Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 214: Gains and doubts
"I don't think we need to go into the water for the time being." Seeing Zhu Yan and their faces bitter, Lawrence took a look at everyone and raised his doubts, "Don't you think something is wrong?"
"Where--" Zhu Yan stopped as if he thought of something in the middle of speaking, then took out the notebook that recorded the remains of the remains from his arms and compared it with the map that Lawrence had just drawn.
"What's wrong?" Okita Sakura asked after seeing Zhu Yan's movements. "Did you find something?"
"Yes, right here." Zhu Yan put together a map he drew based on the contents of the notebook and the one that Lawrence drew just now, then looked at Lawrence and said. "You are right, there is indeed a big problem."
After speaking, he pointed to the two maps and said to the two women who were still confused: "Look, this cover is drawn on the location of this section of the cabin that was abandoned here, and in this map that Lawrence drew just now. However, the position of the entire cabin was several hundred meters westward."
"According to your statement, hundreds of years have passed since this cabin sank." After hearing Zhu Yan's explanation, Saifei looked a little puzzled. "The sea can't be as calm as the artificial lake in the park, so what's weird about the wreck's offset position under the impact of the ocean current?"
"Safir, you may not know that you are not a person who lives by the sea. Although the ocean currents in the sea are powerful and can easily wash everything away, they are regular." Okita Sakura put her elbow on the game carelessly. On Phil's shoulder, he raised his other finger and pointed at the distant river into the sea. "For example, in a place like this, after the impact of the river enters the sea, the impact is likely to extend several kilometers into the sea—"
"I understand." After listening to Sakura Okita, Safir lowered his head and glanced at the changes in the ship's position on the two maps, and then showed a clear expression on his face. "Because of the impact of the river's entrance to the sea, the wreckage, even if it is affected by the current, should be far away from the river's entrance to the sea, rather than close to the river's entrance like this."
"Yes." Lawrence nodded. "And I'm ordering the phantoms to clean up the silt at the broken wreckage, trying to see if I can enter the cabin from the break to find more clues."
It was another hour of busy work. Four monster ghosts cooperated with Nora to clean up a fracture and entered. Soon, they found a valuable harvest.
But when the things were salvaged out of the water, everyone else on the boat looked puzzled. Because in the large bag of things brought up this time, apart from a large pile of various rusty and even various kinds of debris covered with marine life, there was also a twisted and destroyed iron door.
"Those guys from the Peacock Empire were really rich." Zhu Yan first looked at a few research vessels that were intact, but were completely rusted into a mass due to the destruction of the ship and the immersion in sea water for too long. Then he drew the bayonet from his waist and scratched the surface of these things, making a sound of emotion.
"Indeed, this is good news for us, and it means that our expected harvest this time will be more than expected." Lawrence nodded, because Zhu Yan scraped off part of the rust layer attached to the utensils, so Lawrence They found a lot of gold and silver threads used as decorations inlaid on these magical instruments.
After checking the salvaged items, Lawrence began to introduce the discovery that had just been made on the seabed. He first pointed to the iron door and said: "This is the most important discovery just now. It took a lot of energy for my monster phantom and construct to remove this thing from the hull fragment."
"Look here--" Lawrence said, pointing to the deformation on the iron door. "From the fracture of the iron door and the wreck, we can see that the break of the wreck of the ship did not protect the ship in the sea and time after the magic disappeared It was naturally broken under the attack of the enemy, but a very precise internal explosion exploded it."
"You are right." As a magic gunner who dealt with explosives all day long, Zhu Yan quickly saw the problem from this door. "It is obvious that this door was destroyed by the explosion, and the force of the explosion. It comes from inside the cabin. At the same time, the wreckage that was just cleared out looks a bit too tidy."
"—that is, someone has been here before us." Lawrence explained to the two women who were still bewildered. "I don't know who this person is now, and what I took away from here."
"But don't worry, we made a profit this adventure." Zhu Yan said as he picked up the rusty metal block. "Obviously the person who blew up this wreck did not emptied the wealth in this wreck. I found that these salvaged equipment used a lot of precious metals and even magic metal raw materials when they were manufactured, even if they were just recycled. It also allows us to make a lot of money. Now I don’t know how many similar things are in it."
Zhu Yan’s family is well-known for making various weapons. Naturally, the research and smelting of metals is indispensable. Even the most important wealth of this family is neither the special steel smelters and gunpowder factories, nor the famous weapons and the inheritance of the magic gunmen and organ teachers who use these weapons, but the family members and their research on various material formulas. graduate School.
So he naturally knew that if he could find enough such things from the wreckage, it would be a lot of money to get it into the family's factory, and this adventure would even make a profit.
In fact, at most 1/3 of people in real adventures can achieve the goals they want. In many cases, taking risks will not only fail to obtain benefits, but also put money into it. So, like Lawrence, their seemingly surplus venture this time is considered to be the better one in the outcome of the adventure.
After thoroughly figuring out the situation, Lawrence and the others first rowed the boat back to the shore to eat something to deal with the housework, and then row the boat back and Lawrence controlled the monster phantom to search underwater.
It may be because the Habit of God has the priesthood of the river god, Nora is also very interested in the matter of entering the water, especially when the water is at the mouth of the river, and Nora also finds that she can control fresh water while underwater.
So with her help, the cleaning work became a lot easier~lightnovelpub.net~ Especially Zhu Yan took out a lot of explosives that can be used underwater from her body after she figured out the general situation under water to help break it. Greatly accelerate the speed of cleaning.
When night fell, Lawrence, who had completed the investigation of all the cabins in the ship, climbed off the ship with Zhu Yan's support. After all, for several hours of uninterrupted summoning and manipulation of these monsters' phantoms, it is a huge mental drain for Lawrence, even if the magic power can hold it, it can't hold it.
However, the overall search was quite rewarding, because the bottom compartment used as an escape compartment was the bottom layer on the ship, so it was loaded with a lot of things. In addition to removing some dead animals, spoiled food, timber ropes and some tools that might have been used to repair ships that year, they found eight cabins containing potentially valuable items.
Three of them contain various utensils. Except for one containing various high-value props and precious metal utensils used for alchemy and magic experiments, the other two contain various exquisite ceramics and glass.制ware. According to Zhu Yan, these items are very popular antiques on the market and can be sold at a good price.
The other four warehouses are basically filled with a variety of raw materials, because the immersion of sea water and the passage of time have completely lost most of the contents, but there are still some things that can be used.
The most important warehouse was located in the center of the wreck and was reinforced with steel plates. Lawrence found a lot of tableware and utensils made of precious metals and two small boxes of more than 2,000 silver coins of the Peacock Empire.