Originally planning to leave Jakarta for New York in the next two days, Zhu Yu had to stay here for a while.
During this period, he rented the Starfish yacht again, and after two days, he arrived at his own island.
There is no pier on the island, and yachts cannot dock. Zhu Yu and Ran Jie can only row a rubber boat to the island.
The entire large island is spindle-shaped, running in a long strip from southeast to northwest.
There is an upward slope from the seaside, and there is only a beach the size of half a football field where Zhu Yu currently docks his rubber boat.
The island is dominated by stone mountains, which are covered with unknown shrubs. There are no flowers and fruits in sight, and it may not be in time.
"This island... is really not that good." Ran Jie clicked his tongue, "Without a beach, we can't build a house. There's probably a typhoon nearby, so there won't be much done on this beach."
Zhu Yu pointed to the high mountain and said:
"I want to bulldoze all the rocks on this mountain and throw them into the sea. Then build an airport and build a few more floors. Then it can be used."
Although Ran Jie had heard Zhu Yu say it before, looking at such a large island and thinking about the massive amount of work Zhu Yu mentioned, Ran Jie suddenly shook his head.
"How about it? When you make money in the future, you will also buy an island and we will all be the owners of the island?" Zhu Yu beguiled Ran Jie.
The money has been divided, giving Chen Yonghao US$30 million and Ran Jie three US$2.5 million each.
The gold cakes haven't actually been sold yet, but they don't take up much space if they are placed in the space.
Although Ran Jie and the other three didn't say anything, Zhu Yu was still a little worried about them leaving and going back to become a rich man.
I wasn't worried before, but now I would be lying if I said I wasn't worried. If contentment is a legacy left by our ancestors, maybe the three of them figured it out - or maybe they couldn't figure it out?
"We won't buy it. After your island is finished, boss, leave some land for us and we can build a small courtyard." Ran Jie said with a smile.
"That's no problem!" Zhu Yu readily agreed.
After standing on the coast for a while, Zhu Yu found that there was really nothing interesting to see here. There was not even a seafood on the beach, and there were no wild animals in the mountains.
"Let's go, this is it." When he came here, he was excited. After arriving here, Zhu Yu's eyes were full of disappointment. He just hoped that it would look better after the island was bulldozed and took shape.
"Boss, let's take a look." Ran Jie's interest was still very high, "This island is private property! I think we should take more photos anyway?" After Ran Jie said this, Zhu Yu thought it was okay.
While climbing around the island and taking photos, Zhu Yu subconsciously opened his eyes.
There are still rocks under the rocks, and occasionally there are some minerals, but they are not large-scale at all.
Zhu Yu's disappointment became more and more obvious.
I can only comfort myself. Stones can be used anyway, and the area can be expanded in reclamation.
By the time they reached the back of the island, almost an hour had passed. Just when Zhu Yu was about to ask Ran Jie to leave, his eyes suddenly lit up!
There seems to be a real mine below here!
A thin golden mineral line extends all the way!
This is a gold mine!
Although it is just a mining line, Zhu Yu can definitely confirm that there is a gold mine below!
He gave up the idea of leaving. First, he wanted to see what the gold mine's reserves were and whether it was suitable for mining.
The mining line appeared about one and a half meters from the stone and continued diagonally downward along the folds of the terrain.
Further down, five or six meters away, multiple mining lines appeared, forming a mining surface.
Zhu Yu simply continued walking along the mining line, and then he encountered a small stream - he suddenly became happy again.
There is Danshui on this island, which is very good! No problem staying here!
Then he squatted down again and started searching in the creek.
Ran Jie looked at Zhu Yu's movements a little strange, followed him and asked:
"Boss, what are you looking for? Creek crab? That thing is too small..."
"No. Look at this." Zhu Yu stretched out his hand and wiped it in the stream, then stretched it out in front of Ran Jie.
"Is this...gold?" Ran Jie looked at it and was stunned for a moment, then blurted out - "Is there a gold mine here?"
"Eighty percent yes." Zhu Yu said with a smile, "It's not a loss at all. With this mine, I won't be at a loss if I buy this island."
Ran Jie looked up at Zhu Yu, feeling extremely strange.
Obviously I spent a lot of money to buy a waste island. Who would have thought that there is a gold mine on this island?
Is this good reward for good people?
Or did his boss have foresight?
Shouldn't it? It was obviously Zhu Yu's first time on this island. Is it possible to predict the future?
Zhu Yu saw Ran Jie's thoughts and said with a proud smile:
"Maybe my good deed will be rewarded?"
He stopped talking to Ran Jie and walked down the stream. As he went down, he found that the area of the gold mine became larger. Occasionally, he could see golden melon seeds appearing in the sand of the stream.
When he got close to the mouth of the sea, Zhu Yu suddenly stopped, found a stick from the side and started digging. After a while, he dug out a piece of irregular-shaped natural gold as big as a palm!
Ran Jie, who followed, thought this was really amazing!
Is this place reserved specifically for your own boss?
Zhu Yu excitedly held the piece of natural gold - let's call it rabbit head gold, not as big as a dog's head, and walked back.
This island is worth buying!
It was already noon when we returned to the yacht, so he canceled his original plan. Zhu Yu said to rest, eat, and spend the night here before going back.
Cao Dalong has already gone to the sea to catch some seafood. At this moment, Qin Fei is stewing, Cao Dalong is cooking, and Zhu Yu and Ran Jie are resting.
"Boss, look what this is?" Cao Dalong excitedly held up a small object to show to Zhu Yu.
"This is... red coral?" Zhu Yu looked at the bright red thing shaped like antlers and blurted out, "Where did it come from?"
Natural red coral is an organic gemstone with pleasant color and shiny texture. It grows in the deep sea 100 to 2000 meters away from humans.
It is listed as one of the three major organic gemstones along with pearls and amber. It is also listed as one of the Seven Treasures in Eastern Buddhist scriptures. It has been regarded as a symbol of wealth and auspiciousness since ancient times.
However, due to over-exploitation, it is already very rare in the world.
As for the price, natural red coral is 80-100 times the price of gold!
One gram of pink coral costs 1,000-5,000 yuan; one gram of deep red coral costs 10,000-20,000 yuan; the price of the best is more than ten times!
Therefore, the piece in Cao Dalong's hands is worth tens of thousands of dollars - only a few dozen grams!
"Where did it come from?" Zhu Yu's breathing was a little rapid.
"There is a reef under this island, and a lot of it grows on the edge of the reef. It looks very beautiful, so I picked it up. Boss, this thing is like a gem. Is it valuable?"
"This is not the same as a gem, this is a gem." Zhu Yu took it and looked at it, then gave it back to Cao Dalong: "This piece can almost be exchanged for a house in your county."
"What?" Cao Dalong was shocked!
Even though he is now a man with tens of millions of assets, the price is really beyond his expectation!
"Then I'll go down and get more now! There are a lot of them there!" Cao Dalong's eyes glowed with gold.
This is equivalent to picking up money!
It’s not as fast as picking up money!
However, Qin Fei said leisurely next to him:
"It seems that everything under the sea next to the island belongs to the boss, right?"
Cao Dalong was immediately embarrassed.
He was holding the red coral in his hand. It would be wrong if he handed it over, and it would be wrong if he didn't hand it over.
Zhu Yu smiled and said:
"Don't be so nervous. Let's take turns. Whoever gets it belongs to whom."
"Really?" Cao Dalong's face suddenly became happy again.
"Of course it is true." Zhu Yu replied.
Ran Jie and Qin Fei looked at Cao Dalong with contempt.
Cao Dalong immediately defended:
"Actually, it's not about how much it's worth, it's mainly about the feeling when you catch it, you know? That feeling is absolutely awesome!"
There were three sets of diving suits on the yacht, and Cao Dalong pulled Ran Jie into the water.
Within half an hour, Cao Dalong and Ran Jie came up one after another.
Cao Dalong held a large handful of red coral in his hand—several kilograms.
Ran Jie only had one in his hand, a relatively complete one that looked like a flower, the kind that could be planted in a flowerpot as an ornament.
"That's enough, one branch is enough." Ran Jie said proactively, "I think this branch is quite beautiful."
"Qin Fei, let's go down and have a look." Zhu Yu has seen a lot of corals in the sea, but he has never seen red corals, let alone picked them.
He and Qin Fei put on their diving suits and sank.
The water here is not too deep, about twenty meters, and the water is not too clear. Fortunately, Zhu Yu has good eyesight and quickly found the big rock that Cao Dalong mentioned.
Qin Fei dived to the edge of the reef and pointed downwards.
Sure enough, Zhu Yu saw some branches of red coral there.
He didn't pick it, and signaled Qin Fei to act on his own, while Zhu Yu swam to the edge.
This piece of red coral doesn't look like much, but after some estimation, it's probably only a few dozen kilograms.
Zhu Yu wanted to see if there were any nearby.
The swimming fish here have almost never seen people, so when they saw Zhu Yu coming down, not only did they not hide, but some even swam towards him, looking at this big guy curiously.
Zhu Yu thought to himself, could he catch something big if he stretched out his hand?
But he didn't reach out after all, and instead felt a little proud - being surrounded by a school of fish was considered a big deal, right?
Instead of going far away, I walked around here and soon I was surprised to find that not far away, a large piece of red coral was hidden under the live pink coral, which was ten times larger than the area I just saw. More than twice that.
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Zhu Yu did not continue searching. Most of the red corals were alive. He believed there should be others nearby.
Zhu Yu randomly picked up two dead corals and floated up. Qin Fei followed beside him.
After going up, I discovered that there was a coast guard ship nearby. A coast guard had boarded the yacht in a small boat and was confronting Ran Jie and Cao Dalong.
"You came up just in time - this is a case of people taking stolen goods together!" The captain of the Coast Guard is a local. He looked at Zhu Yu and Qin Fei with a cold face, "Come with us!"
Zhu Yu got on the yacht and put down the red coral. One of the coast guards immediately stepped forward to put it away. Zhu Yu stretched out his hand and said:
"Don't move, that's mine!"
"You are illegally salvaging!" the coast guard said plausibly.
"The problem is, we have the authorization from the owner of the island, and we can do whatever we want with the things here."
Zhu Yu's words stunned the coast guard for a moment.
They had been staring at the yacht for a long time.
In other words, they had already set their sights on the ship when they were at the port.
Someone reported that the ship was involved in illegal salvage. Although their colleagues had not found anything previously, this suspicion could not be ruled out.
Since the same group of people rented this boat to go out to sea for the second time, and to such a far place, the coast guard would naturally have reasons to be suspicious.
Of course, the most important reason is that there are several Chinese on this boat!
Zhu Yu took out the authorization letter given by Chen Yonghao and a copy of the island's ownership document and handed them to the captain of the Coast Guard.
The captain read it carefully twice before handing the document back to Zhu Yu angrily. He glanced greedily at the red coral in his subordinate's hand and said:
"Put your things down and let's leave."
The Coast Guard members reluctantly put down their things, got on the boat and left.
"Fortunately, the boss is prepared." Cao Dalong said, pouting in the direction of the boat.
"Okay, wait until you can't see them anymore, quickly go into the sea and fish out all the red corals!" Zhu Yu said in a deep voice. He was thinking what to do with the living red corals?
Although it is hidden under the pink coral, it may not be found by those who protect it.
You can't stay here forever, can you?
"Boss, are you afraid that those people will come back and take away the red coral?" Ran Jie responded quickly.
"Looking at their eyes, that's for sure."
"Then we really have to make the first move."
"There are still some living red corals. I'm afraid they will kill me."
Zhu Yu expressed his worries.
Several of them found it a bit troublesome. None of the living red corals want to destroy them, but it's hard to say those people.
"Can you get a batch of things from the sea and put them next to the red coral, such as poisonous sea urchins, jellyfish, octopuses and so on?" Qin Fei suddenly suggested.
"That's a good idea!" Zhu Yu's eyes lit up, "Okay, one of you three will stay on the boat, and the other two will go fishing for red corals. I'll find something to protect the red corals."
Zhu Yu put on his diving suit, put on his net bag and equipment and quickly dived underwater.
Although the fishery resources on this island are not rich, there are many kinds of underwater creatures.
Zhu Yu held the pliers and the net bag, and when he encountered poisonous things, he stuffed them into the net bag - cone snails, poisonous starfish, flower sea urchins, sea snakes, etc., as long as they were poisonous, Zhu Yu stuffed them into the net bag - —Fortunately, the mesh of this net bag is relatively dense, so I’m not afraid of it running away.
I went back and forth more than a dozen times, throwing about a hundred poisonous things into the coral reef... Most of these things originally lived in the coral reefs, but now they have changed places and quickly adapted to the environment and found them. Survive in your own cave and location.
Zhu Yu used this time to swim around the area again and found that the underwater environment was relatively complicated, so he felt relieved a little.
With the existence of the Sky Eye, he could see dangerous creatures at a glance, so he was very good at catching poisonous things. He turned around a few more times and gathered all the nearby poisonous things on the edge of the coral before giving up.
When they came up, Zhu Yu found that Ran Jie and the three of them were there.
There was a pile of red corals piled on the deck - from Zhu Yu's perspective, at least one-third of them were of very high quality, top-grade deep red corals, the kind that cost tens of thousands per gram.
Get rich!
