Seaweed and kelp covered the sunken ship, and the incomplete ship's hold had been turned into a home for fish. Xia Lei’s arrival startled these inhabitants, and they came swimming out in a panic. School after school zoomed past, and quite a few bumped into Xia Lei. The onslaught of fish, however, did not impede Xia Lei’s movements. He climbed up the deck and found skeletal remains under the lonely mast. 

There were some metal pieces next to these bones, and upon closer inspection, Xia Lei found that these pieces were part of armour. He then found a sword under the bones. He wiped off the mud and the seaweed from the blade, and saw a Chinese inscription which read, ‘Embroidered Uniform Guard’. 

This was proof that the sunken ship was a Ming dynasty warship. It could have even been the world’s first treasure ship. 

The Ryukyu Islands used to be a vassal state in the Ming dynasty, so a warship in this area was fairly normal. It was just that the cause for this ship to be sunk was unknown. 

Xia Lei left the bow and...