The reason Fairmont was so excited was also quite simple: they had been digging for several days previously, but all they found were a bunch of worthless rusty iron pieces, or almost rotten wood.
Although the items they found were indeed extremely valuable from a historical perspective, to an outsider like Fairmont, the past few days of excavation had felt akin to digging through a garbage dump.
Therefore, after seeing the golden box, Fairmont finally felt a bit of the excitement of treasure hunting in the wild and urged Leonard Ethan to quickly open the box.
Unlike the well-sealed containers Leonard Ethan had found previously, the seawater constantly seeping from the cracks in this container indicated it was not completely sealed.
This meant that if the contents could withstand corrosion, opening the box would not cause them to deteriorate rapidly, and if they couldn't, the contents would have already rotted away, so opening the box now would not make it any worse.
