King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer Chapter 235 227: Bizarre Story

Joe Ga could feel the heavy breathing of 'dic Officer Bird' beside him, and urged on the phone, "Hurry up and speak, what's the situation, is soone going to silence him?"

There was a brief pause on the other end before Chris replied, "Silence him? Why?

Harlotte has betrayed him once, of course, he knew that the guy was clueless about the whereabouts of the diamonds. Why would he go out of his way to give him trouble?

Dealing with a Delta Force mber constantly surrounded by cara flashes isn't easier than assassinating a president."

"Then why did he commit suicide?"

Chris chuckled and said, "Because the guy's wife left him after he struck it rich. She not only took all his money, but what's more important is she hooked up with another woman, ha ha...

Unable to cope, the guy shot himself in the head, and as soon as he died, the woman went back to her family.

Draped in a black veil, she buried the poor guy, gave many dia interviews, then published a book called 'Brave Love,' and even had soone ghostwrite her husband's autobiography. The royalties alone from those two books were in the millions.

Ha ha, but that's not even the best part. Later, the woman discovered her lover wasn't a lesbian at all, but a female Shah spy."

After her husband's death, the Shah spy revealed to her that she was just fooling around and left with another man in a car.

That woman went crazy on the spot, hunting down assassins all over the world to kill that Shah female spy and her paramour, and I just happened to be the middleman.

Now, that Shah female spy has run off to Africa. Are you interested? Fifty thousand dead, a hundred thousand alive. It's a good deal, ha ha...

This is truly exclusive news. Now tell if your hundred thousand bucks were worth it or not?"

Shocked by such a bizarre story, Joe Ga said in disbelief, "So the Delta Force mber who struggled to get ho, committed suicide because his wife wanted a divorce?"

Chris was silent for a mont before replying, "Not entirely. The guy was severely tortured after being captured and suffered from serious PTSD. He was already ntally unstable, so it's normal for him to snap under such circumstances."

Joe Ga glanced at 'dic Officer Bird,' who seed to have aged ten years all of a sudden, and then said into the phone, "So you're saying there's no big shot trying to silence him?"

Chris matter-of-factly responded, "Why silence him?

The federal court has a detailed record of that case. In order to save face and also completely expose the senator, Harlotte paid De Beers to fabricate a contract and confirm the identity of the stolen diamonds.

Anyone with clear eyes could see this was the CIA going head-to-head with that senator. Where's the need for silence?"

Joe Ga was stunned by the explanation, then pressed on, "What about the CIA operative involved? Are the eighty million dollars' worth of diamonds just forgotten?"

Chris scoffed, "Forgotten? Are you kidding?

Harlotte has significant influence in the diamond smuggling industry. Those diamonds might be unmarked, but it's not easy to sell that quantity without him noticing.

Plus, that agent's head is worth five million. He's probably never going to live in peace for the rest of his life."

Joe Ga glanced at 'dic Officer Bird,' who sat in the chair, his eyes having lost their spark and then spoke, "So you're saying the real beneficiary in the end is that CIA operative? Could he possibly be the Black Hand behind all this, especially since he screwed over the Middle East in charge before he left?"

Chris decisively denied it, "I don't think so. I'm more inclined to believe the operative fled with the diamonds because he realized he might beco a scapegoat in the CIA's and senator's ga after the failed capture mission."

Joe Ga still felt sothing was off. If the CIA were doing dirty work against dostic bigshots alone, they shouldn't have needed Delta Force's help. Moreover, what was the Shah female spy's purpose in going undercover near the surviving Delta Force mber? There was a bizarre and unexplainable eeriness to it all...

However, Joe Ga wasn't familiar with Arica's command systems and with 'dic Officer Bird's' most pressing concern of 'comrade's suicide' now cleared up, he naturally dropped the subject.

Joe Ga promised Chris he'd transfer the money later, turned down what he called a 'great deal,' and hung up the phone.

He looked at 'dic Officer Bird,' who had sunk into a grey daze, and hesitated for a mont before waving his hand to signal everyone to leave, giving 'dic Officer Bird' so space.

This poor guy had fallen victim to a conspiracy that had nothing to do with him, then suffered for a year at the hands of terrorists after being sold out by an unscrupulous rchant.

He then gave up on returning ho after losing faith in the governnt, but was spurred back into action by the suicide of his comrade.

After waging a war of wits with the air for three years, he discovered he was just the punchline of a joke; his comrade, even more so.

This kind of blow was too severe for any person!!

Maybe a conspiracy, maybe persecution would be sowhat better.

When the truth erged, when he realized he was an insignificant nobody that no one cared about, it was hard to describe the frustration and self-denial. It felt like a stab in the heart.

Joe Ga wasn't a 'dic Officer Bird', he couldn't fully understand his pain.

But he felt that if he were in his shoes, had he not set the Pentagon and White House ablaze, had he not killed all those involved, he would never get over this hurdle in his lifeti.

......

Eager to gossip, they ended up with an absurd story or rather an accident, which soured the mood for most.

To dissipate the gloom in his heart a bit, Joe Ga took Nis and Ayu to Ndele, driving the little gazelle around the grassland.

The swamp area where 'dic Officer Bird' thought diamonds might exist was actually an extension of the watercourses south of Lake Chad, turning into a large lake during the rainy season, attracting many hippos.

The season's first rain hadn't completely fallen yet, but the area had already beco a hippo paradise. Grazing animals started congregating, and of course, crocodiles were not to be missed.

The Central African National Park covered a vast area, with grasslands occupying two-thirds, while the northwest marsh conservation area and the northeast forest conservation area split the remaining territory.

The boundary where the three lush regions t was a adow, ho to the Africa water buffalos.

Joe Ga looked down at the group of Xiao Hei cutting a large amount of bananas from the edge of the forest's banana plantation. As they passed the water buffalo herd, the so-called most dangerous animals didn't seem to stir. Joe Ga turned curiously to Ayu and asked, "What's going on here? Do water buffalos have special regard for the locals?"

Ayu shook her head and said, "It's not mating season yet, so as long as they rub water buffalo dung on themselves and don't make any aggressive movents, the water buffalos won't attack them."

Realizing sothing, Ayu glanced down and said, "Boss, this isn't a good spot for a vacation resort because not only are there water buffalos here, but jungle elephants also frequently visit.

The grass here is different from other places because the soil has a salty taste. When it rains, this area will be subrged, and the salty water will attract a lot of animals, making it very dangerous then."

Hearing this, Joe Ga thought for a mont and said, "Where do you think we might find diamonds in this area?"

Ayu pondered and pointed toward a semi-dry riverbed below, saying, "It should be near the waterways. Injured lions will instinctively rest near a water source and sotis use the mud to treat their wounds.

Maybe Namo accidentally got the gemstone into a wound while healing by the river."

Pointing at a small mound not far from the river, Ayu said, "Look there, there's an injured wild dog."

Joe Ga, holding the joystick in one hand and a pair of binoculars in the other, looked in the direction Ayu was pointing.

Under an acacia tree, a big-eared wild dog was nibbling on a strange plant that resembled a cactus with palm-sized leaves and a ring of butterfly-shaped small leaves around the edges.

Joe Ga knew Ayu didn't speak without basis, so he asked, "What is that plant?"

Ayu thought and said, "I call it 'Nabaca'. When injured, crushing it and applying it on the wound, or eating it directly, makes a person feel a bit better.

I learned this from the lions; they always seek this plant when they are hurt."

Pointing toward the far end of the river, Ayu said, "Young male lions dare not get too close to water buffalos and elephants. Their hunting ground would likely be farther out.

Adult male lions won't allow young males to roam around their territory. Thirty kiloters is the minimum limit.

If there were ever a pride in that area, you could probably mark out the range and figure out where Namo and Arthur would have road when they were young."

Ayu's years as a Hunting Guide really paid off. She had her own savanna life experience and combined it with a sowhat scientific thod, which she then assimilated into her unique savanna system.

Based on just a few words from 'dic Officer Bird', Ayu roughly figured out the range of Namo and Arthur's activities when they were young. Really impressive!

After circling around in the little gazelle with so thoughts in mind, Joe Ga had Nis record the coordinates before they flew eastward for a while, eventually finding the best spot for the vacation resort by a willow-shaped small lake.

The small lake separated the forest and the grassland, with flat and peaceful grassland to the south, and dense jungle to the north.

As the little gazelle flew by, it startled an elephant herd playing by the lake.

Watching a few elephants smaller than Danbao hiding under their mothers' bellies, flapping their ears and snorting defiantly toward them, Joe Ga thought about his own timid and guileful Danbao and said with a laugh, "This is it. Mark it down, let's head back..."