Fishermen's live stream: Twelve bodies were retrieved at the start.

Lin Mo sneered.

"Does a normal green hair move?"

He pulled a multi-functional folding knife out of his pocket.

He gently picked at the "verdigris" with the tip of his knife.

A chilling scene unfolded.

That seemingly hard patina was actually like a living thing.

It twitched slightly when touched by the tip of the knife.

The live stream chat exploded instantly.

"Holy crap! What the hell is that?!"

"It's alive! That thing is alive!"

"I got goosebumps!"

Lin Mo's expression was solemn.

"This is an extremely rare rust-like chronic poison."

"Colorless and odorless, it disguises itself as natural rust and adheres to sharp edges."

"Just rub your fingers a little harder."

"Those barbs will cut the skin."

"Mild cases can lead to chronic poisoning and organ failure."

"In severe cases, one can contract tetanus on the spot, and under such conditions at sea, even a miracle could not save them."

The crew members gasped in shock.

Wu Wei was so frightened that his face turned pale.

He almost touched it directly just now.

The viewers in the live stream were also shaken.

Followed by.

A bold red bullet comment suddenly appeared on the screen.

"Wait! Miss Bai is still touching another pillar!"

"Holy crap! Goddess Bai is in danger!"

"Lin Shen, hurry and save her! She just lunged at her!"

"Oh no, oh no, such a huge patch of green fur, I've definitely been infected!"

The entire live stream room was instantly plunged into a huge panic.

Everyone remembered Bai Jingxuan's crazy appearance just now.

She didn't even need her phone; she just stuck it to the pillar to study it!

Lin Mo's heart tightened as well.

He turned his head sharply and looked in the direction of the first pillar.

Before he could even speak.

Bai Jingxuan's clear voice suddenly came from behind the pillar.

"Brother Lin! I've made a major discovery!"

Lin Mo took three steps at a time to get around the pillar.

The phone camera then turned to face it.

Bai Jingxuan was squatting on the ground.

He was holding that testing device in his hand.

Her face was flushed with excitement.

And on her hands.

He was wearing an extremely thick pair of professional cut-resistant gloves.

The gloves appear to be made of some kind of high-strength Kevlar fiber.

now.

There was a noticeable scratch on the index finger of her right hand.

There was a small piece of green, wriggling poison stuck to the scratch.

The live stream chat instantly erupted with a screen full of "whoosh!"

"That scared me to death! Turns out she was wearing gloves!"

"Miss Bai truly lives up to her professional standards; her awareness of safety precautions is impeccable!"

"My heart skipped a beat!"

"It was a false alarm, a false alarm."

Lin Mo looked at the poison on her gloves, and his tense nerves relaxed.

This girl, although she seems carefree...

But as a top student in the archaeological institute, his professional competence is indeed impeccable.

"What did you find?"

Lin Mo stepped forward and asked.

Bai Jingxuan raised the testing device in her hand and pointed to the data on the screen.

"The alloy ratio of this pillar is completely out of the reach of Central Plains technology!"

"Based on the pattern and style here, I'm certain."

"This definitely originated from a foreign land!"

She excitedly pointed to a pattern in the middle of the pillar.

"Brother Lin, look! These patterns look like a Taoist talisman for suppressing the sea!"

"In ancient times, when people went to sea, they would often place these heavy objects engraved with sea-suppressing symbols on their ships or at key locations in the sea lanes in order to pray for safety."

"This is the legendary 'Sea-Stabilizing Pillar'!"

Lin Mo glanced at the so-called Sea-Suppressing Talisman.

He curled his lip in disdain.

"The so-called 'Sea-Stabilizing Needle' is purely a product of ancient superstition."

He pointed his phone camera at the menacing rune.

"Ancient wooden boats had a shallow draft and were extremely poor at resisting wind and waves."

"Going out to sea depends entirely on manpower and wind direction; if you encounter a storm, you have to leave it to fate."

"Carving a few talismans on a pillar is just for psychological comfort."

"It's like you're taking your driving test and putting a 'Pass Every Time' sticker on your steering wheel."

"We now have a modern salvage vessel with a high-powered engine."

"It relies on satellite navigation and weather forecasting."

"Aside from being able to sell it for some money, I wouldn't even want to use it as ballast on a ship; it just takes up too much space."

The live stream chat erupted in laughter.

"He'll pass every exam with incredible luck!"

"Lin Shen's analogy is brilliant!"

"The Stabilizing Force: Don't I have any dignity?"

"Senior Brother, Lin Shen rejected your staff!"

Bai Jingxuan was taken aback by his retort, and puffed out her cheeks in protest.

"Then how do you explain this poison?"

"Why would you coat items presented as tribute from foreign lands with such a vile substance?"

Lin Mo stared at the green toxin on her glove that was still wriggling slightly.

His gaze gradually turned cold.

"This special poison is extremely rare in China."

"As far as I know, only the Gu clan in the Hundred Thousand Mountains of the South possesses the same toxin."

The Gu Clan.

The moment that word was uttered, the surrounding air seemed to drop several degrees.

Wu Wei shivered.

"Boss, you mean... this thing is related to those people who play with insects?"

Lin Mo nodded without saying anything more.

He didn't want to delve deeper into the topic.

The Gu clan members are solitary and act in a sinister manner.

Getting involved with them will never bring any good.

He didn't want his peaceful daily life of salvaging things to turn into some kind of thriller or suspense drama.

The viewers in the live stream, however, became more engaged.

"The Gu Clan? Is that the one I know who uses Gu?"

"Holy crap, this is getting more and more fantastical!"

"There are many poisonous insects in the south. Could this greenish hair be the eggs of some kind of insect?"

"Lin Shen, tell me more! I love hearing these folk tales!"

Lin Mo watched the rapidly scrolling barrage of comments and simply chose to ignore it.

"Alright, that's enough about the poison."

"This thing is really weird, everyone stay away."

He turned to look at Bai Jingxuan.

"Take off the gloves and burn them immediately; don't leave any potential hazards."

Bai Jingxuan nodded obediently.

I carefully removed my cut-resistant gloves and threw them into a sealed bag.

"So what do we do now?"

"There are still many ancient characters on this that haven't been deciphered!"

She pointed to the lower half of the pillar.

It was engraved with tiny, dense characters.

Despite being washed by seawater, it is still clearly visible.

The tide in the live stream shifted instantly.

"Yes, yes, yes! Look at the words! Look at the words!"

"I was just about to watch it, but that green-haired guy distracted me and I almost forgot!"

"Quick, look at what earth-shattering secret is written on it!"

Lin Mo stood on the deck, holding a thermos in his hand.

The sea breeze carried a faint, salty smell.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze sweeping over the dense engravings on the bronze pillar.

Memories of ancient history began to surface in my mind automatically.

He did recognize some of the text.

The outermost layer is the standard Ming Dynasty official small seal script.

But what he found truly interesting were the strange symbols that were forcibly covered and suppressed at the bottom by the Small Seal script.

Those symbols were extremely obscure, carrying a strong exotic flavor.

But he didn't intend to reveal everything.

He understood this principle better than anyone else: "The tallest tree in the forest will be felled by the wind."

Lin Mo shrugged at the camera, his tone very casual.

"My brothers are giving me too much credit."

"I'm just a fisherman, and I usually just check the weather forecast."

"The characters carved on this are like scribbled characters; I can only recognize a few traditional Chinese characters from the Ming Dynasty at most."

"As for the so-called Gu Clan, that's a question for professionals to answer."