Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 506 - 350: The Mystery under the Lake Bottom

Chapter 506: Chapter 350: The Mystery under the Lake Bottom

As Sean Knight sneaked into the water from the woods, he found that the lake was relatively clear.

It was probably because the expansion of the lake was not that long ago, and there weren’t many fish underwater. Looking through the diving goggles, he could see that some shrubs, which were originally growing on land, were still alive underwater, although most of their leaves had been eaten by fish.

Only a few leaves remained, and they were covered in a layer of gray, fluffy substance.

Sean Knight slowly dove toward the center of the lake. Because his Sky Eye was well-charged, he continuously scanned all around, hoping for exciting discoveries.

Unfortunately, he didn’t find anything surprising until he barely saw the bottom of a salvage ship.

Although this was expected, Sean Knight wasn’t disappointed. He swam around the salvage ship from a distance and soon found traces of two divers.

One of them was feeling around underwater, while the other was holding a bundle of goods and floating upward.

Scanning the bundle, Sean Knight found it to be a broken pottery jar of little value.

So he let him go and swam over to the diver below.

Relying on his previous memories, Sean Knight had more or less determined that the location of this diver was not too far from the original center of the lake.

At that time, this area was used as a sacrificial site. The Native Americans threw various sacrificial implements into the lake using boats, so objects could be found here and there.

That was why they had found two golden masks earlier.

However, Sean Knight speculated that there must be a large number of sacrificial implements gathered together somewhere near the core of the lake—on one hand, the original lake was quite small and the center was more apparent, and on the other hand, gold was heavy and would accumulate near the softer silt.

As Sky Eye scanned, Sean Knight found that there was nothing in the digging area below the diver, so he was slightly relieved.

Just as he was about to turn away, a flash of gold suddenly caught Sky Eye’s attention!

Just a dozen meters or so from the diver, Sean Knight saw a cluster of gold items buried beneath the silt, at least ten of them!

Sean Knight’s heart tightened, and he didn’t want the diver to dig them up!

How could he get rid of the diver?

Sean Knight suddenly had a bold idea!

At this point, they were about 40-50 meters underwater, and visibility was poor.

He unhesitatingly swam over and arrived at the area, took out a short-handle iron shovel, and began to dig at the bottom of the lake.

He bet the diver would mistake him for his colleague even if he was seen and would not suspect anything!

The diver was carefully searching through the silt at the bottom of the lake and hadn’t noticed Sean Knight.

Although Sean Knight was a bit nervous, he calmly used his shovel to dig a hole through the silt at the bottom of the lake.

The goldware was almost 80 centimeters deep in the silt, which required some time to dig out.

However, after about ten minutes, the diver inadvertently looked up and saw Sean Knight with the help of his headlamp.

Feeling the diver’s gaze, Sean Knight paused momentarily.

At that moment, he was still a bit nervous.

However, the diver merely glanced at Sean Knight and didn’t think much of it, assuming it was his colleague who had come down, he waved at Sean Knight and continued to search with his head down.

Sean Knight breathed a sigh of relief and started digging faster.

Soon, he could feel his iron shovel hitting something hard.

Putting away the shovel and getting into the hole, he reached out and felt the hard object.

Upon inspecting it with his headlamp, it turned out to be a golden wine glass, gleaming under the light.

Sean Knight took the golden wine glass and subsequently found a golden pot and a golden basin in the hole. He took them all without hesitation.

After collecting these items, Sky Eye scanned the area again and found no other items nearby, so he surfaced.

The diver looked at him strangely, wondering why his colleague hadn’t found any items and left suddenly.

However, he didn’t think much of it and continued doing his own work.

Soon after Sean Knight left, the first diver who had surfaced came down and started searching the area.

The diver on the bottom, glancing at his colleague, noticed something was off.

There seemed to be a difference in their diving suits.

Did he change his diving suit?

As communication underwater was difficult, he decided to wait until they surfaced to talk about it.

Suddenly, the red light on his detector started flashing, and he immediately knew that there were objects underwater!

Without worrying about his previous suspicions, he quickly determined the location and began digging!

Sean Knight left the diver’s position and continued to roam around the bottom of the lake.

He knew the first diver had gone down, so he wouldn’t go near them again—the fact that he managed to blend in earlier was already a stroke of luck.

It’s better not to push his luck too often.

Sean Knight arrived at the genuine center of the lake.

He remembered that it was at this location where the spring mouth was opened, the underground water outlet became unblocked, and the lake’s surface expanded dozens of times its size.

Now that he was here, Sean Knight could still see large amounts of water gushing from underground.

He suddenly had a thought.

Since the underground water was still gushing, in theory, the lake’s surface should continue to expand, right?

Why did he find that the lake’s surface was actually shrinking?

Could there be another place where the water was still flowing away?