One Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety-Eight. The Tree that Money Cannot Measure

"Do you know what anoxic ice is? Actually, it's not an academic term, it's just a default name in the collecting world, referring to a kind of ice crystal. Of course, this thing is not actually an ice crystal, it just looks It's very similar to ice crystals, but you can't see oxygen, once in contact with the air, it will dissipate immediately..."

Little Black began to chatter about the hypoxic ice, introduced the source of the name and then introduced the composition of the material, and he continued to mutter for four or five minutes before finishing the introduction.

Qin Shiou was dumbfounded when he heard that, and he didn't want to take the postgraduate entrance examination. What kind of crystals and oxidation reactions were he studying?

Impatient to hear, he interrupted Little Black and said: "Stop, stop! Damn it, I really lost to you. I asked you about the type of this kind of wood. You told me that they would die if they encountered oxygen. What reaction did you do?"

Little Blake said in a disdainful tone: "Knowledge, buddy, knowledge is wealth! Do you need to learn more to understand? You don't know such a famous wood, but I knew them when I was five years old. My dad taught me when I was in church at San Cacarlo..."

"Then your childhood was too pathetic. You still have to study chemistry and physics in a week. Well, don't change the subject and don't tease me. Tell me, what is this?" Qin Shiou realized, this guy kept hanging What about my own appetite?

Sure enough, Little Blake laughed from the microphone and said, "This is holy sandalwood, my buddy, where did you get this thing? Is there another sunken ship?"

In view of the large number of sunken ships that Qin Shiou discovered from the sea in the past few years, Little Black is no longer surprised by this.

Qin Shiou naturally wouldn't follow his words, he explained: "No, it's like this, I just bought a fishing ground, and when I was cleaning up an abandoned warehouse, I found this kind of wood in it. These woods are carefully preserved After I got it down, I thought they should be valuable, so I asked you, is this wood valuable? How much is it?"

Little Blake said in a helpless tone: "Then why did you call me? Why don't you just give me a photo? Come on. Let's start a video and let me see if these woods are holy sandalwood. If they are, That's worth a lot!"

Only then did Qin Shiou realize that he had dug a hole for himself. He definitely couldn't take pictures, let alone videos. The wood is in a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea.

So he had an idea and said: "Sorry buddy, the signal is not good, and the video cannot be turned on. This is a deserted fishing ground. It's pretty good that I can call you!"

After hastily finding a reason, he then changed the subject: "What kind of holy sandalwood is this valuable? What's the price now?"

Little Blake didn't ask,

He replied: "Yes, it's very valuable. It's hard to say the exact price. It ranges from two or three dollars to twenty or thirty dollars per gram..."

"Fake, sell it by gram?" Qin Shiou was pleasantly surprised. He had already seen it just now. The holy sandalwood in this boat is more than ten to twenty meters long, and the thin ones are as thick as an adult's thigh. The thick ones are nearly half a meter in diameter, and there are more than twenty of them in total.

In addition, he used the sea god consciousness to create waves and rolled them up to test the weight. They were all denser, at least denser than sea water, because after the waves rolled up these woods and put them down, they would immediately sink to the bottom of the boat.

Calculated in this way, for example, the thickest piece of wood has a diameter of nearly half a meter, and its area is about a quarter of a square meter, multiplied by a height of twenty meters. That's five cubic meters. Considering that its density is higher than that of water, it is at least five tons and five million grams!

There are more than twenty trees. Although the others are not as tall or as thick as this one, they can be converted into twenty cubic meters, right? How much is this? 20 million. dollars!

Moreover, this is the most conservative calculation, which is based on one dollar per gram, and the density of wood is the same as that of water. In fact, it is more than that!

Qin Shiou was doing quick mental calculations, while Little Blake was explaining: "Of course, it's calculated in grams. This is holy sandalwood. Now this kind of wood is rare. The surviving ones are generally small pieces of wood. Isn’t it expensive to make statues, wooden combs, wooden hairpins and other small things?”

Hearing this, Qin Shiou was overjoyed, and he asked tentatively, "What if, I mean, what if I have a complete holy sandalwood trunk here?"

"How complete?" Little Black asked subconsciously.

Qin Shiou chose the biggest one: "It's about half a meter in diameter and twenty meters in height."

The phone's microphone became silent, and Qin Shiou thought that Little Black was too shocked to speak, so he laughed triumphantly.

As a result, he waited for a while and there was still no sound. He yelled a few times and still had no sound. Then he took it down and looked, damn it, that grandson hung up the phone!

Just about to search for information about Sheng Sandalwood on the Internet, a call came from an unfamiliar phone number. As soon as he got through, Little Black's voice sounded again: "Schete, what a pity, I threw the phone out in surprise just now, and now it's gone. Ruined!"

"Continuing the topic just now, what are you talking about? That tree is twenty meters high and eight meters in diameter? Falk! Did you go to God's back garden? Otherwise, how could you find such a big holy sandalwood?! "

Qin Shiou asked, "How much is this worth?"

Little Black said: "This kind of holy sandalwood is no longer a matter of money. Listen to me, buddy, do you know what the biggest use of this tree is?"

Qin Shiou said: "Is your brain as big as a rooster? I don't know what it is, how do I know its purpose?"

Little Black didn't care about him, and said, "I just reminded you that this kind of wood was introduced to me by my father when I was a child in church."

Qin Shiou thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "Oh, I see, are you making chairs and tables?"

The believers in the church sat on chairs, and in front of them were tables. Since Little Blake met when he was attending church with his father, it must be this that he came into contact with at that time.

Little Blake's hysterical voice sounded: "Fack squid! You damn fool! It's a cross! It's a big cross that made the roof of the church! How could you think of tables and chairs? It's a big cross!"

"Okay, ok, I know buddy, then tell me, why can't you use money to measure it? Does money insult your beliefs?" Qin Shiou asked with a smile.

"Stupid insult to faith! We all know that even God loves money! Well, back to the topic, the crosses on the most famous cathedrals in the world are made of holy sandalwood, so if you put this The holy sandalwood is made into a cross to raise donations to the Holy See, maybe it can be replaced by an archbishop!" Little Black said. (To be continued.)

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