Chapter 64

Cameroon, on the Gulf of Guinea, is a relatively well-developed and economically advanced country in northern Africa because of its rich oil resources and its favorable geographical location on the Gulf.

Even so, Cameroon’s financial capital and the country’s largest city, Douala, looked backward, with no modern urban feel, no dedicated business center, and the supply of fresh water and electricity was often interrupted.

“It should be impossible for our ship to be held hostage in Douala’s harbor, so why come here?”

As the plane was about to land at Douala Airport, Qing Li looked out the porthole and asked Yue Qi.

Although the biggest advantage of Douala is Douala port, cargo throughput accounted for ninety-six percent of Cameroon’s national, but in fact, Douala port harbor channel draught is too shallow, even during the flood season is only ten meters, a lot of large-scale cargo ships are simply no way to enter, of course, including Yue’s subsidiary of the two draught of more than twenty meters of the mega-tanker.

“In fact, there is no harbor in the Gulf of Guinea with a water depth of more than fifteen meters, and large oil tankers are loaded and unloaded through shuttle tankers or barges to and from the harbor.” Yue Zhi patiently explained, “After that you’ll know why we’re here.”

This time, in addition to the five who stayed behind and the five who disappeared during the mission, the remaining eighteen people in the base all went out, counting Liang Jing and Yue Zhi, the whole twenty people, stuffing the Dassault Falcon 10X to overflowing.

After the plane landed, their contacts have rented six SUVs waiting for them under the plane, as long as the money, the car can be driven directly to the VIP area of the airport, convenient for loading and unloading luggage.

As soon as they left the airplane, a heat wave mixed with humidity hit their faces, Douala is a tropical rainforest climate, compared to the feeling of the new horse but also hot and humid.

Qingli felt her body instantly become sticky, but she couldn’t tell whether it was the moisture in the air or sweat from the heat.

Xiji and Liang Jin commanded the others to move the boxes containing luggage and weapons into the trunk of the car, gave the driver a tip and then dismissed the people, going out on missions, they never act as their own drivers.

After everything was packed, the contact and Xiji a car, drove in the front, to meet their target who came to Douala this time.

Yue Zhi and Qing Li sat in the backseat, the co-pilot was Liang Jin, and Falcon drove.

“What are we going to do now?” Qing Li only knew that she was coming to recapture the oil tanker and find the missing Monograms, but exactly how the mission was going to unfold wasn’t very clear.

“To deal with the pirates must also be to find the locals to come, we are going to meet a non-governmental armed forces in Douala at this moment, they and often deal with pirates, can provide information and force support, otherwise rely on us these people is absolutely not enough.” Ryazu in the front seat said as he tapped on it with his tablet.

“That means the people we’re going to meet now can be considered accomplices of the pirates and then get them to help us deal with the accomplices?” Aonashi asked.

“You could say that, no matter if it’s a non-government armed force or pirates, as long as you pay, there’s no one you can’t use.” Yue Zhi hadn’t had much rest and leaned back in his seat looking a little tired.

“Why don’t you sleep for a while first, your dark circles are so heavy.” Qing Li touched Yue Zhi’s face with some heartache, “It’s true that not everyone can be a father.” She felt that at this point, Yue Zhi and her were actually both equally pitiful.

Yue Zhi looked at her and smiled gently, “How can I sleep peacefully if this matter is not resolved, no matter what, I have to bring Menggema and the others back safely, otherwise how can I stand up to his wife and child.”

“Just tell me what you have, I’ll do what I can, don’t be too anxious.”

“Well, luckily I brought you along.” Yue Zhi wrapped his arm around her neck and kissed her on the lips, “Even looking at it the mood will change for the better.”

Qing Li heard that he was still able to joke, and slightly relaxed a bit, so she chatted about the mission again, “I’ve only heard of the Pirates of the Caribbean and Somali pirates before, but it’s the first time I’ve known that there are pirates on this side of the Gulf of Guinea as well.”

“In recent years, the oil production in the Gulf of Guinea has been rising, the number of routes for crude oil export has increased, so the pirates have caught wind of it, in addition, because the Suez Canal has silted up and become shallow, restricting the navigation of many mega oil tankers, the Somali pirates are still rampant, but the overall power is already not as good as this side.” Yue Qi explained in detail.

He knew that Qingli’s knowledge of this world was still relatively lacking and shallow, so he said more.

“It feels like the Somali pirates have caused world public anger, the ones on this side of the Gulf of Guinea can actually cooperate with the non-government armed forces, do the pirates also give them money?”

“Almost, the pirates kidnapped and held hostage the ships of other countries, and sometimes also help the non-governmental armed forces to express their political demands, and the Niger Delta region is economically backward, some pirate gangs will be part of the proceeds of lawlessness used for health care, education, and other aspects of the infrastructure, in the local people have gained a lot of support, the people will also help them to fight against the police and army together, it is a very difficult task. of pursuing them, it’s a difficult problem to deal with.” Yue Zhi said.

Hearing this, Qing Li again didn’t know how to judge those pirates as good or bad, she knew how inhumanly poor people in such backward areas lived, and could understand their mentality of seeing pirates as heroes and saviors.

It was as if she was looking at Yue Zhi, no matter how the other party looked like in other people’s eyes, they would always carry the filter of a benefactor in her case.

The convoy traveled about ten kilometers to a rural area outside Douala, at a glance it looked like a small village with simple earthen houses huddled together, it was hard to imagine a place where non-government armed forces were stationed.

But Yue Qi also said that it is the local black . But Yue Zhi also said that it might be more accurate to say that it was the local black gangs.

At the head of the village stood dozens of people, cheap flowery shirts, big shorts, dark skin, guns casually attached to the waistband of their pants, tanned skin, just by contrasting with Yue Zhi’s side, it was completely unlike the people of the same world, if any outsiders saw this image, they would definitely say that Yue Zhi was dropping the ball, and that the other side should be the lowest level of people he had ever worked with.

The armed leader took two steps forward, it could be seen that he was a little nervous when he saw Yue Zhi, but not much, it was more like a kind of nervous anticipation for the benefits and interests that Yue Zhi brought.

“Mr. Yue, I’ve heard a lot about you, just call me Paul.” The chief said in French with an accent. Because of historical reasons, seventy percent of Cameroon’s population spoke French.

Yue Zhi took the initiative to reach out and opened the door in skillful French, “Hello, I think unnecessary pleasantries will be spared, the account you provided should have already received a million dollars from me, have you checked what I need?”

Paul nodded, scanned around the dozen or so people behind Yue Zhi, raised his hand and pointed in a direction, “Follow me, go over there and elaborate.”

They followed Paul to a small two-story building more than a hundred meters away, although it looked old and the windows didn’t even have glass, it was the only brick building as far as the eye could see.

“This used to be the office building for the government of this town, and now that it’s abandoned, it’s our stronghold.” Paul led them to the largest office on the first floor, which was empty, with only an old, worn blanket on the floor.

Paul sat down cross-legged first, “The conditions are simple, Mr. Yue don’t take offense.”

Yue Zhi smiled and naturally sat across from him, “There’s not that much to speak of at a time like this.”

It was said to be the largest office, but it was only about a dozen square meters, it was difficult for everyone to go in and stand, so Yue Zhi was surrounded by only Liang Jin Xiji and Xingota, Qing Li and the others were outside the door.

“This is some information we have investigated.” Paul took out a map of the Gulf of Guinea and pointed to a circle on it, “Oversized oil tankers are not allowed to enter the harbor, and combined with the location you provided where the ship last sent out a GPS signal, it is most likely still in this area.”

“Can you determine what the other party is?” Yue Qi asked as he looked at the map.

“Well, it’s an organization called ‘Ocean Peace’, basically all Nigerians, on the surface, although it’s just a pirate gang, but in fact, we all know that he’s integrated with a Nigerian non-government armed force, and all of the funds and resources obtained through piracy are used by this organization to conduct Anti-. Government violence.” Paul said. “It hasn’t been long since it happened and you guys are coming in so fast, that’s all I’ve been able to find out for now, the rest of the feeds will have to wait.”

“The ship must still be at sea, my people must have been taken to be locked up, I have to prioritize getting my people out, so the first thing to do is to find their stronghold, this is the most urgent.” Yue Zhi said as he hugged his arms.

Qing Li and the others felt touched as they listened, people like them, who would not like this kind of person who valued the lives of their companions more than money.

But Yue Zhi himself knew, or Nishiji Liangjin knew, that compared to human lives that could be claimed with a single bullet, 400,000 tons of oil was not that easy to move, so there was no need to rush at all.

“My people have infiltrated Nigeria, guessing that you will counterattack, the other side has already withdrawn from the old stronghold, the new location will have to wait a little longer.” Paul finished, somewhat anxiously explaining, “I was not expecting you guys to come so fast, although we had to wait, it did not exceed the time we agreed upon.”

Yue Qi smiled, “Mr. Paul don’t need to be so nervous, I know, I’m very satisfied with this efficiency, after all, my understanding of this place is completely inferior to yours, if I didn’t have you, I might have to waste more effort, so don’t worry, I won’t change the honorarium I agreed on.”

Paul sighed in relief, “That’s good, after all we both need the money badly.”

After saying that he stood up, “I won’t waste any more time here, if Mr. Yue is going to rescue people, I still have to choose a group of people to come out and follow, there are still a lot of things to be accounted for, where are you guys going to settle down?”

Yue Zhi stood up and looked around the room, “I thought this place was just vacated for us, with such a fat piece of meat like me here, it’s better to be closer to Mr. Paul to feel more at ease.”

Paul laughed out loud, “As long as you don’t mind, don’t worry, the conditions are not good, but the safety is absolutely no problem, the generator and diesel fuel I’ve already prepared for you, it’s enough to simply live for a few days.”

After saying that, he led his people to leave first.

Qing Li looked at Yue Zhi’s people who were still discussing something over Singo Tower’s computer, so he turned to look at the village.

Because of the rainforest climate, it looked like there were a lot of lush forests, not the same as the arid and desolate Africa she remembered, and although it was poor and backward, there were still a lot of dark-skinned children chasing and playing around, very happy.

“There are very many races and tribes in Africa, one word and an extermination type conflict may break out, the means are very cruel, you have to be careful while we are here, try not to have too much contact with the locals.”

Yue Zhi came out at an unknown time and took Qingli’s shoulder to explain.

“Well, I understand, before we set off Singo Towers organized some of the customs and taboos over here, I’ve had a good look at all of them.” Aonashi nodded.

“Oh yeah?” Yue Zhi lowered his eyes to look at her, without much expression, “I can’t see that Xingota still has such a meticulous side.”

Qing Li did not notice the difference in his mood, “I have always been assigned to his communication squad, and I sort of know a lot about it, he looks uninvolved in talking, but he is actually quite thorough, and his work is very solid.”

“Of course, this is something that I know best.” Yue Zhi faintly said.