Chapter 142: Africa Strategy (3)

Before Li Quan left, the villagers reverently offered their precious fresh water, high-quality dry food (semi-moldy), and a local fruit called Malakuga freshly picked from the trees, and even offered him the only live cattle and sheep in the village.

Except for fruits, everything else was rejected by Li Quan. He reassured them, telling them that he didn't need them and that he might come back later.

In front of these black people, Li Quan used "witchcraft" to conjure a flying broom in his hand out of thin air, and then rode on the broom and soared into the sky. Looking down, there was already a kneeling on the ground......

The Halo 2000 accelerated and sped away in a southwesterly direction. Li Quan, who was sitting on the broom in Erlang's leg posture, took out the fruit just given by the villagers, wiped it briefly, and took a bite. As a result, his face turned green in an instant, and then he spit out the taste in his mouth, and then did not hesitate to throw away all the fruit called Malakuga. "It's sour, it's just ...... hell"

The flying broomstick flew extremely fast, and Baburu claimed to have to walk for three days to reach the large village, and only an hour later, Li Quan discovered the large village not far ahead.

Looking down from above, this large village is indeed much larger than the previous small village, but it is just as poor. The villages are full of the same thatched huts and adobe houses, and they are ruined and miserable. Li Quan didn't have the slightest intention of landing, and directly turned to accelerate in the other direction.

A few hours later, he finally saw the shadow of a city.

The city is called Gitega. Looking down from the sky, Li Quan feels like a remote town in China. The pavement is neatly built asphalt road, and it looks neat from here. The houses are all brick houses, mostly under three storeys. Cars are rare, more animal-powered carts and bicycles, and occasionally motorcycles are on the road.

Li Quan did not land, but began to fly around the perimeter of the city, trying to find the plantation that Baburu had spoken.

The broomstick soon carried him around the city several times, and finally found a sizable plantation somewhere nearby.

After confirming this, Li Quan did not linger any longer, but returned to Gitega, found a place in the city where no one was and landed.

The main purpose of his trip was to assassinate the warlord named Tucson, and then to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi.

First, he had to ask where the target was. It's not that hard. Just ask a black man on the street. Tucson was nothing more than an African warlord, not a secretive American president.

The news was very easy to hear.

Li Quan's Chinese identity has helped a lot. When he casually asked a black man on the side of the road, the black man answered a few of his questions in a friendly manner. When Li Quan said that he would give the other party some compensation, the black man simply poured out everything he knew, and almost said what color Tucson was wearing underwear.

Li Quan knew that in the eyes of blacks in Africa, especially in small countries like Burundi, "Chinese" is synonymous with "generous" and "rich", and local people are willing to work for Chinese businessmen, which is the norm.

So when Li Quan proposed to hire this black man to help him find some people who knew about Tucson and the plantation, and the reward was to give him 10 dollars, the black man immediately agreed happily, and soon found some people who had worked on the plantation for Li Quan.

Some of the blacks they found worked as security guards on the plantation, some as cleaners, porters, and even as hard laborers. These blacks don't have even the slightest sense of secrecy, and they tell everything they know. Perhaps, in their eyes, the value of this information is not as useful as that of a Malacuga.

In the end, Li Quan rewarded each of them with $10, and after sending the happy blacks away, he began to make plans for the next step.

According to these people, General Tucson was in control of Burundi's largest cinchona plantation. Li Quan was no stranger to cinchona and knew that cinchona extract could be used to produce quinine. Whereas, quinine is mainly used to treat malaria.

Cinchona is one of the few cash crops that Burundi can afford to export. Thus, Tucson, who was in charge of the plantation, amassed a fortune and became a wealthy warlord thanks to cinchona and a large amount of free labor, which Li Quan now knew came from.

With money, you can do whatever you want, which is normal in places like Africa. Blacks have no sense of savings, no business acumen, and most blacks will choose to squander their money in the nouveau riche style, as is the case with some NBA stars, not to mention these blacks in small East African countries.

Li Quan learned from these people that General Tucson had a very special hobby, which became his breakthrough, and the plan would be formulated around this point.

"Strawberry ......" In a simple but not cheap hotel room somewhere in the city, Li Quan touched his chin and thought.

Tucsanne's greatest hobby is not women, nor power, but strawberries.

It is said that Tucson was a fan of strawberries and only ate imported fresh strawberries from England. For this reason, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to purchase a special plane to fly strawberries from England to Burundi for him.

In addition, Li Quan judged from the information provided by those people that this Tucson was not simple.

Tucson is a Tutsi ethnic group and is part of the current Burundian political minority. As mentioned earlier, the civil war in Burundi was caused by a full-scale conflict between the Tutsis, who represented the interests of the European colonizers, and the Hutu, who represented the interests of the civilian population. The two sides reluctantly reached an interim agreement under the mediation of the United Nations, but the two sides still hate each other.

This Tucson is the representative of the Tutsi people, and he himself knows that he is in dire straits, and if he is not careful, he will die at the hands of the Hutu. It is an open secret that Tucson was unhappy with the Hutu president who was now in power and wanted to replace him. But after the civil war, the Tutsi declined, and he could only be a man with his tail between his legs, and the rest was the ability of the common people.

Tucson knew that too many people wanted his life, so he lived carefully. Tucson lived in a luxurious mansion not far from the Cinchona plantation, which was so heavily guarded that Tucson hired a number of able-bodied bodyguards, including white instructors. And the smartest thing about him is that he puts himself under the layers of flashing lights at all times, and he does not hide his little evil deeds. The United Nations will certainly not care about this kind of thing, and the United Nations intervention on both sides is coercive, and even the current president of the Hutu ethnic group will not easily tear his face. Therefore, any peeping from a dark corner, facing the spotlight of Tucson has to think more about three points.

However, this is nothing at all for Li Quan.

From the moment he decided to assassinate Tucson, Tucson was doomed to die, no matter how hard he tried.

Li Quan did not intend to blatantly kill Tucson.

Tucsanne's cleverness brought him a certain amount of security, but also brought Li Quan a little trouble. Before the situation opened up, Li Quan didn't want this small episode to interfere with the overall situation behind him. Tucson had to die, but only quietly.

For this reason, Li Quan thought about it for a while and decided to give General Tucson a small gift.

Knowing that Tucson loved strawberries the most, Li Quan decided to take advantage of this, and what more unobtrusive way to die than food poisoning? As for how to poison strawberries, it was so simple for him.

All you need is strawberry seeds and a poisonous gene.

Strawberry seeds are readily available, and Li Quan has forgotten when he submitted the strawberries. As for the poisonous gene fragments, the poison dart gene is definitely not good, because the poison dart wood seals the throat when it sees blood, and it only works when it encounters a wound. Poisoning strawberries requires the use of other toxins, preferably chronic, and the kind that is very intense when poisoned.

Li Quan quickly found a solution.

The last time he and Kanressad went to the Silver Pine Forest to meet Jobica, he stopped in the Silver Pine Forest and collected a lot of poisonous plants, which came in handy this time.

In addition to the few plants that he suspected might carry the plague of natural disasters that could not be used, he selected several plants and made a comparison, and finally chose a poisonous mushroom.

It is an unknown fluorescent mushroom that emits a beautiful blue fluorescence at night, and its body is chronically poisonous. Except when swallowed, it does not transmit toxins on its own, so it is very safe.

Li Quan didn't want to accidentally kill all mankind.

Extracting genes, grafting genes, and ripening and molding...... A series of processes, Li Quan has done it very skillfully.

A few hours later, in his hand was a strawberry of quite attractive condition, and if he hadn't made this terrible poisonous fruit with his own hands, I am afraid that he would have drooled over this tempting appearance.

Li Quan named this strawberry "Devil's Smile".

There is no need to repeat the process of poisoning, because it is really not challenging. No matter how cautious Tucson was, he could not have expected that someone who could become invisible and transform into someone else—Li Quan used the newly acquired Avery Mirror to take on the appearance of one of Tucson's black men—and such a person would personally come and poison him. Li Quan only mixed a "devil's smile" into a brand-new airlifted strawberry and brought it to Tucson himself.

When Li Quan returned to the luxurious mansion outside the plantation the next day, and found that there was chaos inside the mansion, he knew that the plan had succeeded and that Tucson was dead.

No one could have imagined that the real cause of General Tucsanne's death would be a toxin from another world. Tucson's death doesn't matter anymore. His death will not attract much attention, and some may be skeptical, but it will never cause much sensation. Tucson is just a small African warlord who can call the tide in Burundi, but he pales in comparison to the upheaval that will soon take place in Burundi.