Theron Baddeley's eyes as he got out of the car were filled with a sense of danger staring at his prey.

This is a feeling that Cao Mo felt a few years ago when she stayed in a border town in the south of Akwa.

At that time, it was the first time that he was invited by Xie Sipeng to go to Akwa with Abacha and others to inspect the investment environment of gold mines there. They had to take a short break due to heavy rain and stayed at a hostel in the town.

The eyeliner of the nearby military camp ran to the hostel to inquire about their movements, and it was very clear to Cao Mo that he felt like a poisonous snake lurking in the depths of the grass.

And after that incident, it was also involved in the coup plot of Hufu Bonia.

Last year, Avena Foster went to meet him at the Lana Delray Beach Casino, and he felt the same way.

It was then proved that Avena had indeed colluded with Badina Smaller, Sayvie, and Ryan Fortes, representing the Evans Foundation, in an attempt to force him to cede his interest in the Ursan River copper-gold mine.

Avenna Foster also thought that she could get a great benefit from it, and in front of Cao Mo, she inadvertently revealed condescending, greedy, and contemptuous emotions that only peeps at prey.

These subtle and dangerous emotions are very different from those who are contemptuous and self-appreciative because of self-purity, arrogance, and isolation, and the latter does not make Cao Mo feel restless like a thorn in his back.

"We have invested so much in Benin, and the Baddeli family, including Speaker Baddeli, has benefited greatly, and Honorina is preparing for my brother's marriage, what could go wrong?"

Zhou Han and Teya summoned several staff members to the top floor, in addition to collecting as much relevant information as possible, they also set up a guard between the second floor and the top floor to prevent people from entering and leaving at will (this also seems to be a rule, but the implementation is stricter at this time);

Stari stood in front of the window, watching the three of them walk in the sunset by the lake in the distance.

Facts have long proved that Cao Mo has an extraordinary, keen observation ability, and the process of Tianyue's rise is also Cao Mo's ability, avoiding several big pits that are likely to cause the consequences of being crushed, she doesn't suspect that Theron Baddeley has a problem, but she can't see through where the problem is, and she doesn't know how big the problem is!

Cao Mo took Stari's hand and patted it lightly.

In the past few days, he said that Benin was living in seclusion, but every day he would also take time out of lunch or dinner to dine and talk with some responsible persons of the Beninese authorities, and even when he went to Cotonou after Draculamo's Spring Festival, he first met with Minister of Industry, Geology and Mineral Resources Paboni, Speaker of the National Assembly Baddeli, and Vice President Totoubbo.

However, there were no signs of danger before, which meant that Theron Baddeley was still a little far away from bringing a dangerous aura today.

At least the core of the Beninese authorities, where Minister of Industry and Mines Paboni, Speaker of Parliament Baddeli, and Vice President Totoubo are located, is not brewing any big conspiracy against Tianyue.

This also shows that they are safe for the time being.

However, Theron Baddeley, as a member of the Baddeley family they tried to woo, released such a dangerous signal, and Cao Mo would never dare to take it lightly.

"This is the resume of Theron Baddeley that I just found, it's very simple, and the information is still being further improved!" Zhou Han arranged the work, and got some simple materials collected first and handed them to Cao Mo to read first.

In addition to Theron Baddeley's personal history, there is also some information about the 2nd Army Division, and the information about the Baddley family, Tubman Security Consultants, has investigated before, and the relevant information has been called up at this time.

Cao Mo walked back to the study and spread a pile of materials on the desk.

As the second son of the Baddeli family, Theron Baddeley looks young, but he is actually almost forty years old, and he is still only a major officer in the Second Division of the Benin Army.

Because they are not important people, there is only a limit to the information that can be found publicly – of course, this has to do with Benin's poor network construction, and the information uploaded to the Internet is very limited, and it is complicated and slow to consult local paper materials.

And there was nothing to be seen from Theron Baddeley's information, so Cao Mo opened the materials of Theron and O'Honorina's father, Jasho Baddeley.

Jasho Baddeli is the titular leader of more than 400,000 Aja people in Benin's southeastern region, including Oguta.

The southeastern region of Benin, including Oguta, is home to four or five hundred thousand Aja people, which does not seem to be very large, equivalent to the population of an ordinary county in the country.

However, considering that there are only 5 million people in Benin, Jasho Baddeli is actually the second most prominent presence in Benin after the Aja kings.

Jasho Baddeley is not good at dealing with worldly affairs and likes to live in seclusion, which is why his younger brother, Mr. Baddeley Jr., entered the political arena on behalf of the Baddeley family, and for many years firmly held the Speaker of Parliament.

Therefore, even on the Internet, there are many public materials about Jia Shuo, and Stari and Zhou Han have also collected some materials about Jia Shuo Baddeli before.

Beninese is a homogeneous and secular, and Jazao Baddeli had several wives in his youth, but when he embraced Christianity in the late nineties, he left only his youngest wife, Honorina's mother, with him.

Although there is no public information, Cao Mo can also confirm that Theron Baddeley was born to one of Jasso Baddeley's previous wives.

After all, Honorina's half-brother Huntinge, who is now working as a political assistant to his uncle Baddeley Jr., is a rising political star in Beninese politics, and if he is not too young, he has been running for parliament on his own for the past two years.

Theron Baddeley and O'Honorina are only half-siblings, and they have not had a close relationship for a long time, and he also followed Ononlina and little Tubman to the manor to visit Cao Mo, who has nothing to do with him, which also indirectly proves that there is a problem.

"After the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Benin became more secularized, and Christianity spread much more widely than Akwa and Kanem, and it was rare to marry seven or eight wives at the same time and live together. As the second son of Jacso Baddeley, and he has only three brothers, as long as Baddeley gives him corresponding support, his development in the Benin Army should be smooth. At his age, as a major officer, he may seem quite good to ordinary people, but he should not be satisfied in his own heart—especially compared to his younger brother Huntingt. It's no surprise that he's going to do something that doesn't care about the family's interests!" Starri said with a frown, looking at the sketches of Jasho Baddeley and Theron Baddeley.

Cao Mo didn't sense any danger from the other members of the Baddeley family, but this could be solved.

Cao Mo took out Benin's army information again and scanned it.

The Beninese Army is composed of two

The 1st Army Division is mainly responsible for the defense of the Primorsky Region, including Cotonou and the capital Podonov, and the 2nd Army Division is mainly responsible for the northeastern region and the border garrison with Akva and Kanem.

In terms of equipment, the 1st Division is more elite, but the 2nd Division is slightly more effective in fighting against armed smuggling teams and militants from Akwa in the poorer northeast and on the border.

In addition to the public media reports, Tubman Security Consultants has previously conducted a detailed investigation and analysis of Benin's defense materials.

"Do you want someone to get Theron Baddeley's driver out of the way and put the bug into his car right now?" Zhou Han asked.

"......" Cao Mo shook his head and said, "What kind of hostility does Theron have towards us, but it has nothing to do with the Baddeley family, and we don't know who is behind it, we have to prevent these people from being very familiar with us!"

Theron Baddeley is more like an eyeliner who takes the initiative to ask Ying to come over to spy on news and intelligence, and he is a minor character, so Cao Mo will not believe that he himself is leading the plot to stand on what plan is aimed at this side.

Does Theron Badleta qualify for this?

And if there is an institutional force like the Evans Foundation behind it, then they must be careful and careful what they want to do.

Directly installing eavesdropping devices will easily leave traces and be easily searched by the other side with anti-reconnaissance tools -- in that case, it will be easy to startle the snake.

In fact, at this time, they had already sensed the aura of danger, and the other party thought that their side was still ignorant, which was the biggest advantage of their side.

This is also the key to their previous successful defuse of the Ofbonia coup plot and the conspiracy between the Saviyi family and the Evans Foundation to spy on the copper-gold mines of the Usan River.

If they accidentally startle the snake, they will lose this greatest advantage and will become extremely passive.

In this land, they are always outsiders, naturally passive.

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During this time, Guo Donghu, senior vice president of Tianyue Industry and president of the Grain, Oil and Food Division, still stayed in Benin, responsible for sorting out the upstream and downstream business connection between Tianyue Industry and the newly established West African Agricultural Group.

Everyone is overseas, and there is no place to spend time at night, Cao Mo gathered everyone together, in addition to dining together and discussing things, if there is nothing to do at night, you can also organize a card game to kill the lonely time in a foreign land.

Therefore, the manor is quiet during the day, but much more lively at night.

Song Yuqing, who was worried that her expression would be exposed, even hid in the room on the top floor with Zhou Han under the pretext of being unwell at this time, continued to collect intelligence information, and did not participate in the night banquet.

At the night banquet, Cao Mo also specially invited Theron Baddeley's driver to come in for dinner.

In Kanem, Benin, and Akwa, the chauffeur is equivalent to a servant and is not entitled to dine with the host at a formal banquet.

However, Cao Mo has never paid attention to these broken rules—which is almost an open secret.

The long dining table was set in the open air under the grapevine trellis in the courtyard, and the delicate silver cutlery and crystal cups were placed on it, and the young Aja maid served sumptuous food and wine in turn, and two Aja girls dressed in traditional flower skirts and sang and danced on the leather drums around their waists.

At nine o'clock, Cao Mo ended today's banquet under the pretext that there was still something to do.

According to the tradition of the locals, it is normal for the banquet that starts after dark and lasts until dawn the next day, but Cao Mo is the king of this manor, and it is normal and unquestionable for him to end the banquet when he wants.

Guo Donghu and his family are still staying in a hotel in Cotonou, not far from the estate, and little Tubman also has a residence in Cotonou.

If he didn't want to stay in Cotonou, little Tubman would have been a little far away overnight in Oguta, a two-hour drive on the way.

However, today, depending on his own intentions, he should still take Honorina back to his residence in the city to spend the night together.

Watching the cars drive away from the manor and disappear into the depths of the night, Cao Mo frowned slightly and asked Zhou Han who came out of the shadows: "After Theron's driver left the banquet, did he talk to the outside world?"

Cao Mo asked Theron Baddeley's driver to be invited to the banquet, and although Theron's driver insisted on sitting in the corner and quickly returned to the car after dinner, Cao Mo was enough to capture some key information in such a short period of contact.

In the conspiracy against them, Theron's chauffeur is not only an insider, but even has a higher status than Theron Baddeley - or it could be said that this person wants to spy on the inside of the manor, so he pretends to be the driver and enters with Theron Baddeley.

This person may be the mastermind or the core executor of the conspiracy against them.

Theron Baddeley is a member of the Baddeley family, and Tianyue has been fighting with the Baddeley family for more than a year, so Theron Baddeley was pulled into this conspiracy by the forces behind the scenes, right?

Although Cao Mo did not advocate that Zhou Han and the others install a hearing device directly in Theron Baddeley's car, it was not too difficult for his car to be parked in the manor and not move to conduct remote monitoring.

Cao Mo now wants to know if the "driver" has been in contact with the outside world for more than an hour since he left the banquet.

"The driver made two phone calls for a long time, but he didn't speak Aja, nor did he speak common languages such as Yoruba and Aken, and the preliminary judgment was that it might be the local language of the Quinn people - no one in the core group on our side was proficient in this language, and Oguno found a security officer on his side, and he could only barely understand the local language of the Quinn people, and he couldn't confirm it in many places, so he directly arranged to come over and participate in the analysis together - people should be almost there!" Zhou Han said.

Cao Mo frowned slightly, there are many ethnic groups on the African continent, the local language is very complicated, the Quinn people are a very small ethnic group on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, and he doubts that there are still many people on the entire African continent who can speak the Quinn language.

The security personnel who are now rushing from Oguta can only barely understand it, so it is really difficult to say how much useful information can be analyzed from the recording.

"Little Kuski, where have they been?" Cao Mo asked.

"Little Kusky has already arrived in Cotonou with two groups of men, Stari did not arrange for them to come directly to the manor, for fear that the movement would be too big, but two more cars will be arranged to guard the perimeter of the manor, and from the periphery it will be seen if there is anyone staring here...... Zhou Han said.

Even if the crisis is not so imminent, it is perceived and the necessary arrangements must be put in place.

Cao Mo frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I don't want two groups of people here, arrange one group to go to the Correth Hotel!"

The Cress Hotel is where Guo Donghu, Zhang Chaoyang and other dispatched employees live in Beigong.

During the short time that Theron Baddeley's "driver" was invited to the night banquet, he also looked at Guo Donghu, Chen Shu, Zhang Chaoyang and others.

This is actually Cao Mo's biggest headache, Tianyue is large-scale, the target is also big, and the other party's conspiracy involves characters like Theron Baddeley, if you really want to do something, the movement will definitely not be small, and if you are a little surprised, it will be difficult to take care of everything.

If the other party only targets him, he can basically avoid the main risk by making an excuse and moving to another place under the protection of elite bodyguards.

"I contacted Kuski Jr., and if there was a shortage of manpower, I would ask Drew to bring in a team from Conero Security in the name of strengthening the security of the construction site. Zhou Han said.

Cao Mo nodded and walked towards the main building.

Now that the third and fourth floors of the main building are cordoned off, ordinary servants are forbidden to enter and leave, and Stari has also moved a bulletproof business vehicle equipped with a satellite communication platform to the front of the main building.

"Did you find more information about Theron Baddeley?"

Cao Mo asked Tessa who was staring at the intelligence analysts at work.

Although Theron Baddeley's "driver" is more crucial, there is no clear information about this "driver", and for now we can only continue to dig deeper from the Theron Baddeley line.

Tya handed Cao Mo the information she had gathered in the last two hours.

Cao Mo took the information and wanted to sit under the lamp in front of the window, but was blocked by the bodyguards, signaling that he was in a special situation now, and it was a very dangerous place in front of the window where the lights were turned on at night - they couldn't close all the curtains in the main building to prevent peeping, so they should avoid walking to the window as much as possible, so as not to be exposed to the surveillance of the enemy lurking in the shadows.

Cao Mo sighed and walked to the sofa in the middle of the room and sat down.

Although the Internet in Benin is very backward and there is hardly any information that is too useful, some information has been pieced together from the Internet and local print media materials that have been urgently transferred.

Although Theron Baddeley is not very happy in the family, as the son of Jacso Baddeley, he still has some public attention - and Benin is a small country, with only two print media and two TV channels with little content, relatively speaking, the information that needs to be widely searched is not as scary as imagined.

The newly collected information is a relatively complete piece of Theron Baddeley's resume in the early days of the army.

Therón Baddeley was ignored by his family and barely became a lieutenant before joining the Second Division of the Benin Army.

Just like playing games, the early game experience is the best to mix, and it is also the easiest to upgrade.

Therefore, it took Theron Baddeley to be promoted from lieutenant to major, and it took eight years to be promoted to two ranks, which is not slow, but the previous promotion to lieutenant officer took ten years.

According to the general path of the Beninese army, a young man with a background like Theron Baddeli, and a fairly beautiful academic background, it is normal for him to be promoted directly to lieutenant three or four years after joining the army - and then as the ascent channel narrows, he walks down step by step, and now he can also serve as a lieutenant colonel or colonel officer in the army.

Considering that Benin is small and sparsely populated, the colonel is already considered a middle-ranking general in the Beninese army.

After the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), under the initiative of Kanem, if there is a disturbance in any country in the community, other countries can form a joint force to enter the peacekeeping campaign. After serving as a lieutenant in the Army's 2nd Division, Theron served in the peacekeeping force, leading a detachment stationed in a small coastal country southeast of Kanem to maintain peace and suppress riots, which he spent two years before returning to Benin.

It was also after participating in that peacekeeping operation that he was quickly promoted to major officer.

There's nothing to be found in Theron Baddeley's resume, and there's still too little useful information — but Zhou Han still illustrates the limited information.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the security officer, who knew a little about Quinn's native language, arrived, but was worried that he would not be able to help because he could barely understand a few simple sentences.

Intelligence analysis is a tedious task, more like a puzzle, and even providing only a small piece of the correct puzzle can be beneficial—Tya also arranged for the staff here to quickly familiarize himself with the information that has been collated here, helping him to understand more about the content of the recording.

“...... "The visitor quickly identified a key piece of information, "The recording clearly says the name of this place!"

Stari, Zhou Han, and Tesa were all excited, and Quicoto was the place where Theron was stationed as an officer of the peacekeeping force, and that was eight years ago - if Theron Baddeley's driver also mentioned the name of Quecoto in a call to the outside world, it was very likely to be a very crucial piece of information.

This will be able to draw a relatively clear direction for the next step of intelligence analysis.

"I've searched with this place name before, and the amount of information on the Internet is very limited, so I'm not sure there's exciting information!" said a staff member sitting in front of a computer.

Quekoto is not in Benin, but a small town in the small coastal country southeast of Kanem — a country that Cao Mo wonders has ever set up its own Internet — and if information is not available online, it will be difficult to get written material in a short time.

"Look up the name of Kuikoto for any other spelling - gather as much information as possible about the area around Kuikoto and the peacekeepers!" Zhou Han commanded.

Although the members of the core intelligence team were carefully selected, they also have to admit that the locals are limited by their education level, and some people's abilities and ideas are still a little unsatisfactory, and many tasks need to be carefully instructed by Zhou Han.

After Zhou Han's awakening, intelligence analysts quickly found out that Kui Ketuo has another more commonly used spelling "Kui Ketosi", but there are several shocking reports on the Internet about the place name "Quek Ketos" - "Quy Ke Tus Sea Drilling Robbery".

In the second half of 2002, the French Langhua Petroleum Group acquired an offshore oil field operated by an oil company near Quecotos for many years, and maintained and operated oil drilling.

However, less than half a year after Langhua Petroleum Group acquired these offshore drilling platforms, that is, at the beginning of 03, these offshore drilling rigs began to be attacked by pirates.

At that time, the Langhua Petroleum Group was equipped with quite strong mercenary armament for these drills, but the pirates were equipped with high-speed speedboats, and their weapons and equipment were not weaker than those of the mercenaries, or even stronger, and they were more well-trained.

In addition to paying tens of millions of dollars in ransom for the ransom of the captured dispatched employees, more than 20 dispatched employees and hundreds of mercenaries were killed in frequent pirate attacks, and finally had to shelve the operation of these wells and withdraw all the personnel, which has not been restarted until now.

The main competitor of Langhua Petroleum Group's acquisition of the Quicotos offshore oil field in 02 was the Linton Petroleum Group, a subsidiary of the Evans Foundation, and there was even a report directly pointing out that these pirates equipped with high-speed speedboats were the revenge of the Evans Foundation in the competition to acquire the Quicotos offshore oil field!