Chapter 1048 A myriad of things to think about (double monthly votes requested)

Chapter 1048 A myriad of things to think about (double monthly votes requested)

The only thing that was not locked at the scene was a children's mobile phone. Hannah opened it and flipped through it for a while, and found a bunch of childlike selfies in the album.

"This should belong to Nicholas, the youngest of the 23 missing people. He is only 7 years old and the son of single mother Rebecca. The priest of the local town is very impressed with him."

"This mother is really brave to bring her child from the United States to Africa." Aubrey said with emotion.

Clay's assessment was more to the point, "It's better to say it's irresponsible."

Since the Most Wanted Criminal Team agreed to accept the mission of the International Department a few months ago, all members of the team have begun to receive various vaccinations, including but not limited to various types of hepatitis, yellow fever, measles-mumps-rubella, and meningitis. And so on.

Even so, before boarding the plane, they also received a shot of cholera vaccine and prepared a large number of specific drugs against malaria such as artemisinin, quinine, mefloquine, artemether, primaquine, etc. Various other commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs and a large amount of anti-mosquito equipment.

Africa is said to be one of the birthplaces of mankind, but it is also the source of various deadly bacteria and viruses.

More than 4.6 million children under the age of 5 die here every year. In addition to the well-known malnutrition caused by hunger, infectious diseases are also one of the main reasons.

It is not clear whether the single mother Rebecca had injected her son with relevant vaccines in advance before traveling, but even if she is prepared, malaria cannot be prevented.

There is currently only one malaria preventive vaccine for children in the world, but it is only moderately effective and only partially protective.

In this land, a child still dies every minute from high fever or other complications caused by malaria.

In addition, the child may have become a hostage now. If you take into account the mortality rate of children in the kidnapping case and the fact that it has been more than 36 hours since the incident, everyone's faces can't help but look a little ugly.

"They travel with the church. They can be regarded as a big family. Maybe it will be better." Hannah muttered in a low voice, a bit like comforting herself.

"That's the trouble. I'm afraid they trust their own gods more than science and medicine."

Jack sighed and didn't say anything more. He could only say that he understood what those churches in the United States and America were doing.

In that free land, people or monsters can register a small church behind closed doors and become the leader. The scale can range from a few people to tens of thousands, with almost no restrictions.

Generally speaking, as long as they don't do anything harmful to nature or engage in mass suicide, no one will care about these cute guys who are encircling their territory. However, even so, the number of sects recognized as cults in the United States exceeds 1,000.

The number of cults on the FBI's suspect list simply exceeds 5,000, and the initial patterns of these cults are basically similar, packaging themselves as harmless charitable organizations.

Just sorting out the belongings of these missing people would take a long time. Everyone first collected all the electronic products at the scene and packed them together. Later, someone would send these things to New York as quickly as possible.

Although Rossi only gave them 24 hours, things still needed to be done step by step.

This 24-hour time limit does not mean that Jack and the others must leave after the time is up, but it refers to the time when the official has to make a public statement.

Theoretically speaking, Tanzania is considered to be an extremely stable region in the entire African region. To a certain extent, at least in terms of public security, it is much stronger than South Africa, where ethnic conflicts are fierce.

But there are still some small local armed forces here, because in the northeast of Tanzania, there is only a small and chaotic Kenya separated from Somalia, and to the west is Congo, which has been fighting for years.

As long as the disappearance of 23 Americans in Africa makes world news, it is almost foreseeable how many large and small forces will emerge and get involved. It is just a matter of distinguishing those who jump out to claim responsibility and use it to extort ransom. It requires a huge amount of energy.

By then it will not just be the FBI's business, intelligence agencies such as the CIA will inevitably get involved, and the cost to pay for this is estimated to be more than enough to buy a few brand-new Bombardier business jets.

Jack walked to the end of the car and pulled down the aisle door, but found that it could not be opened. He turned to look at the black police detective who had been looking at them with interest after getting in the car.

"Detective Bolino, did you guys lock this door or has it always been like this?"

Although the lock on the carriage door is not complicated, it is deliberately made large and bulky, and can usually only be opened with a special key.

After a brief inspection, Jack found that there were traces of violent damage on it, but the purpose was not to open the lock, but to destroy the lock core to prevent the door from being opened from the other end.

"Perhaps you should talk to the train conductor who called the police after discovering that something happened. The devout believer who kept chanting 'ascension' was very cooperative.

But the help he can provide is limited to some nonsense. I hope you can ask for more useful information. "

When Jack heard this, he felt that the believers were the most troublesome, so he looked directly at Jubal for help. This guy was the only one among them who went to church every week.

Jubal knew the virtues of his guys, so he took over the task without hesitation.

Jack continued to say to the black police officer, "I want to talk to the search and rescue team you organized."

"They should be arriving soon." Detective Bolino raised the Swiss tonx watch on his wrist and looked at the time. "In addition, I have sent my police officers to search along the route, but no news has been returned yet.

The main purpose of our request for help is to narrow down the search scope as much as possible. "

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this. 36 hours had passed and not even a search and rescue team had been organized. It seemed that in terms of relaxation, the French could only be ranked second.

Jack could only do the next best thing and continue to learn about the situation from the detective.

It seemed that he was very satisfied with the working attitude of this group of FBI agents from the United States, and Detective Bolino gradually spoke more and more as his cooperation increased.

"This train was originally an overnight train. It was supposed to depart at 8 p.m. and arrive in Arusha early the next morning. However, due to the delay, the train stopped in the town at 2 a.m. and the tourists got on the train. There was no trace of the train after that. Stop."

"Six hours late?" Aubrey, who was helping with packing, raised his head and said in surprise.

"Well, it wasn't like this twenty years ago. At that time, railway workers were strictly trained, and no one dared to steal the cables connecting the signal lights."

At this point, Detective Bolino's eyes became a little weird, and he was proud but also a little embarrassed. Everyone else was a little confused. Only Jack could probably understand what he was talking about.

Tanzania is famous for its tourism industry in Africa. One-third of the country's land is listed as national parks, animal and forest reserves. Although the country is also rich in mineral resources, it is relatively small compared to its neighboring countries. Slightly inferior.

There is a country called Zambia in the southwest of Tanzania. Under the land area of ​​750,000 square kilometers, copper mines accounting for 2.8% of the world's reserves are buried.

It is a super copper belt with a length of 220 kilometers and a width of 65 kilometers. There are 150 discovered deposits alone, and there are also a large number of mineralization points waiting for further exploration.

But Zambia is a landlocked country, and South Africa, which is located to the south of it, was still a white country in the real sense at that time, so it was forced to look for copper resources in the northeast.

Thus the famous Tanzania-Zambia Railway was born. Although the University of Tokyo was very poor at that time, under the background of being isolated and helpless in the international politics at that time, it gritted its teeth and assisted in the construction of this 1,860-kilometer railway.

However, the original Eastern University overestimated the operational capabilities of its African brothers. This railway has been losing money since the day it was built. At its peak, the designed transportation capacity of 2 million tons per year was only 1.27 million tons. In the end, only six months per year were left. Seven hundred thousand tons.

After the apprentices led by the experts from Dongda University retired one after another, the railway became more prone to accidents and fell into a vicious cycle.

Although the railway where Jack and the others are working today is not the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, the situation they face is the same. Poor education leads to a lack of talents. Without talents, there is nothing.

Previously, just to count the number of missing people after a crime, Garcia spent several hours communicating. Rossi's explanation for this was that the locals were very insensitive to numbers, which can be seen from this.

Through all these signs, Jack had a premonition of how unreliable it would be to find the whereabouts of missing persons through large-scale searches along the route, and he had to find another way.

"So are there any armed organizations or other forces along the railway?" Jack was too lazy to beat around the bush. Some deep-rooted things couldn't be changed and he had to adapt. Fortunately, the black policeman in front of him was surprisingly cooperative.

"There are indeed some legendary figures nearby, but they only engage in petty thefts against tourists. They claim to be robbing the rich to give to the poor. Things like kidnapping have never happened."

Detective Bolino muttered something in Kiswahili under his breath, not wanting Jack to understand him, but it was nothing more than a bunch of cowardly cowards.