The Fisherman Who Never Catches Fish

[Forty tons of gold discovered on the Apowan]

[Apo...]

Nearly half of the top ten trending searches are about the Apowan.

One can imagine just how hot this topic is.

And Fang Hao, who hooked the Apowan, is also trending.

He's dominating quite a few of the hot searches.

You could almost say that he's related to eight of the top ten hot topics.

Talk about scary popularity.

But everyone is used to it by now and doesn't find it odd.

It's like when someone who's always winning championships wins another, no one is surprised, and they even expect record-breaking performances.

…

When Fang Hao and another deep-diver came back, the live streaming room exploded into activity and was very lively.

"The host is so cool."

"The host is awesome."

The live streaming room was also flooded with bullet comments.

"The host is so powerful, he found gold in such a short time after going down."

"I always feel like the host has some kind of search device on him."

"Host, you're not a robot, are you?"

"Host, do you have some kind of black technology on you?"

The viewers in the live streaming room now looked at Fang Hao differently, as if trying to see through him.

They wondered if Fang Hao was a robot from the future, equipped with some kind of black technology.

Otherwise, how could he be so impressive?

"Your imaginations are really something else."

Fang Hao was speechless seeing this; making him out to be a robot?

They really had some wild ideas.

Fang Hao didn't bother with them and went to change clothes and freshen up.

After he came out, Xiao Pang handed the packed fishing gear to Fang Hao.

Fang Hao put away the fishing gear.

Now that the shipwreck had been discovered, they couldn't continue fishing.

He had brought up six detectors that morning, which was quite terrifying.

"You guys go have something to eat."

They had been busy until now and hadn't eaten anything yet.

Captain Zhou also told Fang Hao and his team to eat something first to fill their stomachs.

…

With the discovery of the Apowan shipwreck, there was also activity on the quiet side.

Having become dormant, they perked up upon hearing this news.

A piece of historical dust was lifted once again.

They were well aware that there were two ships named Apowan at that time.

So, naturally, they knew the previously salvaged Apowan was a fake, but as for the other, the real one, they didn't know where it was.

Because it had vanished.

It sailed in stormy weather and then mysteriously disappeared.

They had sent people to search for it, but still found nothing.

They guessed that the ship might have sunk somewhere.

But the ocean was so vast, it was very difficult to find even if it did sink.

So it was never mentioned.

Moreover, the only survivor rescued at the time was ordered to never reveal this secret until his death.

And now, after suddenly learning another Apowan shipwreck had been discovered,

The real Apowan, no less, they couldn't sit still.

Especially upon hearing of the forty tons of gold inside this shipwreck, their greed flared up.

Bear in mind, when they had raised the other Apowan shipwreck, they dared to claim 1.5 billion, saying that the salvaged goods belong to them.

Their shameless attributes were still present.

Let alone now that the shipwreck contained forty tons of gold and countless cultural relics.

Seeing this made them envious; there was no way they could let go of these things, so they started to have bad thoughts again.

They immediately claimed the sunken Apowan as theirs, saying the treasure on board belonged to them and hoped that the salvage would be handled by them.

Naturally, we would never agree to such a shameless request.

What a joke.

These items were found within our territorial waters, and they were previously taken from us.

Give them to you?

How shameless.

Moreover, when that Shadow Ship was salvaged, out of humanitarianism, we returned the recovered remains. Yet, those little Japanese turned thankless and demanded compensation, claiming the items on board as their property and demanding 15 billion.

At that time, we were almost furious, denouncing their shamelessness. We haven't even settled our past accounts with them, and they dare ask us for these? Utterly shameless.

Therefore, now we're even less likely to entertain them. The ship might be theirs, but its contents were plundered from us, and now that the goods are still in our domain, how could we possibly hand them over?

Seeing themselves rejected, these little Japanese became even more scheming.

They wouldn't easily let it go, brewing evil thoughts within.

On the foreign internet.

Some of the little Japanese netizens have already started to stir things up online.

"This Apowan's treasure belongs to us; it only sank in their waters, why would that make it theirs?"

"It's like when you accidentally hit a shuttlecock into your neighbor's yard during a badminton game, does that mean it belongs to the neighbor?"

"That's right."

"We support you, Henry Niu, that's your personal property."

The once silent members of Henry Niu, have reignited from the ashes.

They seem to think they can find 'teammates' to band together and reclaim their items.

"Our ship's contents were also taken by them in the same way."

They seem to want to escalate the issue. Then, due perhaps to face-saving or external public opinion, the other party might return the items to them, even if not all, just a partial return would still be a huge profit.

But our netizens are not vegetarians either.

"Oh? You really have no memory, forgotten about the Purple Quartz?"

"Now you dare to jump around again?"

"Alright, come on then, let's see if we don't beat you into the same state as the Purple Quartz."

Henry Niu's fighting power is just so-so.

"And you little Japanese, we have many accounts to settle with you, we will take our time with each one, you even have the face to say these words."

"I've been enduring you for a long time."

"You think we are just a paper tiger, taking us for sick cats?"

"Do you think you've found a new daddy, so you now dare to mess with your grandpa?"

"Which item on the Apowan wasn't plundered from us? You have the audacity to ask for it? As shameless as Henry Niu?"

"Oh, wrong, you have no face at all, you don't even have shame."

"You can't even acknowledge the past history, distort the truth about it, and still dare to speak nonsense."

"Come on, if you want to settle things properly, we can do that."

"Tomorrow we'll bring over the aircraft carrier, along with Miss Qiu, and have a proper talk right at your doorstep."

Our netizens once again went crazy on the foreign internet, lambasting those little Japanese netizens so much that they couldn't lift their heads, daring not utter a word.

...

Of course, we acted swiftly.

From the previous salvage site, we dispatched another Coast Guard Ship, carrying some experts from the cultural relics field.

After all, there were dozens of boxes of cultural relics in this Apowan's wreck.

Especially as there was something as precious as ancient human ape skulls.

These experts would definitely not give up.

However, since there was already a shortage of manpower at the salvage site, no one was transferred from there.

A new batch of salvage workers had already set off under the coordination of the salvage team.

They were quick.

After all, this involved forty tons of Gold and dozens of boxes of cultural relics and jewelry, so the matter was urgent. Even more Coast Guard Ships were summoned to assist.

The largest of these, a ten-thousand-ton class Coast Guard Ship, was also en route to this area to take over the work from Fang Hao's Coast Guard Ship.

Fang Hao's Coast Guard Ship had been at sea for so long and needed to return for some rest and refurbishment.

They were also bringing back the detectors and unmanned submersibles that were caught earlier.

There was no need for Fang Hao to do anything regarding the subsequent salvage work.

That was all left to the professional salvage team.

Our deep-sea salvage technology is already very mature, no longer comparable to the past.