777米奇影

Chapter 619 - 619: Discovery of a Safe! Rubies!

“A gambling ship?” queried another, disbelief evident in his voice.

A collective gasp went around the room, and the corners of the mouths of all the crew members twitched involuntarily. They had considered many scenarios, but this possibility was something they had never imagined.

“I took a quick look around,” Luo Feng began, his voice taking on a commanding tone. “The top two floors are filled with entertainment facilities, and the first floor is a casino. The basement is a storage room. Focus your search there to see if there’s any money stored!”

“Understood!” came the immediate reply.

“We’ll go down right now!”

Luo Feng chose not to go down with them. He felt that the gambling ship might not hold many valuable items. What a pity that the cash had rotted away! Had it not, the ship’s value would have been immense.

It wasn’t that the currency from so many years ago could still be used, but rather that they were collectible coins. In such large quantities, they could surely find many valuable ones. Even the ordinary ones were worth something, and selling them would yield a handsome profit.

Ignoring all else, the cash alone on the gambling ship, those collectible coins, could be worth over a billion.

Because there was quite a lot of it.

Collectible coins, over time, could be worth millions or even tens of millions.

“Damn, I really didn’t expect it to be a gambling ship!” someone exclaimed.

“Yeah, there must be a lot of good stuff inside the gambling ship, right?” another crew member speculated.

“What good stuff? Isn’t everything electronic payment now?” a cynical voice chimed in.

“Hey, you’re really something. A shipwreck like this, do you think it sank recently? Electronic payment? Are you joking?” “They probably used Swiss bank cheques or US dollars!” “Damn, Luo Feng, hurry up and search, bring it up!”

“Cash by the box, we won’t be able to carry it all!”

“You’re thinking too much; soaked in water, it’s all rotted away by now!”

Luo Feng paid no attention to their chatter, letting them guess and speculate as they pleased. He returned to his room, and seeing the disheveled bed sheets from the previous night’s escapades with Li Shishi, he couldn’t help but smile.

Then, there were the stockings on the sofa.

Luo Feng had enjoyed several styles the night before.

Without dwelling on the memories, he changed into fresh clothes and headed outside.

“Old Luo, aren’t you going down?” Lin Yueting asked, curiosity in her voice.

“No need, there’s nothing valuable,” Luo Feng shook his head, his voice tinged with disappointment. “After all these years, the valuable paper money has become unusable, all rotted into mush. We can only see how much cash was on the ship. It’s a good thing that it’s from that era; otherwise, under more stable global conditions, they would have used cash or cheques. Transactions in gold would have been impossible.”

Luo Feng’s reasoning made sense.

Generally, only when the global situation was unstable, and some countries’ currencies were not widely accepted, would gold be used.

But there were also those who wanted paper money, especially if it was from a relatively stable region.

However, in some places where life was too unstable, where even the government was uncertain, people would surely prefer gold.

So, both paper money and gold were used in combination.

“I see,” Lin Yueting said, understanding Luo Feng’s point. She had initially wondered why he hadn’t gone down to explore himself, thinking perhaps he was too tired. It turned out there was nothing valuable.

Just an ordinary gambling ship, with some cash flow on board—where was the allure of antiques?

An hour later, a few crew members returned from their first salvage operation. They had a net filled with heavy objects: gold, coins, pocket watches, and even a safe.

They dumped the contents of the net on the deck.

Luo Feng glanced at the items, all quite ordinary, but his curiosity was piqued by the safe.

He crouched down and pulled at the handle, easily opening the safe.

Luo      tipped out the contents and found nothing but some gemstones.

He picked one up to examine it. The gemstone was about the size of a fingernail, and its color was a vivid red. The other gemstones were of similar size.

These would have been priceless in the past, and even now, they were not cheap. But gems were just gems, not diamonds.

Unlike gold, which has a fixed and stable value, the value of gemstones has often been inflated by merchants.

There were over twenty in the safe, and Luo Feng estimated that if sold to a

jewelry store, they might fetch a few million at best.

Of course, if you didn’t know the right people, a jewelry store could cheat you. But at Luo Feng’s level, they would certainly pay the market price..