255 Metallic Palladium (1/2)
Within just half a minute, three bucket loaders were all thrown into the deep sea by the electric eel. The mollusks and algae that could penetrate everything, coupled with the highly corrosive seawater, would easily turn the three loaders into unrecognizable pieces of coral within a short span of half a month.</p>
After settling this trouble, Chen Fan stared at the torrential rain. Now that the leader was dead, his subordinates should not be able to cause any more trouble. It would be best if they could just run away with the money! Yet Chen Fan thought to himself that he simply couldn't be bothered to worry at the moment.</p>
I don't care what tricks they are going to try to pull. Who has the free time to think about it, anyway? I will just handle the matter when the time comes.</p>
...</p>
It was eight in the morning, and the sky was slowly clearing up. When the sunlight shone and the wind blew past, the fog in the air dissipated, exposing the dock that had been covered up.</p>
With a clack, the big gates of the dock opened up. Chen Fan walked out a bit to stretch his body. Then, he took out his phone to give Zhang Xueyang a call.</p>
The last time Chen Fan had gotten a big amount of silver, it was Zhang who had helped contact those buyers. So, this time, Chen Fan thought of asking if it was possible to get in contact with someone who was willing to buy gold. </p>
Business transactions with the old geezer Argyll could only be done with hard currency. And, gold was no doubt a harder currency than the globally recognized American dollar.</p>
Thus, trading this way could even relieve the hassle of currency inflation. This is the reason why many people liked to use gold. It did not depreciate easily like cash, and even for gold that was obtained illegally, it never left any tracks behind once it had been melted.</p>
”I'm fainting!” When Zhang Xueyang received the call, he complained, ”Why does the busy man have time to call me today? I usually can't even get through to your phone once!”</p>
”You can always leave a message, right?” Chen Fan said laughingly. ”Remember the friend you helped me to contact to buy my silver last time? I am looking to sell him some gold.”</p>
”Gold?” Zhang Xueyang was a little confused. ”Unlike silver, gold is very easy to sell, as its price does not fluctuate as much. Couldn't you just sell to anyone?”</p>
”I came to you because this batch of gold is quite large, so I was planning to look for someone familiar to sell it to.”</p>
”Large? How much do you have?”</p>
”It's a really big amount. Around 10,000 or so!”</p>
”Oh!” Zhang Xueyang first nodded his head, but then quickly caught on and shouted ”What? 10… Thousand! Are you sure you are not talking about brass?!”</p>
”It's real gold. But,I still don't know its exact purity level yet!” Chen Fan took out a piece of gold from his pocket as he spoke. He then played with it under the sun. It was bright and yellowish, so its purity level should not be too low.</p>
After hearing Chen Fan's strongly emphatic tone, Zhang Xueyang went silent for a moment. It was obvious that he was awestruck by the number.</p>
Zhang Xueyang made a rough estimate in his heart and realized that the value of such an amount was beyond 1.5 billion Renminbi! With such a large amount of gold, not to mention whether that friend of his has the capability to purchase all of the coins, even if he were to call upon all if his friends, no one would be able to take out such a scary amount of cash to carry out this one transaction.</p>
”You fella, where did you get so much gold? You didn't rob someone, did you?”</p>
”If I could do that, would I still be here right now?” Chen Fan said modestly. ”10,000 is just a rough estimate. Lately, I have been making some big transactions with South Africa, which were all transactions that used gold. However, we still have not completed our transactions yet, so they might take a while. I was just wondering if that friend of yours can purchase this amount of gold right now?”</p>
”Even 1,000 would cost his whole life savings, not to mention 10,000!” Zhang Xueyang complained. ”If you are really thinking of selling them, I can only help you to get in contact with some of the larger gold jewelry companies. However, they have a high standard regarding the purity level of gold. They usually request for it to be 99.999 percent pure gold. Another option for you is to let him purchase a few hundred right now, then as time goes by, he would be able to purchase more.”</p>
”In that case, let's take it slowly, since I am not in a hurry!” Chen Fan accepted his suggestion. ”Then, could you ask him to come over to my place? I have a sample that he could use to measure the purity level of the gold.”</p>
...</p>
It did not even take half an hour before an Audi A6 hurriedly stopped in front of Chen Fan.</p>