Chapter 219: A Trip to Africa (End)
"Really?! When will it arrive? Duke, who had been listless, sprang out of bed as soon as he heard the news.
"The plane took off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and it is estimated that it will arrive at Libreville International Airport in the afternoon, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has coordinated the two sides of the Gabonese conflict and the Gabonese Air Force, and the two sides of the Gabonese conflict will have a truce for half a day, and the Gabonese Air Force will escort our evacuation planes." Qin Tairan continued.
But these Duke didn't hear it too clearly, the signal here was average, and the happiness came too suddenly, Duke was so excited that he couldn't find the north.
"Kobe! Bryant! We were able to leave and pick us up by plane in the afternoon! Duke almost shouted to Kobe Bryant, just now he and Qin Tairan were speaking Chinese, although Kobe Bryant heard the conversation between the two, but basically did not understand what the two said.
It's just Duke's sudden excitement that made Bryant guess that this must be good news.
Sure enough, before Duke could hang up the phone, he excitedly told Kobe Bryant the good news out loud.
"Hey, hey!" Before Qin Tairan finished speaking, he was ignored by Duke, and he was so anxious that he shouted loudly on the phone. It wasn't until Duke came back to his senses and heard that there was still a voice on the phone, that he remembered that he didn't seem to have finished talking to Qin Tairan yet.
"Counselor Qin, I'm here, what's the matter?" Duke asked.
"You hurry up and contact the embassy to register the people who need to be evacuated on your side, this time there is only one flight, and it should not evacuate all the people. I've got 3 places for you, and you can see who is suitable to report to me. I'll coordinate it again. Qin Tairan continued to talk about the main point.
Originally, the diplomatic department did not have this so-called evacuation operation, but when Qin Tairan learned from Shu Ya that Duke was also in Gabon and could not come out, he was a little crazy.
As I have said before, Duke has entered the field of vision of high-level military officials because of the matter of lunar intelligent robots, and has become a person in the scientific and technological community who the country should focus on protecting and taking care of.
As the general person in charge of the project, President Liu vowed to the relevant leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology that the successful development of this operating system will be a universal operating system with independent intellectual property rights, high performance, high reliability and high security, which is of great significance to the national economy and people's livelihood, so the project is not public, but replaced by the "03 Project".
Therefore, the relevant departments have been paying close attention to the key people of this project. Once Qin Tairan knew that Duke was actually in Gabon, a place of right and wrong, of course he would report the news.
The efficiency of his line was far from being matched by other departments in the country, and soon the top brass instructed him to find a way to get Duke back.
However, Gabon is too far away from the country, and there is no strong force in the country in this direction to directly take Duque back. So the people in the diplomatic department came up with a new plan, and according to the successful case of Libyan evacuation, they also came to Libreville.
Because the relevant departments did not dare to target Duke directly, this was really too attention-grabbing. That's why such an evacuation operation was carried out, nominally to bring Duke back. Once the plan was finalized, the consulate here began to meet with both sides of the conflict.
As one of the five major powers of the UN Security Council, Gabon does not dare to offend too much even if it has any ideas, not to mention that China is still not helping each other in this matter, and there is no reason for both sides to offend indiscriminately.
The consulate thought that the Gabonese Air Force was still neutral, and even specially met with the commander of the Gabonese Air Force, and the commander of the Gabonese Air Force, who was still riding the wall, was even more unwilling to offend China for no reason, not to mention that China's evacuation of overseas Chinese had no interest in him at all, so he promised not to say anything, and offered to escort the enemy.
Of course, these behind-the-scenes stories are completely unclear to Duke. In short, in order to evacuate overseas Chinese, not only did the foreign affairs department exert its efforts, but even the civil aviation department also fully cooperated. Air China even directly canceled a flight from Ethiopia to Beijing and transferred a plane from Addis Ababa to Libreville to carry out the evacuation mission of Gabon.
Hearing that China actually sent a civilian airplane to evacuate overseas Chinese at this time, Bryant looked at Duke with some envy.
"It's better for your country, in the face of this kind of war-torn place, our country's civil aviation will never do this kind of thing." Bryant sighed.
"Pull it down, replace it with your country, if you really want to ask, what comes out is a group of fighters, in today's world, except for those who don't want to die, who dares to touch you?" Duke said. "It's just that you don't need to pay too much attention here."
This is true, although Gabon is rich in resources, but there are not many strategic things, the resources here are at most timber, and there are many places that can be replaced now. Although oil is also available, the proportion of reserves in the world is almost negligible.
The more valuable uranium mines, the part that can be mined, have been exploited by the French since the seventies, and now there are basically mines left.
Therefore, in the eyes of Uncle Sam, Gabon is really not even a fart, a small place with a GDP of only several billion yuan a year, and there is no prominent geographical location like Panama, nor there is an endless flow of oil like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, why should a busy person like Uncle Sam pay attention.
But these are all gossip, Duke remembered what Qin Tairan said, and immediately dialed the consulate after hanging up the phone, and as soon as he heard Duke report his name, he immediately introduced the relevant precautions for evacuation.
Those who were originally on the evacuation squad had to assemble at several points in Libreville and then be transported by bus to Libreville International Airport. However, the above obviously specifically explained the relevant matters of Duke, so after the consulate staff asked Mingduke's address, he directly said that a diplomatic vehicle would be sent to pick up Duke to the airport in the afternoon.
Duke thought that everyone was treated like this, so he agreed without any special feelings, and at the same time reported that he would take two Americans away Qin calmly promised him three places, and Duke was now in Libreville, and he didn't know anyone. So it's natural to want to take Kobe and Sovalz with me.
Of course, this is not to carry forward the spirit of internationalism, but Duke feels that it is more practical to carry these two individuals psychologically.
After all that had happened in Gabon, Duke didn't think it was a bad thing to bring a few bodyguards, and if it was just him and Hewitt who came to this place, he really didn't know what to do.
At noon, Sauvez and his party arrived, and although everyone hadn't seen each other for more than ten hours, Duke felt a feeling of reunion after the catastrophe. In order to avoid losing all the rock samples he had painstakingly taken, Duke brought dozens of kilograms of samples taken at different locations and sat in the car that was picked up by the embassy with Kobe and Sovalz.
Luke, Lex, and Pete watched with envy as Kobe and Sovalz followed their boss away, and they had to stay to deal with the aftermath, but Kobe Bryant left them with a lot of food and weapons that they had worked so hard to buy, and the three of them didn't have to worry about starvation.