"Count...... Kind of there's one, right? Xiao Xiao replied subconsciously.

"This damn girl!" Her mother's face was blue in the house!

"Huh?" Cao Zheng was also stunned, dared to be the first to be taken? Also, it's really strange if such an excellent girl doesn't have a boyfriend!

However, he also easily caught a keyword eye, and couldn't help asking, "Count?" ”

"The university talked about it in Beijing, and now there are very few contacts." Xiao Xiao suddenly became a little lost, "Long-distance relationship, you know, after all, I can't stand the test of time." ”

"It's right if you can't afford it!" Cao Zheng roared violently in his heart, and said righteously: "Hmm...... Don't be a man like that. ”

"Why do you ask this all of a sudden?" Xiao Xiao was also a little ghostly, and he didn't think about it at all, so this sentence came out.

"Because I want to chase you!"

"Ahh

"Haha!" In the house, Cao's mother almost didn't laugh and got angry, and the secret way is still reliable for my family's small signs! Come on, this pursuit of my mother-in-law will agree for her daughter first!

"Of course, if I can come back alive." Suddenly, Cao Zheng couldn't help but feel cold in his heart, to tell the truth, he didn't have any bottom in his heart about this trip to Somalia, after all, that place was too notorious! It is said that killing people is like eating, Sheila is usual, and even the aunt who buys vegetables may have an AK47 hidden under her skirt, and she dares to kill people in the street if she doesn't agree with her!

"Is there a chance?"

"You ......" Xiao Xiao couldn't help but be a little speechless, obviously life and death were uncertain, and she still had the heart to pick up girls, and the key was to ask with a smile at the moment.

After a long time, she blushed slightly and said, "If you can come back alive." ”

"Haha, Howler!" Cao Zheng couldn't help laughing, "Just say this to you, I don't dare to die!" ”

"Oh...... By the way, don't tell my parents about my trip to Somalia first. At the end, when the two were about to pack up the tables and chairs and enter the house, Cao Zheng did not forget to explain.

"Okay."

……

After a night without words, early the next morning, Cao Zheng said goodbye to his parents and went to the airport alone.

Xiao Xiao originally wanted to drive him, but he refused, saying that he would let her accompany her parents throughout the whole process, so that he could leave with peace of mind, and Xiao Xiao did not force it.

There is no direct flight from Dubai to Somalia, so Cao Zheng bought a ticket to Djibouti first.

As one of the least developed countries in Africa, Djibouti is really poor, so the airport dares to be called an international airport? It can't reach the airport of a prefecture-level city in China.

But what makes Cao Zheng sigh even more is still to come, the destination of his trip is the port city of northern Somalia, Bossaso, Djibouti As shown on the Internet, there are indeed direct flights, but that flight ......

Cao Zheng dared to swear that this was the most dilapidated plane he had ever ridden in his life, and there was no one!

The age of the plane is estimated to be older than his father's!

There are only seventeen seats in the whole plane, so small that it can be smaller, but the seat rate is only about half, the cabin is dilapidated and old, and there is rust in some places, and the seats are definitely not the kind of appearance on the general plane, narrow and concave, and the layer of black leather wrapped above is quite wear-resistant, so many years have passed, and it has not been damaged.

And Cao Zheng also saw for the first time a pilot who didn't need to wear a uniform, just a very casual shirt and T-shirt, a total of two people, and they were all foreigners, one was Ukrainian, the other was European, and the flight attendant didn't have to think about it, absolutely nothing.

To tell the truth, Cao Zheng was very worried that such a broken plane would be able to carry him to Bossaso smoothly?

Fortunately, the Ukrainian captain patted his chest and told him in English that he had a flight record of 250,000 kilometers without accidents, which gave him a big reassurance.

……

Somalia, the Horn of Africa, is a peninsular country.

When mentioning the name of this country, I am afraid that the first thing that comes to mind for most people must be Somali pirates!

Without him, because this group of pirates who have been roaming the Gulf of Aden for a long time is too rampant!

The Gulf of Aden, also known as the Pirate Harbor, is a fast route for ships to travel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and is also an important route for cargo ships to enter Europe and the United States from Asia, as well as from Africa to Europe and the United States.

And no matter how the Somali government or the EU warships encircle and suppress them, the pirates in the Gulf of Aden have never really been destroyed, they are like ghosts on the sea, mysterious and tenacious!

Every year, several less fortunate freighters are hijacked here, and then a large ransom is required to buy back the lives of the crew, which has almost become a routine, and there is no way to avoid it!

The country is rife with violence, and because of government inaction, political parties and strife in the country, people here are living in dire straits, even in poor Africa, where Somalia is the poorest.

The per capita annual income here is only 400 US dollars, and because life is extremely difficult, the happiness index is extremely low, so the people have always been strong!

As the old saying goes, people are forced to do anything!

It's all about survival.

Where did you come from as pirates in the Gulf of Aden? In fact, many of them used to be just ordinary fishermen, and they were all forced by life.

In Somalia, everyone, whether it's a man or a woman, or a grandparents, knows how to protect themselves.

Don't be surprised if you see an old woman who goes to the market in the morning to sell vegetables and then buys an AK47 to defend herself.

As for the country?

They want to manage it, but can they manage it?

Almost everyone here is a warrior!

The character is still the type who dares to fire a warning gun in broad daylight if he disagrees, and with the government's little shrimp soldiers and crab generals, it is impossible to force the vast majority of people to do what they are not willing to do.

If the people don't riot, the government is already thankful.

But such a place, in Zhao Ping'an's eyes, is a rare treasure!

The reason why he asked Cao Zheng to come here was only one reason - to buy an island!

A small island just 17 kilometers off the eastern coastline of the northern Somali port city of Bossaso, this small island has long been the nest of a powerful pirate ring, which has been abandoned for more than 20 years after the government and the European Union warships spent a lot of effort to destroy it, and the Somali government has not been able to sell it for more than 20 years through some island trading companies.

It just so happened that now Zhao Ping'an has taken a fancy to him.

The reason why Zhao Ping'an has such a choice is actually very simple.

Because it is not easy to set up a military industrial company abroad, especially if he does not want to change his nationality, and in this chaotic country, a country where arms are already rampant, Zhao Ping'an bets that the local government will not mind what factory he wants to build here.

Everything is nothing more than money.

And this thing, it just so happens that he has a lot of it!

It is no exaggeration to say that in a country with a total national GDP of only a few billion dollars, there is no richer person than him.

What he has planned that is impossible in many developing or developed countries may not work here!

For example, build your own military power!

After all, your country is like this, I will invest in construction, create tax revenue for you, and provide jobs, you must always let me have the ability to protect myself, right?