Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 1622: Chapter 1606: Evil Octopus

Huo Sining was a bit skeptical, but she followed the direction Zhong Xiaoyao pointed and searched forward. After walking about one or two kilometers, she indeed saw a huge shadow on the seabed.

A sunken ship suddenly appeared before Huo Sining and Zhong Xiaoyao. The ship was already rusted, made of steel, and looked about forty to fifty meters long, but it was capsized and sunk into the seabed.

Huo Sining’s mouth gaped wide open, and she abruptly turned around to look at Zhong Xiaoyao in astonishment.

From such a distance, how in the world could this guy determine that the sunken ship was here?

However, this wasn’t the time for Huo Sining to inquire about these things. She had to send Zhong Xiaoyao up first, then return to this side of the sunken ship to look for things inside.

After sending Zhong Xiaoyao back to shore, Huo Sining dove back to the bottom of the sunken ship.

During World War II, from Europe to Asia, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 2 billion people were involved. During this period, some people took risks to engage in the smuggling of artifacts, and like Huaxia Country, many countries in Europe also experienced the looting of cultural relics.

This is why Huo Sining set her sights on the seabed of The Ocean, because she knew well that the artifacts and antiquities on those sunken ships devoured by the sea, be it by natural disaster or man-made calamity, would absolutely not be less than those stored in various national galleries.

The sunken ship before her eyes, though some of its structure had eroded and fallen off due to seawater corrosion, the majority of the framework remained. These remnants lay still on the seabed, with some parts already buried in the mud.

However, the ship had been submerged for so long that the paint on it had long since peeled off, and the name of the ship could not be seen.

But judging from the size and framework of the ship, Huo Sining believed this should be the very Spanish sunken ship she was looking for.

After circling the sunken ship once, Huo Sining found a convenient entrance. She lifted a plank and cautiously slipped into the ship’s interior.

The ship was made of steel, and because ocean water has alkaline properties, it sped up the reaction in steel, causing it to corrode faster. As Huo Sining stepped on it, some of the ship’s structures couldn’t bear her weight, cracking underfoot, with some even breaking outright.

Finally managing to get inside, Huo Sining began searching through the cabins.

But to Huo Sining’s disappointment, a large portion of the cargo on this ship consisted of either textiles or mechanical parts.

The textiles, corroded by seawater, crumbled to the touch, obviously unusable. The mechanical parts were beyond repair, having rusted severely.

Among a few scattered crates in the cargo hold, Huo Sining also found porcelain and some sculptures. However, after being toppled by a hurricane, the ship lay upside down on the seabed, and such violent impact had left nothing intact.

Upon touching the shards of porcelain and sculptures, Huo Sining sighed inwardly with regret.

Although the porcelains and sculptures weren’t considered antiques, Huo Sining could tell that they were high-quality crafts, and it was a pity they were shattered just like that.

After searching through the ship’s interior without finding anything of value, Huo Sining felt rather disappointed.

It seemed she and Gu Xu had misjudged. This cargo ship was indeed loaded with goods, but they weren’t what she was looking for. After six or seventy years of seawater erosion, these goods could not possibly be reused.

Huo Sining sighed inwardly. This salvage operation was indeed not as simple as she had thought, and it seemed this trip was in vain.

After leaving the cargo hold, Huo Sining, unwilling to give up, rifled through the crew’s and passengers’ rooms, only to scrounge up a few unimpressive gold and silver rings and some cheap necklaces.

This left Huo Sining bemused; she had hoped to haul in a substantial amount of antiques to have the credentials to negotiate with the Albert family, but now she discovered her salvage results did not even compare to America’s Schmidt family.

The Schmidt family at least made hundreds of thousands of US dollars, but the few rings and necklaces she found likely wouldn’t even cover the cost of renting the yacht.

Just as a dejected Huo Sining was about to leave, suddenly, without warning, the ship’s hatch at the third bottom level opened.

Uncertain of the situation within the sunken ship, coupled with past experiences with Thistle Sea Snake, Huo Sining was habitually on high alert when entering the ship again.

So upon hearing the hatch open, she instinctively turned around.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, a shadow suddenly dashed out.

Startled, Huo Sining almost reflexively dodged aside.

The shadow charged straight out of the room and headed towards the corridor. Huo Sining leaned against the door behind her, turning the knob and slipping into the room without hesitation, closing the door behind her.

As soon as she closed the door, the shadow reached Huo Sining’s position, only to be shut out by the door.

The door in Huo Sining’s hand was nudged askew during the collision. The shadow hadn’t expected Huo Sining to evade so quickly, and after its surprise attack failed, it became furious, repeatedly slamming into the door. Even its tentacles started probing through the door’s corroded holes.

Huo Sining’s heart tightened, realizing the current situation meant she couldn’t confront this creature head-on. So, without hesitation, she muttered the Invisibility Spell to conceal herself completely.

Sure enough, within just a few minutes, the shadow broke through the cabin door.

A menacing large octopus with eight or nine stout tentacles sauntered into the room from the ship corridor, adopting the look of a predator catching its prey in a trap.

But upon entering the room, the octopus was stunned.

Its intended target was not in this room.

Clearly, it had seen the prey enter this room, yet upon barging in, it discovered that the two-legged creature had vanished, leaving no trace or scent.

The octopus was befuddled, wandering around the room briefly before exiting reluctantly.

Initially, Huo Sining planned to capture the octopus and toss it into the storage ring directly, but thinking twice, she realized her ring didn’t have much Space. Putting such a large octopus inside would take up too much room, and the octopus wasn’t worth much anyway, so it wasn’t worthwhile.

With this in mind, she abandoned her plan.