Chapter 1869 Billy is here too?
While everyone was searching for Xiao Peng in St. Petersburg, a Russian Be-12 seaplane belonging to the Northern Fleet, used for "ecological surveys," flew on an international flight route to Xiao Island in the southern Faroe Islands. This was a decision made by the 33 members of the Faroese Legislative Assembly to reward Xiao Peng with an island in gratitude for his rescue of the Faroese during the whaling ceremony.
From an outsider's perspective, the Faroese Legislative Assembly seems incredibly backward—after all, it's the world's oldest parliament, unchanged for millennia. But from the local perspective, it's a decision-making method that best reflects local values. Even though these "cabinet members" include prostitutes and fishing boat repairmen who appear to have little or no college education, the decisions they make are always in the best interests of the majority, and this is how they guide the Faroe Islands' development.
Just like the recent gift of an island to Xiao Peng, while it might seem like a disadvantage, the island itself was the private property of a family of "legislatives" from the Legislative Assembly. They gifted Xiao Peng an undeveloped, uninhabited island, and Xiao Peng spent a fortune on its construction. While the island itself was free, the cost of its construction exceeded 2 billion euros. Originally, the work was assigned to a Daxia construction company, but in the end, Daxia hired workers to do the construction. This significantly increased Xiao Peng's construction costs—labor here is truly expensive.
But in return, Daxia's 5G technology can enter the Faroe Islands and directly cover the entire island, and solve a large number of employment problems in the Faroe Islands - there are only about 50,000 people living in the entire Faroe Islands, and there are really not many job opportunities.
Xiao Peng didn't care about the extra money; to him, money was just a number. He was in the honeymoon phase of his relationship with China at the time, and he'd only considered this a resort for occasional vacations, never even dreaming of living here. But fate would play a trick on him; the place he'd once casually thrown money at became his "safe haven."
The Faroe Islands are like a public restroom—you can come and go as you please, with no one stopping you. There's no radar or navy, just a so-called "ocean fisheries patrol." Military defense relies solely on the Danish Navy.
As soon as he arrived near Xiao Island, Xiao Peng felt that the money he had invested there was well worth it. The island boasted a row of beautiful buildings and a large gravity dock where the New Calypso was docked, with another ship docked beside it.
When the island was being built, domestic construction companies went to great lengths to earn more money for the Faroe Islands. Originally, there was no docking space on the island, so Xiao Peng's ship had to anchor more than a nautical mile from shore and then transfer to a small boat for landing. However, the domestic engineering team used underwater blasting to create an artificial island, creating a dock for Xiao Peng! Now ships can dock directly on the shore.
Yes, this is very environmentally unfriendly and destroys the original seabed environment here, but there are not so many people playing the "environmental protection card" in the Faroe Islands.
If the Faroe Islands were not European, they would have been sprayed to death by those environmentalists long ago.
They are a thorn in the side of environmentalists, yet they are simply ignored: besides whales, the locals' favorite food is puffins, and people go out every day to catch them for food...
Kasin stood up and said, "Bruch, please move aside. The wind and waves here are strong and it will be difficult to land. I will do it."
Xiao Peng began to feel a headache as he watched the raindrops fall outside. The Faroe Islands were a classic example of a "warm winter, cool summer" climate. Winter temperatures hovered around 3 or 4 degrees Celsius, while summers were still around 10 degrees Celsius. Furthermore, since they were located along the path of low pressure, heavy rain and strong winds were commonplace. It rained for most of the year, and even when it didn't rain, it was overcast. Clear skies were practically nonexistent. This was why Xiao Peng hadn't wanted to come here in the first place.
But now? There was no other way, he needed a place to stay.
Bruch made way, and Kasin landed the plane directly outside the dock and then slid to the other side of the dock. Hua Chong and others heard the sound and came out in raincoats to fix the seaplane for Xiao Peng. The three people got off the plane. Xiao Peng sneezed as he walked out of the cabin door: This place is even colder than Russia!
"Hua Chong, did everything go smoothly when you came here?" Xiao Peng asked.
Hua Chong handed Xiao Peng an umbrella and said with a smile, "Boss, everything went smoothly. Those people were staring at you, not us. We've been having so much fun here that people thought we were traveling."
Xiao Peng nodded after hearing this and asked, "Whose boat is this?"
Kasin answered the question: "Boss, are you confused? Isn't this Billy's boat?"
Xiao Peng was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "Hey, what is Billy doing here?"
Hua Chong replied, "Boss, Billy brought a lot of people here."
Xiao Peng frowned upon hearing this. Who could Billy bring? The French, perhaps? It seemed he still couldn't stay quiet.
He began to secretly blame Fabian. It must be him who told Billy about his whereabouts.
But he didn't think much about it.
He believed that everything he needed to know about his whereabouts had been known since the moment he arrived. It was too difficult for someone like him to hide his tracks when being watched by someone with ulterior motives.
He wouldn't be afraid if he came here by himself. After all, this was the Faroe Islands, a country with a high degree of autonomy. Xiao Peng really didn't believe that a few major powers would just send nuclear bombs to flatten this place. Thinking of this, he felt more at ease. As they walked back, Xiao Peng asked, "Did Ma Xiao tell everyone what I said?"
Hua Chong nodded: "Of course!"
Xiao Peng asked, "So what do you all think? How many of you want to leave? This isn't a good place to live."
Hua Chong laughed and said, "Boss, why are we leaving? We haven't made enough money from you yet! But boss, are you sure you want to continue doing ocean salvage? How can we do our job when we're being watched so closely? Working on the high seas seems safe, but I don't know if the country will still recognize the national flag above our heads!"
Xiao Peng curled his lips and said, "You guys deserve to be exhausted! How can you survive without rest? You guys don't have to be trapped on this island like me. I'll pay you a year's salary, and you can do whatever you want. I'll see what the results are in a year, and then we'll decide how to develop in the future."
Hua Chong was amused after hearing this: "Boss, how do you know we won't take a break?"
"Huh? What are you doing?" Xiao Peng was stunned.
Hua Chong took two quick steps to the main building door and said to Xiao Peng, "Just rest!"
He opened the door and the room was full of people, including a bunch of pretty girls, all with their eyes fixed on Xiao Peng.
Billy came out: "Idol, do you like this party?"
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