To keep secret, there were no lights on their boats, but fortunately the moonlight was still bright. With the moonlight, Tom saw clearly what was hitting the raft...

"What, haha, you two cowards are just a wine barrel floating from the sea!" Tom's tense body suddenly loosened and he laughed in a teasing tone.

Cruise also breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his hand and patted Thor's head hard, and said angrily: "You fool, why are you so brave? If you had known this, you shouldn't have brought you out."

Thor was also a little embarrassed. He scratched his hair and whispered: "It's not because Tom made up stories to scare me, and I didn't mean it."

Tom bent down and held the barrel with his hands, and said impatiently: "Okay, come and see this barrel. If it is not wine but gold coins in it, we will be rich."

Hearing this, the two of them rushed forward and the three of them grabbed the wooden barrel together. Unfortunately, the raft was limited in buoyancy, so they could not get the wooden barrel onto the raft.

"Come on, Cruise, let's help you. You pry the barrel open with a knife and see what's inside." Tom said, taking a dagger from his waist and handing it to Cruise's hand.

Cruise was the most powerful, so he took the dagger without hesitation, pressed it against the edge of the lid of the wooden barrel and said, "I'll open it now, are you ready?"

Tom and Thor had grabbed the barrel to keep it level, and nodded to Cruise.

Cruise had already inserted the blade of the dagger into the inside of the barrel lid. When he saw the two nodding, he held his breath and exerted force. With a muffled sound, the barrel lid opened and fell on the water with a plop.

Under the moonlight, two golden lights rolled out as the wooden barrel lid opened, and fell into the water and made a tingling sound, and finally gradually disappeared.

"Damn, why does the smell smell so smelly? Cruise, are you farting?" As soon as the lid was opened, Tom and Thor covered their noses first and frowned at Cruise. They could feel that the smell was coming from Cruise.

Cruise squatted there motionlessly, his eyes flashed with a greedy look like a wolf, as if he hadn't smelled the smell at all, and murmured in his mouth: "Gold, gold coins, there are really gold coins."

Tom and Thor heard Cruise's words and hurried over to see it. When they saw the situation in the barrel, Tom suddenly burst into laughter excitedly, but Thor took a breath.

At the edge of the barrel, there was a small pile of golden circles, emitting an attractive golden light under the moonlight. This was the gold coins Tom saw.

The reason why Thor sucked in cold air was because he saw something curled up behind the gold coins.

"A dead person..." Saul murmured with a slight movement of his lips, his tone with an indescribable coldness.

Through the moonlight, you can see that the wooden barrel was a corpse that had been dead for countless days. There were vaguely bulging lumps and black spots on the body.

But Tom patted Thor on the shoulder and said with a slight smile: "Hahaha, what's the matter with dead people? It's not that I haven't seen them before. On the contrary, it's the first time I've seen so many gold coins. Hahaha, I've gotten rich this time."

Before Tom could speak, Cruise got into the barrel and took out all the gold coins and put them in his pocket. Tom helped him hold the barrel. He was not worried that Cruise would take it alone. Before coming out this time, they had already agreed to share all the gains and made the most vicious oath.

After a while, Cruise's body drilled out of the wooden barrel, and immediately washed his hands and mind with sea water, and said, "Huh, I can't do it anymore. It's too smelly inside, and there are some gold coins in the innermost part. My body is too wide to get into it."

While saying that, he was spitting, as if something dirty accidentally fell into his mouth.

Thor was disgusted when he saw this scene, but Tom stared at him fiercely and said, "Go, Thor, you are the smallest. Go in and take out all the gold coins."

Thor said with a sad face when he heard this, "Can't you take out the body and throw it into the sea first, and then take out the gold coins?"

"No!" Before Tom could speak, Cruise hurriedly said to stop him: "The body will bring gold coins into the sea. If the gold coins fall into the sea, we don't want to get it up anymore. Don't talk nonsense, hurry in and get the gold coins."

As he said that, Cruise raised his hand and made an act of beating someone. Thor shrank timidly, then gritted his teeth and got into the barrel.

After a while, the barrel was empty. Several children took turns to turn over the clothes on the body. After confirming that all the valuable things were plundered by them, they threw the rotten meat that could no longer be seen into the sea.

Their clothes, hair, and faces were covered with foul smell and turbid liquid, but their eyes were filled with excitement.

"Hahaha, I've got rich. There are fifty-seven Kielder gold coins in total, two gold rings, and a gold necklace with gems inlaid. We've got rich!" Tom said as he jumped around on the raft, excited like a madman.

Cruise and Thor also had smiles on their faces. The gain this time was really amazing, and their parents would definitely be shocked. While they were happy, they didn't even bother to wash away the things that were stained on their bodies. When they laughed, they didn't notice that some of them accidentally rubbed into their mouths.

With such a great gain, the three of them had long forgotten the fishing incident. After roughly dividing the property, they paddled the raft in the direction they came.

With the help of the Polaris in the sky, they don’t have to worry about losing their direction. Not long after, a rugged dark black land appeared in their sight.

It was already early in the morning after approaching the shore. Gold coins were like the source of power, allowing them to maintain their vigorous energy.

But when he got ashore, Cruise suddenly felt dizzy and almost fainted on the beach. After a while of slowing down, he stood firm. He shook his head on his own, just thinking it was a sequelae of his excessive excitement and didn't care too much.

Three days later, the two children died in the village, and their symptoms before death were exactly the same as those of the Black Death.

A child died in the city of Messina. He was carrying a gold necklace on his body and was about to go into the city to sell the necklace.

This kid is Tom.
Chapter completed!