Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Discovering an Aluminum Ore
“Captain Wang, could I ask what’s going on with this person?” Xu Yang didn’t mean to meddle, but seeing that the other person seemed to be Chinese, he couldn’t help but ask.

If this person was innocently captured, he still wanted to attempt a rescue if possible.

Captain Wang hesitated for a moment, then nodded and went to ask the local security staff.

And that armed gang leader was there, too.

After talking for a while, Captain Wang came back and reported the situation.

Only then did Xu Yang understand that this middle-aged man was not Chinese but a man from the island country.

Because he had taken a fancy to a woman and planned to use money to get her to sleep with him, but the woman was unwilling, the island man got angry, hit the woman, and tried to force himself upon her.

Later, the woman’s husband came over and managed to drive the middle-aged man away.

The woman’s husband had friends in the armed group.

It was this armed group leader.

He found the man and asked for help to take revenge.

There you have it, the armed leader raided the enemy’s lair to help his friend settle the score and captured the island middle-aged man to bring him to the base, making good use of him and letting the island man serve as cannon fodder.

Xu Yang had the least tolerance for men who forced themselves on women.

This island man is simply trash.

What’s more, he pretended to be Chinese while actually being an islander, which was a clear deception, and that irritated Xu Yang.

It’s a good thing he asked Captain Wang first. If he had attempted a rescue without knowing the truth, that would have been troublesome.

Xu Yang looked at the island man, “You’re not Chinese, and you’ve done such a thing, whatever happens to you, you deserve it.”

The island man, knowing his actions were exposed to Xu Yang, looked somewhat displeased, “Even if I’m not Chinese, you should still save me. The island country and China are neighbors; we’re like neighbors. Someone in your team obviously knows that armed group leader, why don’t you ask him to speak up and save me, what’s wrong with that? Don’t you Chinese always say, ‘Distant relatives aren’t as good as close neighbors’? Helping your neighbor, isn’t that what you should do?”

This island man spoke as if he was completely justified.

Such words directly ignited the anger of Xu Yang and the others.

“Shameless!”

“You’re scum! Even throwing you in a trash bin would make me feel sorry for the bin.”

“You’re a beast; you deserve to die.”

“And you expect Xu Yang to save you? Dream on!”

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Xu Yang said, “I never imagined you would ask for my help with such an attitude, acting as if it’s my obligation to save you. I really don’t know where you get the audacity.”

The island man replied, “What I’m saying is the truth. Do you intend to stand by and watch me die?”

Xu Yang responded, “It’s not about whether I can save you or not; even if I could, I wouldn’t. If possible, I would even wish for your death.”

Xu Yang originally didn’t have a good impression of islanders.

After all, the island country’s past crimes against China were too numerous to document.

Now that it’s a time of peace, naturally, Xu Yang couldn’t do anything to islanders.

If this islander had spoken nicely and shown a plea for help, Xu Yang might have been internally conflicted and attempted to negotiate a rescue.

But now, that’s obviously impossible.

It’s not about whether he could save him or not; even if he could, he wouldn’t.

He’s not so noble to tolerate such behavior.

“What are you saying? How can you be so heartless?” the islander widened his eyes, seemingly unable to believe Xu Yang would say such a thing.

He had grown accustomed to looking down on Chinese people.

During his business trips to China, many Chinese people tried to please him.

In China, he was treated like a VIP.

This led him to a delusion that he could behave the same way with any Chinese person anywhere.

Now it seemed he was mistaken.

“You such trash, just wait to die,” Xu Yang said indifferently.

“No, you can’t just watch someone die,” the island nation man yelled.

The commotion here caught the attention of the armed leader.

The man came over and asked what was happening.

Captain Wang informed his companion, and the companion informed the other party.

“You really do deserve to die, I can’t be bothered to take you back as cannon fodder,” the armed subordinate said coldly, “Take him down.”

Upon hearing this, his men immediately took the man off the vehicle and kicked him in the shins, forcing him to kneel on the ground.

The armed subordinate quickly pulled out the handgun from his waist and fired a shot.

The island nation man fell to the ground at the sound.

This scene shocked Xu Yang and his group.

The security personnel, used to life and death, were naturally unaffected, but for Xu Yang and the exploration and mining staff, seeing someone being killed for the first time made them feel uneasy.

After killing the island nation man, the armed subordinate bid his friend farewell and led his team back into the vehicles and left.

At that moment, two people immediately threw up.

Xu Yang, however, did not.

“He brought this on himself, he got what he deserved,” Captain Wang glanced at the corpse of the island nation man and waved his hand, “Let’s get in the car and go, the road is clear now.”

It was then that everyone realized that there were no more gunshots.

On the following journey, they still heard sporadic gunfire, but there were no more delays.

When they arrived at the bauxite mine, it was already nighttime.

The people from Fengkai Mining welcomed Xu Yang and his group.

The conditions here were almost the same as a construction site back home.

Even so, it was still better than the living conditions of many locals.

One had to admit that Fengkai Mining’s treatment of its employees was quite good.

The next day, Fengkai Mining handed over the work and left.

Xu Yang’s exploration and mining team then got to work.

Xu Yang’s requirement was to keep digging deeper.

The system had said that there were bauxite resources deeper down, so they would just keep digging downward as originally planned.

A week later.

Xu Yang, bored out of his mind in the office, played games on his cellphone.

The mining supervisor burst into the office, exclaiming with joy, “President Xu, we found bauxite!”

Xu Yang sprang to his feet, “Really?”

The supervisor nodded, “Truly, they are currently surveying it to see how much there is.”

“That’s great,” Xu Yang said, clapping his hands happily.

These past few days, staying in this godforsaken place with no entertainment, no friends, and without his wife by his side, he felt like he was about to mold over.

Finding the bauxite resources meant he could go back to his country.

Therefore, he immediately followed the supervisor to check it out.

The supervisor also briefed him on the situation, saying that Fengkai Mining hadn’t discovered it because there was a layer of special rock barrier underneath that the machines couldn’t detect at all. If it weren’t for Xu Yang’s insistence on digging deeper, it would have remained undiscovered.

Two days later, the survey data came out, and the bauxite resources were estimated to be worth about six billion.

If sold directly, they could go for about one and a half to two billion.

After all, mining companies also have many costs; they need to invest a lot of manpower and resources, and the time span is also long.

The price range, and how much it could be sold for, would depend on Xu Yang himself.

Xu Yang asked the team to continue staying there while he took the survey data and set off back to his country to find a buyer.