396: How should I submit it?

"Dad, this is ambergris. Take a piece with you later."

Yang Qi picked up a piece of ambergris and said.

"Isn't ambergris sperm whale poop? Why is it white? It feels a bit light."

Yang Limin had only ever heard of the substance.

"Dad, ambergris is black when it's fresh. This white kind has been soaked in seawater for over a hundred years to bleach out the impurities. It's top-grade ambergris."

Bai Xue explained from the side.

"Oh, I see! Then I'll take a piece."

Yang Qi watched his father's arrogant tone and was somewhat speechless. It seemed his father wouldn't even want it if it weren't top-grade ambergris.

Finally, his mother picked out a gold pearl and a white pearl; naturally, she didn't take the largest ones. However, she didn't take a fancy to the pink ones.

She picked twenty of each kind of gemstone and old pearl. Given the quantity filling several winnowing baskets, it was almost like she hadn't taken anything at all.

His mother put the gems and pearls into a bag, stuffed it into her pocket, and went to make them a late-night snack.

Yang Qi had originally thought about giving his dad two gold bricks to weigh down the family safe. Since they had already hauled away a whole crate, he didn't bring it up again.

Finally, using the wood-fired stove, his mother made a pot of vegetable and egg noodles for everyone and fried about a dozen eggs. She tugged on the sleeve of Old Yang, who was eating noodles, and said to the two younger ones:

"You two go put these treasures away yourselves; the two of us won't get involved. I'll come over tomorrow morning to help you clean the fishing boat."

Watching his parents walk away, Yang Qi opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

Since his mother had spoken like that to avoid suspicion in front of Bai Xue, there was no need for him to do anything superfluous or meddle.

"Hubby, did Mom do that on purpose?"

"She's afraid you'll overthink things."

"How could I possibly overthink it?"

After finishing the snack, Yang Qi and Bai Xue used a small trolley to push all the treasures into the vault and put them away.

With this, the treasures in the vault had finally received a massive replenishment. It was no longer like before, where the huge vault only held a few scattered crates.

After washing up, even though it was already the early hours of the morning, the two of them lay in bed unable to sleep.

They began discussing how to most appropriately hand over the items in the Freezer Hold of the 'setting sail' to the state.

The problem was that they had never encountered such a thing before and didn't know which department to contact. They couldn't exactly go to the local police station to report it, could they?

"Maybe we should ask Brother Jun and see if he has any better suggestions,"

Bai Xue proposed.

"Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. He's much more experienced than we are."

Yang Qi nodded and reached for the phone on the nightstand to check the time; it was 4:30 AM.

"Unless there's a special circumstance, Brother Jun usually gets up around five to exercise. Calling now shouldn't count as disturbing his sleep, right? At most, it'll just remind him to go to the bathroom a bit earlier."

Yang Qi looked at Bai Xue after speaking, making her giggle uncontrollably.

"Giggle, I'm not getting involved in your business."

Yang Qi raised an eyebrow and started making the call.

Before long, Zhang Jun's weak and listless voice came from the other end:

"Yang Qi! Is there something wrong with you? Couldn't you have waited another half hour to call?"

"Speak, did you catch another big fish and want to show off to me?"

Yang Qi chuckled secretly before speaking:

"No big fish this time, not even one over fifteen pounds, and I'm already back home."

"Ah! That's so unlucky! Not like your style at all. Since you're back, are you asking me to come over and get some fish?"

Zhang Jun was clearly not fully awake yet.

"That's right, Little Snow caught a fourteen or fifteen-pound Mouse Grouper, waiting for you to come get it."

"That big? Alright, keep it alive at your place, I'll head over this morning to get it."

Zhang Jun didn't stand on ceremony.

"Brother Jun, I have one more thing I want you to give me some advice on."

Yang Qi stopped joking and got down to business.

"Sure, go ahead, I'm listening."

Zhang Jun's voice straightened up slightly.

"It's like this. This time Little Snow and I went to the Zhongsha Islands, and in a place near the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, we discovered..."

Yang Qi slowly began to explain the matter. Of course, he deliberately omitted the part where he and Bai Xue dove one hundred and fifty meters without equipment and salvaged over sixty crates of treasure.

He only said they found a shipwreck and salvaged some gold bricks and ore samples, placing heavy emphasis on the small crate of Highly Enriched Uranium-235.

"What? Highly Enriched Uranium-235? Are you sure?"

Zhang Jun's voice immediately rose several octaves. Yang Qi was certain he must have bolted upright in bed.

"Yes, I'm sure. There was a plaque on that thing with japanese writing. I scanned it with my phone. Those were the exact words."

"I want to hand these things over to the state now, but I don't know the proper way to go about it."

Yang Qi stated his request.

"Alright, I understand. I'll be at your house in half an hour to talk in person. If this is handled well, it'll be a great merit for you. If not, someone might steal the credit, or you might even end up in trouble."

"Don't contact any official organizations yet. We'll decide after we've discussed it."

Zhang Jun thought for about ten seconds and then spoke rapidly.

"Alright, I'll wait for you!"

Yang Qi hung up the phone and exchanged glances with Bai Xue.

"It's a good thing I consulted Brother Jun. I took this for granted; I really didn't expect it to be so complicated."

Bai Xue also nodded:

"Yeah! I didn't expect things to be so difficult, with so many twists and turns. Let's wait and hear Brother Jun's analysis."

"I'll get up first and make breakfast for you all. Brother Jun definitely won't have eaten yet."

After speaking, the two of them got up together. Bai Xue went to cook while Yang Qi went to the first floor to open the front door. He then sat in the living room, waiting for Zhang Jun's arrival.

As expected, not long after, just past five o'clock, Zhang Jun pushed open the door and entered.

"Yang Qi, do you still have the coordinates of that shipwreck? Are you sure the location is near the Philippines' exclusive economic zone?"

Once they were seated, Zhang Jun got straight to the point.

"Yes, I took note of the location at the time. I'm certain it's near the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. It might even be inside it."

"The place where we first found the crates discarded by that japanese transport ship should be within our territorial waters, but as the crates were tossed out, they were slowly carried further in."

"Consequently, we sailed back to our own territorial waters during the day and secretly went back to salvage them in the middle of the night."

Yang Qi didn't hesitate and answered immediately.

"Alright, I understand. Having those coordinates is very important. The relevant departments will definitely go to investigate."

"That item is far too sensitive and dangerous. Being able to salvage it and hand it over to the state—this contribution will definitely not be small."