All of a sudden, someone made a retching sound in the silent lobby. The people, who were in a daze, snapped back to their senses and looked towards the direction of the sound. They saw a woman with long hair squatting on the ground with her legs turning limp, vomiting a mouthful of acid.
The woman's partner began to pat her back in a flurry and began to comfort her in a whisper.
"Uncle, is that a fellow witchcraft student or a special force sent by the country?" Unable to suppress the curiosity in his heart, Zhang Lisheng pointed at the woman who was vomiting and asked Old Man Xu in a whisper.
"That's a girl! How can she be a special force soldier?"
"Since she's a fellow witchcraft student, do you really have to be like this? If you're really scared, you can just chant a few incantations to calm yourself down and you'll be fine."
"You're so scared that you still have the time to chant incantations? That girl's surname is Zhao. She's fair and clean, but she's also very weak. Consultant Zheng, i-it's hard to say. Sigh …" Old Man Xu whispered.
"Isn't it a rare opportunity to be able to see a Grand Wizard demonstrating a spell with my own eyes? If you're complaining about this, then why did you become a wizard in the first place?!" When Zhang Lisheng saw the old man's hesitation, he muttered in confusion.
When the old man and Zhang Lisheng were whispering to each other, Captain Hu had already ordered her people to find clothes and a large black leather suitcase for Consultant Zheng's living corpse.
Looking at the size of the suitcase, Consultant Zheng smiled and commanded the living corpse to open the suitcase without saying a word. Curling up and twisting his limbs, he jumped in. With his belly bulging, he extended a snake-like arm and pulled the zipper of the suitcase.
Then, he lifted the suitcase. "Captain Hu, let's go." He was the first to walk out of the hotel and boarded the bus.
The entire team had a total of less than 40 people, so one bus was more than enough to accommodate them. A few minutes later, everyone boarded the bus. The bus started and Old Man Xu, who was sitting in the middle of the bus, seemed to have finally said enough and no longer nagged. He began to lean on the pillow on the bus seat and closed his eyes to rest.
Zhang Lisheng, who was sitting next to him by the window, looked at the streets of York City that was shrouded in the warm sunlight outside the window. He put his hand into his pocket and rubbed the True Book of Witchcraft that he had just obtained.
The tip of his fingers felt smooth and smooth, as if he was touching the soft and tender skin of a newborn baby. He could not feel any bumps or protrusions. Lost in thought for a while, he suddenly thought that even though it was inconvenient for him to inject his Wizard Power to read the True Book in public in the car, he could still do some small experiments that would not attract attention.
Remembering that Old Man Xu had rubbed the True Book from the flesh on his chest, the teenager quietly took out the True Book, quietly lifted up his clothes, and stuck it on his belly.
At this moment, Consultant Zheng, who was sitting alone in the front row of the carriage, suddenly said, "You don't even know that you have a treasure on you. You've already made a mistake once, yet you still want to make a mistake again.
They always thought of reaching the heavens in a single bound, but they didn't think that those who reached the heavens in a single bound had no foundation under their feet. They floated around and would fall to the ground and become minced meat.
On the other hand, those who steadily build a high platform and take one step at a time to reach the heavens will still have solid ground under their feet no matter how high they stand. Once they succeed, it'll be easy for them to pick the stars and the moon … "
"Consultant Zheng, what did you say?" Captain Hu, who was sitting across the aisle and had been lost in her thoughts ever since she got on the car, asked.
"Nothing. I just drank some wine in the hotel just now, so I just said a few drunken words," Consultant Zheng replied with a smile. "That's right, Captain Hu. What should we do next when we reach Cape Town?"
"Director Liang will first take us to the camp of a survey team of the China National Mining Corporation to rest for a night. After that, we'll act according to the situation in the name of the survey team looking for ores."
"This is indeed a good strategy," Consultant Zheng nodded and said in a genteel manner. Leaning against the back of the seat, he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. Looking at Consultant Zheng taking a rest, Protector Di, who had been worried sick all this time, rubbed the space between his eyebrows and leaned his shoulders against the back of the seat before closing his eyes.
Zhang Lisheng, who was sitting not far away, instinctively felt that the inexplicable words that Consultant Zheng said just now were giving him pointers. However, he really could not figure out what kind of treasure he had on him and where he had made a mistake. However, a Grand Wizard would never speak without thinking.
Putting the Witchcraft True Book back into his pocket, the young man pondered and lowered his head to look at his body. His clothes and shoes were only bought in Africa.
Even though the two wizard gus were cultivated with great effort, it was still a little too much to describe them as' treasures'.
As he pondered, his gaze gradually shifted to the jelly gem wrapped around his finger.
Unlocking the jelly gem with his finger, when he was about to stretch it for the umpteenth time, a puzzled voice suddenly resonated in Zhang Lisheng's ears. "Hey, buddy. I-I've never seen you before. When did you join the team?"
Instinctively, the young man wrapped the jelly gem around his wrist briskly and turned to look at a fat and strong young man who was looking at him in surprise from the back seat. With a smile, he said, "I've just joined the team today, so it's not surprising that you're seeing me for the first time, Brother."
"Yo, you're also from Western Sichuan? Bell, Bell, look! There's another fellow from Western Sichuan in the team!" The fat young man's accent turned into a Sichuan accent as he exclaimed in surprise.
"There are more than 100 million people in Western Sichuan, so there's a lot of fellow countrymen here." A rather good-looking young girl beside him curled her lips and stood up. Leaning on the back of the front seat, she studied Zhang Lisheng carefully. "However, there are not many people who can suddenly come to our team at such a time. Is it convenient for you to tell us your background, little handsome?"
"What background? Special talent? Can I provide it? What's the name again? Oh yeah, strong defense support. Bell, why don't both of us form an offensive and defensive alliance?
If there's an accident, I'll ask my junior nephew to take care of your team. When you're free with your Gate of Life spell, you can also help me cast a few on me. "Old Man Xu suddenly opened his eyes and stared at the girl as he said with a cheeky smile.
"What's wrong with that? As long as you can make the decision, it's a deal. Team Leader Cui, did you hear what Old Man Xu said? What do you think?" The girl smiled sweetly at Cui Xiaodong who was on the other side of the bus aisle.
"It's pretty good. We're all in the same team, so we should help each other." Cui Xiaodong nodded and said with a smile.
The group of wizards in the bus was not mentally strong enough, but they were very forgetful. When they saw that the leader and the consultant had begun to rest, they quickly forgot the terrible scene they saw in the hotel lobby not long ago. Their expressions became more and more relaxed. When someone heard Cui Xiaodong's bureaucratic tone, he chuckled and shouted, "Alright, Team Leader Cui. If you really have such a high consciousness, why didn't you release the Golden Bull Gu when you were fighting with Fusheng?"
"Xiaodong is cultivating the Witchcraft's Gate of Death. If he doesn't use his wizard gu when he fights, does he have to use his head to …"
When Captain Hu, who had her eyes closed to rest, heard the noise that gradually became noisier at the back of the bus, she could not help but frown. However, after getting along with them for two to three months, she knew that this motley crew in the bus could not be compared to her disciplined subordinates in the past. She could not blindly suppress them when she was managing them. She must use both carrot and stick, for this reason, she suppressed the anger in her heart.
Just like this, without anyone stopping them, after the bus that was getting noisier and noisier turned out of the Johannesburg city, it began to accelerate to a speed of 120 kilometers per hour on the flat highway.
As time went by, the sky gradually turned dark and the lights in the bus lit up. The long journey from Johannesburg to Cape Town, which was more than 1,000 kilometers and more than ten hours, was finally coming to an end.
At around 10 o 'clock in the evening, Captain Hu arranged for the team leaders to begin to distribute the third round of food. After everyone had filled their stomachs listlessly in the bumpy bus, Director Liang, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, suddenly said in a hurry, "Captain Hu, pay attention! There's a sentry of the South African government army in front."
"Sigh, we've only been walking for a few hours. Didn't they say that Johannesburg is 1,400 kilometers away from Cape Town? Ah, we've been walking for ten hours already …"
"Shut up! Everyone, sit down immediately! Don't say a word!" Captain Hu interrupted this ignorant question with a stern voice. After calming herself down, after the bus slowed down and slowly stopped, she straightened her body on her seat and prepared to negotiate.
Not long after, a black officer wearing a beret boarded the bus under the protection of two soldiers holding long guns.
"Hello, sir, I'm Wu Zulu, the head of the internal service department of the Macalulu Mining Company. This is our pass." Before the officer could speak, Director Liang had already greeted him with a smile and handed him a document.
The black officer took the document and glanced through it quickly before suddenly saying with a blank expression, "Chinese?"
"Yes, the Macalulu Mining Company is a cooperative enterprise between the China Mining Group and our Cape Town's Golden Tooth Mining Company. Most of the technical workers and experts are Chinese," Director Liang explained with the same smile.
"Chinese? What's his name, Wu Zulu?" The black officer glanced at the passengers in the bus and cursed under his breath, "Damn raiders! I hope all of you go to hell …" Then, he hurriedly threw the pass document to Director Liang and strode out of the bus.
A few seconds later, the bus restarted under the cover of the dark night. When they passed through the open sentry post, Zhang Lisheng saw eight monster-like heavy armored vehicles crouching on the African wilderness next to the highway. There were also two to three hundred heavily armed soldiers using the armored vehicles as cover with their guns on alert.
"Africans, especially the soldiers, generally don't have a good impression of us, the Chinese. They think that we're trying to exploit them and rob their mines by coming to their territory to set up a company.
This officer is still alright. It's just that his mouth is a little dirty, but he didn't specifically look for trouble. Otherwise, we'd have to bribe him, "After passing through the sentry post, Director Liang breathed a sigh of relief and explained.
Captain Hu looked at the dark night outside the window and asked, "Director Liang, how many more sentry posts like this do you think we'll have to pass?"
"Three at most. The first one will be the most difficult. After entering Cape Town, I've already established a friendship with several officers of the garrison. Even if there's an accident, I should be able to solve it with just a phone call."
Upon seeing Director Liang's confident look, most of the people in the bus also breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Lisheng, on the other hand, whispered to himself with a grave expression, "This is bad …"
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