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Chapter 308 Establishing a Stronghold

A few days later, on a muddy dirt road in Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, a dozen silver-gray container trucks were lined up and moving slowly forward.

Although Africa has received a lot of infrastructure funding from China, many city roads have been paved to a similar extent to those in China, and some highways have even been paved with asphalt.

However, the roads in these remote suburban areas were still in very primitive condition, which delayed the entire convoy's progress.

"It's a distance of over 2000 kilometers, and we still haven't arrived after three days."

"Africa is indeed somewhat underdeveloped."

At this moment, Chen Jue was lounging in a hovering flying cube above his head, comfortably playing a game while occasionally taking a moment to look at the real-time footage transmitted back by the convoy below.

After activating the holographic camouflage, the small African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo is practically untouched by the Flying Cube, which can become invisible and fly at low altitudes.

It can't be detected by air traffic control radar, and it can't be seen with the naked eye either. Isn't that like wearing an invisibility cloak?
Of course, during the few days that the convoy was transporting supplies and the Yugong Engineering vehicle, Chen Jue mainly used the Flying Magic Cube to scout out the terrain in the vicinity, and incidentally found out everything about the armed group entrenched in Tanganyika Province.

In modern warfare, information and intelligence are far more important than weapon quality.

Once the deployment of these armed groups is known, their movements can be monitored at all times, thus preventing unnecessary armed conflict.

When the convoy officially arrived in northern Kabanbare, Tanganyika Province, the walkie-talkie next to Chen Jue crackled to life: "Boss! The guide says we've arrived at the small copper mine, in the nearby rainforest."

Seeing this, Chen Jue instructed, "Then set up camp where we are, and have the three 'Foolish Old Man' carts lead the way, trying to avoid damaging the old trees."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old businessman leading the way at the front of the convoy said to a tall, thin black guide beside him, "Karachi, our boss has decided to build a base in this rainforest."

"Regarding how many trees are cut down, our Cube Group will compensate Mr. Antoine."

Upon hearing this, the black guide, Karachi, immediately nodded, thinking to himself: These Chinese people are quite nice; they know to compensate for the deforestation they've caused.

If it were armed groups or Western companies that came, they would have burned down the rainforest blocking the way. There would be no need to patiently negotiate with them!
However, as the convoy began to move, three 10-meter-tall Yugong engineering vehicles began to deploy their mechanical arms, equipped with various demolition tools, and advanced along a stream in the rainforest towards the small copper mine site marked on the map.

The sight of trees being felled and rocks being leveled with a single shovel still made the guide, Karachi, widen his eyes in astonishment.

"An incredible mechanical engineering vehicle!"

"It's so much more advanced than an excavator!"

"The road was repaired so quickly?"

Karachi sat in the truck's cab, enjoying the cool and comfortable air conditioning.

Before they could even settle in, they saw a narrow path leading into the depths of the rainforest. With the help of three 'Foolish Old Man' vehicles, a smooth dirt road was quickly shoveled out.

With the three vehicles of Yu Gong working together to advance, the convoy covered more than 30 kilometers in less than an hour and arrived at a blue pond deep in the rainforest.

"The water here must have a very high content of copper sulfide and the like, which is why the water is blue. The copper mine underneath must be quite large."

"Let's set up camp here!" Chen Jue's voice came through the walkie-talkie again.

The Foolish Old Man of Santai began to swing his mechanical arm and expand the pond outwards, taking half an hour to create a square outpost in the forest.

Immediately afterwards, a container in the convoy opened, and square, silver-gray steel sheets were pulled out and laid flat on the outpost by Yu Gong's mechanical arm, leaving Karachi looking on with a bewildered expression.

In this way, the originally muddy rainforest was directly covered with a layer of extremely futuristic, waterproof, moisture-proof, and insect-proof hardened metal ground.

But that wasn't the end of it. Once those thin metal sheets were erected, they were assembled on the hardened ground like building blocks to form a huge, bright silver iron factory building.

The sheer awe of it rising from the ground made Karachi's legs go weak.

He muttered to himself, "God! Are these Chinese people messengers sent by God?"

"They built a modern factory in such a short time!"

Before he could even finish staring at it with wide eyes, several jet-like sounds came from above, and two flying cubes deactivated their holographic camouflage and landed on the top of the tin-roofed factory building.

The way the building blocks fit together, and how the thin sheet metal factory actually supported such a large aircraft that looked heavy, left Karachi speechless with a visual shock.

It wasn't until a dozen burly men wielding AK47s surrounded a young Chinese man dressed in black as he jumped out of the aircraft that Karachi snapped out of his daze and hurriedly ran up to him, his face full of obsequiousness, and said, "Your... Your Excellency BOSS! My guiding duties are complete. Could you please give me a ride back to Blackhorn?"

"It's very dangerous here in Tanganyika Province. I want to go back and reunite with my family as soon as possible."

Seeing this, Chen Jue took out a bundle of US dollars and stuffed it into his hand: "I can give you a ride back, but in Karachi, you have to learn to forget the addresses in this area, and you can't mention the whereabouts of our company's convoy to anyone, understand?"

As he spoke, a simpleton held an AK47 to Karachi's neck.

Karachi was so frightened by what he saw that he broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly nodded and tremblingly accepted the bundle of US dollars.

Africa is incredibly chaotic, and some local guides are actually mouthpieces and intelligence agents, specifically passing on information to local officials and armed groups.

Chinese businessmen who come to invest are frequently extorted, and even suffer theft and kidnapping. Most of the time, it is the information given by these guides that makes it necessary to give them a warning in advance.

……

Seeing that the gag order and warnings were almost done, Chen Feng had a simpleton use a flying Rubik's Cube to send the black guide away.

The big-nosed old merchant chuckled from the side: "Boss, you really are kind-hearted! If it were me, I would definitely..." As he spoke, the old merchant made a throat-slitting gesture.

Seeing this, Chen Jue pulled out an iron sword from his backpack and slashed at it: "Stop talking nonsense! Get to work!"

As he spoke, he switched to Steve mode, took out a set of 64 [Bone Meal] from his backpack, and scattered it along the perimeter of the previously cleared camp.

The rainforest shrubs and weeds that had been cut down and uprooted grew wildly at a visible rate until they completely covered the entire copper mine camp.

(End of this chapter)