Chapter 129: The Port of Melbourne
Although he was speechless about Zhao Ran's behavior of "obviously carrying a special task with a five-star secrecy level but not caring about finding a restaurant first", Hao Shen still followed Zhao Ran out of the airport skillfully and called a taxi to go straight to a restaurant in Melbourne. Although his face was weird all the way.
This feeling is like when the world is about to be destroyed by the evil boss, a string of superheroes in fancy clothes are finally ready to work together to kill the boss and save the world, but before departure, a few people decide to go for a burger first, although I can't say, but there must be something weird.
But when he sat in a typical European restaurant, tied up a napkin, and watched the polite blonde waiter bring up a large lobster with a bare tail more than a foot long and abalone the size of a plate, the desire to complain instantly moved away from Hao Shen's brainβat this moment, he only had these lovely fragrant delicacies in his eyes.
"Authentic Australian lobster, authentic Australian abalone, if you put it in China, there is no two or three thousand that you can't come." Hao Shen sighed, a little awkward with a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, enjoying the juice and fat. At the same time, I glanced at the menu, the price of lobster is 124 yuan, the price of abalone is 30 yuan, plus side dishes and wine, and a local specialty roast kangaroo meat, a total of only more than 300 yuan. It's cheap to die for.
"In China, you can eat such a good lobster and abalone for 3,000 yuan? Dream on! Zhao Ran rolled his eyes, then pointed to the menu vigorously, and complained: "And where is it cheap?" You show me clearly, the unit behind it is not RMB, it is AUD! β
Hao Shen was stunned for a moment, and then quickly looked over, only to find that behind the string of numbers, it seems, probably, there is indeed a small symbol, and the bottom of the menu is clearly marked with the word Australian dollar in multi-Chinese words...... I seem to have seen a flying eye just now.
This made Hao Shen really embarrassed, and in embarrassment, he hurriedly stiffened his mouth, straightened his chest, and tried to make himself see more imposing, "That's ...... That's a lot cheaper, less than $2,000 for $300, which is cheap enough. β
Zhao Ran suddenly despised Hao Shen, and said in a slur voice: "It is because of people like you that there will be news that the toilet seat of the book has been snatched up by the Chinese." Hurry up and eat yours, and leave after eating! β
"Oh......" Hao Shen didn't dare to talk anymore, he lowered his head and pulled the food on his plate, only to feel that the knife and fork were awkward, so he simply threw the knife, picked up the spoon and pulled it into his mouth.
When the meal was over, the two hailed a car and headed straight for the port of Melbourne.
Located within Hobsons Bay on the southern coast of Victoria in southeastern Australia, the Port of Melbourne is Australia's largest modern port. Through this port, merchant ships from all over the world sell goods from all over the world, taking with them Melbourne, Australia's largest industrial city, a variety of products.
The Port of Melbourne itself is huge, with four to five large cargo terminals, and when cars drive on the highways outside the port area, you can clearly see the mountains of containers and tall lifting equipment from the car windows. Under the operation of busy dock workers, a large amount of cargo is constantly being handled. There is no shortage of these goods from China, Hao Shen has a good eye, and he can clearly see that a considerable number of containers have clear national flag patterns.
The place where Zhao Ran is going is a small port belonging to the Melbourne port area, and after getting out of the car, he can clearly see that there are many ships moored in the small port, most of which are relatively small, similar to the kind of offshore yachts. However, there are also a few large ships with ocean-going capabilities.
It was one of those ships that they were going to take on this trip.
Before coming, Zhao Ran had obviously arranged everything, so after the two entered the port, someone soon greeted them, and they opened their arms and smiled all over their faces: "Ha, Louis, God really bless you (God fu*k bless you?)" We haven't seen each other for two years since we parted from Libya! β
Hao Shen silently looked at this strong brown-haired man, to be honest, at first glance he almost thought that it was a brown bear standing up, but thanks to his forced resistance, even in Australia, which is known as a paradise for wild animals, there are no bears in the city.
But then again, Louis? Is this Zhao Ran's English name? Or is it the code name of her previous actions? Or is it a pseudonym used when you're away from home?
He looked at the other party's wide open arms, frowned imperceptibly, took a step forward, and stretched out his hand in advance, "Hey, hello buddy." β
This pure standard English surprised Zhao Ran, but thinking that Hao Shen could even translate into other languages at will, what was it about just English?
The brown bear man's movements were interrupted by Hao Shen, he first felt inexplicably wonderful, and then his face turned cold, "Who are you?" β
"Hi Feller, nice to meet you! Let me introduce you to this, this is my good friend. Zhao Ran stepped forward slowly and stretched out his hand. glanced at Hao Shen meaningfully by the way.
Hao Shen suddenly touched his nose and turned his head to look at the sky, wow, that cloud is so handsome, it looks like the author......
"Friends? Nor should that disturb our rare reunion. If I had before, I would have blown his head off! Feiler snorted and looked at Hao Shen with ill will.
"For my sake, don't bother with him." Zhao Ran smiled, but this sentence was in Chinese, which was said to Hao Shen.
Hao Shen shrugged and didn't say anything. How could he care about that? is just an ordinary person, if he has to clean up all the people who are disrespectful to him, then isn't his narrow-mindedness like the urban slap in the face of the hero?
"What did you say?" Feiler couldn't understand Chinese, and he thought that Zhao Ran was talking to him, and asked with a blank face.
"Nothing, I'll relay your warning for you." Zhao Ran shrugged his shoulders, changed to Chinese and continued to turn his head to Hao Shen and said: "This is Feiler, a friend of mine before, this time it is all up to him to help get ships and equipment, ostensibly a businessman, but in fact an arms dealer. β
"Wow!" Hao Shen exclaimed, and stared at Feiler curiously: it was the first time he had seen a living arms dealer, and he had always seen it in novels and TV before, and it seemed that he ...... It's very ordinary, although it looks strong, but there are only two systems for foreigners, either a big muscular man or a big fat man......
After the two sides got to know each other briefly, Zhao Ran went straight to the point, "Are the boats and equipment I want ready?" β
"It's all ready, don't forget who I am, if you want a train cannon, I can get it for you!" Fei Le suddenly seemed to be in high spirits, and as he spoke, he beckoned Zhao Ran to walk along a clean path towards the dock.
Hao Shen listened to it with a look of embarrassment, thinking that this product is really good at bragging, the train cannon thing is obviously a thing from the World War II period, even if there were not many countries that could afford to use it back then, who would still need that thing after the end of World War II? The remaining train guns are basically scrap metal, and it is too troublesome to maintain them when they are parked in the museum. You just said that it is much more credible to be able to get a nuclear bomb than a train gun.
This small port has a total of three piers, two of which are relatively small, and dozens of large and small fishing boats and pleasure boats are scattered along the wooden fences that extend along the shore, apparently belonging to the private boats of nearby fishermen and wealthy merchants. There were several large ships on board the largest pier, one of which had a noticeably much deeper waterline and was apparently already carrying a lot of supplies.
This steamer with a length of more than 30 meters is the ocean-going ship prepared by Feiler for Zhao Ran, it does not look very good overall, it seems to have been some years, and there are some mottled rust on the hull, which has obviously not been maintained for a long time.
At the bow of the ship, several somewhat illegible letters were scattered, and Hao Shen tilted his neck and looked at it for a long time before he recognized this string of words: fangs.
"There aren't many ships that can get to the South Pole this season, and this ship is the best I can find that hasn't been recorded, don't worry, it's very fast, faster than the Pearl, and it only takes four days to get you there." Fei Ler patted his chest and proudly introduced the ship to Zhao Ran.
"Yes." Zhao Ran nodded. "What about the other things? What about the snowmobile I want? β
"Didn't get it...... Luis, you know, I'm an arms dealer, snowmobiles are not in my business, and professional snowmobiles are not so easy to get, you give too little time......" Feller spread his hands and shrugged helplessly. When he saw Zhao Ran's face change, he hurriedly said: "But it's not that I didn't get it at all, I managed to contact several scientific research stations in Antarctica, and Davis Station is willing to transfer a professional Antarctic snowmobile, but they ask you to pick it up yourself, and the price is a bit high...... You know. β
"Well, money is not an issue. But in that case, the ship's destination is Davis Station? Zhao Ran frowned slightly, she pursed her lips and thought about it, and finally nodded, Davis Station is one of the earliest scientific research stations in Antarctica, known as the fourth station in Antarctica, the scale and equipment are very powerful, and a polar rover is nothing to them. And most importantly, Davis Station is just 150 kilometers away from their first Antarctic destination, Zhongshan Station.
"Well, to be exact, an abandoned whaling ground ten kilometers northeast of Davis Station, and this ship doesn't have permission to dock at Davis Station."
"Huh?" Zhao Ran was not calm now, she glared and said angrily: "You want me to walk ten kilometers on the snowfield in the conditions of the polar night?" Are you TM kidding me? β
"Don't worry, my dear, according to the current season, your landing site has not yet come to remember the ice, and under the guidance of GPS, Davis Station is like a torch to you." Feller shrugged, but he also knew that this was not done after all, and quickly pointed to several large boxes piled up on the dock and were about to be loaded onto the ship, "Look, this is compensation." I think that's enough to give you the confidence to walk on the Antarctic continent......"
Zhao Ran looked at the boxes, his face changed slightly, he walked over and kicked them open, and then his face suddenly turned black.
Hao Shen walked over with small steps, and then he was also a little blind.
Guess what he saw?
HE SAW TWO AKS, TWO M4s, A DOZEN PISTOLS, A SIX-BARRELED MACHINE GUN, TEN BOXES OF BULLETS, TWO BOXES OF GRENADES, THREE RPGs and ten rounds of matching ammunition, eight 107MM rockets, the most excessive of which were two Javelin missiles of the anti-tank model......
It's good, really, with everything from individual light weapons to heavy firearms of mass destruction, with this stuff you can almost fight a modern local war......
Hao Shen just had a thought, this product is really an arms dealer.