Expedition to Europe

What happened in Paz still affected Lone Bamboo Island.

Early the next morning, Girardine received a report that a black man wanted to swim back to Pasir from the sea last night, but accidentally came to Lone Bamboo Island. As soon as he landed, he was caught by the Umbrella Company's marine patrol. , is now being hoisted on the pier for public display.

Hang it up and show it to the public!

This was probably the way Europe treated pirates during the Middle Ages, and it was really nondescript when used on Lone Bamboo Island.

Girardine originally didn't want to get involved in this matter, but after thinking about it, he ordered Lan Ziying to bring the black man over.

Soon, the black man named Doug was taken to Black Swan Castle.

The naming of Africans is very interesting. In West Africa, many tribes also have the custom of "having a bad name to make a living". They do not give names to children when they are young. When the children grow up, they can just find the name of an animal and that's it.

This is obviously the case for Doug. It is estimated that Doug had a lot of dogs in his previous home, which is why Doug's father was so flippant.

Before being brought into the Black Swan Castle, Lan Ziying ordered someone to tidy up Doug, took a bath, and changed into a set of clothes. However, the clothes didn't fit very well. She probably borrowed them from the guards of the "Umbrella" company. All in one. The guards of the Umbrella Company are all tall and tall. There are many who are over 1.8 meters tall. Even if they are not tall, they must be very muscular. Doug is thin and thin, less than 1.6 meters tall. , so a camouflage uniform was put on Doug loosely, almost like wearing a sack.

When he saw Girardine, Doug lay down on the ground and saluted, his forehead hit the ground directly and he didn't dare to lift it up.

Girardine asked a few tentative questions and found that Doug could actually speak English, and then the conversation gradually became normal.

"——I am a South African. I came to Pas two years ago with my tribe. They said that here you can find a job, you can have a full belly, and you will not be bullied. There are no jobs at all. The white people here Discriminate against us. Even if we want to work as workers in the mines, we will not be allowed to do so. , but the Orientals who came with us could - they brought us from far away in South Africa, but they didn't care about our life or death, and when we were desperate, we were abandoned by them -" Doug's words were not coherent, But it clearly outlines Doug's tragic fate.

It seems that the Chinese are receiving preferential treatment in Pas. At least if the Chinese want to find a job, they will not be turned away.

But Doug and the others obviously did not have such luck. This is no wonder that the black people in Pas City were lazy at the time. It was not that black people did not want to find jobs, but they could not find them at all.

Damn racism!

"Before we came to Pas, we only knew how to hunt, and we knew nothing but hunting. But now we have caught a few swans just to survive, and we will be deported en masse - the military and police in Pas don't treat us as human beings at all. Look, twenty people can live in a narrow cabin, and they can't even lie down and rest. Many people jumped into the sea to escape. If you jumped into the sea during the day, you would be shot. I jumped at night. There were dozens of people who escaped with me, but I was the only one who survived -" Doug said There was not much emotion in his voice, no anger, no hatred, no pleading. But as Doug spoke, tears silently flowed down Doug's cheeks.

There is no greater sadness than heartbreak, maybe this is what it feels like.

"Can you hunt? Can you use a gun?" Geraldine suddenly had an idea.

In fact, Africans are really born warriors. There is no agricultural production in Africa. If people want to get food, they can only go to the wilderness and fight to the death with ferocious wild animals. Almost everyone who survives is an elite.

The physical condition of Africans is still very good. Because they often have to run long distances when hunting, Africans' bodies are basically lean and capable. Apart from bones, they are muscles. Perhaps only the tribal chiefs have a little fat. That's what Doug is like. Even if his clothes are a little loose, when Doug is kneeling on the ground, the muscles on Doug's body can still be seen from the tight parts of his clothes. This is the same as the kind of explosive muscle knots. It's not the same, but it's in the form of strands, which looks like it has a lot of endurance.

The biggest obstacle for Africans to become warriors is discipline. Perhaps they are really loose in nature. Africans are famous for being unorganized and undisciplined. Africans can learn to use rifles in the shortest time, but few Africans can master it. Rifles are expensive to use, let alone advanced courses such as sniping. The most suitable job for African black men is actually mountain infantry. If nothing else, their running ability is absolutely useless.

"I can hunt, I can kill the strongest lion with a bow and arrow, but I can't use a gun -" When he said this, Doug seemed to realize something, and quickly added: "I can't use a gun, just Because there is no chance of contact, if there is a chance, I think I can use it well. "

"You will have a chance in the future, now you show your skills in using a bow and arrow first." Girardine had already made a decision at this time, and still wanted to see Doug's ability.

If you want to draw a bow and shoot arrows, it is not suitable to stay in the office, so Girardine and Doug came outside the castle. In order to allow Doug to show himself better, Girardine even asked Lan Ziying to find a Bring the bow.

Unexpectedly, Doug didn't need it at all. Doug picked a bamboo at random on the roadside, and used the dagger that Lan Ziying often used to trim her nails to "brush brush brush" for a while to make several bamboo strips, then tied these bamboo strips together with a rope, and untied a leather rope from her neck and put it on both ends of the bamboo, and a bow that looked like a real bow was ready.

Almost from the moment Doug untied the rope from her neck, Lan Ziying's face was very ugly.

Lan Ziying really didn't expect that such an inconspicuous leather rope could be used here.

For a while, Lan Ziying wanted to order the guards next to him to strip Doug naked to see if there were any strange things on Doug.

Doug, who was concentrating on his work, didn't know that he had inadvertently offended a little devil. After making a bow and cutting out a few arrows, he got up to look for prey.

But Doug was destined to find no prey. This was the noble residential area of ​​Guzhu Island, and there were no wild animals at all.

Fortunately, Geraldine just wanted to see Doug's archery skills and didn't really want to hunt, so Geraldine randomly pointed to a tree and asked Doug to use that tree as a target.

The tree Geraldine chose was a bit thick, with a chest circumference of about one meter. Doug was obviously not satisfied, and stepped back a few steps until the distance was about fifty meters.

Fifty meters is far enough for the shooting distance of bows and arrows.

Generally speaking, the range of bows and arrows is only sixty or seventy meters. When the Mongolians who are good at riding and shooting use longbows, the range can reach one hundred and sixty meters. The range of the famous Scottish longbow is about three hundred meters.

Considering that Doug's bow was just made temporarily, it is definitely not comparable to those well-made longbows, so fifty meters is a distance that can just show Doug's skills without making people feel too exaggerated.

Africans are really amazing. When it comes to hunting, Doug immediately becomes shrewd.

Doug, holding the bow, immediately became confident. Without any preparation, he drew his bow and demonstrated what a chain of arrows is.

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It was really a chain of arrows. At least Geraldine had never seen it before. Someone could actually shoot arrows like Maxim. Doug was fully focused when he drew his bow, as if he was facing the strongest lion. Without any hesitation, he heard the sound of arrows flying through the air, and then the arrows on the target tree were neatly lined up.

It was indeed neat. The first arrow Doug shot landed about 1.2 meters above the ground. The arrows that followed were neatly lined up like this. The distance between the arrows was almost the same, and the arrangement was neater than that measured with a ruler.

It was really amazing. Doug was not exaggerating.

Geraldine even walked to the tree, stretched out his hand and used a little force to pull out an arrow. The arrowhead was shot into the tree trunk for about one centimeter. If it hit a person, it would be the same as being shot.

Geraldine looked at Doug with a different look. Although Doug was dull again after putting down the bow, in Geraldine's eyes, Doug was a qualified warrior just by this skill.

As for discipline -

Well, Geraldine has a thousand ways to make Doug abide by discipline. It may be difficult for others to make Africans abide by discipline, but for Geraldine who has experienced the life of a Boy Scout, it is not a difficult thing to make people abide by discipline.

Even if Africans are lazy, can they be more difficult to deal with than the two-faced Japanese?

Geraldine is very confident.

"Is there anyone in your tribe who can compare with you in archery?" Geraldine wants to get more.

"In my tribe, I am the best hunter, but there are many people like me in South Africa-" Doug answered honestly.

South Africa is now a British colony, and the people on that land have suffered a lot. First the Dutch, then the British, the South Africans have never been the masters of their own land.

Girardin did not hesitate, took a rifle from the guard next to him, and threw it to Doug: "Practice it well these days, I will check your results in a few days. If your results are qualified, then I will give you a job, a job that will make you worry-free from now on."

This is really a pleasant surprise. Doug hugged the rifle in his arms tightly and saluted Girardin again: "Thank you, generous master, Doug will be your most loyal hound from now on, I will definitely use it well and send all your enemies to hell."

Really sensible.