Chapter 0045: Diamond Pit
Even if it is tourism, Yang Peiqi will not wander around aimlessly, but intends to organically combine tourism and treasure hunting, and he can't waste the Explorer 8 he has, right?
Peiqi Yang carefully researched all the attractions in the United States on the Internet, and finally found one place worth visiting most - Diamond Crater National Park in Arkansas.
Opened in 1972, Diamond Crater Park is the only diamond mine park in the world that is open to the public. It can be said that the "Diamond Pit" state park is a place where diamonds are buried everywhere. The park covers an area of 15 hectares and was originally a volcanic passage 95 million years ago. When the volcano erupts, diamonds from the ground are thrown into the upper part of the lava, so a large number of diamonds are buried beneath the surface of this park.
In 1906, John Hudson, the owner of the land and a local farmer, discovered the first diamond here, sparking a "diamond digging fever". People from all over the United States rush to mine diamonds there, creating a vicious cycle. In 1972, the Arkansas state government decided to buy it and set it up as a park.
The fact that pie in the sky was originally used to describe the impossible, but in Diamond Crater Park, such things happen all the time. According to the park's official website, 25,714 diamonds have been found here since it opened, which equates to an average of one to two diamonds being found every day. And of these diamonds, more than 700 diamonds are over 1 carat.
Not only are there many diamonds found here, but they are also worth a lot of money. In fact, it's where the largest diamonds in North America come from. In 1990, Shirley Tron from Arkansas dug up a 3.03 carat diamond here and named it "Siltron Wagner". Strang sent the diamond to Arkansas' chief gemmologist, Bill Underwood, for evaluation, and the latter described it as a rare gem. In 1997, on Underwood's recommendation, the diamond was sent to New York for processing. In 1998, the diamond was given an O/O/O grade, the highest grade for a diamond. According to the American Jewelry Association, there is only one diamond in every 1 billion diamonds that are so perfect.
It is worth mentioning that the diamond "Kang Canary" worn by former US First Lady Hillary Clinton at the inauguration ceremony of her husband Clinton is also from the "Diamond Pit" state park. Discovered by local Stan Kang, the diamond is shaped like a pillow and shimmers yellow. Because of its immaculate purity and dodecahedron nature, the diamond is often exhibited in prestigious museums and jewelry exhibitions, so it won Hillary Clinton's affection, and she borrowed it for her two inauguration ceremonies.
Such a place is definitely the best place for Yang Peiqi, who owns Explorer 8.
So, after asking John to help him set up an offshore shell company, Yang left New York alone, flew to Houston, which is not far from Arkansas, and then transferred to Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas.
Originally, Yang Peiqi planned to stay in Houston for a period of time, because he was a basketball fan, and in Houston, there is a very famous Chinese player, needless to say that everyone knows this, of course, it is Yao Ming. For a long time, Yang Peiqi had an idea, that is, to go to Houston to watch a game of Yao Ming's ball, but unfortunately, various conditions did not allow it before, and now that he has come to Houston, this guy has retired due to injury.
Therefore, Yang Peiqi did not stay in Houston and directly transferred to Little Rock.
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In Diamond Pit Park, Yang Peiqi is dressed like most visitors, dressed in casual clothes, but holding a small hoe and a shovel in his hand, which he rented from the park management office.
Instead of turning on the cheat mode as soon as she entered the park, Yang Peiqi wandered around with small hoes and shovels, just like ordinary tourists, sweating in some places where digging was allowed.
Since I am here for tourism, I naturally want to experience the fun of ordinary people coming here to play. It's also too boring if you turn on cheat mode in the first place.
It's just that Yang Peiqi's luck is definitely not good, he wandered around the park for three hours, and dug no less than 20 pits, but he didn't get anything, not even the most rubbish diamond the size of a grain of rice, but he didn't find a single diamond, but he was sweating.
Still, Yang Peiqi still had a good time, just like the other tourists around him.
Of course, there are reasons why others have also not gained anything. If the other tourists around him dug up diamonds one by one, Yang Peiqi would definitely feel depressed.
As for the fact that other tourists have dug up diamonds one by one, this kind of thing is impossible. Not to mention the things before the establishment of the park, even if the park was opened, in the past 40 years, more than 25,000 diamonds have been dug up in this park, I am afraid that every inch of the surface of the earth has been turned over, where is it so easy for people to find diamonds?
Of course, it is impossible for Yang Peiqi not to find diamonds, because he is not an ordinary person, but a person with super cheating methods.
After digging for a few hours, Yang Peiqi found a corner where no one was around, then sat down and began to communicate with Explorer 8 in her mind.
According to Yang Peiqi's request, Explorer 8 conducted a high-precision survey within 100 meters of his surroundings, which cost Yang Peiqi a full five energy points.
At this point, he didn't have many energy points left. Because in the previous period of time, Yang Peiqi also opened Explorer 8 a few times every once in a while, although he didn't get anything valuable, but it also cost him a lot of energy points. Coupled with the fact that he had turned on the detection again just now, he only had twenty-three energy points left. If such a high-precision probe is performed, it can only be carried out four times.
Of course, this was when those three of his paintings had not yet been sold. As long as those three paintings are sold, he can get a huge amount of energy points. You know, those three paintings are worth 30 or 40 million US dollars, and if they are converted into soft sister coins, it is a full 200 million, and the energy points that can be obtained are 20,000.
The results of the detection made Yang Peiqi both happy and disappointed. Happily, a hundred meters below him, there are quite a few diamonds. To his disappointment, the diamonds were all buried deep underground, as he had imagined, and the shallowest ones were buried three or four meters underground.
And, without exception, these relatively shallow buried diamonds are not of very good quality. And those high-quality diamonds are basically buried dozens of meters deep underground. As for the situation outside the detection range of Explorer 8 at this time, Yang Peiqi naturally does not know.
This situation was also expected by Yang Peiqi, in this park where anyone can come to explore treasures, every corner has been dug up. Moreover, there is no shortage of masters with all kinds of unique skills in this world, and it is inevitable that there are some people who can find treasures.
In this way, it is strange that there can be any big gains in the shallow layers of the earth.
Yang Peiqi was a little annoyed, Nima's shallowest buried diamonds were three or four meters deep underground, and it would definitely be a huge project for him to dig with a hoe and shovel. Not to mention those diamonds that are buried at a depth of more than a dozen or even tens of meters.
Moreover, this is a park where people come and go, so naturally he can't get the junior TBM qì man he came with Explorer No. 8 to dig up these diamonds. Not to mention that this park is not allowed, even if it is allowed, I am afraid that he has been arrested by the CIA or the FBI before he has dug up the diamond.
But if he returned empty-handed, Yang Peiqi was obviously unwilling.
What should I do?
Yang Peiqi thought about it.