After Yang Jing and Gege walked out of the VIP channel of Manila International Airport accompanied by Chris, Clark and two female bodyguards, they immediately felt dozens of malicious gazes.
These unscrupulous gazes made the princess a little frightened, which also made Yang Jing regret bringing the princess to such a dangerous place.
However, after John Bruno, Carl Morris and other fully armed black bodyguards appeared beside Yang Jing and Gege, those unscrupulous looks suddenly disappeared. Those Filipino men who were so arrogant just now were all ashamed and dared not look over here again.
Although the Philippines has been free from American colonization for more than 70 years, and the United States withdrew its troops from the Philippines after the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force, the largest US military bases in Southeast Asia, were returned to the Philippines. The United States lost the right to station troops in the Philippines since the mid-to-late 1990s, but the United States' influence on the Philippines is still very huge.
Although the United States does not have the right to station troops in the Philippines now, the two countries signed the Visiting Forces Agreement in 1998. According to this agreement, the Philippines allows the United States to deploy hundreds of American soldiers in the Philippines and provide "limited-term" shore supply assistance to US warships. After the September 11th incident, the United States increased its military investment in the Philippines. Currently, there are about 600 US special forces soldiers stationed in the Philippines, providing advice to local troops and assisting them in fighting against anti-government forces.
In other words, the United States actually still has troops stationed in the Philippines, and they are elite special forces special forces.
So now in the Philippines, Americans are almost synonymous with people no one dares to mess with. No Filipino is so blind as to want to mess with Americans.
Whether it was Carl Morris or Clark, they were all elite bodyguards. Chris and his friends were retired special forces soldiers from Delta or Rangers, and Carl Morris and his friends were active in the Iron Blood Mercenary Group in the Middle East. Any one of Yang Jing's twelve bodyguards had a life on his shoulders!
Even the two female bodyguards that Yang Jing found for the princess were very skilled, and two or three ordinary big men could not get close to them at all.
Just these fourteen elite bodyguards are enough to deter those Filipinos with evil intentions.
Both Bruno and Maurice have a lot of connections in the Philippines, so even though they have only been in the Philippines for two days, they have already prepared a fleet of vehicles consisting entirely of bulletproof military Hummers. Of course, the weapons and equipment they carry are also the best weapons currently available in the Philippines.
This convoy of four military Humvees alone is enough to make most Filipinos look askance.
Manila International Airport is located in Sepa City, about seven kilometers south of Manila. This airport is the largest airport in the Philippines. It is also an airport where scandals frequently break out.
Manila is a very large city. After years of development, it has become a metropolitan area with a population of more than 10 million. It is known as the "New York of Asia".
Judging from the appearance of the city, the city is worthy of this nickname, especially in the central areas of the city, such as Intramuros, Ermita and Malaty, where tall buildings, luxury hotels, salons and bars can be seen everywhere. And because of the Passi River, looking south from the north bank of the Passi River, it really has the charm of the two sides of the Huangpu River in Shanghai.
But Yang Jing and Gege both knew that this was just a false appearance. This seemingly extravagant and glamorous city was actually built up with the power of the entire country. In other parts of the Philippines, the poor people living below the poverty line had such poor living conditions that it was unimaginable.
"Haha, this is the true meaning of rich people living in luxury while poor people freezing to death on the streets!" While driving on the highway from the airport to the city, Gege retracted her gaze and complained with a sneer.
"My dear wife, if you don't like it here, why don't you take a rest tonight and I'll have someone send you back home. When I'm done with my work here, I'll take you to New Zealand for vacation?"
"I'm not going back! I want to follow you to hunt for treasure...uh, I mean, what if the places recorded in those two notebooks are where the treasure is buried?" Gege said with a smile.
"Okay, but I have to tell you, the places we are going to are deep in the mountains and forests, and the conditions are very difficult. Can you bear it?"
"Oh, Yang Jing, why are you becoming more and more like my mother? You've said this at least ten times. If I were afraid of suffering, would I still follow you to a place like this?"
"Okay, you win!" Yang Jing raised his hands in surrender.
As Yang Jing and Gege were chatting and laughing, the convoy drove into the city of Manila at lightning speed and entered the New World Manila Bay Hotel in the San Miguel district on the south bank of the Pasig River.
This hotel is also a five-star hotel. Perhaps it is not as famous as the Four Seasons Hotel, but the main reason for choosing to stay here is for safety reasons.
The entire San Miguel District is the most important embassy district in Manila, and it is also the district with the best public security conditions in the entire city of Manila. Just like the hotel where Yang Jing and his friends stayed, less than 600 meters to the north is the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines, and there are embassies of other countries around it.
Originally, Yang Jing wanted to find a hotel in Minoron, on the north bank of the Pasir River. After all, Minoron is a purely Chinese area, where more than 90% of the residents are Chinese, and it should be quite comfortable to live there. However, after arriving in Manila, Bruno suggested staying in the embassy area for a strong reason - safety first.
After checking in and taking a short rest, the group went to the hotel restaurant for a sumptuous lunch. After lunch, Yang Jing called John Bruno, George Bruce, Kevin Martin and Carl Morris to his suite.
"Karl, how are the things I asked you to prepare going?"
"Boss, everything is ready. In addition, I have contacted a 120-foot luxury yacht as you instructed. It is enough for us to have a luxurious trip."
Carl Morris's answer made Yang Jing very satisfied. Because the eight locations marked on the notebook were distributed on five different islands, it was obviously not appropriate to drive directly there. Although taking a helicopter was the fastest, Yang Jing planned to rent a helicopter from the local area after arriving at the target island, so he finally chose to take a boat to explore these locations.
Yang Jing nodded in satisfaction, "Well, as long as we are ready. We will set off early tomorrow morning, take our things with us, and our first stop will be Mindoro Island!"
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