Chapter Twenty-Seven: Pragmatists!

Shepard really didn't expect that there would be an old black man who was proficient in French in this place, but it's normal to think about it, the Belgian has been running the Congo for so many years, and he can always get some results, as for his own French, he has lived two lives again, and he can't be a small town problem-solver, but it's no problem to learn a few foreign languages.

"Your men look much more energetic than the Wehrmacht!"

The old man sat on the ground with a grin, and did not forget to praise it.

"There's no need to be complimentary, I know you don't want to deal with us, in fact, I don't want to deal with you either, it's best if we all get along with each other, but now, I have to deal with you, so it's better to make a long story short!"

"I understand, so, what are you white people trying to do with these things?"

"I need information, the guerrillas have plundered the oil well camp, I need to know their information, I think, you, and those villages around here, must know their movements, you give intelligence, I pay you, it's as simple as that!"

"Then why do you think we will betray our own people?"

"Five hundred dollars for a message, if you help me talk to people from other tribes, I will give you a ten percent commission, of course, the message must be accurate!"

"Five hundred dollars?"

The old man's eyes began to roll wildly, and after hesitation, he raised his finger.

"I want twenty commissions!"

"Yes, but the information is not accurate, I don't mind being the king of Belgium!"

"But what if you don't admit it?"

"Don't worry, if I come to you today, I will never repay the debt, our Shadow Company, the most important thing is reputation!"

"Well, anyway, the white man made too many promises, and it doesn't matter if I believe it or not!"

The old man smiled helplessly, then stood up and pointed to the can behind Shepard.

"Can you give these things to me first?"

Shepard waved his hand, and then several soldiers stepped forward and threw the canned box on the ground, and then the black uncles immediately rushed up, carrying the box and running to the village, while the old man got up and returned to the village to give some instructions, and then walked out of the village again, and left with Shepard.

"You are very good at French, you learned it at a colonial school?"

"Yes, I used to be the first in the school, and I can even be guaranteed to go to university!"

"Did you go, then?"

"No, the white superintendent thinks it's useless for us blacks to learn more, so he asked white students to take my place!"

The fat old man sitting on the plane chatted endlessly with Shepard about his past, his tribe was once a large local tribe, but in the military conflicts after repeated military conflicts, constantly losing people and livestock, in the past, there was enough to eat during the colonial rule, but now, daily livelihood has become a problem.

"Then do you think the colonial period is better?"

"No, I think it doesn't matter as long as you white people don't show up!"

"That's too far away, this land, it is impossible to get rid of the control of the whites, it used to be Europeans, now it is Americans and Russians, and there are French, and the independence you want is just a lie!"

"Then you're not white, aren't you?"

"Yes, but if I don't come, someone else will come, someone will always come!"

Shepard's words made the old man sigh for a while, he was now a little reluctant to let the young people in the village learn new knowledge, because if he knew too much, he would have more troubles, just like him, in the past, he could have relied on his ability to get a good job in the colony or even the suzerain, but in the end he lost the opportunity because of racial discrimination.

Under the old man's guidance, Shepard then visited the other tribes he had marked, large and small, and treated whites in a different way, with a few larger villages not showing much hostility, and even one village where people came to sell their dried salted fish and wild vegetable balls to their employees, but there were also villages that fired at the helicopters, but fortunately the old rifles were so bad that the bullets didn't know where they were going.

In short, Shepard ran to more than ten villages, and the elders here expressed their willingness to cooperate, and at this time, before Shepard could open his mouth to report the conditions, the fat old man first opened two hundred dollars in front, and two hundred yuan in the United States during the same period was also considered a small fortune, let alone in Africa, so many elders and chiefs also agreed to come down, for fear that Shepard would bargain, and some people were not satisfied, the lion opened his mouth, and then, the fat old man jumped up, spoke in the local dialect, and even spoke with a gesture, and spit on the stars and scolded the other party's dog blood.

After tossing for more than ten hours, it was almost dark, and Shepard was able to finish all the nearby villages.

"Set up contact points in the drilling camps along the line, and if anyone comes to report the news, I ask for it to reach me within ten minutes!"

After dealing with many villages along the oil pipeline, Shepard breathed a sigh of relief, these years the monitoring means are backward, the drone technology is not mature, there is no satellite control, and this is all he can do.

After sending the fat old man back to his village, Shepard immediately returned to the camp, and after taking a comfortable hot bath, he called his commanders again to begin deployment.

"The march of the guerrillas will definitely alarm the people in these villages, so as long as one person comes to give us a warning, then we will definitely be able to give those guys a first strike!"

"But what if they give false information?"

"Then they won't get the money, two hundred yuan, in Africa, it's not a small number, you see the appearance of those people, they will understand which one is good for them!"

"You're so confident?"

Lao Pu hugged his arms and doubted life.

"It's okay, I know a little bit about Africa!"

Shepard said confidently.

"There is no shortage of all kinds of heroes and heroes in this land, but more than those legends who shine with the light of life, there are more crumbs in a group of crumbs that you can't even guess the bottom line, and they are all a group of pragmatists, as long as the interests are big enough, they don't even mind uniting with the enemy!"

"Understood, then let's go and deploy!"

"Let Sergeant Nguyen bring his people ready, they are a rapid response team, and if something happens, they will be the first to go!"

"Understood!"

Hannibal nodded, and walked out of the room, followed by the whistle outside.

"Whether it can be a blockbuster or not, it depends on this wave! Do you think we'll succeed? ”

Shepard looked at the map and suddenly asked.

The latter smiled.

"If you can't make it, then who can?"