Chapter 314 Wealth
"Laboratory? What laboratory?" Zhang Ailun asked puzzledly.
"Human body laboratory. There are also some research on medicine and organ cloning projects."
The engineer explained, "There are many wealthy people who are keen to invest in projects in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Priam hired some researchers to conduct cloning research. They will use relevant cloning technology on pigs to grow usable human organs in pigs. The cloning technology in this area is already very mature! Some wealthy people also think that other people's organs are not as useful as organs grown by fusing their own cells with pigs."
"..."
Zhang Ailun was speechless and not interested in this. He waved his hand and said, "Disband that department! Send them home!"
"Sir, even if you want to conduct research, you don't have the resources. After yesterday's riot, the researchers were unfortunately all shot and killed by those desperate criminals. Fortunately, one cloned pig was saved. Do you want to go and take a look?"
"Mr. Priam named the pig Elizabeth," said the engineer. "It is a guinea pig."
Zhang Ailun looked strange and shook his head, "Take me to other places first."
"Ok."
The engineer and the mercenary turned around and led the way, taking the chief and his party to visit the construction of the island.
But considering the long journey and the inconvenience of walking, the mercenaries drove two pickup trucks directly out of the warehouse next to them. They were painted in camouflage, had modified engines, and were equipped with two machine guns.
Let’s not talk about throwing explosives or anything like that. There are boxes of them sitting there in the warehouse.
Zhang Ailun sighed and said, "This guy Jehovah has a lot of good things."
After all, he organized a private armed force of more than 200 people on the island, and needed to prevent being robbed. He also had a relationship with Colonel Frank of the Air Force, so it was easy for him to get some weapons and ammunition.
But the chief leader did not see any armed helicopter here. It must have been stolen by someone during the chaos yesterday. What a waste of resources!
Now these things are the personal property of the chief.
Zhang Ailun was thinking about going back to visit Madison again, not for any other reason, but simply because he wanted to visit Mr. Prian, who was in a vegetative state.
And give him some of those wonderful potions developed in those laboratories in the Chiliad Mountains!
Sitting on the pickup truck, Captain Bailang drove the vehicle himself, driving on the flat concrete road to visit the construction of Jehovah Island.
Jehovah Island is located at the junction of California waters and Mexican waters. The total area is approximately square kilometers, equivalent to 318900 acres of land. The size is equivalent to the 53 green estates owned by the chief in California. This is already considered a large private island.
After a field trip, I realized that Jehovah Island is actually much larger than Madison Island.
Madison's private island is only about 140 square kilometers at most, and many places are still rocky beaches and undeveloped lush forests. The selling price is over 2 million US dollars.
The original price of Yahweh Island was only 90 million US dollars, but that was because no one was developing it. It was purchased in the last century, when the US dollar was still very valuable. According to what Madison said, the value of Yahweh Island itself is now conservatively estimated to be 300 million US dollars! But in fact, it can be sold for more. It depends on how you use it.
If you count the complete wealth left by the island owner, all kinds of armed equipment and aircraft vehicles, you can't buy it without 700 to 800 million US dollars. Although now it is equivalent to nothing, only some infrastructure is left, and all the people have fled.
The climate of this island is normal, which means it is not very suitable for living and vacationing, but its privacy and confidentiality are real.
Lanai Island in Hawaii, for example, has an area of square kilometers, but its price is as high as 39 billion US dollars! It is the most expensive private island in the world, but its main characteristics are just because the climate is more suitable for vacation, all the facilities are also for livability, and the geographical location, the commercial amusement park built, Jehovah Island is naturally incomparable to it.
Other private islands only have an area of a few tenths of a square kilometer or tens of square kilometers. Even if they are undeveloped, they cost at least tens of millions of dollars. Jehovah Island is a maturely developed island that hardly needs drastic transformation. The chief helmsman has found a big bargain!
Under the guidance of the engineers and mercenaries, they drove a pickup truck to a storage plant area. After getting off the truck, Zhang Ailun first followed them to a factory warehouse area, where there were also serial numbers on it, A-1, A-2, and A-3.
But without exception, the fingerprint-unlocked security doors were all damaged and blown open, and there were obvious traces of explosives on the black surfaces.
When I walked in and took a look, I found that the safes and shelves were scattered all over the floor. It was a horrible scene, as if it had been robbed. Although this was indeed the case.
"What was this storage building used for before?" Zhang Ailun took a look around and asked the engineer.
"Warehouse A1 is used to store leaves and daily addictive drugs. It was also the area that was given special attention by those people yesterday."
The engineer explained, "These are indispensable items for rich people to have at parties. The goods that Mr. Priam ordered before are basically stored in this warehouse. The ordering process is also very simple. You just need to call the suppliers and they will deliver the goods on time by private jet. Then our people will inspect the goods and store them."
He took out a satellite phone from his briefcase and handed the phone book to the chief helmsman. "The private phone numbers of those people are on it. Mr. Jin, do you need me to contact them for you and tell the suppliers that the island has changed? Don't worry, these goods are all sent from Mexico, and they are all high-purity goods!"
"No, I don't like this kind of thing. There's no need to contact them in the future." Zhang Ailun shook his head and asked again: "Are those people you are talking about professional drug trafficking groups?"
"They are just a small, scattered organization, not very well-known internationally," the engineer replied.
"Ok, then you can give this phone book to my people. I will go and solve this problem." Zhang Ailun smiled and let Boktu and the others take the phone book.
We are going to hand it over to the DEA and let them and the Mexican officials deal with them.
They came to the next warehouse, which was also looted, and there were many broken glass test tubes. Boktu checked and found a well-preserved medicine that looked familiar. He hesitated and said, "Is this adrenochrome?"
"This is also where medicines are stored, but they are special medicines used in organ research. There are incense, baby oil, and even the adrenochrome in your hand. This is a very valuable thing! The medicine in your hand is worth at least $7000! It was also sold out during the chaos yesterday." said the engineer.
"The other A3 storage warehouse is used to store food. It also has a condenser that can be used to keep food fresh. That was the only warehouse that was not smashed yesterday." Bai Lang also said.
"There are about 300 people living on Jehovah Island on weekdays. In addition to the models and European and American stars who are often invited to the party, there are also waiters and chefs. However, those chefs and waiters were worried that they would be in danger, so they fled on a yacht this morning."
Zhang Allen nodded and didn't care. He just told his female assistant Gwen to recruit some people and chefs to come over next time. After all, so many people were stationed on the island and they needed to eat. Although Prian was rich, he certainly couldn't bear to air or seafreight food every day to let them enjoy seafood and steak feasts. Of course, the chief leader couldn't bear to do that either.
After visiting the storage area in Area A, we got on the bus and went to other places.
Airports, fortresses, underground vaults, safes, power stations, signal towers, as well as entertainment villa areas halfway up the mountain and luxury villas and swimming pools on the top of the mountain.
But it was basically empty inside, with nothing in it.
If there were really any valuable items, Priam's children would definitely not leave them behind, and would immediately have them packed up and taken away. Only the remaining items that were not worthy of attention, worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, would be snatched away.
There is a white Cessna 172 general-purpose aircraft with a damaged propeller on the helipad of the mansion on the top of the mountain, and there are also several amphibious speedboats in the warehouse.
There are two airports and two bay ports in the east, west, south and north of Yahweh Island. The airports are in the east and west, and the ports are in the north and south.
The place where Zhang Ailun led his men to land and dock the warship was at the southern port.
But going down from the top of the mountain, in the Qianwan area, there is also an unpopular port built.
These amphibious speedboats are ready to be launched into the water and escape at any time in case of emergency.
But it looks like it's of no use at all. It's just been running on the road, and the tires are all worn out. The paint on the chassis of the speedboat is all rusted, but it can't be used at all.
Qibatu went over to check the plane and speedboat and found that there was nothing wrong with them. Only the parts were damaged and they could be used normally after replacing them.
"Apart from the value of the island itself, the value of all the remaining items is approximately three million US dollars." Female assistant Gwen helped to count.
Looking at the dozens of boxes of ammunition and weapons pulled out by the mercenary team, as well as several pickup trucks, there were undoubtedly RPG rocket launchers, M60 machine guns, M249 machine guns, various types of sniper rifles and anti-material sniper rifles.
"The value of the weapons alone is over a million dollars." Gwen exclaimed: "This is really a huge fortune."
He then lamented, "It's a pity that many things and private jets have been taken away."
The chief leader didn't care too much about these small profits. He had actually made a lot of money by getting a private island worth hundreds of millions for free.
Although the allies who exchange interests may make more money, they will definitely remember the chief's kindness since they rely on following the chief to make money. No matter where they go in the future, they will be regarded as important guests. Talents from all walks of life are all friends of the chief.
'Please give me some face.' - Hamburg Juankin
After counting the supplies and reserves on the island, Zhang Ailun asked the mercenaries to take them back and store them in the warehouse, and then followed the engineers on foot to a secret location on the island.
According to him, this was a secret place known only to him and Prian, and it was not even marked on the design drawings.
It is a tunnel halfway up the mountain.
Following the luxurious villa on the top of the mountain, overlooking the blue sea in the distance with its rough waves, I followed the engineer up the ladder on the hillside to the tunnel halfway up the mountain. With the lights on, I came to the depths of the tunnel and looked at the piles of stones and murals inside.
It doesn't seem like there's anything surprising.
"What are these mysterious symbols and text patterns?" Zhang Ailun asked after taking a look.
"It is said that this is the place where treasure is buried. Priam made his fortune by treasure hunting in his early years. He went out to sea with his friends to look for treasure and successfully found a place where a large number of Spanish silver coins from the pirate period were buried. The total value of the coins in the last century was more than 5000 million US dollars. After that, he used the money to do other investment businesses, which is how he accumulated a lot of wealth."
The engineer said: "Later, he spent a lot of money to buy this island, specifically for preserving wealth and enjoyment, and also let us build this secret place here, but he rarely comes here on weekdays, and I don't know what this means."
Now, this secret place that was only known to two people was known to everyone present.
Zhang Ailun also looked at him in surprise, "You should not be just an ordinary engineer, right? You know so many things. Prian can't tell everything to an outsider, right?"
"In fact, I am half his personal butler and also Jehovah's cousin. We are from the same family. My name is Stanley Priam. However, Jehovah doesn't like the family system very much. He thinks that all his relatives are vampires. He only cares about his own son and daughter. People like me, even if I am related to him by blood and have the same surname, would not be invited by him to work on the island if I didn't have this skill."
The engineer said helplessly: "I could have found other excuses, or even concealed this matter, but I finally decided to confess to you. Sir, whether you decide to fire me in the end, or kick me out because you are worried that I will bear a grudge and not work hard for you, I can accept it!"
"Your honesty has earned you a stable job, Mr. Priam."
Zhang Ailun thought about it and decided to allow him to stay and work for him.
Although it is not yet known what value this tunnel mural has, at least there are no dozens of kilograms of explosives buried inside!
If the tunnel halfway up the mountain was blown up directly, the villa on the top of the mountain would undoubtedly collapse in an earthquake.
Construction and reconstruction are trivial matters, but if someone lives there they will definitely not survive!
The more Zhang Ailun thought about it, the more he felt that this was a big deal. Although he had a cheat and didn't have to be afraid, now someone was willing to take the initiative to stand up and confess. There was no doubt that it was because of the charisma of the leader!
Patting him on the shoulder, he praised him, "Don't worry, I'm not the type who likes to bring up old scores, because I usually take revenge on the spot. I know you don't have a very deep relationship with Jehovah. If this mural is really valuable and I can make money by deciphering it, I will definitely consider giving you a substantial dividend! Even if it's worthless, I will give you a raise. You will be responsible for supervising the construction here in the future. There are many damaged places on the island that need to be repaired."
"Thank you for your generosity, boss," the engineer said gratefully.
After returning to the villa on the top of the mountain, I had someone check the island's power supply equipment and water purifier. Everything was in good condition and could be used normally. I also communicated with the engineers to plan the design and maintenance, and asked them to be responsible for the ordering and construction of materials.
He also took some time to go to the laboratory to check on the guinea pig named 'Elizabeth'. It could run and jump, and there was nothing wrong with it. After considering it, the chief leader decided to release it into the lush forest area on the island.
(End of this chapter)
