Chapter 219: A Trip to Africa (End)
"Really?!When will it arrive?" Duke was listless, but when he heard the news, he immediately rushed out of bed.
"The plane took off from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and was expected to arrive at Libreville International Airport in the afternoon. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has coordinated the Gabonese conflict and the Gabonese Air Force. At that time, the Gabonese conflict will be on standby for a long time, and the Gabonese Air Force will escort our evacuation aircraft." Qin Tairan continued.
But Duke didn't hear these things too clearly. The signal here was average, and happiness came too suddenly, Duke was so excited that he couldn't find North.
"Kobe! Kobe! We can leave now, pick us up. The plane will arrive in the afternoon!" Duke said to Kobe almost in a shouting voice. He and Qin Tairan were just talking in Chinese. Although Kobe heard the conversation between the two, he basically didn't understand what the two said.
It was just Duke's sudden and exciting move that made Kobe guess that this must be good news.
Sure enough, before Duke could hang up the phone, he excitedly told Kobe the good news loudly.
"Hey hey!" Before Qin Tairan finished speaking, Duke ignored him, and he was so anxious that he shouted loudly on the phone. When Duke came to his senses and heard the sound on the phone, he remembered that he had not finished speaking with Qin Tairan yet.
"Counselor Qin, I'm here, what else is there?" Duke asked.
"You should contact the embassy quickly and register the people you need to evacuate. This time, there will be only one flight, and everyone should not be evacuated. I have won 3 places for you. Please see who is suitable and report it to me. I will coordinate again." Qin Tairan continued to say the key points.
Originally, the diplomatic department did not have the so-called evacuation operation, but when Qin Tairan learned from Shu Ya that Duke could not come out in Gabon, he was a little crazy now.
It has been said before that Duke has entered the vision of senior military officials due to the lunar intelligent robot and has become a science and technology industry person who needs to be protected and taken care of by the country. Later, President Liu applied for a national-level operating system R&D project. Duke, as the main technical director of the project, has even been included in the list of key concerns of relevant departments.
As the general manager of the project, President Liu swears to the relevant leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology that the successful development of this operating system will be a universal operating system with complete independent intellectual property rights, high performance, high reliability and high security, and is of great significance to the country's national economy and people's livelihood. Therefore, this project is not publicly approved, but replaced by "Project 03".
Therefore, the relevant departments have been paying close attention to the key figures of this project. Once Qin Tairan knows that Duke is in a place of right and wrong in Gabon, he must report the news.
The efficiency of his line is far beyond the reach of other domestic departments, so the senior management soon instructed him to find a way to get Duke back.
But Gabon is too far away from the country, and there is no strong force in this direction to directly take Duke back. So people from the diplomatic department came up with a new plan. According to the successful case of evacuation of Chinese overseas in Libya, they also came to Libreville for the last time.
Because the relevant departments did not dare to go directly to Duke, this was really too noticeable. So this evacuation operation was carried out, in name, to take Duke back. After the plan was decided, the consulate here began to meet with the two parties in the conflict.
As one of the five major UN Security Council countries, Gabon dares not offend too much even if there are any ideas. Moreover, China still does not help each other in this matter, and there is no reason for both sides to offend them randomly. Therefore, both sides agreed to China's evacuation operation.
The consulate thought that the Gabonese Air Force was still neutral and had a special meeting with the Gabonese Air Force commander. The Gabonese Air Force commander who was still on the fence was even more unwilling to offend China for no reason. Moreover, China's evacuation of overseas Chinese had no interest in him at all, so he agreed without saying anything, and offered to escort.
Of course, Duke is completely unclear about these behind-the-scenes stories. In short, for this evacuation of overseas Chinese, not only did the diplomatic departments work hard, but even the civil aviation side also cooperated with them. Air China directly canceled a flight from Ethiopia to Beijing, and called out a plane to fly from Addis Ababa to Libreville to carry out the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Gabon.
When Kobe heard that China actually sent civil flights to evacuate overseas Chinese at this time, he looked at Duke with some envy.
"It's better for your country. Faced with such a war-torn place, our country's civil aviation will never do such a thing." Kobe sighed.
"Turn down, if you really want to ask, what's coming out is a group of fighter jets. In today's world, who dares to touch you except those who are desperate?" Duke said. "It's just that you don't need to pay too much attention here."
This is true. Although Gabon has abundant resources, there are not many strategic things. The resources here are at most wood, and there are many places that can be replaced now. Although there are also oil, the proportion of reserves in the world is almost negligible.
The more valuable uranium mines, the part that can be mined has been developed by French people since the 1970s, and now there are basically only mines left.
So, in Uncle Sam's eyes, Gabon is really not even considered a fart. It has a small place with a GDP of only a few billion yuan a year, and it does not have a prominent geographical location like Panama, nor does it have endless oil like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Why can it attract busy people like Uncle Sam to pay attention?
But these are all gossip. Duke remembered what Qin Tairan said, hung up the phone and immediately called the consulate. After hearing Duke's name, he immediately introduced the relevant precautions for evacuation very enthusiastically.
The personnel who were originally on the evacuation list needed to assemble in some places in Libreville and then be sent to Libreville International Airport by bus. However, the above obviously explained Duke's related matters, so after the consulate staff asked Duke's address, they directly said that diplomatic vehicles would be sent to pick Duke up to the airport in the afternoon.
Duke thought everyone was treated like this, so he agreed without any special feeling. At the same time, he reported that he would take two Americans away. Qin Tairan promised three places. Duke is now in Liberville and doesn't know anyone. So he naturally wants to bring Kobe and Sowarts with him.
Of course, this is not about carrying forward the spirit of internationalism, but about Duke's thought that he should be more at ease with these two people.
After so many things in Gabon, Duke felt that bringing a few bodyguards was not a bad thing. If only he and Hewitt came to this place this time, he really didn't know what to do.
At noon, Sowaz and his party arrived. Although everyone hadn't seen each other for more than ten hours, Duke felt like he was reunited after the disaster. In order to avoid all the rock samples that he had worked hard to sample, Duke brought dozens of kilograms of samples collected from different locations and took the car from the embassy to pick them up with Kobe and Sowaz.
Luke, Lex, and Pete watched Kobe and Sowart fly away with their boss enviously. They still have to stay to deal with the funeral. Fortunately, Kobe left the large amount of food and weapons he had worked hard to buy to them, so the three of them didn't have to worry about starving to death.
Chapter completed!