Chapter 311: Into the Diamond Mine
The black mamba is the most venomous of the known venomous snakes in the world, and it only takes a few tenths of a milligram to poison an adult elephant, let alone a person.
The reason why it is called the black mamba is that after opening the mouth of this poisonous snake, the mouth is completely black, and it bites it, and the lethality rate is very high, and the local aborigines call this poisonous snake Salisa, which means devil.
Now the aboriginal said that there was the world's largest black mamba inside, and that it was the devil's lair, and that the people who came here to mine earlier were scared away, and many miners never came out after they went in.
And it was because they offended Salisa that they attracted the punishment of the god Mora!
"Punishment, what punishment?" asked Lawyer Wu curiously.
After the assistant muttered to the man for a while, he said with a strange face: "He said it was a locust plague!"
When Zhou Tian and Lawyer Wu heard this, they also showed the same strange expressions on their faces, but they naturally didn't have anything to say about the beliefs of the locals, so they continued to walk inside.
However, when he arrived at the entrance of the cave, the aboriginal pointed to the entrance of the cave and gestured excitedly, saying something loudly, and the assistant hurriedly talked to him, but the aboriginal became more and more excited, and finally simply turned around and ran.
"Black Mamba?" Zhou Tian muttered, then raised his wrist and looked at his little snake, "I just don't know which of you two is powerful?"
"Boss, do you want to go in?" Lawyer Wu was a little worried.
"In this way, you and a few of them stay, and I'll take Black Eagle in to have a look!" Zhou Tiandao.
"However, if what they say is true, it is too dangerous, it is not locusts!" said Lawyer Wu with some concern.
"It's okay, don't forget, I have it!" Zhou Tian raised his wrist and showed Lawyer Wu the little snake, "Don't worry, just go in and have a look, and come out as soon as you find something wrong!"
"Okay!" Lawyer Wu had no choice but to agree.
The Black Hawk had already begun to prepare, took out a backpack from the car, and took out a gun and a box of ammunition from the trunk, and Zhou Tian was startled.
"Blackhawk, where did you get that?" he asked.
Black Eagle grinned, "Shao Chen said, when you get here, Hua Guo can't manage it, you can count the number when you go back!"
Zhou Tian said "ah", understood, Shao Chen was afraid that Zhou Tian would be in danger here, and the things found on the plane should be used by them first, and then they could count the rest and hand them over after returning to Huaguo.
Lawyer Wu felt that it was not enough, so he stuffed Zhou Tian with a gun, Zhou Tian was a little helpless, but he didn't brush off his kindness and carried it on his back.
"I don't know what's in it yet, how deep it is, the water has to be carried!" Lawyer Wu stuffed Black Hawk's backpack with two more bottles of water.
"Lawyer Wu, why didn't I know that you still had the potential to be a nanny!" said Black Hawk.
"I'm good, it's more, I'll taste it slowly in the future!" said Lawyer Wu.
Several people laughed, Zhou Tian and Black Eagle walked to the front, and everyone else watched from behind.
The entrance of the cave of the diamond mine is at the bottom of a mountain, there are some abandoned horizontal logs and some gravel on both sides, the vegetation on both sides has been cleared, and the locust corpses have been laid on the ground, and Zhou Tian and Black Eagle stepped on these locust corpses and came to the entrance of the cave.
The entrance to the cave is very high, about three meters long, and the inside is a little closed, and you can see the wooden frame supporting it all the way inside.
Zhou Tianxian stood at the entrance of the cave and looked carefully inside, the whole mountain started from the entrance of the cave, and the further down he went, the stronger the halo became.
At first, it was still dotted, and then it was almost connected below, and Zhou Tian's eyes suddenly widened.
"Boss, are you going in?" asked Black Hawk.
"Let's go!" Zhou Tiandao took the lead and walked inside.
Lawyer Wu watched Zhou Tian and Black Eagle enter the diamond mine before beckoning the others to do what they should do.
The satellite phone rang, and a bodyguard answered it and handed it to Lawyer Wu.
"Lawyer Wu, Mr. Liao's phone!"
"Mr. Liao!" Lawyer Wu answered the phone, "We have arrived, and the boss and Black Hawk have entered the mine...... That incident was what we encountered on the way here, and we saw a lot of it later, and the boss thought it was some kind of disease...... Okay, okay! I got it!"
Liao Yigang called, just to tell them that after they sent back the news before, the chief took it very seriously, and immediately asked people to go and see if there was a similar situation around.
As a result, the people who went out came back and said that this situation happened in almost every village, and that there were people who kept falling ill and falling.
As soon as this situation appeared, it was again in this part of Africa, and everyone's first thought was infectious diseases!
Since all the work here is now being rebuilt in an orderly manner, but there is still much work that cannot be done, the chief has to ask for the help of the aid doctors of the Chinese country.
From a recently discovered patient, doctors have discovered a terrible contagious virus, and this virus is almost completely new, that is, the one that has never been detected before.
Therefore, the city immediately issued an early warning to the international community and requested the International Health Organization to provide emergency assistance for the outbreak here.
For a moment, the whole world panicked.
Other countries will also have some cases of virus infection of unknown origin during this time, but they are not serious, and as soon as it is reported here in West Africa, it is like hot water when a fire burns, and it boils all at once.
All countries are nervous, they all feel that these viruses are simply terrible, starting from China, and now almost every country has different news of the epidemic, and West Africa is even more serious.
Liao Yigang also notified Zhou Tian and his party as soon as possible, telling them to be careful outside, saying that although the virus has not yet been detected, it is quite contagious.
If you encounter such a person again on the road, the best thing to do is to stay away as soon as possible.
Lawyer Wu sighed, and his heart was a little unsound, it was really one thing pressing on one thing, so it wouldn't let people take a breath.
He told the bodyguards to be careful when eating and keep a distance from the aborigines here, he only hoped that Zhou Tian and Black Eagle would come out as soon as possible and leave here as soon as possible.
Since the locust plague, no one has been here, and the surrounding aborigines sometimes gather to see when someone is coming and can find work.
But in this situation, let alone looking for a job, the aborigines ran away when they arrived at the mouth of the cave, and if they still want to mine this place, they may have to work hard.
The area around the entrance of the diamond mine has been simply cleaned up by the bodyguards, and they are divided into three groups, one group as a guard, one group cooks, and one group rests.
Lawyer Wu sat on a log to rest, and now that Zhou Tian and Black Eagle had gone down to the mine, they could only wait patiently outside.
On the way they came, three large jeeps were driving this way, and there were quite a few people sitting in them, all of them armed with ammunition.
Just by looking at their appearance, you can tell that most of these people are Africans, but they are very different from the usual inhabitants here.
They were wearing camouflage uniforms that they had worn only during the war, and their faces were almost bloody.
One of them, wearing an officer's hat and toad glasses, made him a little glaring by his complexion, which was not too dark.
He sat in the passenger seat of the first car, with his right arm resting on the window and a cigar between his fingers.
In the back seat was a blond man, about forty years old, very fat, wearing a white suit, and the person sitting next to him had an Asian face, a thin build, and wore a brown suit.
If Black Hawk had been here, he would have recognized the man in the officer's cap, an old friend of his!
"Kakayi!" the chubby man in a white suit leaned forward and said to the man in the officer's hat, "Are you sure that the diamond mine is now occupied by no one?"
"Who can get ahead of us just after the locust plague?" said Kakayi, spitting out a smoke ring, "what was it like before we left, and what it will be like now!"
The man stepped back and leaned into the back seat, and the man with an Asian face next to him said, "John, don't worry, although the last time in the oil field didn't work out, they wouldn't have thought of it here anyway!"
"You know, Naikun, that place is important to me!" said John.
It turned out that this person named Naikun was none other than the person from A and M who had been found out by Lawyer Wu to join forces with Kahn's finance minister to manipulate the oilfield accounts.
"Of course I know, whether it succeeds or not, the funds that we intercept first are enough for early development!" Naikun said.
"Better yet, I've already been approached by someone and told us to speed up!" John said with some arrogance, "Don't let me know what you have in mind about this, or you won't be able to afford the consequences!"
Naikun pursed his lips, snorted coldly, ignored him, and turned his head to look out.
The corner of Kakayi's mouth in front showed a more contemptuous sneer, and his hand pointed forward, and then pulled to the side, "This is my territory, as long as I am here, no one dares to fight the idea there!"
"I hope so!" John muttered, stopped talking, and turned his head to look out the window.
Kakayi's convoy was the same as they had done on Sunday, and from time to time they saw dead people on the road.
Kakayi was calm, as if he was used to it, but John was not calm, he looked at the people on the side of the road, convulsed, foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, and then he lost his breath, and sweat broke out on his forehead.
He took out the handkerchief in his pocket and wiped his sweat, and then looked out the window on Naikun's side, and what caught his eyes was the picture of a person suddenly falling to the ground.
"What the fuck!" John scolded, "why are there dead people everywhere?"
"This is Africa!" Kakayi said with his hands outstretched, "Every day people die, and every day people are born!"
Naikun has been in Africa for a long time, and he knows the life here very well, and he also knows that people die here every day, but this is the first time he has seen this kind of death in front of him, and he is also a little uneasy.
"That doesn't look right!" he said.
John said as if there was no barrier between him and Naikun before, "You think so too, right?
Kakayi and the driver next to him laughed, thinking that these people from country A are simply too bold!
"We're in the mountains, rest for the night, and we'll be there tomorrow morning!" said Kakayi, "there's a village over there, where we can eat the best food and sleep with the best girls!"
"Uncivilized monkeys!" John rolled his eyes and cursed in a low voice, he looked down on these people at all, there was nothing but primitive instincts, which was simply unbearable for civilized society.
Zhou Tian and Black Eagle walked into the diamond mine, walking down the roadway, Black Eagle held a flashlight in his hand, looking at both sides and above from time to time, to this kind of place, the most afraid of landslides, so, Black Eagle should always pay attention.
After the two walked for more than an hour, the artificially built mine cave came to an end, and all that was left in it were natural karst caves and many forks in the road.
After resting for a while, Zhou Tian chose one, and the two continued to walk inside.
After passing through a gap that only one person could slip through, they were startled when a corpse suddenly appeared in front of them.
Black Hawk pulled the corpse aside with a gun before he saw clearly that there was a large space behind the corpse, and several people who didn't know how long they had been dead were lying on the ground, with many cloth pockets around them.
He picked one up casually and looked at it, then turned around and handed it to Zhou Tian, "Boss, look! It's all diamonds!"
Zhou Tian took it and took a look, almost all of the pockets were very large unpolished rough diamonds, colorful, in this pocket, I don't know how much it was worth, not to mention, there are many such cloth bags.
"These may be miners, how can they die here?" Black Hawk said, taking a flashlight to look at these corpses carefully, and found that their teeth were all black, some of them may have died early, and the carrion on their bodies also revealed their dark bones after they fell.
"It's all poisoned!" Black Hawk gasped.