Lost eight hundred million at the beginning

After eating the high-end local western food, Lin Ruoyan couldn't wait to visit the camp.

In the country of Bowa, the camps of large companies are quite luxuriously constructed, and they are not temporary constructions, but permanent buildings. After the construction projects are completed, those camps will be taken back by the local area and replaced by other public buildings, such as Schools, community centers or libraries.

This time their goal is to build a new city in the inland desolate area, surrounded by endless prairie, very sparsely populated, the camp that can accommodate major enterprises and small factories must appear more magnificent.

Their means of transportation is off-road vehicles. The road is still an asphalt road for the first hour after driving out of the city, and it becomes a dirt road after the second hour, but it is still relatively flat and not bumpy.After another hour, even the dirt road became potholed, and the things I ate before were almost knocked out.

At this time, some villages can be seen from a distance. The buildings are all characteristic huts with thatched roofs made of mud. A small village looks like dozens of families.

Lin Ruoyan discovered that the locals were also reclaiming wasteland, and they used the fire method.

Set fire to burn the weeds, and after the soil is turned, the weed ash seeps into the soil and is a good fertilizer.But they don't have any more advanced farming tools, such as tractors that don't exist, neither oxen nor iron plows, just primitive slash-and-burn farming, all relying on manpower.

The local women bend over to work, and the young children who cannot walk are put in the field and let them play in the overgrown grass.There are also some wizened old women, with huge water cans on their heads, watering the newly cleared land.

"Why are there no men in the fields?" Hua Mengmeng asked curiously.

Zhuo Yuan explained: "Men all go to the city to work, but they often just earn money and spend it on their own. Working hard to make money is not easy to make money with brains. If there are industries nearby, such as large factories, many women don't. After farming, he went to work in the factory.”

Lin Ruoyan had visited Mr. Yuan's agricultural project before, and knew that the local cultivation was too backward, so she couldn't help but feel a little worried: "But these people farm the land so casually, the food produced is not enough to eat, right? If you can't make money, just Will I be hungry if I grow food by myself?"

"The local climate and soil are pretty good, much more fertile than domestic land. Even with such primitive farming, the yield is not bad. Also, have you seen those trees? The fruits on the trees can also be used to grind flour. Eat, the local staple food is a paste made from the powder of that fruit. Before the arrival of modern civilization, the local people multiplied for thousands of years, and they all relied on the gifts of nature. Farming land and growing food is not necessary for their lives. "

Lin Ruoyan thought to herself, what exactly does modern civilization bring to the local people? The country with various mineral resources was plundered, the ecology was destroyed, and the aborigines had to change their way of life and participate in modern production.

Is it right or wrong to do so?No one asked the locals if they needed it, and they had no other options.Colonists came and went, leaving behind ruins and scorched earth, and wealth never remained on this continent.

At sunset, Lin Ruoyan could already see the outlines of a large square of buildings not far away.

Those houses are not tall, but they have a strict layout, which is obviously different from the local villages at first glance.The local villages do not build walls, and the random mud houses and sheds are scattered and arbitrary without much planning.This place is obviously designed, with a large circle of tall walls for protection, where you can see the location of the watchtower and weapons, it looks like a large camp like a barracks.

At this time, a car suddenly turned out from a fork in the road behind them, at an extremely fast speed, passed Zhuo Yuan's team of four cars, and sped towards the camp.

Zhuo Yuan looked at the unfamiliar look of those cars, picked up his mobile phone and dialed the duty room at the camp, and asked, "Is there a stranger coming to the camp?"

The duty room of the camp just happened to report the emergency to Zhuo Yuan, so he quickly replied: "Yes, Mr. Zhuo. They are carrying weapons, and they all seem to be Chinese, and their Mandarin is very standard. But none of them have Chinese passports on them. There is another seriously injured person in the car, we implore us to give medical treatment first."

Zhuo Yuan replied: "Save people first. If they don't want to hand over their weapons, they can stay in the designated place. Don't let them wander around in the camp."

His appearance is similar to that of Chinese people, but he can't produce a Chinese passport because he can speak Mandarin well. His identity is actually very suspicious.This camp has just been built, and it is the largest corporate camp in the vicinity. Unidentified people cannot be allowed to enter casually.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the design of the camp, some solutions to the armed invasion had been taken into consideration.There are two medical rooms, one at the core of the camp, and a temporary medical station at the main entrance of the camp.

When Zhuo Yuan and the others arrived, the car just now was a temporary medical station parked near the gate, and the injured had already been brought in.

The three people who came in the same car, with their guns still on their bodies, did not force their way into the camp. Instead, they stood, drank water, ate, adjusted and rested. Seriously.They also had injuries on their bodies, but they were simply bandaged and did not ask the doctors and nurses in the camp to take care of them.

Zhuo Yuan asked his assistant to go over to inquire about the situation, and he thought about getting Lin Ruoyan and Hua Mengmeng settled first before dealing with this matter.

Unexpectedly, a tall young man with a beard on the other side seemed to know Zhuo Yuan. After seeing him get out of the car, he greeted him, "Is he the president of NFLS?"

Zhuo Yuan had no choice but to stand still beside the car, and asked doubtfully, "May I ask who you are?"

The bearded man slung his gun over his shoulder, gave a standard military salute, and said, "Twelve years ago, we belonged to a unit."

Zhuo Yuan took a closer look and said pleasantly, "Old Xu? Squad leader Xu, right?"

The bearded man nodded and said, "It's me."

"How did you end up in Africa?" Zhuo Yuan was directly admitted to the military academy after the college entrance examination, where he majored in engineering, and then gradually embarked on the path of engineering management.

He clearly remembered that Squad Leader Xu was excellent in all aspects and was selected into the Special Forces, but he lost contact with him after that.He is now in his thirties, why is he still on the front line?Is the identity of a mercenary just a disguise?
"Where did you come from? Did you lose your passport?" Zhuo Yuan asked again.

Old Xu didn't answer so many questions directly. He looked around and said very implicitly: "We came from another camp, and we are all private mercenaries at present. The passports were kept by the superior before leaving the mission."

Private mercenaries?Lin Ruoyan heard a few conversations between them with her sharp ears, but she didn't dare to move forward to ask more questions.Her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and there was always an inexplicable uneasiness lingering in her heart.

In Africa, having entered the 21st century, there are still many areas where wars and conflicts are frequent.It's not that the locals don't love peace, but that they are guilty of committing crimes. There are always people in the Western world who don't want them to be peaceful.

The emergence of private mercenaries means that powerful people hire military forces to protect themselves.These people may be local politicians or foreign companies.Like Zhuo Yuan, he built a camp by himself and spent money to hire armed forces to protect his safety.

These mercenaries fled here with the wounded, did they cause trouble and were chased here for help?

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