Chapter 27: The Golden Road
After a short break, the team started again.
This walk is three days.
For three days, day and night, stop-and-go. From the first half hour of rest, to the next hour of walking, there was an hour of rest, but there were still many people who fell behind the back of the line. Those people seemed to fall apart, slumped to the ground, although the team left them some food and water, but if the follow-up rescue team did not arrive, it was estimated that they would be finished here.
Zhang Xiaowu counted them, and there were as many as 30 people. This expedition has only just begun, and 30 people may die, and this task is really not ordinary.
The journey was difficult, there were many complaints, and in the end there was no choice but to discard some buckets, tents and other heavy objects, but the equipment was not allowed to be discarded, and I didn't know what it was.
"This is not the right place." Zhang Xiaowu can already be sure that this place is very weird.
Obviously, the gravity has not changed, and there is nothing wrong with the air, but the physical exertion is very serious. Even he was tired by now, and Bronn next to him was already sweating and struggling to walk, let alone others.
But what's even more weird is that Betty is a woman, just like him, and she doesn't have much impact.
There is so wrong with this woman, and this place is too suffocating. It feels like this task is a pit! A big pit that kills people without seeing blood!
"Can't go any further, miss, this is the land of the damned, and the living can't enter."
At this time, the four guides walked to the middle of the group with each other's arms, and said pleadingly in front of Betty.
Betty looked at the four guides without saying a word, while the butler next to her glanced at the leader.
The leader frowned as if he was hesitating for something, but after glancing at Miss Betty, he drew his pistol and put it on the forehead of one of the guides.
"Go, or die!"
"My lord, I really can't go, this is a cursed country, and we will all die in it. Please......"
Touch!
The guide never said the next word, and was killed by a single shot.
"You, you ......"
The other three guides were stupid, they didn't expect these people to kill people if they didn't agree with each other.
"Aren't you leaving?" The team leader said to the next person with a cold eye.
"I, we...... Walk. ”
Although the guide has an atmosphere in his heart, after all, his life is in the hands of others, and he has to bow his head at this moment.
Although the people around were surprised by the leader's actions, they didn't say anything, and they were just surprised by his ruthlessness. These people spend every day in Africa licking blood, and there is no one under them who lives.
Besides, this is a place completely isolated from the world, where the law is useless and where morality does not exist. In fact, even if killing people in the capital of Tanzania is not a big deal for the Sean family. If you're in a bad mood, even the president can be replaced, so what is a native?
Even Zhang Xiaowu didn't feel too much, he had seen a lot of this kind of thing, those big people, who would care about human life? It's just that he's a little more wary of Betty. This leader is not a simple character at first glance, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is murderous, because the expression that leaked when he killed the guide can also be said to have no emotion, as if he had killed a chicken, insignificant.
But such a person is full of fear of Miss Betty, and there is fear in every move, word and deed, in his bones. No matter how rich and powerful the family is, their descendants will not have such a deterrent, let alone a beautiful girl who seems to be powerless?
"Alright, let's go."
The leader shouted, not caring about such a small episode, and walked to the front of the group with the three guides first. Inadvertently, he stole another glance at Miss Betty.
With a move to make an example of chickens and monkeys, the team was obviously a little faster.
After another three hours of hard walking, the ground became smoother and wider, and the colors became more and more beautiful.
That's right, it's the change in color, and under the light of the fire, there is a faint golden light on the ground and walls.
And the deeper you go, the less dark the cave becomes, as if there is something glowing in the stone walls.
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but touch the wall, and immediately stared at him in shock, unable to speak.
"Gold Mine!"
That's right, the whole cave is like a mine in a gold vein, but it is wider than the mine, and it is no problem to have several cars in parallel, and the height is not high.
Not only him, but also some people in the team recognized the gold ore one after another, and the look of greed leaked from their eyes.
But no one stopped digging for ore, because there might be something precious ahead.
Sure enough, the further I went, the purity of those gold ores became higher and higher, and I had even seen some gold wires and golden beans, even more than the place where Zhang Xiaowu's brothers secretly mined them.
At this time, the mercenaries' breathing was already heavy, and this time they were not tired, but excited, and their eyes were red. Aren't these people risking their lives to take on tasks just to make money and then spend all day drinking? Now there is endless gold mined here, and what kind of tasks are there to do?
Yes~
But just as the line was getting looser, and more and more people were ready to stop digging for some gold, there was an exclamation from the front of the group, drawing attention.
Betty frowned, and hurried forward with a few quick steps, while Zhang Xiaowu, Bron, and the butler naturally followed.
The team had stopped, and in three or four minutes, several people had reached the front of the group.
I saw that this place is even more golden, and the ground is almost no longer gold ore, but gold paving.
What attracted the attention of several people was a dead body on the corner of the road. The corpse's equipment was similar to that of the leader, and it was all modern expensive expedition equipment and weapons, M16 assault rifles, loaded bullets, but without the safety opened. Apparently the fatal danger occurred at the moment, when the person was unaware or sudden.
There were no obvious wounds or blood stains on the corpse, obviously it didn't look like he had died from an external injury, but his painful expression and golden eyes made people feel incredible.
"Miss, this is someone from the company, one of the expeditions from a month ago. There were no visible wounds, and it felt like he had died of poisoning. The team leader examined the body and reported that Betty had arrived.
Poisoning?
The word became especially sensitive at this moment, and the nerves that had been tense in the team tightened again, and the already panicked people began to speculate.
"Yes."
Miss Betty frowned, but she only hummed, noncommittal.
This can stump the team leader, the young lady doesn't say anything, whether to go, to stop, he doesn't dare to choose. He usually does some murder and suppression, but this time he can organize a search and rescue team is already extraordinary, how can he have the ability to guess the thoughts of this little aunt and grandmother.
"Leave two people here, and the others continue to set off, leaving two people every other kilometer after that. Something happened in this way, so that the outside world could know. Then the butler came out to relieve the siege and commanded.
"Yes, Lord Ike." The team leader was relieved and hurried to make arrangements.