Chapter 807 Musk was scared to death (fourth update, please subscribe)
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a gunshot, the elephants by the lake looked at their fallen companion in a daze. After a moment, the elephants fled in a hurry as if they were frightened.
"Captain, your shooting is excellent!"
Musk just smiled indifferently at the flattery of his subordinates.
"It's nothing. If I can't hit such a big elephant again, then I'm really not a competent soldier."
As the words fell, Musk shouted again.
"Cora, go get the tusks and put them on the baggage cart."
What makes a competent soldier? Of course, he should kill more elephants and take more ivory while marching, and then bring them back to Cape Town to sell to the merchants when the operation is over!
Although ivory is not precious, it is still worth a lot of money!
It’s a pity that there is only ivory here!
Musk clearly remembered that more than a decade ago, Americana bought live Cape Town lions in Cape Town for hundreds of pounds each. But now? There are no Cape Town lions anymore.
Fortunately, there are still elephants, ivory, and... It's a pity that the slave trade was banned more than half a century ago, otherwise there would be an inexhaustible supply of black slaves here.
Whenever Musk thinks of this, he feels depressed.
"What a bunch of damned guys! You black-hearted guys made enough money back then, but in the end you locked the car doors and prevented us young people from making money. Are there any of you like this? You are really a bunch of guys who deserve to be hanged."
Of course, Musk doesn't know that this is just an old tradition of capitalists. They will take advantage of the times to make a lot of money, and then what? They will use various excuses to set up barriers, and finally ban it. Why?
Is it really for the freedom of black slaves, for the so-called human conscience? Just like the white leftists in another world who keep talking about the environment and pollution, when their ancestors ignored the environment and ruined the world, no one said that to them. While they are enjoying their lives in the wealth created by their ancestors, do the people in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America deserve to sacrifice their own economic development for the so-called earth environment?
What freedom, environment, conscience, they are all essentially for the sake of profit. After all, there are only so many resources and money. If everyone becomes rich, wouldn’t the resources and money of the rich be reduced?
So for the rich, all they have to do is...never give their money to the poor!
What a sin! Give the money to the poor!
In order to prevent the poor from becoming rich, they banned the slave trade and gave freedom to the colonies. Then what? What about the environment and climate?
Just like what Musk is complaining about now, a few white people on horseback with guns could plunder hundreds of black slaves and become rich overnight, but now he can only kill a few elephants and get a few tusks.
Life!
I wish I was born fifty years earlier!
As Musk complained on horseback, he looked up to the north again. Five days ago, the advance team he led had crossed the Kimberley and then crossed the Jacarosa Mountains. Now they were heading north on the Kap Plateau.
"Right now, the Ming people should not have crossed the Kalahari Desert yet. That desert will become a natural barrier that blocks their progress!"
Musk said to the sergeant major a little proudly.
"What do you think, Hank?"
"Sir, I think it will be difficult for them to pass through the Kalahari Desert. They have only just arrived here. How can they possibly pass through the desert without a guide? If they can't find an oasis to replenish fresh water, they may even die of thirst in the desert."
As Hank spoke, he looked at the guides in front of him. It was the natives who allowed them to go deep into this wild land.
Without a guide, wouldn't that be a death sentence?
"Let everyone speed up. I will try to reach Mmabatho before sunset this afternoon..."
Under Musk's orders, hundreds of soldiers marched northwards on the desolate Kap Plateau. Lions and cheetahs in the bushes watched the team from afar. The large carriages raised yellow dust on the wasteland.
A few hours later, as the grass on the grassland turned greener and greener, smiles appeared on the faces of the black guides. Green meant that the river was just ahead. They waved their spears and shouted in a language that ordinary people could not understand, and then the translator smiled.
"Captain, we're here!"
As the sun was about to set, the exhausted people finally reached their destination.
"Hank, once we pass this place, we will enter a no-man's land. Once we get there, we can build up achievements that no one else has ever achieved. Of course..."
Musk had a smile on his face and pointed his finger into the distance as he spoke.
"We will also have untold wealth in that land!"
As he finished speaking, suddenly, as if he heard something, he looked around.
"Hank, listen..."
What to listen to?
Hank heard it, too.
"What's that noise?"
What sound?
The others seemed to have heard it as well. They looked around and saw a rumbling sound echoing in the empty grassland. The sound sounded a little low and was coming from far away.
"Everyone get ready!"
The soldiers picked up their rifles and looked around vigilantly. What was that sound?
They had never heard it before, but they were sure that the sound sounded a little dull, like, what was it...
Musk frowned. The voice sounded a little... as if, as if... Suddenly, someone pointed at the sky with his mouth wide open in surprise, pointing at the sky in amazement.
"Ah... look, look..."
It wasn't just one person who was like this. Soon everyone else also turned their gazes towards heaven. They all had their eyes wide open, and an expression of disbelief on their faces.
What is that?
What is flying in the sky?
"Fly... airship... yes, it's an airship..."
Even if they were born in Africa, they had heard of airships. After all, in the past few years, airships have become the stars of the world. Of course, they have only seen airships in newspapers and magazines, and it was from newspapers that they learned how powerful airships are.
Before this, they had never thought of seeing an airship on the African continent, but now the airship had entered the sight of all of them.
Faced with the sudden appearance of the airship, they were all dumbfounded.
"How could there be an airship? The Ming people...why did they send the airship here?"
Just when Musk was confused, he saw the ships slowly descending. Fearing that he would become the target of the airship attack, Musk shouted in fear.
"Hide, hide."
Amid the officers' shouts, people all fled in panic around the trough. They hid in the low bushes and under the treetops to avoid being discovered by the airship and becoming targets of bombs and machine guns.
After all, in the past few years, they had heard too many legends about airships through newspapers and magazines. What about angel tears, what about the blessing of the god of fire. Whether it was those silver nails that looked like angel tears, or dense shells, they ultimately brought death.
Now faced with such a death threat, they don’t know what else to do except flee under the treetops in panic and pray to God.
"God bless!"
In a panic, Musk hid under a big tree and prayed in his heart, praying that the other party would not find them, and even if they found them, they would not bless them with the tears of angels or the blessing of the god of fire.
God can testify that Musk now has only one thought in his mind - the people of the Ming Dynasty are too unethical.
It's just Africa. Is it necessary to make such a big fuss and send an airship?
(End of this chapter)
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