Chapter 257: Discovering A Sunken Ship
This time, instead of just circling around as before, she went to a farther place.
She’s going to open a new map!
“Let’s go see if we can find any more ambergris.”
She finally understood, selling any fish wasn’t as valuable as ambergris.
Although she disliked that it was sperm whale poop, there were plenty of people who didn’t mind.
Now with millions in hand, Yun Jiao is also a super rich woman, but she wants to buy many, many of those pretty stones, and she wants to buy islands. She doesn’t know if that money will be enough, so she needs to save a lot more.
Unfortunately, finding ambergris at sea is very difficult.
Not all of a sperm whale’s excrement forms hard ambergris lumps.
Sperm whales like to eat things like giant squid; their teeth and excrement that the sperm whale cannot digest are expelled, and over time, they form hard lumps that become ambergris.
And the size of ambergris is uncertain.
The piece Yun Jiao found before was already quite large.
After looking around the sea surface for a long time without finding what she wanted, Yun Jiao, bored, patted the orca’s body and pointed to the sea.
The orca understood, let out a happy cry, and took her to dive towards the seabed.
Reaching the seabed, Yun Jiao stopped riding the orca and swam around like a fish.
Suddenly, a colossus in the distance caught her gaze.
She changed direction and swam towards it with the orca.
As she approached, she immediately recognized it as a sunken ship!
Yun Jiao was not surprised to find a sunken ship in the sea.
The sea is unforgiving, and the weather is unpredictable.
Especially those large ocean-going vessels that are at sea for months or even years. During this time, encountering large typhoons, tsunamis, or hidden reefs are all possible.
In the face of these disasters at sea, even very large ships appear very small to humans.
Neither humans nor ships have any ability to resist.
From ancient times to the present, the number of sunken ships at the bottom of the sea is probably countless.
From the gold bracelet a dolphin brought earlier, she could guess that there might be a sunken ship in the nearby sea area.
She didn’t expect to encounter it without even looking.
Surprise flashed in Yun Jiao’s eyes.
She swam near the sunken ship.
Upon observation, she found that the overall structure of the sunken ship was wooden. It was unclear how many years had passed, and most of the ship’s hull had rotted beyond recognition.
But the outline of the sunken ship could still be seen.
She also saw some scattered bones around.
They were human bones, with no flesh remaining. Judging by the color of the bones, a long time had passed.
Some fish swam in the dilapidated sunken ship.
Yun Jiao, with curiosity and a treasure-hunting mindset, moved some of the wood aside.
These wooden pieces had been eroded by seawater for years at the bottom of the sea, and some would crumble with just a touch.
Some of the wood was very heavy due to so much water.
But these were not problems for Yun Jiao.
She was a tiny figure in front of this sunken ship, and it took her half the day to clear out a small corner.
Then she discovered a box.
It was a wooden box, somewhat rotted. Yun Jiao easily lifted the lid of the wooden box.
What was revealed inside made her eyes light up.
This golden object still looked dazzling in the dim depths of the seabed.
After so many years, the wooden boat had rotted and was covered with seaweed-like organisms, but this gold was undamaged.
Valuable, golden, good-looking~
Yun Jiao dragged the box out from the deep sand at the bottom of the sea.
She glanced at the sunken ship, then at the box she was holding.
Should she go back first?
She didn’t know how much longer it would take to sort through everything else.
Anyway, she now knew the location of this sunken ship, so she could come back next time.
Having made up her mind, Yun Jiao held the heavy wooden box above her head and happily and easily swam upwards.
“Let’s go back.”
She called to the orca, and they went to find their family’s boat.
On the other side, Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe didn’t catch any valuable fish, so they simply found an island to see if there was anything good there.
Unexpectedly, they actually caught a few valuable rock bream.
These fish were also about six or seven yuan per jin.
The two were overjoyed, beaming with smiles.
Carrying the rock bream, along with three green crabs, orchid crabs, bread crabs, and other seafood they found, they left the small island.
Before reaching the boat, they saw the orca pod from afar, their bodies flipping on the surface.
“Jiaojiao is back?”
The distance was a bit far, and they could see the large orcas, but Yun Jiao’s petite figure was completely invisible.
“Dad, Uncle~”
“It really is Jiaojiao.”
Hearing Yun Jiao’s voice, the two dogs wagged their tails happily, barked, and rushed into the sea, dog-paddling towards her.
However, they got a little timid when they saw the orcas.
They were simply too big.
The two half-grown dogs looked very small in front of them.
Yun Jiao held the wooden box in one hand, freeing the other to pat the two dogs’ heads.
“Let’s get on the boat.”
“Dad, Uncle, look what I found.”
The two men first carried up the box she was holding.
However, the box that Yun Jiao easily lifted took all the strength they had to lift up.
“It’s so heavy. Jiaojiao, where did you find this box, and what’s inside?”
They didn’t open the box, but first pulled Yun Jiao onto the boat.
Yun Jiao: “Guess?”
Yun Linhe was stroking his chin and was about to guess when a sudden wailing cry attracted Yun Jiao’s attention.
Everyone on the boat looked over there.
“Help! Someone help my man!”
From afar, a woman’s cry could be faintly heard.
About eight hundred meters away from them, a wooden boat was moored.
Yun Linhai and the others couldn’t hear the voices from over there, but Yun Jiao could.
“Dad, the people on that boat over there are calling for help.”
Hearing Yun Jiao’s words, their expressions immediately changed.
Forgetting to guess what was inside the wooden box, they quickly rowed their boat towards them.
Yun Jiao patted the edge of the boat: “Help out, push the boat.”
“Wuwuwu~~~”
Soon, a nearby orca’s head pushed the boat and moved swiftly towards them.
Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe quickly grabbed the side of the boat to secure it.
In just a few minutes, they arrived.
“My man, my man fell into the sea, there’s a shark in there, please save him.”
The woman was crying uncontrollably, leaning over the side of the boat.
Yun Jiao: “Dad, Uncle, you stay on the boat, I’ll go down.”
“Jiaojiao, be careful.”
Yun Jiao nodded and jumped directly into the sea.
She, with the orca, descended into the sea and soon saw a patch of water stained red, and a bull shark swimming towards it.
Yun Jiao and the orca darted straight towards it.
Her speed was very fast, especially when entering combat mode. Even in the high-pressure sea, she moved like a sharp arrow.
Just as the bull shark opened its mouth to bite towards the waist of the unconscious, possibly dead, person in the sea, Yun Jiao appeared beside the bull shark and kicked it.
