Chapter 747 Thatched House

The plane drove back smoothly and landed smoothly.

After returning to the ground, Gao Yang finally felt at ease. He made a detailed inspection of the aircraft.

Catherine and Adele accompanied Gao Yang to inspect the aircraft. No bullet holes were found on the fuselage. When the inspection work was coming to an end, Gao Yang heard two car horns under the fuselage.

Martin drove the car to deliver gasoline and pressed the horn twice to announce his arrival. Martin drove the car directly to the side of the plane. After jumping out of the car, Martin said loudly: "Gao, how are you, what's there?" Did you find it?"

Gao Yang shook his head and said: "The only discovery was that after we flew into Sudan's airspace, we found a military camp, and the soldiers in the military camp were very unfriendly. They shot at me. Fortunately, after checking our aircraft and Not shot."

Martin frowned and said: "Those soldiers are indeed very unfriendly. We have also been warned that it is best to stay away from them. As far as I know, there are about six or seven such military camps scattered along the national border. Generally speaking, there are no people They will be happy to get close to them, these people are all madmen who have been suppressed. The border line between North and South Sudan is not very clear now, both sides have cross-border behavior, and battles that are not announced to the public often occur."

Martin came with Bantuna, nicknamed Radar. After Bantuna got out of the car with a fuel pump in his hand, he just listened to the conversation between Gao Yang and Martin. After Martin finished speaking, Bantuna looked calm. He said: "This kind of thing is normal. There's nothing to say. Just stay away from them. Okay. Open the fuel tank cap and help me refuel."

Martin drove a still new pickup truck, and a fuel tank was pulled on the truck. The entire camp relied on the gasoline pulled by the tanker truck for power generation and vehicle fuel.

South Sudan is synonymous with vast land and sparsely populated areas. Where Gao Yang is located, there are no towns nearby, while Ethiopia, northeast of South Sudan, is a tropical rainforest. The population is almost extinct, and to the north is Sudan. Except for some soldiers stationed at the border, there are no residents.

At the edge of this tropical rain forest, even the nomadic Dinka and Nuer people will not reach it, so. How to replenish gasoline once it runs out is a big problem.

After Gao Yang inserted the fuel pipe into the mailbox on the plane, he said to Martin: "Do we have enough gasoline? I mean, on the premise of ensuring that the entire camp is running and leaving, how much gasoline is left for my flight?"

After Martin thought for a moment, he smiled and said: "There are many more. Except for the generator, we almost don't use gasoline. Only one car is a gasoline car, and the rest are all diesel cars. And we still have a whole tank of gasoline. , if your flights are as long as this morning, at least it can still provide you with six to seven flights. It doesn't matter, feel free to use it, even if it runs out, I can have someone transport more.

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No need to worry about fuel, that’s good news. I looked at my watch and saw that it was still early. It was just past one o'clock in the afternoon, and I was not willing to waste the rest of my time in vain. Gao Yang smiled and said: "I plan to continue searching in the afternoon, but this time I don't plan to go further north. I want to try my luck in the opposite direction. Our lunch will be ready soon."

Of course, Martin also hoped to find the Akuri tribe as soon as possible. He spread his hands and said with a smile: "As long as you don't feel tired, I suggest you go back to the camp to eat before taking off."

Gao Yang looked at Catherine, but before he could speak, Catherine said anxiously: "Don't ask me, I don't feel tired at all."

Adele also said anxiously: "I'm not tired either. Let's take off again. I have a hunch that we will find the Akuri tribe this afternoon."

Gao Yang originally planned to fly only once, but he suddenly decided to take off again. It was also time to eat something to replenish his strength. This would not take long, but before Gao Yang could speak, he saw Catherine grinning. He said with a pained face: "What's the menu for lunch?"

Martin said with a smile: "French fries, and a small antelope meat sandwich. The radar shot all the small antelopes."

After hearing Martin's answer, Catherine immediately said firmly: "I'm not hungry yet, and there are convenience foods we prepared on the plane, so I won't go back to the camp."

Adele also said immediately: "I won't have lunch either, I'm not hungry."

Gao Yang originally planned to go for lunch. From what Martin said, the lunch seemed to be freshly cooked. It was a rare treat to have hot food in the wild. However, seeing that Catherine and Adele both firmly stated that they would not eat lunch, Gao Yang You can only give up.

After shrugging helplessly, Gao Yang said to Martin: "Okay, then I can't go to eat. We have brought a lot of emergency food, so we won't starve."

After hearing what Gao Yang said, Bantuna suddenly said: "What did you bring?"

Gao Yang glanced at the plane and said, "Well, biscuits, chocolate, some military compressed biscuits, and some ham."

After hearing Gao Yang's words, Bantuna licked his lips and said, "If you bring enough, can you give me some?"

Catherine smiled and said, "No problem, I'll get it for you."

Catherine took two compressed biscuits, a bag of ordinary biscuits, and a beef ham from Kenya. These were all bought by Gao Yang in Malakal. The taste was okay, but Bantunana took After serving it, he looked very excited and actually opened it and started eating it.

Martin got into the car and left, while Bantuna sat in the passenger seat and began to eat what Catherine gave him very quickly. When leaving, Bantuna also made a gesture of gratitude to Catherine.

Waiting for Martin to turn around and leave, Catherine let out a long breath and said: "Bantuna and the others have the lowest requirements in terms of food. Now even Bantuna can't stand it. Ah, it's really, really scary." British people."

Adele also said helplessly: "The terrible British!"

Gao Yang asked curiously: "What's wrong? What are you talking about? Adele, aren't you British?"

Adele shrugged and said: "I am British, but after staying in the United States for a long time, I developed a bad appetite."

Gao Yang laughed as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke, and said: "What did you say? You don't want to say that Americans can eat it, right? My God, Americans have spoiled your appetite. This is me Funniest joke I’ve ever heard.”

Catherine said with a resentful look: "Is it that funny? Americans don't know how to eat, but we also have many choices besides fast food, and the British, God, how do they survive, French fries? , fish nuggets, potatoes that you can eat with salt, well, after leaving England and not being able to eat fried fish, it’s potatoes, potatoes, potatoes! Just potatoes and always potatoes!”

Adele said faintly: "I hate potatoes, I hate them so much, I hate fried fish, I hate jelly eels, except for tea, I hate all traditional British delicacies!"

Gao Yang said sarcastically: "I just said there are also antelope sandwiches."

Catherine sighed and said: "The little antelope meat is very fishy, ​​but that's not the point. The point is that Martin's team is basically all British, and the cooks are also British. Believe me, when you hold the sandwich, When you take a bite and want to throw it away but have to bite the bullet and finish it, you will understand why Bantuna is so moved that he wants to cry even after eating compressed biscuits.”

Gao Yang scratched his head and said: "I have never been to England, and I have never eaten British food. Well, it seems that this is lucky for me. Well, let's eat something and take off."

While eating the biscuits bought by Gao Yang, Adele said with a gloomy look: "Every time I eat, it is the most painful time for me. I will never join the British team again. Unless they have a foreign cook.”

Gao Yang couldn't help but imagine how unpalatable the food Martin's team ate was. There were many things that you wouldn't know were good until you tried them, and the food was definitely within this category, so Gao Yang actually had some expectations to try it. How terrible is the food made by the British?

After a brief meal, Gao Yang and the others took off again, this time flying towards the south.

Similar to what he did in the morning, after flying about twenty kilometers, Gao Yang began to fly back and forth sideways.

Gao Yang's speed towards the south was very slow, because the width of his search in the east and west directions was very large. After flying back and forth for two hours, he had already flown a long distance, but it was only a short distance from where he took off. It's just thirty or forty kilometers away.

Mechanical and repetitive work can easily make people lose their passion. The three of them lay bored on the plane window and looked down. Everything they saw was green, and seeing too much of the monotonous scenery made people drowsy. Gao Yang finally couldn't bear it anymore. He yawned.

Yawning is very contagious. After hearing the high-pitched yawning sound, Catherine and Adele couldn't help but yawn. When Adele opened her mouth wide and yawned, her eyes suddenly widened and she immediately began to Shaking Gao Yang who was sitting in front of her.

"What's wrong?"

Adele's mouth didn't close for a long time. She just pointed desperately out the window. Gao Yang followed Adele's finger and looked over, but found that a layer of smoke that was not very obvious appeared in her field of vision.

The woods are not very dense, but the canopy has blocked the view of the ground. In addition, even if there are people living on the ground, the smoke can no longer maintain the shape of a smoke column after passing through the dense canopy, but forms a layer on the top of the canopy similar to The mist-like layer of smoke cannot be seen from a little distance.

The discovery of smoke basically meant that there were people on the ground. Gao Yang immediately flew the plane to the side of the smoke, but the tree crown here was too dense and it was impossible to see whether there were people on the ground.

Gao Yang flew around twice and saw what seemed to be a skylight-like space in the canopy of a tree. He immediately lowered the altitude of the aircraft again, almost passing by the top of the tree, while passing by the skylight. For a moment, Catherine shouted loudly: "I saw it, a thatched house, a thatched house!" (To be continued)