Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It is a very difficult task to transport the found treasures to the ship, because most of these boxes are very heavy, and some are slightly larger than the standard.

Judging from the search work in the cave, those people must have temporarily cut down part of the trees, and then nailed the trees into wooden signs to transport these heavy boxes.

Because after searching the cave, they found some broken and simply treated wood left in the cave. These wood were obviously used as transportation tools back then.

Fortunately, Liang En and the others had considered these issues before and brought a simple trolley, so using these tools, they successfully transported the things to the beach.

"There must have been other things on that ship back then. I don't believe that a ship of more than a thousand tons only contained these more than seventy boxes." When returning to the big ship in the small boat, Liang En asked Nelson opposite. arrive.

All the information I had read before pointed to the fact that the ship was almost fully loaded when it left the port, and this was obviously impossible for the more than seventy boxes in front of me. In other words, the ship was mainly filled with other things.

"According to the information I received, the ship was mainly loaded with nickel and tin," Nelson said seriously. "But it's obviously not worth salvaging those things."

The reason why Nelson said this is also very simple, because his biggest previous achievement in the process of treasure hunting was the completion of a salvage work three years ago.

During that job, he spent two months discovering and salvaging a 19th-century steamship, from which he obtained industrial silver worth 1.1 million euros.

Unfortunately, the profit from that salvage was not much. After deducting miscellaneous expenses, it was found that the cost alone cost nearly 800,000 euros.

This is why he chose to invite Liang En in this operation, because this search for the missing ship brought back some bad memories of his last ocean salvage process.

As for the things on the ship, whether they were tin or nickel, they were important materials needed in the war. At the same time, these two metals were also minerals abundant in Southeast Asia, so it was very reasonable to take these things to Australia at that time.

It's a pity that they don't know where the ship is now, so the cost of searching and salvaging will most likely easily exceed the original cost of those things.

In this case, Liang En and the others will naturally choose to give up. After all, this salvage is purely for profit, so a business that loses money like this must not be done.

In particular, the number of items containing important materials such as the World War II group is not small, so these items do not even have historical academic value.

The most important thing to do next was to bring these things to the ship. During the whole hoisting process, I was worried that those ancient boxes would disintegrate. Fortunately, although those boxes made some strange noises, they finally held up. .

"Look what's here." Nelson said excitedly after they moved all the boxes to the ship and put them into the cabin.

Because what he found this time was the most he found in his long treasure hunting career. At least it now seemed more valuable than the silver ingots on the ship last time.

"Of course, let's start with the smallest box first." Liang En said, pointing to one of the 15 metal boxes that looked almost identical.

"This should be the small but heavy box that was uploaded to the stage in the diary we saw before. But now it seems that the heavy thing may not be the contents of the box, but the box itself."

The reason why I say this is because this box is different from other boxes. It is not a wooden box or a metal box with free shipping, but a real metal safe.

The unboxing tool was not a key, but an air impact drill. After all, they didn't have a key, and these things had been stored in the cave for so many years. Even if they had a key, they probably wouldn't be able to open them.

After a while of busy work, they opened the door of the safe, but unlike what everyone had guessed before, there was no gold or silver inside, but five or six round metal boxes that looked like two enlarged beer bottle caps. together.

"This box looks familiar-" When Liang En was still looking at the box with a blank look on his face, Nelson walked up and took the box, then grabbed the box and twisted it hard.

There is no doubt that the box is not very rusty, so after a sharp sound and some brown rust stains spilled, the round box was opened.

Ding-ding-dang-the moment the metal round box is opened. A few items rolled out of the box and onto the table, and even a few dropped to the floor.

"Diamonds!" Liang En's eyes widened after looking at that thing. He immediately recognized what these octahedrons or dodecahedrons of different sizes were.

These boxes contain some rough diamonds. The Dutch colony of Kalimantan was also an important diamond-producing area at that time, so it is not surprising to find raw diamonds here.

"But then again, these rough stones look a little different from the diamonds we built before." When the two men were excited, Joan stepped forward and picked up the largest one, which looked like a small piece of rock candy. Diamond said.

"The diamonds we saw before were like ice, they were transparent, instead of the whole diamond looking like a solid fog like now, or those polluted fog."

"Solid, polluted fog?" Liang En calmed down from his excitement after hearing what Joan of Arc said, and then carefully observed the diamonds, and sure enough, he discovered the difference between these diamonds and those he had built before.

To be honest, he is also someone who has seen a lot of diamonds, especially when he went to India last time, he almost saw diamonds that other people would never see in their lifetime, so first, I think these diamonds may not be as valuable as we thought before.

"Let me take a look." Liang En immediately walked to the table and inspected the diamonds. After inspecting all the diamonds, he immediately discovered the problem and raised his head and said.

"Nelson, the diamonds we found this time seem to be different from what we thought. It may not be as valuable as we thought because these diamonds are industrial diamonds."

There is no essential difference between industrial diamonds and gem-quality diamonds. They are both carbon crystals. However, impurities contained in natural diamonds can cause diamonds to appear in different colors and purity levels.

According to the current internationally accepted rules, the clarity of gem-grade diamonds is above i3, which means flaws are easily visible to the naked eye, while those with lower clarity are industrial diamonds.

And now the gems that Liang En and the others extracted from those iron cabinets were industrial gems that were turbid inside. Although the price of industrial gems of this size was not low, they were completely incomparable with gem-quality diamonds.

"But this should be a good start, right?" Although Nelson was a little frustrated at first, he soon became optimistic again.

"Now open all the other boxes. I guess there should be a lot of valuable things inside, at least more valuable than these things."