Chapter 265: Two Boxes

In this multi-dimensional anomalous space, many abnormal marine phenomena have occurred here since ancient times, and even the allusion to the so-called Gate of Eternal Life has also occurred here.

Therefore, after these allusions and legends, in ancient times, many adventurers and explorers came here to investigate, and sank to the bottom of the sea after being attacked by thunderstorms and mutated creatures, and then some passing ships that had no intention of intruding into this dangerous area.

In modern times, due to frequent naval battles and scientific progress, the abnormal phenomena that occur here will naturally attract the attention of the scientific community and conduct scientific investigations, and accidents are also frequent.

In this way, it will naturally make this place a shipwreck grave, and no one can afford to salvage it.

But for Yu Xiaohu, there is no problem at all.

There are a lot of shipwrecks buried under the seabed in this sea area, and it is almost impossible to explore the strategic rare resources needed for the base island, only those resources that are not of great value are buried there, but in the form of antique cultural relics, it is a bit of salvage and collection value.

So, Yu Xiaohu sent a collector to collect things that were more valuable than the earth in this shipwreck cemetery.

There are sunken ancient merchant ships in the shipwreck cemetery, such as porcelain, but the number of corroded and damaged is relatively large.

Yu Xiaohu asked the reconnaissance plane to collect the relevant information, and selected some well-preserved and valuable porcelain for the machine to salvage.

After the porcelain was salvaged and transported to the supersubmarine's warehouse, Yu Xiaohu made some shelves, and he would personally select some porcelain to put on those shelves.

Among these porcelains, most of them are from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, when maritime trade was more developed, and the types of porcelain are also relatively complex, and the collection value ranges from hundreds of thousands to nearly 10 million.

In addition to porcelain. There are also things such as jade and jade jewelry collected by the Jiqì people, but compared to porcelain, the amount of these jade jewelry will be relatively small.

In the continuous salvage and collection process, there are also some bronze, silver and gold objects that have been collected by the Jiqì people.

Those bronze artifacts are not very valuable in terms of their metal resources alone, but they are all of different forms. Ancient handicrafts with different styles are not low in value from the perspective of collection, so Yu Xiaohu will let the machine collect them back for selection.

Yu Xiaohu selected some valuable bronzes and put them on the shelves of the warehouse, and the others were damaged, or missing parts, or were corroded bronzes, Yu Xiaohu did not let the machine QÌ people consume energy points and materials to repair, but directly treated them as ordinary metal material resources and threw them into the warehouse and stacked them.

This is a practice in the world of collecting. It's completely a tyrannical thing, and it will definitely be scolded by people for the behavior of a loser.

But for Yu Xiaohu, these antiques have been collected so much, of course he has to pick good ones, ready-made.

After all, he has super submarines, as well as black technology such as base islands, and he will be the real hegemon of the entire ocean, in this ocean that occupies 70% of the world's area. Yu Xiaohu has endless shipwrecks and underwater treasures to explore, and all kinds of precious resources to collect. He didn't pay as much attention to these collectibles as he did at the beginning, after all, if there were too many, there would still be a lot of trouble to deal with.

As for the silver and gold objects that were collected, Yu Xiaohu did not intend to treat them as antiques.

Although there were a lot of silver ingots and gold nuggets in the silver and gold, he was not like Yu Xiaohu had encountered someone who was in urgent need of a large amount of mercury before, and the purity of those gold nuggets was not high.

Therefore, he only selected a small number of those silverwares that were better in appearance and fineness, and kept them for the time being. The rest of nature is also smelted and stored as a resource for future use.

It took about two or three days, and in addition to the dangerous area that was not collected, most of the surrounding areas of the shipwreck cemetery were briefly searched, and the messy things collected were also combed by the machine people.

In the end, according to statistics, about 50,000 pieces of porcelain were selected from this collection. There are about nine tons of jadeite jewelry in this category.

As for the gold and silver, after being smelted and purified by the machine, there are about 21 tons of pure silver, and the harvest is still extremely rich.

In particular, the gold that was scavenged back was directly purified and smelted into pure gold by the machine, about 11 tons, and Yu Xiaohu planned to use it as a currency reserve material for the rapid development of the base island in the early stage after the water was released in the future.

What made Yu Xiaohu feel interesting was that among the things collected by the Jiqì people in this shipwreck tomb on the bottom of the sea, there were actually those old weapons, which were just collected as metal resources.

However, most of those old weapons have been corroded and damaged, and they can only be smelted and thrown into the warehouse as ordinary resources.

However, Yu Xiaohu still left two very special boxes.

These two boxes are very good against corrosion and water, and they have remained intact after being immersed in seawater for hundreds of years.

When one of the boxes was opened, there was no seawater leakage in the box, and the layout inside was quite delicate, and there were some sapphires set inside.

What interested Yu Xiaohu the most was that there were two handmade Western muskets in the box.

The body of the musket is made of gold, the workmanship is extremely fine, the carved patterns and decorations are also very beautiful, and its surface is also inlaid with precious stones, which is very luxurious and beautiful, and there are no traces of use, which is obviously an art collection.

According to some of the words and logos left on the musket, Yu Xiaohu deliberately asked the machine to check the Internet, which was a gift from a prince of the Dutch royal family to a subordinate of a count during the strong period of the Dutch colonists' global expansion in the late 16th century.

The other box, which is made of high-quality precious wood, has a strong oriental cultural color, and the box itself has high archaeological cultural value.

However, one corner of the box was still broken, and it had also entered the sea.

When the box was opened, some poems were engraved on the ceiling of the inner shell of the box, and the seawater seeping into a small corner of the box did not cause much corrosive damage to the inside of the box.

In the center of the box is an oilcloth bag, which is very resistant to corrosion, and is finely tied with gold threads, which looks very valuable.

And when Yu Xiaohu took off the gold thread and slowly opened the oilcloth bag, his eyes were immediately attracted by the things presented in the oilcloth bag. (To be continued......)