After Lars's reminder, several people were more careful when they were moving forward, always paying attention to the surrounding situation, they didn't want to be suddenly stuck in their bodies by poisoned arrows that could not be prevented, although they brought a lot of serum into the mountain this time, but God knows if they could solve the poison configured by these natives.

Entering the territory of the Xhosa people, the one who opened the way this time was replaced by Lars, and the rest of the people shrank together to tighten their guards, and everyone also stuck their machetes behind them and replaced them with weapons in their hands, just in case.

"Rustle... Suddenly, there were a few slight noises not far ahead, Lars hurriedly waved his hand and stopped, and the bandits picked up their guns and looked around back to back.

Matt walked forward, cautiously glanced around, his face changed suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Everyone pay attention to the tree, there are people"

At this time, the surrounding woods are louder and louder, more and more frequent, it is obvious that there should be a lot of people, not far from Matt's side, a huge tree more than ten meters high stands two typical African races, both of them are holding special bows and arrows in their hands are facing them, and human figures began to appear from time to time on the surrounding trees, and after a while, from the bushes and woods came out of many people one after another, there were dozens of them, some with long hair in their hands and some with rusty earthen guns, surrounded the bandits and several people together。

"Damn, I don't want to be eaten in my stomach" Su Mingtu quickly raised the gun in his hand, pointed at the crowd, and then whispered: "Shall we make a move?"

The bandit gritted his teeth, shook his head and said: "Let's stand up and say, we're here to ask for help, not to kill, let's not make a move before they do it, wait until we have to say"

Lars, who was walking in the forefront, raised his hands high and said to everyone without looking back: "Don't act rashly yet, I'll try to communicate with them, remember, don't shoot, as long as the gun goes off, there is no room for recovery."

After Lars finished speaking, he slowly raised his hand and walked forward a few steps, and then began to talk to each other in the native language, and the Xhosa people who surrounded the bandits seemed surprised to hear Lars's words, as if they did not expect that there were people among these outsiders who understood their language.

After talking to the other party for a few words, Lars turned back and said, "Put the weapon in your hand on the ground."

"Make no mistake, wouldn't that be slaughtered," Su Mingtu said worriedly.

The bandit frowned and looked around a few times, and then said in a low voice: "Do as he said first, put the gun down, don't worry, even if the other party has bad intentions, we can fight back in an instant"

A few people obediently put the gun on the ground, and then also raised their hands like Lars, after doing this, the movements of the people around them were obviously not as nervous as before, but they still put the weapons in their hands to this side, and waited for a while to see that the other party did not make any other moves, Lars also sighed, he was a gamble, fortunately it did not disappoint, and then continued to negotiate with the other party, after saying a few words, he took down the backpack and took out a few stacks of banknotes from it and threw them over.

A leader seemed to come out of the Xhosa side, and when he saw the money on the ground with a greedy look in his eyes, he cautiously bent down to pick it up, and after checking it, he said a few words to his companions, and the crowd erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

It was clear that the real money had moved them and reduced their hostility.

Su Mingtu couldn't help muttering: "This is really rich and can make ghosts grind, these guys even see money."

Matt explained in a low voice: "These natives usually have no economic source, they rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea, they can only rely on hunting in exchange for money, and may not see banknotes a few times a year, so the temptation of this money to them can be imagined."

After talking to the other side, Lars turned back to a few people and said, "I told them our intentions, they need to go back now to report to the leader of the tribe, let's wait a minute."

Hu bandit is temporarily relieved, as long as he can negotiate, what he is afraid of is that the other party will not even give them the opportunity to talk that will be troublesome, he took out a cigarette and threw one, and then waited for the news that the other party brought back, a few people just lit the cigarette, and found that many of those Xhosa people licked their lips and stared at the cigarettes in the hands of several people, revealing the taste of temptation, Hu Bandit's heart moved, tried to throw the pack of cigarettes in his hand, the other party saw the cigarette that fell on the ground, the look was more obvious, and slowly came out of it, a person stared cautiously at this side and then tentatively picked it up, and quickly retreated, took one out of the cigarette case and sniffed it to reveal a look of enjoyment, and then many people gathered around him to beg for it.

The bandits were stunned for a moment, they didn't expect this group of people to enjoy the cigarettes they brought so much, after thinking slightly, he took out a few packs from his body and threw them over, the Xhosa people didn't expect the bandits to be so generous, in their eyes it was a luxury thing to throw over so much, after being stunned for a while, they all rushed up to divide the cigarettes on the ground, and the people who got the cigarettes opened the cigarette case with a smile and shared it with the people next to them, and the expressions on their faces became very friendly, and many people grinned at the bandits and showed a mouthful of white teeth and smiled.

Hu Bandit smiled and said, "I knew that we would bring a few boxes of cigarettes over, and it is estimated that it will definitely be more effective than any negotiation."

The Xhosa people who were smoking cigarettes put down their weapons and chatted shoulder to shoulder, enjoying the unexpected joy very much, and it didn't take long for the leader who had left before to return, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that everyone on his side was holding cigarettes in their hands, as if he didn't expect to have this change after only a moment of leaving.

When Lars saw someone coming back, he hurriedly asked him, and the other party gestured at him to smoke a cigarette, and the bandit couldn't help but throw another bag over, and the other party started talking to Lars。。。。。

"Their leader agreed to meet with us, but only if the weapons were handed over," Lars said.

Hu Bandit nodded without saying a word, and now he and the other party get along very well, and the cigarettes and banknotes have gradually eliminated their hostility, and the rest depends on how to talk next.

The men handed each other their guns, and then followed the crowd towards their tribe, and not long before a wide open space appeared in front of them, in which dozens of simple houses made of wood were built, and many poorly dressed women and naked children stopped what they were doing when they saw them.

These few people are smart, Hu Bandit and Su Mingtu took out cigarettes and kept throwing them at the crowd, others took out dry food and bacon from their backpacks and handed them to women and children, the crowd was still a little vigilant at first, but the Xhosa people who came back with Hu Bandit and them kept explaining to them, and gradually most of them relaxed their vigilance, as if they knew that these outsiders did not seem to have malicious intent.

Walking to the center of the clearing, the leader pointed to the largest wooden house in the area and said a few words to Lars, Lars nodded, and then said to the bandits: "Their leader is inside, let us go up"

The bandit told the others to wait where they were, and he and Lars went into the hut, and when they came in, they found a number of people sitting at a table, probably seven or eight, all of whom were relatively old, and if they were all of the most respected men of the tribe, the eldest of whom sat bare-chested in the middle.

"Outsider, listen to my people say that you are here to talk to us about business" Hu Bandit didn't expect that the person who should be the chief of the tribe here would speak fluent English when he spoke.

The man saw that the bandit was strange, so he continued: "English is also the lingua franca of our South Africa, after all, we used to be a British colony, and I used to stay in the city when I was young, so I understand some."

It's best to be able to communicate directly, but it saves some trouble, Hu Bandit nodded, and said straight to the point: "Yes, we really want to come to negotiate a business with you, and the remuneration is very generous."

After the bandit finished speaking, he and Lars opened the backpack, and then piled all the bundles of money on the table, in order to impress each other, they also invested a lot of money, and the backpacks of the two were full of large denominations of US dollars, almost nearly one million.

The stacks of money piled up on the table produced a very amazing effect, and it was obvious that these natives were all staring wide-eyed, staring at the money on the table, and many of them were breathing rapidly.

After a while, the chief seemed to reflect the shock, swallowed his saliva, and said to the bandits, "Tell me about your business and see if it is of interest to us"

"I want your help, we have a group of companions who have been held hostage by the Zulus who are next to you, we need to get rid of them"

After saying this, not only the chief's face changed, but several other people also retracted their greedy expressions, and the bandits looked bad at all, didn't Lars say that the relationship between the other party and the Zulu people was not good, since it was a feud, the deal he said should be easy to impress the other party, could there be any changes?

Sure enough, the chief shook his head slowly and said, "We can't do this deal."

The bandit asked, "Why is this, as far as we know, the relationship between your two tribes shouldn't be very good?"

"Oh, you know that even this?" said the chieftain, surprised, "You are right, we have never stopped fighting since the existence of the two tribes, and it happened once some time ago."

Hu Bandit then asked puzzledly, "Then in that case, why did you refuse our request?"

The chief shook his head with a wry smile and said: "If you had come some time earlier, we would have agreed without hesitation, but now we can't, because the Zulu people united with another tribe in the last battle to attack us, so our losses were very serious, and many warriors were sacrificed, so even if we had the heart, we are powerless now" [(m) Read without bullet window]