Chapter 33 - 12: The Room on the Inner Side of the Corridor (3)
Before even entering the room, just by looking at this grand door, Chen Zhou knew that the status of the owner couldn’t be low, perhaps the Captain or the first mate.
Compared to the simple thin wooden doors of others, this door was adorned with patterns along both the top and bottom edges, and the wood was thicker and more delicate, painted into an elegant dark brown, clearly a level above the doors of even senior sailors.
As he pushed open the door, a spacious semi-circular room appeared before his eyes, with various pieces of furniture in distinctly European aristocratic style that made Chen Zhou’s eyes light up.
A neatly woven hammock; a vibrantly colored carpet; a set of carved low cabinets; armchairs with openwork backrests; a navigation table over two meters long...
Also, there were finely crafted bookshelves, standing cabinets, storage racks;
On the table, there were charts, a telescope, a compass, a sundial, navigation books, pen and ink, as well as some mathematical instruments.
These included rulers, slide rules, compasses, a circular wooden plate filled with various numerical symbols, and another square ruler covered in numbers.
All these items were arranged with elegance, with all the furniture legs fixed by wooden blocks.
Accompanied by the exquisitely framed paintings on the walls, the silver tableware enclosed by gridded shelves on the racks, the brass chandelier under the ceiling, the blue and white porcelain bowl on the bedside cabinet with a visibly soft half-piece of white bread inside, the entire room was decorated with an upper-class atmosphere, as if it existed in a different world from other rooms.
Looking to the side, several solid coat racks hung with thick leather jackets, and various hats and shirts with lace cuffs.
The design of these clothes did not at all consider physical labor, of course, their owner did not need to worry about manual work.
Repairing ships, pumping water, lookout, raising and lowering sails, anchoring and weighing anchor, those were concerns for the ordinary sailors.
"Damn, the damned noble class."
In comparison to the gunner’s room, the contrast was so drastic it exceeded Chen Zhou’s imagination.
Looking at the luxurious, expensive furnishings, he couldn’t help cursing, then dashed to the side of the hammock, flopped down onto the soft fur bedding, and closed his eyes with the gentle sway of the hammock.
"Other sailors sleep on rock-hard wooden beds, and you get to sleep on this?"
Turning over to wrap himself entirely in the middle of the hammock, Chen Zhou muttered.
𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
"This is too comfortable, when I die, I definitely want my coffin placed on this, swinging to meet King Yama."
Using all his strength, he swung the hammock a few times and struggled to climb up, intending to carefully search the room for more treasures.
He had a vague premonition that the rewards for a successful challenge might all depend on the owner of this room.
Opening the closest bedside cabinet drawer, the two piles of Gold Coins and Silver Coins, separated by wooden boxes, instantly lit up Chen Zhou’s eyes so much that he couldn’t see anything else but these shiny things.
He hurriedly picked up two Gold Coins, bit into them, and seeing the clear teeth marks, a strong sense of excitement filled his chest.
This wasn’t the kind of virtual data frequently valued at hundreds of thousands or millions in games, but tangible, real Gold and Silver!
Sons and fathers, houses and cars, wives and children, dignity and face...
They could solve ninety-nine percent of the problems in this world.
Though they were small, roughly made, the old man cast on them had a lewd expression, wholly lacking the mechanical and mathematical charm, but in Chen Zhou’s eyes, nothing was more captivating!