While ivory and rhino horns were good things, antiques even, they weren't as valuable as Buddhist statues.

We glanced at them a couple of times and tossed them aside.

Ma Hailong continued to rummage through the chests, looking for more valuable items.

Soon he reached the chests further down. Some of these were already submerged in silt, making them difficult to clean. Ma Hailong waved at us, signaling us to come over and help.

We didn't dare to delay and quickly swam over to help Ma Hailong clean the chests in front of us.

After cleaning the layer of silt off the chest, Yu Xiaobo and I carried it out. But as soon as we lifted it, we immediately felt its weight. This chest was heavy!

Feeling the weight of this chest, I was secretly delighted!

Such a heavy weight meant there must be metal objects inside. Metal objects from that era, whether gold, silver, or even bronze, were priceless treasures!

Just as I was wondering what material the treasure was made of, an accident happened. The cargo box was wooden, and the wood had rotted after being submerged in water for many years.

Previously, the chests contained ivory, rhino horns, and the like, which weren't particularly heavy, so moving them wasn't a problem. This time, the chest contained metal products, which were too heavy. As soon as we lifted the chest, the contents fell straight through the bottom and into the hold.

I looked down and saw the contents of the chest spilling out. Upon closer inspection, I saw that these small objects were actually round coins about two centimeters in diameter.

Soon the coins were all gone, and Yu Xiaobo and I had no choice but to throw away the rotten empty box.

I picked up a metal coin at my feet and saw that it was not flat like modern coins.

It was irregular. One side of the coin was flat, and the other side was convex and curved, a bit like a corgi's butt. It felt quite nice in the hand.

On the corgi-butt side, there was an engraving of a pattern that looked like flower petals.

Without Yu Xiaobo and Ma Hailong explaining it to me, I could guess that this was the common currency of the Ayutthaya Kingdom at the time.

In addition to carrying a large amount of cargo, this cargo ship also carried a large amount of currency. The chests we were finding now were used to transport currency.

However, although these currencies were abundant and finely crafted, they were not valuable.

Yu Xiaobo took one look and disdainfully kicked the coins aside.

Since it was my first time seeing ancient Thai currency, I was quite interested in these little things, so I couldn't resist grabbing a handful and putting them in my backpack to take with me later.

Uncle Mei thought the same as me, and he also took a few coins.

At this time, Ma Hailong dug out two more cargo chests, but after weighing them slightly, he immediately judged that these cargo chests also contained currency.

Yu Xiaobo was quick and efficient. He pried open the two cargo chests directly on the spot, and the currency immediately scattered all over the place like sand and gradually sank to the bottom.

After these chests of currency were disposed of, the cargo chests in the depths of the hold were revealed. I poked my head in and immediately realized that these cargo chests must contain rare items.

Why?

Because the appearance of these cargo chests was different from the ones we had seen before.

The previous cargo chests had a relatively simple appearance. To put it bluntly, they were just ordinary wooden boxes.

But the cargo chests inside were different. The cargo chests inside were not only made of wood, but also wrapped in a layer of iron. This kind of chest was equivalent to a safe in the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

Ma Hailong's movements became more and more agile. In the blink of an eye, he cleared out a cargo chest. He pushed the chest out, and Yu Xiaobo used a crowbar to pry open the iron sheet and open the chest.

We looked inside and saw that the contents were indeed extraordinary!

It was a set of shimmering armor! It seemed to be made of copper and silver and was quite exquisite!

The pattern on the chest plate seemed to be a majestic beast, but we couldn't tell if it was a tiger or a lion, but it was definitely a large feline.

Despite being submerged underwater for hundreds of years, this set of armor was still like new, shimmering with a faint cold light!

As soon as we saw this treasure, our eyes lit up. Needless to say, this thing could be worth a lot of money! If it could be brought up as a complete set, it would easily sell for hundreds of thousands.

However, treasures like this are usually unique. Unique means that there is only one of its kind on the entire ship, and it is difficult to find a second one.

After all, ancient production capacity was low. Unlike now, when everything is mass-produced on assembly lines, the same equipment can be produced in batches.

In the past, this kind of armor was generally made by hand.

So this armor is likely to be the only one.

In this way, we will face the problem of how to distribute profits, which is a difficult problem in any industry. Uneven distribution will affect unity.

Because Yu Xiaobo pried open the armor with a crowbar, we all looked at him, waiting for him to make a decision.

Ma Hailong was a generous person. He pointed to the armor and then pointed to Yu Xiaobo, meaning that whoever got it would keep it. Since Yu Xiaobo had pried open the armor, it should belong to him.

Yu Xiaobo was not greedy. Instead, he returned the favor and pushed the armor in Ma Hailong's direction, pointing at him, meaning that Ma Hailong had dug out the chest, so the treasure should naturally belong to him.

Uncle Mei and I actually had the least say. We were just newbies who had just entered the industry. We still had to rely on Ma Hailong and Yu Xiaobo, the two veterans, to take care of us along the way, so of course we couldn't compete with them for the treasure.

In the end, we decided to support Yu Xiaobo and let Ma Hailong have the armor first. After all, he had been on the front lines digging for treasure for the past half day. It was only natural to give him a taste of the sweetness first.

Because the oxygen was limited and the underwater time was precious, we didn't waste too much time on this kind of thing.

Ma Hailong declined a couple of times, but when he saw that we were insistent, he stopped being coy.

He took out the set of armor and tried to stuff it into his backpack, but the set of armor was too big to fit in the backpack. He could only think of a way to tie the rest of the armor to his waist with a rope so that he could barely take it out.

However, with this set of armor, Ma Hailong was basically guaranteed to make a profit on this trip. When the time came, he would only need to choose such a treasure as a reward, and it would not be a dream to make a fortune.