Chapter 429: Greed
"Is this the pink diamond?"
Standing at the door of the tribal chieftain's tent, Zhou Lun said in a dream. On a wooden table in the deepest part of the tent is a small altar dedicated to the god of the tribe: a monster that resembles a tiger but not a tiger, a leopard but not a leopard.
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the statue on the altar is too simple to look at, and the so-called miracle is like a joke, and in the hearts of the tribesmen, it is the master of the world. Because the tribe swears that they have faced the gods and that God has saved the whole tribe.
It's a long, long story, and in a nutshell, when the tribe was in crisis, the gods came from the depths of the jungle in flames, and the beasts retreated and the tribe survived.
As a sign of gratitude, the tribe carved the image of the deity and worshipped it from generation to generation until now. As for how many years it has been enshrined, Yu said that he has experienced ten times of flower blooming.
Why can he remember, because it is he, the most valiant warrior of the tribe, who picks the fresh fruit for the gods every time.
Well, it turned out to be a new god that was born only ten years ago, and if you count the seasonal changes on the African continent, the fruit bears three fruits a year, and the age of the new god is even younger than expected.
Whether the gods are ancient or not, indigenous tribes are firmly associated with the gods and become a part of the daily lives of the tribesmen.
Today, the offerings offered on the small altar are no longer fruits, food, but an egg-sized, crystal clear pink diamond that shines in the sun.
Yes, a pink diamond that has just been dug out of the rock and has a few stones on its body, and in the sun, each side of the diamond shines differently, like the brightest aperture in the world. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the natives dedicated it to the gods.
Such a dazzling light, how can mortals be qualified to have it. The gods didn't care if the pink diamond Lin Chen didn't know, anyway, everyone around him was blinded by the diamond, especially the women.
It's hard to know whether the first author of the idea that dragons like gold, treasures, and sparkling gems had a reference to women's personalities. If so, the author who made such a premise must be a person with rich experience and a good sense of surprise between men and women. If not, the author is simply a prophet, and modern women are getting closer and closer to the legendary dragon.
The dragon reacts to the gold, and the woman reacts to the diamond.
"It's beautiful. Zhang Xiaoxiao muttered, as she spoke, her feet unconsciously approached forward, and there was only one voice in her mind: It must be mine.
Before she had taken a few steps, the two black natives brought her back to her senses and sighed fiercely: "It's really sad, why didn't I pick up the diamond." ”
That's right, the treasure in front of you, which can almost be called the world's largest pink diamond, has something to do with the tribe's habit: picking things up everywhere.
Just as the sun was rising, the tribe's indigenous people found a foreign object in a nearby river, and when they scooped it up, they found that it turned out to be a swollen corpse.
No one knew where the body came from, let alone what it had experienced before it died, leaving only the swollen body and tattered clothes to tell of misfortune.
If it is a modern person, the first thing to do when you encounter a corpse is to call it and hand it over to the police for disposal. However, this is the African continent, and corpses are common. Hundreds of thousands of people die every day because of war, because of disease, because of pestilence, because of massacres, because of all sorts of other reasons, and a floating corpse is nothing. Most people scooped up the bodies, and a few turned a blind eye.
The tribe does not belong to the majority, nor to the minority, and they not only fish up the corpse, but also bring it back to the tribe to burn it, giving the corpse a belonging.
Maybe it was gratitude, maybe it was a coincidence, and the burned corpse left behind a treasure, which was the huge pink diamond seen in front of him.
Aborigines are different from modern people, who see pink diamonds not as gemstones, but as bundles of money, an unimaginably vast wealth. In the eyes of the natives, pink diamonds are not much more noble than prey, cassava, fruits, and even wild grasses, and to a certain extent, pink diamonds are far less valuable than food.
Food fills the stomach, can diamonds be eaten, can they be worn, can they be used as weapons?
It doesn't work, so it's a useless thing, and for the sake of being pretty, it's barely offered to the gods of the tribe.
The above is the source of pink diamonds, and it is also the reason why Zhang Xiaoxiao sighed.
"Even if you touch it first, do you dare to pick up the corpse?" Lin Ru couldn't help but roll her eyes, she had never had a good impression of her big-chested and brainless kind.
I have to say that even if modern people who claim to be civilized people encounter floating corpses, most of the time they will have the mentality that more is better than less, and they would rather sit idly by than meddle rashly, and can only sit back and watch the pink diamond be obtained by others, and there will be no second result.
"Not necessarily, what if I pick it up. Zhang Xiaoxiao muttered dissatisfiedly and quietly took a step back.
Pink diamonds are naturally good, safety is more important, standing next to Uncle Black, she doesn't have much security.
Compared with Zhang Xiaoxiao's entanglement, the hearts of men are simpler.
"Director Wang, how much do you think this diamond is worth?" At the door, Zhang Lun suddenly asked, his voice was not loud or small, enough for everyone to hear.
Production director Wang Cheng crossed his arms and pondered something, and subconsciously replied when he heard the words: "100 million." ”
"100 million, so much?" Someone subconsciously took a breath of cool air, what does 100 million mean? It means wealth and status, it means that three generations of people eat and drink without worry, and it means that people are superior.
The noisy voice brought Wang Cheng back to his senses, looked at the surprised expressions around him, rolled his eyes, and suddenly raised his voice and said: "Yes, it's a hundred million, and it's a dollar, a hundred million dollars." ”
One hundred million dollars can be exchanged for 650 million yuan, which is a figure that everyone should be moved by.
"Isn't that more than 600 million?" Liu Che's eyes widened: "Diamonds are so valuable?"
"It's not the diamond that's worth, it's the pink diamond in front of you that is worth it. After a pause, Wang Cheng carefully introduced: "Xiangjiang Fubi Auction House once auctioned the world's largest pink diamond, and the final price was 60 million US dollars, do you know how many caramas that pink diamond is?"
Without waiting for anyone else to answer, he quickly gave an answer: "The finished product is 60 carats, and the rough stone is 132 carats, which is one-third smaller than the pink diamond in front of him." If it were to be replaced by the pink diamond in front of him, the price would not be less than $100 million. ”
100 million US dollars, nearly 700 million yuan, there are only more than 30 people on the scene, and each person can share at least millions. Millions will not be rich, but they can change their fate and enter another stage of life.
The idea appeared like a seed and quickly sprouted and bore fruit in a short period of time.
"If ......"
No one said what if, but they knew what was going to happen.
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