74 Kun Wu (2/2)

Squatting on the ground, Chen Fan slurped up his noodles in a large white porcelain bowl while looking at the silver ingots in the cauldron that were slowly melting under the fire. As he finished eating the egg noodles, the silver ingots in the two cauldrons had also turned into white water. After flipping over the few pieces of silver ingots that were left with the iron pliers, Chen Fan shifted back into waiting mode once again.

After ten minutes, Chen Fan stirred the contents gently with a ceramic ladle, causing the impurities to rise up slowly. Then, he skimmed out the blackish impurities, clamped the crucible with the pliers and poured the silver molten into the four molds by the side.

One pot can cast two molds of five kilograms. If there were two pots and four molds, Chen Fan would need to have 250 pots to melt all five tons of silver.

”250?” Chen Fan cooled the mold in water and twitched his mouth. ”250 it is. I could do it without any pressure.”

Melting five tons of silver was monotonous but also exciting work in a way. After casting 200 pieces of shimmering silver until eleven o'clock at night, Chen Fan finally wrapped himself in the newly purchased blanket and slept.

”200 pieces of silver equals 2,000 catty, equals one million grams and 395,000 dollars...” There was a smile on Chen Fan's face for the whole night.

After three days of hard work...

Chen Fan finally melted all five tons of silver after emptying the fourth can of gas.

However,... What made Chen Fan annoyed was that after the five tons of silver had been reprocessed, the weight loss from the impurities that were removed was more than 1,000 catty, and this meant that Chen Fan 's wealth had shrunk by 2.2 million.

”Bah, what kind of lousy extraction skill is this?” Chen Fan spat his saliva in disdain towards his ancestors and activated the two high-power pumps to fill the dock with seawater. After maintaining a balanced pressure between the internal and external environment, he walked over to the winch and turned the shaft with all his might to open the steel door which was two centimeters thick.

After the extraction of silver was completed, Chen Fan decided to dump all the waste into the sea with the aid of the electric eel. He didn't want to take the risk of leaving the waste in the dock should someone find it thus destroying his dreams of success due to the electric eel being exposed.

After opening the door, Chen Fan leaned against the wall and shifted his consciousness to the electric eel that was not far away. By controlling the electric eel to swim in through the channel, Chen Fan used the huge body of the electric eel to push the waste out of the dock little by little.

”Ah”

As half of the waste was being pushed out, Chen Fan suddenly let out a cry as if something had been thrust into the back of the electric eel. ”What the hell?” Chen Fan stopped his work in confusion. The skin of the electric eel was very slippery, not to mention that it was also very thick. Logically speaking, all the ironware that was on the ship had been corroded by seawater into a pile of junk so there shouldn't be any sharp things that could pierce the electric eel's skin!

After using electromagnetic induction to scan the body of the electric eel for two rounds, Chen Fan found out that the culprit was actually a ghostly dagger that was 30 centimeters long.

”It must be a treasure since it didn't corrode even after it was immersed in seawater for nearly 200 years!”

Without any hesitation, Chen Fan took off his clothes, jumped into the water and pulled out the dagger from the electric eel's back. Although the wooden handle of the dagger had decayed badly, the whole blade was still intact without even a trace of rust.

”What is this?” Chen Fan was stunned when he saw the black knife that was carved beautifully with many Wisteria Sinensis. Not to mention its absolute beauty, there were two traditional characters carved at the place where the handle and blade were connected.

”Kun... Kun Wu?” Chen Fan was puzzled. Why isn't it Mo Ye or Yu Chang?

After climbing up to shore, Chen Fan slashed at the silver ingot next to him with the dagger immediately as he wanted to try out the sharpness of the blade that didn't look sharp at all.

Kachang!

With a slash, the blade of the dagger that was five centimeters wide, surprisingly cut the silver ingot in half.

”Oh my God...” In disbelief, Chen Fan looked at the dagger as though a piece of glass was about to shatter.