Chapter 1645 The risks at sea are high
When Albrecht came to his senses, he was already standing in the open space outside the restaurant. He was now confused: Who am I? Where am I? How did I get out?
He turned around and saw Xiao Peng putting on his fur coat. At this time, Kasin also ran out of the restaurant with Van der Laupe. After a while, he saw people running out of the hotel one after another.
Everyone could feel the ground shaking, it looked like it was really an earthquake!
Albrecht finally came to his senses and turned to look at Xiao Peng: "You dragged me out?"
Xiao Peng nodded and said, "Nonsense, there's an earthquake and you don't run away quickly? Are you courting death if you run too slowly?"
Albrecht was about to speak when the ground shook violently again. He quickly hugged a nearby tree. The shaking lasted for several minutes before it stopped.
"Is it over?" Albrecht asked, letting go of his hand.
Xiao Peng lit a cigarette and said calmly, "How should I know? Let's wait and see if the shaking feels like that for a while and see if it's an aftershock or something else."
Albrecht looked at the panicked people around him and sighed, "Xiao, you guys reacted too quickly, didn't you? Before anyone else knew what was going on, you two had already run out?"
Xiao Peng smiled bitterly and said, "It's all a skill I've learned through practice."
Albrecht was stunned: "Do you often encounter earthquakes?"
"Ugh!" Xiao Peng said, "You're such a pessimist, aren't you? You often encounter earthquakes! This is the first time!"
"So, what skills have you mastered?" Albrecht held out his hand and said, "Give me some smoke to calm me down. That was too scary just now!"
Xiao Peng handed him a cigarette and lit it for him before saying, "Do you think I just found a shipwreck at sea and made a fortune by salvaging it?"
Albrecht said, "That's true! At most, we'll have some trouble finding the coordinates of the sunken ship. Your crew is full of experienced sailors with strong skills, so it shouldn't be a problem."
Xiao Peng smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Albrecht, you've only seen the thieves eat meat, but never seen the thieves get beaten. We're truly risking our lives on the sea! Kasim, tell Albrecht, why did I beat you up?"
Kasin blinked: "Boss, you beat me too many times. Which time are you talking about?"
Xiao Peng's face was filled with black lines: "If you keep talking nonsense, you will be beaten again!"
Kasin quickly said, "Oh, I remember now! I remember now! Are you talking about the time we fished out the obsidian?"
"Obsidian?" Albrecht asked in confusion.
Kasin nodded and said, "It turns out our boss discovered a natural obsidian vein in the Mediterranean. His friend makes obsidian jewelry, so he asked us to go and fish it out for him. And when we went there, we got beaten up."
"Explain it to me clearly, don't treat me like a tyrant!" Xiao Peng said.
Kasim coughed dryly. "Well, there was a lot of obsidian debris on the deck, and I was helping the sailors wash it down with the fire pump. There were some large debris that the fire water couldn't flush down, so we used shovels to shovel it out. As a result, my boss beat us up for every last one of them."
Albrecht looked at Xiao Peng with a puzzled expression. Why do you hit people when your crew members love their work so much?
Xiao Peng kicked Kaxin in the butt. "I told you not to tell the whole story. Why didn't you mention there was a thunderstorm? What were you guys doing on the deck with shovels? Were you trying to imitate Benjamin Franklin flying a kite?"
As a result, Kasim covered his buttocks and said with an aggrieved look: "Boss, didn't you say that the story of Franklin flying a kite was false?"
Xiao Peng choked, and when he came to his senses, he raised his hand and slapped Kaxin's head fiercely: "I taught you to be stubborn! I taught you to be stubborn!"
So everyone watched Xiao Peng chasing Kaxin all over the field.
Xiao Peng did tell them that the story of Franklin flying a kite was also fabricated. There was no written record proving that Franklin ever conducted such a kite-flying experiment. Nor did Franklin ever claim to have done so.
The earliest source of this story is a man named Joseph Priestley, who said that Franklin told him the details of the experiment verbally, and he first recounted the experiment in 1767.
This year is crucial. By then, Franklin was no longer just a physicist but a politician. He was considered a hero by the American public for repealing the British Stamp Act in 1766. Consequently, all the stories that deified him occurred during that period.
So did Franklin actually fly a kite?
Experiment is the only criterion for testing truth. In 2003, historian Tom Tucker made kites according to the materials of that era and repeatedly repeated Franklin's "kite experiment", but he was not successful every time.
Of course, regardless of whether Franklin conducted this experiment or not, looking at the lightning protection facilities on high-rise buildings today cannot erase his great contribution to mankind in the study of lightning.
Albrecht looked at this scene and asked Van der Laupe, "Van der Laupe, why don't you go and try to persuade them?"
Van der Laupe spread his hands and said, "This seems to be the most normal thing. Kasin has been teetering on the edge of death."
"Is he a fool?" Albrecht asked the most confusing question in his mind.
Van der Laupe said, "He's not stupid! Our boss is incredibly strong. He practices with my boss every day. Although he can't beat my boss, he says that after practicing with my boss, all opponents are no match for him. How dare he challenge the UFC champion now?"
"Then why doesn't he go?" Albrecht asked.
Van der Laupe smiled slightly. "He said the money was low."
"Well……"
At this time, Xiao Peng also stopped chasing Kaxin: Although Kaxin was as strong as a bear, he climbed to the top of a cedar tree as nimbly as a monkey. Xiao Peng couldn't climb a tree to beat him, right?
"You kid, if you have the guts, don't come down!" Xiao Peng staggered back to Albrecht.
Albrecht asked curiously, "Xiao, how can you be struck by lightning at sea?"
Xiao Peng smiled bitterly and said, "Albrecht, everyone thinks we have it easy at sea. I have such a luxurious yacht and such a powerful offshore vessel, but you don't know how dangerous the sea is. Not to mention the violent storms, have you ever seen a tornado at sea? We've encountered four! As for being struck by lightning? Haha, the 'Calypso' was struck by lightning no less than fifteen times! The 'Luna' no less than ten times!"
Albrecht was stunned after hearing this: "Are you going to the sea for excitement? That's too dangerous, isn't it?"
Xiao Peng shook his head. "Many ocean-going ships have been struck by lightning. It's not that dangerous, after all. A ship at sea acts as a natural Faraday cage, and there are lightning protection devices on board that can divert the current from the ship's surface into the sea. But sometimes it can cause significant damage. In fact, the Calypso was always operating while damaged."
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