Volume 20, Chapter 18: Collecting Intelligence

Looking at the locals who stayed in place, just when I thought they were going to give up and keep going like this, the crowd surrounding us suddenly erupted. Those people rushed toward us crazily and slapped our bodies desperately, shouting something. An Min was so frightened that she hurriedly hid behind us. Fortunately, the villagers did not want to attack us, so she escaped safely after hiding. The danger zone just left me alone in the crowd.

"What's going on?" I turned around and shouted to An Min while pushing away the surrounding villagers.

An Min finally calmed down after escaping from the encirclement. She shouted to me: "They are rushing to answer questions!"

Originally, I thought I had done something outrageous that made people here angry. After doing this for a long time, I was busy grabbing business. But it’s right to think about it. You get money for answering a question. Where can you find such a good thing? This group of people are used to doing business with foreigners here. They know that we foreigners are much more generous than their own people, so they are sure that we will definitely give them a very generous reward, so they are all competing for it. Rushing to answer questions.

Facing these agitated crowds, I also knew that there was no way I could ask, so I simply waved my hand, and the ring knights immediately stepped forward to form a human wall to block all the locals one meter away from me.

After seeing that the crowd was blocked, I called An Min over again, and then said: "Help me clear the river, first tell them to be quiet, I have something to say, if they make noise again I won't hire anyone.

An Min turned her nose up immediately when she heard my words. Although her voice couldn't cover these people, fortunately, the threat of not hiring people was strong enough, and the surrounding crowd fell silent instantly, and all the locals stood there waiting. Let us continue to ask questions.

Seeing that the crowd finally calmed down, I quickly said to An Min: "Tell them now, the question I want to ask is about the armed men operating nearby who attack foreign gathering places. Who among them knows about these armed men?" "Personnel situation" and if you don't worry about retaliation, you can stay. If you don't dare to speak, don't hang around here anymore. However, if anyone can answer my question, I will pay him well. "I said and directly waved my hand to Amynis to bring over a backpack that contained money before." Then I took out two thick stacks of RMB from it and held it up high.

This time, the effect of adding carrots to large plants was very good. After listening to the story, the crowd only considered our side for more than ten seconds, and then dispersed with a cheer. Of course, the human species has never had a true unity of thought. Most people are afraid of the retaliation of armed men, but there are always some people who want money rather than their lives or who really can't live happily without money dare to take risks.

No, although most of the crowd dispersed, there were still six people left here.

According to my previous thoughts, it would be good to have one or two people left. Four people was my best expectation before. Unexpectedly, there are six people left now. This way the information we get will be more comprehensive and reliable." After all, If there are many people, we can ask them separately, and using their words to verify each other can also help us filter out the parts that are artificially concealed, deceived, omitted, and misremembered.

Seeing that these six people stayed, I directly asked An Min to tell them to follow us first. After they agreed, we found a hut that looked relatively complete. I temporarily borrowed this dilapidated house from the owner for five hundred yuan, and then invited the owner outside and the ring knights set up a cordon outside the house to prevent the villagers from approaching. As for the six people, they were first placed outside the cordon of the ring knights, and only one person was brought in. "In order to ensure reliable information," we need to question them separately, but since An Min is the only translator, we cannot question six people at the same time, so we have to do it one by one.

The first guy brought in seemed very nervous. After all, the armed men here were like bandits. Leaking their information to foreigners would be tantamount to completely offending them. If they knew about it and caught them, the other party would not talk about human rights to these villagers, and being tortured to death would almost be inevitable. Because of this, those who dare to inform are actually gambling with their lives.

Seeing that the guy was so nervous, I asked An Min to comfort him first and told him, "As long as he tells the news, we will give him a high reward. He can bribe the border guards and go to neighboring countries." Such armed forces There's nothing we can do about him.

The quality of the soldiers in these African countries is very average, and there are often residents of the two countries running back and forth on the border." As long as the guards are not in a bad mood, they will hardly care about these things. If you give the other party some money, Maybe the guards can treat you to a meal and then use military vehicles to transport you to a nearby city.

It is estimated that this villager also knew this situation, and this was his plan, so his nervousness was obviously much better after hearing my words. I saw that his mood had stabilized a lot, so I officially asked An Min to help him turn the tide. First, I asked him what armed forces he knew nearby. This question is relatively simple. The other party said it quickly, and An Min directly explained it to us. After listening, I nodded, then directly pulled a bundle of banknotes from the large backpack on the table next to me and threw it over. The guy caught the bill in surprise and then reacted. He hugged the bill and kissed it several times. Then he quickly stuffed the money into his clothes and looked at us excitedly waiting for the next question.

With his recent successful experience, this guy became extremely cheerful in answering questions. Under my money offensive, he quickly told me everything he knew. After him, the remaining five people also entered the room and were asked roughly the same questions one by one. Of course, people who went out would not have the opportunity to communicate with people who did not come in, so the reliability of the information was still good.

After asking the last person and comparing the information they provided with each other, we found that the information they provided was basically accurate, because the six people gave almost the same information without collusion. , there are only some differences in some estimated data due to personal habits, but overall the actual difference is not big.

After sending those six people away, I directly held a combat meeting with Ling and the others in the virtual network. In the virtual chat room, we directly opened a satellite map and drew several circles on it. These circles were It represents the scope of activities of an armed force, and there is a string of military strength data next to the circle. This is of course the opponent's personnel situation.

To be honest, the news I got from the villagers was quite surprising, because according to the information they provided, the strongest armed force that attacked this gathering point was actually the country's 'government' army that had just come to power. Although I knew before that there was actually no difference between the 'government' troops here and the bandits, I was still surprised when I got the news.

"Master, if you look at it this way, the possibility of us safely evacuating this group of ordinary people is very slim!" Xiaochun said.

Ling also followed: "Yes. Although we are sure to annihilate all enemies who come to attack, civilians will definitely suffer heavy casualties. Our main task this time is rescue. If civilians are attacked, even if we kill all the enemies Kill them all, and the mission is still a failure!"

Scott said: "In this case, we still have to follow the original plan. Don't wait for those people to attack, let's take the initiative to kill them all. Anyway, we can't save people, killing is still easy! "

I thought for a while and said: "It seems that this is the only way, but the largest armed force is the regular army of the country, which is more troublesome. When the other party attacks us, they will definitely disguise themselves as ordinary rebels and come to launch an attack. But once they withdraw, they will immediately change back to regular army numbers. In this case, if we attack them, we are attacking the other country. If this is spread, it will become a national dispute!"

Scott said: "Although [China] cannot be regarded as the world's most powerful country, this small African country

We don’t need to be afraid of the country, right? "

Ling explained directly to me: "Of course [China] is not afraid of such small things, but the problem is that we [China] are not the only ones in the world.

If we have an international dispute with a small African country like this, the United States and EU countries will definitely stand up and talk about this issue immediately. By then, there will definitely be a lot of messy things. Although we are not diplomats, we can't cause trouble for our country, right? "

"That's right!" Scott fell silent after hearing Ling's explanation.

After a pause for a few seconds, I said directly: "The plan is still like this. As for the issue of international disputes... as long as no one knows about it, it will be fine. Then we will make things clean. If there is no direct evidence in the future, even the United States and Europe will know about it. As long as we insist that we are not responsible for this matter, there is nothing they can do to us."

"In this case, the matter is settled, but should we inform Zhao Jie and the others?" Ling suddenly asked.

"This is necessary. After all, we are here to help. The task actually belongs to others. We have autonomy and we cannot overstep our authority too much. At least we have to give others some face."

After we finalized the matter, we called An Min to prepare to return to the gathering place, but An Min said that she wanted to interview the villagers. There is no way, she just helped us, we can't just turn around and forget, right? So she wanted to stay for the interview, and we had no choice but to stay and act as bodyguards for her. After all, this was probably the person the mad dog wanted to save. Even if we didn’t want to see the mad dog, we couldn’t take the life of a little girl just because of a trivial matter. Are you kidding me?

Seeing us nodding, An Min immediately called Chang Bin excitedly and began to interview the locals in the village under our protection. However, we just interviewed a few people and took a video of less than fifteen minutes. A large group of soldiers suddenly ran over to the gathering point, and with our eyesight, we could see the mad dog walking at the front from a distance, and we seemed to also see the middle-aged woman. Yes, I knew these two troublesome people were not easy to get rid of, but I didn’t expect them to come to my door again so soon! ! .