Chapter 734: Fatal Blow

After scanning the cockpit again to make sure that nothing was missed, Ye Tian cleaned up the coral debris from his gloves and swam towards the back of the cockpit with his legs.

There is an iron door more than a meter wide in the rear bulkhead, and the surface is covered with colorful corals and coral excrement, but the general shape can still be seen clearly!

From there, it is possible to exit the cockpit, and it is not known whether the iron door leads to the stern or to the other cabins, or to the lower deck, only by opening the iron door.

The reason why it was chosen is that it is ajar and hidden, indicating that it is not locked, and because it is on top, the position is easy to move, and there are no obstacles near the door.

There is also an iron gate on the side of the bottom of the bulkhead that rushes to the bottom of the sea, but there is a large pile of garbage piled up at the door, like a hill, so naturally you can't choose that side.

With a few gentle swings of their legs, Ye Tian and Matisse swam to the gate of the iron gate, stopped, and were suspended in the water.

They didn't immediately reach open the iron door to see where it leads!

Although the rust is bad, it is very strong and there is no danger.

Matisse then swam towards the iron gate, bringing him closer.

As soon as he approached the iron door, he reached out and pulled out the diving knife strapped to the outside of his thigh, and began to clean the thick coral on the iron doorknob so that he could open the door.

The incomparably sharp blade passed, and the coral on the handle was immediately scraped off in pieces and slowly fell.

Soon, Matisse cleaned up, inserted the diving knife back into its scabbard, and then reached out to grasp the iron doorknob, and forcefully pulled open the iron door, which had been silent for more than thirty years.

The iron door was heavy and jerky, but it was slowly pulled open by Matisse.

As the iron door opened, the situation behind the door immediately appeared in front of Ye Tian's eyes.

Behind the door is a small platform about 1.5 meters long and wide, and the right turn connects to a downward staircase.

"Let's go over and see, Matisse, I don't know where this staircase leads, the lower cabin or the stern"

As he spoke, Ye Tian had already taken the lead in swimming through the iron gate and came to the small platform outside the door.

Immediately after, Matisse swam over with swinging legs.

Once they had stabilized their bodies, they used flashlights strapped to their arms to shine down the stairs to see where they led.

Several powerful lights shot out of their arms, directly to the end of the staircase, illuminating the area and allowing them to see clearly.

This is a staircase leading to the lower deck cabins, not to the stern.

From the position on the platform, the door to the cabin on the lower deck seems to be open, allowing you to pass through without any problems!

"Let's go to that cabin, Mattis, according to the convention, the captain's lounge should be on the lower level, maybe we'll find out!"

Ye Tian raised his hand and pointed to the door of the lower cabin and said to Matisse.

After saying that, he immediately swam over to that side, and the pillars of light projected by the two bright flashlights on his arms pointed straight at the door of the cabin below!

In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.

Ye Tian and the others had already explored the part of the ship's ship, as well as most of the buildings on the main deck.

Except for the few pieces of jewelry they found in the cockpit, they found nothing surprising!

There were a few antiques from fifty or sixty years ago in the captain's room, but their value was relatively average, and they were not small, Ye Tian couldn't look at them at all!

These things sleep at the bottom of the sea for a few hundred years, and their value may increase greatly, and they will be popular and chased by people, but that has nothing to do with Ye Tian!

Like the cockpit on the upper deck, there is also an old-fashioned safe in the captain's lounge, hidden in a bookcase, small in size, firmly locked, and badly corroded!

But under the perspective, what was in the safe, Ye Tian knew it in an instant.

It was mainly a few documents, which were supposed to be related to the cargo ship and the cargo it carried, as well as tens of thousands of dollars in cash, a pistol, and two jewelry boxes!

Inside the box are also jewelry from top brands, which should be a gift from the captain to his family.

Thirty or forty years ago, when a cargo ship from Peru sailed to New York, people would bring some gifts to their families if they could afford it.

The quality of these two pieces of jewelry is not bad, they were worth a few thousand dollars thirty years ago, but now they have multiplied many times, and the two should be worth 150,000 or 60,000 dollars combined.

Like before, Ye Tian also planned to get this safe on the yacht later, not for those two pieces of jewelry, but to experience the fun of discovering treasures!

After a general survey of the main deck, Ye Tian and Matisse swam to the ship's building again, preparing to enter the lower deck from there!

When they swam to the hatch leading to the lower deck, shine their flashlights into it, and look inside the hatch and on the stairs, they immediately dismissed the idea.

Due to the violent explosion or impact, the staircase leading to the lower cabin has been completely twisted and deformed, and it is impossible to pass at all!

There are also some broken steel bars and other sharp objects, pestle up and down the stairs, looking very dangerous, one step is careful, you will encounter it!

The cabin is also a mess, almost everything has been covered with coral, and it is impossible to see the original appearance, and it is scattered everywhere, and it is difficult to find a place to stay!

Seeing this, Matisse immediately said:

"Steven, let's not go down, it's very difficult to pass here, and the situation is unknown, there is a certain danger, plus this is just a cargo ship, it's not worth the risk!"

"You're right, there's really no need to risk it here, it's not worth it! let's go look elsewhere and see if we can find something!"

Ye Tian nodded in response, there was no disagreement.

As he said this, he had secretly turned on the perspective, and quickly saw through the cabin in front of him, as well as the nearby and several cabins below, and grasped the situation here.

These cabins are all cargo holds, and most of the reprints in them are mechanical equipment, as well as some other things, which are of little value, and there is no need to go in to explore, let alone take risks for them!

After the investigation was completed, Ye Tian immediately retracted his gaze and ended the perspective.

Immediately afterward, he and Matisse turned around and swam away to explore other places.

In the next exploration process, Ye Tian secretly turned on the perspective many times, and his eyes looked through the deck from time to time, observing the situation behind the deck!

Every part of the cabin is messy, the cargo is scattered everywhere, and all the metal objects are rusted or swallowed up by seaweed and coral, and it is almost impossible to see the original!

In addition to a large amount of machinery and other supplies, he also saw some bones, apparently belonging to the crew of the freighter.

Several crew members died very badly, they were crushed to the deck or squeezed into bulkheads by the uncontrollable and unusually heavy machinery, and they were almost shattered, and they were terrible!

In addition, the deeper his perspective looked in, the more traces of the explosion he saw, and the more damage the explosion caused to the hull.

From this, he quickly deduced.

The reason for the sinking of this ocean-going freighter was not a pirate attack or an unpredictable storm, but its own origin!

It must have been a violent explosion inside the freighter, which severely damaged and even destroyed the ocean-going freighter, causing it to quickly sink to the bottom of the Caribbean Sea!

Soon, this conjecture was confirmed.

After inspecting the ship's building and other outbuildings on the main deck, Ye Tian and Matisse immediately climbed over the tilted main deck and swam to the bottom of the ship, ready to observe the bottom of the ship.

As soon as they swam here, before they could stop in the water, they found a big hole in the bottom of the freighter, three or four meters wide in diameter!

They quickly determined the location of the large hole, which was located diagonally below the ship's building, where the engine room was located.

It can be seen from the steel plates that roll outward around the perimeter of the big hole and the flowering shape like the bell mouth that the explosion that destroyed the freighter was very violent, and it must have happened in the engine room!

The violent explosion blew straight through the bottom of the freighter, causing devastating wounds that simply cannot be repaired, and soon pulled the ocean-going freighter and all its crew into hell!

"I'm going! What the hell exploded? It's so terrifying, it's just a cargo ship carrying machinery and equipment! It's not an arms ship carrying shells or missiles, that's too exaggerated!"

Ye Tian exclaimed in surprise, and then swam towards the big hole in the bottom of the boat, ready to take a look.

Matisse followed, equally curious.

The two quickly swam to the location of the big hole and were suspended in the water.

Just as they were about to shoot the light into the big hole and start probing, several dark shadows suddenly swam towards them from a short distance from the side!