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

There was a deathly silence on the deck.

Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the box in Lin Mo's hand.

Lin Mo took a deep breath.

Gently press your thumb against the edge of the lid and lift it upwards.

"Clatter."

The box lid was opened.

There was no glittering treasure.

There were no priceless jade artifacts.

What came into view was an object rolled up from the leather of some unknown animal.

The leather surface has an eerie dark yellow hue, covered with mottled marks of time.

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow slightly.

That's it?

He extended two fingers, carefully pinched the edge of the leather, and lifted it out of the box.

The instant your fingertips touch the leather surface.

Lin Mo's pupils suddenly contracted.

This feel...

It has a strange toughness in its roughness, and its surface seems to have been coated with some kind of special anti-corrosion oil. Even after sleeping on the seabed for thousands of years, it has not completely decayed.

too familiar.

The feel of it is almost like it's etched into my DNA.

Without any hesitation, he reached his free left hand directly into the pocket of his close-fitting windbreaker.

I fumbled around for half a second.

A similarly yellowed and tattered piece of leather was pulled out.

A tattered map of the Silk Road's maritime routes!

This is a fragment of a scroll that was obtained during an extremely dangerous salvage operation, after a near-death experience.

Lin Mo put the two pieces of leather together.

The materials are exactly the same.

The nitration process is exactly the same.

Even the faint fishy smell emanating from the preservative oil on the surface matches perfectly!

If this roll of leather is indeed that complete Silk Road map lost for a thousand years...

What does that mean?

This means that we will gain control of one of the most prosperous and dangerous gold shipping routes in ancient times!

Along that route lie countless ancient treasure ships that sank due to storms, pirates, and reefs.

Each ship carries enough wealth to drive any modern nation mad!

Silk, porcelain, spices, gold...

If we could follow this ancient route and search all the way, we could completely replicate the journey of the ancients who sailed to the Western Sea...

That wouldn't be salvaging a shipwreck.

Rather, it's about salvaging an era!

Standing not far away, Wu Wei kept a close eye on Lin Mo's movements.

When they saw Lin Mo take out the tattered map, and saw the expression on Lin Mo's face that was trying hard to suppress but still revealed a trace of fanaticism.

Wu Wei's lips curled up in a wild smile.

He subconsciously straightened his back, turned to look at Da Zhou who was still in a daze beside him, lowered his voice, and spoke with barely suppressed smugness.

"See? I told you so!"

"That box definitely doesn't contain anything ordinary! The fact that a magic staff can be used as a key means it must contain clues to a shocking secret!"

"When has my intuition, Wu Wei's intuition, ever been wrong?"

Da Zhou rolled his eyes and completely ignored him.

Not only Da Zhou, but everyone else on the deck didn't spare a single second of attention for Wu Wei.

Everyone's eyes were glued to the roll of leather in Lin Mo's hand, as if drawn by a powerful magnet.

Lin Siyu was the first to break down.

Like a protective mother hen, she rushed to Lin Mo's side in three quick steps.

He peeked into the box, then looked at the tattered leather in Lin Mo's hand.

Her face instantly fell.

"Brother...that's it?"

Lin Siyu's voice was filled with deep disappointment.

"After all that effort, almost losing your life, all you got was a tattered rag?"

"How much can this thing sell for? Is it enough to cover our fuel costs for this trip?"

As the financial manager of the fleet, she watched the money flow out of the accounts every day and wished she could catch every fish in the sea and sell them for money.

Seeing that the blind box I painstakingly opened contained only a tattered piece of leather, the disappointment I felt was deeper than the Mariana Trench.

Lin Mo glanced at her.

No explanation was given.

Explaining historical value and potential wealth to this girl is like casting pearls before swine.

She only accepts cash.

Lin Mo turned and walked towards the flattest and cleanest area in the center of the deck.

Kneel on one knee.

He gently placed the roll of yellowed leather in his hand onto the deck.

Hold the leather edges with both hands.

Little by little, very slowly and very carefully, spread it out.

As the leather unfolds.

The surrounding crowd could no longer contain themselves and swarmed around them.

Da Zhou, A Yan, Wu Wei, and several core crew members surrounded the middle in layers.

Everyone's breathing became heavy.

A suffocating tension filled the air.

The camera suddenly zoomed in.

The high-resolution lens, passing over everyone's shoulders, was fixed on the leather that had been completely laid flat on the deck.

The image was instantly magnified in the live stream room.

On the leather surface, there are dense lines, island outlines, and flight paths marked with strange symbols, all drawn with an unknown dark red pigment.

It was exposed to tens of millions of eyes without reservation.

The sea breeze swept across the deck, carrying a slightly salty smell.

But at this moment, no one cared about the sea breeze.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the flat, spread-out leather.

It's not very big; it's only about half a meter long and wide.

However, the sheer volume of information on it is so enormous that it makes one's scalp tingle.

Dark red lines crisscross on the yellowed leather.

It not only outlines the coastline with extremely precise detail, but also clearly marks the islands and reefs along the way.

What's most striking is the black main route that runs across the entire map.

Like a giant dragon sleeping deep in history, it stretches westward from the Ming Dynasty's coastal borders, winding its way into unknown seas.

Next to the flight path, annotations were densely written in tiny characters.

"This...this is drawn in far too much detail!"

Da Zhou stared wide-eyed, wishing he could stick his eyeballs to the leather.

He made his living at sea year-round and was extremely familiar with nautical charts.

He looks at modern high-tech electronic nautical charts every day, but the level of detail in this ancient nautical chart completely overturned his understanding.

"Look here!"

Da Zhou's rough fingers pointed vaguely to a corner of the picture.

"Even the shifts in monsoons and changes in ocean currents are marked with symbols here!"

"This isn't just a nautical chart, it's practically a nautical encyclopedia!"

Ah Yan also came over.

He stared at those strange characters for a long time.

His brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

"I can recognize a few characters: 'Yongle,' 'Western,' 'water compass'..."

"But the grammar and layout, when put together, make this classical Chinese text a headache to read."

Several veteran sailors nearby looked at the nautical chart with their eyes shining.

If this were used as a fishing operation diagram, wouldn't it bring up the Dragon King of the sea?

However, the thought only flashed through my mind for a moment.

Everyone knows that this thing is a true national treasure.

If you get a piece of skin scraped off, you'll have to work on a sewing machine inside for the rest of your life.

The tens of millions of viewers in the live stream were completely in an uproar.

The high-resolution lens magnifies every detail of the nautical chart onto the screen.

The comments section was flooding in like a waterfall.

"Holy crap! This drawing skill! This precision! Our ancestors were amazing!"

"Could this be one of the original nautical charts used by Zheng He during his voyages to the Western Ocean?"

"Hey upstairs, have some confidence! Remove the 'couldn't' label! Look at that tag, it's definitely an official product!"

"If this is handed over, I'll get at least a banner and a 500 yuan bonus!"

"If this picture were put up for auction, the starting price would be in the hundreds of millions!"