Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1196 - 611 Trouble Comes, Let’s Hurry Up!_3

Chapter 1196: Chapter 611 Trouble Comes, Let’s Hurry Up!_3

Sean Knight knew he had found the target and hurriedly followed.

There had been similar situations before, but each time they turned out to be fruitless runs.

But this time, it seemed... different?

When Sean Knight reached the hollow place that Elijah Hastings had signaled to, he found that it was indeed quite large.

Or rather, it wasn’t just a hole, but a crack about five or six meters long and two meters wide.

Wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, trapezoid-shaped. However, it was about four or five meters deep.

The main thing was that the side of the crack closer to the deep groove was higher, forming a stone platform, while the side closer to the lakeside was lower, with a gentle slope, so some items carried back by the lake water were washed into the crack and blocked by the stone platform, remaining there.

With his Sky Eye activated, Sean immediately saw that most of the silt and rocks on top of the crack had been cleared away, revealing some broken stone carvings underneath.

Even if they were just fragments, the smallest was the size of a football, with visible fish heads and animal bodies among other things. They all had very simple patterns.

Underneath these stones were glittering gold utensils, with the heavier objects remaining at the bottom due to the water.

Just from this hollow place, Sean estimated that there had to be at least eight hundred kilograms, perhaps even a ton of gold!

Who exactly had created this ancient relic?

Scientists have researched that the amount of gold mined from the Earth is around 190,000 metric tons. And there is even more unmined—far too much.

These estimates probably do not include the gold in front of him—this relic didn’t even have a historical record.

Sean just mused for a moment. However, it seemed normal, those glittering items probably served at most a decorative purpose in the eyes of the relic’s original owners, much like the shiny stones at the very bottom.

After all, gold is rather soft and not as useful as stone.

The team worked in perfect sync, tossing aside the less useful stone statues and proceeding to the big cargo!

Excitement burst forth when the first piece, a gold mirror nearly one meter in diameter and already deformed, was unearthed.

Then they continued excavating while sending stuff to the boat.

This crack was much larger than the last one they had excavated, containing many more items.

There were more than thirty gold goods alone.

Gold is relatively soft, and many items had deformed under the weight of the stones.

But Sean and his team didn’t care about that. They didn’t even know to whom these items belonged, and apart from a few collectors with unique tastes, the value of the gold itself would likely determine their fate.

Of course, there were also gemstones and colored glaze underwater.

Considering those people had managed to make pottery, creating colored glaze probably wasn’t a rare thing either.

The team members worked silently and efficiently for about forty minutes, and when the oxygen was nearly depleted, they finally cleared out everything inside—with most of the gemstones being stored by Sean in his spatial realm, not out of corruption, but because if they kept taking everything up in turns, they probably wouldn’t have enough oxygen left.

At that moment, a black shadow slowly swam over from the nearby deep groove.

The shadow was longer than the previous giant shark, but its shape was more slender, tapering at the front and bulging at the back.

The creature, being rather timid, kept its distance after sensing the water waves caused by Sean and his team’s activity and merely observed from afar.

Occasionally on the boat, the radar screen would show a bright spot, which would disappear quickly. Douglas Cooper hesitated whether to warn Sean and his team.

The creature was several tens of meters away and didn’t approach. By the time Douglas decided to give them a heads-up, it had already vanished.

Of course, the big creature hadn’t left—it caught a fish in the nearby groove, swallowed it, and then continued to patrol from a distance, just watching the movements of Sean and his team.

It seemed as long as Sean and his team didn’t venture into the groove, it wouldn’t come over.

It was only when Sean and his team began to ascend and moved closer to the surface that the shadow slowly sank into the depth of the groove.

By the time everyone was on the boat, the pressure gauge on the oxygen cylinder was dangerously low.

"I’m exhausted," Elijah remarked as he lay on the deck, hardly wanting to move.

Douglas, who had been observing the pile of shapeless gold products, helped the others with their gear and said:

"There was a big guy approaching just now, but then it swam away."

"And you didn’t warn us?" Elijah playfully scolded. "If it had come close, would we have had time to react?"

"With our skill," Douglas joked back, "no one else would be a burden to us, and even that shark wouldn’t stand a chance, so I wasn’t worried. I think you guys weren’t either."

What he was mainly aware of was Sean Knight. He knew the boss’s instincts and capabilities.

If there was any danger, he reckoned Sean would have pulled Elijah and the rest up without needing to be told.

While the boss might have his flaws, with a girlfriend seemingly on every continent, one thing he did right was that he genuinely cared about the safety of his subordinates.

Not only did Douglas feel this way, but the other team members felt the same.

In their view, it was normal to face some danger with such high wages.

But every time they set out, safety first was Sean’s most repeated concern.

Sometimes he was even more nagging than their own parents.

"Boss, can we head back now?" Lincoln Harrington, changed into clean clothes, asked.

"No," Sean answered, "Maneuver the boat closer to the shore. We’ll take the rubber boat and get all this stuff to the campground. I’m afraid that by tomorrow morning, there might be government airplanes coming to check."

Once the items were secured, Sean’s greatest concern was safety. The captain was definitely not to be trusted.

Thus, leaving the goods on the boat was certainly not safe—they had to be moved.

"Okay," everyone immediately agreed.

After having a bit of a midnight snack, or perhaps breakfast, the team made two trips to transport everything to the lakeside campground, with Sean and a few others deciding to stay at the campground. He even brought Cheryl Suweton back with him.

Meanwhile, Douglas stayed on the boat along with the remaining team members, deciding to wait until daybreak.

"Load the items into the car, I’ll take them away first," Sean told Elijah Hastings and Lincoln inside the camp. "These things, they can’t be exposed to light."

Without the items present, whatever the captain might say later would be of no concern.