Chapter 123, Underwater Diamonds
With Steve Peel as a guide, it is convenient and quick to do all kinds of things, which makes Lin Fan feel that it is worth spending some guide fees. Moreover, the residents of Valencia Island are indeed as Steve Peel said, the quality is still very good, with Steve Peel leading the way, it is very easy for Lin Fan to make up for them, and at the same time, they will not be ripped off.
After taking a two-hour bath, Lin Fan took everyone to eat a delicious meal of Valencia Island's special food, and finally gave each crew member two hundred dollars to let them move freely.
Valencia is like a small town with a small number of residents, but there are 20,000 or 30,000 people working in the service industry on the island, and 50,000 or 60,000 employees in many companies.
Lin Fan walked around the island alone for a while, felt the strong Western European style of Valencia Island, and then went back to the hotel room to practice, which is the homework he must do every day.
As for the crew, they wandered around the island in twos and threes, some carrying souvenirs for their families, others buying souvenirs to take home, and others going to the bars, casinos, and red-light districts.
On the island of Valencia, there are many bars and casinos in the red light district, mainly because of the large number of fishing boats from all over the world that come to the island every day, and more people come to the island for leisure and physical needs.
However, the Valencia Island Authority is also very strict in regulating these aspects, whether it is a bar or a casino, there are police to maintain order, and there will be no chaotic scenes on TV and movies.
It doesn't matter what country the crew is. Coming to these places is just to relax, so most of them don't make trouble, otherwise something will affect the fishing boat's sailing. I'm afraid the boss won't be able to spare you.
As for the red light district, it is also a formal industry, and the island of Valencia calls them sex workers, which is also a service industry. Not only does the Authority issue a service certificate, but everyone has to undergo a physical examination every week to receive a health certificate.
So when the crew came to the island, Steve Peel told them about it. If you need sex worker services, you must look at their service card and health certificate. In this way, health and safety can be guaranteed.
Otherwise, the consequences of a daily flow of people like Valencia's would be dire without strict measures. It will become a high incidence of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and an area of high infection, so the authorities pay special attention to this.
At the time specified by Lin Fan, half of the crew returned to the fishing boat, and the other half also took the initiative to go back to the hotel to rest, after all, there were other things tomorrow, and they were also conscious, so there was no one who didn't return overnight.
The next morning, Steve Peel invited five or six wholesalers over, and Lin Fan did not play Tai Chi with them. Instead, he directly reported his price bottom line to them, and those who were willing to trade with him stayed, and those who were unwilling left themselves.
It's just that. To the surprise of all the merchants, the amount of seafood sold by Lin Fan was very large, with nearly 2,000 tons of goods, and finally three wholesalers took it over.
Although Lin Fan's reserve price is only one percent less than their wholesale price, he can't support such a large quantity, and he can still make wholesalers earn a lot. Especially after seeing those seafood on Lin Fan's boat. Wholesalers find it all very fresh and can make them a little more profitable. So it's even more willing.
And those merchants who felt that the price was expensive and left, soon learned about the situation and immediately regretted it. It's just that they took the initiative to quit, and it was useless to regret it, and they had to watch others make money.
In the end, Lin Fan left about 30 tons of each fish, and all the others were disposed of, and a total of 5.2 million US dollars was obtained. In addition to spending on the island and various supplements, nearly $200,000 was spent, leaving $5 million.
"It seems that deep-sea fishing is the fastest way to attract gold, and in less than ten days, it has harvested more than 5 million US dollars and more than 30 million Chinese dollars, which feels great." Lin Fan smiled secretly in his heart.
At 3:18 p.m., after everything was ready, Lin Fan said goodbye to Steve Peel and embarked on the journey of the vast deep sea again. And Steve Peel stood on the shore and waved, holding a stack of extra tips that Lin Fan gave him at the end, looking forward to their next arrival.
At his next stop, Lin Fan was ready to stop in Spain. While they won't have time to make it to the Spanish capital to see a bullfight, it's a great way to get a taste of Spain.
Five days after leaving Valencia, 1,200 tonnes of fish had been harvested aboard the two Abyssal ships, only about three days away from Spain.
That afternoon, the fishing boat found a deserted island, only about three square kilometers in size, showing a karst landscape, with tall stone pillars towering, and the wind blew away the surrounding mud, revealing red stone pillars.
Lin Fan observed through the telescope and found that there was no vegetation on the desert island, and it was full of red rocks and gravel, forming criss-crossing ravines, which looked extremely vicissitudes.
"Report to the captain, at a depth of 1,500 meters at the bottom of the desert island ahead, an open-pit diamond mine has been discovered."
Just as Lin Fan was about to let the fleet advance around the desert island, suddenly a flying machine on the bottom of the sea reported to him that an open-pit diamond mine had been discovered in the depths of the seabed below this desert island.
"Uncle De, the fleet will pause on the edge of the desert island tonight to see if there is a suitable place for everyone to dive."
Lin Fan immediately changed his mind and stopped the fleet, and generally speaking, there were suitable places for diving near the edge of the island, and there would be no danger.
"Okay, I'll tell you about it, just find a place around here to dive and then prepare dinner." Zhang Zhide didn't ask Lin Fan why, he completely believed Lin Fan.
"Uncle De, then I'll leave it to you, I'm going to go down and have a look."
Lin Fan handed over the matter of arranging the crew to Zhang Zhide, and after putting on his diving suit, he went directly to the sea and slowly dived along the edge of the desert island. In the sea, Lin Fan found that the lower part of the desert island was basically red rocks, a bit like a volcanic island formed by a volcanic eruption.
At the same time, Lin Fan also discovered some large and small caves, which were as dense as beehives. He used his spiritual power to scan the depths of these caves, and found that there were only some ordinary things such as fish, shrimp, crabs, turtles, sea snakes, etc., and there were no large sea beasts, which could not threaten the diving crew, so he continued to dive with confidence.
Half an hour later, Lin Fan saw the figure of the flying machine, he had reached a depth of about 1,500 meters under the sea, which can be said to be the forbidden area for humans at present, but it is not for Lin Fan.
Sure enough, near the bottom of the sea in front of the flying machine, Lin Fan found something shiny with the help of the light, went up and picked one up and looked at it, it was really a diamond, crystal clear, even in the deep seabed, it also emitted a faint light.
Moreover, these diamonds are all natural diamonds, that is, naturally occurring, which are not encapsulated in ore and do not require further processing and polishing, and the price is much more expensive than ordinary diamonds on the market.
"Probe, how many diamonds are there?"
"Captain, this is just a small natural diamond mine, probably only a few kilograms of diamonds. However, these diamonds are of very high quality and should be the best natural diamonds. ”
"Well, you can dig up all the diamonds here tonight, I've let the fleet spend the night on it, and I'll leave yesterday."
Listening to the words of the armed soldiers, Lin Fan was secretly happy in his heart, and it would be a large amount of income to dig up a few kilograms of high-quality natural diamonds, and it was estimated that its value would not be less than two or three hundred million US dollars.
Lin Fan picked up a few diamonds, each of which had fifty or sixty carats, then put them in his pocket and went back to the fishing boat. With these armed fighters mining, Lin Fan himself would be so happy not to do it, and there was no need to guard by the side.
"Wow-"
Lin Fan got out of the sea, returned to the deck, took off his diving suit, sat down and began to drink water. And some of the crew members have already come up, and some have dived down, anyway, there is no danger, and some want to have some fun.
In the evening, after a sumptuous dinner, Lin Fan did not rest on the fishing boat, but ran to the desert island, found a towering stone pillar, and sat down on the top of it to practice, like a master of the world, but unfortunately it was too dark and no one saw it.
It didn't take long for the armed warriors on board the aircraft to hear that all the diamonds below had been dug up, about a little more than three kilograms, and there were more than a hundred of them, the smallest of which had twenty or thirty carats, and the largest one had more than ninety carats.
These diamonds were all received by Lin Fan in his imprint space, and he was going to sell some of them abroad, and then leave some of them back to Wang's Jewelry, after all, there is a long-term cooperation between him and Wang's Jewelry, and if he has good things, he will naturally take them into account.
After another three days, Lin Fan and the others came to the waters of Spain and chose to make up for it in a small coastal city called Muhia. Muhia, in the Spanish province of A Coruña in Galicia, is a narrow strip of land surrounded by the sea on three sides, with several natural ports and a cargo distribution center.
In Muhia, Lin Fan and others tasted the specialty of the product, a kind of empanada made from wheat (tuna, pork and vegetables in the cake) and takoyaki named after boiled octopus with red pepper, rock salt and olive oil.
In the evening, around the giant boulders in the central square of the town, a grand ball takes place, a unique way of celebrating the festival of the Muhiya, who have more than a hundred shows to celebrate every year.
There are many stories about the giant cobblestone, and today Muhia believes that walking through it nine times with a pious heart can eliminate ailments - back pain, kidney pain, and even rheumatism. (To be continued) >