Chapter 1054 Conclusion after summarizing clues
There are many types of bananas in Africa. In addition to the varieties that can be eaten raw, there are also rice bananas that must be fried and cooked before they can be eaten. The taste is somewhat similar to sweet potatoes.
Banana is one of the main sources of food calories for the locals, and due to the extremely high yield, excess bananas are also used to make wine.
Due to the high pectin content in bananas, it is very easy to produce methanol during the brewing process. Fortunately, the locals are not very proficient in distillation technology, so even if they drink to their full capacity, it is difficult to cause methanol poisoning.
Foreign tourists generally rarely drink this local wine called banana beer, because unlike wine that is stepped on by the beautiful feet of European and American girls, the person responsible for stepping on bananas is either a black uncle or a black aunt.
On the road that Jack and Hannah just passed, there are about 100 Odebiao who roar by on the strong and durable 28 bars every day.
On average, each 28-pound truck carries nearly 400 kilograms of bananas. Adding in the weight of a person, the load basically exceeds 500 kilograms.
Tanzania is not as mountainous as Burundi, and naturally there are not so many downhill roads for Odebiao people to enjoy the thrill of speed.
However, because the economy here is relatively good, even though the round trip distance in a day is close to 200 kilometers, the money earned is much more. On good days, you can even earn an income equivalent to 10-15 US dollars.
Most of the people working in this industry are young people around 20 years old. The income they earn from a hard day's work is enough to support a family of several people. However, under normal circumstances, they will work hard to save money and try to buy a second-hand motorcycle as soon as possible.
Bananas are destined to be out of stock in a certain market today, because an American tycoon came and summoned all the Odebiao people who were traveling on this road for $50 a person.
So not only those Odebiaos who had just loaded the bananas came to join in the fun, but even the guys who had already run halfway were called back.
Old Muto and his militia members maintained order on the scene very well. Generally speaking, these Odebiao people, who are all black and their skin is shiny with sweat, are relatively honest. That type.
After scattering the coins, Jack quickly got the news he wanted. The morning before yesterday, someone did indeed see a group of foreign tourists boarding a bus on the roadside, all dressed in uniforms. red T-shirt, and it was also confirmed that there was a seven or eight-year-old white child among them.
Although none of the Oldboys knew how to count and couldn't tell how many there were, Jack still figured out from the fussy gestures of several of them that it was a car that could at least seat 100 people. 30 people got off the long-nosed yellow bus.
At this time, I have to thank Tanzania for its poor infrastructure. After all, there are only a few good roads.
Unless the bus can run on the grassland like an off-road jeep, Jack will only need to judge based on the last sighting location that they are heading towards Lake Victoria.
“Are they planning to leave the country by water?” Jack looked at the map and fell into thought.
Tanzania owns about half of the water area of Lake Victoria, and the remaining part belongs to Kenya and part to Uganda.
"Anyway, this is good news. You'd better report it as soon as possible. I heard that someone above can't wait to send out the army and special forces to conduct a large-scale search."
Old Muto reminded slightly worriedly.
Just when Jack and Hannah were hesitating whether to continue tracking along the discovered route, a satellite phone call came from Jubal.
They and Detective Bolino successfully captured Pastor Toomer Makani in a small village and have completed the preliminary interrogation.
Strictly speaking, this priest is not worthy of his name. In Jubal's view, Toumer Makani is more like a religious leader. His title of priest is also self-proclaimed and belongs to neither Catholicism nor Protestantism.
Tanzania is a multi-religious country. Except for Zanzibar Island, which is dominated by Y believers, the rest of the places either believe in JD religion or local primitive fetishism.
With the introduction of foreign religions, these primitive local religions have also kept pace with the times, gradually giving rise to some strange hybrid products.
Some of the more radical teachings are regarded as extremist religions. Of course, this is an implicit statement. To be more direct, they are similar to cults. Toomer Makani is a typical example. He is a good communicator who uses his proficiency in several languages to play the trick of eating both ends.
In the eyes of foreign philanthropists, Toomer Makani is a highly respected pastor with many followers, and they will feel comfortable handing some of the aid supplies into his hands. superior.
After receiving these aid supplies, this "kind" pastor will sell most of them and exchange them for cash to buy various guns and ammunition to arm his followers.
The remaining small amount of supplies will be used to win people's hearts, force the poor people in nearby villages to believe in the nonsense so-called doctrines he made up, and then brainwash them.
I have to say that this "pastor" is also considered a talent. If given time, it is really possible for him to pull up an extremist religious armed force.
Unfortunately, he suffered a big loss not long ago, and the "heaven on earth" he dreamed of establishing suffered a major setback.
Toomer Macanni did receive a batch of aid from Jacob Bruce and swallowed up a large part of it, but before he could transport it all away, most of his followers He suddenly abandoned him and took away most of the supplies.
So when Detective Bolino led a group of police officers and Jubal and several others to find him, the unlucky "pastor" couldn't even put up any decent resistance and just stayed with him. Two of his confidants were captured alive together.
Tumo Makani has temporarily escaped suspicion as a kidnapper. Of course, the Tanzanian authorities will not let go of this liar and cult leader, but his mysteriously missing followers have come into the FBI's sight.
Jubal believes that this "priest" may have met a higher-level player and was "backdoored" by someone.
While there was progress in Africa, Rosie and Jiejie, who stayed in New York, also made their own new discoveries.
After chatting with the families of all ten missing women, Jiejie found one thing in common. These women had all been victims of domestic violence, and later invariably chose certain beliefs as their spiritual sustenance. .
Rosie met Sarah, the wife of Jacob Bruce, who was confirmed to be dead.
The couple was not just separated, according to Sarah, the divorce agreement was sent to Jacob Bruce a year ago.
The latter was unwilling to sign the divorce agreement on the grounds that the original wedding oath contained an oath to God and he was unwilling to break his oath.
When Rosie asked her about the Brunswick Mission, she found that something was wrong with the other party's mood, especially when it came to Elijah Ward.
After some enlightenment, Sarah told the truth. Jacob Bruce and Elijah Ward were not a cooperative relationship on the surface, but more like masters and servants.
Jacob Bruce privately worshiped the latter as a god and called him the "Faithful Agent".
"So they are not the partners or partnerships we originally thought. Elijah is the real leader, and we should focus on him." Rossi suggested.
Combining the clues from New York with the findings from Jubal and the others, Jack easily came to a conclusion.
“So we went in the wrong direction before. For those women, it was indeed a kidnapping, but for others, it was actually a long-planned extreme religious act.”
"All the men are complicit, so they carry very little luggage and never use social accounts." Hannah suddenly realized.
“Elijah pried away the followers of the ‘pastor’ and turned them into his followers in Africa. He pretended to be kidnappers and hijacked everyone on the train.
All the men present were insiders, and with their cooperation, the women did not dare to resist and obey obediently. This was a disguised obedience test, a common method used by cults. ”
(End of this chapter)