"This damn ghost weather" Kebby, the owner of the diamond mine, waved his fat palms and twisted his huge ass, while driving away the mosquitoes flying in front of him, while cursing the bad weather irritably, he got out of his tent and roared in the rain like a mad dog: "Maurice Morris, you slacker, where are you hiding and lazy, why did I hear gunshots in the distance, is it a rebel coming?"
In fact, it is no wonder that he is so irritable, just entering the rainy season for a month, it rains almost every day, a light rain every two days, a heavy rain every three days, and the river floods everywhere.
In the dry climate of Africa, rain is a symbol of life, but for a diamond miner, rain is definitely not a good thing.
The rain will wash away the dug pit and make the miners' job harder.
Only under the scorching sun will those enchanting little stones shine and become more visible to miners.
"Boss, I'm here."
A black head emerges from the largest tent in the camp.
Morris looked at his thunderous boss, his thick lips cracked to reveal a mouthful of crazy white teeth, like white fluorescent stripes dangling in the night, and grinned and flattered: "I was in the monitoring room to see if those slackers were playing tricks." ” Kebby knew his pony wasn't lying.
Morris is the head of the guard in charge of the safety of the mines, and he is also his henchman, in charge of commanding his team of 240 mercenaries, all of whom are recruited from Liberia and other localities, and usually rely on them to ensure the safety of their own mining.
Kebby burrowed into the tent of the monitoring room, looking at the rows of screens in front of him, his small eyes revealing a suspicious vigilance, like a vulture guarding a piece of carrion.
He bought the surveillance equipment at a great price, and installed such high-resolution surveillance cameras everywhere near the camp next to the mines.
Kebbi is also a person who has seen the world, starting from helping people to work in his early years, and finally working all the way to the time, relying on a small piece of land left to him by his ancestors, he became a mine owner.
He knew very well that the pit was the fountain of his wealth, and that the expensive and fascinating little stones would make a normal person lose his mind and take possession by any means, and the battle between the mine owner and the miner was played out every day.
In order to get the diamonds, the miners are even more tricky, playing all kinds of tricks to keep them for themselves, and some people will even swallow the diamonds in their stomachs, or stuff them into the anus, and pull them out again when they go home.
In order to put an end to such things, Kebbi also purchased an X-ray machine.
The miners have to go through layers of checks every day after work, which are no less stringent than the airport security checks in the country.
After watching it for a while, nothing unusual, Kebby turned out of the monitoring room and said to Morris with some anxiety: "Morris, it's not been peaceful recently, the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front heard that they are coming here again, let's mine here, be careful of being targeted." ” Morris shook his head, patted his chest and said: "Boss, don't worry, we have more than 200 people here, and now the government army and the Alliance Front have just signed a ceasefire agreement, and there are peacekeepers supervising it. ” Kebbi was still relieved, and walked in the direction of the mine, muttering as he walked: "The peacekeepers are a big hit, in 99, the more than 8,000 peacekeepers sent by the United Nations let Sankoh's United Front capture 500 people in less than a month, and they were all disgraced."
These outsiders don't know anything, and their eyes are black, so they are not as good as this group of baby soldiers we hire. ” A pit appeared in front of the two of them, and hundreds of people in the pit a few meters deep bent down with a sieve and kept sifting the sand and gravel inside, staring at the gravel with their eyes fixed, lest they let go of a broken diamond.
These workers are only paid for food and shelter, and only by sifting out the diamonds can they get a certain percentage of the share, so they work very hard, which is also a masterpiece of Kebby, who has also mined and knows that this can increase the motivation of the miners.
There is a mercenary standing every two meters next to the mine, holding a fake AK rifle in his hand, the magazine is double, tied with a strip of cloth, which can be easily and quickly replaced, to maintain the continuity of fire, and the body of the gun handguard is also wrapped around a circle of cloth strips, because these AKs are all copycats, the quality is not very good, continuous firing is easy to cause serious hot hand protection parts, wrap cloth strips to insulate heat, and it is not easy to slip.
The mercenaries were all in their teens, and some were even thirteen or fourteen years old.
After years of war in West Africa, many children from poor families have no way to live, and if they do not join local armed forces or mercenaries, they can only join the rebels.
Looking at these half-mercenaries under his command, Kebby's heart hung again.
He squatted on the edge of the pit and watched for a while, like a lizard lying on the ground waiting for an opportunity to hunt, stretched out his tongue and licked his dark and thick lips, turned his head to Morris and said, "Didn't we spend a lot of money to hire the ghost team of Magnum Company to take charge of security work, why can't I always see them, this money can't be spent in vain?"
Morris shrugged, knowing that the money was not out of Kebby's pocket at all, but that Kebby's behind-the-scenes boss was paying for it.
In Sierra Leone, except for the area occupied by the United Front rebels, the mining rights of the rest of the areas controlled by the government army are basically contracted by the famous De Beers company, but Kebby's mining area is an exception, and I don't know who is the boss behind Kebby.
However, the boss behind the scenes is indeed a very mysterious and strange person, it stands to reason that the mining area that Kebby is currently mining is not a rich mining area, even if the situation is good, at most ten or eight small diamonds a day, and the grade is also poor, not a lot of money.
What puzzled Morris even more than that, Kebby hired hundreds of miners to mine here seemed to be just a side job, and what made Kebby the most nervous was that deep in the jungle north of this mining area, where there were 300 people driving large machinery to dig deep into the mine, and they had dug more than 200 meters underground, and there was still no sign of stopping, and they were still digging deeper.
Sierra Leone's diamond mines are all shallow mines, generally more than 10 meters from the surface, and some can even be mined at a depth of a few meters.
Of course, the money was definitely paid by the mysterious employer, the technical engineers were sent directly from Europe, and the workers were hired from South Africa, all paid on a daily basis, and a day's work was paid a day's salary.
God Maurice felt that these things should not be worried about him, anyway, as long as the employer had money to burn, no matter what he was going to dig here, even if he dug through the earth, it had nothing to do with him.
"The Ghost Group has always been mavericks, and they are known in the African mercenary community for their work, and they never need anyone else to participate in their operations, but they are very credible and efficient, and if they take the order, they will be able to do it.
Boss, don't worry."
Kebby snorted and said, "I heard that the most famous thing in that group is the ghost, a Chinese who is said to have not been a soldier, and a half-way monk, can do it" Among the major mercenary companies that are currently doing business in West Africa, most of them have formidable resumes, among which the British Gurk Security Company, which first entered Sierra Leone, was formerly known as the famous Nepalese Gurkha Regiment, and is responsible for command and personnel training, and many of the officers are retired personnel from the SAS and SBS special forces.
Even the Magnum Company, where the ghost team is located, is composed of most of the members from the special forces of African countries, many of whom are retired soldiers of the elite Foreign Legion and the Extralegal Corps of South Africa.
The fact that a young Chinese with no military experience can mix so well in this circle really puzzled and even doubted Kebby.
Hearing Kebby mention the ghost, Morris came to the spirit, he was a member of the special forces of the Nigerian government army, and joined the mercenary circle after retiring, and he is no stranger to the nickname of the ghost, it can be said that the ghost is now a legend in the African mercenary world.
"Boss, don't believe it, although the ghost has only emerged in the past two years, but now it is a legend in our African mercenary world" Morris relished: "In the first battle in the Freetown area the year before last, he infiltrated the rebel camp alone, cut off the head of Colonel Roxan, who led the team, and blew up the ammunition depot, turning the whole tide of the war, otherwise the government army's gang of waste, which is not the opponent of the rebels at all, was detained last year's peacekeeper soldiers, hundreds of people are not known where they are kept, or the ghost team has given a bad position, and assisted other peacekeeping forces to cooperate with the outside world, which saved people At present, the ghost team is the most popular African mercenary group, and there is simply no task that they can't accomplish. ” Kebby listened to Morris splattering about the ghost's record, and snorted disapprovingly: "It's also the most expensive fuck, the asking price of each of them is hundreds of times that of ordinary mercenaries, it's really better than taking a gun to rob a bank, now when I think of hiring these idle guys with so much money, I feel sorry for these colorful dollars."
"You get what you pay for, boss" Kebby suddenly turned around and stared at Morris: "Morris, did your kid get any benefit from them, otherwise why would you work so hard to help them say good things?"
"This" Morris was about to defend himself and dispel the suspicions of his suspicious boss, when he suddenly saw a group of armed men coming out of the woods not far away, and he was startled, and the AK rifle in his hand was raised.
When I saw who was coming, I was relieved.
He whispered to Kebby: "Boss, just talk about people, people will arrive, they are coming." ” "My dear old fish, I'm relieved to see you."
Before Morris could speak, Kebby changed his face and greeted the visitor with a smile.
Morris gave Kebby a disdainful look in the back, thinking to himself, weren't you quite dragging just now, but now that people are coming, you are a bear.
Kebby's smiling face did not return to a warm hug, but ushered in a cold muzzle.
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