Elsa Marin nonchalantly said, "I've been roughing it in the wild since I was little. Even if I fall from a tree, I keep running and playing. This kind of injury is nothing to me."

Since Elsa Marin said that, Luke and Lilith no longer tried to dissuade her. The four of them made a brief rest and continued to explore the depths of the cave.

After walking for a few minutes, they reached a fork. The left path connected to a pond, while the right path was isolated from the pond.

The bespectacled girl shone her powerful flashlight towards the right path, "Let's go this way. This way, we shouldn't encounter any crocodiles."

Although Luke had the ability to kill a crocodile, the pond's width was unpredictable. If a crocodile suddenly lunged to bite and dragged someone into the pond, it would still be dangerous.

After some discussion, the four finally decided to take the right path.

After walking for a few minutes, they encountered another pond ahead. The path narrowed, and everyone was on alert again, occasionally shining their powerful flashlight into the pond.

Fortunately, nothing dangerous happened along the way.

About ten minutes later, the terrain lowered, and a pond blocked their path ahead. They needed to wade through the water to continue.

Staring at the pond with varying depths, the four hesitated again.

Lilith habitually looked at Luke, "What do you think?"

Luke's gaze swept over the three women and landed on Elsa Marin, who had been closest to the crocodile earlier. Her shotgun had hit the crocodile, splattering blood, and she had the most blood on her.

Luke crouched down, cut a blood-stained strip of cloth from her pants with his knife, and tossed it into the pond.

Before long, the water churned, and several palm-sized fish swam towards the strip of cloth, opening their mouths to reveal sharp teeth, tearing at the cloth. In the blink of an eye, the cloth was devoured.

Everyone was startled by the scene they just witnessed.

Elsa Marin exclaimed, "Piranhas!"

Luckily, we didn't go into the water. Otherwise, with the crocodile blood on us, we would have definitely been bitten by the piranhas. By then, not to mention flesh, even bones could be bitten through.

These things are more ferocious and bloodthirsty than crocodiles."

They definitely couldn't enter the pond. Although piranhas are small, they swarm, and killing them all is impossible.

The four had to turn back, returning to the fork and proceeding again along the path by the crocodile-infested pond.

"Bang, bang!"

Two shots, Luke took down another crocodile that attempted to lunge at them.

From then on, the journey went smoothly, with no crocodiles in sight in the pond.

The four turned into a spacious cave where the ground was higher, and the water level had receded significantly, revealing a platform the size of a basketball court.

The cave's ceiling had a fissure about a foot wide and several dozen feet long, connecting to the outside.

On the far right of the cave, a pile of palm-sized pebbles blocked an entrance.

Luke went over to inspect the entrance; it was obvious the pebbles had been placed there intentionally.

At Luke's suggestion, the group carefully removed the pebbles, worried about what dangerous animals might appear.

A few minutes later, they cleared the pebbles, revealing an opening four feet high and two feet wide. The powerful flashlight illuminated the inside, which was more spacious than expected.

Luke entered the opening first, crouched down with a gun in hand, and scanned the surroundings with his headlamp, immediately stunned by the scene before him.

The cave resembled a crescent, with twelve wooden boxes stacked at the far end, each two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot high.

The boxes were wooden and waterproofed, with locks on each. Luke tried to move them; the boxes weren't large but were heavy.

The other three also entered the opening one by one.

The bespectacled girl exclaimed in delight, "Are these the treasure chests?"

Elsa Marin, visibly excited, limped over to inspect the boxes, "There's one box here that's not locked."

They gathered around, and at Luke's signal, Elsa Marin opened the box lid, revealing neatly stacked silver bricks inside, all palm-sized, identical to the one they had found earlier.

The bespectacled girl jumped up excitedly, "Yay, it's really treasure."

Elsa Marin caressed the silver ingots inside the box, her voice trembling, "It's unbelievable that we actually found it."

Lilith's pretty face showed a hint of smugness before she returned to her usual pride, crossing her arms, "Don't get too excited just yet. Open all the boxes. If they're all silver ingots, they won't be worth much."

Luke grabbed a miner's shovel and used it to smash the locks off the boxes.

"Clang, clang, clang..."

The locks were rusty and were easily broken.

The bespectacled girl eagerly opened a box, "Silver, silver, silver, more silver..."

She rubbed her hands, took a deep breath, and continued to open the box, "Silver, gold jewelry, gold bricks, gold bricks, gold bricks, we're rich!"

In total, there were twelve boxes: six with silver bricks, three with gold bricks, one with gold jewelry, and two with ceramics.

The bespectacled girl asked with a trembling voice, "How much can these things be worth?"

Luke quickly estimated the weight of the gold bricks, saying, "Even sold at gold prices, these gold pieces would be worth over ten million US Dollars. The silver bricks aren't worth much, less than one percent of gold prices. As for the ceramics, I'm not sure."

The bespectacled girl lowered her head, her fingers trembling as if calculating something.

Elsa Marin sat on the ground, leaning against a box, whether her legs were weak or in pain was unclear.

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