Disaster is a mirror of demons, and the goodness in human nature, or the ugliness in human nature, are vividly displayed in disasters.

When the Xuanwu's sailors announced that only women and children could board the ship, and that only a hundred people could board the ship, the rudimentary dock was in turmoil.

Don't think that white people are multi-civilized, women in this era do not even have the most basic voting rights, and underage children have to work in factories like adults, even if the labor intensity is the same, they can only receive about half of the salary of adults.

In the face of disaster, the most despicable side of human nature is always infinitely magnified, after the sailors announced, women and children are of course full of surprise, some adults can't accept this gap, a bearded adult man is emotional, shouting that he actually reached out to grab the collar of the sailor.

The sailor's reaction was very crisp, and he immediately picked up his gun and smashed the butt of his gun down, and the dock was immediately unusually quiet.

"I repeat, only women and children can get on board, and there are only a limited number of places on board, and only a hundred people can get on board." The officers who led the team were unhurried, the Belgians spoke French, and the officers spoke English, regardless of whether these people could understand it or not.

Some people are like this, and they don't know whether they really don't understand, or they pretend not to understand, they just blindly squeeze forward, and a thin child is even squeezed off the dock and falls into the river.

The officer who led the team had to order the lifeboat to leave the dock temporarily.

"Get out of here, get out of here, filthy pig-" Charles David and Led Bobby finally appeared, and Led Bobby's attitude towards these people was even worse, but the miraculous thing was that the few people who were desperately squeezing forward just now were immediately honest.

"Gentlemen, thank you very much, I am Charles David, the head of Bukavu, and this is Captain Led Bobby, who is in charge of policing in Bukavu." Charles David was very excited, and he definitely didn't care about what this rebellion had to do with Nyasaland at this time.

"Hello David, Bobby is better than you, my name is Stephens, you have also seen, our ship is not big, the space is limited, only a hundred people can be on board, women and children are preferred." Stephens was expressionless.

"Can you bring as many as you can, we have more than 600 women and children here—" Charles David was not surprised, that is, the Nyasaland Marine Police would do this, and many navies in this era were forbidden to women on ships.

"Sorry, space is limited—" Stephens didn't let go, this wasn't a market to bargain with.

"Then can I ask you to do it again?" Charles David begged bitterly, as the person in charge, Charles David was still a little responsible.

"I'm sorry, but it depends on our superiors." Stephens raised his wrist to look at the time, and his tone was a little more anxious: "There are a lot of rebels around here, and we were attacked by the rebels on the way here, so we can only stay for half an hour, and when the time comes, no matter how many people get on the boat, we must evacuate immediately." ”

Charles David didn't react much to this sentence, and Led Bobby was quite speechless when he looked at the Xuanwu, which was almost armed to the teeth, and gave Led Bobby a warship like the Xuanwu, and Led Bobby could kill directly from Bukavu back to Belgium.

Although the Xuanwu 75 mm caliber main gun is not large, but in addition to the main gun, the Xuanwu also has a large number of rapid-fire guns and exaggerated and hideous machine guns, these 40 mm caliber rapid-fire guns are a sharp weapon against the rebels, with a range of two thousand meters and a rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute, any infantry that appears in the shooter's line of sight will be directly torn apart.

As for these exaggerated and hideous machine guns, the official name is called Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns, this kind of machine gun can not only shoot in the air, but also can be used as a super machine gun with a flat muzzle, a total of 20 rapid-fire guns and Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns are installed on both sides of the Xuanwu's ship, such a destroyer, in the inland river basin is simply unrivaled giant.

So Led Bobby really wondered if the rebels would have the courage to attack the Xuanwu.

"Please make a decision as soon as possible, and we will return when we see us." Stephens looked at these women and children with pleading faces and couldn't help urging, the Xuanwu had no way to dock, so he could only rely on lifeboats for transfer, and it was still a little difficult to send a hundred people on board in half an hour, and the rope ladder was really difficult to climb if he had not received special training.

"Well, a hundred, women and children, Bobby, you will arrange it-" Charles Davy knew that time could not be delayed, and he could not decide who would get on the ship or not sleep on the ship, so he simply left the task to Led Bobby.

"Okay, all the men get back for me, the women and children line up, this ship can only carry a hundred people, and the rest wait for the next one." Led Bobby is decisive, at this time it doesn't matter if he lies or not, he can go one by one.

"Sir—" an old man beside Stephens gestured with his hat off.

"What are you doing here? Didn't you hear me say? Men get back to me—" Led Bobby came and grabbed the old man to drag him back.

"Sir, please wait a minute, sir, my son works in Nyasaland—" The old man's words immediately caught Stephens' attention.

"Wait, what did you just say?" Stephens wants to confirm.

"I said that my son Felton works in Nyasaland, in the city of Xuanji in Nyasaland, and Felton is a lecturer at the University of Nyasaland, which is the pride of our whole family." The old man struggled desperately, and an old woman and a young woman next to him were also pulling and pulling.

"Wait, Mr. Bobby, if what this gentleman says is true, then we must take him-" Stephens glanced at the old woman and woman next to him, and decided to add two more places: "-and his family. ”

It is true that the University of Nyasaland has a lot of lecturers and professors from countries on the European continent who are of high status and respect in Nyasaland and whose families deserve to be taken care of.

"Stephens, didn't you suspect that he was lying?" Led Bobby let go of the old man, and the old man staggered to Stephens with the old woman in one hand and the young woman in the other, not even caring about the luggage on the ground.

"We'll find out if you're lying." Stephens doesn't care, whoever gets on board anyway is the same.

"Sir, my brother also works at the University of Nyasaland—"

"My son attends the University of Nyasaland."

"My neighbor is at the Umbrella Company—"

As soon as Stephens's words fell, the few people who had just wanted to squeeze into the boat began to make noise.

Lying is nothing compared to escaping, and even if it is later proven that these people are lying, then the Nyasaland court will not sentence them to death, at most it will be a moral condemnation.

For some people, moral condemnation does not matter at all, and if this is valued, these people would not have come to the Congo Free State at all.

Leopold II ruled the Congo Free State for many years, and people with a slight sense of justice could not accept the situation in the Congo Free State, and it can be said that all the torture in the history of mankind is commonplace in the Congo Free State, which is also very understandable, why the rebels slaughtered the city at every turn, or directly set fire.

That's how the Belgians used to treat the Congolese.

"Can you still have a face?" Before Stephens could speak, Led Bobby erupted.

"If you can live without shame, then it doesn't matter if you don't-" A stunned young man retorted directly without fear of death.

Also, all beings are equal in front of the rebels, and for some people, as long as they can live, it really doesn't matter if they have a face or not.

But at this time, the consequences of daring to answer the call are really serious, Led Bobby didn't talk nonsense, directly took out his gun and walked to the stunned Qing, in the insensitivity of everyone, or schadenfreude, or frightened and inexplicable eyes, put the pistol on the head of the stunned Qing, and directly pulled the trigger.

Bang!

I didn't expect Led Bobby to dare to shoot, Led Bobby's revolver is a large caliber of 11.43 mm, this kind of pistol can kill an elephant, and if you hit a person's head, it will have a very visual impact -

Anyway, there were women and children who were so frightened that they cried, and some people just fell to the ground and vomited.

"Who else is shameless?" Led Bobby's calm didn't look like he had just shot and killed someone, and then looked at the few people who were still emotional just now, and he was silent at this time.

"Mr. Stephens, the ship is full—" Led Bobby looked back at Stephens with a murderous look of gratitude.

Stephens didn't expect Led Bobby to be so decisive, and turned around and ordered the sailors to send the people on the lifeboat to the Xuanwu first, and when he turned around, it was like Led Bobby stretched out his hand.

"Reacquaint, my name is Stephens, and my Chinese name is Feng Xun." Stephens thought for a moment, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to Led Bobby: "If I have the chance, I hope to see you in Ulysses, and I will definitely invite you to drink when the time comes." ”

Led Bobby is very risky to do this, as long as all the people in Bukavu are not dead, and there are still people who can escape, then Led Bobby will be in trouble, and it will be a big problem.

Even if Led Bobby's intentions were good.

"Nice to meet you, Stephens, my name is Led Bobby, and if I have the chance, I will definitely go to Ulysses to find you." Led Bobby pulled one out of his cigarette case and returned the rest to Stephens.

"Keep it, we've got a lot of them on board." Stephens didn't mean to insult Led Bobby, he really wanted to do something for Led Bobby.

"Ha, I know, you guys are really good at Nyasaland, a lot of the things we have here are made in Nyasaland, and the shoes on my feet are—" Led Bobby seemed very pleased with the quality of the shoes.

There was a faint sound of gunfire in the distance, and it was really not a good place to chat.

(End of chapter)