The scene of the completion of Penglai City was captured into a video and went viral on major video websites such as YouTube. People's initial reaction was to suspect that it was a special effect of a movie. It wasn't until other onlookers began to upload their own videos that people realized.
This wasn't a movie, it was real!
Many experts threatened that this thing was impossible to build. Even if it was built, it couldn't float on the sea. Even if it floated on the sea, a few waves would break it apart. Even the day before the completion ceremony of Penglai City, a half-baked shipbuilding professor stood up to make his presence known.
"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 construction, as a professor, I still know a little bit. Generally speaking, we have to surround the sea first, then blow sand to fill in the reef, directly build an island on the seabed, and then float up? There was no end to this nonsense! I bet that if this island doesn't sink, I'll eat a pound of sh * t! "
However, the next day, Penglai City successfully floated up, and many experts were slapped in the face.
When everyone dragged the professor out and asked him when he was going to eat, he suddenly stopped talking.
The breakthrough in materials science would bring a series of chain reactions that would be disruptive to the construction and manufacturing industry. The tidal force that ordinary steel couldn't withstand was not difficult for the more resilient graphene material.
At the same time, the advantage of using graphene instead of metal as a stable structure was that there was no need to worry about the corrosion of seawater. As long as they didn't sail on the Pacific Rim of Volcanoes and happened to encounter an underwater volcano eruption, there was no need to worry about the graphene cable breaking.
With the completion of Penglai City, the flow of people on Coro Island suddenly increased several times. A lot of hotels and rental houses were full to the point that some people simply bought tents and set them up on the side of the road. The Xin Congress had to urgently discuss the city management bill to regulate the phenomenon of setting up tents on the side of the road to curb this phenomenon.
At present, flights between Penglai City and Coro City had been established, and a separate special line was set up next to the passenger port to provide shuttle services for tourists boarding and leaving the island. At the same time, the island itself also had yachts and berths at the edge for tourists to dock their own yachts, sailboats, and cruise ships.
However, these landing channels were temporarily closed. As for the reason, it was naturally because the cleaning work had yet to be completed.
Although Future Group explained the reasons, people's curiosity and enthusiasm for Penglai City still caused a large crowd to gather in front of the passenger port.
"Let me up! I bought a house up there, why can't I go up there! " A man in a branded suit, who looked like a nouveau riche, was spitting spittle as he questioned why they couldn't land on the island.
"Sir, please wait patiently for Penglai City to open. We are now carrying out the final seaweed cleaning and salt removal work. Compared to a semi-finished product, we hope to show the most beautiful Penglai City to everyone, "the receptionist explained to the tourists with a smile. She had repeated the same words countless times.
Regardless of whether this explanation could satisfy the eager tourists, before the month-long cleanup was completed, Future Group wouldn't let anyone in. In addition to cleaning work, security checks would also be carried out simultaneously.
For example, was there a leak? Is there seaweed in the propulsion system? Are there any cracks on the graphene rope? These were matters that concerned the lives of over a million people, and they couldn't afford to be careless in the slightest. If it sank again after everyone had come up, it would be completely over.
Based on the statistics provided by Xia Shiyu, in order to build Penglai City, Future Group spent a total of 31.7 billion US Dollar, which was almost equivalent to the total amount of funds invested by Hua "real estate speculators" in overseas real estate in 15 years!
Thus, the project of the century took up a lot of liquidity for Future Group. If Penglai City wasn't completed, perhaps Jiang Chen could only seek help from Rothschild Bank or go public to ease the financial pressure.
Corresponding to the high investment and high risk, the return on investment brought by the completion of Penglai City was 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 as high as 400 billion US Dollar!
What was the concept of 400 billion US Dollar?
The world-famous investor, known as the stock god, Warren Buffett, said directly:
"I can't estimate the market value of Penglai City, just like I can't give a price for Los Santos or Chicago, because it's not something that money can measure. It's a city. As long as it exists, it can continue to create value. Compared to Penglai City, I'm more willing to value the creator of this spectacle, Future Heavy Industries. If this spectacle can be replicated, then there is no doubt that it will become the most profitable company of the century. Jiang Chen still refuses to go public, which is probably the biggest regret of the century. "
Buffett seemed to feel that his statement wasn't impactful enough, so he paused and added in front of the camera.
"Yes, I mean, it's even more profitable than the Federal Reserve that prints money."
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Just when everyone was eager to explore Penglai City, other than the staff of Future Group, only Jiang Chen and the others had a taste of the adventure.
However, just as Future Group explained to the public, there was nothing to see in Penglai City at this time.
The street was full of the smell of the sea, and the walls were full of hardened salt. These salts weren't simple sodium chloride, they also contained ionized compounds of potassium, magnesium, and calcium. When the sun shone, these things crystallized from the seawater.
In order to wash away these residues that affected the aesthetics, Jiang Chen transferred a desalination platform with a daily processing capacity of 4 million tons from Future Heavy Industries. At the same time, two ocean current generators were deployed on the seabed to power the desalination platform.
Now, ten days had passed since the island floated up. After the New Year, Jiang Chen planned to return to the apocalypse. The expeditionary force seemed to have encountered some problems on Yizhou Island, and he planned to go in person. After all, it was related to the space elevator and NAC's trade route to the south.
This trip would take at least a few days, and at most two months. If he didn't take advantage of this time to explore the island, when Penglai City opened to the public in March, he wouldn't be the first person to try the crab.
Just like this, Jiang Chen took Ayesha, Xia Shiyu, and Natasha, who was thick-skinned and insisted on coming. The four boarded the island by helicopter and landed on the square in front of the Central Building, a building in downtown Penglai.
"I think if these things are dried into salted fish, it will definitely be a lot of income." Standing at the door of the Central Building, Jiang Chen looked at the dead fish lying on the steps and sighed helplessly.
He didn't know when these salted fish would be cleaned up.
"I heard that the World Environmental Protection Organization is looking for trouble with you?" Standing next to Jiang Chen, Natasha joked.
"Since Blue Seagull, our troubles haven't stopped. It can only be said that they inadvertently set the pace, and now the defenders of Mother Earth are targeting us. But would I care? "Jiang Chen laughed as he kicked the salted fish to the side.
"Just like this salted fish."
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