94 Treasure From The Sea (1/2)

”What? Did I find it when I was a kid?” Chen Fan's eyes stared big and wide. ”Where did I pick this up? Take me there quickly, and I'll pick up a few more.”

”Who knows where you found it,” his mother replied without turning back while arranging the clothes. ”You were in elementary school at that time. You went to the beach and played around, and somehow brought it back. Your dad wanted to throw it away because he couldn't stand its smell, but you simply would not allow it and then you preserved it.”

In elementary school on the beach… Chen Fan held the crystal and laid on his bed. After his mother pointed it out to him, he was able to recall some of it.

He saw this crystal, which was 20 centimeters in diameter when he was playing on the beach as a young boy. He was very inquisitive at that time, so he picked it up and cherished it. But he forgot about this thing after some time and never expected that it could be so valuable.

He put it in front of his nose and sniffed, but the strange thing was that even though the electric eel's desire to devour it came up in his mind, it was not as strong as when it actually encountered the white crystal.

It could be thought of this way: if the beige crystals were an afternoon dessert for the electric eel, it wouldn't matter if it eats it or not, because the white crystal was the main course and would be the first meal after starving for a month.

Collected it up from the sea... After analyzing the situation, Chen Fan believed that the two crystals were from the same area of the sea. After all, the sea is the most mysterious place in the world, according to reliable sources, and human understanding of the sea is only five percent. It was normal for the sea to produce weird stuff.

”Damn it, I'll go back and post it on the Internet. I don't believe that there is no one who can recognize it!”

...............

Chen Fan's parents were busy selling crabs in the afternoon and later on, his father contacted the fish trader. Then the three of them rode in the BMW car and carried a full trunk of goods and drove to Zhongyun city.

”Son, when did you get your driver's license?” In the back seat, Chen Fan's mother was worried. ”Your driving skills make me feel panic!”

”Just completed the exam... won't obtain a license until next week!” Chen Fan said, ”it's not dangerous if I drive slowly.”

He followed his parents and went back to his old neighborhood. Chen Fan was ready to go into the bedroom after he had brought the things in.

”Son, come here, let's talk about whether to make a boat trip to Hong Kong or to fly to Hong Kong!” Chen Fan's mother sat on the sofa, laughing.

”By plane!” said Chen Fan as he popped his head out. Then...bang. He shut the door.

After he had locked the door, he rubbed his hands together, then took out the brown crystal from the plastic bag and took some pictures with his cell phone and uploaded it to the computer. After uploading the photo, Chen Fan copied the photo onto the U-disk, and then he went to a nearby Internet cafe to operate a computer. He uploaded the photos to the House of Seas Forum, then carefully described the shape and smell of the crystal.

Back from the Internet Cafe, Chen Fan kept refreshing the page.

After lingering for a few hours, Chen Fan had enough of all the useless posts that he read through, and finally, he came to a post that was useful.

To the (owner) of the post; you have made a fortune. You must have been very lucky to pick up such a valuable thing! This is Ambergris.

This is an extraordinary thing used in the ancient imperial palace. It was made from the belly of the sperm whale, but it is a hundred times more valuable than the bovine dog.

Obtaining it in the newly killed sperm whale is worthless, but if it was soaked in the water for decades, the more the impurities removed, the more fragrant it would become and the more valuable it would be.

Looking at the Ambergris in your photo. It should be something that has been soaked in seawater for more than 20 years. It is not exaggerating to say that it could be sold at the price of one to two million.

But when soaked in seawater over one hundred years, all the impurities inside were cleaned up, it would turn into as white as jade and a very fragrant Ambergris, many perfume companies would fight to get it.

”Pure white, fragrant, and floats on the water...”

Sitting in front of the computer, no matter how Chen Fan thought about it, he could only relate it to the crystal that the white-robed man gave him according to the characteristics described in the post.

He tried to control his trembling hands as he searched baidu.com's encyclopedia for information on the Ambergris. Chen Fan was deathly excited when he found the information in the data because he found that his crystal's description was very close to it.

”God, I embrace you!” Chen Fan grabbed the edge of the display and kissed it and then rolled on the floor in excitement. ”Ambergris is expensive. It's equivalent to gold when it's been in the sea for decades,” Chen Fan said to himself.