Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 618 - 404: Cat and Mouse, Who is Who?_2

Chapter 618: Chapter 404: Cat and Mouse, Who is Who?_2

There’s bound to be controversy here, and if the marine patrol ship gets pissed off, they might come back with more patrol vessels. So that would make things even more troublesome."

He changed his clothes and walked towards the yacht while saying:

"That salvage ship found a sunken ship. They won’t be satisfied if they’re chased away. We can’t let them take it first. Alright, I’ll eat something first, then rest for a bit and go down."

"Boss, why don’t you let us go down?" Douglas Cooper was still worried.

"No need, no need. I remember all the places I’ve searched. The places you guys search may overlap with mine, and the efficiency might not be that high... Of course, if you want to go down, it’s fine, just have fun."

Sean Knight didn’t argue. Sometimes you have to experience it yourself.

Douglas truly changed into a diving suit and went underwater.

Sean didn’t care. He had been soaking in the water for quite some time, so he was mentally tired.

However, because he had just witnessed a big show, he still had some lingering excitement, making his emotions complex.

After eating something, Sean took out another golden human figurine, replenished some energy, changed into the diving suit, and went underwater.

His underwater vision was much wider than Douglas’s. When he was about to reach the seafloor, he had already seen Douglas.

He didn’t disturb Douglas, who was searching the seafloor bit by bit. Instead, after confirming the direction, he headed to the areas he hadn’t searched before.

Without worrying about the salvage ship and marine patrol ship on the surface, Sean felt much more relaxed.

He searched at a fast pace, like race-walking on the seafloor. Occasionally, he would startle some creatures that lived in the seabed’s sand.

So sand was constantly stirred up behind him, like a truck running wildly on sandy ground, leaving everything in the dust.

Suddenly, Sean felt a strangely familiar sensation in this area of the seafloor.

He then realized that this was the area he saw in Douglas’s video, right?

Finally found it!

Sean’s mood suddenly became excited. He first stopped, recalled the direction Douglas traveled in the video, and the initial nearby landmarks’ positions.

With this information, he could determine which direction he should search for the sunken - submarine.

Yes, not an ordinary sunken ship but a submerged submarine.

A large-scale Japanese submarine from World War II.

It appeared black and resembled a reef, mainly because its lower half had sunk into the sand, and protruding features on the surface had disappeared. The propeller section in the rear was also gone.

Assisting in its disguise, the years of sand, marine creatures, and corals had grown on it, combined with the actual reefs nearby. Normal fishermen wouldn’t recognize it.

And they wouldn’t get the chance.

Sean quickly found the enormous, probably "I-type" Japanese submarine.

Now, the size is about two-thirds of the original.

But with a displacement of over a thousand tons, it’s still a big deal.

Even if only two-thirds remain.

Looking at this thing, Sean felt countless emotions.

However, time is pressing. He didn’t have enough time to ponder too much and immediately moved forward to see what was inside.

The submarine had likely been hit by a torpedo or depth charge in the tail, which had been blown off.

As it sank to the bottom, the broken tail part wasn’t exposed but was covered by the remaining submarine shell, which then blocked that big hole.

Then it was wrapped in secretions from marine animals and sand, with no gaps around it.

Although he couldn’t get in, Sean Knight’s Sky Eye could see what was inside the submarine.

This was a transport submarine. As the Sky Eye swept over, Sean found a large number of strategic supplies such as rubber and aluminum ingots, some weapons, and, relatively speaking, a few gold ingots, boxes of finished jewelry, including large diamonds, jadeite, gemstone ore, and well-packed boxes of antiques.

Among these antiques were copper Buddha statues of the Thousand-Handed Avalokitesvara, gold Buddha statues inlaid with rubies, and some ivory products, etc.

Sean roughly estimated that the gold alone was worth over ten million US dollars, and the value of the antiques was hard to measure. This trip was worthwhile.

Think about it, these things were probably robbed by Japanese soldiers during World War II from Southeast Asia and sank on their way back.

Sean’s Sky Eye swept the entire submarine again and found that there were only a few skeletons left inside. There were two or three in the warehouse, and only one in the front of the submarine.

This one was sealed in the front end of the submarine. Sean was not very familiar with the structure of submarines, nor did he know if this was the cockpit.

The body was sitting on a chair, holding a military sword in its hand. Although the bones were a bit scattered, the sword was still tightly held in its hand.

Sean was curious if this was the commander of the submarine?

It was just a fleeting thought, and then he focused his attention on those valuable supplies.

He wasn’t interested in rubber, aluminum ingots, and other stuff. After looking around, he discovered that the shell of the submarine was very thick, so Sean went to the back, intending to drill in from the blown-open tail.

A pry bar appeared in his hand, and Sean began to clean up the marine life debris on the tail.

The debris was stuck incredibly tight. Each time the pry bar was swung, only a small piece of debris could be pried off, along with a cloud of silt.

Sean was very impressed with the ability of these marine creatures.

He did consider using hand grenades or explosives to blow open the back end.

But there were weapons inside the submarine, and he didn’t know if it would cause a chain reaction. Moreover, the salvage ship and the maritime patrol ship weren’t far away, and he wasn’t sure if the noise from the explosion would alert them.

It was better not to take the risk.

After prying for a while, the shell and a small opening of the submarine were finally exposed. Sean inserted the pry bar, found a good angle, and with a forceful pry, a large piece of debris was pried off.

Seeing that he could crawl in through the hole, Sean put away the pry bar and slowly crawled into the interior of the submarine.

Because it was sealed, there were no marine creatures hiding in here, and the lack of water circulation caused a strange smell inside.

Sean carefully avoided the broken pipes and parts and slowly groped forward. Some of the things hanging down were quite sharp, and Sean had to be careful not to damage his diving equipment.

When he reached the cargo room, Sean began to collect these items into his spatial realm.

Everything was in boxes, making it very convenient to collect.

Initially, he thought not to collect the aluminum ingots. But after collecting the gold, jewelry, and antiques, Sean saw there was still room in his spatial realm and simply collected the aluminum ingots as well.

After all, even a mosquito counts as meat!

With one-third of oxygen left in his oxygen cylinder, Sean went forward inside the submarine.

He thought the submarine commander must have been a boss, maybe even Japanese nobility. That military sword might be worth something.

He passed through several cabin doors and came to the sealed cabin at the very front.

Sean took out the pry bar again and broke open the door—probably because it had been soaked in seawater for too long, the door was actually pried open.

After entering, Sean stirred up some debris, but he didn’t pay much attention to it. He directly went and grabbed the military sword, looked around for a nautical journal but didn’t find one, and left.

The moment the military sword left his hand, the bones scattered. Sean didn’t bother with it—ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Sean quickly exited the submarine, initially planning to throw a few hand grenades inside, but he thought again about the salvage ship and maritime patrol ship, and dismissed the idea.

Slow and steady.

Slowly floating up, Sean happily swam towards the motorboat.