867 The relationship between a woman and a gemstone
Looking at Yu Ting's shocked expression, Li Huan thought about it for a while before making up a reason to explain: "It's not a treasure, it's something we took back our own, have you ever heard that after the defeat of the Japanese ** team, when we left the Philippines, many things were too late to take away and buried on the spot?"
"I know, but weren't those things found by the Citi ** team? I heard that they were all sent to Switzerland. Yu Ting nodded.
"Of course, most of them were found, and a small part ......," Li Huan said, and then he thought about it, and told him what happened in the villa that day. Because she was going to leave the ship, Yu Ting would definitely ask why? Rather than let him ask himself, it was better to say it earlier. Yu Ting now knows that she has some special abilities, which Li Huan knows, because she once chatted with Chen Xue, and Chen Xue told her everything, so Li Huan did not hide it.
"There's a good chance it's true, so it makes sense that we should all take a look...... Leon waited for you to fly the plane, and Rodman followed, of course, although this map is very accurate and can almost be used as a military map, but after so many years, it may have been poached by others...... So this time, let's go and find out. After Li Huan finished speaking, he asked, "Sister Ting, are you going?"
"Go, why don't you go?" Yu Ting glared at Li Huan, seemingly dissatisfied with why he asked such a stupid question.
"Well, if you want to go, you must be obedient. Li Huan said.
"What are you obedient and disobedient, you are still a child in my eyes!" Yu Ting is worthy of being a strong woman, after hearing the story told by Li Huan and Pan, she felt not fear, but excitement, because she was about to witness the birth of a huge treasure with her own eyes: "You are right, if this map is true, we can really find so many treasures, then our treasure hunting footage should definitely be reshot." When the time comes, no one in the world will be able to replicate our success!"
"Let's go, then let's get on!" Li Huan jumped into the helicopter and pulled Yu Ting up again.
Leon nodded and glanced at Rodman, who loaded some of the things he had prepared into the helicopter. As for the original pilot of the helicopter, people don't use him, and he is happy to be idle, anyway, he and the helicopter are also charged by the day. The speed of the helicopter was still very fast, and the place where the fishing boat anchored was only fifteen kilometers away from the first point recorded on the map, and the helicopter was almost a take-off and landing, and it was already on the ground.
But when the plane flew over a small coastal village called Barras, the tragic situation below was truly horrific.
This small village is actually the capital of the Ballas region, but its scale is not even as large as that of a village in the country, about 100 families are concentrated in the coastal area in an area no more than 300 meters long and 200 meters wide, an unknown river flows into the sea from the south of Ballas, and along the river valley you can vaguely see a lot of previously well-groomed farmland. But unfortunately, by this time Barras had almost disappeared, and there were ruins everywhere, and the entire village and town were almost flattened by the powerful tsunami, and even the farmland could only be vaguely seen to be farmland that was once full of grain.
The tsunami destroyed everything and wiped out everything it could. The poor little village of Barras was wiped out from the face of the earth by the same mega-tsunami as his big brother Barto and Birac.
In this case, the rescue is actually a face-saving project. Even the sturdy brick and concrete houses are gone, and only one foundation remains, not to mention the people inside?
Yu Ting couldn't bear to look at the tragic situation below, closed her eyes, Li Huan glanced at her, and urged Li Ang to fly over quickly, there is no need to lower the flight altitude to check here, the location of the treasure is very accurate, not here at all, Li Ang then pulled up the helicopter and flew forward against the top of the mountain.
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According to the location recorded on the map, one of the caches is located near the river, which, if you look at the satellite map, is located on a mountain peak about 400 meters above sea level a little west of the confluence of the Batow River and one of its tributaries. When the helicopter arrived from the coast, it had to climb over a slightly higher mountain range, and the dense vegetation on the eastern side of the mountain range had almost been washed away by the tsunami, and the mountains looked very strange, even on the western slope of the range, there were many traces of being washed by the sea. If it weren't for the tsunami, the scenery would have been stunning, after all, Catandunes is still a very undeveloped island, and the island is full of primeval jungle. But the arrival of the tsunami not only flattened the coastal cities, but also destroyed the vegetation of most of the islands.
Li Huan had already seen this situation once when they took the helicopter from the villa to the fishing boat, and now that they saw this situation again, several people were a little numb in their hearts. In the face of natural disasters, not only human beings are extremely vulnerable, but even these primeval jungles that have grown for hundreds of years are not immune.
The situation in the river is even worse when the helicopter flies over the coordinate point. The tsunami, which poured in from the mouth of the river and went up the river, swept away everything within a hundred meters on both sides of the river, from large trees to small villages and towns along the river. Originally, from the map, there was a small village called Opo at the confluence of the Bato River and its tributaries, but at this time, this small village is also the same as the Baras just seen, and the whole village is only a mess of building foundations, and nothing else can be seen!
This situation, how can it be described as "miserable"?
The Bato River originates in the mountains in the western part of the island, and including its tributaries, it covers almost two-thirds of the island. This river can be said to be the mother river of Catandunes, and there are many small villages and towns along the river, and more than 20,000 people depend on this river for their survival, but it is precisely because of this river that the tsunami can go up the river valley, sweeping away almost all the villages and towns along the river.
Li Huan found the record points of the map from the villa map, and one of them is here. Judging from this military map, which is too detailed to be detailed, it was originally the location of the confluence of two rivers, and the two rivers met here, so that this area formed a large area of the valley plain, and the small town of Opo, which was no less large than Barras, was located in this valley plain.
In a mountainous area surrounded by mountains, villages and towns of this magnitude can appear thanks to the Batow River. But in the same way, in this tsunami, the tsunami that went up the river course and rushed upwards for more than 20 kilometers, still completely destroyed this small town surrounded by mountains. According to the coordinates, one of the three locations is located on a hill more than 400 meters above sea level on the north bank of the Bato River, and Li Ang first circled around this hill twice according to Li Huan's instructions, and then finally landed in a farmland outside the destroyed town of Opo.
The tsunami not only destroyed the town, but also completely destroyed the farmland, and at the same time the tsunami took everything that could be swept away from the mountain, leaving a large amount of rubble in the destroyed farmland, and helicopters were able to land on this terrain. After several people got off the plane, they couldn't bear to look in the direction of the town, even though the town was less than a hundred meters away from the landing site.
Judging from the area of the ruins, the population of this small town built on the banks of the Bato River should be quite large, at least more than 2,000 people, but such a small town, which should have been beautiful, is already full of devastation at this time. And just now, when the helicopter was about to land, there was not a single figure in the ruins, not even a large number of large animals such as buffaloes, which should have been quite large. Obviously, the tsunami had completely destroyed the town, taking the lives of everyone living in the town......
All that's left is a mess and a pungent smell of the seaβand a place of dead fish and shrimp that have begun to rot, emitting the kind of particularly pungent stench that only rotting seafood can have. Thanks to that hurricane, these creatures of the sea probably never imagined in their entire lives that they would die in such humiliation. Presumably when the tsunami poured in, it brought with it a large amount of seawater, which could be in the order of millions or even tens of millions of tons. Usually living in the ocean, these sea creatures would have thought that there is such a great power to change their living environment, so they were mixed with the sea water and fell ashore, some lucky sea creatures returned to the sea when the tsunami receded, but some sea creatures were very unfortunate to stay on land since then.
"It's so miserable, it's hell on earth. Boss, fortunately you ran to the mountain ahead of time, if you were below, I guess it would be more than lucky. Rodman shuddered as he looked at everything on the ground: "I have seen the explosion scene of the Mother of Bombs, I thought it was already the limit of human power, but I only learned today that in the face of the power of nature, human power is really too weak, to cause this level of destruction, it may be necessary to empty all the nuclear arsenal of Citigroup, no, no,
I don't think it's even possible to empty it all, and after emptying, you have to increase the amount by two or three times before you can ......."
"What do you think? How can the power of human beings be compared to that of nature?" Li Huan rolled his eyes: "Hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions are not easy to calculate, just an earthquake, and the power is not something that humans can simulate." If you want to simulate that level of power, then unless humanity uses nuclear weapons to push itself to the brink of extinction. β
"It's not so scary, is it?" Yu Ting looked at Li Huan: "Nuclear weapons are also very powerful, aren't they?"
"Under the premise of man-made objects, nuclear weapons are indeed the most powerful thing. However, in the face of the power of natural disasters, it is simply not enough. Li Huan thought for a while and said: "The measurement standard of earthquake is divided into two indicators: magnitude and intensity. Magnitude is the energy released by the epicenter of an earthquake. It is divided into nine levels and measured with instruments. Whereas the intensity is the degree of damage to the surface and the degree of feeling, which is assessed by people. There can only be one magnitude, and the intensity will vary with the distance from the epicenter. Even for earthquakes of the same magnitude, deep and shallow layers and rock materials will affect the intensity. For each increase in the magnitude of an earthquake, the energy increases by about 31.6 (β1000) times, rather than uniformly, and the highest earthquake monitored so far is an undersea earthquake of magnitude 14, which is equivalent to 150 million tons of .T explosives. The yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb is 15,000 tons, so it is equivalent to about one trillion Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding at the same time to produce energy. β
Yu Ting was at a loss when she heard this, Li Huan had Xiaofei's help and could easily calculate this number, but the magnitude of this number was too big, and everyone was confused when they heard it. Of course, not only Yu Ting is like this, but even Li Ang and Rodman all look confused.
Li Huan looked at everyone's appearance and added, "You think, the total population of the world is only more than 7 billion, which is equivalent to everyone having to hold 3,000 atomic bombs to detonate together to have this power." β
One person held 3,000 atomic bombs in his hand and detonated, this picture is too beautiful to imagine.
"It's all because you have nothing to do, what do you ask!" Leon almost fainted after calculating for a long time, and glared at Rodman: "Next time you ask this kind of question, I'll kill you!"
Rodman knew that he was wrong, and he smiled and stopped talking. However, although Li Huan's question was too big, everyone was confused, but after Rodman's interruption, everyone's depressed mood when they saw that gloom still became a lot better, and the helicopter soon began to fall, and it didn't take long for the helicopter to land.
"Boss, shall we walk over there?" asked Leon as he got off the helicopter.
Li Huan shook his head and said, "You come with me, Rodman, you are here to accompany Miss Yu." Take out the gun and load it, and remember that if you see anyone with any bad intentions and shoot directly, it is time for the law to break down after the catastrophe. β
"Boss, don't worry, I'm watching Miss Yu here, someone wants to hurt her, unless they kill me first. Rodman listened to Li Huan the most, and when he heard Li Huan say this, he immediately took out an assault rifle from the helicopter, and inserted four or five magazines into his body in a row, loaded the magazines and pulled the bolt, and then found a body armor for Yu Ting very intimately: "Miss Yu, please put on the body armor, don't worry, no one will hurt you with me here." As long as you listen to your boss, it must be safe. β
"You're all here, why don't you let me go?" Yu Ting was puzzled, although she took the body armor handed by Rodman and put it on herself, she was still very puzzled by Li Huan's order.
If she didn't let herself pass, she should have let herself stay on the fishing boat in the first place, and Yu Ting didn't feel that she had anything she couldn't stand - if there was any danger, she had just seen it all from the helicopter. However, there was no danger here except for a ruin, so Yu Ting did not understand this order very much. And it was Li Huan who asked him to come over, he said that there may be a large number of treasures here that can be used as movie shots, so he must record those shots. This is the only time in the history of cinema that a truly priceless treasure has been used to shoot a shot!
"I thought it was simple at first, but when I saw the ruins below, I thought you'd better not go there, there are some situations where you can have nightmares when you see them. Li Huan sighed, just now he was on the helicopter, in addition to the distance that everyone could see, he also used the sub-plane to zoom in on the situation in the distance to check, and then he saw that there were many corpses floating in the river below the peak. Because the Bato River has made several bends here, the impact of the tsunami will weaken a lot after passing through the small town of Opo, so some of the corpses were not swept upside down by the tsunami and rushed to the upper reaches of the river, but some of the corpses were stored in this side of the river.
Not to mention Yu Ting in this situation, even Li Huan was a little uncomfortable at a glance just now, and it is estimated that anyone who sees the hundreds of corpses densely soaked in the river will probably feel extremely uncomfortable.
When there is a flood in some parts of the country, it is common to see some pigsty washed away by the flood, and then some news reports will have some photos of drowned pigs, just a few dozen photos of drowned pigs can make a large number of people feel uncomfortable, let alone see hundreds of human corpses with their own eyes.
When Yu Ting heard this, her face turned pale, but she still gritted her teeth and said, "I'm not afraid, I'm going to follow you." β
Li Huan looked at Yu Ting, shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "If you see something bad for a while, don't cry." β
"Cut, you're crying. Yu Ting tightened the backpack strap of the backpack on her shoulders, "Let's go, hurry up and act." β
Li Huan smiled and stretched out his hand, Yu Ting grabbed the big hand and walked side by side with Li Huan with a smile. Since the boss agreed, Rodman and Leon also habitually went to open the way. Rodman took two assault rifles and gave one to Leon, and the two cautiously opened the way in front, and then, he also brought two weapon boxes and gave Leon one more, claiming to be going to load the baby, and Li Huan couldn't cry or laugh when he saw it.
As for Li Huan, Rodman thought about it for a long time, but in the end he didn't give it to him - Rodman has been with Li Huan for so long, he knows Li Huan's magical skills too well. Especially in the scene he saw in the Ural Mountains, Rodman still remembers that as long as Li Huan is willing, he can even trigger the lightning in the sky - with this ability, what kind of gun do you use, is it not fragrant to use lightning to directly chop?
Rodman communicated with Li Ang privately about this matter, and the two of them agreed that if Li Huan went all out, it would be equivalent to the destructive power of a company's large-caliber artillery. Of course, it may sound a little too small here. But don't really underestimate the lethality of a wing armed with large-caliber artillery. At present, the mainstream large-caliber artillery in the world is 152mm howitzers, and an artillery company is equipped with 30 guns of this caliber, which is amazingly powerful.
The 155 mm grenade is capable of piercing rock formations up to 1.8 meters thick at maximum range, and can blast a 1.09 meter radius funnel crater in concrete. During the air explosion, the 2-story brick wall can be completely destroyed at a distance of 8~9 meters, and the brick wall destroyed at a distance of 8~9 meters can cause serious cracking and most of the brick walls with 1.5 layers of thick bricks may collapse. A 152-caliber howitzer can clear a soft target in an open space half the size of the main stadium. 30 howitzers can clear 60 main stadium-sized floors if cleared in a short period of time......
Therefore, the two of them agreed that giving Li Huan a gun would have no effect at all.
"Li Huan, is there any treasure here?" As she walked, Yu Ting asked Li Huan.
"Well, there's a treasure here, but there shouldn't be a lot of it. β
"Really?" Yu Ting became excited, "Are you sure?"
"It should be confirmed, this is from the hands of the people of the Sunset Notice, you don't know about this organization, I have a chance to talk to you slowly, but if there are still the remaining treasures of the Japanese ** team that have not been discovered, and who else knows their location, it is definitely these people. Li Huan smiled faintly: "And I think that with their current situation, they will not allocate extra manpower to find those illusory things at all, they must be something that has a point, and it is a very sure place, so they will send people to explore." And this agency has never seen rabbits and doesn't make a sound, so I'm sure they're very credible if they come to look for it. β
"Then I'll have to sort out the camera in advance......" After Yu Ting walked for a while, she had already adapted to the uneven and soft clay ground here, she took out a portable camera from her backpack, and was always ready to shoot luxurious shots that had never been seen before in the history of film.
Li Huan is sure, and he is almost sure that as long as he follows these three coordinates, he will definitely be able to find the treasure, that is, the things left behind when the Japanese ** team retreated. Thinking about the current situation of the Eki Notes, they simply can't spare manpower to do boring things. These people must be very sure that there is a treasure here that they deliberately left behind and did not hand it over
Hidden, that's why these people were sent to dig - you know, the role of this treasure is to save lives, and now they are being pressed and beaten by the Aegis, and they have to rely on this money to solve their urgent needs, and it is impossible to have no purpose.
So Li Huan is sure that soon they will have a harvest.
After walking about three hundred meters along the river, the group came to the foot of the hill. The course of the Bato River makes a massive bend of nearly 90 degrees at the foot of the hill and then extends north again. Also, because of this big bend, the river here is very wide and the water flow is much slower. In this wide stretch of the river, there were hundreds of corpses floating at this time, most of them had been stranded on the river beach, but some were still soaking in the water.
People have come here, and it is inevitable that they will see these corpses. Coupled with the stench wafting over, Yu Ting just glanced at it, turned her head and vomited, let alone Yu Ting...... Even Leon and Rodman's faces were not good-looking.
Li Huan patted Yu Ting's back helplessly, and said while patting: "I said I won't let you come over, you have to come and suffer this crime." β
After Yu Ting retched twice, she barely stood up straight, and said with a pale face: "Let's get out of here quickly, I don't want to stay here at all." β
In order to take care of Yu Ting, Li Huan had to change the route of progress, and originally planned to go around the river to the other side of this hill, but now it seems that he can only climb over this hill. Fortunately, the mountain was not very high, and the tsunami had washed away all the vegetation under the mountainside, so it took the group about half an hour to climb over the mountain, and then found some rotten wooden planks on the other side of the hill, about 200 meters from the top of the mountain, in a slightly flat place......
These rotten planks obviously didn't rush from the outside, so Li Ang quickly ran over, and after pulling twice with his hand, he shouted in surprise: "Boss, there is a treasure here!"
Hearing Li Ang's words, Yu Ting put down Li Huan's arm in surprise, trotted over, squatted beside Li Ang, and did not dislike the dirt of the soil, stretched out two hands and began to pull the soil like Li Ang, and in just a few clicks, several crystal rubies were revealed.
"Li Huan, take a look, I dug up the ruby......" Yu Ting looked up excitedly, and Li Ang on the side was also excited.
There's nothing more exciting than digging up a treasure with your own hands.
Rodman was also eager to try, Li nodded with a smile, and then he also pounced and dug up. They were so excited, they all had sapper shovels on them, but no one used them, maybe they were more excited by digging out the treasure by hand. Compared with the excitement of these three people, Li Huan behaved calmly.
If it was a gem, there was really nothing worth exciteing Li Huan. That's right, the treasures left behind by the ** team these days may be very valuable, and their value may be very high. But in Li Huan's eyes, this is just some gems. If you want to talk about gems, then Li Huan has seen a lot, whether it is in this world or that world, a large number of gems have long dazzled Li Huan's eyes, and now probably unless a diamond the size of a human head appears, then it is impossible to provoke Li Huan to be very excited. Besides, he still has some fine gems in his museum, and if you want to see them, you can just look at them yourself.
And after the last time the gems were sold, Li Huan also understood a truth. Gemstones are such things as valuable, and if you say they are not valuable, they are worthless. And what gives value to these gemstones is the practice of commerce β the so-called business practice, which means that the scarcity is expensive. If it seems that Li Huan found one or two gems at the beginning, then each one can be sold at a good price, and at that time, Li Huan also asked the auction house to hype it in advance. However, it seems that he is now selling in piles and piles of wholesals, not to mention any auction speculation, the magnitude of what he sells will even cause shocks in the international gem market, and it will definitely not sell at a good price.
Even the most serious ones will cause a chain reaction, and after everyone thinks that this thing is worthless, they sell it in large quantities. So whether gems are worth anything is up to everyone, in short, Li Huan's enthusiasm for gems is not so high now.
However, this does not prevent Li Ang, Rodman and Yu Ting from being enthusiastic about gemstones!
Rodman and Leon are a little better, the two of them are not short of money, but those shiny things stimulate their eyes and always excite them. And they are different from other mercenaries, they know Li Huan's habits, as long as Li Huan has a big harvest, then the income of the two of them will also rise with the tide - although there is no shortage of money, but money is a thing, the more the better.
And Yu Ting is a woman, whether she lacks money or not, her relationship with gems is inseparable.
The relationship between a woman and jewelry is ambiguous, like a fish that can't do without water, and a flower that can't do without sunlight. Jewelry is a woman's open lover, life without jewelry is monotonous and boring, with jewelry, cloudy days will become sunny days, with jewelry, melancholy will become happy, with jewelry, poverty will become rich. Because of this, jewelry is everywhere in a woman's life.
In this way, women have even given birth to a special calculation in addition to the jewelry industry, called the "carat premium".
Take the diamond that has been hyped up by the De Beers family, which has been completely replaced, and a concept that harms men around the world, "diamonds are eternal". Many people will think that the price of diamonds should not be the same as gold and silver, and if a diamond with 50 points is the price, then 1 carat (100 points) is the price doubled. So is that the carat premium of diamonds, what is the carat premium?
The price of a diamond increases in a stepwise manner as the weight of the diamond increases, and in the case of the same cut, clarity, and color, the price of a diamond with a certain integer score or carat changes dramatically, which is called a carat premium. For example, the price of gold is 325 yuan per gram, so 2 grams of gold is 650 yuan. However, the price of a 1-carat diamond may be 100,000 yuan, while a 2-carat diamond of the same quality (same color, clarity, cut) may be 300,000 or even more, not simply multiplied by 2. Even if the size of the diamond is only 1 point, the price of a 99 point diamond is a far cry from that of a 1 carat diamond.
This difference is due to the carat premium of diamonds.
The weight of a diamond is closely related to the price, and the increase in weight will increase the price several times. That is, the price of diamonds has a stepwise increase in carats, which is the so-called carat premium. This is due to the fact that most people have a preference for whole carat diamonds, and the price of a whole diamond carat will be much higher than the price per carat of 0.95 carats.
The premium phenomenon of "carat premium" is only reflected in the carat, in fact, diamonds will have a diamond premium phenomenon at 20 points, 30 points to carats or less, but it is not as large as the carat premium.
Why is there such a difference? It's because women believe that the bigger the diamond, the more men love her.
And in order to fully harvest the IQ tax, in addition to the carat, the merchants are also making a fuss about other things.
The most important aspect of the carat premium is related to the quality of the diamond, generally speaking, the carat step of high-quality diamonds will be obvious, taking D color LC diamonds as an example, 50 to 69 points of diamonds are 51% higher than 46 to 49 points of diamonds, and more than 1 carat is 79% higher than 90 points of diamonds, which shows that the premium of diamonds has a very important relationship with weight.
In addition, the carat premium is also related to the quality of the diamond (4Cs: weight, color, clarity, cut), and the higher the quality of the diamond, the greater the carat premium. At the same weight, there are three other factors that also affect the price change of a diamond. Carat premiums are not unique to diamonds that are "whole carats". In fact, diamond weights can be valued in multiples of 5 or 10. It's just that the premium is not as large as when it is "full carat", for example, a 50-point diamond may be almost double the difference of 40-point diamond. Therefore, when some merchants cut diamonds, most of them will not cut a diamond into 49 points because of the pursuit of cut, but abandon part of the cut ratio and try to cut more than 50 points, in order to achieve maximum care and increase the price of diamonds.
Although everyone knows that this is an IQ trap, and it is not worth multiplying the whole price several times if it is an extra point, there are always women who rush to force men to spend this IQ tax - and even even borrow or borrow money to buy a piece of jewelry, which shows the attraction of jewelry to women.
"Alright, dig it and give me the camera. Li Huan looked at Yu Ting's lively appearance after seeing a few gems, and knew that she had probably forgotten the reason for coming here. There is no way around it, because once a woman sees a gem, there is no reason to talk about it.