To be honest, Feng Jun had made serious preparations to plunder resources from the Phone Plane.
Much like the urban webnovels on Qidian that asked, "If you knew you would be reborn in the year XXXX, what useful information should you remember?", he had made all sorts of assumptions about transporting resources.
So he knew a great deal about many metals. He had studied the platinum-group elements in particular very thoroughly.
Why had he studied them so deeply? Because platinum-group metals were all extremely expensive. Rhodium, one of them, made up only one part per billion of the Earth's crust and was the most expensive metal on Blue Star! Palladium was the second most expensive, and the others were not cheap either.
More importantly, Xia Nation's rare-earth reserves were said to rank first in the world, but its platinum-group metal reserves were not large!
So when he discovered a platinum-group metal mine, there was no need to hesitate.
Red Sister had also been studying hard, cramming countless bits of industrial knowledge into her head. But she had not put in nearly as much effort as Feng Jun, and she had no intuitive grasp of platinum-group elements. "You mean platinum?"
"Platinum isn't the most expensive," Feng Jun replied with a smile. "But Xia Nation doesn't have much of it in reserve."
Red Sister nodded. "So we can barter with him?"
"Ask him for the mine's location," Feng Jun said with a smile. "I'll take you there to check the reserves and ore quality."
That very night, he took Red Sister and Good Scenery to the mining area.
What he found delighted him. Not only were the platinum-group metal reserves genuinely substantial, but he also discovered molybdenum ore and rhenium.
Rhenium was also said to be one of the rarest metals on