Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1477 - 706: The Most Astute Hunters Often Appear as Prey!_2

Chapter 1477: Chapter 706: The Most Astute Hunters Often Appear as Prey!_2

Sean Knight didn’t continue speaking. If Big Head didn’t come tomorrow, then he would spare his life.

After all, although he had brought a fake, he also brought Sean Knight a precious Yongli Era Coin.

But if he kept coming back, then he was looking for death!

Douglas Cooper understood Sean Knight’s meaning, nodded, and turned to leave.

Sean Knight returned to the room, flipped his wrist, and the Yongli Era Coin appeared in his hand.

He hadn’t expected such a precious coin to appear here... But thinking about it, it made sense. Only such a site, buried under the sea for hundreds of years, could contain such relics.

And in a continuously existing port city like Manila, it was difficult to find, as over the years, those copper coins had either been collected or melted down into bronze ware or other objects.

Last century, during the 1960s and 1970s, a large quantity of copper coins from China had been sent to smelters to be melted down for bullet shells.

It was these submerged sites that, having been undisturbed for hundreds of years, remained so well preserved.

It was uncertain what other treasures could still be acquired.

Yet Sean Knight was satisfied. After all, he had been here for almost a week, and even if the Philippine government was slow to respond, it would probably figure it out soon.

Sean Knight guessed that the salvage operators had probably banded together to block the news, otherwise, the official patrol boats would have come by now.

Sean Knight, with nothing else to do, thought about it and suited up in his diving suit and jumped into the water.

He swam around nearby and found that the market area had already been thoroughly dug through by the team members. Things were buried quite shallowly here, and with metal detectors, there wasn’t much that could escape.

He then dove towards other areas.

After recovering the gold and silver from that sunken ship, Sean Knight felt that this earthquake-ravaged city must still have more gold and silver.

Perhaps he just hadn’t located it yet?

Sean Knight then dove to the vicinity of the Lord’s Manor, which had already been abandoned by those fishing boats.

The main reason was that the building materials here were too solid, the tools on ordinary fishing boats couldn’t move the rocks.

Even if some spoils could be found, the effort far exceeded other places. With such a vast site, why stubbornly focus only here?

However, precisely because of this, this area had become a favorite place for marine life—since human activity disturbed most other places, this relatively quiet area attracted more schools of fish.

As Sean Knight swam through, the small school of fish suddenly scattered and swam to the side, but the larger fish didn’t care, as the underwater world was theirs.

Sean Knight stopped about two hundred meters away from where he had previously dug out the Lord’s Manor’s Warehouse.

It was also a little mound on the seafloor. With the Sky Eye, Sean Knight could see that it was a collapsed building.

Below were large, cut, and polished stones, all messily piled together.

Even if someone knew there was something underneath, no one came to dig.

One stone weighed at least a ton or two; moving even one would require several people exerting a lot of effort. It wasn’t worth it.

Sean Knight, however, was not worried about this.

His Sky Eye was activated, and indeed there was a warehouse beneath.

The warehouse, however, didn’t contain gold or silver, but a large quantity of items.

Firearms, gunpowder, bayonets, military uniforms... This place used to be a military camp.

Or perhaps an armory?

Although all the firearms here were front-loading, they were relatively advanced flintlock guns, which were quite decent items in the collection field.

After collecting the rocks, Sean Knight gathered twelve boxes of flintlock guns and two boxes of bayonets. A few unfired flintlock guns, corroded almost beyond recognition, he left behind.

The rest of the items, already turned to garbage by the power of seawater, Sean Knight glanced over and then moved on.

As he left the area, a small school of fish quickly swam by, vying for the organic matter stirred up from the seabed silt due to Sean Knight’s displacement of the rocks.

Sean Knight walked a bit further and stopped when he reached a higher ground.

Looking around, there was no one nearby, so he bent down and continued to collect the rocks.

After a short while, the rocks revealed traces of silk fabrics.

Crushed wood mixed with metal shelves contained two exquisite silver jewelry boxes. The size was about the same as a sixteen-open book, twenty centimeters high, with two layers.

Inside these jewelry boxes were many gold jewelry and accessories, emitting a rich gemstone glow in Sean Knight’s Sky Eye.

There were plenty of good items.

After collecting the two jewelry boxes, Sean Knight scanned the area with his Sky Eye, didn’t find anything else of interest, and thus turned to leave.

He had already checked the high ground, so he only had down to go.

Walking nearly a hundred meters underwater, Sean Knight stopped again.

Here was another "little mound".

But the items beneath it truly excited him!

Beneath were big chunks of copper coins!

This was clearly a treasury!

Judging by its location, it seemed to have some connection to the Lord’s Manor, yet the terrain was not within the manor’s protective stone walls, so Sean Knight was a bit puzzled by this building.

But never mind, the copper coins below added up to at least several tons. At a rough glance, they were from various eras: Tang Kaiyuan, Song Dynasty, Dayuan, Ming Yongle, and even a few Shunzhi, indicating that the city’s earthquake probably occurred in the early Qing Dynasty.