Chapter 1574 Abandoned Dream
"But it is a pity that when I drove the speedboat to the coordinates, I only saw calm seas, and it seemed that nothing had happened. However, we still found two broken cargo ships on the seabed, which sank on the seabed. No one survived, but the containers on the cargo ship were fortunately preserved."
Barbarossa flicked a silver coin onto the table. The silver coin kept swinging and made a pleasant sound. "The list of cultural relics and antiques that you have obtained is exactly what I have independently compiled through countless dives in the past two years. Every item in the list is The babies are lying quietly under the sea, and no one is moving them.”
"You would rather have some cultural relics eroded by the sea than take any risks to fish them out. Do you know that once these things leave the seabed, they will inevitably become a hot trouble?" Renata seemed very quiet from the moment she boarded the ship. spoke.
"You are smart, Miss Renata." Barbarossa glanced at the petite Russian girl and grinned, "Everyone in this sea has heard of the Wittelsbach family's reputation. If you take their If something is discovered, then tomorrow my body will be hung on the mast and dried into fish fillets - even if there is a 1% risk, I will not try it. It is best to get rid of these cultural relics cleanly when leaving the sea. Otherwise I would rather they rot under the sea than try to touch them.”
Now the trajectory of Barbarossa's actions suddenly became much clearer. One night two years ago, the red-bearded pirate who was about to fall asleep on the island suddenly received a satellite phone call. After answering the call, he got the coordinates of a call for help. , following the coordinates, he came to an unfamiliar sea area, and discovered that there was a cargo ship that suffered a shipwreck and sank at the bottom of the sea. The container of this cargo ship had the Wittelsbach family emblem clearly painted on it.
What happened after that naturally became a matter of course. Through countless dives alone, Barbarossa discovered that the cultural relics in the container that were well protected were almost undamaged, and those protective measures were enough to withstand the erosion of sea water for a long time. So he began to act cautiously, closely protecting the coordinates, and operating in the Indian Ocean as a gimmick to find Atlantis. He secretly used one of the collections, the thirty silver coins of Judas, as an invitation to go there. Find outlets for sale.
Don't ask why Barbarossa didn't directly look for buyers - he knew that it was extremely difficult for his own class to find reliable channels for dumping cultural relics, let alone face those truly powerful buyers. He would No bones were left after being swallowed, so I took the next best option and found several distributors on the yacht to process this batch of cultural relics in a mutually beneficial manner.
This is an extremely careful man. Perhaps only pirates like Barbarossa can live so well and for so long these days. Now after two years of dormancy, the day of harvest is finally here, and the sunken ship will be launched. The cultural relics were salvaged, and the partners on the yacht were able to cash them in at an extremely fast speed, and then share the profits with a dividend that would last for the rest of his life.
"Anna, although I'm sorry, Flora did die in that storm. If you saw the broken cargo ship underwater with your own eyes, you would know that almost no one could survive in that kind of shipwreck. " said Barbarossa.
"You're lying, you liar - how could my mother's last phone call be to you, a pirate?" Anna was so angry that she was shaking all over.
"Actually, I have been thinking about this problem many nights. According to Flora's character, she should know a lot of people, but she just called me that night, sent me a distress signal, and gave me this coordinate - —Maybe it’s because I paid for that drink, or maybe she’s obsessed with my British accent? You don’t know how difficult it is to keep your accent from being polluted by people of color here in the Indian Ocean. Good intentions always pay off, I begin to believe this now." The red-bearded pirate looked up at the sea with emotion.
"Then what was your reason for taking her on board?" Nakhimov glanced at Anna and looked at Barbarossa and asked.
Anna also looked at Barbarossa angrily, which was also confusing to her.
"That's a good question." Barbarossa scratched his chin with his thumb, "Didn't I say that Miss Anna seems to have been targeted by the Wittelsbach family?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of several other people changed instantly. August shouted, "She was targeted by Wittelsbach?! Then you brought her on board! Are you crazy?"
"This is a decision made after weighing the pros and cons." Barbarossa waved his hand, "I don't want to bring such trouble around me, but let me put it this way, our Miss Anna, whose full name is Anna A. Campbell, is Flo La Campbell's biological daughter. Although I haven't seen anyone else in this area in the past two years, I am indeed not sure whether Flora only called me on the satellite phone before the ship sank, and this Anna. The lady found her way here by herself again, and there is a group of Wittelsbach soldiers behind her - I don’t need to say more about it, right?”
"You suspect that she also knows the location of the sunken ship. You are worried that she will be caught by the people in Wittelsbach and forced to find out the location, thereby bumping into us who are salvaging cultural relics." Prince Abdul thought quickly and introduced Barbarossa's idea. .
"Once you discover a risk, you can either avoid it or solve it." Barbarossa shrugged, "I can't just leave her as a potential hidden danger running around."
"Then why didn't you kill her when you were on Andward Island? Although drowning while swimming is rare, it always happens." Nakhimov asked slowly.
"It's too much of a wake-up call. It's better to keep her with me than to kill her. I can kill her or chop her up as I please." Barbarossa glanced at Anna in front of the ship and laughed softly, "Sometimes a living person is more useful than a dead person. She can be considered as an insurance. Since Wittelsbach wants her, she can be used as a trump card for trading when we face the worst situation?"
Nakhimov shook his head and said nothing. August, who had suddenly become furious before, also suppressed his emotions a little and reluctantly agreed with Barbarossa's approach of attacking the heart.
Take all risks into account and use everything that can be used.
The most important thing is that they all agree with Barbarossa's good habit of considering the impact and pros and cons before doing things, and choosing the best solution before taking action. This is probably the reason why Barbarossa has never lost the wind in the past two years.
"The salvage plan, sequence, steps, and the goods in each container are all marked. The 38 gold bars you gave are the hush money of the salvage team. Moreover, their biggest advantage is that they never ask any questions. They don't know what they are going to salvage, nor do they know who the ship belongs to. After the things are salvaged, they are distributed according to demand, and then quickly sold through your channels within 24 hours. After the funds are received through the anonymous account of the Swiss Bank, everyone will fly away and never see each other again."
The benefits of the 38 gold bars were all transferred to his subordinates. Barbarossa was only prepared to take the 10% bonus from the beginning, instead of greedily wanting all of them.
This red-bearded British man showed the qualities of an excellent pirate. The two-year plan was completed in one day. After he signaled the yacht to sound a rhythmic whistle through the pager, the speedboats around him suddenly accelerated and rushed to the salvage ship. The men on the boats boarded the boats, changed into diving suits, carried oxygen tanks, and dived through the speedboats.
Nakhimov and others stood on the deck of the yacht, watching the people who went into the water in unison and then floated up quickly as time went by. They were carrying well-protected objects in their hands, porcelain, antiques, oil paintings sealed in glass frames, and various strange but vintage things, such as brass statues, blood-colored wooden bracelets, etc. Large objects were fixed by the crane arm on the salvage ship, and the entire object was dragged up to the deck of the salvage ship. The whole process was smooth and everyone had a clear division of labor. Under the temptation of gold and the 1% bonus, everyone kept diving and floating like chicken blood.
Anna didn't want to watch halfway through. This was not the purpose of her coming to the Maldives. She didn't want to listen to what Barbarossa said about Flora dying in a shipwreck. She turned around and walked quickly to the inner room of the yacht.
"Don't we need to take care of her?" August looked back at Anna who was leaving and asked.
"This is the sea. Even if she jumps into the water, she can't swim far. She is a smart person, just like her mother, but she is also surprisingly firm in some superstitions and legends." Barbarossa picked up a few silver coins on the table, called the speedboat behind the yacht, looked at the sponsors and partners and said, "Who wants to go with me to the boat to appreciate the newly unearthed treasures, no, the treasures that have just been unearthed?"
The three men gladly agreed, but the only woman, Renata, shook her head gently and said, "I'll just rest on the yacht. I also need some private space to report the situation here to Ms. Emma. Mr. Barbarossa, after the salvage work is completed, please pack the items I have selected on the list for me. I will take them back to France to complete the handover procedures for the auction."
"While we are salvaging here, has the auction over there already started?" Barbarossa looked at Renata with some surprise.
"It's over. We just have to wait for the goods to be transferred to the buyer within 24 hours, and the final balance will be deposited into our account online." Renata said lightly.
"Efficient." Barbarossa gave a thumbs up.
"Our buyer's agent is already waiting in the reception room at the port of Sri Lanka. After the goods are delivered and the handover is completed, the remaining funds can be quickly in place." August said.
Abdul and Nakhimov also said that they were ready. As long as the salvage work is completed, everything will be over within 24 hours. The precious antiques salvaged from the sunken ship will be instantly diverted to all parts of the world and cannot be traced. Even if the Wittelsbach family wants to recover these things, they have to consider whether they can offend so many dignitaries and politicians from all over the world at the same time.
"I like to work with professionals!" Barbarossa, shirtless, holding the bottle of champagne, laughed and boarded the boat with the three men, completely ignoring Renata who turned back and walked towards the direction of Anna's departure in the yacht.