Chapter 200
“Marina, what’s the matter with you…are you sick? Peter told me you weren’t in a good mood this morning, why don’t you take a break?”
Outside the lab, Professor Cook, in his thick coat, slaps the dust off the brim of his hat.
“No, no problem, I just didn’t sleep well last night. It wasn’t because of the shipwreck. I was wondering what to do if I really saw a ghost.”
The images from yesterday evening kept lingering in my mind. Marina didn’t know what she was doing wrong at that time. People were talking to her, but she closed her eyes…
To In the end, I didn’t wait for what I wanted to say, and it made the other party very embarrassed.
“Professor, are you ready, but don’t forget to bring an umbrella. It’s not raining now, and it won’t be sure in a while.”
Donald carrying a bag Coming from the other side, Finger was inside with a black umbrella in his hand.
His eyes stayed on Marina for a while. It would be a lie to say that he didn’t care about what happened yesterday. Marina is beautiful, he had to admit it.
And she seems to be wearing some light makeup today, and the mature and intellectual temperament on her body is more prominent.
The place where the wreck was landed was in the west port of Xialin District. Donald read the newspaper and said that it was towed back from the sea by two large ships.
The report mentioned that this ship is a merchant ship owned by Gleb Chamber of Commerce. It was carrying a lot of cargo when it went out to sea, and salvaging the cargo was only part of the reason. After all, the cargo is the cargo, and the ship is the ship. , and part of the reason is to find out the problem of the wreck.
5 ships!
This number is the number of merchant ships that Gleb Chamber of Commerce recently sank at sea.
This is not a small number. Now is no longer the era of wooden sailboats. Rainstorm’s lethality to whale oil-driven steel ships is extremely limited, and the corresponding ship cost is no longer. It was comparable before.
5 ships, inexplicably sank, one or two times is an accident, three or four times there must be a reason, which is also a great damage to the reputation of Greeber Chamber of Commerce, No Chamber of Commerce wants to impress its partners as a shipwreck professional.
Gleber Chamber of Commerce in order to re-launch its name, this time, but the news has been completely released, and the momentum has grown, and it is bound to reveal what went wrong in front of the public. .
Arriving near the port, Donald first saw the ships that were suspended on the wide square outside the shipyard on the edge of the port. The sky was a bit gloomy, but it didn’t affect his sight.
The size of this merchant ship can only be said to be a medium-sized steel ship, which is larger than the one that Donald took to sea before, but it is limited.
Perhaps because of the long immersion in the sea, there are still some wet seawater dripping down around the ship, and there are some seaweed and other marine goods hanging everywhere.
At this time, a lot of reporters were already present, and there were also a lot of people. The crowd swam around the boat, and most of them were concentrated in the middle of the boat, where a small lecture platform was set up.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s our honor to be able to come to today’s press conference, and we will choose a few lucky friends to distribute it in the press conference later. A special gift prepared by our Gleb Chamber of Commerce…”
Someone stepped onto the podium and began to guide the rhythm of the scene, and it seemed that he should be the host of this conference.
“Fousent, the current vice director of the Chamber of Commerce, is actually hosting the press conference today. It seems that they attach great importance to the events of this time.”
Marina follows current affairs and is familiar with tasks that often appear in newspaper pages.
“It’s a pity that I can’t check the situation right now, and I don’t know how their process is arranged.”
Professor Cook doesn’t care who is on the podium, his eyes are always focused on The broken hole in the middle of the ship is the main direct cause of the sinking of the whole ship, which can be seen by anyone with good eyesight.
The hole with a diameter of nearly two meters and the concave broken iron piece means that the damage must be caused by external impact, otherwise the iron piece impossible will appear in this state.
However, judging from the waterline on the ship’s side, that void should not have been in the sea during the voyage.
This ruled out the case of pirate shelling, an iron plate on the side of the ship that something broke from the sea!
“Recently, a lot of people have spread rumors that we, the Chamber of Commerce, deliberately created shipwrecks to earn insurance premiums, but in fact there were simply no shipwrecks…I think this scene, It should be a lie enough to break everything, isn’t it? We invited a special team of maritime experts to find out the cause of the ship’s accident for us on the spot. I want everyone to understand that we, Gleb, will never do those things. The trivial matter, the sinking of the ship, has absolutely nothing to do with us Gleb!”
The deputy director on the podium was emotional when talking about deliberately creating shipwrecks to defraud insurance premiums , even the pitch has been raised a few degrees.
“Do you know what it means to deliberately cause a shipwreck, to sink your own ship?”
Donald looked at the resentful deputy director on the lecture stage, stared wide-eyed, As if to say that anyone who dares to mention this matter in front of him will go down and share life and death with others, which makes him curious about what the deputy director said.
Because the crowd was crowded and mixed, their three people were very close together, Donald’s head was actually not far from Marina, who could only lean back when he saw his face. Head, forcing myself not to recall what happened yesterday,
“These Chamber of Commerce actually do not have many ships, and their cargo transportation is often by hiring some ships under the name of fleet, in order to ensure the goods. Before going to sea, a cargo insurance contract will be signed between fleet and Chamber of Commerce. If the ship-to-shore cargo is damaged or lost, the fleet responsible for transportation will pay the corresponding value of money.”
Keeping her composure and stroking her thoughts, Marina continued,
“About half a year ago, Gleb Chamber of Commerce lost a large cargo due to the sinking of a ship going out to sea. This fleet fully compensated for the price of the goods. According to the terms of the insurance contract, this is a reasonable payment. However, the fleet later heard some rumors that it was Gleb Chamber of Commerce who asked them to ship the goods. The goods are actually some unsalable goods that are ready to be sold at a large price to clear the warehouse. After the ship goes to sea, they secretly hired a team to intercept them at sea. Shen Hai… This incident was a big deal at the time, but in the end, the Chief-In-Charge of the fleet failed to produce key evidence, and was finally sentenced to full compensation.”
At the same time as Marina explained the compensation incident, the problem detection of the maritime expert team was still in progress, but these people were arguing around the breach, and some of them were constantly flipping through books.
This situation made the reporters in the periphery smell the hot news and began to constantly ask what the ultimate cause of the sinking was.
The deputy director of the Chamber of Commerce on the lecture stage was also a little strange at this time. The team of maritime analysis experts he hired cost a lot of money, and he was counting on them to give Gleb. The Chamber of Commerce was rehabilitated, but after waiting for nearly an hour, the most crucial conclusion was still not reached.
“The gifts distributed by Chamber of Commerce have arrived. Next is the gift-giving session I promised you…”
It was originally planned to be presented at the end of the conference The gift came in advance, the deputy director stepped down, and immediately found his assistant and asked,
“What’s going on? Didn’t they say that the cause can definitely be found within half an hour? It’s been an hour, I haven’t figured it out yet, what do they want to do!”
Some of these reporters were hired by money, and the deputy director is not worried that they will leave. The key lies in those people, who represent to a large extent This is Demingham’s wait-and-see attitude towards Greber’s Chamber of Commerce, which may be mixed with a lot of work. Chamber of Commerce, investigators in the consortium, if they can’t come up with a satisfactory conclusion later.
The consequences are unimaginable for the deputy director!
“Vice-chairman, they said…”
“Don’t hesitate, just say whatever you want, it’s all over, what the hell are you doing? What are you hesitating about, you don’t want to do it anymore?”
The deputy director was also anxious, pressing the assistant’s shoulder and scolding in a deep voice.
“They say the hole in the boat is caused by the anchor…”
It’s not that he doesn’t want to say it, but this conclusion is too unimaginable, the anchor Smashed the side deck?
“Go and tell them, I’ll give them 10 minutes, if I can’t give a reasonable explanation, treat me as an idiot, okay, if I’m punished by the board, they won’t have a better time, I If they can’t eat and walk around! The anchor smashed the side deck? They might as well just tell me that a sea monster smashed the ship’s armor like a walnut, at least it has some credibility!”
The vice-chairman covered his forehead, he didn’t expect to pay himself to invite a group of people who are not very clear-headed. Now it’s not his problem of believing or not, the reporter and the public are believing or not. is the real key!
Turn his back to the crowd, the muscles in his face twitching with anger.
However, it’s useless to be angry about this kind of thing. Those experts discussed urgently for ten minutes, and the final result was that it was caused by the anchor. They even found the anchor stuck in the cabin, but But no one could tell why the anchor was there.
“Gentlemen and ladies, according to our final investigation, the cause of the sinking of the ship was the impact of the anchor…”
Even if the vice chairman He didn’t want to say this conclusion, and in the end he had to explain it to Brace oneself. He felt that there was nothing more shameful than saying such absurd and uninhibited things in public.
“Applause”
Amidst the boos of contempt from the people, the sky is getting cloudy and raindrops are falling.
It woke up.