Ling Tian's Bing Tian Pharmaceutical Industry has long been the most sought-after pharmaceutical enterprise in Hua Country.
Their signature cosmetics, as well as their special medications for treating diabetes and cancer, are bringing in immense profits, making Bing Tian Pharmaceutical Industry a veritable cash cow.
Currently, Bing Tian Pharmaceutical Industry's monthly revenue reaches nearly ten billion, boasting substantial cash flow. With the backing of the Xuanyuan family, it's no exaggeration to call it a money-printing machine.
What Xuanyuan Jie mentioned, that their monthly profit could be enough to build a deep-sea exploration vessel and still have plenty left over, was even a bit conservative.
Although Engineer Hu was stubborn, he wasn't foolish. His family members suffered from diabetes and were cured by Bing Tian Pharmaceutical Industry's products. His wife and daughter also used their products. How could he not know what kind of company Bing Tian Pharmaceutical Industry was?
He just never expected that the big boss of Bing Tian Pharmaceutical Industry would be such a young man, and that this young man would appear before him.
Recalling his earlier behavior, his face felt like it was burning. The slap in the face had come so quickly. He had just mocked them for being overconfident, but now it seemed it wasn't their overconfidence, but his own ignorance!
Ling Tian, seizing the opportune moment, broke the awkward silence.
"Engineer Hu, I have great respect for your profession. But please rest assured, I always keep my word. Brother Xuanyuan is here as a witness.
If your equipment is damaged during the exploration, I will absolutely compensate you double!
Brother Xuanyuan can also be my witness!"
Hearing Ling Tian's words, Engineer Hu felt a jolt. He was certainly aware of Xuanyuan Jie's identity and status.
But now, seeing this young man before him addressing Xuanyuan Jie as "brother" was a complete shock to his worldview! Could someone who could call Xuanyuan Jie a brother be an ordinary person? How foolish his previous actions were!
"Alright, I'll make the arrangements.
However, at a depth of around 5,000 meters, visibility is extremely low. Even with lights on, the detection range is only about ten meters. Our search here is like finding a needle in a haystack!
You all need to be mentally prepared."
Ling Tian picked up a capacitive stylus and drew a point directly on the electronic map!
"Right here. Deploy the deep-sea probe here, and we will surely find something!"
Engineer Hu rolled his eyes. He really wanted to point at Ling Tian's nose and question how he was so certain there was something at the bottom of the sea, but he knew he couldn't. Doing so would surely lead to a confrontation.
A few tens of minutes later, their ship arrived at the location Ling Tian had designated. After the ship anchored with a floating anchor, a warehouse door on the deck opened. A crane lifted a large piece of equipment, about three meters long and over two meters wide and high, onto the deck.
Over a dozen staff members came to check the equipment's operational status and prepare it for deployment into the sea.
After nearly an hour of preparation, the crane lifted the equipment out over the water and then released it.
As the cable was continuously lowered, the equipment began to slowly sink towards the seabed.
The descent of the deep-sea submersible was a very long process. Even with ballast, the submersible had to overcome the pressure of the deep sea.
Two hours later, Engineer Hu sent someone to inform Ling Tian and Xuanyuan Jie that the deep-sea probe was about to reach the seabed.
The two of them quickly went to the control room and looked at the large screen.
On the large screen, signals from the deep-sea probe were being transmitted. The powerful searchlights could only illuminate an area less than 10 meters in front of the probe.
The probe slowly descended, revealing tiny plankton and some strangely shaped deep-sea fish in the water.
Seeing Xuanyuan Jie and Ling Tian enter, Engineer Hu looked up and said to Mr. Xuanyuan, "Mr. Xuanyuan, our deep-sea probe is about to reach the seabed. According to sonar detection, the probe is still over 300 meters from the seabed. The current descent speed is 30 meters per minute!
So far, we haven't seen any signs of underwater ruins..."
Although this fellow was speaking to Xuanyuan Jie, Ling Tian could sense that he was actually addressing him, even trying to show off.
Ling Tian smiled and sat down, crossing his arms. "We haven't reached the seabed yet, so don't be impatient. As the saying goes, good things are worth waiting for..."
Before Ling Tian could finish speaking, the large screen suddenly shook violently. The camera feed quickly showed murky water, and at the same time, a shrill alarm sounded in the room.
"Oh no, the probe has hit the bottom...
But how is that possible..."
The data on the large screen clearly showed that their probe was still nearly 100 meters away from the seabed, yet they had somehow collided with something, triggering the alarm.
"Stop descent, adjust attitude..."
Engineer Hu said, rushing to the control console and manipulating a joystick.
Soon, the submersible's attitude was adjusted, and the camera's view became clear.
At this moment, everyone except Ling Tian was stunned.
Before them appeared a stone pillar, over two meters in diameter and of unknown length.
The stone pillar was covered in sand and marine life, but it was evident that such a long, straight pillar could not have formed naturally; it was undoubtedly a man-made structure.
"This... this is impossible, it's unscientific..."
Engineer Hu was somewhat distraught. He had studied underwater hydrology for decades and had never encountered anything so bizarre.
Some cities had been submerged due to earthquakes or floods, but those ruins were only tens of meters underwater, never exceeding a hundred.
To have such a man-made structure at a depth of over 5,000 meters, in an area that was not seismically active, made Engineer Hu feel that all his previous knowledge was useless.
Next, Engineer Hu began to personally operate the remote control. The underwater deep-sea probe adjusted its attitude and moved forward in one direction. After traveling more than ten meters, another identical pillar appeared ahead!
After over an hour of exploration, they discovered more than a dozen pillars. These pillars, just as Ling Tian had described, were arranged in a vast circle!
This fully proved one thing: the massive teleportation array at the bottom of the sea was real!
Xuanyuan Jie understood even more clearly that this meant the intelligence provided by Ling Tian was accurate!