Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1185 - 608: Did Humans Really Make This?

Chapter 1185: Chapter 608: Did Humans Really Make This?

That huge, dark shadow sweeping over his head left no room for calm; Sean instinctively dove toward the giant stone city wall, then hid beside the huge rock and looked up at the shadow.

It was then that he saw the shadow was a giant shark—no clue how such a creature could grow so massive in Lake Baikal, but there it was, the sovereign of the waters, casually swimming back and forth. After a while, it seemed to lose interest in the place, likely due to a lack of food, and swam off toward deeper waters.

Sean thought to himself that in front of this beast, even if the energy inside his body was strong, it probably wouldn’t be enough for just one bite from the creature!

So the saying goes, "sheer force can subdue ten strategies," and that seemed to be the case here.

From that point on, Sean became much more cautious.

To say that diving underwater on a dark night is thrilling is certainly true—many people suffer from claustrophobia, preferring to roam the mountains over diving to the sea floor—especially in the kind of darkness where you can’t see your own hand in front of you, even with a lamp that only illuminates a small area underwater.

In such an environment, fear inexplicably grips many people.

Sean didn’t have this problem, after all, he had Sky Eye, and with the enhancement of his energy, his vision was significantly stronger than ordinary people.

So, to him, the pitch-black water below was actually a hazy gray area where he could see for about twenty to thirty meters; beyond that, the view became unclear.

But without that pitch-black setting, there was no need to be scared.

Carefully climbing over the city wall, Sean saw that ahead was an uneven lake bottom, with fish or schools of fish occasionally swimming by. Some fish were rather bold, not only did they not hide when Sean approached, but they also circled around him, trying to figure out what he was.

Sean was puzzled, the huge rocks looked so much like a city wall, so why was there nothing beyond it?

Shouldn’t there be houses or something like that?

Why wasn’t it the way things were normally?

Sean didn’t figure it out and continued to swim forward.

After about several hundred meters, still finding nothing, he changed direction.

He remembered that once, while walking along the lakeside, the huge rocks had turned into a series of shadows; Sean decided to go there and check it out.

Perhaps there would be a discovery.

On the way back, Sean constantly felt as if something was watching him from behind; he looked back, but saw nothing again.

This lake was formed tens of millions of years ago; who knows what lies beneath?

Sean’s instincts did not sense any danger, so he simply stopped looking and swam diagonally toward the direction of the shadows he had seen before.

After nearly half an hour, having used up more than half of his oxygen, Sean was already planning whether to surface and end today’s exploration, when he saw a tall, imposing shadow standing underwater ahead of him.

It was a statue.

It was somewhat similar to the statues on Easter Island, very primitive—or rather, similar to the Grassland Stone Figures of Xinjiang, carved very simply with one distinguishing feature: it was tall!

Sean sized up the statue from top to bottom, it was about seven or eight meters tall with a diameter of over a meter.

Cylindrical.

Looking further back, at intervals of about a dozen meters, stood another statue, some bald, some with hair, but all in very simple lines and shapes. Most were empty-handed, some held sheep, others brandished weapons like hammers.

All these statues faced The South. Was there a message in this?

Sean didn’t understand.

He slowly descended and found that each and every one of these statues was planted firmly in the soil, buried to at least two meters deep, and the base was reinforced, allowing them to still stand tall underwater.

Sean didn’t lose heart and meticulously inspected each statue. He discovered that the statues had been here for a long time; according to the information given by Sky Eye, they had been here for at least 10,000 years.

10,000 years ago, were there people here? Back then, weren’t humans still Homo sapiens? How could they create such magnificent statues?

Sean was puzzled, but thinking of the Jiahu bone flute, it was perhaps possible.

After all, the Jiahu bone flute was also an artifact from eight thousand years ago, and by then, musical instruments had already been created.

A statue wasn’t out of the question.

Especially since these statues were relatively simple.

All these were Sean’s conjectures and could not be taken as accurate.

After all, he wasn’t an archaeologist; imagination can exist without foundation.

After circling around the several dozen statues, Sean was already feeling disappointed in his heart.

10,000 years ago, based on current archaeological information around the world, the tools used by humans of that era were at most pottery.

Of course, there were painted ceramics as well as plain pottery, but there certainly was no metal.

So the chance of making a fortune from this relic seemed virtually impossible to Sean.

It was just like an underwater adventure.

With that in mind, he was about to head back.

But then, the always-active Sky Eye caught sight of something shiny buried in the soil layer below.

Is that... a golden helmet?

Sean gasped in surprise!

Seeing gigantic pottery here wouldn’t be surprising, after all, the age was right there.

But discovering a golden helmet, what the heck?

Sean dived to the lake bottom, took a shovel from In Space and began to dig.

The soil was quite hard, but thanks to Sean’s great strength and the high-quality shovel, it took him about fifteen minutes to dig out a half-meter diameter, several tens of kilograms heavy golden helmet!

This item, just like the statues, was of a very primitive design; Sean even thought it might be natural dog head gold, shaped with a stone into a pot and the human face part knocked out to leave an opening.