Chapter 826: Found the Boxes

Ropes, of course, were not for tying people or binding stones to sink into the pond, but for use in case of emergency.

They trawled a net at night and two nets at dawn, and didn't see any needlefish in the fishing nets. Both father and son were a little relieved.

Potential risks are hard to control, but one can choose not to take risks when the risk is high.

After lunch, Ye Yaodong swapped with Brother Asheng as usual and swapped to the same boat as his father.

The weather forecast last night finally didn't lie. Today was indeed clear and sunny. Looking at the sky in the middle of the sea, the sky looked as clear as washed, exceptionally pure, and it made people feel comfortable.

Thinking of the ropes his father mentioned last night, he even specially brought the ropes from his boat to his father's boat, so that when he went into the water, he could directly bring two bundles of ropes down to bind them. Depending on the size of the boxes, he could bind one or two more in one trip, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Lest there be many boxes, he wouldn't be able to fish them up in one day. After all, every time he went down and came up, he had to rest for a long time before he could go down again.

He thought very beautifully and thoroughly!

Ye Fu steered the boat directly to the location of a few days ago. There was a reef there, which was equivalent to a natural marker. He would definitely not be unable to find the location on the vast sea, and there was no need to set a buoy to make a mark to find the right position.

And Ye Yaodong was hugging the ropes from this boat and pulling them to test the length, and his brain also started to fantasize.

Ye Fu saw the location and stopped the boat and walked over. "Will bringing two bundles down be too heavy and affect you going into the water?"

Two bundles of hemp rope are not light.

"Are you stupid, Father? Can't I tie one end of the rope to the boat and the other end to my waist? Wouldn't that not be heavy? Why would I carry the whole bundle down?"

"Ah, that's true. The tide is receding now, and the reef is exposed. Shall we go down now?"

"Mm, let's go down now."

The sea breeze wrinkled the calm sea surface, and the reef not far away was splashed by the waves. Ye Yaodong was poured all over his head by the spray as soon as he went into the water. He shook his head and slowly dived down.

This time he also learned to be smart. No matter if he saw big fish or small fish, big shrimp or small shrimp, he took the initiative to dodge to the side. He, an outsider, didn't have the capital to be arrogant.

The position on the sea surface was easy to remember, but there would always be some deviations when coming down into the water.

He borrowed the dim light and turned around the reef underwater for a short while. He saw three crevices, but even the largest one could barely stretch a head in, so there was no way a person could squeeze in.

Although he didn't find the large crevice hiding the boxes for a while, he also saw several small spiny lobsters hiding in other reef crevices.

Based on the principle of not letting go of what he saw, he pulled out the small hand net inserted behind his waist, slowly stretched it into the crevice, and covered a small spiny lobster with it.

It only saw it curl its shrimp tail in shock and charge left and right. This one was a bit large, and its impact in the water was a bit strong. The hand net handle he held in his hand was shaken and kept moving.

The other small spiny lobsters on the side, although they didn't know what the situation was, saw the abnormal movement around them, and the water flow was also wrong, so they were scared and shrank to the side.

Ye Yaodong held the handle with both hands, making the net mouth stick to the reef wall and move outward until he could reach it, and only then did he hold the small spiny lobster together with the net in his hand.

After subduing it, the other hand fumbled to open the net mouth, grabbed it, and put it into the net pocket on his waist.

The first lobster to give to Director Chen was had.

But there was only one, which was a bit lonely and desolate. He took the hand net and looked for a target in the crevice again, preparing to catch another one before going to the side to find the boxes.

The main purpose of coming down this time could not be forgotten. At least find the place first, tie both ropes to the boxes, and if there was time, come back to catch two more.

He was an old hand at catching small spiny lobsters. As long as they weren't hiding too deep and the hand net could reach, generally, after covering them, they wouldn't be able to escape.

These small spiny lobsters rarely suffered threats from invasive species on the seabed now, and they were all living quite comfortably, and their vigilance was not very high. Counting it up, they weren't very difficult to catch.

Moreover, in the reef crevices, sometimes they were even easier to catch because they stayed there, unlike outside, where they ran around slippery, and he had to chase behind them.

"Done!"

Successfully catching another one, Ye Yaodong smiled and narrowed his eyes. After putting it into the net pocket, he didn't linger, swung his flippers to retreat backward, looked carefully at the surrounding environment again, and remembered this position first before continuing to look around.

Fortunately, his father remembered the direction very accurately. He looked for about two minutes before seeing the crevice he came down from earlier in the back. This was still because he swam up a few meters and looked down from top to bottom, seeing the boxes inside before confirming it.

The position of this crevice on the seabed was covered by lush seaweed, and the opening was particularly easy to be ignored. No wonder when he came down just now, he looked around, and because of the distance and the light not being that good, he didn't find it, but continued forward.

It was just that he looked forward for a short while and didn't find it. Later, thinking of looking backward, he found a crevice opening in a position blocked by lush seaweed.

Just when he fumbled to open the seaweed, he felt the opening was a bit small, and a person couldn't get in. Moreover, there was a patch of silt inside, and some fish and shrimp swam past, and the water instantly became turbid.

Seaweed grew inside, and it couldn't be seen very clearly. He couldn't get in, and he wasn't sure if there were boxes, so he floated up again, intending to take a look from top to bottom.

Originally, when he discovered it, he was also in a position above.

This person looked down from above, and he found it all at once. He excitedly clenched his hand into a fist.

Then he tried to drill into the crevice. This crevice was also a bit weird, large at the top and small at the bottom, a bit like an inverted trapezoid, and large inside and small outside.

That was just when he happened to run into needlefish, so he hid in the crevice, and because his clothes were hooked by the reef, he turned his head and looked down before he could discover it.

If he really went down to the seabed, he would definitely not have found it even if he wandered around that opening ten or eight times.

Who could have thought that there was another world inside, hiding other things?

Many places around the seabed grew lush seaweed. Who would go to fumble with seaweed for no reason? Even if looking for sea cucumber, one wouldn't search carpet-style.

Opportunity always descends from the sky like this, favoring those who possess great luck.

Ye Yaodong carefully moved downward along the edge of the reef and paid attention to whether there were unknown creatures in the reef crevices on both sides. Occasionally seeing one or two attached sea snails and abalone, he didn't reach out to pry them.

Those looked like they were as big as his fist, and the soft meat on top was not small. They were attached to the reef wall. Without tools, he couldn't pry them off with brute force alone. If he used too much force, he might even get hurt.

Wait for him to go down and explore the situation of the boxes first. When there is sufficient time, he will struggle with the things attached above slowly.

This crevice looked a bit like a funnel, getting narrower as it went down. Ye Yaodong carefully moved down, and feeling it was narrow, his back was against the reef, so he continued to move inside.

The position near the opening would be narrower than the position in the middle hinterland.

When he moved to the bottom bit by bit and stood on the boxes, the clothes and pants on his body were already full of holes hooked by the reef wall, and the silt on the seabed also dissipated upward, making the line of sight blurry again. Fortunately, the distance was close.

He fumbled with the seaweed covering around the boxes, exposing the original appearance of the boxes, wanting to see how big they were, to see if he should bind one or two at a time.

He didn't care that the silt around made the seawater turbid again, and he fumbled with the seaweed himself, but suddenly a red grouper jumped out of the seaweed cluster, and the fish tail fiercely whipped his arm before swimming away.

"Damn it~ I'll catch you sooner or later..."

He cursed in his heart and continued to pull, then tried to move the box, and kept finding that it didn't seem very heavy?

It actually let him move it very easily?

What kind of stuff was loaded inside, and it could be so light?

His heart instantly turned cold. It should be heavy if it were gold and silver jewelry!

Damn it!

Damn it, bind the rope first, pull it up to take a look first. No matter what, he couldn't work for nothing. At least he had to know what was loaded inside.

However, it was just this slight movement that made him see that there were boxes underneath, not just the three or four piled on the surface.

Ye Yaodong first untied one of the ropes tied to his waist. Since it could be moved, binding it wouldn't be that laborious. He wound the rope around all four sides of this box and then tied a butterfly knot.

After finishing, he went to knock on the one inside.

This one inside was also about the same size as the one outside, looking very ordinary.

He tried to move it, and his eyes instantly lit up!

This one is good, this one is heavy!

This is right. Only with weight can there be surprises.

He instantly became full of energy again, feeling like he had been injected with chicken blood.

But this box was too heavy, which also meant it was not easy to move and not easy to bind.

Underwater, the difficulty of wanting to bind things was not as easy as on the shore, and it still had to be turned over.

He moved the box outside to the side, letting it lean to one side, and cleared the space so he could turn it over to bind.

Originally, he thought that if the boxes were small, he could bind two at a time to save time. Now thinking about it, he was naive. In this small space, without anyone to help, being able to bind one box was already not bad. Still want to bind two?

Ye Yaodong laboriously pushed the box to the edge, and half of it was suspended at the bottom. Only then did he take the rope to wind the box around once, and then moved in a direction to wind it around again.

If he didn't wind it like this, when he pulled it up later, if it loosened halfway and fell down again, it wouldn't be easy to find, and he would have to spend a second effort.

Perfectly binding the two boxes, he moved the box on the side again, fumbled around the seaweed again, and after the turbid seawater became clear again, he confirmed that there were seven or eight more underneath before climbing up first.

There was not much time left. After going up, he would call his father to use the machine to pull these two boxes up. ===== CHAPTER 827 =====