell,
under the influence of Tang Qing’s nerve telekinesis, the teleportation node hovered in the middle of the pool, and the next moment, with a flash of light, a massive sphere appeared before him, its surface adorned with deep blue and silver white, marking the submersible.
"Boom."
"Swoosh..."
The fifty-seven-ton, twelve-meter-diameter spherical submersible crashed onto the water’s surface, causing high waves to splash, which, when they reached Tang Qing, were blocked by his telekinetic shield outside.
Looking at the technologically sophisticated submersible before him,
Tang Qing sighed lightly.
It was all money.
This deep-sea submersible, largely constructed with titanium alloy for its frame, was not only for deep-sea salvaging but also for geological exploration and mineral drilling. Just the research and development costs exceeded three billion five hundred million RMB.
The cost of production was a staggering six hundred eighty million RMB.
A real money-burner.
In order to have a certain level of defense capability,
it was also equipped with a weapons system—twelve small torpedoes and sixty high-power underwater flash grenades.
They were sufficient to scare off aggressive fish species below, and as for the torpedoes, their main purpose was actually for geological exploration, used for blasting through rock formations.
The treasures of the ocean floor,
were not limited to just some sunken ships.
Various rare minerals were the most valuable treasures.
The land area of Earth only accounts for a bit over twenty-nine percent, with the other seventy percent being ocean, and after thousands of years of mining, humans have only scratched a minuscule fraction of the land’s mineral resources.
The ocean floor, a place twice the size of the land area,
has always been unexplored.
That was also the design significance of this submersible.
