Chapter 437: Dead Domain [First Update]
With such a scabbard in the morning, Zhou Mingluo was really satisfied.
In the next few days, he still visited a few antique shops under the leadership of Maori Kogoro, but this follow-up, there was nothing good.
And on Sunday, Zhou Mingluo also saw the flea market in Tokyo, just near the metropolitan hall, there are a lot of things scattered here, only one corner belongs to the antique stall, and the biggest difference between the antique stalls here and the country is that almost everything is clearly marked, like goods on the shelves of the supermarket.
What things and what prices are clear at a glance, and there is no need to ask the price one by one.
And there, Zhou Mingluo just bought a few small objects as souvenirs, and did not encounter any more objects worth visiting.
It wasn't until more than a week later that the little brown bear and the krait had almost recovered their physical strength, and Zhou Mingluo's freighter set sail again.
The ship sailed south out of the Sea of Japan into the South Pacific Ocean and headed straight for the Solomon Islands.
"Boss, the destination this time, it is said that during World War II, the Japanese army seized the Solomon Islands and looted a batch of gold, ready to be shipped back to China, but was drowned by the wind and waves on the way, and then some people also tried to salvage there but returned again and again, some people said that it may be that the ship at that time was swept away by the undercurrent of the seabed, and the information we received this time is a shipwreck point with a great possibility."
The ship was sailing on the vast and endless ocean, standing on the deck, and Clement also stood behind Xiao Zhou and said with a smile.
The Solomon Islands is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, located northeast of Australia and east of Papua New Guinea. There are more than 990 islands in total, although this island nation is one of the least developed countries in the world. However, it is rich in gold, and its national economy is dominated by plantation, fishing and gold mining. Everything else is largely imported.
In 1568, when the Spanish navigator Mendania arrived here, he was shocked to see that the local aborigines were wearing glittering gold ornaments, and thought that he had found the gold treasury of King Solomon, which is the origin of the name of the islands.
Later, the island was successively colonized by the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and other countries, and it is conceivable that countless gold will be plundered at that time, but it has to be said. This country is really rich in gold deposits, even if gold mining is still one of its main sources of national economy, so even if it was colonized by many countries, it was still occupied by the Japanese army in 1942, and still found a lot of good things.
During World War II, the archipelago was a strategic point of repeated contention between the U.S. and Japanese forces in the Pacific theater, and it was no surprise that Japanese ships carrying gold sailed to Japan.
And this time the information was provided by the spirit fox, and this time the few people in the spirit fox were also quite sure of this information, and now they are about to arrive at their destination. Clement clenched his fists even more excitedly.
With his words, Zhou Ming fell and smiled, this time there were two fewer people who went to sea to accompany him, Xiong Kun and Jin Min both stayed in Japan, just to take care of the refining of that batch of silver. After all, more than 2,000 tons of silver ore can never be refined overnight, but before departure. Anyway, I've been in Tokyo for more than a week.,So those connections pulled by the mercenaries are gone.。 There are also very professional people who provide a data, that is, the more than 2,000 tons of silver ore. In the end, the sterling silver that can be refined should be around 1,400 tons.
Although this data is not particularly accurate, it is the answer given by a large number of professionals who understand ore after many days of statistics, even if it is not very accurate, the difference is not too much, at least its error can be controlled within 100 tons.
This is another good news, 1,400 tons, according to this figure, the final market price of this batch of ore should be around 8.4 billion yuan.
Even if fifty percent is divided, Zhou Mingluo will finally get more than 4 billion.
Of course, there are still expenses in the middle of such a cumbersome project, such as the use of other people's factories and everything, but those expenses are negligible for this huge wealth, and the mercenaries are patting their chests and taking care of it themselves.
Zhou Mingluo only needs to sit and wait to collect the money.
"It's almost there, but this time it's almost Australia." Clement chuckled, Zhou Mingluo also nodded and stretched, the sunken ship loaded with gold looted by the Japanese army, this ...... Zhou Mingluo went to sea to salvage, the main target was the antiques on the sunken ship, if a place was clearly told that there were no antiques, he was actually not very interested, but even if he was not interested, he had to come to this place once.
It's not that I value gold, but I can't bear to hurt the excitement and expectation of Linghu and his gang.
These guys have failed to provide information a few times, and now this information is worth looking forward to, but they are all holding back their strength, for the first group of people to follow him, Zhou Mingluo really can't bear to hurt the enthusiasm of these guys.
There is also the fact that even if there are no antiques there at all, there may only be gold, but since he learned that there is such a thing as a divine stone in this world, Zhou Mingluo is also quite looking forward to it, and every time he goes to the sea, it is also an opportunity for him.
"It's coming!"
While chatting here, a figure suddenly ran from behind, but it was Heber who was standing a few steps away with a smile on his face, touching the back of his head, and reporting to Zhou Mingluo.
"Well, find a place to park the boat, and then we'll go to sea." Zhou Mingluo also smiled.
When the boat was parked nearby, it was still familiar with the road, and Xiao Zhou anchored the little brown bear again, and dived to the bottom of the sea with the krait.
This time, after diving down, Zhou Mingluo found that it was located in an undersea mountain range, and the highest peak of some mountain ranges was only more than a thousand meters deep from the sea surface.
A trace of surprise flashed in his heart, but it was only fleeting, following the little brown bear all the way down, and diving for nearly a thousand meters, Zhou Mingluo's expression suddenly moved, and on the mountainside of the highest peak, he had already found the wreckage of a ship.
"Is there really a ship? It seems that this time the news of Linghu is finally reliable. Zhou Mingluo was also a little excited to really find the ship, and hurriedly asked a certain bear to move over, and he also carefully searched everything in the boat.
But what is surprising is that the ship turned out to be empty, yes, empty, there is nothing in all the space of a ship!
Is it worth the surprise to find a shipwreck empty?
But now Zhou Mingluo is very surprised, he has not found empty ships before, for example, there are only some shells and guns left on the warship, there is no gold, silver or antiques at all, that is an empty ship, but no matter what, there are always things on those ships, either there are corroded guns and bullets in a certain cabin, etc., or there will occasionally be some gold and silver ornaments left behind by the crew before their deaths.
But this ship, which at first glance looks like a World War II warship, is really completely clean in all places, there are no rotten guns, bullets, etc., and there are no scattered gold and silver ornaments.
This is not surprising to Zhou Mingluo, because he is too clean.
"Has this been salvaged by someone else once?" A trace of doubt flashed in his mind, but Zhou Mingluo felt that even if it had really been salvaged by others once, it wouldn't be so clean, right?
But then he still let the little brown bear continue to dive, after all, even if the ship was a little weird, but it was only a little cleaner, but at this time, a trace of strangeness flashed in his heart, as if he felt that something seemed wrong with this place, but when he thought about it, he really didn't know what was wrong for a while.
After another dive, when he was about to reach the bottom of the peak, he found the wreckage of a ship at the foot of the mountain, but what made people suspect was that the ship in front of him was still the same as the one above, clean and empty.
Not only this one, Zhou Mingluo soon found a cargo ship nearby, which was still nothing, and at this time, he felt that something seemed to be wrong in this place, and it gradually became stronger.
This also made him wonder again, what was wrong?
“……”
Just when Zhou Ming was suspicious, he was suddenly startled, and he swept left and right in astonishment, and finally knew why he had a feeling that something was wrong from the beginning of the shipwreck.
The place is really quirky.
Because it was only now that he found out that under the cover of his power grid, not only were there nothing left in the ships that had been searched, but even ...... Even the nearby sea area was not even a little angry.
Yes, there is not even a living creature in the power grid, no matter how deep it is, he can find some large and small, strange-shaped deep-sea creatures nearby, no matter how deep it is.
There will never be a single life like here.
"When I first came down, there were also living organisms in my power grid coverage, and it seems that since the shipwreck halfway up the mountain, there has been no underwater life."
After discovering this, Zhou Mingluo was really shocked, this place is really a little weird.
You must know that the sea area of this place is not particularly deep, the top of the mountain peak in front of you is only more than 1,000 meters from the sea surface, and now at the bottom of the mountain, it is at most two or three thousand meters from the sea surface.
This is already a very shallow sea area compared to those deep seas that are often four or five thousand meters deep or even six or seven thousand meters, but even those deep seas that are about six thousand meters deep have creatures, why are there none here, as quiet as a dead land?
This kind of quietness, after people really experience it, they all have a creepy feeling.
Not only him, but now the little brown bear also seemed to notice that something was wrong, and directly let out a low roar between the roars, looking left and right vigilantly. (To be continued.) )