Chapter 2113 Statue of Hercules
After admiring the small coral reef outside the submarine for a while, Ye Tian then withdrew his gaze and said via radio:
"Matisse, you can clean out this ancient Greek war dolphin, mark it, and salvage it later. Be careful when cleaning it, try not to damage this treasure, it still has a certain value.
After cleaning up, continue to explore. Every coral reef you encounter next, and even every raised stone on the ridge, must not be spared. You must explore and take a three-dimensional image.
I had a strong sense that we would soon discover those ancient shipwrecks, discovering statues from ancient Greek or Hellenistic periods, and other antique artworks, bringing a huge surprise to the whole world."
"No problem, Steven, let's leave this ancient Greek war dolphin to us, we will be able to clean up this treasure soon."
Mattis nodded and responded, his whole body almost flying with excitement.
Next, Ye Tian advised Mattis and the others a few more words, and then drove to the side in a seven-seater Aurora submarine and returned to the previous position.
Just after returning here, Ye Tian immediately turned around and whispered to Chandler:
"Chandler, you cut the live broadcast screen to the cleaning operation over there and turn off the live broadcast microphone. I have some things to do and it needs to be strictly confidential."
Hearing this, Chandler was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly, and without asking too much, naturally he could not refuse.
He knew very well that it was unnecessary to ask, so why bother to kill one after another?
In a blink of an eye, the live broadcast screen of National Geographic Channel has been switched, and the live broadcast microphone inside this seven-seater small aurora submarine was also turned off.
Immediately afterwards, Ye Tian said through the invisible wireless headphones:
"Jason, you immediately contact the US Embassy in Greece and the US Embassy in Italy, and let them come forward to help us coordinate relations with the two countries and prevent these two countries from playing tricks.
Walker, notify all the friends to raise the alert level to the highest level. Before we float to Shanghai, no ships are allowed to break into the operating waters and say hello to the amphibious assault ship of the Badan.”
"I understand, Steven"
Jason and Walker's voices came one after another, and they were both very excited.
At this time, Chandler and his photographer all looked stunned, and his eyes were almost flying out of their eyes!
This cunning guy, Steven, has so many backup plans, and has a relationship with the US Navy amphibious assault ship that is cruising in the Mediterranean. It's so exaggerating!
Those guys who have the idea of hiding this shipwreck treasure now have time to retreat, otherwise they will die without a burial place and will be killed by Steven in this sea area!
Ye Tian turned his head to look at Chandler and the others, then turned around and smiled and said:
"People, let's start, those ancient shipwrecks that have been sleeping for a thousand or two years on the bottom of this sea are waiting for us somewhere ahead!"
After the speech came, the small submarine started to move, and the live broadcast screen of National Geographic Channel was quickly cut back.
The exploration continues and everything is as usual.
Ye Tian and his team drove the submarine and began to explore forward little by little. The small submarine Matis and his team were riding was cleaning up the various corals on the ancient Greek war dolphin.
At this time, countless hot eyes gathered on this sea area, gathered on the two small submarines that were exploring the seabed.
Without surprise, there are many envious and even jealous eyes, mostly from the field of antique art collections and historical archaeology!
Especially Greece, the whole country was shocked at this time, and almost everyone was paying attention to the exploration and salvage of the treasure of the ancient Roman shipwreck.
Naturally, the huge pressure from all walks of life in Greek society has been surging, weighing heavily on the Greek government authorities.
It didn't take long for Matisse and the others to complete the preliminary cleaning work.
A rusty ancient Greek war dolphin appeared before the world for the first time after one or two thousand years.
When this ancient Greek war dolphin appeared on the live broadcast screen, many professionals in front of the live broadcast immediately became excited again.
Especially the experts and scholars in the exploration fleet could not sit still. They flocked to the stern of the yacht, trying to take a speedboat to the Fearless Warrior to participate in this exploration operation.
However, before receiving Ye Tian's order, the brave man fearlessly explored how the company's employees and security personnel could cooperate with them.
After striving for reason, no results were achieved.
These experts and scholars could only return to the living room angrily, continue to watch the live TV broadcast, and point to Ye Tian in the live broadcast screen to curse, but there was nothing we could do!
After Matisse and the others, Ye Tian and the others soon discovered something.
"Steven, from the three-dimensional scanning image, there should be a statue hidden under this beautiful coral. The statue looks quite small."
Witts said, pointing to a coral reef outside the submarine, dancing excitedly.
On the LCD screens inside the submarine, the three-dimensional scan images of the coral reef are presented, which basically accurately outlines the outline of the sculpture.
This is a sculpture of a figure about 1.56 meters high. The reason why it is called a sculpture is because the contour of the head is clearly visible, and the head of the statue is twisted to the left, and the neck seems to be very hard.
Going down along the neck is a pair of broad shoulders like a mountain and two thick arms. Just from the three-dimensional image, you can see the strength of the carved characters.
Looking down, the statue's body leaned against the side and the waist was pressed, as if he was firmly holding a huge head with his left arm, and naturally brought out a sharp murderous aura in his movements.
Because of his movement, his arms, waist, back and hips showed a very strange shape, giving people a sense of tension that was swelling with blood.
The huge head, which was firmly held by the statue, looked like a beast, huge in size, and Kong Wu was powerful.
It seemed to be struggling hard, trying to break free from the other party's clamp, and there seemed to be a breath of fear and despair in its movements.
Going further down, there is nothing left and it ends abruptly.
Ye Tian looked carefully at the three-dimensional scanned image on the LCD screen, then smiled and nodded and said:
"Your judgment is right, Veters, under the beautiful coral reef, there is indeed an ancient statue. God knows how many years have been sleeping in the depths of this dark seabed.
To be precise, it should be the upper half of an ancient statue, which is quite complete. Perhaps it was the ship that fell from the ship when it was about to fall on this ridge.
If this is true, then there is no doubt that the ancient Roman or Greek ships that transported the statue, as well as the lower half of the statue, are likely to be nearby and it is not difficult to find."
Hearing this, Charlie and Waiters immediately glanced around the submarine. Both of them had extremely bright eyes and their eyes were full of expectations.
Chandler, who was also in the submarine cockpit, also glanced around quickly.
Unfortunately, they do not have a pair of eyes that can see through everything and penetrate the darkness.
Apart from those happy orcas, endless sea water and darkness, large areas of colorful coral reefs and seaweed, they did not find anything surprising!
Ye Tian chuckled softly, and then continued:
"Of course there is another possibility. The lower half of the ancient shipwreck and statue fell into the abyss next to it. In that case, we can only use underwater robots to explore again!"
As he said that, Ye Tian reached out and pointed at the sea water shrouded in darkness on the left side of the submarine.
About fifty meters to the left of their small aurora submarine, there is a deep abyss that leads directly to the seabed two or three thousand meters deep.
Following the direction of his finger, everyone looked over there, and then withdrew their gaze.
After a moment of pause, Ye Tian’s clear voice came out again, reaching everyone’s ears.
"From the outline and shape of the upper half of this statue, the carving should be the Hercules, Hercules, in ancient Greek mythology, and the mythology of him strangling the Lion of Nemea.
Hercules is the greatest hero in ancient Greek mythology and the embodiment of strength, courage and wisdom. There are many sculptures about Hercules, including many classic works.
In ancient Greek mythology, Eurostheus, the king of Mycenae, was jealous of Hercules's reputation, and in order to make things difficult for him, he assigned Hercules a lot of very difficult tasks.
These nearly impossible tasks were completed one by one by Hercules, known as Hercules' twelve great achievements, the first of which was to kill the Lion of Nemea.
The Nemea lion is a giant lion in ancient Greek mythology. It is said that its fur is gold and ordinary weapons cannot penetrate at all, so it cannot be killed. Its claws are also extremely sharp.
In order to kill the Nemea lion, Hercules used various weapons, such as bows and arrows and spears, but he could not kill the lion. In the end, he strangled the Nemea lion with his hands.
Then, he used the extremely sharp claws of Nemea's lion to cut and peel off the lion's skin, and used the Nemea's lion's skin as a shawl and always draped it on himself.
Because Hercules killed the Lion of Nemea very special, the sculptures related to this ancient Greek mythology are not difficult to identify."
Regarding Ye Tian's analysis, the experts and scholars on the sea, as well as many antique art appraisal experts, sculptors, historians and archaeologists on the live broadcast, all agreed with him.
They all saw the three-dimensional scanned image of the statue and recognized the content expressed by the sculpture, which was consistent with what Ye Tian said.
"It's a pity that the statue of Hercules killing the Lion of Nemea was broken into two pieces. I don't know where the lower half is. If I could find it, it would be better.
Although I don't know who the sculptor was who created this statue of Hercules, I'm sure the origin of this statue of Hercules must be extraordinary, otherwise it would not have appeared here.
Whether the ancient Romans or the Greeks, it is unusual to transport such a heavy statue to the Ionian Sea far away from the mainland, even though they spend huge costs and manpower.
This is enough to show that this sculpture "Hercules Kills the Lion of Nemea" must have an extraordinary origin and has great value. Maybe it is the work of a top carving master."
Ye Tian continued to introduce this ancient sculpture that had not yet revealed his true appearance, but he was very polite and convinced everyone.
And above the sea, the discovery of this suspected ancient Greek statue has caused a huge sensation.
Chapter completed!