Sandalwood marks

There is no international airport in Terry, and naturally there are no flights from Huaguo to Terry.The plane of Mu Tanhen and others landed in Saiguo, a neighboring country of Terry.

Saiguo was originally a very poor African agricultural country, where there was starvation everywhere.However, since this country imitated the economic model of Huaguo, the economy has rebounded, reaching a high growth rate of more than [-]% every year.After ten years of development, Saiguo is now known as a small country in Africa, and the living conditions of the people have been greatly improved.

Not only Saiguo, but also government officials and intellectuals from other African countries.People of insight believe that following the Huaguo model of economic development is Africa's last chance to get rid of poverty.Since they agree with Huaguo's development path, African countries naturally welcome Huaguo enterprises to invest in them.

When Mu Tanhen and other talents walked out of the airport, they were surrounded by blunt Chinese.

"Hello there!"

"Hi, need help?"

"Nice to meet you!"

The ones who spoke were locals with skin as dark as coal, all smiling enthusiastically at the seven members of the collection team with their white teeth bared.

Mu Tanhen was dumbfounded, has Chinese become an international common language?

A Rui waved to the enthusiastic local blacks, and let out a series of chatter.The enthusiastic local blacks coaxed away, looking for the next target.

"Ari, what do these people want to do?" Mu Tanhen felt strange.

"They want to be our guides." Ari told them in the local language that he had guides and didn't need them.

"Oh, they all know how to speak Chinese, and they are very dedicated." Mu Tanhen admired him a little. It is relatively difficult for him to learn foreign languages, and he can speak English so-so after half a year of self-study.

"Where, they can only speak a few words of everyday language. Communication still relies on gestures. A friend I know is here. He can speak fluent English and simple Chinese." A Rui waved to a middle-aged black man in the distance: "Hi , Niggs!"

Niggs also spotted Ari, and walked over quickly with his white teeth bared.

Niggs is not tall, less than 1.7 meters. He has curly hair, thick lips, and a lean physique. His clothes are bright and dazzling, with a dark complexion, and the sandalwood marks are awkward.Niggs walked up to Ari and gave him a big hug with open arms. "Oh, my friend, Niggs misses you so much."

Niggs spoke English, which Mu Tanhen could understand.

Ari gave Niggs a hug. "Nigs, let me introduce you. This is my boss, Mr. Mu."

"Mr. Mu! Hello!" Niggs warmly shook hands with Mu Tanhen.

A Rui pointed to Liu and the others again. "My friends."

Niggs shook hands one by one and said hello.

"Ari, how long will you stay here? Where are you going?"

"My good friend, I would like to trouble you to take us to your homeland this time." Niggs is from Terry, lives in Saiguo, and works as an errand and as a guide.

Niggs widened his eyes: "Oh, my friend, you are going to Terry to find diamonds too?"

"No, my boss is going to explore the Wushi Valley." Ari shook his head.Wushi is the name of the valley where there are mutated army ants.

"Oh, it's terrible in there." Niggs' eyes kept rolling.

"Just take us to Taniguchi." Ari knew what Niggs was worried about.

"Is the pay the same as before?"

"Same."

"Okay!" Niggs agreed without moving his eyes.

At this time, a 30-year-old Chinese man came over.

"May I ask who is the captain?"

"I am!" Da Liu took a step forward.

The man nodded and handed a car key to Liu. "The car is parked outside, black SUV, things are in the trunk."

Da Liu took the key and said thank you, the man smiled and left.

I found the off-road vehicle outside the airport. There were guns and bullets in the trunk of the off-road vehicle. Liu carried the boxes containing the gun and bullets into the car and distributed them one by one. The five bodyguards and A Rui each had a pistol, and each had a 92 automatic pistol. , Mu Tanhen, who can't shoot, also took a self-defense.

You can't bring weapons on the plane, you can only contact people from Saiguo to help equip them.The man who delivered the keys was the person in charge of a domestic security company in Saiguo, and Li Kaiqing contacted him to deliver the weapons when he was in China.

Niggs was driving a [-]% brand-new van. Da Liu and the other six got into the off-road vehicle and cleared the way ahead. Mu Tanhen and Ari got into Niggs' van and followed behind the off-road vehicle.

In the car, Ari asked, "Nigs, what did you say about diamonds?"

"You don't know yet? Six months ago, a Frenchman discovered a large piece of kimberlite in the west of Terry. When the news spread, many people ran there to make a fortune." Niggs took his hands off the steering wheel, dancing, and the van began to twist yangko.

Mu Tanhen raised his heart at once. Fortunately, the highway in Saiguo was built by Huaguo Construction Company. It is very wide. The traffic on the road is not as crowded as in Huaguo. The van turned and twisted on the highway without any accident.

"Why don't you go?"

"I don't have the strength. There is a lot of land grabbing over there." Niggs shrugged.

Niggs doesn't have the ability to grab territory and dignitaries want to grab it.

"Where is the diamond mine?" Ari was very interested.

Niggs winked his eyes: "It's not far from the border between Saiguo and Terry, we're going to pass there."

Mu Tanhen asked: "Is the road smooth?" Terry said that the country has become more chaotic.

Niggs nodded again and again: "Tongtong, as long as you pay the money."

"Oh, there is a toll gate." Mu Tanhen was relieved. Since the toll gate was set up, it means that people sent by the government are there to manage it. Since there are people from the government, safety is guaranteed.

Seeing Mu Tanhen's relieved look, A Rui grinned involuntarily.Things will never be as Mu Tanhen imagined.

The road from Saiguo to the Terry border is newly built, and the car is very comfortable to drive.After leaving the capital of Saiguo, the houses seen on the side of the road become dilapidated. The rural situation here is very similar to that of Huaguo in the 80s.Mu Tanhen was born in a city, and Wuhai belongs to the economically developed area of ​​Huaguo. Looking at the scene before him, he can only feel that he is poor and backward.

It was already dark when we drove to the border of Saiguo, so we stopped in a small town for the night.Get up early the next day and cross the border.

Once out of Saiguo, the road conditions are not good, and the potholes are the same as the roads before the domestic reform.The condition of the roadside villages is even worse. There are few brick, tile and cement buildings, and most of them are earth embryos, or sheds made of branches and grass.Beside the clay brick houses and sheds, some women walked back and forth with things on their heads, and a large number of children gathered to play together. The smaller children crawled on the ground with their buttocks bare, and no one took care of them at all.Mu Tanhen could tell at a glance that all these children were malnourished.

The road conditions were bad, and the car drove very slowly. It took more than two hours to drive more than 30 kilometers.When we set off in the morning, it was cool when the sun just came out. As the sun rose, there were no clouds in the sky. The temperature turned the air into a hot stream, and the air conditioner in the car was also stuffy.

Entering the highway where the diamond was discovered, suddenly there was a dense sound of firecrackers ahead.The off-road vehicle stopped by the side of the road, followed by the van, and Da Liu and others got out of the car with guns and surrounded the van.

"What's going on?" Seeing that Liu and the others were extremely nervous, Mu Tanhen didn't know why.

Before Mu Tanhen finished his question, there was a loud noise, and a puff of black smoke rose from the sky four or five miles away.This time, Mu Tanhen understood that the sound of firecrackers was rushing, and the loud noise was either shells or grenades.

"Oh, these scumbags are fighting again." Niggs said indifferently. "You guys wait here, I'll go ahead and see what's going on."

"Okay, we'll wait for you here." Ari was calm.

After Niggs left, Mu Tanhen asked A Rui: "Who is fighting?"

"The Terry people who are robbing tolls are fighting."

"Isn't the Terry government collecting tolls?"

"No, the Terry government army can only control the capital city, and Terry's capital is still a hundred kilometers away from here. The checkpoints on the road are all set up privately, and whoever has the strength will set them up." In fact, it is Roadhog.

"Uh, is this still the government?" Mu Tanhen felt ashamed for the Terry government.

"Hey, Terry's government also changes every three years." Ari raised his eyebrows.Although Terry Kingdom is small, there are no less than [-] forces, large and small.

Niggs didn't drive, but walked over.An hour later, the gunfire subsided, and Niggs returned.

"Luka's replacement is finished, we can go there, and get the toll ready."

This time Mu Tanhen got on an off-road vehicle, which was stronger than a van.

Luca was very simple, using sandbags to block the two sides, and blocking the middle with a bar made of rough wood, with bullet holes and blood stains on the bar.A dozen Terry young men with guns on their backs and in various costumes stood near Luka.Mu Tanhen saw several corpses on the side of the road, which should be the corpses of the defeated.

A Terry man in a blue floral dress walks up to the off-road vehicle, and Ari will hand out a stack of RMB.After the blue broken flower Terry took the count, he nodded in satisfaction, bared his teeth, and gave Ari a crooked military salute, then waved his hand to his partner behind him, and the Terry in front of Luca immediately moved The rod moves away.

Holy crap, Roadhog is pretty polite.

Maybe the next time I come back, there will be a replacement here, and the Road Hog in front of me will become a corpse by the side of the road just like today's loser.

What chaos is, Mu Tanhen has seen it.

After two more checkpoints, the group arrived at the capital of Terry.The law and order in the capital of Terry seems to be okay. There is a supermarket run by Chinese people in the city. I bought the food and drinking water needed in this supermarket, and rented an off-road vehicle to replace Niggs’ van before heading to the Wushi Valley. advance.

This circuit is more difficult to open. In some places, there are no roads that are not artificially constructed, but roads stepped by people and beasts.When we arrived at Wushi Valley, we couldn't drive in.Ari and Niggs visited the chief of a nearby village, gave gifts, and asked to leave the car in the village. At the same time, Niggs stayed to watch the car.

The chief was very hospitable and enthusiastic. He said that there were demons in Wushi Valley, and sincerely proposed to hold a purification ceremony for the guests.When the local people enter the valley, they have to purify it. It is said that after purification, poisonous snakes and insects will not attack them.

In fact, there are ingredients in the purified water that are annoying to insects, and it will dissipate within seven or eight hours after being sprinkled on the body.Chief Fu couldn't store the car because of his kindness, so the collection team had no choice but to let the chief purify it obediently.After entering the valley, the collection team waited for the smell to disappear before searching for the army ant colony.