Chapter 179 I Want to Drink Champagne as Beer
The crane pulled the cable net out of the water. Cabaye and Varane each held the cable with one hand, motioning for Dio to retrieve the crane. Everyone gathered on the aft deck, watching the crane lower the cable net onto the deck.
After untying the cable net, there was a broken box inside. The white metal inside the box shone brightly under the sunlight.
"Oh my God!" Moreau exclaimed. "This light is too bright! It blinded my eyes!"
Xiao Peng was also very happy: "Hahahaha, once we verify the purity of this batch of rhodium, we will become rich!"
Moro said, "That doesn't even need verification. Do you think the rhodium used by the military could be of a lower purity? Look at the color! Damn it! It's the sheer power of the nation! Rhodium is usually dispersed throughout various ores and rarely forms large aggregates. How easy is it to produce such a large piece?"
Xiao Peng bent down and took the large piece of rhodium out of the box, then waved and said, "Weigh it!"
As a result, several people looked at each other and asked: "Boss, what do you want to use?"
Xiao Peng was dumbfounded. He had prepared everything for the salvage this time, but he hadn't prepared a scale!
Pascal said, "We prepared enough supplies for a month at sea, and it only took three hours to get everything done?"
Moro said, "This shows the importance of accurate positioning! Boss, you are so strong!"
Pascal said, "Let's talk about flattery later. Fabian, what are you standing there for? Open the wine!"
Xiao Peng frowned: "Have you ever seen rhodium? It's a pity Xu Xingde is not here. He is a geology expert, otherwise he would be able to confirm whether this is rhodium or not."
Fabian said after hearing this: "Why do we need Xu Xingde here? You help me hold the wine!"
Xiao Peng took the champagne and saw Fabian running back to the cabin. Not long after, Fabian ran out holding something that looked like a military laptop.
"What is this?" Xiao Peng asked puzzledly.
Fabian plopped down on the floor, opened his laptop, and said, "A portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. Different elements can produce different secondary characteristic fluorescence radiation under the excitation of primary X-rays. Then, by analyzing the fluorescence spectrum, we can conclude what this is... Let's take a look, let's take a look... It's rhodium!"
Everyone on the boat cheered together.
With a bang, Xiao Peng opened the champagne. He shook it vigorously for a long time and sprayed it all over everyone: "We're rich! Everyone who comes out this time will get a bonus!"
"Long live!" Everyone cheered together.
There is nothing more satisfying than getting money!
Xiao Peng took a big sip of champagne from the bottle: "Where are the glasses? Let's share!"
Moro brought out a paper cup: "It's a pity there are no champagne glasses, so we can only use paper cups instead!"
Caballe eagerly took a sip of champagne, closing his eyes as he savored the flavor. "I can still tolerate such blasphemy! Damn, this is too good to be true!"
Xiao Peng put on sunglasses and lit a cigar. "Slut! Champagne! Cigar! Sunglasses! These are the must-haves for showing off! Fabian! I'm going to drink champagne like beer later!"
"Your proposal is very creative, very much like the upstarts' usual style, but I like it!" Fabian clinked his glasses with Xiao Peng and said, "I'll contact the Italian side right now to inform them of the discovery of the shipwreck."
Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, let's go to Spanish territorial waters first."
"Go find S-80?" Fabian knew what Xiao Peng wanted to do.
Xiao Peng nodded and said, "That's right."
"Then where are you going to find it?" Fabian asked puzzledly.
Xiao Peng waved at Moro, who handed him a map of the Mediterranean. Xiao Peng pointed at the map and said, "It's also near the Balearic Islands, but it's near Menorca."
Fabian frowned. "Xiao, the S-80's last recorded communication was between Ibiza and Mallorca in the Balearic Islands. Those searching for the ship are now concentrating their search on the Bay of Valencia, north of the two islands, between Valencia and Barcelona. This is the S-80's scheduled route, and it's also an area of concern for the Spanish. Why are we searching in a different direction?"
Xiao Peng explained, "Remember the information I asked you to get? It stated that there's a summer ocean current in the Strait of Gibraltar that runs from southwest to northeast along the western Balearic Islands. We now have two choices. Either we join the other seven ocean exploration organizations and go to the Bay of Valencia to sift the seabed with sonar, or we go to Menorca to confirm my hypothesis."
Fabian thought for a long time and then said, "Xiao, although you are the captain and have the final say, but with all due respect, the route you chose is close to the Cabrera Marine Reserve in Spain. Diving there requires extensive paperwork."
He gestured to Xiao Peng as he spoke.
Xiao Peng said, "How about we go find Patachi and Fernandez?"
Fabian said, "We could certainly contact them, but the Spanish would certainly come aboard to inspect our ship after our work was complete. What would they do with the rhodium? Don't expect the Spanish to resist their greed in the face of such valuables. But if we were to announce our findings now, the Italians would surely rush over to grab a piece of the action. It would even be a question of whether we could even bring the rhodium back. With such a vast fortune, what's the point of saving face?"
Xiao Peng fell silent for a moment. After a moment, he called out, "Duan Bo, how's your work going? If it's finished, we'll return to Marseille to announce the salvage results and then move on to the next phase of work!"
Duan Bo's voice rang out from the cabin: "Boss Xiao, it's almost time. I'll have the 'Super Box Jellyfish' return home in a moment! I've made a discovery!"
"Discovery? Okay, let's talk about it when we come up later." Xiao Peng didn't care after hearing it. He thought it was a discovery about hot springs.
Walter on the side asked in confusion: "Boss, is deep-sea salvage so troublesome? Can't you hide these rhodiums?"
Several people nearby looked at Xiao Peng together, and their eyes showed that they had the same question.
"Come with me!" Xiao Peng brought them into the cockpit, opened a drawer, and took out a stack of documents five centimeters thick.
"These are the documents we need to go through for this salvage operation. These are the official Italian license documents, the official Sicilian license documents, the Sicilian court license documents, and our company's qualification documents... These are the identity documents for all of you... Are there any more documents you need to look at?" Xiao Peng put the documents back in the drawer. "Every salvage operation requires such a large number of procedures. We have to thank Fabian for handling this matter so well! Otherwise, none of you would be qualified to come along! As for what you said about secretly selling rhodium? Sorry, I don't want to go to jail yet!"
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