Chapter 314

After reading the system introduction, he smiled, picked it up directly from the sand, and washed it in the nearby seawater by the way.

After washing, the smell became even stronger.

The audience watching the fun nearby couldn't help but step back.

"Holy crap, Fang Yang doesn't have any special hobbies, right?"

"Can't be, could this be some good thing?"

"Too smelly, how can it be a good thing!"

The cameraman also endured the smell and walked up, covering his nose and asking: "Brother, what is this? Could it be a meteorite again?"

Fang Yang smiled and shook his head: "How can a meteorite be so light, look... you'll know if you hold it, this is not a meteorite, it's more valuable than a meteorite!"

"Don't, don't... this smell is head-spinning, I'd better forget it."

Little Fang on the side also asked in surprise: "More valuable than a meteorite? What exactly is this?"

Looking at everyone's disgusted appearance, Fang Yang couldn't help but want to laugh, and raised the dark gray stone in his hand and shook it: "This is the legendary ambergris!"

"Ambergris!"

There was a commotion all around.

Almost every Huaxia person has heard of the great name of this thing, but not many people have actually seen it.

【Popularity】 +1+1+1+1...

——【Does it have to be so exaggerated? Getting an ambergris the size of a soccer ball as soon as you start, getting rich as soon as you start working? But why do I feel like this thing is very smelly, could it be that smelly to the extreme is fragrant? Does anyone know how much such a big one is worth?】

——【Hard to say, depends on the quality, poor quality is 300-something yuan per gram, good quality is 2000-something yuan per gram. The one in Fang Yang's hand doesn't look like ambergris, first of all, this is too big, secondly, I see the ambergris in exhibitions are all whitish, his color is too dark.】

——【It's better to throw away your brain when watching Fang Yang's live broadcast, whatever he says is what it is, don't be smart and question it, facts have proven too many times that he is right. I firmly believe that what he is holding is ambergris, hey, I'm not envious that he's awesome, but this picking up money makes me truly jealous.】

——【I would be so uncomfortable if I were on the scene, the opportunity to get rich right under my nose was missed, and Fang Yang dug it out as soon as he came over. This is like money thrown in front of you and you can't see it, and someone walks over and picks it up, and it's such a valuable thing, I'm afraid I'd have the heart to die.】

The cameraman was confused: "Really or fake, isn't ambergris used to make perfume? Why is it so smelly? How can this thing be used to make perfume."

Others also nodded in agreement.

"Look carefully, the shape is a bit like it, but this is too big, and I've seen ambergris, it's indeed fragrant, not this smelly?"

"I watched a video before, saying that if you take ambergris directly from a sperm whale's belly, it's smelly, extremely smelly, but the problem is this wasn't taken from its belly."

"This should be some animal's feces, saying it's ambergris, I won't believe it even if I die!"

Facing the surrounding doubts, Fang Yang didn't care, but smiled and explained: "Everyone knows ambergris is fragrant, but do you know how ambergris was originally formed?"

"Sperm whale feces!" Many people gave the same answer.

"Yes, it is indeed sperm whale feces, how was it formed? Know it?"

It was suddenly quiet, as for ambergris, they were limited to hearing about it, never used it, let alone understood how it was formed.

Fang Yang smiled and explained: "Ambergris, it is essentially the dried product of the intestinal secretion of the sperm whale, a solid waxy combustible substance that is dark gray or black, who has a lighter, I'll burn it and you'll know."

Little Fang on the side immediately handed over a lighter.

Fang Yang wiped the moisture off the surface of the ambergris and aimed the lighter at it and lit it.

Click.

A small flame soon appeared.

"Holy crap! It really lit up?"

"Damn, no way, such a big ambergris? I often come here to play, why didn't I dig it up!"

"This is too outrageous, no, but it's very smelly, shouldn't ambergris be very fragrant?"

Fang Yang threw it into the water to extinguish the fire and picked it up to continue explaining: "The reason why ambergris is expensive is related to its formation conditions, sperm whales love to eat giant squids and octopuses, but giant squids and octopuses have tough horny beaks and tongues, which are very difficult to digest."

"After the sperm whale eats them into its belly, the beaks and tongues of these mollusks gather more and more in the stomach. We all know that if you don't digest after eating, the stomach will secrete a large amount of gastric acid."

"These indigestible things in the sperm whale's belly stimulate its intestines, and it will secrete a special waxy substance to wrap these indigestible things, and fuse with feces to become a semi-solid state, and ambergris is initially formed!"

"Some of these excretions are vomited out by the sperm whale, and some are excreted from the body through the intestines. But not every sperm whale will produce ambergris, only about one in 100 will have it, plus it cannot be artificially cultivated, you can imagine how rare it is."

The cameraman seemed to understand, but still had doubts: "Then why is this smelly? Shouldn't ambergris be fragrant?"

Fang Yang rolled his eyes at him: "Who told you ambergris is fragrant? Didn't you hear that guy just say it's extremely smelly when taken from a sperm whale's body? It's not that it's not fragrant, but it takes a long time to become fragrant."

"First of all, the density of ambergris is less than seawater, so after being excreted by the sperm whale, it will float on the sea for a long time, the initial color is light black, it needs to experience long-term exposure to the sun, and under the action of seawater and sunlight, it slowly turns gray."

"Finally, it turns from dark gray to light gray, and then presents a whitish waxy color, and only then has ambergris truly formed a scale."

"A piece of top-quality ambergris must have been precipitated on the sea for at least a hundred years, at which time its internal impurities have been completely eliminated, and its value is far more than ten times that of gold."

"But the piece in my hand, looking at the color, I know it's still in a dark gray state, in other words, it shouldn't have been long since it was pulled out by the sperm whale, so it's so smelly! Then one day it was washed onto the beach, and after being beaten by waves, it was gradually buried by sand until now."

"Without the sun's exposure, to put it exaggeratedly, it's still a lump of feces!"

Now everyone understood.

Now looking at the thing in Fang Yang's hand, their eyes changed.

No one disliked it for being smelly anymore, if someone else picked it up, he might even lick it a few times.

This is not some feces, this is money, this is perfume, this is banknotes!

On the spot, someone slapped their thigh in annoyance.

"Damn, I even dug a sand pit here before, why didn't I dig deeper! So uncomfortable!"

"I even sat here for a long time before, who knew there was treasure buried under my butt."

"Don't talk about it, I've come here to play several times and didn't find it."

"Shh~ look at the manager of that small island, his face is almost green, if you keep talking, I'm afraid he's going to jump into the sea!"

Fang Yang heard their discussion and happily put the ambergris into the cab.

This kind of thing doesn't need to be handed over, for him, it's another windfall.

And this small island doesn't belong to any private property, even Little Fang is just an employee, helping the government manage it.

So for him, since he dug it up, it naturally belongs to him, at most he'll pay the tax after selling it later.

Although he doesn't lack these 3 million-something now, if he could pick up such a thing every day, his mood would also be great.

Just like this, under everyone's envious eyes, Fang Yang started digging soil again.

But as time passed, more and more tourists came to watch on the beach.

The area without water became very small, and if he continued to dig, it would be easy to accidentally hurt people.

No way, he could only drive the excavator into the shallow water, dig the sand in the water first, and then pile it on the shore.

In this way, the space for the onlookers became much larger, except for the place where sand needed to be piled, a row of people was already standing on the shore.

This was the first time Fang Yang dug sand in the water, which can also be understood as digging in the sea.

It was all water around, and waves would hit the fence next to him from time to time.

Until this moment, Fang Yang completely understood why this thing was set up.

He found that today's waves were a bit strange, there was clearly not much wind, but from the beginning until now, he could clearly feel the waves getting bigger.

If it weren't for the cab door being closed, the seawater could have hit him here.

Many people will never see the scene of an excavator digging sand in the sea in their lives.

The cameraman watched the bucket working non-stop, and suddenly remembered the sentence Little Fang said before.

"By the way, you said before that this island only appeared in the last few decades? Why?"

Hearing this sentence, Fang Yang couldn't help but prick up his ears to listen.

Little Fang smiled and explained: "There should be a volcano under this island, many years ago, because the volcano kept erupting, plus the cooling of seawater, it accumulated bit by bit, getting higher and higher, so you see the main body of this island is very rugged."

"But more than 100 years ago, it was still under the water, until a major earthquake occurred later, due to crustal movement, plate movement, etc., the crust underwent relative upward and downward movement. This island was gradually lifted out of the water."

"Actually, even without the movement of the underground plates, this small island would have been exposed sooner or later, although the small island had a beach at the beginning, it is estimated that it was sandstone that had already been deposited on the seabed. But it was very dangerous, and the smell was not good, no one came here at all."

"It wasn't until a few decades later, in recent years, that it was discovered that its ecological environment had become very good, that it was developed into a tourist attraction, so there are more tourists coming to the island to play."

【Popularity】 +1+1+1+1....

——【Then does this island count as a volcanic island? Aren't they afraid of volcanic eruptions? It erupted the day before yesterday, this place is in the middle of nowhere, if an accident happens, it will be too late to run. Why do I feel like I've watched too much of Fang Yang's live broadcast, I feel like it's dangerous everywhere I go, this is not a disaster, I'm afraid the house will collapse even if I stay at home.】

——【Nonsense, this is clearly a piece of flesh of an ancient giant god that was torn apart and scattered in the world, nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is gradually waking up, and then these bodies will fly into space, and then fuse and resurrect!】

——【Whenever I encounter such a magical phenomenon, I will have an idea, if Blue Star really discovers alien life, could it be people from the past or future, or parallel worlds who crossed over? Do you think Fang Yang looks like a traveler?】

——【We are just a speck of dust in the universe, but we have formed a colorful world, I often watch universe explanations, and I am particularly moved by the magic of Blue Star, there are too many coincidences that make it a planet where humans can survive, if one is missing, there will be no humans, no wonder the ancients thought it was gods who created humans.】 ===== CHAPTER 315 =====