Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1245 - 628: I brought them back!_2

Chapter 1245: Chapter 628: I brought them back!_2

After all, in the Age of Discovery, those maritime carriage drivers pulled gold and silver from America to Manila, and from there they transported it back to Europe.

Sean Knight had once found treasures from sunken ships from that era in the nearby sea areas.

However, what he valued most were those salvaged treasures.

After all, when researching South Sea No.1, he had heard why this ship needed to be salvaged.

The South Sea once teemed with tens of thousands of ships, and the Maritime Silk Road was not named in vain.

For this reason, countless merchant ships, warships, and even pirate vessels lie sunken below.

In the 1980s, many Western cultural relic traffickers brazenly began salvaging those sunken ships in China’s South Sea—

At that time, our Navy’s power was limited, unable to control the entire South Sea, so these bandits entered the sea as if it was no man’s land, and they salvaged vessels full of cultural relics one after another.

To maximize their profits, they even used explosives to blow up the remaining items inside the ships after salvaging a part of the items!

These shameless fellows even held auctions on Harbor Island, openly auctioning the items salvaged from the South Sea.

After our experts learned about this, they asked the superiors for permission and used precious foreign exchange to try to buy back some important cultural relics.

But at that time, the foreign exchange reserves were very scarce domestically, and our experts found at the auction that the items salvaged by the bandits were exceptionally exquisite, and their foreign exchange could not buy a single item!

This incident became a disgrace in the eyes of some real experts!

That’s why the salvage and clean-up work of South Sea No.1 ensued.

Sean Knight guessed that these ancient cultural relics, which were thousands of years old, were probably salvaged from that time.

Porcelain still accounted for the majority, and the rest were some iron wares, copper coins, gold and silver jewelry, and so on. Sean Knight even saw two bronze cannons and two stone statues, as well as dozens of pottery figurines of various sizes.

You could definitely set up a museum with these!

Sean Knight turned his head back and began to collect those cultural relics, along with the shelves holding them.

Next were the remaining salvaged items from the sea, including the gold and silver coins from the Age of Discovery.

Collecting these items didn’t consume much energy for Sean Knight, but having to physically handle each item one by one was quite troublesome.

It was a waste of time.

He already had arrangements for the fate of these items.

Although he couldn’t run a museum himself, with the Xinjiang Museum there, why go to so much trouble?

After all, many bronze wares were already there, and adding more wouldn’t matter.

To showcase the items created by the ancient ancestors of China for everyone to see would be quite worthwhile.

After the collection was complete, Sean Knight patted his hands; half an hour had already passed.

He turned and walked upstairs, wondering how Elijah Hastings and his team were doing.

Upon leaving the room, Sean Knight listened and seemed to hear no more noise from their side.

He walked out of the courtyard and saw Elijah Hastings and Douglas Cooper dragging several people, who had fainted and collapsed on the ground, into a room.

Sean Knight didn’t disturb them, and he jumped out of the courtyard—having also found the sensors, but with his current skills, he had no need to deal with those gadgets and could easily leave without them.

Not long after he left the courtyard, Sean Knight’s mobile phone rang.

It was a call from Elijah Hastings.

"Boss, we’ve been exposed. We’ve taken care of all the guards in this courtyard, if there’s to be any action, it’s best to take it tonight."

"Then you guys pull out. I will arrange for someone to handle the remaining issues in there—by the way, how long till those people wake up?"

"A few hours, maybe." Elijah Hastings was uncertain.

"Alright, that’s about it for this trip," Sean Knight said. " safely withdraw."

Although Elijah Hastings was a bit confused, he didn’t have any other ideas and decided to listen to his boss.

After hanging up, Elijah Hastings said to Douglas Cooper:

"Let’s go."

"Go? What about this place?" Douglas Cooper was a bit perplexed.

"The boss has other arrangements."

Without another word, Elijah Hastings headed out.

"Another arrangement? What does that mean?" Douglas Cooper quickly followed and inquired.

"It’s literal." Elijah Hastings didn’t know more, nor did he want to explain.

"Captain Hastings, do you think our boss has some other secret force that specializes in this kind of work?"

"Pretty much." Elijah Hastings left the courtyard and climbed over the wall back the way they came, stopping outside for a moment, then said, "Work like this is somewhat inconvenient for us. The boss must have a specialized team for it."

But how come they never showed their faces?

Sean Knight returned to the hotel ahead of Elijah Hastings and the rest.

Everything had gone too smoothly this time; none of the original plans were needed.

His original intention was to have Lincoln Harrington cause a disturbance at the Davena family’s end, then attract some of the guards there. Meanwhile, they would have moved into the courtyard to start their operation.

Unexpectedly, the Davena family assigned so few guards to such an important warehouse, allowing Sean Knight to easily succeed.

Of course, an easy success was a good thing.

Back at the hotel, knowing that delay breeds risk, Sean Knight immediately woke up Lincoln Harrington and his team and bought plane tickets back to China on the spot.

Without further ado, they took their leave!

After transferring flights and returning to Urumqi, Sean Knight first visited his family, then made a phone call to Joseph Davis at the Xinjiang Museum.

The two met in a well-known specialty dining hall in Urumqi.

Upon meeting, Joseph Davis was enthusiastic and embraced Sean Knight, then said:

"Oh Sean, you truly are a dragon seen only in glimpses. I’ve wanted to invite you for a meal several times, but you’re always too busy."