Huo Yu continued to use the wall of the ship to borrow strength, kept shuttling in the current, and continued to explore the depths of the ship's hull.
It was getting darker and darker inside the cabin, but seaweed was still dense, and there were also some weird undersea plants growing in the cracks of rocks and rotten wood on the seabed.
Fortunately, Huo Yu was riding a white whale when he came, so he didn't expend much effort, otherwise he would have lost strength by now.
In deep water, actions that are usually easy to do may become difficult due to pressure and other reasons.
Huo Yu struggled to push through the seaweed and finally entered the cabin at the bottom.
There were many boxes piled up inside the cabin, most of which were rotted into a pile and could not be seen.
Judging from the overall structure and these boxes, this layer should be the cargo hold.
Seeing these rotten boxes, the barrage became noisy again.
"If I go, Master Yu will really find the treasure!"
"It's been so many years. Any treasures have been damaged long ago, right?"
"It's hard to say. Gold, diamonds, etc. may not be completely damaged."
"Master Yu just sent it out this time."
"Master Yu, you won't stop being an icekeeper and stop live broadcasting after you get rich, right?"
Too lazy to pay attention to the trolls in the barrage, Huo Yu curiously stretched out his hand and touched the box closest to him.
boom--
As soon as his fingers touched the surface of the box, the entire box immediately collapsed and turned into wood slag and powder.
Seawater has corroded it for at least a hundred years, so it's a miracle that it didn't turn into slag.
Huo Yu dug in the wood residue with his hands for a long time.
Nothing was found except a hand full of mud.
This shows that the box may contain non-metallic items such as cloth and tobacco, which have been completely decomposed by sea water.
When ships go to sea, some specialty tobacco, cloth, silk, coffee and tea are all hard currency.
But these things are difficult to preserve and may be destroyed by moisture after being kept in the cabin for a few months.
For thousands of years, countless ships carrying treasures and cargo have sunk in the ocean.
From the 20th century to the present, hundreds of ships that have been dormant for thousands of years have been discovered.
These ships are like time capsules of the underwater world, allowing people even today to see through these objects the suffocating scene of shipwreck hundreds of years ago.
It can be said that every shipwreck is a mini museum, covering the history of human navigation.
Among these shipwrecks, only a few treasures such as metals and ceramics can be preserved by the corrosion of sea water.
Huo Yu swam back to another box, peeled open the rotten wooden shell, and revealed the goods inside.
His eyes suddenly lit up.
The box contained jars so dirty that you couldn't tell the color.
Judging from the texture, it should be Chinese porcelain.
Could this be a cargo ship from ancient Europe to ancient China?
Since one piece of porcelain has been found, it means that there are more cultural relics and porcelain in the cabin.
Sure enough, after a brief search, Huo Yu found a large number of ancient Chinese cultural relics from the sunken ship.
These include a series of Chinese ceramic products and other cultural relics, such as copper alloy, glass sand agate products.
Needless to say the value of these cultural relics, if Huo Yu dared to keep and sell one, he would probably be sentenced to several years in prison.
In addition to this, there are several rusty anchors and several ship-mounted cannons that were seen on the deck outside.
The value of this ship is much greater than Huo Yu imagined.
Those cannons are usually installed on merchant ships hired by the East India Company and are mainly used to defend against pirate attacks and send distress signals. They are also valuable collections.
After continuing to search for a while, Huo Yu found some more exquisite handicrafts on the sunken ship.
For example, there are jar fragments with dragon patterns, pottery ducks, Guanyin heads, happy Buddha statues and a wide variety of ceramic artworks.
Huo Yu just looked at it casually and immediately lost interest.
He is not a collector, and apart from a few art skills rewarded by the system, he has no artistic talent.
Compared to these priceless cultural relics, Huo Yu was more interested in the cannons on the deck.
Huo Yu is not interested in these cultural relics, but there is always someone behind the screen who is.
When Huo Yu dug out these porcelains, some discerning spectators became as excited as the Chinese New Year.
"This seems to be Song Dynasty porcelain? It's wrong, the year doesn't match?"
"It's hard to say. It's very possible that these porcelains were antiques back then."
"Let me go, that Buddha statue is similar to the one that sold for eight million at auction last year."
"After all, the value of this ship is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions."
"But why does such a sunken ship full of treasures appear in the Arctic?"
This barrage caused Huo Yu to think deeply.
There are only two waterways in the Arctic. The first is the 'Northwest Passage' along the coast of Maple Leaf Country. It is precisely because of this waterway that Maple Leaf Country, which is not very strong in scientific research, accounts for a large proportion of the Ice Keepers organization.
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The other is the ‘Northeast Passage’ near the Siberian coast of Russia.
In the 16th century, the routes around Africa and the south of Latin America were monopolized by the maritime powers of the Grape Country and the Bullfighting Country.
Therefore, explorers and navigators from Western and Northern Europe prepared to find a new route from the North Atlantic that could cross the Arctic Ocean and directly connect with the Eastern countries with huge wealth.
Thus began more than two centuries of waterway exploration.
Thousands of Western explorers and navigators eventually perished on the cold seabed trying to prove the existence of this route.
It was not until the mid-19th century that explorers managed to navigate several sections of the route and finally confirmed the existence of the Northwest Passage.
For thousands of years, navigators' biggest dream has been to open up a new channel from the perennially frozen Arctic Ocean.
It is called the "legendary passage" by navigators!
Even though the waterway has been opened up and matured in recent years, countries are still arguing over the right to use the waterway.
From the Russian Federation to Russia, the Northeast Passage is regarded as the country’s transportation line.
Other countries, led by the United States, have always insisted on the right to international passage until the establishment of the Icekeepers.
Such a legendary waterway always attracts the attention of countries around the world.
Perhaps the ‘Grand Route’ in One Piece was inspired by this route.
At that time, the Arctic glaciers had not yet melted and the waterway was impassable. How could merchant ships from around the seventeenth century appear here?
Even pirates mostly live in sea areas where humans gather. After all, they make a living by robbing merchant ships.
Before Huo Yu could figure out the reason, he was suddenly attracted by an object reflecting bright light.
It was a dark red object that seemed to be some kind of weapon from the shape.
Huo Yu swam over and gently drew out the weapon.
The moment he saw the full picture of this weapon, his pupils suddenly trembled.