Chapter 298 The Reality Is Not so Beautiful
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Holding the joystick in his hand, Gao Yang felt very excited, but it didn't take long. After the novelty wore off, he felt like that. He was motionless, and he didn't feel like operating an airplane at all.
Flying over the vast grassland, the scene on the ground can be seen at a glance, but the revisit of the old place makes Gao Yang's heart start to tighten. As long as he has not found the Akuri tribe and confirmed that they are all safe and sound, Gao Yang's heart is impossible. put it down.
After all, Gao Yang didn't dare to move the joystick to find some feeling of flying. Just when he was starting to feel bored, he saw a large herd of cows appearing on the ground, dotted with mud houses one by one. .
Seeing human footprints on the ground, Gao Yang couldn't help but look down. The plane quickly flew over the nomadic tribe he saw. When Gao Yang looked back, the pilot sitting beside him said with great interest: "Go hunting?"
"Yeah, go hunting."
"Just you going alone? Will you stay long?"
"I'm going alone, I should stay for some days."
The pilot waved his hand confidently, and said loudly, "You're dead, buddy, if you go to the grassland alone in this season, you're dead."
Gao Yang smiled and said nothing. Of course he knew the dangers of the savannah, but he had lived in this grassland for three years, and it was not too difficult for him to survive.
"It's too late for you to regret it now. If you want to hunt, you'd better hire two hunting guides. Prepare everything. Do you think you'll be fine with a gun? No. The thing that kills you is that you can't do anything with a gun Solved, listen to me, you should go back to Malakal and hire some people."
The deadliest thing on the savannah is indeed not ferocious beasts, but all kinds of poisonous snakes and mosquitoes. Gao Yang has a deep understanding of this and has suffered a lot.
Now Gao Yang has enough knowledge and means to survive on the grassland. Although he doesn't need to explain too much, the pilot's words are also good intentions. So Gao Yang still smiled and said, "Thank you for your reminder, but I can handle it."
The pilot curled his lips and said: "You can do whatever you want, but you'd better be careful, and if you think something is wrong, call for help, maybe I can pick you up in time, and remind you again, you have to pay attention to avoiding the Dinka people and The tribe of the Nuer, they're fighting now, especially the Nuer. You'd better stay away from them, especially from their cattle."
Gao Yang was a little surprised.
Said: "This is not consistent with the news I heard. Isn't it very stable now? Why, is it a war now?"
The pilot laughed and said, "Dude, when did the Dingka and Nuer cease fighting? Pastures, water sources, cattle, they fight for everything. Whenever they see each other, they will fight. If they fight, they will die. You are in the city." Of course, I can’t hear these news anymore, the so-called peace is just that the two ethnic groups have not yet fully engaged in war, but the fighting between the tribes has never stopped.”
After finishing speaking, the pilot pointed his hand to the ground and said loudly: "Look over there, another tribe is about to join the tribe we saw just now. If these two tribes belong to different ethnic groups, then soon It’s a conflict that’s about to break out.”
Gao Yang couldn't help frowning: "So serious?"
The pilot nodded and said: "It's that serious, just wait and see, the Dinka and Nuer will go to war soon, and now they are all trying to expand their territory. I can guarantee that it won't take long. Let's have a fight."
Gao Yang was a little worried, and asked, "Where is the area where they are active now? I mean, are there any Dinka or Nuer tribes where I plan to go?"
"I haven't seen it. I flew near the place where you are going not long ago. I didn't see any cattle, but they migrate very fast. No one knows where they will migrate. If you meet Ding The tribe of the Ka people is better, the Dinka people are more open, they are easier to accept outsiders, but the Nuer people are different, the Nuer people are very exclusive, their beliefs and habits are more primitive, so if you meet the Nuer people And people, it's better to stay away from them."
Gao Yang nodded and said, "Thank you for your advice, I will remember it, but how should I distinguish the tribes of Dinka and Nuer?"
"The Dinka people are very tall, very tall, thin and tall. The average height of men can reach 1.95 meters, and women are also about 1.8 meters. They are also very black, very black. Seeing me Is your skin color darker? It’s much darker than mine. As long as you see a tall, dark person, you’re a Dinka person. Nuer people are basically the same as Dinka people. They’re also thin and tall, but they’re still Those who are shorter than the Dinka people are not as dark as the Dinka people, and their tattoos are also different, but I can’t explain these to you in detail.”
After remembering what the pilot said in his heart, Gao Yang said in a deep voice: "Thank you, thank you very much for telling me this."
The pilot waved his hand and said, "If you offend a Dinka, you offend an entire tribe. If you offend one tribe, you offend all the tribes around them. They won't stop until they kill you. As for The Nuer people are the same, but the Nuer people are more dangerous. The Nuer people living in the city are better, but the nomadic Nuer tribe is very xenophobic. Sometimes they will actively attack people, but anyway, when they meet Tribes are not doomsday, what you need to worry about most are those wandering militants."
The pilot was very talkative. He turned around and pointed fingers: "Whether it is the armed forces of the Dinka or the Nuer, they are very dangerous. They are neither urban residents nor tribes. These people do all kinds of evil. , they can kill for absolutely no reason at all, especially Nuer militants, who sometimes even loot towns and kill complete strangers for fun."
Gao Yang once fought against the Nuer people. When he met Professor Buck and Catherine, he was attacked by the vulture mercenary group and the Nuer people. He didn't ask anything, and he directly sent Professor Buck to their camp. The people who killed all the people were also militants of the Nuer people.
Morgan is now cooperating with a large Dinka tribe to develop an oil field. Now Morgan just bought a piece of land from the Dinka tribe, but Gao Yang doesn't know where the oil field is, only Colm and the others These people stayed in South Sudan to work for the development of oil fields.
After arriving in Malakal, Colm had explained to Gao Yang about the Dinka and Nuer people in detail. Gao Yang also knew a little bit about it, but the situation in Malakal where Colm was located was much better. The oil field to be developed is also located in an area where the Dinka people gather, so from Colm's point of view, the situation is not that serious, but for locals like pilots who fly around, they are obviously more aware of the situation here.
The main range of activities of the Dinka and Nuer people is closer to the banks of the Blue Nile River, while the Akuri tribe’s activity area is far away from the Blue Nile River. If you want to graze, it’s okay in the rainy season, but in the dry season Otherwise, neither the pasture nor the water source can support the requirements of grazing, so Gao Yang has lived on this grassland for three years, and has never seen a nomadic tribe.
Gao Yang felt that things should not have changed much. Even if the Dinka and Nuer began to compete for territory, it would be a suitable area for grazing and would not reach the place where the more primitive Akuri tribe was active.
Where the tribe will not go, it may not be that the militants will not go either. Someone in the Akuri tribe was once killed by unknown militants, and then the Akuri tribe will continue to migrate southward, closer to the rainforest. , so as to avoid those threatening militants.
After Gao Yang thought for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "Do you know that the militants of those tribes are mainly active there now? Do you think there will be traces of them where we are going?"
The pilot laughed, stretched out his hand and drew a big circle in the air, and said loudly: "They can go anywhere, they will appear anywhere, these people rob the cattle of the other tribe, they will also poach, ivory, and so on. There are live cheetah cubs, it's money, and they'll do anything for cash."
After finishing speaking, the pilot said enthusiastically: "I once went to the grassland with someone to transport a cheetah, and the cubs were bought from poachers. If the target of the transaction was an armed element, I would not dare to go. They used After trapping a female cheetah with cubs, kill the big one and leave the little one, the Middle Easterners will pay a lot of money to buy it, do you know how much a little leopard is worth?"
"How much?"
"A million! Dollars! Those who catch a cheetah can exchange a cheetah for fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars, and those who buy it from those poachers only need fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars, but one million is just earned by the middleman It is said that after the cubs are transported alive to the Middle East, they can be sold for more money, but I don’t know the exact amount.”
Gao Yang felt strange when he heard it. He is not an extreme animal protectionist. When he was in the Akuri tribe, he had to hunt every day, but it was just for survival. As long as there were enough prey to eat, he would never kill any more animals. animal.
The practice of the Akuri tribe will not cause any ecological problems, but it is unacceptable for Gao Yang to hunt and kill those increasingly rare animals for fun, especially the practice of those poachers can make a species quickly disappears.
Although he was carrying a shotgun, Gao Yang was just for self-protection. If necessary, he would point the gun at an antelope or something, but he would never hunt elephants or lions just for fun.
The pilot didn't pay attention to the disapproving expression on Gao Yang's face. He asked curiously, "What prey do you want to hunt? Most people who come here want to shoot an elephant or a male lion. These two prey are the most popular."
Gao Yang shrugged his shoulders and said, "If they didn't attack me, I wouldn't fight anything. I came here just to find someone, a primitive tribe. Do you know where there are primitive tribes?"
The pilot suddenly realized: "You are engaged in humanities? Tell me earlier, I really know where there is a primitive tribe, and it is not too far from where you are going. Do you need to fly directly to see it?" (To be continued..)