Chapter 423: A Different World
When the plane landed, the distance from the ground was closer, and the blue water seemed to rise and fall as if it were breathing, and the golden sandy beach was a large slum, as if the earth was covered with dense gray patches, and the sky was shrouded in gray-yellow dust.
"This is Draculamo, the Paris of Africa, known as the east coast of the Atlantic?" Cheng Xi asked suspiciously, looking at the buildings below that seemed to be covered with a layer of ash through the haze.
The city is extremely vast, and it feels like it's not even smaller than Xinhai, but even on the plane, you can't see the end at a glance, but the most intuitive impression of the whole city is still a little far from the most prosperous city in West Africa that she imagined.
"What, isn't it very far from what I imagined?" Cao Jiaying changed seats with Cao Mo, leaned over and asked, "I was a little confused the first time I came, but I didn't have a chance to enter Draculamo City last time I came, and my brother stuffed him into a corner for a few days, and he was sent away by my brother very boring - we will go to the city first when we get off the plane today to make up for our regrets......"
After the Shanghai Stock Exchange stock index broke through 3,500 points in this wave of strong rebound, Cao Jiaying accepted the lesson of last year, in addition to decisively clearing positions, she also directly took Wu Ruifang, Cheng Xin and other core members of the team to leave Xinhai for a vacation, so as not to make the mistake of not going to go to the stack in the past.
Taking advantage of Cao Mo's return to Kanem this time, Cheng Xi and Yu Jing were also entangled by Cao Jiaying and ran over for a vacation.
After listening to Jiaying's suggestion, he went directly into Draculamo City, and Cheng Xi also turned his head to look at Cao Mo with anticipation.
She was taken by her mother to visit various scenic spots when she was a child, but if she can decide to travel by herself, she will yearn to precipitate into the local market life and feel the different atmosphere of a city.
"Okay, when we get off the plane later, I will arrange a car to send us directly into Draculamo City, so that you can see the true face of this chaotic capital of West Africa, and then you can more deeply feel how beautiful the new sea is when you are tired of it!"
Cao Mo was rushed to the back row by Jiaying and sat down, said with a smile, and decided to accompany them directly to the city to see it.
He hurried back to Kanem, not knowing how many affairs would follow, and maybe after today, he might not be able to find time to accompany Cheng Xi and them to play in Kanem throughout the whole process.
Affected by the economic crisis, Kanem's current law and order is getting worse and worse, and there are frequent vicious cases in Draculamo City, Cao Mo thought to himself that if he didn't accompany him in person today, in the next few days, he wouldn't be at ease to let them run to Draculamo to wander around.
And Jiaying and Cheng Xi lack an intuitive understanding of the security situation in Draculamo, even if they arrange for bodyguards to accompany them, if they don't have the vigilance to never leave the bodyguard's field of vision, especially with Jiaying's temperament, they may think that the bodyguards are very obstructive, and it is still difficult to reassure them if they let them run to Draculamo by themselves.
The plane landed safely in the turbulence, except for Tesya who went directly to China to meet Cao Mo, as soon as the cabin door opened, Xiao Kusky boarded the plane directly with two assistants: "MR. Cao, the journey is still smooth?"
"It's all okay, the flight was two hours late when it was in Paris, you have been waiting here for a long time, right?" Cao Mo patted Xiao Kusi on the shoulder and introduced him to Cheng Xi, Yu Jing, Cheng Xin, Wu Ruifang and others.
After everyone got off the plane, they rushed directly to the parking lot by shuttle bus, and the checked luggage was arranged by Dai Ya to pick it up, so there was no need for Cao Mo and them to worry about anything.
To say that Xiao Kusky personally took his assistant to board the plane to greet him is nothing, and when he saw a black Chevrolet SUV in the parking lot, more than 20 Biaojian bodyguards in black suits stood in front of the car and waited, Yu Jing smacked her mouth for a long time before she came back to her senses: "Your score is too big, no wonder you are reluctant to return to Xinhai in Africa?"
Cao Mo smiled, seeing that Cheng Xi couldn't help but turn around and continue to look at the reception hall of Draculamo International Airport, which was like a township grain depot, put his arm around her slender waist, and said:
"Don't you feel a little disappointed? This is the most advanced international airport in West Africa, and Akwa also has an international airport, but in addition to the very few flights to Europe, the aircraft types are all old planes that have been eliminated by Europe and the United States. ”
Cao Mo deliberately did not tell Cheng Xi too specifically about Kanem's situation before going abroad this time, so that they could feel the most real side of West Africa more directly.
"It's okay, I looked up some information on the Internet the night before yesterday - I also want to know what kind of environment you have been working in for the past few years, but I always don't have the most direct feeling when I come to visit. Cheng Xi stood in a strange land, subconsciously grabbed Cao Mo's arm and said.
As soon as I got off the plane, I didn't feel too hot, but I felt like something was sticking to my body.
Although Cao Mo has been in Africa for several years, she doesn't feel good about this feeling, so she hurriedly boarded the car, enjoyed the cool world brought by the air conditioning, and told Little Kushi through the car window to lead the team directly to the Lana Dere Resort.
Jiaying said that they wanted to feel the atmosphere of Draculamo's market, but Cao Mo couldn't really take them to the chaotic and dangerous slums.
He thought about staying at the Lana Dere Resort Hotel first, taking them to the beach casino to feel the atmosphere, and when he had time, he would go to the salty lake island area and Victoria Island area for a walk, and visit the marketing center of Tianyue Industry in Draculamo, and then Yobram and others had a meal, even if the trip to Draculamo was successfully over.
After leaving the airport, the convoy drove through the bustling streets towards downtown Draculamo.
Cheng Xi and Yu Jing looked at the world outside the car window curiously, Cao Mo kept receiving calls to talk about things at this time, and she had no time to take care of Cheng Xi and them.
"Ahh
Hearing Yu Jing's scream in the passenger seat, Cao Mo looked up and looked out of the car window.
They were passing through a narrow, dirty street, and the convoy seemed to be blocked by something, in front of a farmer's market.
The front of the town was chaotic and dirty, and many people looked at it curiously.
The air conditioning in the car was not very good, Yu Jing sat in the passenger seat and opened the window, and there was an indescribable fishy smell.
When the convoy stopped, more than a dozen barefoot and unstripped black children gathered around begging, banging on the doors and windows with impunity; little Kusky had to arrange for men to get out of the car to maintain order, and at the same time to prevent people from approaching the convoy with other motives.
However, what caught the attention of Cheng Xi and Yu Jing was the rusty iron gate of the farmer's market, where two charred corpses hung on it.
When they were close, they could clearly see that the corpses were so distorted, their faces that had not been completely burned, and how hideous they were, as if the two had been set on fire while they were still alive, and there was a faint smell of gasoline.
"The corpse was hanged, what happened?" Don't talk about Yu Jing and Cheng Xi, Cao Mo's scalp was numb when she saw this scene, picked up the walkie-talkie, and asked Xiao Kusky, who was sitting in the front car, what happened here.
"I heard that these are two thieves, who were caught and hung on the iron gate of the market, doused with gasoline and burned to death, and have been burned to death, for four days!" replied Little Kusky over the intercom, "Miss Jiaying said that she wanted to see the most authentic street appearance of Draculamo, and I don't know where she knew that Independence Street has old buildings left by Draculamo from the colonial period - I don't know what happened before, I already knew that I didn't listen to Jiaying to choose this way." ”
Cheng Xi and Yu Jing spoke good English, and when they heard Xiao Kusky's answer on the phone, their faces were a little pale.
Draculamo's lynching is rampant, Cao Mo can still adapt to this situation, but Cheng Xi and Yu Jing feel incomprehensible, what age are they, how can there still be hanging corpses in public? After so many days, why don't the police care about it, what kind of world is this?
I don't know what happened in front of me, the convoy didn't restart after a while, Cao Mo felt a little abnormal, and saw two black men walking towards the convoy in a shop that seemed to be dealing in wild meat on the left side of the big iron gate of the market.
One of them reached out and slapped one of the begging children on the head, causing more than a dozen black children to scatter like birds and beasts.
The two brawny men were half-naked, with hideous scars on their shoulders, chests, and faces, and black guns stuck around their waists.
Seeing that there was some hesitation in their flickering eyes, and there were people in the distance who made eye contact with them, Cao Mo picked up the walkie-talkie and said to the little Kusky and Tya in the front and back cars: "Something is wrong, tell everyone to be careful!"
He stood up again, reached over and pressed the window on the outside of Yu Jing.
Yu Jing was still a little puzzled at first, and after a while, she saw the two bodyguards who had gotten out of the car directly took out their firearms, shouted and scolded the two people to retreat, and the two sides scolded a few words, only to see the two scolding and turning away.
Seeing Cao Mo's grim face holding the conversation with the car in front of him, Cheng Xi asked worriedly:
"What are they going to do?"
"If we were weak, we might need to take something out to get out of the house!" The front was blocked, and now it seems that they should have arranged for the car to stop in front of us on purpose - it should be that our convoy was ......targeted as soon as it entered Independence Street."
"If we had known this, we shouldn't have changed our itinerary willfully. Cheng Xi said.
"It's nothing, if I can't do it unimpeded in Draculamo, it's been a bit of a waste in the past few years!" Cao Mo smiled, instructed Yu Jing, who was sitting in the front row, and said, "You don't want to open the window anymore - this glass is the top bulletproof, as long as you don't open the window, someone will come forward to solve the problem outside......"
"They are members of the Dirt Rats!" Tya came over from the back car, replaced Yu Jing in the back seat, she sat in the passenger seat, in addition to putting the firearm on the dashboard, she also turned around and handed Cao Mo a Gerkloe pistol and two magazines full of bullets, and said, "The Ground Rats Gang is particularly active during this time, four days ago, a British company was robbed by a gang of bandits at gunpoint, and the case has not been solved, but it is said that the Ground Rats Gang did it......"
Tarya also hated this situation, and cursed:
"We've called in reinforcements, these bandits are so lawless, the police station is really shit-eating......"