Repairer - #229 - Chapter 229: meteorite collector

  Chapter 229 The Meteorite Collector

   Icebreakers sail in the seas of the Arctic Circle, which is different from regular flights, not every day.

   Only appear in the waterway when giving supplies to the Arctic scientific research station or performing scientific research missions.

  Su Xiaofan’s luck this time was obviously not very good, and he waited for more than half a month before seeing the shadow of a fleet.

   Fortunately, this is a returning fleet, otherwise Su Xiaofan might have to accompany them to the Arctic Circle again.

  Su Xiaofan didn’t want to stand on the iceberg and wave a towel to attract the attention of the fleet, so he boarded the icebreaker quietly at night and came to the room where he lived before.

  There are only three or four rooms on the top floor, one of which belongs to the captain. Su Xiaofan knocked on the captain’s door very politely.

   “Oh God, you…how did you get here?”

  Looking at the ragged but refreshed Su Xiaofan, Leonid screamed as if he had seen a ghost.

   “Captain Leonid, won’t you buy me a drink?”

  Su Xiaofan squeezed into the room from the captain with a smile, took a bottle of vodka from the wine rack, and drank it to his mouth without looking for a glass.

  Su Xiaofan is not an alcoholic, and he is not very interested in this vodka, which is almost alcoholic and has no taste at all, but after being held on the iceberg for more than ten days, he just wants to drink at this moment.

   “Damn old Maozi wine, it doesn’t taste good at all.”

  Su Xiaofan muttered something, and put the bottle of vodka back.

   “God, all of you Chinese people can do magic.”

   This is obviously not the first time Leonid has encountered this situation, and he returned to normal after the initial surprise.

   “Shouldn’t you be happy to see someone who sends you money?”

  Su Xiaofan let out a long breath, “Captain Leonid, there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?”

   “Of course it’s good news, and I hope to hear good news every day.”

  Leonid laughed loudly, and took out a bottle of wine from the cabinet at the bottom of the wine rack, “I also have good news here, look, your Chinese Erguotou is very strong.”

   “For Erguotou’s sake, the bad news is gone.”

  Su Xiaofan’s eyes lit up. After staying in the Arctic Circle for such a long time, he finally knew why the alcohol in the restricted area was so scarce.

  Because no matter how much wine is sent in, it is still not enough for the cultivators to consume. In that kind of freezing environment, drinking a sip of wine is definitely the supreme enjoyment.

   “That’s great, what’s the good news?” Leonid poured a glass of wine for Su Xiaofan, with a hopeful look on his face.

  Actually, if he had a choice, Leonid would not want to deal with these Chinese people, because in front of them, Leonid felt like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, without any sense of security.

   “The good news is that you only need to give me a mobile phone, and your $100,000 will be credited to your account immediately.”

  The mobile phone Su Xiaofan used before may have been damaged by the extreme cold weather. Now he only has a mobile phone card in his hand.

   “It’s really good news.”

  Leonid’s eyes lit up, and he took out his mobile phone directly, “Satellite phone, call whatever you want, the global signal has no dead ends.”

   “This is a good thing, can you get me one?”

  Compared with Su Xiaofan’s mobile phone which has no signal in many places, the satellite phone is undoubtedly more practical.

   “It’s possible, but it will take time, and another year’s usage fee is 20,000 dollars.”

  Leonid’s satellite phone was provided by the company. Although he is eligible to apply for another one, he has to pay for it himself.

   “Forget it, I’ll figure it out myself.”

  Su Xiaofan shook his head, he was not at ease with the old Maozi’s things, who knows if they will be monitored.

   After answering the phone, Su Xiaofan called Brother Gang first.

   “Xiaofan, where have you been for the past two months?”

   It seemed that he was sleeping, but after receiving Su Xiaofan’s call, Brother Gang woke up immediately.

   “Brother Gang, do you have a beautiful knife in your hand? After a while, transfer 100,000 to this account first.” Su Xiaofan reported the account number given by the captain.

   Giving money by boat is a matter of course, Su Xiaofan doesn’t want to go to the pier like his father to carry big bags to pay back the money.

   “Okay, I’ll do it in a while.”

  Brother Gang agreed, and then said: “Xiaofan, I found a big man in the meteorite collection circle in Laomei. He has a lot of rare meteorites…”

   “Well, then buy it, won’t he sell it?”

  Hearing Brother Gang’s words, Su Xiaofan suddenly became excited. He really wanted to doze off and give him a pillow, and it came at just the right time.

   “Sell, but we don’t have enough money.”

  Brother Gang hesitated for a moment, “I figured it out, that man has a rich collection of meteorites.

  If you want to win all of them, you need at least 200 million US dollars. I made up the money, and we have a total of less than 30 million US dollars. “

  Although the auction of jade wares made a lot of money before, it was still not enough to make trouble in the international meteorite collection market.

  Especially Brother Gang released rumors through the auction house this year that he wanted to buy rare meteorites, which suddenly made the meteorite market hot, and the price also skyrocketed.

   “I’ll figure out the money. Where are you now?”

  Su Xiaofan is not afraid that the other party will ask a high price, but he is afraid that the other party will not sell.

  Of course, Su Xiaofan is not really afraid, at worst, just be a gentleman on Liang.

   “I’m in Los Angeles, and that person is a professor at the University of Los Angeles.”

  Brother Gang was originally traveling with his wife in South America. He rushed to Los Angeles immediately after receiving a call from the auction house.

  Brother Gang has been asking someone to appraise the meteorites collected by that person for the past few days, and some of them have not yet been appraised, but the price given has exceeded 200 million US dollars.

  Even though Brother Gang is a little rich now, he was still taken aback by this figure. He is desperately looking for Su Xiaofan these days.

   “Okay, give me the hotel you are staying in, and I should be able to arrive within a week.”

  Su Xiaofan asked for Brother Gang’s hotel address. According to the speed of the icebreaker, he can return to Green Island within five days, and the remaining two days are enough for him to reach Los Angeles.

  Of course, if the journey is to go smoothly, Su Xiaofan still has to trouble Minister Hua, otherwise he may not be able to enter the beautiful country even if he gets on the plane.

  However, after calling Minister Hua, the person who answered the phone told him that Minister Hua was not in for the time being, and that Lu’an was also not in. If he wanted to find them, he had to make an appointment three days in advance.

  Su Xiaofan was a little speechless, but luckily the return trip would take five or six days, so he left his name and made an appointment for the next call with Hualong.

   In the past few days, Zheng Dagang has been helping him convert American knives through the auction house. He has plenty of money in his hand. A few minutes later, Leonid received the collection information.

  For foreigners, Meidao is the best language.

   After receiving the money, Leonid sent Su Xiaofan back to the room, and asked someone to send a brand new dress over. Su Xiaofan was attentive to every detail.

   Hualong’s call came a little faster than Su Xiaofan expected, and he called at noon the next day. Of course, it was still on the captain’s phone.

   I don’t know if he will be monitored, Su Xiaofan didn’t say much, just asked Hualong to help him arrange the flight route to Los Angeles, and there is also the matter of entering the country.

  It seems that Minister Hua has done such things a lot, and actually asked Su Xiaofan whether he wanted to enter the country legally or secretly.

  Su Xiaofan naturally chose to enter the country legally. He is doing business, and he doesn’t want to have a 911 in Laos, so there is no need to hide his head and hide his tail.

  In addition, Su Xiaofan asked Minister Hua to help him solve the phone problem. In modern society, it is difficult to move without a mobile phone.

   Everything has been explained to others, Su Xiaofan can only follow the icebreaker back to Green Island first.

  At this time, the North Pole has entered the environment of polar night.

   There is only one hour at noon every day, and you can see a little light, and the rest of the time is shrouded in darkness.

  After more than four days of sailing, the icebreaker finally docked on Green Island.

  Su Xiaofan came to Frank’s coffee shop familiarly, and asked him to help book a plane ticket to Damai Country, and left Green Island on the same day.

  After two months of lonely and cold life in the glacier restricted zone, and returning to human society, Su Xiaofan sees who feels kind.

   Squatting at the airport and looking at the aunt who weighed almost three hundred catties, Su Xiaofan felt like a beautiful woman.

  At the international airport of Damai Country, a very unremarkable Damai man handed over a suitcase to Su Xiaofan.

   There is a satellite phone in the suitcase, a few changes of clothes, and a direct ticket to the beautiful country.

   There is also a stack of American knives and a bank card. According to Hualong, the beautiful country does not use cash very much, and usually pays by card.

  Su Xiaofan didn’t mention borrowing a dollar knife, he planned to go there first to see how much it was short of, and then figure out how to do it.

  The most important thing is that Su Xiaofan needs to look at the meteorites first, if he buys a bunch of useless meteorites, wouldn’t he be taken advantage of?

  After more than ten hours, Su Xiaofan came to the hotel where Brother Gang stayed by himself.

  Su Xiaofan’s English dictation is very good, but his spoken English is almost poor. He used a shameless spirit to jump out a single word, but he was able to communicate with the taxi driver without any obstacles.

  Brother Gang has already opened Su Xiaofan’s room, took his passport to get the room card, Su Xiaofan took a bath comfortably, and then called Brother Gang.

   “Oh, you miss me so much brother.” As soon as he met Zheng Dagang, he gave Su Xiaofan a hug.

   “Where is sister-in-law? Don’t say you came alone for the honeymoon?” Su Xiaofan looked behind Brother Gang.

   “Hey, your sister-in-law has it, I let her rest in the room.”

  Brother Gang smiled very proudly. He took his wife to the hospital in the beautiful country for an examination yesterday. She was pregnant with a boy, which made Brother Gang happy.

   “Brother, let’s make an agreement first. After Zheng Xiaogang is born, you have to accept him as a disciple.”

  Brother Gang said with regret on his face: “In the past, I should worship Uncle Jing as my teacher. Then we will be brothers. I can’t do it now, but my son is okay.”

  Brother Gang is not stupid, he can tell that Su Xiaofan’s changes all happened after he started practicing.

  Besides, during the contact with Su Xiaofan, Brother Gang felt the change of Su Xiaofan more and more, the change in temperament was like a different person.

  Although when getting along with him, Su Xiaofan is still as cordial as usual.

  But Brother Gang knows that it is difficult for him to get into Su Xiaofan’s inner circle, or they are not the same kind of people anymore.

  Brother Gang now understands that Su Xiaofan and his so-called cultivators have far higher status than businessmen and politicians.

  Su Xiaofan didn’t expect Brother Gang to bring up this issue as soon as they met, he couldn’t help but shook his head, and said, “Brother Gang, this road is not easy to walk, and it may be dangerous.”

   “It’s not dangerous what you’re doing. I saw a video yesterday. Someone was walking on the main road, but he was crushed to death by a stone falling from the car next to him.”

  Brother Gang gave a wry smile, “So this person, sometimes he has to believe in fate. The old ancestor’s saying that life and death have fate, and wealth is in the sky is really true.”

   “Brother Gang, I believe even more in the saying that everything depends on man’s efforts, and man can conquer nature.”

  Su Xiaofan let Zheng Dagang into the room, Brother Gang booked a suite for him, with a living room outside.

   “If you really want my eldest nephew to practice, you can ask your sister-in-law to carry this with you later.”

  Su Xiaofan thought for a while, and took out a piece of Lingshi, but after glancing at Brother Gang, Su Xiaofan took out another piece.

   “You find a way to make a pendant or something, and you must wear it close to your body.”

  Su Xiaofan confessed: “I’ll get you some meat when I go back, let my sister-in-law drink broth once a week, remember, don’t drink too much.”

  Although the spirit stone is not a talisman, the aura contained in it is very mild, and the amount that is usually released is very small, and it will only be beneficial and harmless if it is absorbed by the human body.

  This subtle change, although it can’t make Zheng Dagang and his wife embark on the path of cultivation, it is of great benefit to the baby in the womb.

  Based on the relationship between Su Xiaofan and Brother Gang, since he wanted to recruit a disciple, he naturally had to raise the starting point of this disciple’s aptitude higher, so that he could walk more smoothly on the road of cultivation in the future.

   “Brother Gang, don’t show this thing out, remember, don’t.”

  Seeing Brother Gang fondly playing with the two spirit stones, Su Xiaofan shook his head slightly, and gave him a few more instructions.

  Ordinary people can’t recognize it as a spirit stone, but cultivators can. If brother Gang drinks alcohol and brags and forces the cultivator to touch him, it will bring disaster to him instead.

   “Don’t worry, my parents won’t let them see it.”

  The old blushing Brother Gang waved his hands at what Su Xiaofan said, and said, “Where have you been all this time? I can’t find the phone number. Xiaoxiao just said that you went abroad.”

   “Me? I ran to a place where no bird lays eggs.”

  Su Xiaofan laughed wryly when he heard the words, the restricted area of ​​the glacier is not only a place where birds cannot lay eggs, there are no birds that can survive there, and all birds have to be blown into ice cubes by the cold wind from the sky.

   “Come on, don’t talk about me, what happened to the meteorite? Has the value been calculated?”

  The matter of the restricted area of ​​the glacier is too far away from Brother Gang, so Su Xiaofan didn’t want to talk about it, so he brought the topic to the meteorite.

   “This person was also introduced to me by the auction house, but I didn’t expect him to have so many collections.”

  Talking about business, Brother Gang also became serious, and told Su Xiaofan what happened.

   In the past year or so, the story of a Chinese collector looking for rare meteorites has spread in the international meteorite collection circle.

   Last time Brother Gang bought a few pieces when he was in London, which directly pushed the price of meteorites to a new height.

  So this time when Brother Gang came to Los Angeles, the meteorite collector also paid more attention to it, and took Brother Gang to visit his meteorite collection.

  This collector is called Robert, and he is only in his early forties, and he is considered a legend. He is very successful in both fields.

  Robert’s job is actually a professor at the University of California. He is considered a member of the upper class in the beautiful country, but the major he teaches and researches has nothing to do with meteorites.

  On the other hand, Robert is the most authoritative meteorite collector in the world.

  Robert started collecting meteorites when he was in his twenties. After nearly two decades, Robert has become the largest private collector of meteorites in the world.

  Although there have been other people entering this business over the years, no one can compare with Robert in terms of strength and collection scale.

  At first, Robert collected meteorites just out of interest and hobbies, but later he discovered that meteorites are rare and precious, and can also be sold at a good price, so Robert also began to trade meteorites with people.

  The reason why Brother Gang said that this buddy is legendary is because his process of searching for meteorites is really full of thrills, excitement and legend.

  In order to find the wealth that fell from the sky, Robert traveled all over the earth except the North and South Poles. In many countries, Robert had the experience of escaping death in the wilderness.

  As long as the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration predicts where and when there will be a meteor shower, Robert will arrive there at the exact time, no matter where he is, no matter what means of transportation he takes.

  When there is no meteor shower, Robert will also search for meteorites by himself. He searches mostly in the deserts of Africa, where meteorites have never been picked up.

  Robert will drive a gliding and landing soft-wing aircraft, slowly fly at a height of 120 meters above the desert, land as long as he sees a protrusion, and then use a metal detector to search.

  In addition to searching for meteorites by himself, Robert also buys them from locals. As long as the locals find meteorites, no matter how big or small, he will buy them with cash.

  The most famous thing Robert did, and one of the things that brought meteorite collections into people’s attention, was that he bought a meteorite weighing 37 tons in Argentina with a lot of money.

  But when the meteorite was transported out of the customs, the Argentine government arrested Robert on charges of smuggling, believing that this rare meteorite belonged to the Argentine state.

   “Wait, Brother Gang, you mean in Argentina, there is a 37-ton rare meteorite?”

  Hearing this, Su Xiaofan interrupted Brother Gang.

   “I don’t know if it is a rare meteorite, but there must be 37 tons.”

  Brother Gang shook his head, “Robert showed me the photo, he is indeed a big guy.”

   “This Robert is quite interesting.”

  After listening to what Brother Gang said, Su Xiaofan also felt that Robert was quite a legend, and his obsession with meteorites was even more than Su Xiaofan.

  For such a person, Su Xiaofan decided to use legitimate means to buy meteorites from the other party. He could not dispel Robert’s love for meteorites.

  I believe that coupled with the motivation of money, Robert will help Su Xiaofan find more rare meteorites.

   “Brother Gang, make an appointment with Robert. I want to see his collection of meteorites tomorrow!”

  Although Su Xiaofan thinks that he is going to Africa to find meteorites, he will definitely do better than Robert.

   But thinking of his mother in the restricted area, Su Xiaofan didn’t have the mood to search slowly. Buying with money is undoubtedly the most convenient way to get meteorites.

   “I hope this buddy won’t disappoint me.”

   Su Xiaofan is looking forward to the meeting tomorrow.

  Compared to those domestic geological research institutes who only search for meteorites nearby, Robert casts a net all over the world. He may have searched for meteorites that fell in China.

   There are more than 100 monthly tickets that can be rounded up. Let’s see if there are still monthly tickets. I will try to write another chapter tonight. You don’t have to wait, you can read it tomorrow!

  (end of this chapter)