The scene of the completion of Penglai City was filmed into a video and is waiting to go viral on major video websites. People's initial reaction was to suspect that it was a movie special effect. It was not until other onlookers uploaded their own videos that people realized it.
This isn't a movie, it's real!
At the beginning, many bricklayers threatened that it would be impossible to build this thing. Even if it was built, it would not float to the sea. Even if it floated to the sea after taking ten thousand steps, it would fall apart even if it was hit by a few waves. Even the day before the completion ceremony of Penglai City, a certain professor of naval science who was not qualified stood up to make his presence felt.
"I'm telling you, this thing can't float at all! How did we build the island? Although this is knowledge in the field of architecture, as a professor, I still know a little bit about it. Generally speaking, we You have to enclose the sea first, then blow sand to fill the reefs, and then build an island directly on the bottom of the sea and then float it up? This is nonsense! I bet that if this island does not sink, I will eat a pound of flying!"
However, the next day, Penglai City successfully floated to the surface, and countless people had their faces swollen.
When everyone pulled the professor out and asked him when he was going to start eating, he suddenly stopped saying anything.
Breakthroughs in materials science will bring about a series of chain reactions, which will be disruptive to the construction and manufacturing industries. The tidal force that ordinary steel cannot withstand is not difficult in the face of the stronger graphene material.
At the same time, the advantage of using graphene instead of metal materials as a stable structure is that there is no need to worry about seawater corrosion. As long as you don't risk your life sailing on the Pacific Ring of Fire and happen to encounter an undersea volcanic eruption, you basically don't have to worry about the graphene cable breaking.
With the completion of Penglai City, the flow of people on Koro Island suddenly increased several times. Many hotels and rental houses were so full that some people simply bought tents and set up pavilions on the roadside. The New Zealand Congress had to urgently discuss the urban management bill to regulate the phenomenon of setting up tents everywhere. Only then did this phenomenon be curbed.
At present, flights between Penglai City and Koro City have been established, and a separate dedicated line has been set up next to the passenger port to provide pick-up and drop-off services for tourists landing on and leaving the island. At the same time, the island itself also has yacht garages and berths on the edge, allowing tourists to dock their own yachts or even sailboats and cruise ships.
However, these landing channels are temporarily closed. As for the reason, it is naturally because the cleaning work has not been completed.
But although the Future People Group explained the reason, people's curiosity and enthusiasm for Penglai City still caused a dark crowd to gather in front of the passenger port.
"Let me go up there! I bought a house on it, why don't you let me go up there!" A man wearing a designer suit, who looked like a rich man at first glance, sprayed spit foam and asked why he couldn't land on the island yet.
"Sir, please wait patiently for the opening of Penglai City. The final seaweed cleaning and desalination work is now underway. Rather than a half-finished product, we hope to show the most beautiful Penglai City to everyone." The lady at the front desk said with a smile. The tourist explained what she had said countless times.
Regardless of whether such rhetoric can satisfy these eager tourists, Futureman Group will not let anyone in until the month-long cleanup work is completed. In addition to cleaning work, safety inspections will also be carried out simultaneously.
For example, are there any leaks? Has algae gotten into the power unit? Are there cracks in the graphene cable? These are major matters concerning the safety of more than one million people, and there is no room for sloppiness. If it sinks again after everyone comes up, it will be completely lost.
According to statistics provided by Xia Shiyu, in order to build Penglai City, Future Man Group spent a total of 31.7 billion US dollars, which is almost equivalent to the total amount of funds invested by China's "real estate speculators" in overseas real estate in the past 15 years!
From this we can see how much liquidity the Future Man Group has taken up for this century project. If Penglai City is not built properly, Jiang Chen may really have no choice but to seek help from Rothschild Bank or a listed subsidiary to ease the financial pressure.
Corresponding to the high investment and high risks, the return on investment brought by the completion of Penglai City is also quite amazing.
As early as the end of last year, Wall Street analysts estimated the value of Penglai City, and the final valuation was a terrifying US$400 billion!
Darling, what does $400 billion mean
But Buffett, a world-renowned investor and known as the stock god, said directly.
"I can't estimate the market value of Penglai City, just like I can't put a price on Los Angeles or Chicago, because it's simply not something that can be measured by money. That's a city that will continue to create value as long as it exists. Compared to Penglai City, I am more willing to value Future Man Heavy Industry, the creator of this wonder. If this wonder can be replicated, then there is no doubt that it will become the most profitable company in this century. Jiang Chen has always refused Being listed on the stock market is probably the biggest regret of this century."
As if he felt that his statement was not impactful enough, Buffett paused and added something while facing the media's camera.
"Yeah, I mean, even more profitable than those at the Federal Reserve who print money."
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Just when everyone was eager to board Penglai City to find out, except for the staff of the Future People Group, only Jiang Chen and others had a taste of it.
However, as the Future People Group explained to the public, there is nothing to see in Penglai City at this time.
The street smells fishy, and hardened salt blocks can be seen everywhere on the road walls. These salts are not simply sodium chloride, but also contain ions of potassium, magnesium, calcium and other elements. When the sun shines, these things crystallize out of the sea water.
In order to wash away these unsightly residues, Jiang Chen deployed a seawater desalination platform from Future Heavy Industries with a daily processing capacity of 4 million tons. At the same time, he deployed two ocean current generator sets on the seabed to power the seawater desalination platform.
Now, ten days have passed since the island surfaced. During the Chinese New Year, Jiang Chen planned to go back to the end of the world. The expeditionary force seemed to have encountered some problems on Yizhou Island, so he planned to go there in person. After all, this is about the space elevator and the NAC's trade route south.
It can take anywhere from a few days to two months at most. If he didn't take advantage of this period to go to the island, Penglai City would be opened to the outside world in March, and he wouldn't be able to be the first to eat crabs.
In this way, Jiang Chen, Ayesha, Xia Shiyu, and Natasha, who shamelessly insisted on following, boarded the island in a helicopter and landed on the square in front of the Central Building, a building in the center of Penglai.
"I think if you dry these things and turn them into salted fish, you will definitely make a lot of money." Standing at the door of the Central Building, Jiang Chen looked at the dead fish lying on the steps and sighed helplessly.
I don’t know when these salted fish will be cleaned up.
"I heard that the World Environmental Protection Organization is preparing to cause trouble for you?" Natasha said teasingly, standing next to Jiang Chen.
"Our troubles haven't stopped since the Blue Seagull. It can only be said that they unintentionally brought the wave of rhythm, and now the defenders of Mother Earth are targeting us. But do I care?" Jiang Chen smiled He said, kicking the salted fish aside.
"Just like this salted fish." (.)