Struggle in the Steam Age

Although Lawrence didn't direct those monster phantoms to fish out those big pieces, he still fished the two small boxes of silver coins onto the boat and pulled them back to the shore. Soon, these shiny little metal pieces attracted everyone's attention.

"These coins are not just the price of precious metals." After picking up a silver coin and looking at the bonfire, Okita Sakura said, "I remember that my master collected such a silver coin. At that time, he spent one yuan and fifty cents money."

The Republic of Xinzhou has an independently issued currency, and the units are circle, angle, cent, and milli. Both are decimal. One of them is equivalent to two yuan of the White Eagle Federation. That is to say, if it is converted into Baiying yuan, such a silver coin is equivalent to three yuan.

"It's up to you to deal with the silver coins, including those that are still in the water now." Lawrence shrugged and said to Zhu Yan. After all, it is very difficult for Lawrence to salvage these large items and get rid of them later, because they are in a foreign country after all. In a foreign land, he can't do many things.

"Thank you very much for believing in me." After hearing what Lawrence said, Zhu Yan patted Lawrence's shoulder lightly, and then began to write a note. While writing, he said to Lawrence: "I'll get someone to take all these things out, and then make a cargo list as soon as possible."

After speaking, he took out stationery from the space pocket tied around his waist and wrote a note, then took out a wooden kite and let it fly away with the note. Watching the wooden kite fly farther and farther, Zhu Yan explained in a low voice. "I'm sending the letter to people in my family right now, and I think a professional salvage team will be here by noon tomorrow."

"Actually, I can command the ghost phantom to fish those things out," Lawrence said. "There's no need to mobilize so many teachers."

"It's just spending some money." Zhu Yan shrugged disapprovingly. "It's much easier than salvaging a little bit by ourselves."

"Professional salvage team?" Safiel also became interested in what Zhu Yan just said at this time. "Zhu, I know your family is very powerful, but I didn't expect your family to be so powerful that you can have a professional salvage team."

"Uh, I didn't explain clearly." Zhu Yan scratched his head in embarrassment. "This salvage team does not belong to our family, but is composed of mermaids from several mermaid tribes attached to Xinhuiji Port. If you want to salvage something near this city and don't want to do it yourself, it is most suitable to find them. Because of their clean hands and feet and reasonable fees, they have a good reputation in the neighborhood. Because of this, we always hire them to help us salvage anything.”

In the following time, everyone raised a bonfire and started cooking dinner. It's just that everyone has finished their search work, so this dinner is different from yesterday's. What we eat is no longer the mush cooked from all kinds of dry food for emergency use before, but a seafood barbecue party is prepared.

These seafood were caught by Sai Feier and Okita Sakura. Just now after Zhu Yan learned how to drive the boat, he and Lawrence went to explore the ruins by simply rocking the boat, while the two ladies were left on the beach. Because they were bored, they quickly collected seafood.

There is a lot of bait in the estuary of this kind of river, and the gentle tidal flats also have enough space for various marine life to live. At the same time, the local special geographical environment also makes it difficult for fishing boats to operate here, so under the guidance of Okita Sakura, who grew up on a fishing boat, they caught a lot of seafood.

"I still find it a bit strange." After eating a few mouthfuls of grilled fish, Zhu Yan said in a puzzled way, "The person who moved and blew up these cabins obviously wanted to use the mud washed into the sea by the river to cover Live in these cabins and hide the wealth. But if that's the case, why did he blow up this part of the cabin?"

"Maybe it's for hiding—no, if it's for hiding, it's not enough to just blow it up into three pieces, and doing so will greatly depreciate the value of the wealth on board." Hearing what Zhu Yan said, Lawrence also discovered a lot of wealth. I woke up from the excitement, and at the same time grasped the place that I had always felt wrong in my mind before. "That person's effort is definitely not just to destroy wealth, but I think it's to cover up something?"

"If this is the case, there must be some key clues on the scene that I didn't find. After all, I have been working for a long time today, and I just checked a lot of places behind. I think we should take a closer look tomorrow morning to see if there are any clues " Lawrence said vaguely after biting the squid on the bamboo stick into his mouth.

"My friend, you have done a good job." Zhu Yan patted Lawrence on the shoulder and said. "Tomorrow, I will accompany you to look for it again. If you can't find it, forget it. Anyway, we have already made money from this adventure."

Everyone had a great time at the barbecue party that night. Early the next morning, Lawrence and Zhu Yan went to the boat to continue checking the wreckage at the location yesterday. But this time, Lawrence and the others were carefully looking for the situation. Sure enough, I found some unusual clues.

"I feel that there is something wrong with half of the cabin." After scouting many corners with the phantom of a small fish, Lawrence said to Zhu Yan who was standing behind the boat and rowing, "The outside and inside dimensions of that cabin are a little bit different. sorry."

The location of the cabin that was found to be somewhat wrong was not in the cabin reinforced by steel plates where two boxes of silver coins and precious metal tableware were placed in the center of the entire remains, but in the section close to the bow. The most important thing is that this cabin is located at the position where the explosion occurred before and was severely deformed by the explosion.

If Lawrence hadn't consciously searched the most severely damaged areas in the previous explosion today, he would never have found the room that had been almost completely destroyed by the explosion. However, because of the explosion, Lawrence discovered that there was an interlayer on the wall of this cabin.

Ordinary people might not be able to discover this, but with the help of Nora who absorbed the divinity. Lawrence and the others used the remaining wreckage to accurately build a 3D model of the wreckage and restored the appearance of the wreckage before the explosion in their minds. As a result, after the 3D model was restored, Lawrence quickly discovered that several cabins where the hull was broken had disappeared.

Under such a premise, Lawrence carefully inspected the hull near the explosion point and the debris scattered in the surrounding mud. As a result, he was very lucky to find traces of a double wall from a piece of wood board the size of a washbasin stuck in the wreckage. It was deduced from this that the cabin here originally had a mezzanine.

"It is very likely that someone took the things hidden in the mezzanine first, and then moved the rest of the cabin and exploded, destroying a part of the hull structure through the explosion to hide the traces of something that he took away." Speaking of here , Safiel's speaking speed slowed down, and he frowned at the same time.

"But this leaves a very contradictory problem, that is, if the person who discovered this cabin could control it, he should take away the rest of the wealth. If he can't control it, after he takes the most important thing In order not to leave traces for the people behind, these wreckage should also be blown to pieces, and it is a bit strange to make it like this now."

"Your suspicion is indeed justified." Nora, who had operated underwater through the soul connection team, asked a few words, and Lawrence said to Daphel. "When I checked the wreck before, I found that there were some self-destruct facilities on the wreck that had been ineffective after being soaked in sea water for a long time, and the person who moved the ship back then should have used the ship itself when it blew up the ship into three pieces. self-destruct facility.”

"That is to say, the person who took away the things in the mezzanine and destroyed this part of the cabin should be one of the survivors who escaped from that ship, and that person's status on the ship will not be too low." Okita Sakura quickly discovered a key point. "That's why he can accurately take away the treasure that may exist in the mezzanine and manipulate the self-destruct system to sink the ship in three sections to cover up what he did."