Chapter 1049 Suspicious location and search team
There are thousands of languages in Africa. Due to hundreds of years of colonization history, outsiders can hear English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and even on this land. The only language not brought by colonizers is Chinese.
Swahili is a language with obvious colonial imprints. It was first written in the Arabic script used by early colonists in Africa, and was later transformed into the Latin alphabet introduced by missionaries and colonial administration. write.
In fact, many people have heard of Swahili. The fourth theme song of the "Civilization" series of games, "Baba Yetu", is the Lord's Prayer sung in Swahili.
Many people have been bewitched by this majestic song and unknowingly clicked the "next round" button. When they looked up in confusion, they found that the whole day had been stolen inexplicably. time.
Soon everyone in the carriage collected electronic belongings of the missing tourists, and a military attaché from the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam also arrived.
He will send these physical evidence such as mobile phones, tablets, and cameras as quickly as possible to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, which is the largest military base of the United States in Africa.
Then the physical evidence will be sent to New York through military channels and handed over to the BAU team.
The small country Djibouti is also a strange flower in this land of Africa. It has a land area of 23,000 square kilometers and a population of less than one million, but it accommodates the military bases of three of the five permanent members of the United Nations.
China, the United States, and France have all deployed military presence in Djibouti. The bases of China and the United States are only 12.7 kilometers apart. The transport plane that Jack and others were traveling on had stopped at Camp Lemonnier for refueling. Before landing, I saw a bright five-star red flag.
After doing all this, Jubal also ended his conversation with the train conductor and returned to everyone, "For the time being, we can rule out the suspicion of collusion between internal and external train staff, but to be on the safe side, I still hope you can confirm the status of his family. "
He said this to Detective Bolino. The black police officer understood what he meant and raised his hand to call one of his police officers, and the two whispered in a low voice.
Jubal turned to explain to everyone, "Being able to work on a train in Tanzania is an extremely rare and generous guarantee for the locals. Not only does it have a generous salary and pension, but the children can also receive Better educational opportunities.”
Since the train conductor chose to stay after calling the police, it shows that he really values his work, which indirectly alleviates his suspicion.
"Did you get any important clues?" Jack glanced at his notebook, which contained very little useful information.
Jubal nodded, "That carriage was the last carriage of the entire train. I confirmed with the conductor, driver and multiple staff members that although there was a slowdown along the way, it did not stop at any station."
< br>Aubrey scratched his head, "So there is still internal and external collusion, but it is probably not the staff on the train, but some of the tourists colluding with the kidnappers?"
Although I find this conclusion a bit unbelievable, but Judging from the deliberately damaged door lock, this seems to be the conclusion closest to the truth.
"Inform Garcia and Alice of this speculation first, and ask them to seize the time to investigate the identities of those tourists."
Jubal was also scratching his head. It has been a day and a half since the incident. , but the information they have is extremely scarce. New York has not yet sent a complete list of missing persons.
"What is the slowest speed when decelerating? Where is it?" Clay spread out a map on the hood of the Hummer and took out a pencil. "It is a railway bridge that has been in disrepair for a long time. It is about 150 kilometers away from Agatha. According to the train driver, when passing this railway bridge, the speed of the train must be reduced to below 5-10 kilometers per hour to pass slowly. "
Based on the location information provided by Jubal, Clay quickly drew a small circle on the map, "OK, that is our priority search area."
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As a country with a relatively stable long-term political situation, Tanzania is somewhat unique among African countries. They even have a fairly well-executed gun ban policy.
At least along the way, no one had seen another stereotype of Africa from the outside world. The scene of everyone carrying an AK series rifle did not seem to exist in this country.
Until an old liberation truck with mottled paint and older than Jubal drove into the station, a group of people came down from it carrying the Bayi bars on their backs and holding shovels and mining drafts in their hands. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense.
"Jack?" Jubal subconsciously made a defensive posture. Although they brought weapons on this trip, they were limited to carrying guns.
However, it seemed that they were the only Americans who felt the tense atmosphere at the scene. Jack glanced at the vendors next to him who were still selling food and souvenirs to passengers on the passing train, and calmly reminded everyone that there was no need. Overreaction.
"Haha, old Muto, you are finally here." Detective Bolino opened his arms and hugged an old man with white hair and beard who got out of the cab.
The old black man, who was still wearing a yellow construction site vest, whispered to Detective Bolino in Kiswahili for a long time, and then looked at the FBI with slightly friendly eyes.
"What are they talking about?" Hannah knew Jack could understand and walked to him and asked.
“These people are the search team here to help and belong to the local militia.” Jack also had some difficulty listening. Although the other party spoke Swahili, there was a lot of local dialect mixed in. vocabulary.
The actual content was not easy for him to translate. The words of this old black man with so many wrinkles that one could not tell his age were not very friendly at first. Why did you, Bolino, you little bastard start giving this to the white man? Working hard or something like that.
It wasn't until Detective Bolino explained the whole story in general, and explained that Jack and others were also here to help find missing tourists, that the old guy put away his sharp eyes.
"Let's go. Now that you have determined the general area, let's set off quickly. Although the distance is not too far from the map, the road is not easy to walk."
Old Muto said and waved his hand. , more than a dozen black militiamen who had lined up consciously after getting off the car suddenly started laughing, pushing and shoving and climbed into the old Jiefang's carriage again.
What is surprising is that this old black man whose age is indistinguishable can actually speak extremely fluent English.
Jack's eyes were always fixed on the militiamen who were shouting commands such as "stand at attention" and "take a break" as they lined up. Jubal and others could not understand the Chinese commands with a slight dialect, and they might have thought they were saying It was in the local dialect, but how could he not recognize it?
(End of this chapter)