222 More Expensive than Abalone as Big as Face (1/2)

”Whoosh!” As the sound dropped, Chen Fan knew that his bullet had hit the target. When he opened his eyes, Nagasawa was already lying in a pool of his own blood.

The sensation of annihilating a person is truly overwhelming. This resulted in Chen Fan's loss of appetite, as he was not even in the mood for lunch and dinner. His stomach only started feeling better on the following day.

He routinely opened the incubator and gently rolled the egg aside, after getting up from bed. It had been thirteen days since Chen Fan found this egg. When a bright light from a powerful torch was shone on it, there would be a visible outline of the chick. The eaglet was expected to hatch in about a week.

After flipping the egg over, Chen Fan dusted his palms and channeled his consciousness upon the electric eel. He controlled the eel to swim around and hunt for some fresh seafood. This hunt for seafood was not meant for his own appetite, but rather was meant to be supplied to the restaurant.

When Chen Fan handed the five hundred thousand dollars to his parents, they had initially planned to invest a small portion of it into a hotel. However, Chen Fan thought that if they were to invest in a hotel business, they might as well make it big.

Coincidentally, there was a pretty large scale hotel at Ping Hu Street that was looking for a new owner. Chen Fan had seen this hotel long ago.

It was an idle, luxurious four-story building that stretched up to eight thousand square meters. Chen Fan did not have to think much before setting his sights on this hotel.

The hotel was called Ping Hu Tower, and the previous owner had made a fortune by doing property sales, but now he wanted to get rid of this 'low profit burden' in order to focus his capitals on bigger property investments.

The price was agreed upon over the phone. The price for the whole building being 35 million, with a yearly rental of five million. The owner of the hotel mentioned on the phone that, if he was able pay eighty million upfront, he would sell Chen Fan the entire building outright.

'I will get my people to sort out the procedure with you tomorrow.' Chen Fan signed another eight hundred thousands off his bank account.

In essence, there were no losses incurred by purchasing the hotel at such a price. Notwithstanding its strategic location within the high class eatery area in Zhong Yun City, its interior decorations qualified it to be one of the the top ten restaurants in town. Solely based upon the value of the pure wool carpet that covered the floor of all three floors within the building alone, it could already fetch up to five million.

Most of the renovation work was brand new, and the business even came with servants and chefs. Chen Fan got his parents to contract renovation companies to install fine aquariums of all kinds around the lobby.

This would make a person feel as if he had entered an underwater world, right upon stepping into the lobby. He would then stuff all the top class sea creatures, like abalones, lobsters, crabs, snappers and sea cucumber into those aquariums. When the time comes, he planned to capture two sharks and put them by the glass wall next to the entrance, to make the whole place feel even more classy.

Most seafood in the fresh markets nowadays was artificially bred. One fresh abalone would cost only five yuan, while the wild ones would be a few hundred, and the dried ones would be even more expensive! (This is speaking of coastal small abalones, not first class abalones or south african abalones!)

Putting all sorts of wildlife creatures in the hotel would definitely attract foodies from all over the place. Catching exotic seafood would be like searching for a needle in a haystack for the fishermen! However, for an electric eel, it would be a piece of cake!

The ocean covers over 70% of the planet, so it is virtually impossible for people to eat everything in it. Yet the fact remained that fishermen had drained the supply of expensive seafood in certain fishable areas. However, there still would be all kinds of seafood in the vast Pacific Ocean. He might even be able to find sea creatures that would scare the guests, when served on the dining table!

After working hard from noon to night, the eel found over three hundred wild abalones, each weighing about two kilograms on average, two sharks, and numerous other sea creatures. The sharks were for observatory purposes only. Customers who know the ropes would only consume the fins of a shark, as its flesh was not any more delightful than bamboo leaves.

Just as he docked his submarine, he took out his phone and made a call to Wang Bing, asking him to bring the transportation truck over to send the harvest to the hotel.

”Oh..oh damn, Boss. Did you just steal someone else's breeding net box?” Wang Bing muttered, after staring blankly at the boxes of fresh sea harvest for 30 seconds.

”That's what the southeast asian merchants use to deliver the stocks!”

Wang Bing gave Chen Fan a sideway glance, his expression clearly saying ”Don't you dare pull my leg.”

Chen Fan looked around, without responding, then said, ”Did you hire the security team, per my instructions?”

”Yes, 22 in total, six of them being veterans, and the rest are local youths.” Wang Bing complained, as he loaded the seafood onto the truck, ”Hey Boss, aren't you already one of the richest men in Zhong Yun? Why are you still fiddling around with all these? Oh Lord, the smell is dreadful!”

”Do you think I want to do all this nonsense? My parents wanted to run a restaurant business and needed me to get them some high-end stuff in order to get the place rolling. Otherwise, all they can think about is to get grandchildren, as they have nothing to do all day long!” Chen Fan's expression showed great annoyance. ”I allowed them to run a restaurant business, so it could keep them busy enough to forget about this whole issue about getting grandchildren!”

”That sounds about right!” Wang Bing could totally relate to this problem, as his mother was also giving him the same problem. She was always trying to set him up with someone!

”Oh, Boss, the new house is ready. When do you plan to move in?” Wang Bing picked up a cigarette, lighting it as he squatted on the floor after loading all sea harvest into the truck.

”Let's see about that. It feels weird and difficult to feel secure, now that I have attracted the police's attention.” Chen Fan squatted next to him and asked for a cigarette. Wow, this kid's got some great stuff right here!”

”It's not much!” he chuckled and said. ”What is there to fear? If the police come, I could smell them from three miles away. Plus, it has been three months since the incident, so they have probably forgotten about you!”

”It doesn't matter where I stay. It only takes me about ten to twenty minutes to get back to Zhong Yun anyways.”