Li Xu and his group sailed into the vast Philippine Sea on their yacht.
This is the largest marginal sea in the world, with deep waters and a warm sea breeze.
Li Xu stood on the deck, sipping water while keeping an eye on the GPS device in his hand.
He grew more and more excited as the latitude and longitude coordinates neared the location from his intelligence report.
Although this area was within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines, near the edge of its territorial waters, foreign vessels theoretically needed a permit to anchor or conduct any extraction.
But out on this vast, open sea, who would know as long as they were quick and didn't cause a major disturbance?
Besides, pearl oysters couldn't possibly grow in the deep sea.
They usually inhabited shallow waters, ten to twenty meters deep.
The nautical charts for this area were blank, with no islands marked.
But this only confirmed Li Xu's suspicion—there had to be a highland or island base beneath the waves.
