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Zero suddenly had an idea: using zebras for transportation was probably the only way, since there were zebra herds everywhere on the African savanna.
With that in mind, she planned to rest for a while and then find a herd of zebras so that she could better complete her mission.
……
Half-asleep, Lu Mingfei woke up and noticed that someone was shaking his hammock. He wondered if Zero was calling him to get up.
When he opened his eyes, he suddenly found that he had lost his balance and seemed to be falling from a great height.
He suddenly woke up with a start and opened his eyes. The next second, his whole body fell onto several burlap sacks.
"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" Lu Mingfei fell backwards, his body was completely broken, but fortunately he was not injured.
He propped himself up on his arms and touched the burlap sack under his buttocks; it seemed to contain something like grain.
Before he could even think it through, a dark gun barrel was pressed against his forehead.
Lu Mingfei cautiously raised his hands, looked around, and finally understood the situation.
He was currently in a pickup truck surrounded by eight black men. They were driving two pickup trucks; one was loaded with food, canned goods, and other food supplies, while the other was loaded with various weapons and ammunition: AK47s, MG42 machine guns, RPGs, grenade launchers, and more.
"What happened?" Lu Mingfei asked the black men in English.
The black man didn't seem to understand Lu Mingfei's words; they were just muttering to each other in the local indigenous language.
"What's going on here!" Lu Mingfei sighed speechlessly, then remembered Zero.
With Zero around, there's nothing to be afraid of. You have to understand that she's the kind of person who single-handedly fought her way out of the Red Well. These few black natives are nothing but a piece of cake for Her Majesty the Queen.
He looked around and finally found Zero in another car, his hands and feet tied up!
"No way!" Lu Mingfei was stunned. The strongest fighter in the group had actually surrendered without a fight.
Lu Mingfei felt a pang of guilt. He knew that Ling must have been too tired from taking care of him, which was why she had fallen into a deep sleep and was caught.
Logically speaking, they shouldn't be sleeping together; someone should be left to keep watch and be on guard.
It's unclear what these black men are up to. After tying Lu Mingfei up, they threw him into the car and then placed Lu Mingfei and Ling in the cargo box of the pickup truck.
"I'm sorry, it's my fault for being so useless and dragging you down with me," Lu Mingfei said to Zero.
"It's none of your business. I got arrested on purpose," Zero said calmly.
"Huh?" Lu Mingfei was confused. How could someone deliberately get caught?
"Their tribe is in the south, and their route is right along ours."
Lu Mingfei understood Zero's intention: he wanted to slack off!
No matter how fast a person runs, they can't outrun a car, so having a car to ride in is definitely better than walking.
"Sigh, I don't know if this is lucky or unlucky," Lu Mingfei sighed.
In addition to various ferocious beasts, Africa is also home to many primitive tribes.
He once saw a joke where someone asked if African cannibals eat vegetarian food.
The answer was: Food, food for people in a vegetative state.
At that time, he thought that African cannibals were just a joke. It wasn't until he grew up and collected information that he learned that there are actually cannibal tribes that still retain the tradition of eating people.
"We won't get eaten, will we?" Lu Mingfei asked, somewhat frightened.
“They’re not cannibals.” Zero kicked the can of luncheon meat next to his feet.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Lu Mingfei suddenly realized that if they really ate people, they wouldn't need to buy so many canned foods.
"Then who are they?" Lu Mingfei asked.
Zero replied: "It's some armed separatist force. I just heard them say that there are probably more than a thousand of them."
"Then why did they arrest us?"
“They saw that I was pretty and assumed I was the daughter of some tycoon who was out having fun. They planned to kidnap me and demand a ransom so they could buy more weapons and expand their power.”
"So it's because you're too beautiful!" Lu Mingfei retorted, then paused, "You understand their language?"
"Hmm." Zero didn't offer any further explanation.
"Then... what do we do now?" Lu Mingfei asked. "Once we get to their location, should we contact the academy for rescue?"
“In that case, my exam results will be canceled, and I’ll have to retake it,” Zero said. “That’s too much trouble.”
This off-road expedition will face dangers not only from nature but also from primitive tribes and armed groups, all of which are within the academy's expectations.
Given Kassel College's capabilities, storming the Pentagon wouldn't be a problem, and an armed group in Africa wouldn't pose much of a danger; students should be able to handle it independently.
If you can't handle it, you can contact the academy. They all carry an emergency button that connects to a satellite. Once pressed, an academy specialist will come to your rescue.
However, the college's specialists are like the safety officers in the driving test. Once the safety officer intervenes in the test, it means the test has failed and a retake is required.
Lu Mingfei naturally knew all this, and he asked Zero, "So what is our action plan?"
Although Zero looks like a minor, Lu Mingfei subconsciously feels that Zero is reliable and a partner he can entrust his back to.
“I plan to sneak into their territory, steal one of their cars at night, fill it with canned food and fresh water, and then drive it directly to the destination.”
Chapter 535 The Landlady's Phone Call
Lu Mingfei was stunned. He thought Ling was just hitching a ride and taking a break for a while, but he didn't expect her to plan to slack off the whole way!
That seems like a better way!
With a car to ride in and canned food as supplies, we no longer have to eat strange wild game.
Lu Mingfei looked down and saw canned beef, canned luncheon meat, and canned vegetables and fruits—a truly complete selection!
Zero glanced at the truckload of food supplies. "I actually shot an antelope while you were sleeping."
"What about the sheep?" Lu Mingfei looked around; he was indeed a little hungry.
“They ate it all,” Zero said. “Since they ate our food, it’s fair that we take some of theirs.”
“Yes, it’s very fair.” Lu Mingfei was both amused and exasperated, but at this moment, he was no longer nervous.
In the past few months in Tokyo, he had seen all sorts of big scenes, including thousands of mixed-race people besieging the city in Takamagahara.
Now that he has entered an armed tribe of about a thousand people, Lu Mingfei has calmed down. A group of black men, no matter how powerful they are, can't be as powerful as the mixed-bloods of the Snake Clan, right?
However, the bigger problem is that the bag of guns he brought with him when he set off was confiscated by his buddies, and now he is unarmed.
Lu Mingfei was very self-aware; without a gun, he was just a little rabbit, only fit to be used by Xiong Da and Xiong Er to wipe their butts.
So he started looking around to see where the bag of guns was, preparing to take it back.
That was his equipment for carrying weight; if he ran out of weight, he would fail at the finish line...
Lu Mingfei looked up at the position of the sun, which had already begun to set, around four o'clock in the afternoon.
Before long, they arrived at a camp by the river. The camp consisted of only tin-roofed houses, all converted from shipping containers, with the roofs covered with local coarse, fibrous grass for insulation.
However, there was a big problem with this place: there was no electricity. Lu Mingfei walked around the camp and looked around, but he couldn't find the outdoor unit of the air conditioner compressor.
The only electrical appliances were electric lights and a radio.
It seems this armed tribe isn't very wealthy, and I wonder what their purpose is in establishing a foothold here.
“There’s a city fifty kilometers to the east of here. This armed tribe is making preparations here, and then they’re going to take that city,” Zero suddenly said.
"You heard them talking again?"
"Ah."
It's likely that Zero has an exceptionally good bloodline, just like the giant tortoise and Erii, able to hear sounds from very far away.
Lu Mingfei looked around. There was only a black man guarding him behind him, pointing a gun at the two of them, but he did not forbid them from communicating.
In this black man's opinion, Lu Mingfei was so thin that he had no muscle at all, and Ling was so petite that she looked like a minor. Moreover, the two of them were tied up with rope and could not move, so they were really no threat.
So even though Lu Mingfei was constantly looking around and memorizing the terrain, Blackie didn't stop him.
"Shall we move out after dark?" Lu Mingfei withdrew his gaze. His frequent gaming allowed him to quickly memorize the surrounding map and obstacles, and he had already memorized the general route.
"We can act after dark without alerting them," Zero said softly.
Soon, the two were taken to a slightly more upscale tin shack, which had a fan powered by a diesel engine.
Inside sat a large black man wearing only a pair of pants. He was tall and looked a lot like Shaquille O'Neal, but he was only about 1.9 meters tall.
He asked Lu Mingfei and Ling in English where they came from, but Ling refused to speak to him, so Lu Mingfei had to answer him as if he were a servant.
He told the black man that they were tourists and asked him what he wanted, whether he wanted money.
Brother Hei didn't expect this prisoner to be so sensible. He immediately took out a satellite phone and had Lu Mingfei call someone to demand a ransom of one million US dollars.
Lu Mingfei held the satellite phone, somewhat hesitant. If he called Boss Caesar, he would probably immediately send a special forces unit over; if he called Senior Brother Chu, he would come alone…
In short, neither of them will pay.
If she called Gu Ran, he was taking an exam and probably wouldn't answer. If she called Erii... well, she would immediately wire him money, but she had already left the Snake Clan and couldn't spend money as freely as before.
Lu Mingfei thought and thought, but for the time being, he couldn't seem to find anyone who could give him a million.
"Call this number," Zero suddenly announced.
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then immediately obeyed and pressed the number button, then dialed the number.
The call was answered quickly, and a lazy voice came from the other end: "Who is it?"
Lu Mingfei felt that the voice was very familiar.
"Who is it? Speak up! Do you want money? Hurry up!"
"Ah, yes, yes, yes! I, I want a million dollars, US dollars, US dollars!" Lu Mingfei quickly replied.
"Oh, what about the account?"
"Wait a minute!" Lu Mingfei asked the naked gang leader for his bank account number. The gang leader was stunned, not expecting the other party to be so easy to talk to!
So he immediately took out a bank card and asked Lu Mingfei to read it aloud.
Lu Mingfei pointed to the gang leader's VISA card and gave the card number to the person on the other end of the phone.
"Alright, I've transferred the money. I'm hanging up now. I have other things to do. The Greek government can't even pay back a mere 70 billion euros in debt. Someone's trying to speculate on the euro market. I need to get in on the action and make a killing, hehehe!"
Lu Mingfei doesn't read the news and is unaware of the Eurozone credit crisis triggered by the Greek debt crisis, so he said something obscene: "Oh... I wish you success, and I'll treat you to dinner when you make money!"