After a brief hesitation, the American counterparts, wearing hiking boots and overalls, T-shirts and sunhats, greeted them warmly: "Hi! ”

The "Hello" Chinese exploration team also greeted them with a smile, and watched the departure of the group of American colleagues, there were six of them, all with red skin, who often worked outdoors, and a guy in a light-colored suit and a straw top hat followed, and four local policemen with guns on their backs walked with them, apparently bodyguards sent by the government.

The two groups passed by, and the guy in the suit looked at them suspiciously, and said nothing, but after a few minutes, the four policemen came back and yelled at them for the officer, and the interpreter said that he asked us to show us the exploration license.

When the exploration team came to Western Sadamoa, it was the most chaotic period in this country, the government agencies were useless, who could give them permits, everyone looked at each other, speechless, Liu Ziguang coughed dryly, stretched out his hand into his arms, and the policemen immediately picked up their rifles, pulled the bolt and aimed at him.

The weapons of the Western Sadamoa police force are relatively backward, only some single British Enfield No. 4 rifles, but in the face of the muzzle of the black hole, Liu Ziguang can only slowly take his hand out of his pocket, and between his fingers is a West African franc with a face value of 10,000 yuan.

But this time, the trick of opening the way for money failed, and the police officer not only did not see the money, but also shouted even more violently, and the interpreter whispered: "He said that you violated the foreign currency control regulations, and asked you why you have so much foreign currency." ”

Liu Ziguang smiled bitterly: "These guys are obviously deliberate, you tell him that I picked up the money and is about to hand it over to the police." ”

The interpreter scratched his head, thinking that this answer was too unbelievable, but he said it anyway, and the policeman took the money and stuffed it into his pocket, still holding his rifle flat, shouting something unrelentingly.

"It's over, he said he was going to arrest us because we were exploring on the territory of their country without an exploration license, violating the law and the dignity of General Kuba." The interpreter said with a sad face.

Hu Qingsong and Professor Yu were a little flustered, the legendary mob and Shengfan savage did not meet, but they encountered more difficult police, this time it was a big trouble, but Lang Yulin and Wang Zhijun They were obviously not so nervous, but instead hugged their arms and looked lively.

Li Jianguo's hand quietly stretched out behind his waist, and he hid a loaded Steckin automatic pistol under his hunting jacket, and it was easy to knock down these four policemen, and he was not afraid of the gunfire disturbing anyone.

But Liu Ziguang stopped his actions with his eyes, Li Jianguo nodded, and his hand slowly retracted.

Suddenly, in the dense woods, countless tribal warriors emerged, strong bodies, ornaments made of animal bones, almost naked in front of everyone, fanned out, bows and arrows in their hands like full moons, arrows pointed directly at the four policemen.

A young man with a feather ornament on his head slapped his chest and roared a few times, they spoke tribal language, and the interpreter could not understand it, so I saw that the four policemen obediently put away their rifles, and did not dare to say a word before they walked away.

The tribal warriors put down their weapons and gathered around Lang Yulin, the man who looked like a leader raised his arms and shouted, and then everyone cheered together, Lang Yulin smiled and introduced to everyone: "This is the son of the local tribal chief, his name is Lang Biao, and he is also the leader of the warriors. ”

Then Lang patted his chest to everyone, with an incomparably brave look, Liu Ziguang smiled and said, "Manager Lang, why does he have your surname?" Is it a newly adopted godson? ”

Lang Yulin said: "You are really right, they are a semi-barbaric tribesman, they have no surname but a first name, he was originally called Biao, because I saved his wife and son with acupuncture, and in order to thank me, he added my surname before his name." ”

Everyone laughed, only Li Jianguo looked serious, leaned over and whispered to Liu Ziguang: "They are from the Wendu clan." ”

"So what? It seems to me that there is no difference between them. Liu Ziguang replied casually.

Everyone was invited to Lang Biao's tribe as guests, and sure enough, this Wendu village was no different from the Caye tribe next to Lake Carlos, with the same houses made of branches and mud, the same colorful and cheap Chinese textiles and clothes, the same bows, arrows and spears, but because it was relatively close to the big city, there were not so many monkeys, and there was no terrible delicacy such as roasted monkeys in the dishes for entertaining guests.

The chief held a banquet to entertain the guests of the divine doctor, everyone sat around and tasted the wine and fruits brewed by the tribe, the people sang and danced on the side, and from time to time there were patients with headaches and brain fever who came over and begged Lang Yulin to give them acupuncture, and the small silver needle in Lang Yulin's hand was regarded by them as a divine gift from God, and even if he was not sick, he wanted to prick twice.

The camp of the exploration team is located near this tribe, three tents, a hand-cranked motor, two laptops, and some exploration equipment, which are all their belongings.

Professor Yu pointed to a pile of ore samples in the tent and said: "You see, these ores are mainly block structures, disseminated and secondary, with metasomatic and granular structures, which are typical signs of contact metasomatized deposits, if I guess correctly, you also have associated minerals such as brass, galena, sphalerite, molybdenum and so on, which all indicate that the reserves of the ore deposit are not too large, if it is in the area of Pingda, there is still mining value, but the situation here is unstable, far from the coast, there are neither roads and railways, nor decent workers, What's more, the mineral deposit is just below the sacred mountain of the locals, how do you say to mine it? ”

Lang Yulin was speechless, the other party is a nationally renowned academic authority, doctoral supervisor, and he is just a college graduate exploration engineer, has been working in a small place, has never seen any decent large deposits, in this regard, there is really no right to speak.

"But ......," Lang Yulin wanted to say and stopped.

"There is nothing but, science and technology can make bold assumptions and reason carefully, but it must also be based on what is credible, I am not saying that this place is not worth mining, but the time has not yet come." After Professor Yu finished speaking, he nodded at Hu Qingsong, he was an expert invited by Hu Qingsong, so he was naturally responsible for the safety of his funds.

Hu Qingsong's expression was as calm as water, and he said: "Let's take a look again, it's all the way here, it's not good to go back empty-handed like this." ”

"Okay, let's explore a few more points, along the axis of the Holy Mountain to the east, here, here, and here, set up exploration points, dig down, get ore samples and then analyze." Professor Yu pointed to the map and said.

……

Early the next morning, the exploration team embarked on the journey again, and explored at the point designated by the professor, which is located in the depths of the dense forest, and the construction machinery has made fundamental progress, so it can only rely on manpower to dig downward, and after digging a large pit two meters deep, Professor Yu jumped down, grabbed a handful of soil and said: "You see, this is a typical African humus, not iron soil at all, and there will definitely be no veins underneath." ”

This pit gave up, continued to move forward, and explored at the next point, and came to the same conclusion, there will be no ore vein, at this time Lang Yulin couldn't hold his breath, he retorted: "I have a different opinion, our location was a tributary of the Congo River two hundred years ago, and now the river has been diverted, and this place is actually an alluvial plain, so the ore veins may be buried in a deep place." ”

Professor Yu smiled kindly: "Young man, I can understand your feelings, but it is impossible for two hundred years to alluvial into such a large plain, forget it, let's go back." ”

Everyone picked up the equipment and went home, only Lang Yulin stood in place and was silent, took out a Luoyang shovel from his backpack, slammed it into the pit, and then left without looking back.

Five minutes later, several ghostly monkeys appeared, grinning like Lang Yulin, and pulled the Luoyang shovel out of the ground, and the shovel head was a lump of black soil, which was completely different from the humus that Professor Yu had seen before.

The monkeys ran away with the Luoyang shovel squeaking and screaming, leaving only silence at the scene.

On the ruins of Wood Manor, Hu Qingsong shook hands with Liu Ziguang and said goodbye: "Do you want to go back with us?" ”

"No, my ship is almost there." Liu Ziguang politely declined, although the other party did not say it explicitly, but the investment matter has undoubtedly become a bubble.

Professor Yu's words are very reasonable, the reserves here are only tens of millions of tons, which is not enough for a large steel plant to consume in a year, coupled with the political instability, too much investment in the early stage, it is really a chicken rib general existence, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, for the shrewd Hu Qingsong, giving up is a better choice.

Professor Yu kept looking at his watch, it seemed that he didn't want to stay for a minute, he was bitten by a mosquito last night, this kind of big African mosquito bites people very hard, and the lower mouth is a big bag, and ordinary people really can't stand it.

Hu Qingsong and Professor Yu got into the off-road vehicle, but Liu Ziguang stayed, and he said to Li Jianguo: "Jianguo, you send them, San Juan is not peaceful." ”

Li Jianguo nodded, also jumped into the car, the two cars gradually moved away, Lang Yulin walked over, took a deep breath and said, "Mr. Liu, I ......"

Liu Ziguang raised a hand: "Don't say anything, I believe in you, I will continue to think of ways in terms of funds." ”

Lang Yulin burst into tears and couldn't say anything.

On the off-road vehicle, Professor Yu said to Hu Qingsong: "Xiao Hu, can you get to the capital the day after tomorrow, I have a book signing meeting held at the Lama Temple, Fei Lao and they all participated, you must come too." ”

"Well, I'll go." After Hu Qingsong finished speaking, he looked at the sky outside, the dark clouds were galloping like thousands of horses, and the rainy season in Africa had arrived ahead of schedule.