Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 324 - 257: Rent a Boat to Salvage Treasure_2

Chapter 324: Chapter 257: Rent a Boat to Salvage Treasure_2

Even the most curious, Douglas Cooper, didn’t ask.

Sean Knight naturally moved the boxes of gold coins into the spatial realm.

He originally planned to tell Elijah Hastings and the others directly that they had been moved away overnight if they asked. However, since they didn’t ask, he didn’t have to explain himself.

Returning to the ship and having a simple breakfast, Sean Knight told Elijah and the others:

"Let’s work hard together. Let’s each take a pistol. Today is the most critical day. As long as we get through today, we can have a good rest tomorrow, and I’ll give you bonuses!"

Elijah and the others had also absorbed energy with Sean Knight, and they were young and strong. Staying up all night was no big deal for them.

Nemo got up early, staring blankly at Sean Knight as he directed his workers. The workers were all in high spirits.

He pulled one aside and asked, only to learn that Sean Knight had given each working overtime a thousand dollars in bonuses last night!

Although a thousand dollars wasn’t much to Nemo, getting that much money for working overnight was naturally a thrill for the workers!

So, today they all worked with the energy of a shot of adrenaline!

Even the female underwater robot operator kept throwing flirtatious glances at Sean Knight.

However, Sean Knight was not interested in this type of woman. His interest now was in those gold coins.

Nemo went to the recovery chamber, to his astonishment, the boxes containing gold were gone!

He immediately asked the workers, who said they had been transported away last night!

Nemo didn’t expect Sean’s move to be so fast!

He had entertained the idea of becoming a modern pirate or something.

However, when he saw that Lincoln Harrington and Douglas Cooper had deliberately or unintentionally revealed guns at their waists, Nemo put that thought to rest.

It wouldn’t be worth it if he were to be killed before any piracy took place.

However, he still didn’t want Sean Knight to take the treasure away so easily, so he couldn’t help but make a phone call.

Sean Knight’s ears were sharp, and the call was well within his hearing range.

Sean didn’t expect Nemo to be so sneaky.

However, he was busy salvaging at the moment, so he couldn’t be bothered to deal with him. That would have to wait until later!

Next, not only gold coins were salvaged, but also irregularly shaped gold bars, silver bars, and some gemstones.

Luckily, these things were all in boxes. So many years had passed, and although the boxes had broken, their contents were still largely confined within that range.

So salvaging was relatively simple.

Salvage continued until noon when Sean Knight declared salvaging to be over!

That day, more than fifty boxes of treasure were salvaged!

First, Sean Knight had Elijah Hastings take the people to transport the boxes, then paid Nemo the rest of the money, and finally gave each worker a thousand-dollar bonus before disembarking the ship.

As soon as Sean Knight’s boat left, Nemo yelled at the operator:

"Hurry! Continue to search nearby! See if there are any more gold coins! I believe that there must be gold coins left unexcavated!"

Sean Knight’s excavation work had stopped abruptly, so Nemo thought that Sean Knight must feel they’d dug up enough, or that the remaining areas were not detected.

But the boat was his!

Nemo believed that there were definitely undiscovered treasures in the nearby seabed!

Even if he only found a single box, it would be enough to pay off his debts and have the freedom to treasure hunt!

However, after scanning for half a day, the radar found only scattered metal fragments and no large metal reactions!

Nemo tore at his hair in desperation and muttered crazily:

"This isn’t possible! This isn’t possible! He didn’t have any precise equipment, so how could he know the range of the gold coins so precisely? This isn’t possible..."

This was like hunting in a pitch-black jungle. He had a hunting rifle with a night vision sight, while the other side had nothing. Yet in the end, the other side had caught the prey, and he had caught nothing!

This wasn’t scientific!

Sean Knight didn’t care about Nemo’s unscientific behavior. He returned to his tent with the boxes. He set up a large tent for the boxes, and guarded them inside while letting Elijah and the others rest.

Naturally, Elijah and the others couldn’t let Sean Knight guard all these items by himself. They left one person to stay with him- Sean Knight said that someone would come to transport these things away at night.

New of Sean’s discovery of treasure spread through the village and to other treasure hunters, causing an uproar!

A treasure that eluded many others had been found by Sean Knight. How could it not have caused a sensation?

Local authorities rushed to the island immediately.

To inspect and collect taxes.

Sean Knight did not resist. He paid the taxes obediently. The local officials were happy with this. Once taxes were paid, they didn’t care about the rest.

Just when Elijah Hastings and the others began to worry about the safety of so many treasures, Sean Knight secretly "transported" the boxes away that night.

"Boss, aren’t we leaving yet?" The next morning, seeing that the boxes were already gone, Elijah and the others breathed a sigh of relief. During breakfast, Elijah asked Sean.

"There’s still one important thing we need to dig up. Once it’s out, we’ll leave."

Sean replied.

Last night, while Elijah and the others were asleep, Sean stayed awake. In the latter half of the night, he didn’t have Elijah and the others stay on guard, but waited for himself, waiting until no one was around before putting away the boxes of gold coins.

Now carefree, Sean was thinking about catching up on some sleep.

After sleeping half a day, Sean led Elijah and the others on the north side of the island in the afternoon, then started digging with a shovel.

When villagers asked what they were doing, Sean said he felt there was something underneath.

Some people didn’t believe him, others did, and then started digging not far from Sean and the others.

If it was a vast treasure, digging nearby might allow them to get a share of the spoils.

Douglas wanted to stop them, but Sean didn’t allow it. The four of them focused on digging.

A lot of people gathered to watch the excitement, some even taking out their mobile phones to record it live.

Sean and the others didn’t care. After digging more than two meters deep into the sand, Sean’s shovel hit something hard.

Elijah and the others immediately joined Sean in unearthing the hard object.

It was a small box, with length, width, and height not exceeding 30 centimeters.

The box was made of stone but was exquisitely crafted, with ancient patterns on the front and sides.

As soon as the box was dug up, Sean immediately carried it to the surface and said to Elijah,

"Fill in the hole."

People nearby immediately asked,

"What’s inside? Open it and let’s see!"

"Yeah! What could be in it?"

Sharp-eyed observers saw the stone box and understood why it hadn’t been found by the treasure hunters.

As for the requests of the crowd, Sean pretended not to hear them.

What was in the box was too far beyond common sense, so Sean wasn’t planning to take the contents out.

He intended to go back and study it carefully.

Filling the hole was much faster than digging, and it was quickly leveled. Under the escort of Elijah and the others, Sean left the northern sandy beach of the island and headed towards their tents.

On the way, someone stopped Sean to see what he was holding but was chased away by Douglas Cooper.

Now was the time to demonstrate strength.

Returning to the tent, Sean put the box into his backpack and said to Elijah and the others,

"Pack your things. Let’s go!"

There were no boats to leave the island at this time.

However, this did not pose a problem for Sean. He went straight to the local villagers, spent a thousand dollars, and hired their motorboat to leave the island.

Although this boat was not suited for open sea fishing, it had no problem traveling for several dozen miles.

An hour after Sean and the others left, the treasure hunters finally made their move.

They never expected that Sean and the others would hastily leave after digging up the items.

After all, there were no passenger boats available. In their minds, Sean and the others wouldn’t leave until the next day at the earliest.

Some people had originally planned to visit Sean and his team with their finds, only to discover that the tents remained but the people were gone!

Fixed mindset could be harmful!

Nemo, too, had failed to notice Sean and the others’ departure.

He was still searching for treasure in the nearby waters.

After Sean and the others had salvaged the items earlier, Nemo had called one of his "contacts" and informed him of the news.

The man then brought people in a boat to intercept nearby.

After all, with more than a hundred boxes, a small boat would not be able to transport them all.

And a passenger boat would not do either.

So his target was a large ship.

As he waited for Sean and his team to leave the island, the man still hadn’t managed to intercept a large ship.