The Fisherman Who Never Catches Fish

The salvage ship lowered the most advanced detection equipment to date and began exploring the seabed.

At the same time, more than twenty divers were on standby, ready to dive.

The simultaneous discovery of four shipwrecks this time held a very different significance.

First, it was necessary to determine whether these shipwrecks were all from the period when the Yuanming Garden was burned, or if some were from other periods.

The Coast Guard had only confirmed the presence of four shipwrecks on the seabed and did not know what was inside—whether they truly contained cultural relics.

This called for specialized detection equipment and professional divers to venture in.

The mood among the cultural relics industry bigwigs from Jinghai, who had accompanied the expedition, was exceptionally tense.

They were terrified of hearing that they had got it wrong, that the ships were empty and devoid of relics.

"Located the shipwreck."

"Approaching the shipwreck to investigate."

After the underwater detection equipment identified the location of the shipwreck and approached to inspect it, ensuring there were no dangers...

"Diver descending."

Soon after, the divers also entered the water.

At the scene, probably only Fang Hao was a bit more composed than anyone else; the rest were extremely nervous, fearing they had made a mistake.

Only Fang Hao knew for sure that these were indeed the ships of the robbers from the period when the Yuanming Garden was burnt.

"The streamer won't get it wrong this time, right?"

"No, they won't."

"If the streamer claims they caught a fish weighing dozens of pounds, I might be skeptical, but if it's about shipwrecks, I definitely won't doubt the streamer's word."

The audience in the live stream firmly believed this.

Aside from doubting Fang Hao's fishing skills, they believed everything else.

Everyone was waiting in anticipation.

The thought of fishing out shipwrecks from the period when Yuanming Garden was burned excited countless people.

Not only were the bigwigs of the cultural relics sector thrilled, but the general public was also extraordinarily excited.

These were items they had once thought were looted, but astonishingly, they had remained within our territory.

"We've discovered a crate loaded with items."

"Found a large amount of silver."

"Found..."

The divers quickly sent back good news as well.

Instantly, a wave of excitement rose among the group.

"Wow, these really are shipwrecks from when Yuanming Garden was burning."

Not to mention the crates filled with relics, just the discovery of the silver and gold alone was a massive find.

The other shipwrecks soon conveyed similarly encouraging news, confirming they were all from the Yuanming Garden burning period and were full of items, not empty.

"These four shipwrecks combined must contain at least tens of thousands of cultural relics."

The director of Jinghai Museum was so moved that tears streamed down his face.

It was overwhelmingly exciting.

Although this was just a tiny part compared to the millions of relics that had been looted, at least... these items had returned.

They belonged to us now.

At this moment, everyone was eagerly anticipating the moment when the shipwrecks would be salvaged.

Fortunately, with deep-sea salvage technology, our capabilities were among the best.

That much gave everyone peace of mind; now, all that was left was for the items to be salvaged.

Following this, additional media reporters arrived at the salvage site by boat, including the state-run channels.

They aimed to closely follow and report on this historic salvage operation, recording it for posterity.

"Dear viewers, we are now live at the site of the shipwreck salvage in the Eastern Sea."

"This shipwreck discovery represents a historic moment."

"The ships were loaded with a vast number of artifacts looted by the Allied forces during the period when Yuanming Garden burned. Hence, salvaging these shipwrecks also allows these artifacts to resurface and return to our hands."

"Alright, now let's connect with the fishing streamer who discovered these shipwrecks."

The reporter quickly found Fang Hao and sought to interview him.

"Mr. Fang, good day..."

While interviewing Fang Hao, some of the audience seemed to recognize him.

"Isn't that... isn't that the fisherman who caught the torpedo before?"

"He seems to have also caught a body before."

"Now he's found a shipwreck?"

These viewers, who recognized Fang Hao, appeared bewildered.

What kind of miraculous luck was this.

Everyone was astounded.

This also sparked even greater interest in Fang Hao among the public.

"How did you manage to find the shipwreck? And how could you tell that this shipwreck is related to the burning of Yuanming Garden?"

The reporter's questions were probing, aiming straight for the critical points.

"Finding the shipwreck was a chance occurrence. I caught fish, but they were eaten by bigger fish, which probably chased the fish to the vicinity of the shipwreck, accidentally entangling the fishing line on the ship."

Fang Hao casually answered, finding no difficulty with the question.

"As for how I recognized that this shipwreck is related to the burning of Yuanming Garden, you can look at the long-structure components from the ship that I fished out before. Take a close observation of the structure and the surface corrosion."

"Then you can deduce that this shipwreck dates back to at least over a hundred years ago."

"At that time, we were suffering from foreign invasion and their plundering. Countless treasures were taken from us."

"I'm not extraordinarily learned but happen to have a small bit of research on the matter."

"So, I surmised that these shipwrecks were connected to the events of that time."

After all, Fang Hao had received knowledge of history spanning five thousand years from a system reward, so he had some understanding of this period of history.