The speed of the mechanical blue whale is very fast, at least it is not comparable to ordinary blue whales, and originally Yang Yiwei thought that sitting in this guy's stomach was like taking an airplane, and he could feel it when climbing and descending, but he didn't expect that Yang Yiwei didn't feel any unstability in the process of the blue whale advancing, just like sitting in a room.

When Xiaoxi told Yang Yiwei that his destination had arrived, Yang Yiwei asked a little strangely: "Did the mechanical whale enter the sea just now?" ”

"No, the depth that I just advanced is 600 meters deep in the ocean." Konishi reached it very simply.

"Then why didn't I feel it when I dived?" Yang Yiwei is really curious now, as I saw from those documentaries, whales simply drill directly into it when they dive, even if it is a mechanical blue whale that can dive smoothly in the process of advancing like a submarine, but I should also feel it.

"Although the mechanical blue whale is modified from a creature, most of the performance of the creature has not been retained, it is now more like a completely semi-biological mechanical submarine, the cabin you are in now is like a space capsule, you can adjust its balance separately, although the adjustment is not large, but unless you dive or ascend urgently, you can't feel any fluctuations." Xiaoxi quickly explained to Yang Yiwei.

Yang Yiwei immediately realized that this thing was like putting a hollow ball in the belly of the mechanical blue whale, and it would not maintain the same height as the mechanical blue whale. It will try to stay level all the time. It's quite humane, at least if it's really like a fish, straight up and down in the water, the person sitting in it will be unlucky.

Coming out of the mouth of the mechanical blue whale. Yang Yiwei has seen the speedboat close at hand, a mechanical sailfish has taken the speedboat to this place, less than 1 nautical mile in front of the place is the deserted island, it is actually better to say that it is a coral reef to say that it is appropriate, its highest place above the sea is only a dozen meters high, and its area is only a few hundred square meters, when the tide rises, it will be directly submerged under the water.

And all the electrolytic cobalt synthesized by the biomodification instrument is in the sea under Yang Yiwei's feet. A total of 820 tons, which is half a month's mining volume of mechanical swordfish, and now Yang Yiwei has developed to 130 mechanical swordfish under the condition of ensuring that the biomodification instrument has 20,000 points of reserve energy. Moreover, the number of mechanical swordfish is increasing at a terrifying rate, and now Yang Yiwei can store 4500 points of energy every day, in other words, Yang Yiwei can add 4 new mechanical swordfish every day.

Now Konishi simply let two mechanical sailfish attract a school of about a few thousand sailfish in the nearby waters, and the sailfish are not social animals. But I don't know how I got it, these swordfish get along well, but the nearby fish are unlucky, and the swordfish are large carnivorous fish. Now thousands of sailfish gather together and eat no less than a single blue whale eats each day.

According to Konishi's calculations. When the number of mechanical sailfish reaches 500, Yang Yiwei can collect 10,000 points of energy every day. At the same time, it can provide more than 3,000 tons of electrolytic cobalt every month! Of course, it doesn't have to be electrolytic cobalt, but it can also be a variety of other precious minerals.

Although the cobalt-rich nodules mined by the mechanical sailfish now have a high content of cobalt, it is actually not the highest content among them, and there are more than a dozen other kinds of rare minerals, but all these minerals are used by Yang Yiwei to synthesize energy, and the cobalt is only mined from it.

Cobalt is radioactive, and the mining ship of Brilliant Mining will only come over tomorrow, and Yang Yiwei needs to spend the night here today. After breathing a little fresh air outside, Yang Yiwei moved the food and water he prepared to the belly of the mechanical blue whale, and spent the night in the belly of the mechanical blue whale, although the seawater has the effect of isolating radiation, and the seawater is close to a depth of 100 meters, but Yang Yiwei does not want to spend the night on a large pile of radiation ore.

Before dawn the next day, Yang Yiwei was woken up by Xiaoxi, saying that he had detected a freighter and a professional salvage ship approaching here, and the distance was only 50 nautical miles.

After Yang Yiwei left, the mechanical blue whale slowly dived into the deep sea and disappeared, and the mechanical sailfish was also lurking in the nearby waters within a few nautical miles. The distance of 50 nautical miles is more than an hour and less than 2 hours, and the freighter directly anchored and stopped at a distance of a few hundred meters from Yang Yiwei.

Yang Yiwei drove directly in the speedboat, and after Yang Yiwei got on the freighter, Lu Hongbing had already greeted him with a smile. Yang Yiwei looked at Lu Hongbing with some surprise: "Uncle Lu, you didn't say you were coming." ”

"Ha Luha, this is the first business between us, and to tell you the truth, this is also a big business." Lu Hongbing smiled.

"Uh," Yang Yiwei is not in this industry, and he doesn't understand the value of these rare minerals in these mining companies around the world, 600 tons of electrolytic cobalt per month, which is 7,000 tons a year! You must know that the world's cobalt ore is only a few hundred thousand tons, which is the total amount of cobalt ore, and there are not so many completely mined ores, and then purified it, the number is even less. Distributed to so many mining companies around the world, it can be said that many mining companies simply cannot get these rare minerals.

"Alright, is the salvage ship coming?" Yang Yiwei asked knowingly.

"That's not it, but what are you going to do with the salvage boat?" Yang Yiwei didn't say it explicitly on the phone, Lu Hongbing didn't know what Yang Yiwei wanted to do, could it be that the cobalt mine was still in the water?

"Here's what you want." Yang Yiwei pointed to the bottom of the sea outside.

"Wouldn't it? You had the cobalt ore unloaded into the sea? Lu Hongbing couldn't laugh or cry, it is not so easy to salvage these ores, of course, it is not that difficult. When the biomodification instrument synthesized these materials, Yang Yiwei had already asked Xiaoxi to directly synthesize these cobalt ores into a standard cuboid 10 meters long, 2 meters high, and 2 meters wide.

"Uncle Lu, I'm smuggling, can I be careful, now that technology is so advanced, there are satellites in the sky staring, I can't be careful." Yang Yiwei said with a smile. Yang Yiwei wanted to get it on, but the problem was that if he got it or the port, he would have to hire a ship to salvage it, rather than this, it would be better to let Lu Hongbing send someone to salvage it, anyway, they don't know how they got to the bottom of the sea, so let them guess.

"Okay." Lu Hongbing couldn't laugh or cry, and after a pause, Lu Hongbing spoke again: "Xiaowei, I said that in fact, you don't need to be so careful, no one cares about this place in Africa, be bold, when you are in China, you think it seems that smuggling is illegal, but in Africa, let me tell you, every year, 70% of the world's smuggling through sea and land is transferred to major ports in various African countries, and no one cares about it here." ”

Yang Yiwei was a little speechless, he didn't know about these news, looking at Yang Yiwei's expression, Lu Hongbing smiled again: "In fact, this is also a tacit thing for all countries, here is not just some smugglers smuggling, since Xiaowei wants to mix in this industry, uncle will tell you something confidential, just like the global CIA intelligence department You should know, you look at the military budget passed by the US Congress every year, how much money can be allocated to those intelligence departments?" It's not enough, so many smuggling companies have a background in the intelligence services of various countries, in order to earn them a certain amount of money. ”

Yang Yiwei was a little surprised, this was the first time he had heard of this, but thinking about it, Yang Yiwei remembered seeing the news once a few years ago, and as for what year, he didn't know what it was, saying that the CIA's annual military budget was 5 billion US dollars. At that time, it seemed that I was also reading the military budget report made by the US Congress, is $5 billion enough? Not to mention how big the CIA is in the world, the salaries of CIA employees around the world are a terrifying number.

$5 billion, what is enough? Millions of employees may be an exaggeration, but a million is certainly there. These people are CIA informants, as well as employees, and the salary is paid by the CIA, not by the US government, and the salary paid by the US government is only those regular employees in the CIA who can appear in front of others openly, overseas branches, the US government does not care, according to 1 million various employees, these people's annual salary is not too much, just 10,000 US dollars, right? An average of $10,000 a year for a person is $10 billion for a million people, and what about the remaining $5 billion paid by the U.S. government?

After roughly calculating in his mind, Yang Yiwei knew that the $5 billion was definitely not enough, unless the $5 billion was only allocated to the CIA's action funds, and other expenses were calculated separately, which might be enough. But there must be gray income, if nothing else, let's just say that some branches of the CIA in Africa and other countries, if you check normally, these branches are some companies on track, and they all have their own businesses.

Seeing that Yang Yiwei understood, Lu Hongbing smiled and said: "And governments also need some smuggling channels to deal with some stolen goods, as well as dumping some goods, these countries in Africa are not ignorant of the way, but they can't help it, they can't afford to offend these European and American powers, they can only turn a blind eye, anyway, their government is secretly charging a part of the fee for filial piety." ”

"Well, I understand, but I really can't help this ore, in the future, Uncle Lu, you just need to let people come here on time every month to fish, this month is not the 600 tons we said was good, but 820 tons. All are standard cuboids 10 meters long, 2 meters high, and 2 meters wide. Yang Yiwei smiled and didn't say anything. (To be continued)