73 Treasure Again (1/2)
If Chen Fan had to choose some words to describe his current mood, he would definitely choose 'ecstatic', 'overjoyed', 'elated', and 'delighted' to express his feelings. This strong sense of happiness wasn't from the 3 million RMB he had gotten from last evening's machine tools transaction with Zhang Xueyang. Neither was it from Chen Fan following Lei Feng and doing the good deed of placing the torpedo into the whale shark's stomach and then giving it to the PT boat base stationed near Zhongyun City.
Honestly speaking, if someone had offered a good price to buy this torpedo, Chen Fan would not hesitate to sell it off. He would not feel any mental pressure even if the other party was a terrorist using the torpedo for a suicide attack.
The origin of this strong happiness could be traced back to the day before when the electric eel brought the three machine tools and the torpedo back. Last morning, the eel grabbed the three machine tools and the torpedo without explosives on each of its four claws, and swam toward Zhongyun City. When Chen Fan stopped at fifty nautical miles west of Jeju Island to hunt the poor whale shark, he accidentally discovered a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea.
Shipwreck… What does discovering a shipwreck imply? It means that there must be lots of goods or jewelry on the shipwreck. Every ship voyage during ancient times involved high risks and depended a lot on luck, so it had to carry highly profitable goods to make the risk worthwhile.
It was evident that the captain of the shipwreck wasn't nuts. When Chen Fan controlled the eel to go near the shipwreck and then use its electromagnetic induction to detect the goods on the ship, the image that Chen Fan got almost made him faint from joy. Other than the decayed tea leaves and silk in the cargo hold, there was also around five tons of silver on the 50-meter long and 12 meter wide barque.
Five tons… Silver was around 3.95 RMB per gram in the current market. Five tons equals 5 million grams, and 5 million grams multiplied by 3.95 RMB equals 19.75 million RMB. It's almost 20 million RMB… how could such an astronomical figure not set Chen Fan on fire?
Chen Fan immediately shifted his thoughts back onto his own body. Then, he quickly switched on the computer and marked the electric eel's location on Google map. After memorizing the location, Chen Fan did not bother to close the website. He straightaway controlled the eel, with the whale shark in its mouth, to swim quickly toward Zhongyun City. After that, he inserted the torpedo into the whale shark's belly
and secretly sent it to the PT boat base before contacting Zhang Xueyang to transact at the seaside, and then received the 3 million RMB easily.
The first thing that Chen Fan did after getting the money was to buy a 1,500 meter long nylon rope which was as thick as a child's arm. He had the two delivery men throw it into the sea without feeling pressured by the look in their eyes which said ”you're an idiot”. After the men were gone, Chen Fan got the eel to grab the nylon rope and rushed to the shipwreck location.
Since there was too much silver in the shipwreck, and the bulk of it was mostly in decayed bags, Chen Fan decided to bring the whole barque back. After letting the eel be the ”treasure keeper” temporarily, Chen Fan went to the intermediary companies to see if he could buy a warehouse near the seaside so that he could hide the shipwreck there when the eel brings it back.
There were two types of seaside warehouses. One was built on land and used for keeping goods. The other type was built by the sea using steel, with the exit extending into the sea. It was used for docking ships, and was similar to a garage.
Chen Fan wanted to buy the second type. After going to a few bigger scale intermediary companies in the city, Chen Fan quickly zeroed in on the information of one of those.
”Due to poor management, I have decided to let out a 1,500 square meters enclosed dock by the sea.
Contact number: XXXXXXXXXXX (sincere buyers only)”