Even so.
The income would not be stable.
Something salvaged at a cost of several hundred dollars
might sell for only a few dozen dollars.
Of course, it might also fetch several thousand or even tens of thousands of dollars.
But none of that was Ye Yuan's main reason for taking an interest in the Mel Family.
The records mainly stated that
the Mel Family had paid a terrible price to find the Our Lady of Atocha.
Yet even so, it had not dampened the Mel Family's determination to explore the Our Lady of Atocha.
Ye Yuan read through the details carefully.
In 1975, while searching for the Our Lady of Atocha, a treasure-hunting ship met with an accident.
The entire vessel sank to the seabed.
Mel's son, daughter-in-law, and divers were all buried beneath the sea.
Faced with the loss of his family, Mel did not give up. Instead, he searched for the treasure even more actively.
Ye Yuan did not know much about the Our Lady of Atocha.
He only knew that it had once been jokingly called the "Bullfighting Country's underwater bank."
In July 1985, after generations of effort by the Mel Family, they finally found the Our Lady of Atocha.
There were eight tons of gold alone.
The gemstones were measured by the kilogram.
It was said that the Our Lady of Atocha carried more than five hundred kilograms of gemstones alone.
Even in that era, they were already worth more than 400 million Mi Jin.
When the news broke, it shocked the entire Blue Star.
The wreck of the Our Lady of Atocha contained the world's finest emeralds.
There was also a gold necklace that had belonged to a priest.
The necklace was one meter long and made up of fifty-five links.
A gold cross