Chapter 494: Shipwreck, Treasure!

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Ye Luo saw that the old man agreed, and chatted with the other party a few more words while being happy.

I learned that the old man's name was Li Tiezhu, and he went abroad to work at a young age, during which he met a Newfoundland girl, and the two got married when they arrived.

In a blink of an eye, he had been in Newfoundland for most of his life, and when he was young, he could still rely on fishing to support his family, but later he was too old to do heavy work, and his wife died.

Newfoundland can't catch fish because of pollution problems, and the two sons of the old man who depend on fishing for a living are also unemployed, and they have both started a family, married and had children.

It stands to reason that the two sons should take on the life of the elderly, but the old man does not want to add another burden to the already overburdened family of the two sons, so he has to regain the carving skills of his youth, and usually set up stalls to earn some living expenses.

This time he came to Miracle Island mainly to bring his own carved gadgets to see if he could sell them to tourists, but he didn't expect to see someone building sand sculptures in the back, and he couldn't help but join in because of his itchy hands.

Now that everything should be understood, Ye Luo asked Lin Kai to take the old man to sign the contract.

I came to the beach where I belonged to my own family.

Ye Luo, who was lying on the beach chair, had nothing to do, and after taking a turn around the fishing grounds, he went to find the man-eating shark.

The man-eating shark has been in the deep sea for several days, and Ye Luo usually doesn't care much about it, anyway, this guy won't be in danger, originally the man-eating shark is a tyrant in the sea, unless it encounters the ocean god of war orca, the undersea troll king squid and the king squid, no one can clean them up.

Besides, even if the man-eating shark can't be defeated, it will definitely be able to escape with its cleverness.

Ye Luo's consciousness soon found the man-eating shark swimming aimlessly in the sea.

Just when Ye Luo had just attached his consciousness to the devouring shark, several large spear squid appeared in the field of vision, and after seeing them, the devouring shark seemed to transform into a fish, a thunder, a fierce man pierced over, and swallowed wildly with its big mouth open.

Ye Luo found that the tentacles of these spear squid were one or two meters long, and they were also big guys.

Not willing to be restrained, they bounced away and clinged to the man-eating shark.

Some squid even stuck their tentacles into the eyes of the man-eating sharks, while others inserted them into their nostrils, as if they were going to kill the sharks.

Unfortunately, they underestimated the man-eating shark.

There are a few spear squids hanging on the body of the man-eating shark, and they quickly rush upward, and the water sweeps on the spear squid, they can't cling to it and fall down, at this time, the man-eating shark turns around and opens its mouth, and easily eats these gun squid.

After a hearty meal, the man-eating shark begins to wander aimlessly again.

After swimming a distance, Ye Luo didn't find anything, so he looked around curiously.

As a result, after swimming for more than half an hour, a huge figure slowly appeared in front of the devouring shark!

This figure appeared gradually, from small to large, from vague to clear......

At first, Ye Luo thought that this was a reef protruding from the seabed, mainly because this kind of reef is relatively common on the seabed, some large and some small.

If this shadow is a reef, it can only be regarded as a little guy, but it is not a reef, but a shipwreck!

Yes, it's a wreck.

From the front, the figure of this wreck is very burly, turning diagonally on the bottom of the sea, even if it is already covered with rust, it is already domineering.

Suddenly seeing a shipwreck, Ye Luo was first surprised, because it meant that he might find the treasure.

You must know that Newfoundland is not a Chinese country, and the shipwrecks found in the sea, no matter what they find, belong to him, and they do not need to be handed over to the government at all.

In particular, he was also obsessed with the shipwreck at first, and almost searched his own fishing grounds, but there was not even a shadow, and he was finally able to give up this unreliable idea.

At the same time, I also have a lot of resentment in my heart, it is all a lie, where are there so many shipwrecks!

Unexpectedly, now he has really discovered the legendary shipwreck.

But soon Ye Luo calmed down, and he realized that his position was in the deep sea, and it would be too difficult to salvage a wreck in such a place.

Driving the man-eating shark to lean up, Ye Luo carefully examined the wreck, in front of him was the forewell-shaped deck, the vast deck faintly visible in its former glory, but now covered with icicle-shaped rust under the action of iron-eating bacteria and ocean currents.

You can't see anything from the bow, but when you look from the side, you can see that half of the sunken ship is there.

Looking again, about a mile away, the other half of the wreck appeared.

The same majesty, the same decay, each half of the wreck is more than 100 meters long, and the whole is cast from heavy steel plates.

But even the hard steel plates could not withstand the sea and time, and the ship was covered in rust and decayed, as if a man-eating shark could smash it to pieces if it slammed it into it.

Ye Luo circled around the wreck to know the name and identity of the ship, and then went back to check the relevant information.

It may be that the rust is too heavy, and Ye Luo finds that he can't find its name from the hull at all.

But when he swam to the bow deck, he found something strange, a small ladder-like steel device with a rather smooth appearance.

This thing is a product of modern civilization at a glance, and it is certainly not a part of this ship, not to mention that this equipment is the only thing that does not rust on a rusty ship, but to say that its streamlined shape could not have been made hundreds of years ago.

Leaning over to take a look, Ye Luo first saw a line of English on the nameplate above, the Royal Rose......

"it!"

Ye Luo directly burst into a foul mouth, although he didn't know this yet

The identity of the wreck, but when you see these three words, you know that this ship can be crowned with the word 'royal', and you know that its identity is not simple.

If people thought of shipwrecks in previous lives, the first thing that came to mind was definitely the Titanic, the most famous shipwreck in history!

The ship's information needs no introduction, Ye Luo believes that anyone who has watched James Cameron's "Titanic" love disaster masterpiece knows the identity of the protagonist of the biggest shipwreck in modern history.

And the origin of this Royal Rose may be even more amazing than the "Titanic" in the previous life!

Thinking of this, Ye Luo divided half of his consciousness and possessed the devouring shark, then withdrew the remaining half of his consciousness, and hurriedly opened his mobile phone to check the information about the Royal Rose.

After searching, Ye Luo was stunned to find that there was a lot of information about the Royal Rose on the Internet, but there was almost no real use.

Helpless, Ye Luo had no choice but to carry the information of the 'shipwreck'.

Unexpectedly, he really found out.

Built in 2760, the Royal Rose was one of the first ships to be able to fire a broadside salvo, and was favored by King Henry, describing it as 'the most beautiful flower on the sea'.

The birth of this ship marks the transformation of the Eagle Nation Navy from a naval fleet in the 27th century to a 'floating castle' for royalty and nobles to enjoy at sea.

On April 1, 2770, the Royal Rose came to Hawaii with many nobles on a tour, and before it reached Hawaii, it encountered a rare thunderstorm, which tossed and capsized in a series of rough seas, and the sea washed away and poured into the gun door on the side of the ship.

At that time, there were more than 60 cannons on the deck of the Royal Rose, about 2,000 crew members and more than 5,000 soldiers responsible for the safety of the rich and nobles, and the number of rich nobles was as high as more than 10,000, and it is said that less than 500 survived.

What made him a little stunned was that the shipwreck of the Royal Rose was not far from Miracle Island, 1,000 kilometers northwest of his fishing grounds.

If it weren't for the fact that this location had already left his own fishing ground, Ye Luo rarely came here, otherwise, he should have found it earlier.

Ye Luo checked the information about the shipwreck first, and he was a little frustrated after this check.

It turned out that as early as 2870, the explorer Balebode led an international expedition team to discover the shipwreck site.

And in 2930, the salvage shipwreck company under the Eagle Nation Fairberry Exhibition obtained the exclusive right to salvage the shipwreck, so that there seemed to be nothing left on the ship, and it is estimated that the treasures were all salvaged by these people.

The consciousness control devouring shark circled around the Royal Rose, and Ye Luo decided to divide a few consciousness control a few octopuses and squid to go in and have a look.

In fact, Ye Luo really wanted to visit the shipwreck, and when he looked at the shipwreck in front of him that was almost destroyed by rust, he suddenly lost interest.

All he wanted to do was to see if there was any treasure in the wreck.

Ye Luo pressed the impulse in his heart, looked at the information on his phone again, and when he continued to look down, Ye Luo was suddenly happy.

One of the forums called 'House of the Shipwreck' caught Ye Luo's attention.

Ye Luo did not hesitate at all, and went directly to the shipwreck home, which is the most professional shipwreck forum, which is much more useful than GG, BD or something, and more accurate than the information reported by major media reports, and many of the materials in it are sorted out by professional salvage companies.

The Shipwreck Home Forum needs to make a profit, so it has ordinary members, VIP members and SVIP members.

It is convenient to do anything if you have money, Ye Luo waved his hand and directly became an SVIP member, with a membership fee of 100,000 yuan a year.

As the highest-level member, he was able to view almost all the information.

In addition, he has access to all forum services, such as sorting the information according to the importance of the information ordered by the forum staff.

For ordinary shipwrecks, this forum is of little use, but it is very useful for the Royal Rose, which has one of the most information of all shipwrecks.

The most important information is a PDF file, a total of 120m in size, with a large number of pictures, this information can almost be said to be the archive of the Royal Rose.

The archival book provides a comprehensive account of the wreck, including salvage, which is written at the beginning of this section.

Beginning in 2870, the ship was salvaged by several salvage companies and divers, but due to the severe decay of the hull and the severe damage caused to the hull during the shipwreck. Therefore, the salvage crew can only fish the outer part of the ship, and as for the core parts such as the captain's cabin, first class, baggage compartment, storage compartment, etc., no one has yet completed the salvage.

Seeing this, Ye Luo couldn't have been more excited.

But when he continued to look down, he was not only excited, but ecstatic!

The Royal Rose was an extremely valuable shipwreck, and at that time it was carrying a large number of wealthy and nobles of the Eagle Nation, basically these people were dragged by their families, and no one could say exactly how much jewelry and property there was on board.

However, the document documents an auction of treasures salvaged from the Royal Rose, which at the time included 5,500 items, including fine porcelain, silver cutlery, and the wreckage of a 21-ton ship with a full porthole.

The value of this auction is 480 million yuan, and the time is 3,000 years.

And this is nothing more than the value of the Imperial Rose's outer treasure!

After figuring this out, Ye Luo no longer hesitated, and his consciousness fully took over the control of the Royal Rose.

Scanning in the wreck, turning around twice, Ye Luo had a general understanding of it.

The perimeter of the Royal Rose had become dilapidated, and these places were most severely damaged at the time of shipwreck, and it was from these places that the sea corrosion began.

The most serious was the vandalism, which almost reduced it to rubble.

The hull of the ship was badly decayed, and there were some barrels and tables in the cabin, but they were all rotten, and the barrels were still stuffed with squid, and there was obviously nothing precious in them.

After searching, Ye Luo became more and more cold, damn it, why is there no treasure in this cabin?

What puzzled him was that it stands to reason that more than 10,000 people died, so the bones should be visible in the cabin, but he didn't even see any bones, and he didn't know if they were eaten by the sea fish.

Walking into the cabin, things started to get better, and the things were messy but still intact.

But I can't see exactly what it is now, but everything is covered in rust or sea parasites, marine excrement, secretions, and so on.

For this scene, Ye Luo was also very helpless, he knew that his consciousness was not the kind of perspective in the legend, and his eyes couldn't see what was in this thing at all.

In this way, Ye Luo had a little headache.

It seems that he wants to make money from the Royal Rose, which is not easy.

What's even more unfortunate is that in 3100, the Supreme Court of the Eagle Kingdom made a rule that in order to ensure the integrity of the cultural relics on the Royal Rose, the shipwreck cultural relics must be sold as a whole, and they are not allowed to be sold piecemeal.

This provision was made to protect the wreck from the side, and no one had the strength to salvage the entire Royal Rose, so that even if someone salvaged the treasure on the wreck, it could only be sold on the black market.

And where is the black market?

Where the price of treasure is suppressed, even if the salvage company or individual makes something to the black market, it can only be disposed of at a low price, and the profit obtained is not enough to cover the cost of salvage.

After a long time, even if they knew that the wealth on the Royal Rose was amazing, no one wanted to go to the Royal Rose to salvage things again.

There are people who do the business of killing heads, but no one does the business of losing money.

After Ye Luo walked around, he used his consciousness to control an ellipsoid at the door of the living room that was wrapped in seaweed and couldn't see it, and planned to take it out to see what it was.

As soon as his consciousness moved, Ye Luo felt very weak, this ellipsoid was one and a half meters high and about half a meter in diameter, but it was heavy, and the periphery was full of parasites and corpses of sea insects and seaweed, like a large stone.

There was no way, after trying a few times, Ye Luo found that he didn't seem to be able to move, so he had to give up this plan.

However, when he thought about it carefully, he suddenly felt that he was really stupid, what were he doing in the hall?

Go to first class, the rich and their inheritances will stay in first class!

When he arrived at the first-class cabin, Ye Luo advanced to the No. 1 cabin, which was very large, with more than 150 square meters.

This made him secretly speechless, damn it, there were so many local tyrants back then, and it was so rich to live in such a cabin on a luxury cruise ship.

The contents of the cabin were no longer visible, the delicate Persian carpets, the ornate crystal chandeliers, and the sumptuous furnishings were now rotting into rubbish.

Ye Luo turned around inside, frustrated to find that most of the things were still very heavy, and his consciousness searched carefully, and finally found two light boxes, one large and one small, in a heavily rusty iron box.

With a trace of consciousness, he brought out the two light boxes, and when he left the living room, he found a wooden box more than a meter long in a pile of clutter in the corner.

The wooden box was in the middle of the clutter gap, so it wasn't much clinging to seaweed and sea insects, so he tried the weight, it wasn't heavy, so he brought it out together.

Taking out the three boxes, Ye Luo sent the boxes to the mouth of the man-eating shark outside the boat, controlling it to swim back to the fishing ground on its own.

He returned to the Royal Rose again, and at the same time shrouded his consciousness in the Royal Rose, and found that there were many lives living in it, such as the spear squid, and there were probably hundreds of them.

This time, Ye Luo searched all the way to the second first class, and his eyes lit up all of a sudden!

I saw that in the wide room, a large number of rotten iron boxes were piled up horizontally, and the iron boxes may have hit each other when the ship was sunk, and several of the boxes were opened, and some black and brown metal blocks about ten centimeters in size were scattered outside.

Ye Luo couldn't be sure what these metal pieces were for a while, but in his opinion, if he guessed correctly, this thing was either gold or silver.

There are so many boxes, each of which is more than a meter, more than a meter long, and more than a meter wide.

He counted ten chests.

Sure enough, as he expected, it was full of this kind of silver plate, although it was not gold that made him a little regretful, but the price of ten boxes of white eyes was also very large!

Ye Luo quickly mentally calculated an account, according to the density of silver is about 10 grams per cubic centimeter, this box of silver plates is about 10,000 kilograms, that is, ten tons!

And here are ten of the same chests, which are a hundred tons of silver......

In addition, there were several identical boxes on the other side of the room, and Ye Luo thought it was also gold when he saw it, but when he opened the boxes, he saw that these were actually empty.

Ye Luo, who is happy in the air, doesn't mind, it's empty, anyway, it's okay to have the hundred tons of silver next to it!

At this time, Ye Luo on the beach also took out his mobile phone to go online for the first time and directly checked the recent price trend of silver.

After inquiry, Ye Luo learned that the price of silver and gold has been falling, and the price of gold per gram has fallen by nearly 238 yuan, while the price of silver is O.94 yuan per gram.

Compared with gold, the price of silver is really not enough, but there is a large amount of Yeluo!

That's a hundred tons of silver!

One ton is 940,000 yuan, and one hundred tons is 94 million yuan, nearly 100 million!

After calculating the results, Ye Luo, who was holding the mobile phone, looked up at the sky and smiled: "Hahahahahaha......"