Seeing the checkpoint guard suddenly appear on the roadside, an inappropriate joke suddenly emerged in Wang Ping's mind.
For a while, jokes about female drivers were very popular on the Chinese Internet. For example, a female driver was learning to drive, and a dog jumped out from the left side of the road, while a person was walking on the right side. The question of whether she would hit the person or the dog became the favorite material for joke makers for a while.
But in this situation, the joke seems a bit dull.
Wang Ping didn't know whether he should be thankful that there was no dog on the other side of the road, when he saw one of the black guards pick up the rifle behind him and aim at Wang Ping's position.
“F… sh…!!!”
The badger felt his scalp go numb instantly, and he quickly prostrated himself on the steering wheel in shame.
Whether it was during his service in the Foreign Legion or after he came to the Third Team, Wang Ping had faced gunpoint before. In other words, his job was to face many gunpoints, either openly or covertly. But it was rare for him to be in a situation like this, where he had no choice. If he was facing a poacher, Wang Ping would have stepped on the accelerator and rushed over with a roar.
Besides, Wang Ping really didn't expect that the local police, whom he used to look down upon, would be so bold as to draw his gun and point it at him.
“%!$…stop!…”
English mixed with Tsny dialect was shouted out from the mouth of the black guy holding the sign.
The two also discovered that something seemed amiss. The off-road vehicle that passed through at night didn't even turn on its headlights, which was obviously not right. It also didn't look like it was willing to be checked.
All vehicles entering Highway 144 must be registered. This is a regulation because Highway 144 leads directly to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and three national parks, which is also the area where poachers are most active. Any vehicle that is not registered and licensed is prohibited from passing on this road.
Perhaps it was because of the smell of gunpowder in the gun, Xiaohua showed a strong desire to attack.
Wang Ping didn't have time to comfort it at the moment, he could only pray that it wouldn't jump out. No one really cared if you were a protected animal at the moment, if you jumped out you'd be in trouble!
The distance of two hundred meters passed in a flash.
Seeing that he couldn't stop the car and it was too late to pull the road spikes, the guard holding the stop sign jumped away. Then, the other man with a gun opened fire.
"Bang!"
Fire flashed across the muzzle of the gun on the opposite side, and the sound of rifle shooting exploded in the night sky and spread far away. In a originally quiet yard in the town, lights suddenly lit up, and the noise of people quickly rose.
"puff!"
The bullet flew over Wang Ping's head, hit the back of the seat, and then went through the cushion of the back seat, making a muffled sound.
Fortunately, Gu Laosan was lying on his side in the back, his body not higher than the front dashboard, so when the bullet flew over his head, it still maintained a height of more than ten centimeters. Otherwise, he would have been really chilled to the bone and his heart would have been flying.
The sudden gunshot also frightened Xiaohua, who was about to pounce. She imitated Wang Ping and buried her head in front of her, looking extremely cowardly.
The off-road vehicle rushed through the intersection without slowing down at all. Not only that, it also rushed out of the roadbed at the turn behind the intersection.
Fortunately, there were large tracts of flat land here, with few hills. Wang Ping saw that he had passed the checkpoint, and hurriedly turned the steering wheel to get the car back on the road.
In the rearview mirror, one could see the black guard who initially stopped the car running towards the house shouting, but the guard who fired the shot seemed to be standing there in a daze.
Wang Ping no longer cared about anything else. He stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and the car sped west along the road towards its final destination.
Makuyuni.
The black guard who was almost hit was so angry that he started a sidecar motorcycle from the door of the white house where he was on duty and came to the intersection.
"Atuge! What are you daydreaming about? Get in the car!" The motorcycle spun around and stopped in front of the dazed young man, and the guard on the car shouted loudly.
"I..." The young guard named Atugo raised his head, his eyes confused and terrified. Looking at his partner, Atugo suddenly shouted: "Oh my God! Kumi, that's a ghost car!"
"What the hell is a ghost car! Are you scared silly? You weren't hit by the car, I was the one who was almost hit by the car!" The black guard named Ku Mi was furious and his eyes widened.
"It's true!" Atugo was about to cry, "When it passed by just now, I saw clearly that there was no one inside! No one, you know? Not a single person! The driver's seat was obviously empty! Kumi, do you still remember the legend in this town? Whenever night falls, the gates of hell will open, and the guides will take the ghosts of the world back to hell! That might be a ghost car that the dead are riding in! I... I actually shot it... I..."
“Bang!”
Before he could finish his words, Atugo was slapped in the face.
Kumi shook his shoulders and said angrily, "Are you stupid? The undead won't come out until after midnight. What time is it now? The people in the car must have laid down to avoid bullets! They are poachers! Wake up! Get in the car and chase them with me!"
"Uh..." Atugo was stunned, and subconsciously looked up at the sky. Then Che said suddenly, "That's right, the undead will not come out before midnight! But..."
Atugo said hesitantly: "Kumi, if they are really poachers, their weapons are much more powerful than ours. Are you sure it's just the two of us to chase them?"
Ku Mi: “…” Damn, I’m so angry that I’m confused.
Leaving the increasingly bustling town far behind, Wang Ping did not dare to slow down at all and sped along Highway 144.
There is of course more than just the Makuyuni checkpoint along the way. 30 kilometers away, there is a larger town called Mtowamu. Because it is close to Karatu, it is not a simple checkpoint, but a formal checkpoint.
But once you get there, you've entered the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The 20-kilometer area from Mtowamu to the edge of the reserve is all farmland and woods.
In order to pass smoothly, Wang Ping had to do something unkind, crossing the farmland. I hope the local farmers won't be too angry.
The distance of 30 kilometers was successfully passed in just 20 minutes. This also shows the benefit of Wang Ping's choice to break through at night. If it were during the day, there would be a constant stream of military vehicles picking up and dropping off tourists on this road. Even if no one was targeting them, it would not be possible to travel so smoothly. Moreover, with Wang Ping's current operating speed, a car accident is definitely a high probability event.
By the time the checkpoint in Makuyuni informed Mtowamu of the off-road vehicle's breakthrough, Wang Ping had already crossed more than a dozen large sections of farmland in the suburbs.
...
In the early morning, a message was fed back to the Chinese Embassy in TSNY. Not long after, Zhang Jianming, who was still searching for Gu Lang in the Maasai grasslands, also received news that the off-road vehicle rented by Gu Lang in Dodoma had broken through the checkpoint in Makuyuni.
Compared with the official speculation, the embassy is more inclined to the theory that Gu Lang was kidnapped by poachers and his car was stolen. But no matter which one it is, the nature of this time is different from the previous search and rescue mission.
After all, they are Chinese citizens, and the domestic public security system has also contacted the embassy. It is reasonable for the embassy to protect the rights and interests of its citizens overseas. So Zhang Jianming took the rescue team and rushed to Makuyuni to understand the situation.
At this time, Wang Ping was lying in the grass, looking at a shallow river beach outside the woods from afar.
The location of the security team's base is very unique. In the middle of the forest, there is a forest surrounded by a river. On both sides of the river are shallow beaches over ten meters wide, covered with sand and gravel, with only sporadic weeds growing, isolating the forest in the middle into an isolated island.
Looking down from mid-air, this place looks like a large plant cell, and it's the kind that lacks water.
This place is 10 kilometers deep into the core forest of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and is surrounded by large tracts of virgin forest.
From here, heading southeast, you can see Mount Lormalasin standing in the direction of the Great Rift Valley 30 kilometers away. Large tracts of forest extend from the top of the mountain.
Being able to drive the car into this distance has already reached Wang Ping's limit. It's not that there is no road to go further, but Wang Ping doesn't dare to continue driving so blatantly.
Even in the primeval forest, the distance between trees is enough for off-road vehicles to pass through. But this is the security team's territory, and who knows if any of the teammates are standing nearby with a gun and monitoring the riverbank.
Wang Ping was not worried that his teammates would shoot rashly, but he was afraid that his "ugly" driving posture would be seen through the telescope.
He is not ready to face his teammates in his current state.
However, Gu Lang's body could not be delayed any longer. After observing for a while and making sure that no one came to investigate, Wang Ping returned to the off-road vehicle, ready to expose him actively.