Chapter 54 Crazy Mercenaries
Three small river ships that looked a little simple were slowly sailing on the Mahakan River. The two sides were covered with dense woods, and the crisp sound of birds was heard.
The Mahakan River is an important river in the East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia. It is about 650 kilometers long and has many tributaries. It is one of the necessary rivers for traveling on the river.
Ye Xuan stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the ships passing by from time to time in the river and the dense forests on both sides of the shore, and the mountains and a brutal aura suddenly came to his face.
"Boss, please come here!" At this time, Valen's voice came from the ship, which made Ye Xuan come to his senses. He turned around and saw Valen and a few local guides who had previously Gu Lai were standing on a table, and then walked over.
"What's the matter, Valen?"
"Boss, look, this is the walking route that the three of them discussed. From this route, you can reach the Satan Basin as fast as possible." Valen pointed to a map he bought locally and drew a curved route with a red line.
Ye Xuan looked at the route on this map, his eyes flashed, and then looked up at the three local guides who were looking for it and asked, "When did you pass this road? What is the situation of the river? You must know that it is rainy season now. If something goes wrong, we will have to feed the crocodiles in the river."
He would not forget that in the plot of the movie, Jack Bailong hired an unreliable guide and walked through a river with a waterfall. The ship rushed directly from the waterfall and fell to pieces. These people had to walk through the jungle and then encountered the danger of a python.
This time he came here just to pick orchids, not to take risks. He didn't want to encounter such a thing.
If he really encounters a python underwater, if he is entangled, he will not feel that he can survive.
"Boss, I've walked this river last month, no problem." One of the middle-aged men with skin stuffed with African brothers looked at Ye Xuan in broken English.
Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Ye Xuan nodded with confidence, "Okay, since that's the case, then walk this river channel, how long will it take to reach the Satan Basin?"
"It's rainy season now, and many rivers will be flooded, so we can't be too anxious. If it goes well, it will be about three days." The middle-aged man in the local area said.
"Okay, time is enough. Tell the captains to be careful, otherwise I won't pay if there is a problem with the ship." Ye Xuan said with a smile.
Time is indeed enough. According to the news he found out when he bought the map from Jack Bailong, the flowering time of the cypress is about half a year, probably from June to December every year.
In the original plot, Jack Bailong and others should have set off at the end of November, which is the end of the period when the blood orchid is about to wither. Today is November 8, and there is only one full month before the December when the blood orchid is withered, so there is still a lot of time left for Ye Xuan.
Whoever has money will be the boss!
Under this capitalist society, the ability of money was infinitely magnified. Ye Xuan spent $4 million to hire 20 fully armed mercenaries, $150,000 to hire three ships and three local experienced guides. His words were naturally the most useful on these three ships.
What's more, no one wants to die, be able to arrive safely and make money safely. Who doesn't like it? So according to his words, the boat is slowly moving forward on the river.
The rain was still falling intermittently, and you could see that the water flow on both sides of the river was even more turbulent, and some places even flooded the river. If he hadn't spent a lot of money to hire three local experienced guides, I'm afraid that no one would have recognized these flooded rivers in such a primitive rainforest.
However, even so, the ship still encountered several troubles.
The main trouble is the branches on the river that are washed and broken by rain and floating with the river.
This time, there are no big rivers in the Satan Basin, and the rivers that need to pass through are relatively narrow, so few small freighters with bulk cargo can only be hired.
This kind of small freighter is not propelled by mechanical engines like the large freighter, but uses more primitive mechanized spirals to push forward. Moreover, the mechanical spirals of this kind of small freighter generally have no protection. The most fear is that they are rolled into dead branches, stones and other things at the bottom of the river. This situation has occurred several times.
Fortunately, this time he hired a total of three small cargo ships, each of which was a local experienced helmsman, and he easily survived several small dangers.
In addition, they have encountered two or three crocodile attacks in the past few days.
However, in the end, all these crocodiles became food for them to eat. After all, there were a total of twenty fully armed international mercenaries on the three ships. In Ye Xuan's eyes, these people's skills were indeed very cruel. Even if they didn't use guns and just had a dagger, they could easily hunt crocodiles in the water, just like now...
"Haha, Kerkraf, come on!"
"Korclaf, you're moving too slowly, prick its eyes, yes, prick its eyes!"
"Korclaf, be careful, if we are bitten by a crocodile, we will have to eat with you tonight. I don't want to eat your meat!"
The water splashed, and the two figures rolled in the underwater river, fighting fiercely. Faced with such a scene, the mercenaries on the three boats not only did not go down to help the companion who was with them, but instead stood by the boat as if watching a play, shouting and laughing.
Ye Xuan also stood by the boat and watched the scene. He looked at the black young man who was fighting a crocodile at least three meters long under the water. His eyes swept over the other mercenaries standing by the boat and laughing and scolding. He raised his lips slightly and swept over a sneer.
In his opinion, these mercenaries were like some lunatics. They could easily kill the crocodile with their guns, but they actually jumped in and competed with the crocodile.
Of course, what's even more crazy is that this crocodile was not found by itself, but these madmen deliberately killed a few fish and attracted them with blood because they felt that the crocodile's meat tasted pretty good.
In his opinion, such thinking is simply incomprehensible.
Chapter completed!