C6 The Strange Situation on the River

Because of the sentencing of the first Long Distance Bureau laid-off workers in the business of fishing anchors, the people involved in the business were all scattered, and many fishermen on the Yangtze began to pick up anchors. Usually, a fish paddle would go back and forth on the Yangtze River, but it didn't fish. Instead, it would be used to drag its net along with the long river bottom, and once caught, the boat people would use crude underwater equipment to dive in, and once the river bottom touched an iron anchor, they would use ropes to hold it in place.

The anchor in question, a couple, was found, and they were very glad that they had found it. They secured it with a rope, then hired a larger barge and slowly pulled it up with its winch. However, when the barge arrived, they found that it could not be lifted.

Due to the great buoyancy of water, the weight of an iron anchor was different in terms of river bottom and weight in the air. It would be a lot lighter. Therefore, the salvage Anchor used the barge to drive to the top of the anchor, and used a winch to pull the anchor out of the sediment of the river bottom, and then slowly drove it to the river bank. By the river bank, there was a crane that was prepared, and then lifted the anchor out of the water, this position was also fixed, because there weren't many suitable places for the crane to land on.

There was no need to talk any more nonsense, that husband and wife had invited a barge to salvage the anchor, taking advantage of the late night to fish it out. However, when the barge came down from the winch and began to pull, the ship's hull had already tilted, but the anchor still did not budge, so everyone became excited, it was clear that this was a big iron anchor, and the larger the anchor, the more valuable it was. So the couple had to tell the barge that the iron anchor was divided, and the barge's owner had found another barge, and both winches were hoisted at the same time. He reluctantly scooped the anchor out of the sand and slowly moved it towards the river bank. However, when they were more than 20 meters away from the river, the two barges could no longer be towed.

Everyone panicked. It was already past 5 in the morning, and the situation was very awkward. If they continued like this, the sky would brighten up, and the management department of the Yangtze River might even send someone over. Give up, and they would have to find the anchorage position again, and after putting down many anchors, they would never be able to find it again. This was something that happened a lot. No one wanted to waste their efforts.

The two barges decided to continue dragging the anchor, but suddenly a storm broke on the Yangtze River, breaking the winch of one of the ships. The barge was lucky, the other barge, due to the sudden drop of the anchor, also felt strange, the winch suddenly got stuck, the sailor on the winch was blown away by the cable on the winch, and the barge was forcibly pulled into the water.

An incident of stealthily salvaging an iron anchor turned into a major accident of sea damage. According to the news obtained from the administration, they immediately dispatched reinforcements, and in the end, two people were killed. One of them was a worker who operated a winch, and all the bones in his body had been smashed into smithereens. A person drowned and floated on the river. Missing two people, never to be found.

After understanding the situation, the board decided to salvage river bottom's sunken ships, and then discuss how to deal with the anchor. Of course, the leader's final intention was to salvage the anchor, because the country now valued the protection of cultural relics. They planned to salvage the anchor and place it next to the big oil tank of the Anglo-American company. They immediately set up a temporary salvage command post.

The equipment of the Long-range Administration was much more advanced. Two professional underwater fishermen went into the water and quickly found the location of the sunken ship. However, they reminded their leaders that the winch on the sunken ship was still connected to the anchor. The head of the port administration and the head of the port administration had a disagreement. They thought that they should salvage the sunken ship as soon as possible, so as not to affect the smooth flow of the Yangtze River, but the leader of the port administration wanted to salvage both the anchor and the sunken ship at once, so as not to waste the unnecessary cost of salvage.

In the end, the Port Authority took the upper hand and jointly salvaged the land. As a result, the two 3000 ton large salvage ships were unable to pull the sunken ship along. The salvage crew was stunned. How heavy was that anchor?

There was no way to get the Water Ghost to investigate, so the Water Ghost only came back after a long time. It turned out that the anchor was not a single anchor, but a chain.

In other words, the first two barges to salvage the anchor were forcefully pulling a chain anchor onto the surface of the river for a few hundred meters. How heavy would a chain that was several hundred meters be?

and the cause of the accident on the two barges, must have been at the other end of the chain, connected to an even heavier object. It is very likely that one of the early sunken ships fell into the depths of the river bottom, and once the chain reached the end, the two barges would no longer be able to drag it any further.

The situation had changed, and the Long-range Administration had rescheduled the salvage plan again. This time, they were no longer in a hurry as they realized that they had likely discovered the largest ever discovery of a cultural relic in the Yangtze River. So he soldered the rope of the winch and dragged the wreck to the river. Then, the Water Ghost went into the water again, feeling her way through the iron anchor's chains.

As expected, Jiang Xin, who was about two hundred meters away from the anchor, found the other end of the anchor. However, after Water Ghost came up, he reported that this was not a sunken ship. They felt around and felt that it was a huge metal plate.

What happened next was not reported by any of the media. At the temporary salvage command post, they were preparing to dispatch some personnel to explore this metal plate again. An event that happened once in a hundred years happened in the Yangtze River.

This was the famous and bizarre event of the Yangtze River — the disconnection of the river.

However, in the historical records, the Yangtze River really did stop flowing a few times, and the Yuan Dynasty clearly recorded it twice. Most of the documents recorded were wild records, and the current hydrology experts were dismissive of them. But it did happen in five or four years.

As for the folklore of the Yangtze River, it had always been this way. Rumors passed down from mouth to mouth were extremely terrifying, but no one knew the reason.

All the boats in the temporary salvage command post were anchored in the middle of the river, and below the river was the gigantic steel plate mentioned by the Water Ghost. The leaders were still doubting the authenticity of the Water Ghost's report, because it was very easy for the personnel working underwater to hallucinate.

It had been a busy day at the time, but it was already late at night. When the temporary salvage command center was in session, a loud rumbling sound came from the Yangtze River. It sounded like thunder, but the sky was cloudless and the moon hung high in the sky.

The rumbling sound lasted for more than ten minutes before it suddenly stopped. After a moment of silence, the sound came again. This time, the snoring sound was like a huge mouth opening to drink water. The sound lasted less than a minute.

Then, a terrifying and bizarre phenomenon occurred on the surface of the river in the dark night. The river water suddenly dried up for no reason. All the boats that were going up and down were stranded on river bottom. A few salvage boats from the salvage command post ran aground.

The leaders panicked and switched on all the lighting. They could clearly see that the river waters of the Yangtze River had disappeared without a trace. However, the boats in the distance could still be seen floating on the surface of the river.

The head of the salvage command center immediately called the Marine Department, but couldn't get through. Then they found out that all mobile phones couldn't get through.

They saw that the river bottom was filled with sand and sand, which left countless shallow pits in the ground. The surroundings were deathly silent. Everyone was scared stiff like a wooden chicken.

Then they saw the iron plate, not far from the stranded salvage boat. In the dark night, that metal slab gave off a deathly aura. It was dark and creepy.

Even the leaders of the temporary salvage command post didn't know how to deal with it. The river water could be restored at any time, so everyone could only gather on the largest ship and wait for the river water to recover.

As expected, ten minutes later, the surging river arrived, and the ship was barely able to float with great stability. After everything was over, all the people in the temporary command post picked up their lives. The phone still could not be reached, so they used the boat's loudspeaker to inform the shore of the incident and asked the Marine Corps to organize the rescue.

The result was that they were told to stay on standby. Then they stayed in the middle of the river for another day. At night, a dozen military vehicles suddenly drove by the river bank, and then, downstream, dozens of military assault boats.

The river was closed, and the river had been cut off.

Then the troops boarded the ship, and a leader asked each of them to sign a confidentiality agreement. Now that they knew that they were in trouble, the leader introduced them as Shen Dexu, a senior engineer in the Bureau of Hydrology of the Yangtze River. This was an extraordinary situation. No one was allowed to go ashore. Must be on standby.

The salvage mission was upgraded, and Shen Dexu took over the mission as the on-site commander. And this person called Shen Dexu was not just a simple high-level engineer.

First, he had to introduce Shen Dexu's identity. Shen Dexu, thirty-nine years old, a senior engineer in the Bureau of Hydrology of the Yangtze River. But to explain the importance of this position, the hydrology of the Yangtze River was the department that surveyed the flow of rivers along the Yangtze River. Water resources were the lifeblood of the country. Assessing the country's water resources is a matter of national prosperity and demise. The status of Yangtze River shipping and water resources in southern China is of great importance and is an absolutely critical area. Shen Dexu was the Senior Engineer of the Yangtze River Hydrology, and the first expert on the field.

The on-site experts were different from the theoretical experts. The on-site experts had to carry out missions, which also meant that no matter what major water conservancy projects were going to happen to the Yangtze River, as well as the flood prevention and control incidents, Shen Dexu had to be the first person to take responsibility.

His work bears the lives of millions of people and the property of billions of countries and peoples.

Therefore, when the leaders of the Long-range Department heard Shen Dexu's self-introduction, it could be imagined how shocked they were. However, their shock did not come from Shen Dexu's high position.

But Shen Dexu was a legend amongst all the people who relied on the Yangtze River to survive. This was because Shen Dexu was one of the hydrological personnel responsible for the early stage of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam project.

Why did he have to say one thing, it was that Shen Dexu was not the number one engineer at the time. It was a person's assistant, and that person's name was Sun Weidong. Sun Weidong was said to be a key figure in the Three Gorges Dam project. He was the head of the hydrological survey of the Three Gorges, leading to the excavation of cultural relics on the Middle Castle Island. However, he was a person of unknown origin. to allow the construction to proceed smoothly.

It was later rumored that Sun Weidong was not an engineer at all. His real identity was that of a top Chinese special ability user, and he had a deep religious background. To put it bluntly, he was a legendary Taoist. Because the start of construction of the Three Gorges Dam would involve feng shui, people's taboo, change of routes, and other mysterious factors, it would require the strongest person to hold the scene and solve the problem.

Later on, the people of Qing Yun company revealed the news privately, saying that in the middle of the construction period, even the master of special abilities Zhang Bao Sheng, who had not been heard from for many years, had come to the construction site of the Three Gorges Dam. Furthermore, the situation at that time was that Zhang Bao Sheng was completely obedient in front of Sun Wei Dong, not daring to speak loudly at all.

Shen Dexu was Sun Weidong's assistant. Five years after the closure of the Three Gorges Dam, Sun Weidong suddenly went missing. Neither the Yangtze nor the National Ministry of Hydrology had any record of the man. And Shen Dexu had replaced Sun Weidong's position.

This was Shen Dexu's identity, so when everyone on the boat saw Shen Dexu personally arrive to take care of this sudden event, they were all terrified. It was not because they were scared silly by Shen Dexu's identity, but because they had realized that the iron anchor they had encountered and the iron plate connected to the iron anchor were two extraordinary things!