Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1189 - 609: Don’t Believe Me? Shocked Now, Huh?_2

Chapter 1189: Chapter 609: Don’t Believe Me? Shocked Now, Huh?_2

So there was only one possibility, many years ago, near Lake Baikal, there existed a powerful force!

A common village couldn’t possibly have built such a massive giant stone city wall!

This thought uncontrollably burgeoned in James’s heart!

Could he be about to discover a new civilization?

As for the once renowned Atlantis, others might not be clear, but James himself knew very well that there were too many modern human traces inside it; even mainstream media felt embarrassed to promote it.

It was really just something to fool the gossip tabloids.

But this was completely different!

This giant stone—judging by its scale, the ends couldn’t be seen from either side, it could rival the Egyptian pyramids!

Only a civilization could sustain such a scale!

He immediately had someone capture footage with the underwater video camera. Next, it was time to search for more traces of civilization!

One layer of giant stone city wall, then another, and another...

After the third layer, even James was a bit stunned. What’s going on?

Why is there nothing else but giant stone city walls?

Is this the Winterfell?

This is unscientific! There should be houses and other various kinds of residential buildings behind the walls, shouldn’t there?

But looking ahead into the pitch darkness, all he saw was the lake bottom, without any other signs of buildings, leaving James quite confused.

This is unscientific!

However, he couldn’t worry about that now. He had to study the giant stone city wall first!

Maybe something could be excavated from under this giant stone city wall!

Then his interest was renewed, and he began to excitedly mine under the giant stone city wall with the staff.

Morning passed, the wind and waves on the lake weren’t big, and the work on both sides progressed smoothly—James’s side had successfully posted the underwater footage online, then it attracted the attention of many people.

On Sean Knight’s side, the team members had salvaged up a dozen pottery jars, though mostly they were broken.

According to Douglas Cooper, the items were found in a pit several tens of meters away from a statue. He guessed that the pit originally should have contained a statue too, but it was unknown whether it had been dug up or toppled over. The pit was quite deep, several meters, and full of items.

It was supposed to be difficult to find, but one of the team members had sunk into it while diving for items, and then discovered something hard underfoot, so he dug it out.

These pieces of pottery only had research value; their economic value was basically gone.

Yet, Sean discovered a train of thought from the pottery:

"There aren’t no items underneath; there must have been many items originally. However, due to the continuous erosion of the water flow, if the items were not sturdy, they would have been washed away long ago. What else could remain?

"But if we look for them, in places far from the shore that have such deep holes, there is a high likelihood we can still find items!"

With a clear direction, finding items became easier.

And at that moment, the boat that Elijah Hastings had rented arrived. The motorboat came over, attracting quite a lot of attention.

Just then, James emerged from underwater. He had searched near the three stacks of giant stone city walls. Apart from a stone slab wedged in a crevice of the giant stones, which held some value, he had found nothing else.

This made him feel a bit disheartened.

But that’s normal for scientific research and exploration.

Then he saw the motorboat brought by Elijah and his people.

James slapped his forehead, realizing how foolish he had been not to think of renting a boat.

Hearing from the fisherman that the relics had been discovered not far from the lake shore, he had assumed they could start directly from the shore.

Having a boat would allow him to explore even further distances underwater, wouldn’t it?

After all, they had mostly finished inspecting the areas close to the shore. These three giant stone city walls, when combined, were several kilometers in length, but apart from stones, there was nothing.

It seemed that in order to find good items, a much larger area needed to be searched.

Elijah and his people drove the motorboat to where Sean and his team were, then lowered a rubber boat and took Sean back to the ship.

Once Sean was on the boat, he pointed down and asked:

"Do you have radar, can you see the underwater situation?"

"We can, but it’s a fish-finding radar, mainly for detecting living creatures." Elijah pointed to the ship cabin and said.

"That’s enough." Sean had always been concerned about the safety of the team members. Now that they could see living creatures, they could react in time if anything happened.

James was embarrassed to admit that he had forgotten about it, but in his heart, he was also secretly planning to rent a boat from the fishing port as soon as he returned to shore that day.

The investors of this research team had already received the video and were very happy. They hoped James would increase the excavation efforts, and if he could find compelling evidence of an ancient civilization, they would also increase the funding amount.

So James wasn’t worried about the funds.

Therefore, he changed an oxygen cylinder and dived down again.

After this dive, he would go rent a boat!

James’s enthusiasm continued to stimulate the staff.

The giant stone city wall also kept their excitement high.

After all, it was clear to everyone that these were man-made structures.

But this relic had never been discovered by anyone before—didn’t that make them the first discoverers?

Carrying the title of being the first, not only did they have the potential for immense fame, but there was also a chance they might discover something unknown to the world.

So even when they had dived two or three times, discovered nothing but the giant stone city wall, they were still enthusiastic.