Chapter 531: Chapter 334 Sunken Ship Exploration (Part 2)_3

Today was already the eighth day, and Chu Mingcheng was feeling somewhat lonely alone at sea.

He cleaned the net, flashlight headlamp, and safety rope, then set the tools out on the deck to dry.

As for the two boxes, he just threw them onto the deck.

After taking a shower in the bathroom and changing into clean clothes, Chu Mingcheng returned to the deck, ready to open the boxes.

He smashed open the plastic box with a tool, and the seawater that had seeped in immediately flowed out through the broken opening.

Then Chu Mingcheng dumped out all the contents, creating a clanging sound as the metal rings hit the deck.

He looked at the items in amazement; the box was filled with an assortment of rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and bangles made of either gold or platinum.

Glancing inside the box, there were only these jewelry pieces that had spilled out, but the quantity was not small.

There were five gold rings alone, seven chains and pendants, three pairs of gold earrings, and one gold bangle.

This box had been found in the room with the corpse, and thinking of the corpse’s floating long hair, Chu Mingcheng guessed that the person might have been a housekeeping aunty.

With so many tourists, it must be quite normal for some jewelry to go missing, right?

After much thought, there seemed no other possibility; these rings and necklaces varied in size and style, and definitely couldn’t all belong to one person.

Huh~

Chu Mingcheng suddenly thought of a pile of rubbish in the corner of the hallway, which contained clothes and shoes among other things.

He hadn’t paid it much attention before, thinking it was probably stuff that tourists had dropped in the chaos.

But now, he wondered if there might be any valuable jewelry lost in those piles of garbage.

It wasn’t just on the three floors inside the cabin; there were also piles on the first four floors of the deck.

It was just that the rooms on the top floor were less cluttered and easier to be saved from, so the valuable things were cleaned up more thoroughly.

Snapping back to the present, Chu Mingcheng began to pry open the iron box he had found on the negative-first floor.

The iron box was rusty and hard to open, and it took him quite a while to pry it open with a flathead screwdriver.

When he pried it open, there was nothing but brass-colored dirty water inside, which he then poured out along with the hidden contents.

To his surprise, the box contained nothing but flour and a small packet of diamonds!

The diamonds were packed in a transparent sealed bag, and a bit of seawater had infiltrated it, but not much.

Fortunately, diamonds are quite stable and are not corroded by seawater.

Chu Mingcheng rinsed them clean and gave them a brush, and they once again became as shiny as before.

These diamonds varied in size; there were thirteen in total.

The largest was as big as his pearl, almost one centimeter in diameter, while the smallest was about three millimeters.

The presence of flour and diamonds clearly indicated that someone had been playing the smuggling game via the cruise ship.

No wonder the doors had been smashed and kicked; leaving aside the diamonds for a moment, just the flour was worth a lot of money.

If the iron box had been hidden by the cleaning aunty, there would definitely have been a key, and it wouldn’t have been Chu Mingcheng’s problem.

But could these diamonds be worth much?

Chu Mingcheng wasn’t really sure; after all, the gap between the secondary market price of diamonds and their purchase price is outrageously wide.

For now, he could only collect them and keep them aside; even if he didn’t sell them, he felt certain that someone at home would definitely like these shiny objects.

He got up, threw all the boxes with flour into the sea, and cleaned the deck, then Chu Mingcheng went to have breakfast and then to sleep.

He definitely needed to visit the shipwreck again, as there might still be a lot of valuable items in the garbage piles, but not during the daytime.