"It's New Year's soon!"

Shepard, who sat up from the bed in a daze, glanced at the calendar on the bedside table, then looked at the time on his watch, and then yawned profusely.

Getting up at half past seven seems to have become a habit that he can't shake in his life, so no matter how sleepy he is, he still shakes his head and gets out of bed, and after some washing, Shepard, who casually put on a vest, can't wait to go to the restaurant.

With the new chef, the restaurant has a lot more variety of meals, and there are several types of bread, and the new croissants and bagels are much more delicious.

Although he is not a food celebrity, but for eating, Shepard still has his own obsession, that is, it is never improvisable to eat well, after all, he has been a human being in two lives, and he can be regarded as having eaten and seen, so the Shadow Company has not been bad since the time when he beat Pegasus, and Smith has even complained about it, but when it comes to eating, the bad old man eats happier than anyone else.

After breakfast, Shepard changed into his combat uniform, went to the armory to get a FAL rifle, and then went to the shooting range, which is also where most PMCs of the Shadow Company usually come from, after all, the company prohibits drinking and gambling during the mission, although the camp also has a small library and billiards room, but most people still like to come to the shooting range to shoot a few shots or go to the training ground to learn fighting skills from veterans or something.

However, Shepard is simply here to warm up, after all, they can't rest in the New Year, United Mining is still looking for François to take revenge on the streets, he is ready to strike while the iron is hot, and strive to slaughter United Mining in the New Year, after all, if you don't slaughter it, you really have no chance!

The reason why FAL is used is because Shepard accidentally found that the FAL rifle is actually quite easy to use, not to mention, the front and rear center of gravity of the gun alone is very comfortable, as for the grip feel, it is also good, maybe the only problem is that it does not have additional parts for the tactical platform to install, such as sights and flashlights or something, but these are not insurmountable.

After firing a few magazines and familiarizing himself with the feel, Shepard handed the weapon back to the ordnance to clean up, and then returned to his tactical center, where Osaba had been waiting for a long time, and when Shepard entered, the guy was snorting with a pot of stew.

"You keep eating, and then you'll talk about it when you're done!"

Looking at the guy's gobbling up, Shepard couldn't say that he was disgusted, after all, the other party ran to collect intelligence on his own orders, and now that he was down like this, it didn't hurt to eat two more bowls.

"Eat more, eat more, the stew of the Democratic Republic of the Congo nourishes people!"

Osaba nodded repeatedly, and then continued to work hard, and after pouring the food into his stomach in one gulp, he drank two more bowls of cold white water before he let out a sigh of satisfaction.

"Sir, it's all clear! The old Belgian boys, they had prepared a large convoy of fifty cars, and they were expected to set off the day after tomorrow, from their camp in Hautemina, and take the road to Matadi! ”

"Are you sure?"

Shepard glanced at the map, Upper Mina is northwest of Lubumbashi, about 600 kilometers, from here to Matadi, which is located in the westernmost part, it takes a full 1,200 kilometers, this journey alone takes 20 days to complete normally, and if there is an accident, it will take longer, which is more laborious and laborious than sending it to the railway station for transportation.

However, there is no better choice for United Mining at present, after losing the help of mercenaries, the current security situation in Katanga Province cannot be said to be better, it can only be said that it is a mess, those mining companies under the protection of the Shadow Company are okay, they have seen the cold, cruel and decisive shooting of the security personnel assigned to them, so unless there is really no choice, those heroes in Katanga Province are not willing to provoke the Shadow Company.

After all, whose security guard will greet the person who stands in the way with a grenade when there is nothing to do? Coupled with the fact that the Shadow Company defeated the mercenaries' prestige, the current work of the Shadow Company is quite easy and pleasant, and it can be said that it has reached the realm of invincibility within a radius of 500 kilometers, but not 500 kilometers away, it is because the Congolese Defense Forces in the next province have tanks.

And those mining companies without the protection of the Shadow Company are a bit bad, their security guards not only lack weapons and ammunition, but also personnel training, so they have suffered a lot of losses in the rotation of the Black Uncles, not only the convoy was attacked, the personnel were kidnapped, and even the camp was attacked, the Congo has never been a good place, when the Black Uncle rebelled against the Belgians, it was comparable to the Crusaders plundering Byzantium, but all the bad things you can think of Uncle Black did a top skill, and even the monastery was poisoned.

And now that they have lost the aura of colonial suzerainty, there is no psychological burden for the black uncles to take revenge on the whites.

This is not the case for small companies, not to mention the biggest target of United Mining, which now does not even dare to go to small towns to have fun, because it is easy to be slapped with sacks and bricks.

These reprisals are not even perpetrated by armed groups, but by civilians they bully on a daily basis, including but not limited to pooping and peeing upstream of water sources, disemboweling car tires, and even adding snot and eye droppings to food.

The black uncles had looted a United Mining train before, and thousands of tons of ore on the train were directly looted by civilians in a dozen nearby villages, and the few dozen or so guards were stripped naked and hanged on a telephone pole next to the railway.

Even the United Mining had an accident in its own residential area, and more than a dozen bold young black people even came to the staff dormitory at night to break through the empty door, eat and drink in other people's homes, and then set a fire and left.

There is nothing to be done about United Mining, and the local government says that it will guarantee to catch the murderer, but for several weeks, every time we are working hard, the black uncles have not learned anything else during the colonization, and the perfunctory set is extremely proficient.

In short, except for the foreign-funded enterprises that have been repeatedly hit hard, the atmosphere in the DRC is still very good, at least the Shadow Company is extremely safe in the nearby villages and towns, but in other places, it is impossible to say.

"United Mining is like a crumbling and broken house at the moment, as long as you go up and kick it!"

"It's going to collapse?"

"No, it's going to come out and beat you up, so we're not going to kick their houses, we're going to kick their lives!"