Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 615 - 403: The Unexpected Advantage of Stumbling into Something

Chapter 615: Chapter 403: The Unexpected Advantage of Stumbling into Something

Last night, Sean Knight made eight round trips, finally boarding the yacht before the eastern sky turned a fish-belly white. Lincoln Harrington then drove the yacht quietly away from the area, cruising several dozens of sea miles before stopping.

They were now close to the main waterway, and could see ships coming and going in the distance.

"Don’t disturb me, I need a rest," Sean entered the master bedroom and soon fell asleep on the bed.

He wasn’t really tired, but being in the gloomy underwater environment on his own easily caused mental fatigue.

Two hours later, a well-rested Sean woke up, took the silver cross out of the spatial realm, and began to absorb the energy inside it.

After absorbing energy several times, there was less than half of the energy left in the silver cross.

This time, Sean directly absorbed all the remaining energy before stopping.

Feeling refreshed, Sean left the master bedroom and saw Elijah Hastings and Douglas Cooper discussing something quietly. He walked over and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Yes, it’s still warm," Douglas served the dishes.

"Our marine police came and asked if we had any issues, but we said we were fine," Elijah reported, "Douglas’s fishing boat also came by. They came from the south, so we bought some seafood."

Sean nodded as he ate, without saying anything.

That night, the yacht returned to a location near where they had been the day before.

Sean dove in and quickly located the "boundary" marked the night before, resuming his search.

He discovered that the range of his Sky Eye vision in the underwater world gradually widened as he continued to use it.

Although the improvement was small, it could still be felt.

Suddenly, a black object underwater caught his attention.

A sunken ship!

It was an ancient wooden ship, with no mast, only a bare hull covered in silt and organic matter from underwater life, half exposed like a rock.

The Sky Eye scanned the surroundings and found no large holes in the ship. Sean estimated that it had been capsized by strong winds and waves before sinking to the bottom.

Surprisingly, the centuries-old ship was loaded with unique products from ancient Japan.

Boxes of knives, fans - though the knives were rusted and the fans had deteriorated into garbage and ash.

However, the remaining dozens of boxes were the most valuable things on the entire ship.

Silver ingots.

Sean remembered that Japan’s Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine had once produced a large amount of silver, which the Japanese had used to trade for raw silk and other Chinese goods.

This vessel was likely used for such trading.

He roughly estimated that a box of silver weighed about two hundred kilograms, and with ten boxes here, it amounted to around two tons.

It was quite valuable.

Even at that time, the forty thousand taels of silver would have been a huge sum.

The ship owner or the cargo owner must have suffered a significant loss from losing this fortune, right?

At least it wasn’t a wasted trip.

Sean approached, took out tools from his spatial realm, and slowly chipped away at the thick shell of the sunken ship. He began putting the silver ingots one box at a time into his spatial realm.

After filling nine boxes, Sean took out a rope, tied the last box, and tried to lift it up.

He couldn’t lift it - or rather, it wouldn’t float up.

After all, it weighed two hundred kilograms. While he could lift it, the water couldn’t support such heavy objects.

Sean had no choice but to retrieve a net pocket from his spatial realm, open the box, and put several tens of kilograms of silver ingots into it. He stored the rest in his spatial realm before slowly surfacing.

This time, Sean was underwater for a long time. When he surfaced, he saw Elijah, Lincoln, and Douglas scouring the area from the yacht’s deck several tens of meters away.

Douglas was about to don his diving equipment to search for Sean.

However, Elijah stopped him and persuaded him not to do that.

Sean swam over to them.

"Boss, I’m so glad you’re okay!" Lincoln exclaimed in a hushed voice as he spotted Sean swimming over.

Douglas and Elijah stopped what they were doing, saw Sean approaching, and immediately crouched down, trying to pull Sean onto the yacht.

Sean handed the net pocket to Douglas and then climbed onto the deck with Elijah’s help. While removing his diving equipment, he said, "I found something underwater, so it took me longer."

"Is this... silver?" Douglas took a silver ingot from the net pocket and asked, "Right?"

"Yes, I found it in a sunken ship," Sean replied as he removed his diving gear, "There’s more, I’ll get it next time I dive."

"Nice! These ancient silver ingots must be worth quite a bit, right? Are there any inscriptions on them?"

At this point, Elijah finally asked a question that had been on his mind:

"Boss, are you looking for sunken ships in this sea area?"

"Yes," Sean wiped himself dry and said as he walked inside, "Douglas’s video showed a seemingly rocky scene, but I suspected it was a sunken ship, so I wanted to take a look..."

"Is it the one you found?"

"No," Sean waved his hand, "if my guess is correct, the one is way more valuable than this."

He went in to drink some water and eat before diving again.

However, this time he didn’t dive near the sunken ship but continued to search. When the time was almost up, he took another net pocket filled with silver ingots up to the surface.

He repeated this process until he had taken up two more boxes of silver ingots. Then he stopped diving, as it was almost dawn.

Although they hadn’t found their target, Elijah, Lincoln, and Douglas were still quite excited about the discovery.