Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 49 A great harvest
After becoming the owner of the Yellowstone, Shi Ming could freely enter and leave this huge drifting ship, except for those areas that were completely broken and locked and inaccessible!
This greatly improved his treasure hunting efficiency!

Because the ship had been submerged for many years, a thick layer of sediment had accumulated on its deck. Stepping on the soft sediment, Shi Ming quickly entered the cabin and began searching. His system warehouse still had a lot of space, and he took everything that caught his eye.

The first step in treasure hunting is, of course, to go to the warehouse.

He first went to the Yellowstone's warehouse.

The warehouse's iron door was severely corroded, and even without orders, Shi Ming kicked open the rickety iron door.

What came into his view were rows of large boxes.

Shi Ming casually opened a box.

The bright gold almost blinded his night vision.

It's gold!
"As big as bricks, and there are dozens of them! If these existed in the land-based era, they could buy so many luxury villas!"

Although it's unclear whether gold had any use in the era of wandering, it was simply too fascinating, with immense emotional value, and most importantly, its brick-sized dimensions didn't take up much space, so Shi Ming put them all into his warehouse.

Who knows, maybe the Brain of Creation will need to be used for something when it upgrades!

"Naval coins? Three big boxes. These things take up too much space, and their value is nowhere near that of precious metals. In the end, let's see if there's any space. If there is, then we'll take them with us."

"Ten large boxes of ordinary sea crystals are gone after filling half the warehouse. I don't want anything that isn't high-grade."

"What is this? Red wine? Useless."

"No canned herring either!"

Shi Ming experienced the thrill of opening blind boxes here.

Most of the boxes contained daily necessities used by the crew, such as coins, wine, cured meat, and canned goods. It is evident that the crew of the Yellowstone had a very high standard of living, far exceeding that of the crew of the typical Silver Voyage ship.

Resources like nautical coins and sea crystals have some value, but not much.

Especially food items, such as red wine and cured meat, would have spoiled long ago after being left at the bottom of the sea for so many years.

The warehouse was quite well-stocked, and there were some items that caught the eye.

"Black blood crystals? Crystals formed from the blood of sea beasts, these are valuable, much more worth than nautical coins, keep them!"

"An unknown ore? It looks ordinary, but the box it's in is so high-end, the ore must be quite valuable. I'll take it!"

"Five Skynet Smart Chips were used when we upgraded the food production equipment on the Silver Ship. There are five of them here."

"Take them away, take them away, take them all away!"

He wasn't picky; he put all the items that were more valuable than ordinary sea crystals and didn't take up much space into the warehouse.

Just like shopping at a supermarket where the first 30 minutes are free, time is of the essence, and he must quickly grab the most valuable items.

He lifted the lid of a relatively small box.

Inside was a whole box full of high-grade sea crystals!

"It's like a gift that's exactly what I needed. Although there's now a way to obtain high-grade sea crystals on the ship, it's not very efficient. To upgrade the Golden Ship to the General level, it needs a large amount of high-grade sea crystals. Look at this box, there are probably at least 300 of them. It's really solved a big problem for me!"

After unceremoniously taking the goods into the warehouse, Shi Ming turned his attention to another area.

The various minerals treasured here could potentially become materials for the Brain of Creation, but Shi Ming left none of them behind.

In a corner to the side, there were several safes that couldn't be opened.

It's common knowledge that the contents of a safe are the best, and this safe was exceptionally well-sealed, meaning the items inside were almost certainly undamaged. Shi Ming didn't hesitate to store them all in the system's warehouse and take them with him.

……

The search of the warehouse took less than ten minutes.

His time was limited, so he quickly reached the mechanical level of the Yellowstone.

Many of the devices here appear to be damaged, but in reality, if upgraded using the Brain of Creation, they will be automatically repaired during the upgrade process. What others consider junk, Shi Ming sees as the best treasures. The only thing to consider is the capacity of the system's storage.

"A beverage machine, that's nice, we can have one."

"Take the crystal extraction equipment with you!"

Dome crystals are energy stones of a higher grade than high-grade sea crystals. Above them, there are pure dome crystals. Sea crystal extraction equipment cannot extract higher-grade dome crystals, but this dome crystal extraction equipment makes up for that deficiency.

"What is this fully automatic entertainment machine? You actually need to lie down on it to start it?"

"...Is this thing even legitimate?"

"The food production equipment on the Yellowstone must be very advanced, but the warehouse simply can't hold it all. Besides, it's a single unit, so we can't disassemble it."

“These guns all look pretty good.”

……

The zero-dollar purchase period is limited, and Shi Ming's last stop is the captain's cabin.

Anyone who has been a captain knows that there are often many surprises in the captain's cabin.

The daily necessities here were rotting from being soaked in seawater. Many things had lost their support when the seawater was drained and had now collapsed and been destroyed. Shi Ming even found a deep-sea electric eel with scales in a corner of the captain's cabin, which he killed with a single stroke of his sword.

Blood is utterly useless, not even Grade D.

On the wall of the captain's cabin hung an antique-style sword and a gun of unknown model.

Beneath the collapsed desk lay a pile of small, tattered boxes, likely the captain's personal collection.

There was still a safe in the corner.

A communicator was buried under the thick layer of soil.

These naturally all became objects inscribed on stone.

He is now the captain in name only.

"Time is running out. I must allow enough time for a retreat to avoid any unforeseen circumstances."

The Yellowstone was too large for him to explore entirely; he would have to come back another time. However, he had thoroughly searched all the key areas. The most significant finds this time were several unopened safes, a vast amount of mineral resources, and damaged equipment.

Satisfied.

He will slowly crack those unopened safes when he gets back.

When he returned to the deck, he saw the stranded squid still hopping around on the deck. He showed no mercy and killed them one by one with a single cut. When he killed the first squid, the red stripe on his right arm had already drained the power from its blood.

The newly awakened D-rank skill "Ink Dye" was absorbed by the S-rank skill, permanently increasing Shi Ming's stamina by 2 points.

After testing, it was found that the blood of a certain sea beast could only allow him to evolve once, and bathing in it multiple times was useless, so the idea of ​​farming points had to be shelved.

These squid were all quite large. Shi Ming selected one whose carcass was relatively intact and stuffed it into a corner of the system's storage.

Whether you trade it to someone else later or use it to awaken your own crew members, it's a good option.

Next, he must return to his golden canoe and retreat before the water-repelling function fails.

Just as he passed the Yellowstone's control room, the struggle of a stranded sea monster hidden in the shadows of the control room caused the decaying structure on the control room to collapse with a crash.

Wow.

The enormous machine fell from a height of more than a meter, landing on thick silt and completely falling apart.

A shiny, blue-glowing crystal fell out of the central control unit and rolled onto the damp mud, standing out conspicuously in the dark seabed.

(End of this chapter)