Yang Jing didn't want to bother with it. After all, it was a giant Pacific octopus, and it was not as cute as Dabai in any way. Although Dabai was also a terrifying polar bear, if the two were put together, ten out of ten people would choose Dabai.
Besides, Yang Jing inputted energy into this giant octopus mainly because he was amused by it. It was really funny to see a giant octopus that had locked itself up for most of its life. In addition, he had broken the eight tentacles of this guy at the beginning, so inputting some energy into it was also a compensation.
As for taking this giant octopus back, Yang Jing had no intention of doing so. He didn't even take Dabai with him, so how could he possibly take this guy with him?
Of course, if this guy can guess the ball as well as Paul the Octopus King, then I can take him home and raise him...
Yang Jing didn't care that the guy was banging his head against the bulkhead behind the door, he just swam straight in.
Because it had sunk for more than seventy years, the transport ship had long been rusted beyond recognition. Even though the ballast tank had not been damaged in the ammunition explosion, it had been rusted and full of cracks over the long years.
The ballast tank was full of seawater, but it was very clear. The light above Yang Jing's head could illuminate more than ten meters, so he easily found several teak barrels and scattered gold bricks in the back half of the ballast tank.
It is not surprising to find gold bricks on the ship. After all, whether it was during the Portuguese rule or the British, German, and Dutch rule, Papua New Guinea was rich in gold. Of course, the ancient Papua New Guinea natives did not mine gold in the modern way. In ancient times, the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea mined gold from rivers.
But even so, before Papua New Guinea's independence, the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea were able to mine a lot of gold every year.
After Japan occupied the islands around Papua New Guinea and the northern part of Irian Island during World War II, a large amount of gold was transported from Papua New Guinea to Southeast Asia, the Philippines or the Gulf Islands every year by transport ships, and then transferred from these places to Japan, providing a sufficient source of funds for Japan's military industry.
After the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese were desperately plundering various resources from various colonies, so it was not surprising to find gold on this ship.
At that time, Yang Jing discovered a bright light coming out of the ship's ballast tank outside the ship. At that time, he guessed that there was a great possibility that the ship was transporting gold.
Sure enough, the gold was now found in the ballast tanks.
The gold was supposed to be placed in metal boxes and then hidden in ballast tanks for transportation. However, over the years, the metal boxes had long been rusted, and as the ship capsized and sank, the gold inside naturally scattered on the bottom of the ship.
The gold smelted in Japan is really called a gold brick. One piece is about the same size as a modern red brick. Even in the sea, it feels heavy. Yang Jing estimated that such a gold brick weighs about 25 kilograms, which is twice as heavy as the modern standard gold brick.
There was a lot of gold scattered on the bottom of the boat, so Yang Jing naturally would not let it go. He swam all the way over and collected all the gold bricks, whether they were scattered or not, into the storage space. It didn't take any effort and would only consume very little energy.
Of course, Yang Jing did not forget to take out the eight octopus legs that were stored in the storage space. It was not a good idea to keep that thing in the space. Although it would not rot in the space, it was too scary. And who knows if such a big octopus tentacles are delicious.
Yang Jing estimated that this ship must have been searched by many people, but the only hatch to the ballast tank was guarded by the giant octopus, and no one would have thought that Japan would hide its gold in the ballast tank, so no one came to search here, and he ended up getting what he wanted.
After collecting all the gold bars, Yang Jing roughly counted them and found that there were about 200 of them, which was close to five tons in weight. Considering Japan's crazy plundering at the time, it was estimated that this batch of gold was smelted by Japan after it plundered half of the gold of the indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
No matter where this gold came from, now that it is in my hands, there is absolutely no intention of taking it out.
Five tons of gold, even if the purity is not very high, but the price of gold is slightly higher now. According to the current price of one ounce of gold is US$1,200, one ton of gold is US$42 million. After deducting the purity, such a ton of gold is worth at least US$40 million.
Five tons of gold, that's two hundred million dollars!
This is truly a windfall! Just diving and finding $200 million worth of gold is incredible.
But Yang Jing also knew that he was the only one who could do this job. If nothing else, no one would dare to enter the ballast tank just because of the giant octopus outside. Ordinary divers would never risk their lives to enter the ballast tank if they didn't know that there was $200 million in gold hidden in the ballast tank.
Then again, even if they wanted to come in, they probably couldn't!
Even if there were divers who had visited this shipwreck before the giant octopus took root here, most of them would probably have searched the upper deck cabins and then returned. No one would have bothered to search the ballast tanks.
If Yang Jing hadn't used his eye skills to discover that the treasure was hidden in the water tank from outside, he wouldn't have entered the water tank.
Moreover, everyone who has eaten at sea knows an unwritten custom, that is, unless there are special circumstances, seafarers will not easily enter the ballast tank.
What is a ballast tank? It is the bottom of a ship, the part that sinks to the bottom. People who make a living by the sea are very particular about certain things, so most seafarers will not enter such a sinking part. Divers are especially averse to the word "sinking to the bottom", so it is not surprising that no divers search for ballast tanks.
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