Ayaguo is a small country, there are no direct flights from Shancheng Airport, the fastest need to transfer in the middle, the most convenient way is to go to Dubai to transfer, the whole process takes more than 20 hours.

Li Huan was much more cautious this time, because he no longer had a crystal nucleus in his hand, that is, there was no portal to use.

After more than 20 hours, the plane finally landed at Ayaguo International Airport, and as soon as Li Huan left the customs, he saw a person holding a sign waiting for him outside the airport gate - Li Huan's two big Chinese characters were extremely conspicuous. Li welcomed the boarding pass and walked away, and in the surging crowd, there was only Li Huan, a Chinese, who was particularly conspicuous.

"It's Mr. Li Huan, right?" The other party also noticed Li Huan: "We are Mr. Chen's security personnel, specially here to greet you." ”

"You're welcome. Li Huan nodded, looked up and down at the person holding the card, and exclaimed, "Are you a person who has been on the battlefield?"

"Gulf War, Freedom of Independent Operations, Frontline Air Force Ground Guides of the Ranger Mixed Brigade. The person holding the sign was strong, and he grinned when he heard Li Huan's question: "Mr. Chen said that it was an expert who came over this time, and it was really an expert, how did you see it?"

"You smell of the battlefield. Li Huan smiled faintly: "Rangers, Citigroup? ”

Li Huan's implication is that it is likely that the mysterious people who attacked the oil field are from Citigroup.

"Don't belittle my profession, as a mercenary, I only serve my employer - unless one day my country is in danger, I can distinguish my position, even if a man's brain is a dog's brain. Besides, those bastards also took money, and they didn't fight against me differently?" The sturdy Citi native was very happy and stretched out his hand: "You can call me Li Ang, EO Company." ”

Oh, EO.

Modern mercenaries no longer operate in a straggler manner, as in the past, but form companies, establish a corporate management system according to modern business models, and undertake business. Externally, they generally refer to themselves as employees of private armed companies or security companies, and there are hundreds of companies set up by mercenaries, including four of the more well-known.

The oldest of these, and the most famous, is the South African Private Armed Corporation, which was founded in the year and once had more than 700 members, most of whom were retired officers and special operations soldiers of the South African Army. The company has been involved in civil wars in African countries such as Angola. Subsequently, due to strict South African regulations, the company was dissolved a few years ago, and its members either formed a separate company or joined an overseas mercenary company. Compared to the "Blackwater" that often appears in movies, this company is more professional, and as a local African mercenary corps, they have connections throughout Africa, especially in the troubled places of West Africa and North Africa, and their relationships are even more intertwined - to put it mildly, many government troops are trained by these elites.

It's like after several attacks in the oil field, this time they came to pick up Li Huan, and a total of six cars came, one of which was a specially customized Mercedes-Benz G550 bulletproof off-road vehicle, and the other five cars were all full-size large SUVs, in addition to Li Ang, outside the airport, there was a standard special operations team composed of eight professional mercenaries.

This was to ensure Li Huan's safety, because according to Li Huan's own requirements, Chen Guodong did not label Li Huan as a combatant. Li Huan's consideration was that if he passed in the open, he would probably not be able to catch those "rats". So when Li Huan set off, the security information handed over by Chen Guodong marked Li Huan as the second-in-command of this business empire - this is also what Li Huan requested, in case anyone who doesn't open his eyes is sent to the door, then the matter will be much simpler.

But the mercenaries don't know that in order to protect this gold owner, EO's mercenaries are like enemies.

Although the political situation in Ayaguo is now relatively much more stable, compared with Bongola Satsumo, no one dares to be careless in a place like North Africa, especially the billionaire sent by Chen Guodong, who is even more careless in terms of security.

After Li Huan and Li Ang got to know each other, the two walked out of the airport hall together, and then the fighters with armor and weapons came up, hugged Li Huan and got into the bulletproof Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle, went straight out of the city, and began to march in the direction of the oil field.

Li Huan noticed that this elite mercenary squad carried a large number of heavy weapons in addition to the automatic weapons they carried with them. On the roof sunroof of the two full-size SUVs, a small four-barreled Gatling revolver, is mounted as if facing a great enemy.

The airport city is about 500 kilometers away from the oil field, and out of the city, it is a piece of yellow sand.

It was noon, and the sun was shining perpendicular to the ground, baking the desert. The unusually dry hot air is like countless red-hot steel needles, wantonly scorching all sensory cells in the human body. The most uncomfortable thing was the throat, as if there was a fireball bouncing up and down there, burning people unbearably dry. The incandescent sunlight burned like flames in the sky and underground, and there was no one on the highway except for the endless yellow sand on the highway twice.

Ambush people here, need

It takes great courage and an extremely strong physique, otherwise you will die of dehydration first.

"On this desert road, do you still need such heavy firepower?" Li Huan sat in the Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car, enjoying the cool and iced mineral water, the air conditioning temperature was moderate, and the world and hell were separated by a window.

"Sir, you may not know what crazy these people can do for oil. Li Ang shrugged his shoulders and began to give Li Huan the history of the science.

Aya's oil and gas resources are very rich, known as the "North African oil depot", is the largest natural gas extractor in Africa, the second largest natural gas supplier to Europe, and the top three oil producers in Africa. Aya began producing oil in 1958 and shortly thereafter became one of the 1 member states.

OPEC, also known as "OPEC", is the shortness of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. An international organization established by oil-producing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to coordinate the oil policies of member states and oppose the exploitation and control of Western oil monopoly capital. Its purpose is to coordinate and harmonize the oil policies of member countries, maintain price stability in the international oil market, and ensure stable revenues for oil-producing countries. Those who can join this organization are basically large oil-producing countries.

Oil and gas exploration in Ayagara began in the first half of the 20th century, and in the mid-decade, a number of large oil and gas fields in the Sahara were discovered and developed by foreign companies. In 1971, the country adopted a policy to nationalize 75% of its oil resources and 100% of its natural gas resources, and obtained full control over the development of its oil and gas resources, after which the oil industry developed rapidly. After 1986, the oil and gas industry in Argentina was opened to the outside world, and more than 50 international oil companies came to Argentina to participate in oil and gas exploration and development.

It is worth mentioning that because China has become the world's largest oil importer because of its increasing oil imports in recent years, two barrels of oil have now entered the oil market of Argentina.

However, with the beginning of a new round of coup d'état, the originally good oil market of Ayaguo has become extremely volatile and no longer suitable for stable production, so Ayaguo plans to package and sell it as a whole. It was under this circumstance that Chen Guodong used all the assets under his name as a guarantee to take over an oil field with proven reserves.

The field has proven reserves of 1.9 billion tonnes and is unexploited. If the oil field is built, it will be equivalent to the output of half of the Daqing oil field. However, Chen Guodong signed a VAM agreement with the government of Aya, requiring that production and construction start within two years. Originally, according to the characteristics of China's infrastructure madness, let alone two years, there is money to be made, even if it is a year, a large oil field can be built.

But now the harassment of those militants has brought the construction site to a near standstill.

If it is not put into production within two years, the Aya government will not get the profits it deserves, they will not be able to deal with the rebels, and the oil field will be recovered, and the guarantee, that is, all the assets in Chen Guodong's name will be taken over by the Aya government.

Although Chen Guodong's assets are huge, they are not even a dime compared to an oil field with reserves of 1.9 billion tons - not to mention economic value, if you add strategic value, it may not even be a dime. But because this oil field is deep in the desert and is still in a situation of political instability, let's not talk about how much it is worth, whether it is worth it or not, if it cannot be put into production within two years, then everything will be over.

Of course, Chen Guodong has the backing of the state, and if he helps him clean up the surrounding thieves, things should be much simpler.

......

When he entered the desert for the fifth hour, Li Huan felt that he had thought wrong, and this matter was far from being as simple as he thought.

At the eighth hour, Li Huan finally felt a little broken.

Far.

It's really too far......

It is no wonder that the oil fields with reserves of 1.9 billion tons can still be preserved to this day, and there is no other reason, far from the reason.

Although it was only 500 kilometers from the capital city of Aya, the group had to travel for nearly seventeen hours without any highways. Especially after entering the Sahara Desert, the driving speed drops sharply, and a gust of wind can blow a sandstorm that makes it difficult to see the road ahead.

The land area of Aya's country is actually very large, and if you want to calculate it, Aya's country should be the country with the largest land area in the whole of Africa - don't look at the largest land area, the possible usable area is very small. In the north of Aya, there are two parallel mountain ranges, the northern one is the Taylor Atlas Mountains, and the southern one is the Sahara Atlas Mountains, and after the Sahara Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert occupies 85% of the entire land area of the Aya.

To put it simply, almost all of the country of Aya is a mountain range except for the desert, and the plains are only a small area on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

It's big because no one wants a desert...... Even if there are oil fields, they don't want them at all.

Such a topography would be a disaster for an agrarian country. However, in the desolate and almost uninhabited Sahara Desert, there are huge oil and gas resources.

Proven crude oil

As much as 9.7 billion barrels, and this is only an estimate of one-third of the land area of the country, and two-thirds of the country's land area has not been surveyed at all...... In the desert area, with the technology of the Aya country, there is no way to detect it.

With so many oil and gas resources, it is enough to make Aya's country one of the richest countries in the whole of Africa.

Ironically, most of Aya's oil and gas fields are located in the Sahara Desert, an area that cannot be exploited.

It's like Li Huan's destination this time, Kandahar, the small city where the oil field is located, is located in the eastern part of the Sahara Desert.

At the ninth hour, the convoy officially entered the heart of the Sahara Desert.

The Sahara Desert is mostly a gravel desert with relatively large grains, and compared with the Taklamakan Desert in China, the desert here is more rugged.

Contrary to Li Huan's guess, there are still some small villages in the center of the Sahara.

Li Ang saw Li Huan's curious eyes and said to Li Huannini: "Boss, aren't you surprised that there are still villages in the Sahara Desert? Because the Sahara is not all deserts, there are many seasonal rivers in the desert here, during the wet season, these rivers have water, but in the dry season, these rivers dry up. However, although these rivers have dried up and there is no water on the surface, there is an abundance of groundwater. This groundwater gushes out of the Sahara Desert, creating small oases that feed countless people living in the Sahara Desert. ”

"In the language of the local people of Aya, these oases are often called 'springs' or 'wells', such as Kandahar, which we are about to go to, is the result of a series of small oases. ”

"That's it...... "Life is really magical, and it is also tenacious, if it weren't for seeing it with his own eyes, Li Huan really couldn't imagine that there are still so many human beings in the Sahara Desert, known as the "Sea of Death", relying on oases to survive. They may have lived here for hundreds of years, and they may have endured such harsh conditions, but the instinct of life still pushes them to continue to survive in such conditions.

The sky soon darkened in the somewhat boring journey, compared to the high temperature of more than 40 degrees and close to 50 degrees during the day, in the evening, even if the air conditioning was not turned on, it did not feel hot in the car.

"Boss, you'd better bring out a few clothes, we'll have more than three hours to get to our destination, and when the sun goes down completely, the temperature here will drop sharply, if you don't want to catch a cold, you'd better wear some thick clothes." Li Ang reminded Li Huan while driving.

However, this time Li Huan did not follow the good flow, his physique would not catch a cold at all, but he wanted to experience the legendary taste of "wearing tulle in the afternoon and cotton in the evening". The Sahara Desert is said to have the largest temperature difference between day and night in the world, where daytime temperatures can reach 378 degrees Celsius in December, but at night, the temperature here can quickly drop below zero.

It's like today, the temperature at noon is as high as nearly 50 degrees, Li Huan is wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and the air conditioner in the car is turned on to the fullest to feel cool. He had seen the high temperature in the desert area during the day, and now he wanted to experience the temperature at night in the desert area.

Seeing that Li Huan didn't listen to the advice, Li Ang and the others couldn't help but laugh secretly in their hearts, these pampered guys in the city always have to suffer a little - this is not a lack of protection. Everyone else had changed into jackets or denim or something, and they all watched the big boss pretend to be a failure.

The result surprised them, and by the time the group arrived at their destination, Kandahar, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, the temperature had dropped to less than three degrees. In order to see that the big boss pretended to fail, everyone deliberately didn't turn on the heating, they themselves were so cold that they already felt that their feet were not their own, and Li Huan's T-shirt and shorts were still pretending to be forced.

Li Huan's eyes looked at Li Ang stomping his feet there, and he asked with a smile, "Do you want to turn on the heater?"

Li Ang now knows that this boss can really pretend to be forced.

Kandahar is said to be a small city, but in fact it is not as good as a village in the country, and the whole city adds up to less than 500 meters, not to mention the inhabitants, only less than 200 people.

But the city is small and small, but it's also a city in the truest sense of the word. In fact, it is extremely difficult to have such a city in the depths of the Sahara Desert. It's like the settlements that Li Huan saw on the way here, and there are only one or twenty people in one settlement. Kandahar is indeed a city compared to those settlements.

However, Li Huan and the others could not live in Kandahar yet, and they had to rush to the oil field seven kilometers away from Kandahar.

Along a gravel road, Li Huan and his team made a turn from Kandahar and drove north for about ten minutes before arriving at their real destination, the Kandahar oil field.

"Is it over there?" Li Huan saw a bright light not far away.

"You're right, boss, this is there. Leon pointed to the right side in front of the car.