CHAPTER 1536: CHAPTER 733: ROUND AND ROUND, UPS AND DOWNS

Watching the moving cargo ship, Douglas Cooper silently reflected: men die for wealth as birds die for food; it couldn’t be more true.

The people on this cargo ship had already drawn their weapons, obviously not intending to come for a rescue.

Images from the high-definition cameras showed the sailors with guns looking greedy and eager, some spitting foul language, obviously thinking there were women on the yacht.

There was no point in waiting any longer. Douglas maneuvered the drone back; he had gathered enough evidence to confirm their malicious intent.

Kill the innocent.

As the drone flew back, Sean Knight got up.

He felt a strong threat, and after getting up, he saw Douglas preparing the shoulder-mounted rocket launcher and asked,

"Did you see clearly?"

"Just now, the drone I deployed showed clearly. Those people are armed and ready to rob us."

"Then let’s fight. After the fight, we should move to another location to lay low for a couple of days before returning here to salvage."

The range of precious items scattered from the sunken ship beneath the water was extensive; it was definitely not possible to salvage everything in one or two days. The yacht would have to stay here for a while, so it was essential to clean up any trouble.

The cargo ship vanished nearby; it was certain someone would come to check within two days, so it was best to avoid the area for a while.

Douglas set up the shoulder-mounted rocket launcher in a proper position, ensuring there were no obstacles at a sixty-degree angle behind him, and then quietly waited for the cargo ship to approach.

In complete darkness, Douglas was confident they didn’t have infrared telescopes on the cargo ship to see him.

Sure enough, the cargo ship only stopped when it was nearly 300 meters away from the yacht.

The reason it stopped was naturally the fear that the engine noise might wake the people on the yacht.

As the cargo ship was preparing to launch a speedboat, Douglas pulled the trigger, launching a rocket with a tail flame!

Douglas didn’t look at the result, continuing to load another rocket, removing the detonator’s safety cover, screwing it onto the launcher, aiming again, and firing...

Three rockets exploded on the cargo ship one after another, bursts of fire lighting up and cries spreading; meanwhile, the yacht had already turned and was heading into the distance, soon disappearing into the night.

Two days later, when the yacht returned to the area, there was no trace on the nearby sea surface. Only occasionally was there a small area of oil spill left.

Sean Knight and Douglas began to full-heartedly dive to retrieve the treasures from beneath the sea.

In just one day, the deck piled up with a good amount of bounty salvaged from the seabed.

Golden coins, silver coins, jewelry, gemstones, antiques, weapons, and more.

This was because the yacht had limited capacity, so Douglas salvaged only the most valuable part.

Meanwhile, underwater, Sean had it much easier. He straightforwardly placed some of the boxes of easier-to-salvage goods into his spatial realm.

Greatly shortening the salvage time.

However, even so, Sean and his team had to stop.

The yacht had limited load capacity, and Sean guessed they would encounter more sunken ships and retrieve more treasures.

At this rate, the treasures might not be fully salvaged before the yacht would give out.

Fortunately, they had prepared in advance. Elijah Hastings and his crew had finished their holidays and came over with a cargo ship from Big Island.

Two days later, the yacht and cargo ship headed west together. The cargo ship was now loaded with goods valued at about 5 million dollars.

Another two days later, the yacht and cargo ship stopped about twenty sea miles from the mouth of the Red Sea.

Further ahead, cargo ships crowded together, all waiting to pass through.

This area wasn’t in the main waterway, so the yacht and cargo ship stopping here didn’t attract much attention. Also, crucially, flying the red flag, no one dared to show their teeth here.

Thank God for our country.

Since the opening of the Suez Canal, this place had become busy with freight traffic, naturally leading to many sunken ships resting on the seafloor.

This time, Sean and the team were salvaging a large ship that sank here more than a hundred years ago.

The ship was loaded with many cultural relics and valuable goods, "taken" back from Asia.

Originally, the European powers had opened the doors of many Asian countries with strong ships and guns, then plundered countless cultural relics from there.

The sunken ship had lain underwater for a long time, but back then, it was ironclad, so the entire ship hadn’t disintegrated. Undercurrents in the water at about a hundred meters deep meant it hadn’t been discovered or salvaged.

Otherwise, a ship that had sunk in recent times like this usually would have been recorded, and due to its huge value, it would typically have been salvaged long ago.

Of course, it wasn’t absolute. Ships like the Awa Maru, which carried huge fortunes, ended up having only a tiny portion of their value salvaged.

The rest vanished without a trace.

In Sean’s perception, the brightness here far surpassed any he had seen before.

This meant that the treasures hidden inside the sunken ship were of astonishing value!

It was just that there were undercurrents below, and they came in bursts. Although not as fierce as the undercurrents they encountered in the Atlantic, these were sneaky, small in range, but erratic and could easily sweep a person away.

For ordinary people, diving more than a hundred meters down was extremely dangerous.

Luckily, Sean and his team frequently salvaged underwater and had experience dealing with undercurrents.

Sean was the first to break through the sunken ship’s deck. To be honest, there was a thick layer of sediment there.

But for someone like Sean with spatial abilities, lifting the deck was quite easy.