Chapter 202 Silver Obsidian

Jenny held the obsidian that Xiao Peng had fished out and said, "Xiao, take a look at this obsidian."

Xiao Peng took the obsidian and looked at it for a long time before saying, "Obsidian that glows white?"

"This is the so-called 'silver obsidian', which contains silver ore. However, ordinary 'silver obsidian' is not as bright as yours, which means that the silver content is very high." Jenny said.

Xiao Peng shrugged and said, "So what? Extracting silver from this? Come on, no matter how high its silver content is, it's not enough. If the silver content was really high, it should be silver ore instead of obsidian. Don't be fooled by its white appearance; in fact, the silver content is not high. If you take all the obsidian out, you can only extract one or two tons of silver at most, which is not enough to cover the cost."

Jenny's face was filled with gloom. "You mean extracting silver? I mean this obsidian! Do you know how much this piece of obsidian can sell for? It could fetch hundreds of euros! If it's processed into jewelry, the price can be several times higher! My husband is in the jewelry business, so I'm pretty good at this kind of thing!"

Xiao Peng spread his hands and said, "So what? You want to mine the obsidian ore below? Although it's not difficult to mine, believe me, this place will probably be controlled for a long time. And you know about obsidian, you can't guarantee that a large area of obsidian will be of this quality. Maybe I just came across this small piece."

Jenny blinked: "Xiao, can you let me use your diving suit to go down and take a look?"

Xiao Peng shook his head: "It's really not possible here."

Jenny looked disappointed after hearing this.

"Xiao, this is really the best obsidian I have ever seen! Now that we have seen it, we shouldn't miss it, right?" Blair came over, and Lisa was holding the live camera on the side.

Xiao Peng thought for a moment and said, "Well, Walter, you and Khedira can help weld an iron basket. There's a welding machine on the boat."

Khedira spread his hands and said, "Boss, I know there are welding machines on the ship, but you need iron bars to weld iron baskets, right? There shouldn't be these things on the ship, right?"

"Who said there aren't any?" Xiao Peng pointed to the deck next to him and said, "There are stainless steel pipes underneath. Sailing ships are always in need of ropes and stainless steel pipes. If all else fails, we can just remove the railings from the side of the ship and reinstall new ones at the dock later."

Khedira lifted the deck after hearing this: "That's enough! No need to remove the guardrail! I can do it myself! Boss, don't forget to help me place the bet!"

The last sentence he said was addressed to Walter.

Xiao Peng frowned. "Brother, I think there's a rule against gambling in our work guidelines, right?"

Walter said: "Boss, don't be nervous, we strictly abide by the work rules! We don't go out to gamble, we just gamble for fun among ourselves. Don't you want to come and bet?"

"What are you betting on?" Xiao Peng asked in confusion.

Walter said, "Let's bet on who will be the next president of the United States! Boss, do you want to place a bet too?"

Xiao Peng scoffed at this. "It doesn't benefit me whoever is chosen, so why would I care? Regardless of who wins, there's bound to be a big commotion. The smart ones should prepare food and drink, hide at home, and stay safe. That's the most important thing."

"Boss, don't be so boring!" Walter said, "Place a bet. Guess who it is? The results are only a few states away!"

Xiao Peng shook his head. "It's boring. I don't want to gamble. Just finish the work quickly."

The election of the president of the United States is a very interesting thing. It does not depend on which candidate has the most supporters who will become president, but on the number of states won.

The United States is a federal country consisting of 50 states. Each state has different voting rights. For example, California has 55 votes, Texas has 34 votes, Pennsylvania has 21 votes, and so on. First, each state counts the number of votes supporting the candidate.

For example, if there are a total of 2,010,000 votes in California, and one candidate gets 1,000,000 votes and another candidate gets 1,000,000 votes, then the person with one more vote will win all 55 votes in California.

In the last US presidential election, more than 57% of voters nationwide supported Hillary Clinton, but she still lost the election in the end: although she had many supporters, she lost votes in several key states.

It is said that Hillary Clinton did not understand this point back then. Before the presidential election, her polls were still far ahead, so she posted a tweet with a photo of herself as a child and the text: "Happy birthday to the future president."

Everyone knows the result: Hillary Clinton lost the election, and this tweet is dug up every year to "lash out at her."

Pascal walked out of the cabin and saw Khedira welding the iron frame. He asked in confusion, "Xiao, what are you doing?"

Xiao Peng said, "I'll go down again and bring them some obsidian."

Pascal complained, "What's so good about obsidian? Aren't there tons of it on the seabed?"

"It can be considered a souvenir!" Xiao Peng said.

Not long after, the iron basket was welded and installed on the winch and thrown directly into the sea. Xiao Peng put on the heavy diving suit again and went into the sea. This time it didn't take long and the metal basket was soon filled.

Xiao Peng was not in a hurry to go up. He only returned to the boat after repeating it three times.

Women are greedy, and he doesn't want Jenny to let him down after he goes up.

Even after he did that, Jenny still wasn't satisfied. She seemed to be hoping Xiao Peng would go down a dozen more times. After all, what they pulled up was high-quality silver obsidian. Such obsidian was hard to find on land.

Unfortunately, the oxygen in the oxygen tanks had been used up, and now no one on the boat could go out to sea. Jenny wanted to take advantage of the submarine mining site, but Xiao Peng rejected her idea without hesitation: he had signed a confidentiality agreement with the Spanish side.

In fact, even if this obsidian mine was discovered by Spain, he was not worried that Spain would be interested in it.

There are too many obsidian mines on the seabed of the Mediterranean. To them, this is a useless stone. Even if it is the "silver obsidian" that jewelers are interested in, they have to salvage it to know it. Who would have the time to bring this thing up?

Therefore, this 'Silver Obsidian' will belong to Xiao Peng sooner or later.

But Xiao Peng really doesn't like this thing!

No matter how expensive obsidian is, it is still obsidian.

Pascal asked, "Xiao, when are we going to report our findings back?"

"What do you mean?" Xiao Peng asked back.

Pascal coughed dryly and said, "Of course, the longer the better. I want to keep that old bastard busy at sea for a while longer. The longer he's busy, the greater his investment!"

Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Okay, then we'll stay a little longer until Fabian has sorted out all the troubles before we go back!"

"It's settled!"