Under Chen Chen's manipulation, although there were still many opposing forces, Chen Chen's side had more supporters. Unsurprisingly, the Namibian Parliament approved Chen Chen's land lease agreement.
However, to appease the resentment of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Parliament requested to increase the rent. At the same time, Chen Chen had to be responsible for the construction and settlement costs after the relocation of the local villages.
Naturally, Chen Chen had no objections.
In the end, Chen Chen obtained the right to use fifty thousand hectares of land for forty years for 350 million USD.
Fifty thousand hectares of land, which was 500 square kilometers, was roughly the area of a square land with a side length of 22.4 kilometers. On this piece of land, there was only one village that was within Chen Chen's planning scope.
It was the Gorob Village that had been in conflict before.
During this period, following Chen Chen's establishment of the Black Security Service Department, the daily training made the local security guards complain incessantly. Not only that, under Qian Wenhuan's intentional hints, the mercenaries would often act against the local security guards.
For example, some mercenaries liked to gamble, so they forced the local security guards to gamble with them. At first, they gave them a taste of the benefits, then gradually increased the stakes.
How could the scheming of the local security guards be a match for the mercenaries who had been risking their lives for years? In just a few days, not only did this group of people lose all their assets, but they also owed a lot of gambling debts.
As for those who were unwilling to gamble, the mercenaries made them serve tea and beat them up if they were displeased.
In the world of mercenaries, the strong were respected. These local security guards were lazy. Even without Qian Wenhuan's reminder, they would not allow this group of natives to work in the same position as them.
Therefore, a week after the two sides merged, a local security guard who had been suppressed for a long time decided to stab a mercenary to death with a knife. In the end, he was easily killed by his opponent.
After a life was lost, the conflict between the local security guards and the mercenaries erupted.
The entire village of Gorob was mobilized to cause trouble again. However, Chen Chen did not hold back. He directly fired all the employees of Gorob. At the same time, he had the mercenaries put on the explosion-proof suits that they had prepared beforehand and used shock weapons to suppress the villagers.
In the process of suppression, due to the mercenaries being too heavy-handed, two more murders occurred.
Seeing that things were getting out of hand, the municipal government of Walvis Bay personally intervened. In the end, Chen Chen paid the village of Gorob 300,000 Namibian dollars before the matter was settled.
And that was two months ago.
During this period of time, Gorob Village had not stopped their little tricks. Often, some villagers would sneak into the research center and destroy the solar panels a few kilometers away.
Although they did not cause much damage each time, this group of people were like flies. Although they did not bite, they would still disgust people.
Chen Chen really did not have any good ideas for this kind of situation. Although thousands of photovoltaic power generation equipment was not a lot, it still occupied an area of several square kilometers. Thirty people would not be able to defend it no matter what.
Therefore, Chen Chen also came up with the idea of destroying this village.
The large piece of open land along the coast that Chen Chen had purchased now included the site of Gorob Village.
Gorob Village was located along the coast and had a unique geographical location. Not only did it have a large amount of seafood resources, but the few old houses in the village were also a tourist attraction. Occasionally, tourists would visit this place, bringing in some economic income for the local people.
Therefore, the people in this village were definitely unwilling to move.
However, this was not something that Chen Chen needed to worry about. The government would naturally come forward to resolve this. Chen Chen only needed to build a batch of houses for the villagers in the new resettlement site.
Therefore, in the process of building the new houses, Chen Chen saved as much as he could on materials. In less than a month, hundreds of unified modern brick bungalows appeared in the new resettlement site.
Although there was some skimping on materials, it was still very eye-catching compared to the iron sheet wooden houses in the local slums.
However, although the houses were built, the government in charge of the relocation had underestimated the customs of Gorob Village. They sent the security police several times but were chased away by the villagers with sticks. There was no progress in the resettlement agreement for a month.
In the end, in desperation, the government came to the research center to seek help.
As the person in charge of external affairs in the research center, Qian Wenhuan immediately came to Chen Chen's office after hearing the person in charge's request.
"Boss?"
On the fifth floor of the office building of the research center, Qian Wenhuan knocked on the door marked "Chairman's Office".
"The door is unlocked, please come in."
After hearing the voice, Qian Wenhuan opened the office door and saw Chen Chen sitting on the boss's chair with his back facing the door. He seemed to be looking at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
"Boss, the person in charge of relocation contacted me, saying that he hopes to borrow our B.S.S. department for a while," Qian Wenhuan said.
"It's about Gorob Village, right?"
Chen Chen said lightly, "There's no need for the B.S.S. department. Go to the material department and get ten sets of fully enclosed chemical protection suits and a bottle of ethanethiol. Rent ten bulldozers while you're at it."
"Ethanethiol?" Qian Wenhuan was puzzled.
"Just tell the people in the material department that."
Chen Chen waved his hand. "Have the participating personnel put on the chemical protection suits, including the bulldozer drivers. Have someone spray diluted ethanethiol into the village. After the villagers have escaped, just flatten the village."
"..."
Qian Wenhuan vaguely understood the function of the bottle of ethanethiol.
"I understand." With this in mind, Qian Wenhuan quickly nodded. He silently mourned for Gorob Village for a few seconds, then turned around and left the office.
After Qian Wenhuan left, Chen Chen slowly turned around from his chair. It was only then that he noticed that Chen Chen was not admiring the scenery outside the window. Instead, he was holding a printed map in his hand.
This map seemed to be written by hand first, then the handwritten draft was taken as a photo, and then printed out. There were even a lot of annotations in English on it, but the handwriting was extremely sloppy.
Moreover, this map was not an ordinary geographical map. It was more like a reference map drawn by a clumsy painter. The location marked on the map was five kilometers away from Gorob Village.
According to the text beside the map, there was a cliff by the sea. Below the cliff, at a depth of ten meters below sea level, there was a cave that could only fit children less than ten years old.
Once a child dived into the water and swam more than ten meters into the cave, they would find an exit above their heads.
As the exit was also above sea level, the exit was not flooded by seawater.
Once they exited from the exit, they would arrive at a narrow cave made of rock.
This was only secondary. At the end of the cave, there was a slender and narrow natural passage. However, this natural passage was extremely long. It would take an hour to reach the end.
At the end of the passage was a natural karst cave that was hundreds of meters deep from the ground. It was the size of several football fields!
This map was discovered by Little X when she was investigating Gorob Village. It was in the computer folder of a person who had left the village for decades...
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