Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 734: Fatal injury
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After scanning the cockpit again to make sure that nothing was missing, Ye Tian cleaned the coral debris on his gloves, swung his legs and swam towards the back of the cockpit.
There is an iron door more than one meter wide on the back bulkhead. The surface is covered with colorful corals and coral excrement, but the general shape can still be seen clearly!
You can leave the cockpit from there. It is unknown whether the iron door leads to the stern or to other cabins or the lower deck. You can only know it by opening the iron door.
The reason why I chose it is firstly because it is half-open, indicating that it is not locked, and secondly because it is at the top, making it easy to move around, and there are no obstacles near the door.
There is also an iron door on the side of the seabed below the bulkhead, but there is a lot of garbage piled up at the door, like a hill, so naturally you can’t choose that side.
With a few gentle swings of their legs, Ye Tian and Matisse swam to the iron gate, stopped, and suspended in the water.
They did not immediately reach out and open the iron door to see where it leads to! Instead, he observed the condition of the iron gate.
Although it is severely rusted, it is very strong and not dangerous.
Then, Matisse swam towards the iron gate, bringing the distance closer.
After reaching the iron door, he immediately reached out and pulled out the diving knife tied to the outside of his thigh, and began to clean the thick coral on the iron door handle in order to open the door.
When the extremely sharp blade passed by, the coral on the handle was immediately scraped off in pieces and slowly fell down.
Soon, Matisse finished cleaning up, put the diving knife back into the scabbard, then reached out to hold the iron door handle, and forcefully opened the iron door that had been silent for more than thirty years.
The iron door was very heavy and awkward, but Matisse still opened it slowly.
As the iron door opened, the situation behind the door immediately appeared in front of Ye Tian and the others.
Behind the door is a small platform about 1.5 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. Turn right and connect to a downward staircase.
“Let’s go over and have a look, Matisse, I don’t know where this staircase leads, the lower cabin or the stern”
As he spoke, Ye Tian took the lead in swimming through the iron gate and came to the small platform outside the door.
Following him, Matisse also swung his legs and swam over.
After stabilizing their bodies, they immediately used the flashlights tied to their arms to shine down the stairs to see where the stairs led.
Several powerful lights were projected from their arms, shining directly towards the bottom of the stairs, illuminating the place and allowing them to see clearly.
This is the staircase leading to the lower deck cabin, not to the stern.
From the position on the platform, it seems that the door of the cabin on the lower deck is open and can be passed through smoothly!
“Let’s go to that cabin and have a look, Matisse. According to convention, the captain’s lounge should be on the floor below. Maybe we will find something!”
Ye Tian raised his finger and pointed at the door of the lower cabin and said to Matisse.
After finishing speaking, he immediately swam over there, and the light beams projected by the two strong flashlights on his arms were pointed directly at the door of the cabin below!
In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.
Ye Tian and the others have already explored the ship’s building and most of the buildings on the main deck.
Except for the few pieces of jewelry found in the cockpit, they found no other surprises! It can be said that nothing was gained.
There are a few antiques from fifty or sixty years ago in the captain’s cabin, but their value is relatively average and they are not small. Ye Tian doesn’t like them at all! I’m too lazy to take them to the surface!
If these things sleep for hundreds of years under the sea, their value may increase greatly and they will be popular and pursued by people, but that has nothing to do with Ye Tian!
Like the upper cockpit, there is also an old-fashioned safe in the captain’s lounge. It is hidden in a bookcase. It is not large in size, locked firmly, and severely rusted!
But under the perspective, Ye Tian knew instantly what was in the safe.
It mainly contains some documents, which should be related to the cargo ship and the goods carried on the ship. In addition, there are tens of thousands of dollars in cash, a pistol, and two jewelry boxes!
The box also contains top brand jewelry, which should be a gift from the captain to his family.
In that era thirty or forty years ago, cargo ships from Peru sailed to New York. If economic conditions allowed, everyone would bring some gifts back to their families. Everyone agreed!
The quality of these two pieces of jewelry is quite good. Thirty years ago, they were worth several thousand dollars. Now, they have multiplied many times. The two pieces together should be worth 150,000 to 60,000 dollars.
Same as before, Ye Tian plans to take this safe to the yacht later, not for the two pieces of jewelry, but just to experience the fun of discovering treasures!
After roughly exploring the main deck, Ye Tian and Matisse swam to the ship building again, preparing to enter the lower deck from there! Go check out what’s going on in the cabin below.
When they swam to the hatch leading to the lower deck, shined a flashlight in, and looked inside the hatch and on the stairs, they immediately gave up the idea.
Due to the violent explosion or impact, the stairs leading to the lower cabin have been completely twisted and deformed, making it impossible to pass at all!
There are also some broken steel bars and other sharp objects scattered up and down the stairs. They look very dangerous. If you step carefully, you will encounter them!
The cabin is also in a mess. Almost everything has been covered by coral, making it difficult to see its original appearance. It is also scattered everywhere, making it difficult to find a place to stay!
Seeing this situation, Mattis immediately said:
“Steven, let’s not go down there. It’s very difficult to get through here, and the situation is unknown, so it’s dangerous. Plus, this is just a cargo ship, so it’s not worth the risk!”
“You are right, there is really no need to take risks here, it is not worth it! Let’s go to other places and see if we can find anything!”
Ye Tian nodded and responded, having no objections.
When he said this, he had secretly turned on the perspective, and quickly looked through the cabin in front of him, as well as the nearby and lower cabins, to grasp the situation here.
These cabins are all cargo holds, and most of what is carried in them is mechanical equipment, as well as some other things. They are not of much value. There is no need to go in to explore, and there is no need to take risks!
After completing the investigation, Ye Tian immediately withdrew his gaze and ended the fluoroscopy.
Immediately afterwards, he and Matisse turned around and left, swimming elsewhere to explore other places.
During the subsequent exploration process, Ye Tian secretly turned on the perspective many times, looking through the deck from time to time to observe the situation behind the deck!
Everywhere in the cabin was in a mess, cargo was scattered everywhere, and all metal items were rusty or covered in seaweed and coral, making it almost impossible to see their original appearance!
In addition to a large amount of mechanical equipment and other supplies, he also saw some skeletons, which obviously belonged to the crew of the freighter.
Several crew members died particularly tragically. They were pressed on the deck or squeezed against the bulkhead by the out-of-control and extremely heavy mechanical equipment. They were almost broken into pieces. It was terrible to see!
In addition, the deeper he looked through, the more explosion marks he saw, and the greater the damage caused to the hull by the explosion.
From this, he quickly deduced.
The cause of the sinking of this ocean-going cargo ship was not a pirate attack or an unpredictable storm, but itself!
There should be a violent explosion inside the cargo ship, which severely damaged or even destroyed the ocean-going cargo ship, causing it to quickly sink to the bottom of the Caribbean Sea! It turned into a shipwreck site!
Soon, this conjecture was confirmed.
After exploring the ship building and other ancillary buildings on the main deck, Ye Tian and Matisse immediately climbed over the tilting main deck and swam to the bottom of the ship, preparing to observe the situation on the bottom of the ship.
As soon as they swam here and before they could stop in the water, they discovered a large hole in the bottom of the freighter, with a diameter of three to four meters wide! Quite scary!
They quickly determined the location of the big hole, which was located diagonally below the ship building, where the engine room was.
It can be seen from the rolled-out steel plates around the large hole and the bell-shaped blooming shape that the explosion that destroyed the freighter was very violent and must have occurred in the engine room!
The violent explosion directly penetrated the bottom of the freighter, causing devastating trauma that could not be repaired, and soon pulled the ocean-going freighter and all the crew into hell!
“Let me go! What exactly exploded? The power was so terrifying. This was just a cargo ship transporting mechanical equipment! It was not an arms ship transporting shells or missiles. This is too exaggerated!”
Ye Tian said in shock, and then swam toward the big hole in the bottom of the boat, ready to take a closer look.
Matisse followed, also very curious.
The two quickly swam to the location of the big hole and suspended in the water.
Just as they were about to put the light into the big hole and start exploring, several black figures suddenly swam towards them from not far away from the side! high speed!