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GOR Chapter 369 What Mine?

“What mine is it?”

Chen Xiaolian suddenly hit the brakes and the truck came to a sudden halt by the road

Lin Leyan’s shout of surprise ca to the cargo area behind and said in a low tone, “Nothing is wrong There’s just some matters that I needed to sort out We’ll stop here for a while”

Lin Leyan’s face appeared beyond theand she breathed a sigh of relief “In that case, do I let theo down and rest for a bit?”

This clever woht want to have a private conversation with Una

“No need” Chen Xiaolian thought about it and said, “You all continue staying inside the truck We’ll get off”

Una as being held captive by Chen Xiaolian had no ability to resist She was taken down the truck by Chen Xiaolian and led to the trees beside the road

There was a clear look of panic on her face as she glanced at her surroundings… this was the wilderness of Africa If she were to be killed here, there was no need to bury her corpse Some wild animals would be attracted by the smell of blood and come over

“Don’t, don’t killdown and she screamed sharply

Chen Xiaolian looked at her with a frown and said, “I don’t intend to kill you here So, shut your ht now is your chance to talk You had better use the htforward, honest and si this ‘ from me oncethat, Chen Xiaolian checked his watch and said, “You have 10 minutes”

Una’s body flinched

She could tell that Chen Xiaolian was not joking around this ti very serious

…

Zayad had used a coup to usurp power In the years before and after he came to power, Kombia was a very small and poor country in Africa

It had no mines, a small number of people and limited land… no matter how one looked at it, Kombia was a standard puny ass country

The only aspects of it that could be developed were probably liriculture, animal husbandry etc…

However, Zayad was a warlord Naturally, soriculture or anie initial invest maturity period and a s sizes and the relationships between them were very complex

Most importantly, the Western powers also had no interest to coriculture or ani for all these ti countries all have their own ore mines and they relied on those mines to stimulate their economy At the very least, the heads of those countries could take that opportunity to earn a killing That hat Zayad had ininto power to fervently establish ties with several Western countries

Simply put, he wanted to sell off his own country First find hts to the foreign forces All ell as long as he alone could benefit fro a toilsome process of mineral exploration, Zayad cah he wanted to sell off his country, he could not

Nobody wanted his country argh!

Several roups from the West came to survey Kombia but were unable to find any old, rare h Kombia was a Godforsaken place

The Creator had not left anything valuable within this piece of land

Zayad who had lost his worth to theroups

The downside of this was that there was no way for hireat deal of money for himself

The upside was that he was exempt from the eyes of the Western countries Even if here were to becoer the Heavens, no country would care about hione to take down Saddam for the sake of oil If he had no oil, no amount of brutal and dictatorial rule by Saddaht in the name of justice in Iraq

That was exactly the situation that Zayad was in He became the dictator of a piss poor country joyfully because no one would coht hied sohly over four years ago that a group of people ca Zayad, they expressed their interest to explore Kombia for mineral deposits

For Zayad, he had already become numb to his Several major Western countries had already coh every inch of Ko

Zayad did not refuse these felloho ca in a poke At any rate, they were allowed to explore as long as they paid reement That party would pay Zayad several reement also stated that if any hts of that mineral deposit for 50 years As for Zayad, he would be paid a portion of the incoreement, it was stated that Zayad would be paid 10 million US dollars per year

Zayad simply did not care about the conditions in the contract All he cared about was the several million US dollars deposit – in his opinion, the other party were si in a poke

Unexpectedly, that party actually succeeded!

They succeeded?

…

“Now that I think about it, that led tone, “Back then, the exploration members were all sent over by the other party The tea much equipment with them Back then, I had followed my father’s orders and went to be part of the exploration team – just to make sure father’s interest is kept It was quite a cushy job But et any benefits from that party”

Chen Xiaolian remained silent

Una continued, “Inmineral exploration They do not appear like so out in the field They appear… e about that actually Those Western roups that we’ve had contact with all these years would have a country backing theroups were mostly professional mercenaries Sos were still very peculiar”

When she reached that point, Una paused and considered it aher words, she said, “They… don’t see for a suitable terrain”

“Mm? What do you mean by that?” Chen Xiaolian asked

Una pondered the question before replying slowly, “Mineral exploration is a very specialized set of hich requires professionals Specialized detectors are needed; also, they would need to survey the geological conditions of the place before exa the place Only then could they look for ht have e How should I put it… the feeling they gave ave off, it was as though they were si at the mountains, the rivers and terrains But, they rarely stopped to conduct any mineral exploration

“The weirdest part was… in the end, e reached a mountain close to the southern border, those people simply pointed at it and said: This is it”

Una recalled the incident and recounted it, “I feel like… they seemed to be very satisfied with the terrain of the mountain”

Chen Xiaolian’s eyes lit up and he asked, “And the results? Is there really a mineral deposit up in the ht that those people were si around However, we really did find a mineral deposit in the mountain That fact shocked me”

She then lowered her voice, “Truth be told, we had personally explored the roups from the West had also explored that place before and found nothing

“And yet, these fellows had found a mineral deposit there”

Chen Xiaolian nodded his head “Continue”

…

What happened next was siue

When he found that a mineral deposit had been found within his own country, the first thing he did was to tear up the agreeroup frouts to do so

However, the other party did not appear to be that powerful Thus, Zayad beca on, all of thereeive him 10 million US dollars per year That was too little, simply insufficient to whet Zayad’s appetite