We struck it rich!

Her gaze suddenly stopped on the second shelf of the bookcase, where a dark brown pipe sat.

At first glance, it looked like an ordinary decoration, but through the Eyepatch, the pipe had an extra label: "Secret room button."

Ling Chu reached out, gripped the pipe, and gently twisted it to the right.

Click... A mechanical clunk came from deep inside the wall. The next second, the bookcase slid aside, revealing a hidden room behind it.

There really was a secret room!

Ling Chu had noticed that old hands like Graf and Lucas liked hiding secret rooms in their quarters. People who had lived long enough and made enough enemies seemed to feel somewhat insecure, convinced their money would be stolen if they left it out in the open.

Ling Chu went in first.

The space behind the wall was larger than she had imagined, a full half the size of the Captain's Cabin outside. There were no windows, only a few magical lighting crystals embedded in the walls. Their faint glow illuminated rows of large chests on the floor.

Ling Chu walked to the nearest chest and threw open the lid.

It was filled to the brim with Sea Shells!

Huang Xiaowen's eyes lit up. "We struck it rich!"

At the sight of those Sea Shells, all the aches in her back and legs from the fight vanished. She was brimming with energy!

The second chest also held Sea Shells.

The third, the fourth... all the way to the twenty-first!

The four of them went from excitement to numbness as they kept opening chests.

Ling Chu simply swept all the Sea Shells into the Ring of Bones. The system's numbers climbed wildly until the final Sea Shell disappeared and the tally finally stopped.

``` [You obtained Sea Shells ×23,265,819.]