Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 463 - 328: Unexpected Situation_2

Chapter 463: Chapter 328: Unexpected Situation_2

But they couldn’t do that.

That’s the advantage.

Sean Knight thought for a moment and said,

"Let’s adjust our plan a bit. We’ll be working in shift at night, cutting the warship underwater. During the day, the yacht goes out, but mainly it’s for resting."

"Cutting a warship?" Elijah Hastings and the others were a little confused.

Sean Knight realized he hadn’t explained properly, so he said,

"Beneath the warship, there should be a stash of treasures—more than what we found earlier. These things are probably what the Japanese soldiers looted back then. Maybe it was inconvenient to take them away, so they hid them below and sank the warship to conceal them."

"We must take those!" Douglas Cooper waved his arm, "Boss, just tell us how to do it!"

"We brought back two underwater cutting machines. At night, two people go underwater, and two others stay on the yacht. After diving, we start cutting the warship—it’s too big to move, and cannot be lifted.

If we were to blow it up, it would make too much noise. My plan is to cut out some space from the nearest area, move the stuff inside, make a silent fortune without anyone noticing!"

"Good!" Elijah Hastings clapped his hands in agreement.

"Alright, we’ll eat later, and once it’s completely dark, we’ll get to work. Elijah and I will go first!"

Then the cutting task began.

That night, after finishing dinner, Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings dived under the warship.

Sean Knight had a plan for where to cut.

But due to new variables, namely the addition of people, the original plan to cut directly from the periphery had to be abandoned. Instead, they moved into the warship, going all the way to the bottom, then cutting down the steel plate to reach the hidden treasure location.

The challenge was that the bottom of the warship was actually fairly thick and the space was small, which could induce a feeling of claustrophobia.

Fortunately, there were two of them, so at least when they were moving together, it didn’t feel so lonely with a companion nearby.

Cutting inside the warship, the sound of the grinding disc rubbing against the steel resonated, but under water, it didn’t travel far. This was precisely what Sean Knight wanted.

Elijah Hastings and he both wore underwater headlamps, attracting some small fish and other sea animals. The noise scared them off.

The steel plate was thick, and cutting was slow, but both of them were prepared for this, so they weren’t in a hurry.

In fact, after only half a night’s work, the cutting machine ran out of power, and they had to come up to charge it.

Therefore, Sean Knight changed the plan: two people each night, rotating once per day. During the daytime, they rest, while the cutter charges.

During the day, Sean Knight went to the pier to eat. The pier’s dining hall served quite a variety of food.

In recent years, visitors from China had been scattered all around the world. This place was no exception, so the dining hall at the port also provided some Chinese food—although it was a bit different from the original, it looked and tasted better than some sticky foods.

Sean Knight and his group sat around a table. As they were eating, two men and a woman walked in from outside.

The accent of these three speaking English was a bit strange. Sean Knight just looked up briefly. The two men were okay. The woman was rather pretty and seemed to be the focus of attention from both men.

The way the three of them spoke and their expressions led Sean Knight to guess that they were Japanese.

Indeed, when the three of them went to another table to wait for their food, Douglas Cooper whispered,

"Those are the people from that yacht. Apparently, a woman is in charge, which is quite rare."

Sean Knight gave a slow nod of understanding.

"There are a few more people on their boat, but they seldom come down. Apparently, their status is quite low."

Heh, status.

After eating, Sean Knight and his companions rested in the hotel at the port while charging the cutter.

At night, Elijah Hastings took Douglas Cooper and Lincoln Harrington to continue the cutting under the sea, while Sean Knight rested in the hotel.

When he went out to buy some stuff and was returning, Sean Knight noticed that those two men and the woman were also staying in the same hotel. When they saw Sean Knight, they greeted him friendly.

Sean Knight nodded and went into his room.

During the following days, Sean Knight encountered these three people every day. Through their active introductions, he also learned their names.

The two men were called Nobita Ichinann and Nakamura Shinnji. The woman was called Takeuchi Meiko, claiming to be a tourist.

Of course, Sean Knight did not believe them. He also claimed to be a tourist, and he could see from their eyes that they did not believe him either.

Luckily there was no substantive interaction between them. They were just nodding acquaintances. The name Sean Knight gave was Bill Price, and they naturally wouldn’t know it was a pseudonym.

Five days later, a two-meter square steel plate was finally cut from the bottom of the warship. Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings carefully removed the steel plate.

Underneath was layers of silt.

Sean put down the cutter and slowly pushed the silt aside with a shovel, revealing an iron box that was one meter long, half a meter wide, and half a meter high.

After motioning to Elijah, Sean, along with him, lifted the box out and off to the side.

There were more boxes underneath, but Sean didn’t lift any more. Instead, he and Elijah put the steel plate back in place, covering it again with a layer of silt so one could not tell it had been cut.

The two of them carefully lifted the iron box next to the cutting tool, and slowly began to rise.

After reaching the yacht, both were quite tired. They simply placed the box in the yacht’s living room, tidied up the tools, and decided to rest before proceeding anything.

After resting a while, as the eastern sky began to lighten, Sean stood up to check on the box.

It wasn’t really fatigue, rather after working hard for five nights straight, the anticipation of the rewards had them on edge.

Since they were expecting success today, apart from Sean and Elijah, Douglas Cooper and Lincoln Harrington were also there.

One was in the driver’s cockpit at the moment, the other was on guard outside.

Sean looked at the iron box and noticed a lock on it. Although it has been immersed in the sea for a long time, the lock didn’t seem to have rusted away completely, it was still basically functioning.

Sean reached out and twisted hard, snapping off the lock.

Opening the box, golden bricks were revealed inside.

This box holds at least 100 kilograms!

Unlike the irregular gold extracted earlier, these gold bricks were clearly more orderly, and there were numbers on them.

Sean speculated that these gold bricks may have been plundered during the Japanese occupation. Back then, they melted all the gold products they could find into regular golden bricks for storage and transportation.

After all, when the Japanese soldiers first occupied Northeast Hualand, North Hualand, and East Hualand, they went to the National Treasury first, looted valuables, and then slowly raided, killed, and plundered.

Although some metal coins have been returned after the war, much more still remains with them.

Just like what one can see at hand, these are what was left behind.

The amount that was really transported away is unknown. If not for such wealth, how could Japan recover so quickly after the war?

Sean drew back his thoughts--this little bit, just consider it as partially recovering the interest.

Eventually, it must be addressed.

Later.

There was a box of gold right there, Elijah stood up, he bent over to take a piece and weighed it in his hand, clicking his tongue:

"This piece is at least 5 kilograms, right?"

"About there."

Elijah put the gold brick back in the box and smiled:

"Not bad, not bad, we’ve profited from this trip!"

Then he walked out:

"I’m going to swap with Douglas, so he can also come and see. This stuff is really morale-boosting!"

In a moment, Douglas Cooper ran in excitedly, looked at the gold in the box, he picked up a piece, weighed it and said the same:

"At least 5 kilograms, right?"

"Yeah."

"Excellent! Excellent!" After examining it closely for a while, he put the gold back in the box, and then ran out:

"I’m going to switch with Lincoln Harrington, so he can see it too."

After all three of them had their turn to see the gold like it was some merry-go-round, Sean simply called them in:

"Each of you take one block, this is your reward for this venture. The rest isn’t part of your share."

"Don’t take it, Boss, you might as well cash it out for me." Douglas picked up the gold and then put it down, "It’s not convenient to hold in hand. It’s better to turn it into cash."

The three of them had no dispute about Sean only giving them one gold brick each.

They were already very content.