Chapter 787: Battle of the Tana River
Looking down on the city below at a height of thousands of meters, one road and two worlds, one side is a brick house sheltered from the wind and rain, and the other side is a dilapidated shack with heavy rain outside and light rain inside, well... As if there is no need to worry about this, rain is a luxury in this place close to the equator.
Although it is the rainy season, a tributary of the Tana River next to it is semi-dry, and it is difficult to navigate in shallow water, so when you look up and down, you can see boats of all sizes stranded in the mud and unable to move at all.
It is estimated that this tributary can only get enough water from the main river to sail when the precipitation is at its maximum, and now, emmm, it is difficult to even swim, let alone cultivate and irrigate.
The Kun fighter slowly lowered its altitude and landed behind a small dirt slope not far from the ghetto, so that the dust blown up by the engine jets would not be seen, thus exposing the Kun fighter, which was only optically invisible.
After landing steadily, Stark got up and went to the back compartment, took out a blue waistcoat and a baseball cap with white UNHCR lettering from the luggage compartment and threw it to Greer, and he also put on a vest with the pattern of wheat ears caring for a person with both hands, and the English of The UN Refugee Agency underneath.
"Are we going to dress up as UNHCR staff?"
Stark had already put on his vest, picked up his unpretentious briefcase, and said, "Do you want to wear a steel suit?" β
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Stark was very well prepared, not only did he get a UNHCR vest, but he also traveled thousands of miles to bring a simple motorcycle that is very common in Africa, of course, it would be naΓ―ve to think that this motorcycle was ordinary.
Stark can play with watches and briefcases, and the motorcycle is so large, stuffing a bunch of attack weapons and equipment into it, and even a steel suit, there is no need to make a fuss at all.
After getting ready, the two UNHCR staff set off on motorcycles, because it was the rainy season, so the wasteland grew a lot of greenery, but it was not enough to completely cover the field, there were still large areas exposed, and the motorcycles drove by, raising a lot of dust.
The arrival of outsiders, still the 'rich' on motorcycles, injected a shot of strength into the lifeless ghetto, and the roar of the engine made the doors of some shacks open, and the probe probed to look in the direction from which the sound came.
Especially when I saw two 'foreigners' in blue clothes riding motorcycles, the people in the slums were even more energetic, few of them could read and write, but they knew that these people in blue clothes would distribute some food and medicine every time they came, but in the past they were big cars and small cars, why was it a motorcycle this time?
Stark glanced down at the watch on his right wrist from time to time, showing a map of the place and the destination marked with a red dot, so Stark became the navigator, guiding Grell around the narrow roads of the slums, stopping to the door of a three-story dilapidated building.
It can make Grell feel broken, you can imagine what this building is broken, the exterior walls are more potholes, more pockmarked than pockmarks, there is no glass in the windows, and the holes in the walls are blocked with mud, blades of grass or other mess.
Not to mention reinforced concrete, even the bricks and tiles are not pure, mixed with a lot of soil, it is not an exaggeration to evaluate it as a 'dilapidated house', giving people the feeling that it may collapse at any time. γ
But such a dilapidated house that should have been rebuilt a long time ago is a mansion in this slum, and it is by no means ordinary people who can occupy this place, almost a slum tyrant.
No, the motorcycle stopped, and before the people got down, a few black gun barrels quietly stretched out of the hole in the house, sneaking in and aiming at Grell and Stark, and more than a dozen thin black men came out of the surrounding houses, carrying clubs and knives without even handles, and surrounded them.
Then the broken door of the mansion opened, and out came a few black men with guns, the clothes on their bodies were obviously better than the others, and they did not look malnourished, and the rich did not look like people from the slums.
Without waiting for these people to come around, Stark pointed to the clothes on his body, and said in the local vernacular: "We are the United Nations Refugee Agency, we are here to investigate, and we have no weapons." β
The blue vest is indeed very capable of bluffing, these people did not shoot at the first time, but blocked the road in front and behind, after listening to Stark's words, a leader who came out of the room spoke: "We don't welcome outsiders, you go somewhere else." β
Tell them to get away from their houses, knowing that this blue dress is basically equivalent to a 'fortune boy' in Africa, distributing food, medicine, and free medical treatment, and will be warmly welcomed wherever you go.
Following Stark's words, Jarvis also showed Wakanda shot by the Kun fighter jet: endless jungles, vast grasslands, rolling mountains, large and small lakes, dotted tribal groups, almost no traces of modernization, maintaining a very primitive appearance.
In the eyes of the world, Wakanda is just one of many poor countries on the African continent, not a very large area, but it includes grasslands, jungles, mountains and snow-capped mountains. Yes, there are snow-capped mountains in the hot territory of Wakanda, the remnants of Kilimanjaro, where the peak rises more than 4,000 meters above sea level, and the peak is covered with snow all year round.
"Look, a very backward agricultural country, but it doesn't need outside aid, and there are no roads, railways, and airports to connect with the outside world, and it's even more closed than North Korea." Stark raised his eyebrows, turned off the useless aerial footage, his drone wandered around Wakanda for a long time, and did not gather anything useful, he changed to a slightly more comfortable position, and said to himself: "Next time, I should modify the seat to lie down." β
Grell tilted his head to the left, looking at the jungle below, and wanted to go down to see the protective shield of Wakanda, where the troop carrier of Thanos had fallen from such a high height, and its own weight and weight were estimated to be comparable to those of small nuclear bombs, but they were easily resisted.
And there is also a camouflage function, from the outside it is a vast jungle, neither satellites nor radars can penetrate the protective shield and discover the city inside...
Hey, it seems familiar.
Attilan on the far side of the moon, the protective shield seems to be the same, it has the functions of protection, camouflage and isolation detection, but Attillan's protective shield can simulate the rising and setting of the sun, rain, snow and even temperature control, etc., Wakanda's protective shield does not seem to have such a function.
And according to the past history of the earth, the earth has been occupied and ruled by the Kree and Asgard for a period of time, so do these aliens know the existence of Wakanda?
If not, doesn't it mean that Wakanda opened its protective shield a long time ago, closed off the country, and the technology reached a point where it was enough to hide from the world; If so, how did they protect vibranium from being discovered and excavated?
In an instant, many thoughts passed through Greer's mind, and even came to him, whether Wakanda's high technology was the same as that of Attillan's Inhumans, which they learned from the Kree, after all, the Kree were defeated from the earth in the end, and there would definitely be a lot of things left behind in a hurry, and then it was not impossible for the Wakandans to conduct research on this basis and develop technology.
However, these are just Greer's conjectures, not even speculation, and there is not much information about Wakanda in the Stark materials of another universe, not even the method of entry, let alone the history of Wakanda.
Grell just thought about it, and then turned to these thoughts to the back of his mind, he was not a historian, and he wanted to get to the bottom of what had happened on Earth in the past.
Think about it with divergent thinking, if you use Wakanda's technology to arm the world, can you give humanity the strength to fight Thanos? Think about the combat effectiveness shown by Wakanda in the movie, emmm, it's hard to put into words.
The performance of science and technology is very developed, but I always feel that something is not right, although there are flying boats, but there are not too many of them, and there is no sense of existence, and it has been easily blown up by the black panther.
The technology tree, which claims to be the world's leading, seems to be mostly focused on life, and the military aspect is very unremarkable.
During the battle against Sanos, Wakanda was still armed with spears made of vibranium and infantry dressed in vibranium clothing, and the way of fighting was to shoot with spears and charge forward with spears, and one tribe was cavalry, mounts and rhinoceros in armor.
Although it is said that the supersonic spear cannon is very powerful and can confront tanks, the problem is that the human beings outside have developed a series of nuclear weapons, sub-nuclear weapons, etc., and the comparison between the two is basically the ratio of the candle flame and the bright moon.
While Greer was looking down in contemplation, Stark next to him suddenly spoke, "You don't think that Wakanda's technology is really advanced, do you?" β
"Huh?" Greer was stunned for a moment, turned his head and slashed over, only to see Stark clicking on the holographic projection screen that surrounded him, adjusting the parameters of an unknown program, and talking to Greer in his spare time: "Most of their technology is developed around vibranium, and only this aspect is brilliant." β
Stark didn't say much, but everyone understood the meaning, Wakanda walked on one leg rather than in full bloom. This is like the world's first lithography machine made in the Netherlands, and it cannot be said that the Netherlands is the first in the world in science and technology, in the same way, Wakanda is very developed in many aspects, but not all technologies are leading the world.
For example, the art of war...
Wakanda's weapons and equipment in the movie are really scum, the sparse kind, sitting on a treasure mountain and so many advanced technologies, but in terms of weapons and equipment, it is not as good as Stark Industries, a private company, and now Stark has obtained a lot of technical information from the 'future' and alien planets, and it is estimated that it will almost catch up with or even surpass Wakanda.
When the Kun fighter jet swept over Wakanda, in the jungle below, a cluster of trees also followed the Kun fighter at an altitude of 10,000 meters and slowly rotated, monitoring the flight trajectory of the Kun fighter at all times, and then transmitting the data to the depths of the jungle through the underground line until it reached a mountain with an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters.
Passing through this shadowless film of energy, the alpine forest suddenly disappears, replaced by a vast lake and a meandering river, flanked by a modern metropolis: dense skyscrapers, roads that stretch out to the mountains on either side.
The area is almost equivalent to a city district in Manhattan, the tallest building is a building similar to the structure of the twin towers, and the camouflage radar monitoring the Kun fighter jet, the signal is gathered into one of the towers, a young girl with dark skin but wearing a white suit, both hands clicked on the holographic screen in front of her, saw the information displayed, and said very unpleasantly: "He is here again, the height is 11,000 kilometers, speed..."
While the girl was reporting the data, a black man in the back who was 'inspecting' the high-tech laboratory turned around and walked towards this side, asking as he went, "Is it another drone?" β
"No, it's bigger, it's about the same as your spaceship, hey, it's still flying, it doesn't seem to be coming to us."
"Then leave it alone, the most important thing now is to catch Ulysses Crowe as soon as possible," the man in his thirties said with a solemn face: "PRIDE (Wakanda Intelligence Agency) has been tracking and tracking him for half a month, and this time we must take back the vibranium in his hands." β
Half a month ago, a mysterious buyer suddenly appeared, waving a check, wanting to buy vibranium, which alarmed Ulysses Crowe and made Pride notice, so he found Ulysses Crowe and began a long-term tracking and investigation, and after a lot of hardships, he finally found out several suspected locations where vibranium was hidden.
He came here to get new equipment and set off to recover the outcast, and his second mission was to bring back the traitor Ulysses Crowe of Wakanda for trial, in order to warn the Wakandans who had thoughts about Vibranium not to make petty moves.
Under Wakanda's surveillance, the Quint fighter quickly left the airspace and continued to fly towards the east coast, quickly disappearing from the detector screen.
Stark's stealth technology is still very powerful, as strong as Wakanda, but it can only be tracked and monitored at close range, and it cannot be tracked at a distance.
The discussion of Wakanda was also over in the case of the Quint that had flown away, as the Quint had arrived at its destination: a ghetto near the Tana River, less than fifty kilometers from the underground arsenal that Ulysses Crowe had converted into a transport ship.
The so-called slum is actually a shack made of various materials, the better is the house mixed with brick and earth, the occasional two- or three-story house, absolutely called the mansion of the slum, this slum is located on the edge of a city, the dividing line between the two is a two-lane road.
But it is a city, but it is just some very old buildings, dozens of roads that have fallen into disrepair, and most of the buildings are two- to four-story buildings, and there are very few buildings that are higher than ten floors, and the scale may not be as large as that of a small town in a large developing country, but it is already a city in Africa.