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

"What's different?"

Da Zhou poked his head out, but didn't move his feet an inch, maintaining a safe distance of five meters.

Bai Jingxuan didn't turn around; her gaze remained fixed on the box lid.

"The patterns are generally similar, but the details are completely different."

She stretched out her finger and touched the ancient characters on the lower right corner of the box lid.

"Look here."

"I consulted ancient books before regarding the inscription on the Dinghai Divine Needle. It is a sacrificial phrase praying for calm seas."

"Simply put, the ancients created the Sea-Stabilizing Needle more as a spiritual sustenance, similar to throwing it into the sea to make a wish and pray for the sea god to appease them."

She paused, then slowly moved her fingers up along the lines of the bronze box, stopping at the center.

"But the pattern on it is completely reversed."

"The opposite?"

Ah Yan, hiding behind the winch, looked completely bewildered. "What does this mean? Did the craftsman carve in the wrong direction?"

Bai Jingxuan shook her head.

"The ancients engraved inscriptions and patterns on bronzes according to extremely strict rules, making it absolutely impossible to make a mistake."

"Positive direction is for prayer, negative direction is for suppression."

She stood up, turned to look at everyone, and spoke with such certainty that no one could refute her.

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"The 'Sea-Stabilizing Needle' has no suppressive effect whatsoever."

"It is at best an add-on, an accessory to a sacrificial ceremony."

"And this bronze box..."

Her gaze returned to the box, tinged with a hint of awe.

"The inscription on its surface is a traditional sea-suppressing rune."

"This is the real core and key antiquities."

The entire room fell into a deathly silence.

The Sea-Suppressing Rune.

Just hearing those four words makes you feel a chill run down your spine.

Bai Jingxuan continued to explain the science.

She quoted extensively from classical texts, from sacrificial rituals during the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the placement of talismans in ancient geomancy, attempting to explain to this group of uneducated people the different meanings these two objects carried in ancient times.

He spouts a ton of technical jargon.

The crew members were stunned, their eyes gradually becoming unfocused.

Lin Mo squatted down opposite him and listened quietly for a while.

He yawned.

"Are you done talking?"

He spoke calmly, directly interrupting Bai Jingxuan's long speech.

Bai Jingxuan was taken aback, turned to look at him, her brows furrowed slightly, as if she was somewhat displeased at being interrupted.

"I noticed it when I pulled it out."

Lin Mo patted the dust off his gloves, speaking casually as if he were discussing tonight's menu.

"The pattern is reversed, and some of the characters are different too."

He stood up and looked down at the bronze box.

"But I didn't focus on comparing these patterns at all."

Bai Jingxuan asked, puzzled, "Why? This is the key to unlocking the historical background of this artifact!"

Lin Mo didn't respond to her comment.

He suddenly bent down and grabbed both ends of the bronze box with his hands.

The arm muscles tensed up instantly.

"Hey! What are you doing, Mo-ge!"

Xiao Zhang was so frightened that he almost sat down on the deck.

Lin Mo ignored the gasps of surprise around him.

He exerted his strength and lifted the two-meter-long, incredibly heavy bronze box.

Then, it swayed gently in mid-air.

The movements were very gentle.

But on the quiet deck, everyone could hear it clearly.

"Click".

A very faint knocking sound came from inside the box.

The sound was muffled.

It felt like some hard object was hitting the inner wall of a metal structure.

It's like some complex mechanism loosening due to gravity tilting.

"Did you hear me?"

Lin Mo placed the bronze box back on the deck with a dull thud.

He looked at Bai Jingxuan, his gaze calm yet sharp.

"There are actual items inside."

"Whether it's for blessing or suppression, the patterns and characters have no practical use now."

"We only have one core problem right now."

He stretched out his finger and tapped the hard lid of the box.

"How do we break through this sealed mechanism and retrieve what's inside?"

simple.

rough.

It directly addresses the pain points.

Bai Jingxuan stood there, stunned. She opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

The surrounding crew members suddenly realized what was going on.

Yup!

Who cares what kind of scribbles they are!

We went through all that trouble to fish it out, just so we could open the box and see the treasure!

Can you eat patterns as food?

Can I exchange it for bright red banknotes?

Mo's idea is absolutely brilliant!

Lin Siyu was the first to react.

Her eyes gleamed with the lure of money as she boldly moved closer.

"But brother..."

She circled the bronze box, her brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

"This thing doesn't even have a crack!"

She stretched out her finger and poked at the surface of the bronze box.

It is smooth all over.

Apart from the raised cloud and thunder patterns, the whole box looks like a solid bronze lump.

There is no latch.

There are no hinges.

There wasn't even a sliver of space to insert the blade.

"Brother, have you found a way to open the box?"

Lin Siyu looked up, her face full of confusion.

Seeing that Lin Mo had been hugging and shaking them for a long time without collapsing from poisoning, the crew members gradually grew bolder.

They mustered their courage and crowded around the bronze box, staring intently at it.

"There isn't a single crack!"

"How do you open this? Did the ancients put the treasure inside and then weld the box shut?"

"That's bullshit, where would we get welding equipment back then?"

"Then how do you suggest we do it? Cut it open with an angle grinder?"

Ah Yan made a cutting motion.

"You dare!"

Lin Siyu slapped Ah Yan on the back of the head, "If you ruin the priceless treasure inside, I couldn't afford to pay for it even if I sold you!"

Everyone discussed it animatedly, but no one could come up with a solution.

Lin Mo did not respond to Lin Siyu's question.

He didn't even glance at the crew members who were getting closer.

He took a deep breath and suddenly stretched out his right hand.

He held the bottom of the bronze box with one hand and suddenly exerted force upwards.

He lifted the two-meter-long bronze box with one hand and tilted it at an odd angle.

This terrifying core power made Da Zhou's eyes twitch.

Lin Mo ignored the shock of the crowd.

His left hand touched the box, his five fingers slightly spread.

Close your eyes.

Starting from the top left corner of the lid, slide it inch by inch to the right.

The medical gloves rubbed against the rough bronze surface, producing an extremely faint "rustling" sound.

No hidden weapons were triggered.

No toxic gas was leaked.

The entire process was incredibly safe.

The entire deck fell silent instantly.

All the crew members held their breath, not daring to even breathe loudly.

The live stream chat vanished instantly, as tens of thousands of eyes were fixed on the slowly moving hand on the screen.

Lin Mo's fingertips paused slightly.

found it.

right here.

To everyone else, the bronze box was a seamless, impenetrable lump of iron that could not be broken open no matter what.

But in his mind, the "Dinghai Divine Needle Diagram" copied from the ancient book was transforming into countless precise three-dimensional rays, frantically overlapping and colliding with the two-meter-long heavy weapon in front of him.

The wisdom of the ancients never lays in making big locks on the outside.

Truly top-secret mechanisms integrate the lock body directly into the surface relief of the object itself.

There is no external hinge.

There is no keyhole.

The entire relief of cloud and thunder patterns is like a huge combination lock with its order scrambled.