Chapter 756 The climate here is not good

Marlene, who was listening to their conversation, asked in confusion, "Xiao, Branson is right. The money you've spent living here is enough to buy an island. Why don't you buy one? Life here is so comfortable!"

Xiao Peng curled his lips at Branson after hearing this. "We just came in a good season. It's really comfortable here in winter. Why don't you try it in the summer? Ask Branson what the weather is like here in the summer. I'm not trying to scare you, but with your steel-wire arms and your skinny face like a mung bean hammer, the wind can blow you straight up to the sky!"

When Branson heard Xiao Peng mention him, he didn't deny it. "I'm always worried every summer. The storms in the Caribbean are no joke. The villa we live in now is all rebuilt. In 2011, there was a hurricane here and the buildings were struck by lightning. All the original buildings were burned down. Thinking about it now, it's dangerous. My mother was here at the time. Fortunately, Kate Winslet helped my mother escape, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. When Princess Diana was alive, she was on vacation here and was also hit by a hurricane and had to evacuate."

Branson spoke in a normal tone when he said it, but when you listen to the person he was talking about, Princess Diana and Winters from Titanic… coming from him, this connection sounded as normal as an ordinary neighbor.

What Xiao Peng lacks compared to these celebrities now is not money; he is even richer than Branson! What they lack is connections.

Connections cannot be made up for simply by money; they require time and the exchange of interests to accumulate slowly.

"So scary?" Marlene stuck out her tongue.

Branson said, "Marin, I'm relatively safe here. After all, no matter how strong a hurricane is, it can't blow my island away. Xiao, on the other hand, spends all day drifting on the sea, and the nature of his job often takes him to uncharted waters. That's the real danger. But that's a man's romance."

"Is it really that dangerous?" Marlene turned to look at Xiao Peng after hearing this.

Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "It's not as exaggerated as Branson said. After all, the weather satellite on our ship is not just for decoration, right?"

Branson said: "If weather satellites could solve all problems, there would be no shipwrecks in the world."

Xiao Peng laughed and said, "Branson, you're planning on letting me retire, right?"

Branson said, "Xiao, I didn't say that. A few days ago, the directors of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum contacted me and wanted me to introduce them to you. As for their purpose... they wanted to cooperate with you. They actually wanted to come to Necker Island, but I refused. After all, you are on vacation now, right?"

Xiao Peng said, "Branson, we are friends, so I won't hide anything from you. Even if I'm not on vacation, I don't want to cooperate with the museums in your country."

"Why?" Branson asked, puzzled. "Isn't this a win-win situation for both sides?"

Xiao Peng smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that if I cooperate with them, someone will dig up my ancestral grave!"

Britain, once the "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets," plundered the world. 90% of the nations on the planet have been at war with Britain. 99.99% of the artifacts in British museums today are the product of that era's plunder.

And there is one particularly terrible thing, that is, almost all of the famous legacy conflicts in the world today were caused by the British, such as the "India-Pakistan conflict", "African unrest", "Hong Kong riots", "border conflict between China and India"... These historical issues were all caused by the British without exception!

Of course, the people who were most hurt by the British were actually the Europeans: Britain's diplomatic goal has never changed in the past five hundred years, which is to create a divided Europe. During these five hundred years, they united with the Netherlands to deal with Spain, united with Germany to deal with France, united with France and Italy to deal with Germany, united with France to deal with Germany and Italy, instigated Germany to deal with France, instigated France to fight Italy, and instigated Italy to fight against the Netherlands... In short, there has never been a moment of peace.

After finally joining the EU, people were still lamenting that the UK had finally come to its senses. Only to look back and discover that the UK had played a trick of "internal destruction." It joined the EU but refused to join the Schengen Agreement, and refused to use the euro, insisting on using the British pound. After playing around for a few years, it withdrew again...

When the UK said it wanted to leave the EU, the EU didn't try to persuade it to stay and just waved its handkerchiefs to say goodbye: You can't afford to mess with such a troublemaker.

Of course, this is not to say that the British have no advantages at all. There is one thing about them that makes people have to admit: although they have fought wars with most countries in the world, it seems that apart from the French, not many people hate them.

Just like China, which was actually the worst victim of the British, from hundreds of years ago to the present day, but many Chinese people today hate the Americans and Japan but not the British. Not only do they not hate them, they are even full of yearning for Britain.

Perhaps this is because the British have such good control over the media that when people mention Britain, the first thing that comes to mind is "gentlemen" and "ladies" rather than "number one in rape rate"...

Seeing Branson didn't understand what he meant, Xiao Peng explained, "Right now, Britain probably has the most shipwrecks in the world, and there's also endless wealth on the seabed. But I really don't want to deal with British ships: British ships, even pirate ships, fly the 'Royal' flag, which means that anything salvaged belongs to Britain according to salvage regulations. It was the British who spearheaded the International Salvage Convention. You guys are all trying to take advantage of others rather than suffer any loss. I'm not in the habit of being a fool. This is also the reason why I don't salvage in the Atlantic."

"What if you found a British shipwreck?" Branson asked.

Xiao Peng grinned and said, "Everyone knows I'm the most disciplined salvor. My mother left me a saying, 'Don't eat anything poisonous, and don't do anything illegal.' So, a disciplined salvor like me will just ignore the British ship and not salvage it. I'm not short of money anyway, so I won't cause trouble for myself."

Xiao Peng spoke in a sanctimonious manner, but in his heart he was thinking something else: "Not taking any money? The one who doesn't take any money is your grandson! This is how I make a living!"

He was still trying to put on an image, but Branson said, "Xiao, if that's the case, you should think about your circle of friends!"

"Branson, what do you mean?" Xiao Peng asked in confusion.

Branson replied, "Many of your friends who come to the Cook Islands are drug users. Those two guys who were fighting just now were obviously high on drugs."

Xiao Peng's face darkened: "What did you say?"