Chapter 621 - 9: Billionaire
The city’s precious metal recycling company is not small, but 21 tons of silver is certainly not a small number. Even if Manager Sun and the company’s big boss wanted to swallow this big deal, they couldn’t mobilize such a large cash flow in a short time.
Because Chen Zhou could provide a considerable amount of silver at once, the final negotiated price was slightly higher than the market’s average silver recycling price, set at 7.5 yuan per gram.
This price poses a bit of risk for the recycling company, as most recycling companies today can only offer around 6.9 to 7.2 yuan per gram. For 21 tons of silver, an extra dime per gram means fluctuations of millions.
However, Chen Zhou is obviously not an ordinary customer. Even though Manager Sun has many connections behind him, he wouldn’t dare underestimate the "powerholder" behind Chen Zhou. Whether for long-term cooperation or pleasing the person behind Chen Zhou, raising the price is justified.
Moreover, from a long-term perspective, there’s basically no risk of loss in this transaction.
Precious metals aren’t like Bitcoin; they have ample space for application in modern industry. Gold and silver can be made into jewelry and sold.
tons of silver, resold through their channels to major domestic jewelry brands, could quickly turn into silver jewelry at 15 yuan per gram. By then, Chen Zhou, the recycling company, and the jewelry brands would all win—wouldn’t that be the best outcome?
To swallow this batch of goods from Chen Zhou, the big boss behind Manager Sun and several friends pooled together large sums of money, painstakingly converting Chen Zhou’s silver into cash bit by bit.
A total value of one hundred and fifty-seven million yuan’s worth of silver cannot be settled in a short period. Starting at the end of September, Chen Zhou received payments ranging from a few million to tens of millions in his account every few days.
As for whether his 21 tons of silver caused market turmoil, Chen Zhou couldn’t know.
He only knew that the balance in his bank card was gradually becoming a dazzling number, and if he wanted, he could multiply this number several times over.
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Yet having this much money became meaningless for Chen Zhou.
Compared to converting real estate into cash, Chen Zhou was more willing to keep gold and other precious items—
Currency is subject to inflation, but gold always retains its value. Not to mention his collection of famous wines, any bottle from it could cause a sensation in the 21st century, as long as he could prove those wines were indeed from 17th-century European wineries.
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Since resigning from the cement factory, Chen Zhou rarely stayed home.
He’s been busy outside, dealing with real estate, purchasing safes and professional machinery to store his collection, occasionally traveling between major cities, and dining with people like Manager Sun in the precious metal recycling industry.
During this time, he bought luxury brand clothes he had never worn before, acquired three properties in the town, bought two villas in other provinces, and even purchased several luxury cars.
As for phones, computers, and other men’s "toys," he bought a bunch.
These things were carelessly piled up in his villa, like worthless garbage.
Successfully living the rich life he dreamed of, dealing with a bunch of "friends" worth millions, Chen Zhou still couldn’t find joy in his new life.
Previously, when he saw on the internet the wealthy second-generation who never worried about food and drink engaging in extreme sports, climbing Mount Everest or rock climbing, Chen Zhou always thought they didn’t know how to enjoy life, opting for reckless endeavors instead of a good luxurious life.
Now he was surprised to find that he also had the desire to engage in extreme sports.
This was partly because the "able to buy anything" and "able to go anywhere" lifestyle was too monotonous, which took away the joy of striving. On the other hand, it was because his physical condition indeed had the capability to challenge extremes.
Chen Zhou didn’t know what changes occurred in his body after completing the challenges. He only knew that, compared to the average human standard, his physical condition probably exceeded human limits.
Jamaican sprinter Bolt could barely create the 100-meter world record of 9.58 seconds; privately, Chen Zhou could easily break it, even improving this record to 8.43 seconds.
Bear in mind, entering the realm of 9.58 seconds, each improvement of 0.01 seconds is as hard as climbing heaven.
Yet neither his body proportions nor his sprinting technique could compare with Bolt.
Running under eight seconds was very simple for him—
The purest numerical value.
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He dared not go to the hospital for a checkup, fearing his extraordinary physical condition would be discovered, causing a stir in the world of medicine, and he would end up being confined as a unique guinea pig.
Chen Zhou could only purchase a large amount of professional equipment to test various body metrics himself in his villa in another province.
After a series of tests, he finally came to a shocking conclusion—
His physical functions might be 2 to 2.5 times that of a normal person.
This conclusion is not only reflected in muscle strength but also in vision, hearing, smell, endurance, skin toughness, explosiveness, lung capacity, and even toxicity resistance and digestive ability.
Moreover, according to Chen Zhou’s guess, his physical functions might not have been fully developed yet, as he had never undergone any specialized training.
Like a person with extraordinary talent who has never engaged in any targeted sports training, although his strong physical condition could crush professional athletes.
But his upper limit is far beyond that.
As long as he put in the same level of effort as professional athletes, he could reach peaks that the entire species couldn’t climb.