Chapter 410: Royal Treasure!
The treasure of shipwrecks has been longed for by countless treasure hunters and explorers since ancient times. The bottom of the sea is a world full of mysteries and unknowns.
For countless centuries, the treasures that sank to the bottom of the sea were like stars in the sky.
"Treasure...... Shipwreck Treasure! Su Xia's eyes lit up, thinking of the countless treasures that might exist, and thinking of his own poverty, and quickly made a decision.
It's all here, of course you have to get some treasure before leaving! He snapped his fingers and told the mechanical arm in the cabin to let go of the big mussel, and said, "I've always been true to my word, and if you can really lead me to a valuable shipwreck treasure, then I'll only take half of your beads, and you can keep the other half for yourself." ”
"Okay, okay, it's a word." Da Beng was afraid that Su Xia would regret it, and immediately reported mental fluctuations. The treasure in the wreck was of no use to him, after all, he could not take the gold and silver treasures to spend on land.
His body shook a few times, as if he was a little anxious, conveying his will.
"Let me out, I'll lead the way ahead for you."
"Okay." Susha nodded, then looked at Sarah. Sarah understood and immediately waved her hand, and the hatch of the cabin slowly closed.
The two then returned to the front of the submarine and sat down. Sarah smiled slightly, and said to Su Xia: "Captain, don't easily believe the words of any creature, most of the Zerg creatures are stupid, but this kind of sea mussel does not belong to the majority, their own strength is weak, in order to survive, they have to evolve a good intelligence...... The sea mussel just now has an IQ no lower than that of an adult. ”
"I understand." Su Xia was very calm and did not worry about being deceived. What if the mussel runs away?
With the aid of life-sensing glasses, there was no way for that guy to escape his field of vision.
"Captain, I put a tracker on him." Sarah chuckled.
"Oh? This saves you a lot of trouble. At this moment, the large sea mussel has been released from the submarine and returned to the deep water.
He didn't dare to go back, after all, he knew his strength and speed, and came to the front of the submarine to lead the way for the two.
His mussel shells opened and closed, neither fast nor slow, and his charred black body rose and fell in the water.
"This way." Although separated by the sea and the submarine glass, he can still transmit mental fluctuations to Su Xia, which is quite a talent.
On the display on the left front of Suxia's seat, there is a small red dot flashing, which is the real-time feedback from the tracker.
The current at the bottom of the sea is slow, secluded and calm. As it slowly progressed, the entire submarine seemed to merge into the seabed, becoming a special sea fish that did not cause panic among the rest of the sea creatures.
Nearby, ugly little fish cruised with the submarine, silvery-white, only the size of a palm, and they seemed to want to hang on the submarine, with the help of the submarine's power to move forward.
Not far away, a large octopus swings its tentacles and swims gracefully in the water.
"Squidward, it's laid-back." Su Xia stared at the big octopus. It is rumored that there are giant octopuses and squid hundreds of meters long in the deep sea, and there have even been fishing boats dragged to the bottom of the sea by terrifying tentacles, and some people have seen strange shadows of the deep sea, but there is no actual information about these things.
During the time Su Xia entered the bottom of the sea, he didn't even see a slightly larger creature. After advancing for more than twenty minutes, there was a mental fluctuation from Da Beng: "It's not far ahead." ”
"Okay." Su Xia's spirit focused, staring at the area in front of him seriously. The water here is still a little muddy and indistinct, and there are gray particles and debris floating in the water, especially in the light of the submarine.
Faintly, Su Xia saw a decaying wreckage in the distance ahead. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he was attentive, and as the submarine advanced, he could see more and more clearly.
"It's really a shipwreck, I just don't know what age it is, and I have to get closer." Su Xia muttered to herself.
The first thing that catches your eye is the rusty bow, which has been corroded by the sea, and its surface is rotten and has a decaying iron-gray color.
The deck was dusty and tattered, and the decaying railings around it were covered with fluttering sea plants.
It is like the corpse of a giant beast that has long since decayed, lying quietly on the turbid seabed, let the erosion and gnawing of time, it has long lost its original appearance.
Like many submarine reefs, it is home to marine animals in the area. The rusty hull can be seen attached to the surface of the ship with one calcareous shell after another, which is a kind of sea parasite, which hides in the shell, as if it has become one with the big ship, inseparable.
On the deck, there are a few gray and yellow starfish, and a few small fish are swimming in and out of the battered cabins and windows.
As he got closer, Su Xia saw the huge port and starboard anchors, as well as the long anchor chains, these heavy metal objects had not been completely corroded, but they were not yet in shape.
"This is it." Mental fluctuations come from the sea mussels, indicating that there is a treasure in the ship that is difficult to see.
Or he was afraid that Su Xia would not believe it, so he added: "On the third deck below, there are more than ten rooms, and each room is filled with boxes of treasures...... The iron lock of one of the chests was corroded and broken, and I once stumbled into it and saw a lot of gold coins inside...... If each chest was full of gold coins, you can imagine the overall value of the ship...... "His mental fluctuations were intermittent and seemed to be a little struggling.
After listening to his description, Su Xia touched his chin and thought seriously. A box of gold coins is already staggering.
If there are really more than ten rooms, and each room is full of boxes of gold coins, then this trip to the bottom of the sea will make him completely rich, and his net worth will skyrocket more than tenfold.
"It's strange that so many gold coins are sunk here, and there is no record of it." Su Xia briefly searched for information about the shipwreck treasure in this world, and couldn't help but have some doubts.
Is there only a box of gold coins, which happened to be seen by this sea mussel? Or maybe it's not a gold coin, but another similar metal?
"Although this big clam is smart, it is not a human after all, and it has no means of judgment, and most of it can't even tell the difference between brass and gold." You know, there are many special alloys that are similar to gold, and some humans can't tell the difference, let alone the sea mussels that have been living on the bottom of the sea.
Su Xia used his metal sensing ability to sense carefully, and inside the decaying shipwreck in front of him, he did sense the existence of a large amount of metal.
At this time, a system prompt suddenly popped up in front of Su Xia's eyes. [Sunshine Sailing: An ordinary cruise ship from the Western Continent, founded 101 years ago, set sail for the first time 99 years ago, sank 96 years ago, and no one knows where it sank ......] According to the description, this ship is a cruise ship from the West Continent, which only sailed for three years and finally sank in the southern waters of this Central Continent.
Fortunately, this is an ironclad ship, not a wooden ship, so the overall preservation is quite good.
"Just a regular cruise ship." Su Xia frowned, he had always thought that it was some rich man's private ship, and in that case there was a greater probability of a treasure.
Sarah smiled, "Captain, you can send our exploration robot to take a look." Su Xia nodded: "Okay, let's do it!" "Under this submarine, there is a special cabin, and there are more than a dozen deep-sea exploration robots with different functions.
Under Sarah's control, several of the robots were activated at the same time, and then lowered into the sea to begin exploring the shipwreck ahead.
Soon, several small robots approached the deck of the wreck, and after a while, they entered the wreck along the passage.
At the same time, a real-time footage of them appeared in the submarine. The inside of the wreck is similar to the outside, it has long been corroded by the sea, and it is a dead gray, and some sea creatures can occasionally be seen swimming in the cabin.
[Enter the second deck, transmitting real-time footage for you] [Enter the third deck, ...... for you] [......] The small exploration robots separated in the wreck, exploring different areas one by one.
Therefore, on the display screen in front of Su Xia, there were also several different pictures. The interior of the entire ship is explored little by little, with staff rooms, staff restaurants, entertainment venues, control rooms, engine rooms, galleys, etc., presented in turn.
Many of the cabins are in disarray, and some of them have preserved their original basic appearance, giving you a glimpse of the bustle of the original voyage at sea.
On the three decks mentioned by Da Beng, there are more than 20 suites, all of which are for tourists. A small robot enters the hallway of this deck, and the image it sends back is slightly blurry, mainly because of the murky water.
[Entering the room to explore......] He had already opened the door to the first suite. What appears on the screen is a mess of small boxes, each the size of a basketball, some on the floor of the room, some in a collapsed cabinet.
The exterior of these small boxes is covered with a layer of flocculent seafloor dust and debris, and it is so dusty that it is impossible to see the real appearance.
The entry of the little robot disturbed several creatures resting in the room, it was a few octopuses, they huddled in the corner of the room, their tentacles shook lightly twice, and they didn't seem to care.
In the [Counting Quantities ......] screen, a small red circle appears on each chest.
After a few moments, there are a total of twenty-five small circles, representing twenty-five chests. The little robot stretched out its alloy arm, slowly picked up one of the boxes, wiped the dust off the surface of the box, and shook it in the seawater, and the water swelled, revealing the box in its original form.
The picture suddenly became a lot more turbid, and there were more flocculent residues in the water, all of which were gray-white, dancing with the churning seawater, which affected the vision.
After a while, as the flocculent precipitation, the picture gradually became clearer. This box is very delicate, although the appearance has been corroded by the sea water, but the golden iris pattern engraved on its surface can be faintly seen, which seems to be the symbol of a certain royal family on the western continent.
With a click, the little robot shattered the lock on the surface of the chest.
"Out of the box." Su Xia looked focused and stared at the screen quietly. This box, which has been sealed in the dust for nearly a hundred years, was violently opened today.
In the picture, the sea fluctuates, and the contents of the box are presented in front of Su Xia's eyes. It was a gold coin engraved with an iris pattern!
Under the searchlight that comes with the little robot, every gold coin shines as if it had just been minted, shining with the light of wealth in the seawater, making people unable to take their eyes off it.
"Sarah, ask the little robot to bring the box back." Su Xia's eyes lit up and said to Sarah.
"Okay." Sarah smiled. The little robot closed the box and carried the box of treasures out of the third deck, and it was very fast, and it didn't take long for it to come beyond the wreck, quickly approaching the location of the submarine.
Soon, only a buzzing sound was heard, and the submarine shook slightly, connecting the little robot into the cabin. Subsequently, the chamber was sealed and the seawater inside was quickly emptied.
"Captain, it's okay, let's take a look at the treasure." Sarah said with a smile.
"Hmm." Su Xia got up from his seat, bent over, walked to the middle of the submarine, and came to the corresponding hatch.
The hatch opened, and a smell of rotten sea water came to his face, and the box was in the center of the cabin, controlled by two mechanical arms, and slowly sent to Su Xia.
Su Xia put on the translucent gloves, twisted her neck, exhaled a few breaths, and then put her hands on the box.
"Click-" With a slight effort, the box was opened. The locks of the crates had been shattered by the little robot, and as it opened, rusty metal shards fell out.
Inside the box, there are gold coins, with the wetness of sea water, which is more intuitive than the picture sent back by the little robot before.
Su Xia picked up a gold coin, and the feeling of starting it was very cold and weighty. [Golden Iris Coin: Made of pure gold, it is very valuable, it was once exclusive to the Iris Empire of the Western Continent, and it is a symbol of royalty and wealth] On the surface of the gold coin, the engraved iris pattern shines brightly, as if telling the glory of that empire.
"Iris Empire ......" Su Xia groaned, looking at this gold coin, the history of this planet came to mind.
On this planet, there is no empire anymore. There were, nominally
"Constitutional monarchy", but the king and the royal family wield great power, and the people of the empire respected the royal family considerably.
Those empires are basically on the Western Continent. Later, when the war broke out, those empires were destroyed in battles with the automatons, and some of the royal family members of the empire died en masse, and even the monarch rushed to the battlefield with guns on his shoulder, and in the end there was not even a trace of blood left.
The last monarch of the Iris Empire was a legendary figure and the ace pilot of the empire at the time, who personally piloted a fighter plane to shoot down thirteen mechanical flying creatures, and engraved thirteen golden irises representing honor on his exclusive warplane.
He fought his people until the last moment, until the capital was breached, and the fighter plane he piloted fell in the smoke.
The royal record about Iris also stays at the moment when his fighter plane crashed. The war destroyed a lot, and buried a lot.
"I didn't expect to see the Iris royal family here." Su Xia sighed,
"A hundred years ago, the Iris Empire was when it was strong." In the era of this shipwreck, the steam was billowing on the sea, and there were countless merchant ships, passenger ships, and ships coming and going, and the whole world was prosperous.
At that time, the warships of the empire were crisscrossing the seas, and irises were blooming everywhere the sun shone. Thinking about it this way, it is normal for this cruise ship from the Western Continent to sink in the southern waters of the Central Continent, and most of it was requisitioned by the royal family at that time.
"Captain, according to rough estimates, the gold coins in this box are about twenty kilograms." Sarah chuckled and calculated,
"There are twenty-five chests in that room, and you can start imagining the life of a rich man."
"Well, that's right!" Su Xia also smiled and gently put the gold coin in his pocket. He is also considered a rich man, but he really has never enjoyed the life of a rich man, and his current living situation is almost the same as before, and he is reluctant to order too expensive dishes in the canteen.
"In the future, you can buy two cups of soy milk for breakfast, drink one and pour one ......" said, Su Xia shook his head again,
"Forget it, it's too wasteful, let's have a cup." He closed the box, turned and walked back to the cockpit seat, and sat back in the main driver's seat.
Looking at the dead gray shipwreck in front of him, Su Xia's eyes lit up slightly.
"Keep unboxing!"