Along the way, I looked at both sides. The road in the jungle is quite spacious, but the road is somewhat potholed. The black man in the beret finally looked relaxed. He looked at me for a while and asked me something.
"He asked what you were watching." Qiao Qiao translated for me.
"Ask him, besides the trees, what else is there to see here?" I said lightly.
After Qiao Qiao translated, the black man grinned at each other, and then he spoke at a fast speed. Qiao Qiao frowned and said in a low voice: "He said that it was not safe at the airport just now, but he treated you There is no hostility. You are a guest of General Kunta."
"Not safe?" I also frowned.
Then the big black man told me that he seemed to be saying that some mercenaries from hostile forces were making trouble recently, and they had already killed two of them.
The car drove for about half an hour and arrived at the camp.
By the way, General Kunta did not meet me in their country's capital. The meeting place is in the diamond mine he controls! Here is far away from the civilized world, there are only jungles, wilderness, beasts... and dangers!
In front of us is a low-rise building made of simple board structures everywhere, as if it has formed a small village. Our convoy drove in from one end, and immediately there were countless black children running back and forth and shouting. Most of the skinny children had ragged clothes, and some didn't even wear any clothes. They looked at us with bright black eyes. However, there are also some slightly older children who look no more than fourteen or fifteen years old at most, wearing tattered military uniforms, cigarettes in their mouths, and long guns hanging from their shoulders...
Scouts
I sigh.
Most of the villages and towns are full of women, old people and children. There are hardly any men in their prime, and these women and children are all weak and pitiful. I felt like I was in a refugee camp...
When the car drove into the village, the driver had no intention of slowing down, and rushed in almost like flying. He almost hit the surrounding children several times, but the driver just laughed all the way, pressed the horn hard, and continued to step on the car. The gas pedal went down.
"It's like a wild place." Qiao Qiao bit her lip. And then, her face suddenly changed, and she screamed in a low voice: "Ah!!"
Following her gaze, we finally crossed that village and town. In front of us was the entrance of a camp. Black soldiers with guns stood guard at the gate. There was a row of shelves next to the wooden fence gate!
That's the gallows!
I saw corpses hanging from two gallows, corpses already decayed in the scorching sun, and buzzing flies swirling around. The corpse could no longer see its original appearance, as if it was just two piles of carrion hanging there! And on the ground, there are bloodstains that have turned black...
The surrounding soldiers all looked indifferent, as if they were used to such scenes, but Qiao Qiao's face was pale, and finally couldn't help but let out a wow, and vomited it out. I quickly put my hand on the landlord's shoulder, and turned her face to the side.
I sighed and said in a low voice, "I told you not to come!"
In fact, when I was in Cairo, at Ren Lei's camp, I planned to keep Qiao Qiao. Ren Lei also suggested that I should let Qiao Qiao stay. But this female bandit refused to live or die and insisted on following me. In the end, Ren Lei told me that there is no danger at all. I'm just worried that after going to that place, some things will be more shocking, especially girls, I'm afraid they will feel uncomfortable.
Apparently, it did.
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The entire camp was very large, and I finally saw what the diamond mine that was about to belong to me, or part of it, looked like.
A hillside like a crater, with a gap dug in the middle, on the surrounding hillsides, there are many black soldiers with dignified guns patrolling back and forth.
Just below, there are about hundreds of male black men working hard. These people are all bare-chested and thin, like refugees in the famine. Many of them still have whip marks on their bodies, just outside the mine , Under the protection of a group of soldiers with guns, several tables were set up, and some people were checking the ore handed in by the mine.
They seem to have calculated according to the weight of the ore. I saw some black miners holding a lot of ore the size of a fist... I don't know how many diamonds are contained in it, but at least what I saw was... the man who collects the ore, He took the ore and threw it into a basket on a scale, glanced at it, then waved his hand quickly, and then a soldier pushed the miner and threw him a mass of black things, as if food? Or something else
Oh, it seems there are a few coins left.
That's all!
As soon as our convoy entered the camp, we stopped and walked. As I was walking, I couldn't help looking at those miners. All of these people's faces were numb, and their eyes were also numb. Those party people waiting to exchange ore for food and coins lined up like a flock of sheep, and the overseer soldiers next to them kept glancing around with gloomy eyes.
Suddenly, I heard a scream, and then I saw two overseers rushing into the crowd, quickly grabbed a miner, dragged him out, and threw him on the open space. He directly took the whip and whipped it violently.
I couldn't help frowning, but Jojo had already asked the black man wearing a beret: "What's the matter?" She spoke French, but she translated a sentence to me after she finished speaking.
"Stealing mines, this kind of thing happens often... These damn pigs, give him food and make them work, and dare to steal the general's mines!"
Looking at these barely-clothed miners, I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable.
Is this the mine I want to buy
The annual income of tens of millions of dollars I calculated before I came here...is it produced under such circumstances
"The general is there!" the beret whispered, and then led me past.
It was only after Qiao Qiao reminded me that I understood what he was talking about. Looking around, I saw a man surrounded by a group of black soldiers in a built-up shed next to the mine.
This man is indeed General Yunta whom I have seen in photos! But he is a little fatter and bloated than he looks in the photo!
The pergola was covered with military canvas. On the chair below, Yuta leaned there, squinting his eyes. His body was not at all like the strong and fierce man like a leopard in the photo, but as fat as a rich man. He was like a rich man, but his squinted eyes showed a cold front from time to time.
To my surprise, in such an almost wild place, this General Kunta was actually wearing a snow-white shirt, and the style of the shirt, I saw it was from the hands of famous Italians... I remember Georgie Looney has an identical piece that appears to be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The general was leaning on the chair, holding a whip in one hand, and beating it lightly in his hand. After I walked over, he was still leaning on the chair, listening to the beret whisper something to him .
I felt as if I was being scrutinized by a wild beast. He was like a lion in the wilderness ready to tear its prey at any time. Such eyes covered me for about half a minute.
Then he stood up and handed the whip to the guard beside him: "Hello, are you Mr. Chen?"
He actually spoke English! This surprised me a bit, although his pronunciation is not standard, but I can still understand.
Then he took two steps towards me, and I was about to go up to him, when I heard the low roar of a beast coming from beside me!
I was startled! Looking to the left, I saw a strong beast lying under the arbor! That's a... lion
hell! That's really a lion! Although it looks a little smaller, it is a lion cub, but judging from its size and the fangs exposed from its mouth, it is already easy for such a guy to tear apart an adult!
A chain was hung on the lion's head, and when it saw me walking towards the sleepy tower, it roared somewhat hostilely.
"Shut up, don't scare my guests." Yunta laughed deliberately, and then he even stopped the soldiers next to him who were about to come up to search me, but directly hugged me warmly.
Looking at the sleepy tower at a close distance, I found that this guy probably became more corrupt after he became the head of state. The fat on his face is bloated, and he is not as heroic as in the photo, especially the two lips, which seem to be his face. Hanging like two fat sausages...
"Hello, General Yunta." I tried not to look at the lion next to me: "Nice to meet you. I think you already know the reason for my visit."
"Of course, I am very happy to discuss business with friends in China." Kunta laughed loudly.
And at this moment, there was a discordant scream in the distance, it was from the miner who was being whipped by the soldiers.
My slight frown was noticed by Zhuanta, who summoned a soldier and asked a few words in a low voice, and after a while, the miner was dragged in front of us like a dead dog.
"Sorry, my guest." Yunta said indifferently: "These damn bastards disturbed my guest, and I will punish him."
He said something in the native language, and soon, the two soldiers who were whipping the miners were disarmed, and then dragged behind to be whipped—it turned out that Kunta was blaming them for not doing it in front of a guest like me. this kind of thing. As for the miner, Yunta didn't even look at it. After being dragged behind, there was a clear gunshot!
boom!
The clear voice echoed in the valley, I saw Qiao Qiao's face was a bit ugly, and I sighed.