So it was indeed the case, Luo Feng realized. Before him lay a ship entirely dedicated to gambling, and from the scattered coins, he deduced that it likely dated back to around the year 1900.
During that era, many countries were still embroiled in war and chaos, but gambling—an activity that had persisted through the ages—thrived.
Luo Feng remembered the time when Italians, members of the Black Hand Gang, had flooded into America, seizing control of the local gambling industry. They had invested in a grand ship, exclusively designed for offshore gambling.
He even recalled a particular incident from the 1920s when the SS Monte Carlo, one of the Black Hand Gang's gambling ships, had encountered a hurricane and sunk in the Coronado Sea. It was later discovered and salvaged, revealing a trove of currency, jewelry, and precious metals like gold and silver.
