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Chapter 113: 113

Under Chen Chen’s operation, even with a large number of opposing forces, he was still able to amass more supporters . The National Assembly of Namibia had passed Chen Chen’s land lease agreement without any further complications .

However, to appease the Ministry of Environment Protection, the assembly had raised the matter of increasing the cost of the lease . Chen Chen was also held responsible for the construction and resettlement costs of the local villagers that were to be relocated .

Naturally, Chen Chen did not oppose that .

In the end, Chen Chen had obtained the rights to 50,000 hectares of land for 40 years for a grand sum of 350 million U . S . dollars .

50,000 hectares translated to 500 square kilometers of land . It was roughly the area of a square land spanning 22 . 4 kilometers on each side . There was only one village located in this plot of land designated to Chen Chen .

This was the Gorob Village which they previously had a conflict with .

After Chen Chen’s recent establishment of the Black Security Service B . S . S . , the daily training schedule was met with constant complaints from the local guards . This was coupled with Qian Wenhuan’s implicitly instructing the mercenaries to give the local guards a hard time .

For example, some of the mercenaries who liked gambling would forcibly drag the local guards into their gambling activities . They started by giving them a taste of victory before raising the stakes drastically .

In terms of scheming abilities and cunningness, how were these mercenaries supposed to rival these mercenaries who were surrounded by death day in and out? It only took a few days for them to accumulate a mountain worth of debt on top of losing all of their assets .

As for the ones who had objected to partaking in gambling, the mercenaries had them serve them as waiters . Any objections were met with rounds of beating .

In the world of mercenaries, the strong reigned supreme . What all these local guards did was eat, sleep, and laze about throughout the day . Even without Qian Wenhuan’s suggestions, these mercenaries were not going to allow these natives to assume the same position as them .

Within a week of the two groups merging, a particular incident happened where a local guard was sick of being toyed with and decided he was going to stab the mercenaries harassing him . It ended with him being the one who was killed instead .

This particular incident had catalyzed the conflict between the local guards and the mercenaries .

The entirety of Gorob Village decided they were going to make a statement and came out in force to cause trouble . This time around, Chen Chen did not hold back anymore . He immediately had all of the staff from Gorob Village fired . He also had the mercenaries put on bomb suits and employed the usage of explosive weapons to suppress the villagers .

Due to the extreme forces used by the mercenaries during the operation, two more lives were taken in the process .

The government of the city of Walvis Bay stepped in when it saw that things were slowly getting out of hand . In the end, Chen Chen compensated Gorob Village with a payment of 300,000 Namibian dollars .

These events had occurred two months ago .

Over this period, the villagers of Gorob never stopped their plots and schemes . They occasionally had their members sneak into the vicinity of the research center and destroy the solar panels several kilometers away from the center .

Even if they had never managed to inflict major damage, they continued to stick around like flies and pester them endlessly .

There was very little Chen Chen could do about their pestering . Even the photovoltaic power generation equipment only numbered in the thousands, they were spread across several square kilometers of land . Thirty men alone were not going to be able to defend them all .

Chen Chen decided that he was going to get rid of this village for good .

The site of Gorob Village was included in the vast plot of land Chen Chen had purchased .

Gorob Village had a unique geographical advantage as it was set up by the coastline . Not only did they have access to a vast amount of nautical resources, several old houses in the village also doubled as a tourism attraction for them to generate income .

This meant that it was very unlikely for the villagers to comply with relocation .

This was not a problem Chen Chen had to concern himself with as the officials would deal with it themselves . All Chen Chen had to do was construct a residence for the villagers in a newly designated site .

During the construction of the new residence area, Chen Chen decided to cut corners wherever he could . Within a month, hundreds of standard modern concrete bungalows were constructed in the new resettlement site .

Despite cutting costs, they still proved to be less of an eyesore than the iron-clad houses that looked like they were built in the slums .

The problems continued even after the houses were constructed . It turned out that the officials had greatly underestimated the spirit of the Gorob villagers as the police forces they had dispatched were chased out with sticks and batons each time . There was no progress to be seen even one month after the settlement was made official .

After exhausting their options, they came back to the research center to ask for help .

As the head of the research center in charge of external affairs, Qian Wenhuan immediately went to Chen Chen’s office after hearing the requests of the officials .

“Boss?”

The fifth office building in the research center . Qian Wenhuan knocked on the door with a sign that read “Chairman Office” .

“It’s unlocked, come in . ”

Qian Wenhuan pushed the door open after receiving permission . He was greeted with the sight of Chen Chen sitting on the chair with its back facing the door . He seemed to be admiring the view outside .

“Boss, the people in charge of the relocation and resettlement spoke to me . They say they want to enlist the help of our B . S . S . department . ” Qian Wenhuan began .

“I assume that this is about Gorob Village . ”

Chen Chen spoke softly, “No need to dispatch the B . S . S . department . Head over to the resource department and get ten full coverage chemical suits and a bottle of ethyl mercaptan . Get ten bulldozers as well . ”

“Ethyl mercaptan?” Qian Wenhuan was unsure about Chen Chen’s intentions .

“Just pass the message to the resource department . ”

Chen Chen made a waving gesture with his hands . “Have the ones in charge of the operation put on the suits, that includes the bulldozer operators . Have someone spray diluted ethyl mercaptan in the village and proceed with bulldozing the entire village after the villagers evacuate it . ”

“…”

Qian Wenhuan began to understand what the bottle of ethyl mercaptan was for .

“Understood . ” Qian Wenhuan promptly assured Chen Chen with a nod . He allowed himself to mourn for the villagers of Gorob before he turned around and left the office .

Chen Chen slowly turned the chair around after Qian Wenhuan’s departure . It appeared that he was not admiring the sight outside the window . There was a printed map in his hands .

The map appeared to be drawn by hand before it was digitized and printed out . There were countless scribbled notes written in English sprayed across the map .

The map was far from any ordinary map . It looked more like a picture for reference which was drawn by a poor painter . The map showed the location of Gorob Village which was five kilometers away .

The text on the map described a cliff by the sea located in the area . At approximately the level of ten meters below sea meter, there was a cave that was only wide enough to fit a child no more than ten .

Upon swimming more than ten meters into the cave, there should be an exit located right above .

Due to the exit being leveled right above sea level, it was not filled with seawater .

The exit led to a small cave in rocky terrain .

This was not all there was to it . At the end of the cave was yet another long and narrow tunnel . The tunnel was incredibly long and it would take almost an hour-long walk to reach the other end .

The tunnel led to a natural cave several hundred meters underground . It was almost the size of a football field!

This map was discovered by Little X while investigating the Gorob Village . It was found in a folder inside the computer of a person who had left the village decades ago…