Chapter 205: The First Sale (Part 2)

The speed of the mechanical blue whale is very fast, at least not comparable to that of ordinary blue whales. Moreover, Yang Yiwei originally thought that sitting in this guy's belly would be like flying on an airplane. He could feel it climbing and descending, but

Unexpectedly, Yang Yiwei didn't feel any instability when the Blue Whale was moving forward, as if he was sitting in a room.

When Xiao Xi told Yang Yiwei that the destination had arrived, Yang Yiwei asked a little strangely: "Did the mechanical whale keep moving forward in the sea just now?"

"No, the depth we just advanced to is 600 meters in the deep sea." Xiaoxi reached it simply.

"Then why didn't I feel it when I dived?" Yang Yiwei was really curious now. From what he saw in those documentaries, whales simply dived in headfirst when they dived, even if they were mechanical blue.

Whales can dive smoothly while moving forward like submarines, but they should also feel it.

"Although the mechanical blue whale is modified from biology, most of the biological properties have not been retained. It is now more like a completely semi-biological mechanical submarine. The cabin you are in now is like a space capsule, and you can adjust it individually.

Although the adjustment range is not large, you will not feel any fluctuation unless you dive urgently or ascend." Xiaoxi quickly explained to Yang Yiwei.

Yang Yiwei immediately realized that this thing is like putting a hollow ball in the belly of the mechanical blue whale. It will not maintain the same height as the mechanical blue whale. It will try to stay level. This is quite humane.

At least if it really looks like a fish and goes straight up and down in the water, the person sitting inside will be out of luck.

Walking out of the mouth of the mechanical blue whale. Yang Yiwei has already seen the speedboat very close at hand. A mechanical swordfish has already brought the speedboat to this place. Less than 1 nautical mile ahead is the uninhabited island. It is said to be a small island.

In fact, it is better to call it a coral reef. Its highest point is only a dozen meters above the sea, and its area is only a few hundred square meters. When the tide rises, it will be directly submerged under the water.

All the electrolytic cobalt synthesized by the biotransformation device is in the sea at the feet of Yang Yiwei. The total is 820 tons, which is the amount of mining by the mechanical swordfish in half a month. Now Yang Yiwei is ensuring that the biotransformation device has 20,000 points of reserve energy.

Next, Mechanical Sailfish

It has grown to 130. Moreover, the number of mechanical swordfish is increasing at a terrifying rate. Now the energy that Yang Yiwei can store every day has reached 4,500 points. In other words, Yang Yiwei can add 4 new mechanical swordfish every day.

.

Now Xiaoxi simply let two mechanical swordfish attract a shoal of thousands of swordfish in the nearby waters. Originally, swordfish are not social animals. But I don’t know how Xiaoxi did it. These swordfish get along well.

Everything is fine, but the fish nearby are unlucky. Sailfish were originally considered large carnivorous fish. Now thousands of sailfish gather together and eat as much as a blue whale every day.

According to Xiaoxi's calculations, when the number of mechanical swordfish reaches 500, the energy collected by Yang Yiwei can reach 10,000 points every day. At the same time, it can provide more than 3,000 tons of electrolytic cobalt every month! Of course, it does not have to be electrolytic cobalt.

It can be a variety of other precious minerals.

Although the cobalt-rich nodules mined by mechanical swordfish now contain a high cobalt content, they are not actually the highest among them. There are also more than a dozen other various rare minerals, but all of these minerals were used by Yang Yiwei to synthesize them.

Energy is obtained, just mining the cobalt out of it.

Cobalt is radioactive, and the mining ship from Huihuang Mining will not arrive until tomorrow. Yang Yiwei needs to spend the night here today. After breathing fresh air outside, Yang Yiwei moved the food and water he prepared into the belly of the mechanical blue whale, and spent the night

After spending the night in the belly of a mechanical blue whale, although the seawater has the effect of isolating radiation and the seawater is close to a hundred meters deep, Yang Yiwei does not want to spend the night on a large pile of radioactive ores.

Before it got dark the next day, Yang Yiwei was woken up by Xiao Xi, who said that a cargo ship and a professional salvage ship had been detected approaching, and the distance was only 50 nautical miles. Yang Yiwei then switched from the mechanical Blue Whale.

He got out of his belly and jumped onto his speedboat.

After Yang Yiwei left, the mechanical blue whale slowly dived into the deep sea and disappeared. The mechanical swordfish was also lurking in the nearby waters within a few nautical miles. The distance of 50 nautical miles was more than an hour and less than 2 hours.

, the freighter anchored directly a few hundred meters away from Yang Yiwei.

Yang Yiwei drove the speedboat directly over. After Yang Yiwei got on the freighter, Lu Hongbing had already greeted him with a smile. Yang Yiwei looked at Lu Hongbing with some surprise: "Uncle Lu, you didn't say you were coming over."

"Haha, this is the first business between us, and to be honest, it's a big business." Lu Hongbing said with a smile.

"Uh," Yang Yiwei is not in this industry and does not understand the value of these rare minerals in mining companies around the world. 600 tons of electrolytic cobalt per month, which is 7,000 tons a year! You know, the world's cobalt mines are only

It’s only a few hundred thousand tons. This is the total amount of cobalt ore. Not that much can be mined completely. If it is purified, the number will be even smaller. If it is distributed to so many mining companies around the world, it can be said that many mining companies simply cannot do it.

to these rare minerals.

"Are you okay? Is the salvage ship here?" Yang Yiwei asked knowingly.

"That's not true, but why do you want a salvage boat?" Yang Yiwei didn't say it clearly on the phone. Lu Hongbing didn't know what Yang Yiwei wanted for this. Is it possible that the cobalt mine is still in the water?

"The goods you want are here." Yang Yiwei pointed to the seabed outside.

"No way? You asked people to unload the cobalt ore into the sea?" Lu Hongbing was a little dumbfounded. Salvaging these ores is not that easy. Of course, it is not that difficult. When the biotransformation device synthesized these materials, Yang Yiwei had already asked

Konishi directly synthesized these cobalt ores into a standard cuboid 10 meters long, 2 meters high, and 2 meters wide.

"Uncle Lu, this is smuggling. Can I be careful? Technology is so advanced now, and there are satellites in the sky watching, so I can't be careful." Yang Yiwei said with a smile. Yang Yiwei wanted to get it on, but the problem

Yes, if you get it on the seabed or port, you have to hire a ship to salvage it. Instead of doing this, it is better to let Lu Hongbing send people to salvage it. Anyway, they don’t know how they got it on the bottom of the sea, so let them

Go ahead and guess.

"Okay." Lu Hongbing was a little dumbfounded. After a pause, Lu Hongbing said again: "Xiaowei, in fact, you don't need to be so careful at all. No one cares about this place in Africa. Be bolder. When you are in China,

I feel like smuggling is illegal, but in Africa, let me tell you, every year, 70% of the world's smuggling by sea and land is transferred through major ports in various African countries, and no one cares about it here.

"

Yang Yiwei was a little speechless. He didn't know the news. Looking at Yang Yiwei's expression, Lu Hongbing smiled again and said: "Actually, this is also a tacit thing among all countries. It's not just some smugglers who are smuggling here. Since Xiaowei, you

If you want to get involved in this industry, uncle will tell you something confidential.

You should know that intelligence agencies are like CIA intelligence agencies around the world. Look at the military budget passed by the U.S. Congress every year. How much funding is allocated to those intelligence agencies? It’s simply not enough. That’s why many smuggling companies have intelligence agencies from various countries.

The background is to earn them a certain amount of funds."

Yang Yiwei was a little surprised. This was the first time he had heard of this, but thinking about it, Yang Yiwei remembered seeing news a few years ago. He didn't know which year, but it was said that the CIA's annual military budget was 5 billion US dollars.

At that time, I seemed to be looking at the military budget report made by the U.S. Congress. Is 5 billion US dollars enough? Not to mention how big CIA is in the world, but just the salary of CIA employees around the world is a terrifying figure.

Five billion US dollars is enough for what? Millions of employees may be an exaggeration, but one million is definitely there. These people are CIA informants and employees, and their wages are paid by the CIA, not the US government.

The wages paid by the U.S. government are only those in the CIA who can appear openly and aboveboard in front of others.

The U.S. government does not care about regular employees and overseas branches. According to 1 million employees of various types, these people’s annual salary does not need to be much, just 10,000 US dollars, right? The average salary for one person per year is 10,000 US dollars.

U.S. dollars, one million people is equivalent to 10 billion U.S. dollars. Leaving aside the 5 billion U.S. dollars paid by the U.S. government, what about the remaining 5 billion U.S. dollars?

After a rough calculation in his mind, Yang Yiwei knew that the 5 billion U.S. dollars would definitely not be enough for anything. Unless the 5 billion U.S. dollars were only allocated to the CIA's operational funds, and other expenses were calculated separately, then it might be enough. But Gray

There must be some income. If nothing else, let’s talk about some branches of CIA in Africa and other countries. If checked normally, these branches are regular companies and they all have their own business.

Seeing that Yang Yiwei understood, Lu Hongbing smiled and said: "And governments also need some smuggling channels to handle some stolen goods and dump some goods. It's not that these African countries don't know, but they can't do anything if they know. They can't afford to offend them."

These powerful European and American countries can only turn a blind eye, as long as their governments secretly collect part of the filial piety fees."

"Well, I understand, but I really can't do anything about this ore. From now on, Uncle Lu, just have people come here to fish for it on time every month. This month it's not the 600 tons we promised, but 820 tons. Both are 10 meters.

A standard cuboid that is long, 2 meters high and 2 meters wide." Yang Yiwei smiled and didn't say much. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!