Ren Lei didn't lie... Indeed, the plane will arrive soon.
The plane didn't fly over, but... was transported!
Throughout the night, this temporary "airport" was brightly lit, and convoys came and went, dragging many large metal structure components, and then several engineering team workers drove the machines and were busy at the scene...
I randomly found a small room at the back of the warehouse, put a hammock and slept all night. After dawn, I looked at the "runway" outside...then rubbed my eyes with the inside.
airplane!
There are quite a few planes!
I opened my mouth wide, and at first I was ready to marvel, but soon my marvel turned into anger. I rushed out and found Ren Lei beside the runway.
"This... is this the plane you were talking about?" I was livid.
"Yes." Ren Lei replied calmly.
I put my head in my hands: "God, where did you get all this junk!!"
At the airport, the closest to me is the oldest C130 military transport plane, the fuselage is so dilapidated that it seems to have been dragged out of a waste factory after it was scrapped—and I found out later that it was indeed the case.
On the entire runway, there are about four planes, an old-fashioned C130, an old-fashioned "Cub Fox", an old-fashioned Yi-76, and an An-12.
What these planes have in common is that these are military aircraft, and the most "new" looking ones feel like they should be sent to a military museum rather than on an open air runway.
God bears witness, even the special plane of General Yunta is much newer than it looks!
"You... where did you get all this rubbish?" I looked at Ren Lei depressedly.
"Funds!" Ren Lei emphasized again: "Our funds are insufficient! Chen Yang! You have to understand this. We have spent a lot of effort to collect these planes from the disposal channels of scrapped military items in various places... We can find them in It’s not easy to do this in such a short period of time.”
"But...they are all military aircraft!" I took a breath.
"Nonsense!" Ren Lei finally stared: "Where can I buy a civil aviation plane? How many civil aviation companies are there in the whole of Africa? How many civil aviation planes are there in the whole of Africa? How much money do we have? Do you expect me to buy it?" Have some Boeing 747 or 757 come back?" Sighing, he said in a low voice: "Besides, in some economically backward areas, it is also the practice in many parts of the world to use retired military transport aircraft as civil aviation aircraft. it does not matter."
I finally nodded.
Then I randomly walked to the side of a plane...
I have to say that Ren Lei and the others are quite responsible. Because the appearance of these planes is really unsightly. Some of the rust on the fuselage almost corroded the cabin of the plane, and there are many perforations, as well as blue and green rust... If someone else Seeing such a plane, I am afraid that this East African United Airlines is on the verge of bankruptcy!
Some staff took all kinds of paints and coatings, and carefully painted the surfaces of several aircrafts... They even put the logo of our "East Africa United Airlines" on the fuselages of the two aircrafts, as well as the words !
Everything is done in a decent way...
But the next scene made me completely angry!
I walked around a C130 for a long time, and suddenly found a very serious problem!
Because from the perspective of the mechanical cabin... this plane doesn't seem to have engines and all the machinery!
"Indeed not." Ren Lei said lightly: "All planes have no engines, no internal machinery, and even no fuel tanks! Even all the exposed propellers were found and matched by me later."
"...No engine? No machinery?" I swallowed hard: "Then...that is to say, these planes are all fake? All..."
"Why is it fake?" Ren Lei said firmly: "It's real! They are all real planes."
"But these are all models!" I raised my eyebrows: "Can these guys fly? It's just a pile of iron sheets!"
"Of course it can't fly." Ren Lei gave me a strange look: "Have you ever seen a plane without an engine that can fly?"
"Then...they just piled up on the runway...you can't even move on the runway and run twice!"
"Of course not!" Ren Lei thought for a while: "Unless you use a trailer to tow it."
Looking at my puzzled eyes, Ren Lei added: "Besides, even if I am willing to spend a lot of money to install internal machinery on these planes, they will not be able to fly... Well, let's take this C130 for example. We found it By the time it was broken into seven pieces, it was lying in a junkyard for war-damaged military equipment. It took us nine trailers to get it here, and it took us a night to put it back together... both It was temporarily welded by electric welding. Some places are so rotten that we can't weld it. We can only add two pieces of iron sheets, and then use rivets to temporarily fix it... Let alone fly, shake or move a few times violently , I'm afraid it will fall apart! I even suspect that it looks like a complete plane now... "
It's very embarrassing for him, he hasn't finished his words, the young fox transport plane not far from us is being dragged by the trailer and moving slowly, but suddenly there is a bang, and the left wing of the plane falls off completely , causing the workers to be busy for a while, grateful to call in the crane for reinstallation...
Ren Lei pretended not to see this scene, but continued: "In short, it looks similar, so that's fine!"
"Several real aircraft models..." I said in a desperate tone: "You don't expect me to take these things and fool the American investigators away?"
"Why not?" Ren Lei glanced at me quickly: "They won't ask you to show them the plane taking off."
"That's technology!" I was depressed: "They always want to look at our technology! They want to look at our technology department, and even technical equipment, but we are just an empty shell now, where there is no technology to look at!"
"They won't." Ren Lei thought for a while: "There must be a limit to making trouble. If they go too far, it is tantamount to tearing their face. But they will not turn against us now, nor will they regret it. This It's just asking for trouble once. Everyone is talking, and it depends on who can do it well."
I pointed at these planes: "What about these guys? Anyone who takes a closer look and opens the cockpit will find that this pile of treasures of yours is a pile of scrap iron!"
"It's very simple." Ren Lei smiled.
Soon, someone put up a barrier around several planes, and there were eye-catching "do not approach" signs.
"What's this for?" I frowned.
"It's a good excuse." Ren Lei said with a smile: "Don't you think the paint and paint on the plane are very new? At that time, we will say that our plane has just undergone maintenance, and we have just sprayed new paint, which needs to evaporate, so it is forbidden People approaching...what a good excuse."
Ren Lei said it very lightly, but what follows is my headache.
"Chen Yang!" Ren Lei's convoy began to retreat after the construction of the "airport" was completed, and he said to me: "There is only so much we can do. You see, now there is an airport and an aircraft warehouse. There is a runway, even a plane... The other party is just checking for appearances, and our documents are all flawless... The rest is up to you. After all, this company is in name you and country G The government, so my people don’t show their faces, so as not to leave a clue to the Americans. So, my work ends here.”
"But I still need a company." I smiled wryly: "An airline company can't just have airports and planes, right? I still need a company!"
"It's very simple." Ren Lei said lightly: "Rent an office building, get a batch of desks, set up a few old-fashioned computers, hang a company signboard, get a few rows of file cabinets, and arrange a group of people to pretend to be company employees... A few hours, pretending, it shouldn't be difficult... You said these things."
"Have you prepared these for me?"
"No..." Ren Lei shook his head and sighed, and then suddenly yelled at me: "Brother! I have exhausted all my resources to get you such an airport! Our funds are limited! In order to get this airport, I have already spent all the funds we spent in Africa for three years! I have put all my energy into it, and I really have no other strength to build a company for you... "
"Okay. I'll do what you said." I gritted my teeth and thought to myself: Isn't it just a few desks, computers, and rows of file cabinets! At that time, get a group of people to sit in the room, and when the other party comes to parallax, just make a good show.
Watching Ren Lei get into the car and leave, and waving goodbye to him, I once again glanced at this "airport" created overnight with extremely desperate eyes.
And a few more baby planes…
I really felt like I wanted to hit my head to death.
Depressed and left by car, only a team of engineering personnel left by Ren Lei continued to guard and maintain the airport. I went back to the urban area, quickly found all the people, and then I urgently arranged the division of labor.
Buy office supplies, office furniture, office appliances!
Rent an office building, use the simplest decoration...
"Fifth brother..." A brother who was assigned to the task had a bitter face: "You said that renting an office building is not difficult... but the decoration... normal decoration cannot be completed in a month or two!"
"No! I'll only give you a day and a half! Just a day and a half!" I thought for a while and gritted my teeth: "Anyway, I'm fooling people! I estimate that those American investigators will stay in the company for an hour or so at most. Within that hour, the house doesn’t collapse and the ceiling doesn’t fall! You can fool around with anything else! In short, I just need to survive the inspection for more than an hour!”