Chapter 136: The Mysterious Metal Chest
The cargo compartment is a large storage space. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Chen Tianci didn't know how big it was, at first he thought it was just a small separate storage room.
But when he opened the cargo compartment door, he was shocked by the storage capacity inside. Tens of thousands of tons of wood, metal ingots, table salt, countless silk, linen, cotton cloth, and all kinds of dried fish and other materials stretched a long, long distance from Chen Tianci's eyes.
Chen Tianci visually inspected it and felt that this entire floor was probably a storage space. From bow to stern, it occupies thousands of square meters of space. "Wow, how can there be such a big area." Chen Tianci exclaimed, closed the hatch casually, and walked in.
Little by little, he looked at the cargo in the cargo hold, from strips of metal ingots, to bags of fruit, to bags of wrapped dried fish, and so on.
"It's not like you're going to trade. It's more like providing logistics. Chen Tianci muttered.
He picked up a bag of nut bread, tore open the outer package, and chewed on it. The taste is good and the taste is very positive. Nuts are supposed to be something from the inner city island of Bluewater.
"Nut bread." Chen Tianci muttered, "A bag of nut bread is enough for one person to eat for two or three days, and there are more than 100,000 bags here, which can supply an army for several months." And these compressed foods. What are these people going to do? ā
One question after another quickly rushed to Chen Tianci's heart, making him feel as if he had grasped something, but he couldn't figure it out. "Forget it. Let's wait until we get to the place. Looks like I'll have to make some other arrangements. ā
He took a rough inventory of the cargo in the hold, and found that most of it was food and building materials, and it really looked like a logistics supply ship. There are also some instruments and equipment here and there, which seem to be used for high-tech research.
Chen Tianci doesn't understand high-tech, but he knows that Wuji is a jack of all trades, and these things must be useful to that guy. So, he pulled these devices together, and when Wuji was charged, he brought it here to see it.
As for the other things, he roughly estimated that he expected to keep some of them, and the rest, he planned to sell them. "We'll talk about it later." After Chen Tianci roughly thought about it for a while, he planned to turn around and leave.
Just as he turned to leave, he saw something hidden beneath the many bags. A corner of a metal box. "What is this?" Chen Tianci was stunned, and quickly pulled open the many bags on the metal box.
This is a cube box that is only about half a meter long and wide. The whole body is jet-black, made of metal, and extremely hard. Chen Tianci found the handle on the side and carried it, but did not move it.
"Good fellow, so heavy, what's here?" Chen Tianci's curiosity was suddenly aroused. He hurriedly cleared the clutter around the metal box and cleared a large area.
After he had emptied the surrounding area of the metal box, he could see the whole box. This is indeed a boxy cube. There is one handle on each of the four sides, for a total of four handles. But it doesn't have open gaps.
Chen Tianci carefully looked up and down for a long time, but did not see a place that could be opened. This is a sealed metal box, or rather, a large cube metal box cast from a single piece.
"It's weird. Who's going to make such a thing? Chen Tianci said to himself in confusion.
This is very unreasonable. No one would use such a large amount of metal, which Chen Tianci estimated would cost at least a few tons of metal, and it was very dense, to cast such a completely useless thing. This confused him.
"Huh? This is? Chen Tianci suddenly saw a very secret mark on the inside of the handle of the metal box. It was an eagle badge that wanted to spread its wings and fly high.
"This? I've seen this thing before! Chen Tianci was stunned. He had not only seen this pattern, but had seen it many times. It was the emblem engraved on the deep-sea flying boat that he found in a pyramid complex on a fault mountain at the bottom of the Manila Trench.
The ship is still in the ship storage warehouse in Huaishui City, and it is unknown if it has been disposed of as a lost item.
"All the same, this one and that are exactly the same. Could it be that this is also something left over from the original human race? Chen Tianci frowned and thought to himself.
This is no coincidence. The meaning of a badge is self-evident in today's deep sea. It was a symbol of a city-state, and it was something that the citizens of the city-state borrowed for protection.
Any deep-sea city-state has an obligation and responsibility to protect its citizens. Because citizens are the basic constituent units of their continuation and development. And the badge that Chen Tianci saw, the eagle that spread its wings and was about to fly, could not find the source.
He had searched for a long time, but he had not found any of the deep-sea city-states that used this badge as the emblem of his own city-state.
The coat of arms of the city-state, which symbolizes the characteristics of the city-state or the totem of the city-state, is their spiritual sustenance. For example, Huaishui City uses killer whales as a badge, which represents the first generation of Huaishui City builders, hoping that their children and grandchildren can pay attention to group, sociality, and unity like killer whales.
Another example is the Purple City, the largest city-state in the whole of China, which uses the dolphin as a badge, which represents the creed of the first generation of Purple City builders who hope that their children and grandchildren can help others in their lives. This used to be a very commendable idea.
The connotation of this kind of micro-chapter is recorded in detail in the book "Encyclopedia of Badges of the City-States in the Deep Sea". But Chen Tianci turned from beginning to end, but he didn't see any record of the badge of the eagle that was about to fly.
This is an unsolved mystery. Chen Tianci stroked the metal box, thought for a while, and decided to keep this thing. Maybe one day in the future, he will be able to find the answer to the mystery.
"Forget it, let's go back and figure it out." Chen Tianci felt a wave of tiredness hit him, so he simply didn't go out to find a place, picked up some cotton cloth on the spot, spread it out at will, paved a place out, and fell asleep.
The place where he slept was very close to the metal box, less than half a meter away. Just as he fell into a deep sleep, the big metal box suddenly resonated with something on his body.
Chen Tianci didn't know it, he slept soundly. Gradually, an image of an eagle with wings spread appeared on his body. And the same icon appeared on the metal box facing Chen Tianci.
They began to move closer to each other. Chen Tianci's body and the body of the metal box gradually attracted each other, and gradually got closer and closer.