It was only a brief trance, and the fat man pushed away my arm holding the flashlight. I don't know what it was inside, but when it was illuminated by the light, it reflected a dazzling white light.

In my impression, it seems that only a large amount of silver can have this effect, could it be that the wooden box contains a large box of silver ingots?

But this is absolutely impossible, most of the silver ingot reflections are film and television portrayals, and the real situation must not be so exaggerated. It stands to reason that silver ingots that have been stored for hundreds of years should at least have a blackened surface due to oxidation.

After the light was pushed away by the fat man, it took a long time for my eyes to ease from the dazzling white.

The aperture of this flashlight is adjustable, just like the few times in between. In front of the flashlight is an almost hemispherical lens, and by adjusting the distance between the internal LED tube and the lens, the flashlight can become a direct or scattered light source.

I set the focus to the maximum, and the whole flashlight was set up like a lamp. At this time, the light was no longer so dazzling, and the contents of the box were clearly visible.

It was a completely silvery-white flat surface, and after looking at it for a while, I realized that it was another box in a large wooden box. The entire cabinet was silvery white, as if it had been coated with silver paint.

There is a gap of less than three fingers between the silver chest on the inside and the large wooden box on the outside, and the silver box has no decoration on it, and it is completely smooth like a mirror.

I couldn't help but feel it, and now it looks like it's no different from a polished silver nugget. Although I am not a money-grubber, I was a little moved to see such a large silver nugget for the first time.

What I didn't expect was that the fat man didn't show any joy or excitement when he saw such a large silver box, not even a single expression. And when my hand touched the silver box, he grabbed me. The force was so great that it almost made my palms bleed and turned white.

I rubbed my wrists, trying to get the blood flowing quickly, and it took a long time for my hands to become rosy again.

"What's the fuck wrong with you, I'll just touch it, such a big piece, can I still snatch it for you?"

Although it feels a little strange, I still think that the fat man should be afraid that this big silver box will be robbed by me, and I have to admit that this guy is a little too picky about his belongings.

But this is not the case, the fat man shook his head and took a sip and said, "What do you think of me, do I still care about this little bit of stuff between my teeth?" ”

I was speechless: "That's it, the things between the teeth, how can you look at a big silver box of four or five hundred catties, you can't even look at it?" ”

"Heck, this thing isn't made of silver, and even if it's made of silver, it can only be melted and sold. It's such a big size, and it's more than seven or eight hundred thousand to get it out, so I can't make it. ”

I was surprised by the fat man's tone, but I also knew that this thing couldn't be directly handled, and it was so large that it couldn't get out. But immediately attention was drawn to the first sentence he said.

"What? Isn't this a piece of silver? I was surprised.

"See for yourself."

As he spoke, the fat man pulled me aside and pressed my head into the big wooden box. I was annoyed by his savagery, but I couldn't say anything. I had to put all my energy into the silver box.

After a few glances, I realized that something was wrong. At this time, the big ship was being beaten by the waves and swaying from side to side, and it was not stable to stand, and it was a little shaky. When I looked at the silver box, I saw that the silver box was writhing in a strange way.

It feels like the space here is distorted, but it's my reverie. If you really want to find an analogy, it should only be appropriate to twist the air after being scorched by high temperatures.

I looked back at the fat man, and he spread his hands. It seems like I was seeing something, but I really didn't get it. In this case, I can only turn my attention to the silver box once again.

After looking at it for a while, I found some problems again. It's not very obvious on the box, but it's clear on the corners and corners. The exterior of the chest was not entirely silver, but rather as if it had been sealed in a transparent shell.

The corners are very clear, and you can see the walls of the wooden box through it. The silver substance writhed in the transparent shell, but the color was no different from silver.

After looking at it for a while, I somehow muttered to myself, "Liquid silver? ”

I said this with the meaning of asking myself, but the fat man didn't hear my words, and immediately followed my words and said, "Didn't you go to junior high school?" It is also liquid silver, which is called mercury and liquid mercury in scientific form. ”

Although the fat man's words were sarcastic, I didn't care about him, but was a little grateful. It dawned on me that something happened.

Mercury is something that is rarely encountered in normal life. But there is one thing that I remember very well. My way of remembering is different from that of ordinary people, I always remember some of the picture information in the event, so that the event is forgotten after a long time, but the picture information is very clear, as long as the next time I see the same or similar thing, I can always immediately think of the event.

There's nothing to say about this, in fact, when I was a child, a bunch of our bear kids stole the thermometer at home to play, and I think it was really solid at that time, if there was a wound on my hand that stuck a little bit, I might not be here now.

At this time, the transparent shell was writhing in the same kind of mercury that we had broken the thermometer and concentrated a small half cup. There were no gas voids in the box, and the mercury was an excessive metallic liquid, so the hull swayed, and it flowed inside the hull as if space was distorting.

"This ...... This, a big box of mercury in the box? I asked, shocked, not surprised by itself, but a little unsure of the intent of transporting these things.

The distribution of mercury ore is not rare, and the firing of mercury into mercury is not a high-end technology. As far as I know, as early as the Qin Dynasty, there were records of large-scale refining of mercury, and according to legend, in the Qin Tomb of the First Emperor, there was a river completely watered by mercury, and the Great Golden Coffin of the First Emperor floated on it.

The fat man tapped on the silver box with a short harpoon, gasped, and said, "There seems to be room in there, eh, this thing is really a box." ”

"A box of mercury?" I continued.

"It's not." The fat man shook his head and said.

The old generation standing on the side suddenly reached out and touched the surface of the box, and I didn't see anything happen to him for a while, so I touched it, the surface was smooth and warm like jade.

The old generation put his hand into the crack after a while, and stopped at the distance of a palm, as if he had touched something.

"It's a box, there's a buckle here, the mercury doesn't look like it's in the box, hiss...... It seems that there is a mezzanine in the wall of the box. ”

After he finished speaking, I also glanced into the crack, because of the obstruction of the palm of the old generation, and the light is just a corner here, so I can't see anything.

The fat man also touched the box for a while, then nodded, agreeing with the old generation's point of view.

When the old man withdrew his hand, the fat man continued to propose to open the mercury box. But when it was first proposed, it was already in its hands, and it only groped a few times before withdrawing its hand back.

"I can't open it, the buckle is too long, and the gap is too small to turn over."

The only memory I have of mercury is that it was highly toxic, and the shell of this box didn't look very strong, and I was always worried that the box would break open and the mercury would drown us. Seeing that the fat man had no way for a long time, he began to retreat from the ideological work.

"This box is so weird, I always think the contents are even stranger, should we go and do something else first?"

After speaking, the old generation's face also changed color, and he frowned and said, "Yes, you still have to think about it." ”

"What else are you considering, this unknown clue is now in front of us, can it be so easy to put it over? Fat man, I'm not that kind of person. Isn't our purpose to find clues? This is the clue, knowing what is being transported on the ship, isn't it much easier to guess the purpose of the ship? ”

The fat man said a lot of his logic, and the old generation rolled his eyes, waved his hand and left it alone, and at the same time said that he would not help.

"Isn't that right?" The fat man said again, and went around the box left and right to plan a way to get it out.

Naturally, I don't have much right to speak, since the old generation also acquiesced, then no matter how much I say, it still doesn't work, and I can't talk too much about this kind of meaningless words.

Originally, I also wanted to learn from the old generation, leaning on the box on the side, and not mixing with the physical work of the fat man. But the fat man stood in front of the big box for a moment, and then his head turned to me.

I saw something strange in his eyes, and sure enough, he looked at me for a moment, and without saying a word, he grabbed my strong man and helped him carry the mercury box.

At first, we wanted to put the mercury box vertically from the wooden box, but when this method was first implemented, we banned it, not to mention the weight of the mercury box, it was just a matter of this strange angle, and we couldn't propose the mercury box at all.

A fat man is still a fat man after all, and being simple and rough is the most direct and effective way for him, and it just so happens that this is the only way for us now.

The large wooden box not only uses a riveted structure, but also nails four large copper nails on each side. The cap of this copper nail is the size of the fingernail of a thumb, and according to this calculation, the copper nail is at least a finger long.

But we're not primitives, and there are quite a few solutions to these things. The twelve copper nails on the side of the external test were slowly pried out by the fat man with a short harpoon in turn, the copper nails were longer than we imagined, and the roots were a little green rusty, but the nail shaft was still shiny.

This thing is also considered an antiquity, because it should be worth some money. But the fat man had forgotten his words that no matter how small a fly was, he was completely attracted by the mercury box, and had forgotten the value of the brass nails he threw away.