Ferron Pierre and Louis Jeanne, carrying an AK in one hand and a bag in the other, cautiously moved forward, observing as they approached, and finally decided to surrender to the "invaders" who were carrying out the tail search.

Their previous identities were two fishermen on the island, but before the fishermen, they had another identity, that is, reporters for AFP.

Pierre is an old journalist who entered the industry in the early 90s, and Jeanne developed into the industry for this undercover career, and only went to AFP in 96 as a peripheral temporary worker whistleblower, there is no stable employment relationship, just temporary news sales to pay money and delivery.

In 98, in order to further their careers, after doing some peripheral investigation work, they heard that Indonesia has the world's last slavery, and it is still possible to combine it with the global international trade industry chain, in order to dig up a big news and win the Pulitzer Prize, they resolutely came undercover.

Unfortunately, they still underestimated the difficulty of all this.

Although Jeanne was an Algerian naturalized Frenchman, that is, returned to Europe from French Africa. The color of her skin protected her from the additional humiliation of her slave owners for two years (when Pierre recruited her, he took a fancy to her as a black man, ugly and ugly, and there are some black people in Southeast Asia, so she is not easy to encounter. It's too abrupt to let a white woman go undercover)

However, these only protect them from personal harm, and do not mean that they can escape and leave the news after obtaining sufficient evidence.

At the end of 1998, they were brought over from Vietnam and Laos under the cover of "French bankrupts left over from the French Indochina era" by older slave traders in the name of illegal labor. Pierre originally thought that the fisherman would not be allowed to get off the ship for a year and a half while working on the ship, but there would always be a chance to escape when he arrived at the port.

Who knew that the islands where these slave fishermen docked were all extralegal islands under the absolute control of the slave owners! The ships from outside would not come at all! They did not need to go to the ports of the civilized world at all!

Pierre was desperate for a while, if it weren't for the fact that he had collected a lot of undercover news materials in the past two years, and he still believed in using a Pulitzer to get ahead, maybe he would have committed suicide directly.

Since there is no hope of escaping, he is not willing to stay only with the little slave owner to do things, he has some ability, among the generally uneducated Southeast Asian slave groups, it is quite possible to climb up by performing well, so it took more than a year for him to buy his little slave owner from the beginning, and then to serve Banda Yuno, the largest slave lord in the archipelago, and also get Jeanne, who was once separated from him, to act together.

Unexpectedly, the road to heaven is endless, and today I actually met Banda Yuno's lair and was taken to someone. Just now, because the overseer suffered too many casualties, he and Jeanne were trusted by the higher authorities because of their consistent good behavior, and they were given weapons during the crisis.

Then they immediately backhanded, and while the overseer who was overseeing their battle was not paying attention, a black gun in the back killed the overseer.

It's finally time to abandon the darkness and turn to the light!

"Drop your arms! Immediately! Shoot immediately!" As soon as they appeared in front of the search party, they were pointed at gunpoint by several vigilant soldiers.

Pierre hurriedly took the lead and threw the gun away, and shouted in French for a while, but unfortunately everyone couldn't understand it, and then he quickly changed it to English.

They have already seen the dawn of victory, and it would be a big loss if they were misunderstood and killed at this time.

Although most of the soldiers still did not understand English, there was a non-commissioned officer in the crowd who could recognize it as English and vaguely knew a few of the words.

In such a closed environment, the slaves and overseers here do not speak English, and the slave owners are relatively rare, so most of the people who can speak English are big fish.

After confirming that the other party had laid down all their weapons, they did not hesitate to search slowly.

"Xiao Wu, you go to the company commander to report, two foreigners have been caught here, it may be a Western reporter who has been instructed to be treated preferentially from above, and I am not sure yet. Xiao Chen, you give them all a detailed body search, and don't let them leave the entrained weapons. The non-commissioned officer commanded.

"There are women. ”

"Black people probably don't care about this, besides, it's a special time, execute it immediately!"

"Yes!"

Fortunately, the black folklore didn't care about these things, and Jeanne had long been used to it during her two years here.

......

After confirming that they were not threatening, they were quickly taken to the original bunker of Bandayuno, which of course was now in ruins, and the occupiers had temporarily erected two marching tents on the ruins for civilian purposes.

Pierre was taken to a civilian manager who had just arrived on the island by helicopter, who spoke fluent English and began to converse with him.

"You say you're an AFP reporter? Are you an undercover agent? Do you have any information that can prove your identity?" As soon as he heard that they had reported to their home, the civilian manager was also very surprised, obviously he had been explained by his boss before he went to the island, and now he realized that he had encountered a big fish.

Pierre hurriedly explained: "I have some photos and transcripts here, which I risked and secretly saved - I had a disguised mini digital camera, which was not found when I came, and I hid it in the ...... Anyway, it's stuffed into the body. Of course, the press card is gone, and when that thing is found, we die. ”

"Show me your memory card. The civilian manager hurriedly asked for the equipment and checked it.

After confirming that he was safe and trusted, Pierre's selfishness soon returned, and he began to fear the question of "what if someone robbed me of my journalistic honor?"

This is very normal, when people are faced with the danger of life and death, the first thing they think of is to survive and leave alive.

Once he is sure that he can leave alive, he will start fighting for the honor of leaving alive.

Pierre then stubbornly asked, "Can you ask who you are, which country, and whether you are a United Nations peacekeeper who is here to fight pirates and slave owners?"

This question is also to ask for directions, to see if the other party's identity may have a motive to rob him of the news.

"We are employed by a private security company, and our boss is a Lanfang person. Because we were attacked by pirates as we passed through this area, in order to ensure complete safety, we preemptively suppressed the pirate forces that still existed. I hope you will cooperate, especially on the issue of accusations against pirates. "Civilian managers are also leaky when they speak.

"That'...... When we go out, will we be able to publish all the material I have gathered in our own name?" Pierre risked the small probability of provoking the other party**, but he still couldn't help but ask.

The civilian manager paused for a moment and smiled: "Are you afraid that we will grab the news?" Hehe, you reporters don't worry, our boss only cares about safety, and has no interest in your news. As long as you cooperate with us to prove our legitimate defence and fully expose the crimes of these people, the news is all yours. ”

Pierre breathed a sigh of relief and was overjoyed: "That's great!

Of course, Pierre knew what had to be said, what had to be fleshed out as much as possible, and whether he could get out alive or not had to count on the protection of these people.

Seeing that he was so cooperative, the civilian manager also showed goodwill: "Since you are willing to cooperate, I can allow you to take you to meet our boss, he is on the big ship and yacht, everything here today is because he was robbed, and he is very unhappy." He seems to be more interested in journalists. ”

Pierre: "Of course, I don't know who your boss is...... I mean, what if I knew, even though we've been in isolation for almost two years. You are Lan Fang people, it seems that there is only one famous Lan Fang person, named Gu Kun, who is a superstar world champion and has friendships with a bunch of top celebrities in Hollywood and other media circles. ”

After all, when he entered, Gu Kun had not taken action in the Southeast Asian financial market, and even in the subsequent waves of rapid harvesting and the discovery of the Lanfang oil field.

Therefore, the Gu Kun that Pierre knows is just staying in the impression of "a world superstar worth only a few billion dollars and the celebrity with the most world records in the world". He would not have thought that such a little tyrant could afford to use the fleet as a bodyguard to escort him, and he would also call for wind and rain and raise his hand to destroy these slave lords on the side of the emperor of the soil.

"That's right, it seems that you are quite concerned about current affairs, and our boss is Gu Kun. The civilian manager said it straight to the point.

"It's really Gu Kun? How could he offend those pirate slave owners? How could he have such a big power? Oh my God, what has happened to us in the two years of isolation! As for his news impression, I was still stuck at the Atlanta Olympics!" Pierre was directly shocked.

Perhaps, this is the kind of reaction that people who have been isolated from the world for two years should have when they suddenly look at Gu Kun's achievements again.

On the contrary, those who are in contact with the online media every day and know current affairs well have long been numb because Gu Kun made a news story at two ends in three days, and his career has gone a little further.

"Isn't that weird? Our boss went to Sydney for the Olympics with a fleet of billions of dollars worth of yachts, and when he came back, he came across these miscellaneous pieces, and you said these miscellaneous pieces should not be damned. ”

"Damn, of course shit! I know what to do!" Pierre was so devastated that he didn't dare to play any tricks.

Half an hour later, they were taken by helicopter to the yacht "Zhu Sen" where Gu Kun himself was sitting, and several bodyguards with loaded guns took them there.

Looking at the grandeur of the yacht, the two French reporters were even more frightened, and they were more and more glad that the local slave lord had offended such a great man.

Although the French do not have the tradition of kneeling, the moment they saw Gu Kun, Pierre and Jeanne still couldn't help but weaken their knees, and they knelt down to thank him for saving his life, and said in a nonsense that they could do whatever they wanted.

"Don't do that, just stand up. I believe that you are also righteous men who expose slave owners and pirates for the just cause of mankind. ”

As long as he is not a reporter from an English-speaking country, Gu Kun can take advantage of it first.