Gate of Apocalypse

Chapter 369 [What Mine?

“What mine? ”

Chen Xiaoliang suddenly stepped on the brake and the car stopped on the side of the road.

Lin Leyan shouted at the back of the car. Chen Xiaocai opened the window between the cab and the back compartment and lowered his voice: “Nothing went wrong, just something I need to figure out first, stop here. ”

Lin Leyan's face came out of the window, relieved: “So, shall I let everyone out of the car for a rest? ”

This smart Lin chick probably realized that Chen Xiaoliang might have something to talk to Una alone.

“No.” Chen Xiaoliang thought, "You're in the car, let's get out of the car. ”

Una naturally did not have any capital to resist in Chen Xiaocai's hands. After being taken out of the car by Chen Xiaocai, she walked to the trees beside the road.

This woman's face was obviously a little panicked and looked around... outside this African night, she killed a man without even burying the body, and naturally the beast smelled of blood would come.

“No, don't kill me...” Una snapped, screaming.

Chen Xiaocai looked at him and frowned: “I'm not going to kill you here, so put away your screams. ”

Una nibbles the lips.

“Now that you have a chance to speak, you'd better use the straightest, most candid, simplest description to tell me about that ‘mine' thing you said. If you try to hide or hide anything again, then I promise you will die, and you will die immediately. ”

Chen Xiaocao said, looking at the watch: “You have ten minutes. ”

Una's body shivered.

She could see that Chen Xiaoliang was definitely not kidding this time.

He's serious.

……

Zeid relied on the coup d 'état in Khumbiya, a very poor small African country for most of the time before he took office and in the years since he took office.

Lack of mineral resources, lack of population, lack of sufficient land depth… It can be said that Khmubia is a typical small country under any conditions.

The only thing that can be developed is perhaps just borrowing the geography to do some trade articles, or farming, livestock, etc...

But for warlords like Zeid, there is clearly no interest in agriculture or animal husbandry. Large investments, long cycles, and much less revenue.

Moreover, there are tribes of all sizes and sizes in the country, and the relationship between them is intricate.

Most importantly, Western powers are not interested in coming all this way to invest in agriculture or livestock.

What Zeid has always wanted is minerals.

Other Central African countries around them have minerals and rely on them to pull their economies, at least because the heads of State can take the opportunity to earn a lot of money, as Zeid naturally did.

In the last few years in office, Zeid fought hard with several Western countries.

To be clear, he just wants to sell the country, find the minerals in the country, and then sell the profits to foreign powers, as long as he earns the profits himself.

However, after a painstaking survey, Zeid was left helpless by the fact that he could not sell his country if he wanted to.

There's no way to sell the country!

Several Western mining groups have come to survey and no mineral veins worth exploring have been found in Khumubia. Copper-iron gold, rare metals, non-ferrous metals, nothing found.

As if Khmerbia, is a place abandoned by God.

The Creator left nothing of value for the land.

Zeid, who has lost its value in use, will naturally no longer be valued by those mining groups.

The downside is that he can't make a lot of money for himself.

The advantage is that he can't get into the sight of Western countries, even if he's a dictator here, a tyrant, angry, and there's no international force to deal with him.

Let's put it this way, Saddam was killed by the US for oil, and without it, Saddam would not have gone to Iraq to do justice, even if he had no more dictatorship.

This is the case of Zeid, who, in a poor country, has enjoyed being a dictator, at least nobody comes to justice.

But that was broken about four years ago.

According to Una, about four years ago, a group of people arrived in Khmubia.

Having found Zeid, the group expressed its intention to survey mineral resources in Khmubia.

Zeid has been numb for a long time, and several Western powers have come to comb the national geography of Khmubia as thoroughly as a comb, and nothing has been found.

Zeid has no intention of refusing this kind of wrongdoer, anyway, just give him the money.

The parties signed a confidentiality agreement, which paid Zeid millions of dollars and stated that if minerals were found, the other party would have 50 years of mining rights. Zeid, on the other hand, was able to distribute a share of the mineral proceeds, which were promised to be $10 million a year.

Zeid doesn't care how the terms are signed, he cares about the millions of dollars in deposits he gets - in his view, the other party is a big wrongdoer.

But I didn't expect that this big wrongdoer would succeed!

It actually worked?!

……

“Now think about it, that thing is very strange. ”

Una's tone is complicated: “At the time, the surveyors were all sent from each other, and the survey team was very simple, and I didn't even carry much equipment, and I was on the survey team, and I was just watching as my father's representative - just to make sure that my father's interests were there. And most importantly, it was actually a terrible thing, and my father just wanted me to follow it and maybe get some more out of the wrong hands. ”

Chen Xiaocao did not speak.

Una continued: "Those surveyors don't look like surveyors at all to me, they don't look like people who work in the wild all the time, they look more like professional soldiers. This would have been nothing, because the Western mining groups that we have come into contact with over the years have a governmental background, and the guards of those mining groups are essentially professional mercenaries, even national armies. But things are still strange. ”

Speaking of this, Unaton paused, carefully mindful of the words, slowed down: “They… are not looking for a mine, but for a suitable terrain. ”

“Hmm? What does that mean?” Chen Xiaocao asked.

Una thought, "Mine hunting is a very professional job that requires professional people, professional survey equipment, then screening according to the particular geographic environment, and then eventually surveying areas where there may be minerals… but these people seem strange. I don't know how to say this... they make me feel, very casual. ”

“At will? ”

“Yes, they feel like traveling, wandering around with teams full of Kmubiya, watching the mountains, the rivers, the geography, but seldom stopping for surveys.

And the weirdest thing is that at the end of the day, not far from the southern border, we came down a mountain, and these people looked at the mountain, and they said, "Here it is." ”

Una said as she remembered: “I felt… as if they were completely satisfied with the terrain of the mountain. ”

Chen Xiaoliang's eyes shine: “What happened? Is the mine really in the mountains? ”

Una laughed bitterly: "I also think these people are being ridiculous, but soon we really found a mineral vein in the mountains. That fact stunned my people. ”

She lowered her voice: “Actually, this mountain, we've surveyed it ourselves before, there's nothing there, two mining groups in the West have surveyed it, nothing has been found.

But these guys, that's where they found the mineral vein. ”

Chen Xiaoliang nodded: “Go on. ”

……

The next thing is easier.

Zeid is an old hoodlum.

When he learned that he had found the vein and found it in his own territory, his first reaction was to tear that agreement apart!

Zeid certainly didn't have the guts to do so if the other party was a mining group from a major Western power.

But the other side didn't look very powerful, and Zeid moved his bad thoughts.

In his view, everything in this land at his feet is his own.

That confidentiality agreement, which yields only 10 million a year, is too little to satisfy Zeid's appetite.

In his view, with this mineral vein, he could take it out and negotiate with the rest of the Western world, perhaps with more and better terms.

Fortunately, he didn't do it immediately, but first tried to find out who this partner was.

Immediately after the survey team returned to Kabuka, Zeid sent troops to surround the hotel where the team lived and put them under house arrest.

He decides to force the other party first, if the other party agrees with his big appetite, then he can continue to cooperate, if the other party disagrees, then... kill and then find other Western countries to cooperate.

Zeid would not have any psychological impediments to doing so anyway.

The survey team did not resist, even those who appeared to have a very professional military atmosphere did not resist, very calmly should eat and drink in the hotel.

The next night, Zeid was scared!

He was given a gift.

This gift is a human head.

Head of the Minister of National Mining of Khmubia.

It was cut straight off and stuffed in Zeid's duvet!

Mr. President didn't realize he had such a thing in his nest until he woke up in the morning.

Of course he peed on the spot.

Zeid is furious!

He executed several guards around him that day and replaced the captain of his own guard. The Presidential Office was ordered to conduct a thorough investigation and upgraded to the highest level of security.

He sent someone to the hotel to meet the survey team, put conditions on the other side, made few demands, and only asked to increase the profit ratio of 10 million per year to 30 million per year.

The other party laughed and said think about it.

Then that evening, Zeid received another gift.

In the morning, it was discovered that all 20 guards guarding outside the Zeid Gate had been beheaded!

The heads were piled together.

Mr. President, sleeping in the room, his men used cold water to wake up!

Zeid's scared!

This time he did not jump like Ray to execute his own guard, but sat alone in the room all morning without talking.

In the face of such a fierce opponent, the response of the old hoodlums in the area was straightforward.

He knelt.

Zeid himself went to the hotel that night to meet the leader of the other survey team and sign the painfully reformulated agreement - the one he had torn off long before.

The other side offered only two conditions: first, secrecy, and Zeid would die if any information about the mineral was leaked outside. The other party even gave a list of all Khumubian nationals who had been informed about the survey of the mine, including mentors in the ranks, including members of the Government, as well as some of their families.

When Zeid returns, the first thing you need to do is shoot all the people you know!

The only person left to know is Una.

The other party accepts that Una, as the representative of Zeid's interests, has access to the mining area for accounting purposes. Apart from that, no one should enter the area again.

The second condition for each other is to stabilize the political situation in Khumbiya and not affect their mining efforts.

Zeid had a headache with that request.

Although he was the President, in fact he did not control the whole of Khmubia, and some tribes had been resisting his rule, and wars of all sizes and sizes would always come and go.

They said, "You can't do it, we'll help you."

It only took three days, near the mine, two bigger tribes that had been in opposition to Zeid, were uprooted! There's nothing left!

If Zeid was only afraid before, then this time, he was completely subdued.

The other side told him, "Actually, we can kill you and replace your obedient president, but that's just too much trouble."

So far, only Zeid and a handful of high-ranking individuals in Khumbiya are aware of the existence of such a mine, and no one else is aware of it.

The hills, the surrounding tribes, were cleaned up.

And Zeid's army was never close to that area.

The only person with the best knowledge is Una.

Una is an alternative to all of Zeid's children, who have studied abroad since childhood and received Western education, and is considered an alternative elite among Zeid's children.

Zeid handed over his personal property to Una.

And Una, only goes to that mining area four times a year, as a quarterly check on the distribution of mine revenues.

She did not even have access to a real mining area and could only look outside.

According to Una, the other party did not even employ miners in Khmubia - all presumably brought by the other party itself.

And then more doubts arose.

There's always a place to process and refine mined ore, right?

There are no local processing plants.

If it's not processed, then the ore has to be transported out, right?

But after four years, he didn't see any convoys coming in or out.

The place was almost hidden in the mountains, and no one was informed of any movement of convoys in or out of Kamubia.

It's like these guys just circled a piece of land in the mountains, forbidden anyone to go in and out, and then... they don't know anything.

Even Una said that she had been there several times and felt that the place was simply not a mining area, had not seen any ore and had not seen any explosives needed for mining.

She hasn't even seen anyone who looks like a miner.

Every time I see her, she looks clean and dressed in a suit.

……

“So, what exactly is this mine? Coal or iron? Copper or gold? You know that, don't you?” Chen Xiaolian frowned.

Una opened her mouth: “I... I don't know. ”

Chen Xiaoliang stunned.

Una hesitated for a moment and lowered her voice: “There are gold mines on paper. My father used to try to find each other, and he wanted a shipment of gold, and he said yes, and then I took people to the mine, and they really gave us a shipment of gold. But... I haven't really seen it in the mining area. No one is allowed in the entire mining area. Anyway, I've always wondered what mines were hidden in that place, because none of us had ever really seen it. ”

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