"Hello." The big black man wearing a beret introduced himself. He spoke pretty good English. "I am Captain Pontril sent by the general to receive you."
Miao Xinghai shook hands with Captain Penglier nicely, but then Luo Yu accidentally saw Miao Xinghai rubbing his hands with a handkerchief behind his back, and the white handkerchief was stained with something brown and unknown.
The general that Captain Pontril was talking about was the one who overthrew their government a few months ago and then led more than a thousand people into this forest to occupy the mountain and become king.
Changes of local governments in Africa are very frequent, and it is even possible for the government to change hands four times in a day.
You should know that according to the United Nations, 33 of the 48 least developed countries in the world are African countries.
Long-term colonial rule in the last century has made this continent the poorest continent in the world.
More than a dozen soldiers also uniformly fired their guns into the air to welcome the visitors.
Captain Pontril knew that these guests were very important guests and that they could bring the urgently needed arms to his people, so he always answered some of the questions raised by Miao Xinghai politely.
"When can we see the general?" Miao Xinghai asked Captain Penglier sitting in the open jeep.
Luo Yu had only seen this canvas convertible jeep that had been out of use in China for who knows how many years in a military museum.
Driving this kind of car in the forest really knocked a few people around.
Captain Pontril looked at the scorching sun above his head through the gaps in the leaves, showed his white teeth and smiled: "Dear guests, according to the general's instructions, I will now invite you to go to the general's castle to take a bath and rest. The general will also return this afternoon.
I have some things to do, so I will probably meet you in the evening, so please take a good rest first and enjoy the charming scenery here."
It is true that the scenery is charming, but the dangers hidden in these scenery are also unimaginable.
For example, there might be a giant python entangled at the top of those tall and dense trees, which could swallow up any creature passing under the tree at any time.
Most of the mosquitoes in the woods are poisonous. If you are accidentally bitten, you may die if you don't get timely treatment.
After driving for nearly an hour, the scene in front of them made a group of visitors wide-eyed.
Because they saw a real castle, a castle made entirely of stone.
"It only took us a total of more than twenty days to build this castle." Captain Pontril said with a somewhat proud tone, "The smallest stone used to build the castle weighs 1.5 tons."
The nearly twenty-meter-high castle stood like a hill in the corner of the forest, surrounded by black soldiers with live ammunition.
"This castle is good for defensive warfare." Luo Yu pouted.
A stone castle built on a mountain cannot be burned by fire. It is naturally able to block bullets. A huge rock up to two meters thick may not be able to be penetrated by a cannon at once. As long as there is enough food and water, we can fight here for a month.
There is absolutely no problem with the defensive battle.
Luo Yu spoke in Chinese, so Captain Penglier did not understand what the yellow-skinned guest said, otherwise he would have talked proudly about how strong the castle was.
Judging from what he saw along the way, Luo Yu was almost certain that the general's current situation must not be very easy, and could even be described as embarrassing.
Every one of the soldiers guarding the castle looked as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Although they were working hard, the fatigue on their faces still showed through their dark skin.
The stone walls outside the castle are full of bullet holes and fragments blown up by bombs, and dried blood has left obvious marks on them.
There are also many craters on the outer land. Judging from the condition of the overturned land, these are most likely caused by the intensive strafing of heavy machine guns.
The corner of Luo Yu's mouth was sneering. No wonder the general had to advance the date of the meeting by two months. It turned out that he was almost at the end of his rope.
But now he is still pretending to be fat, letting Miao Xinghai and Luo Yu enter the castle first to give them a comfortable and carefree feeling, probably so that they can have more room for bargaining in the subsequent business conversations.
The jeep drove slowly into the castle under the indifferent eyes. The biggest impression left on Luo Yu by the black soldiers today was that they were skinny and ragged.
"Poor children, God will bless you with a complete set of clothes to wear." Luo Yu looked pious, "Follow me, believe in brother x, and you will have eternal life."
After getting off the car, they conducted a simple inspection and determined that Miao Xinghai Luoyu and his party did not carry any weapons. Then they walked towards the castle under the leadership of Captain Penglier.
On the outskirts of the castle, Luo Yu saw many old-fashioned weapons that could only be seen during the Anti-Japanese War, such as crooked machine guns, mortars that looked like little Japanese stuffing shells inside, then covering their ears and running away, and even
Luo Yu also saw a box of grenades with wooden handles in the trench on one side.
This thing is familiar to all Chinese people. During the Anti-Japanese War, these grenades that sent sawdust flying when they exploded did not make the little devils suffer less.
"The Americans can really think of exchanging these old-fashioned weapons for diamonds." Luo Yu shook his head.
Slowly opening the castle door, Captain Pontril made a gesture of invitation.
As soon as Luo Yu, Miao Xinghai and others stepped into the castle, their eyes widened immediately. Luo Xiaoyun spit out a mouthful of saliva and said, "Damn it!"
The first floor of the castle is more than five meters high. The first thing a few people see when they enter is a huge relief that covers the entire wall.
The beauty's enchanting face, charming eyes, slightly raised corners of the mouth, and slender waist, I don't know which master is the handiwork of it.
But such a beautiful woman has the body of an ant attached to her from the waist down.
The slender arms were clinging to the wall, and the huge tail arched outwards. Combined with the beautiful woman's upper body, it looked so weird that it made Luo Yu's scalp numb and nauseated.
"This is the goddess Mani carved by our best craftsmen according to the wishes of our general." Captain Ponril raised his head and looked at the largest statue of the beautiful ant, his eyes full of religious fanaticism, "
The goddess is above."
He had heard that murders often occurred in Africa due to religious events, and seeing the fanaticism in Captain Ponril's eyes, Luo Yu had to believe that this might be a fact.
"What our goddess believes in is the most honest communication between people." Captain Penglier gave instructions, "Look, according to the instructions of the goddess, just try all the 7,200 postures on this wall.
After passing it once, you can become her walker on earth."
When the captain talked about the goddess, he was so excited that the pronunciation of many English words became weird, and he also added some local African dialects.
But Luo Yu heard the phrase "seven thousand two hundred postures" clearly.
"It turns out there are so many postures... I tried them all and still kept people alive." The image of the general who believed in the goddess Mani appeared in Luo Yu's mind.
The sparse hair on the top of his head flutters in the wind, his eye sockets are sunken, his cheeks are sunken into his mouth, and his whole person looks like a squeezed skull.
Luo Yu's evil smile caught General Penglier's attention, but he didn't know why the guest was smiling, so it was not convenient for him to ask.
To be able to carve a figure with a human face and an ant body so beautifully, one has to admire the imagination and craftsmanship of these African natives.
What surprised Luo Yu and the others even more was that all the decorations embedded in the carvings were diamonds, ivory and gold.
Yellow-orange gold and crystal ivory were pressed onto Goddess Mani's body for decoration, and her coquettish temperament made Luo Yu sick even more.
In order not to stay in this hall that made people feel cold on their feet, Luo Yu said that he was very tired and asked Captain Penglier to take them to a resting place first.
At this time, several black maids came over.
Everyone was wrapped in thin gauze scarves, and their curves were looming. Although they made such provocative postures, Luo Yu still didn't feel anything, and even felt sick for a while.
The maids wore gold bracelets studded with diamonds around their wrists, ankles and necks. Luo Yu watched eagerly as these gold and diamonds, each worth hundreds of thousands, were floating in front of him.
The maids took the luggage from several people and walked away.
"Their luggage will be delivered to your rooms. Now, according to our customs, the general asked me to welcome you to bathe in our most sacred Tianshui Pool." Captain Penglier thought for a while before he remembered the civilized word bathing.
As the Romans do, Miao Xinghai and Luo Yu have nothing to say, they can only take one step at a time.