Deep-Sea Collector

Name: Deep-Sea Collector
Author: Author Dream of Blue

深海收藏家

by Author Dream of Blue (作者梦之蓝)

Status: Completed
Length: 819k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 5mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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The Deep-Sea Collector

Lin Yuan’s life changed forever on the night he leapt into the Yangtze River. Unemployed and in debt, with his mother gravely ill, he was ready to end it all when a cold electronic voice rang out in his mind:

[Water Freedom System successfully bound]

From that moment on, he could breathe freely underwater and had a ten-cubic-meter storage space that could grow. But he didn’t choose to cash in recklessly. He collected the gold bars on the riverbed, silver coins from sunken ships, and porcelain from the ocean floor, one piece at a time, building an underwater museum that belonged to him alone.

By day, he is an ordinary diving instructor, taking on engineering jobs like dock inspections and cable repairs to earn an honest living through hard work. By night, he is a lone wanderer of the deep, leaving his mark from the Yangtze to the Yellow River, from the East China Sea to the South China Sea, and from the Pacific to the Arctic. His footprints span all seven seas.

Song dynasty blue-and-white porcelain lies undisturbed in the East China Sea for a thousand years. A Spanish treasure ship sleeps in the Caribbean, ancient Greek statues wait in the Mediterranean, and Viking longships lie preserved in the Arctic. He gathers the fragments of human civilization one by one, but never sells them. When money is tight, he would rather take on more jobs than touch these witnesses to history.

Until he discovers a mysterious heat signature in the Japan Trench, encounters abnormal currents in the Bermuda region, and finds traces of artificial construction in the Mariana Trench that should not exist...

This is a story about collecting, exploration, and preservation. One man, one System, seven seas, and countless treasures. Beneath the deep ocean lie not only sunken riches, but also humanity’s lost memories. A true collector never sells history; he only converses with time.

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