Chapter 331: I can afford a car but I can’t afford gas
Xiao Peng was obviously in a bad mood when he left the 'Calysop'.
Why did Chen Cheng confront him? What about the trust between people?
Now that Chen Cheng has revealed his identity, Xiao Peng has no choice but to give them an explanation. If it were like the beginning, where you don't say anything and I don't ask, and everyone pretends to be ignorant, wouldn't that be great?
Xiao Peng and the Cousteau brothers can talk nonsense about the "Book of Changes" and the "Tuibei Tu" because they don't understand Chinese culture, but they can't use this method on people who come from the Chinese Navy.
Once a person tells a lie, they usually make up for it with more lies. In the end, Xiao Peng could only "sincerely" confess his "criminal experience" to Chen Cheng.
He told Chen Cheng that he actually had connections with some European cultural relic smuggling rings, and that those rings would contact Xiao Peng to help launder their artifacts, and in return, they would help Xiao Peng find shipwrecks. There was a smuggling ring's ship in the Sea of Marmara, and they had helped Xiao Peng obtain those artifacts.
Xiao Peng didn't know whether Chen Chengxin believed him, but what was certain was that Xiao Peng was quite skilled at lying.
Many ocean exploration companies have close ties with museums, auction houses, and cultural relic smuggling rings. If Xiao Peng said he had no connections with smuggling rings, Chen Cheng would not believe him.
The smuggling of cultural relics is very common in any country in the world, and museums, auction houses and ocean exploration companies are all important means of laundering cultural relics. Many ocean exploration companies are simply established by cultural relic smugglers themselves. They use the guise of ocean salvage to put their smuggled cultural relics on the market through museums or auction houses. This is all part of the process of cultural relic laundering.
It was quite reasonable for Xiao Peng to explain Chen Cheng's doubts by using a fictitious smuggling group.
As for whether he believes it or not, it’s none of Xiao Peng’s business. You can investigate it yourself!
Xiao Peng had no choice but to explain all this to Chen Cheng.
If only Hua Chong, Yang Zhibin and others came, Xiao Peng would not think it mattered. They came from the deep-sea diving base. Although they might have some military purposes, they would not make things difficult for Xiao Peng. However, Chen Cheng and others came from the mobile rescue squadron, which meant that Xiao Peng was being targeted by the military.
trouble!
Xiao Peng really wanted to live like the ones in the online novels, such as "The God of War returned home to find his five-year-old daughter living in a doghouse, and at a command, 100,000 soldiers rushed to attack", "The God of War was forced to divorce, and the richest men in various countries immediately took photos of their daughters flying over to propose, leaving his ex-wife stunned". ... But this is impossible.
Life is like a game of chess. Once you're in it, you must follow the rules. No matter how strong you are, you're still just one person!
Xiao Peng has begun to seriously consider retirement. It feels really uncomfortable to be stared at like this!
When he saw Fabian after returning to the hotel, he was a little confused: "Is this guy stupid? Why did he find another girl?"
When he came back, Fabian was lying by the swimming pool, chatting and laughing with a blonde beauty. What a jerk!
Walter explained: "This time it was his online friend. We met on Facebook."
Xiao Peng was stunned: "How did you know?"
Walter shrugged: "Didn't you tell us to work hard? So I checked it carefully. What? Do you need me to call him?"
Xiao Peng waved his hand: "Let him have his fun. Just don't let him run into any more traps."
Then Bruch behind him said: "This girl is not a good person either."
"Ah?" Xiao Peng turned around and looked at Bruch: "What do you mean?"
"Khedira investigated the girl. The girl's name is Ira Podkopayeva and she works as a cashier at a fitness center in Kiev," said Bruch.
Xiao Peng was stunned. "Can a fitness center cashier be in a five-star hotel? Is this a rich second generation?"
Bruch laughed and said, "What kind of rich second generation is this? A professional fisherman for rich men."
After hearing this, Xiao Peng looked at the girl a few more times and said, "I can't see anything special about her."
Bruch explained: "She has her own way. Her method of catching rich men is basically through the Internet. She searches Facebook when she has nothing to do. Then she finds a rich and handsome man, finds his workplace, puts on beautiful clothes, goes to his workplace, takes all kinds of beautiful photos, uploads them to Facebook, and then sends a friend request to the rich and handsome man. The rich and handsome man will find that the place where the girl took the photos is exactly where he works, and then the two of them will chat and open up various topics. And then... "
"Wait!" Xiao Peng interrupted Bruch. "Fabian lives and works in Marseille. Do you think this girl would go to Marseille specifically to take some photos just to hook a rich man?"
Bruch laughed. "Boss, there's a program called Photoshop! If you want, I can even get you some photos of Saturn. This Podkopayeva has hooked countless men this way. All of them rich. She has two boyfriends in Kiev now, so it seems she's got even bigger appetites. I took the train from Kiev last night and came here to find Fabian."
Xiao Peng gave a thumbs up: "That's really awesome. Every profession has its own expertise. You can tell you're a professional... Huh? How do you know all this?"
Bruch spread his hands and said, "Khedira used to work in intelligence for a long time. It's easy for you to ask him to look up some information like this. He has already found the identities of Khedira's six ex-boyfriends."
He looked quite smug when he said it, but Xiao Peng got anxious after hearing it: "Damn, with this skill, it wasn't hard for you to come out? Are you trying to deal with me? Hmm? Tell me the truth, have you investigated me?"
"That's our employer, of course we..." Before Bruch could finish his words, he heard Walter coughing over there.
Bruch also came to his senses: "Of course we can't investigate our own boss!"
Xiao Peng looked disgusted after hearing this: "I shook my head to show that I believed your nonsense! Bruch, warn Fabian. This idiot should stop making a fool of himself! Walter, call Pascal and let's go to 'Seven Kilometers' again!"
"What are you going there for?" Walter asked puzzledly.
Xiao Peng said with a smile, "How about buying a tank for fun? Let's drive a tank to Kiev!"
Walter was not surprised when he heard this: "Boss, these tanks consume about two imperial gallons of fuel per mile. Are you sure you want to drive the tanks to Kiev?"
Xiao Peng's smile froze on his face. One imperial gallon equals 4.54 liters, and a mile is 1,609 meters. Nine liters of gas for three miles? What a petrol-guzzling ancestor!
Moreover, since the deterioration of relations between Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine's original cheap energy has disappeared. Now the price of oil in Ukraine is much higher than that in China. Driving a tank from here to Kyiv? The oil price is enough for him to buy two tanks!
This is what it means to be able to afford a car but not be able to fill up the gas!
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