Chapter 1028 Snake Tribe (1/2)
The police were confident that they had succeeded and looked at Li Du and the miners
arrogantly.
In the end, after conducting a thorough search on Li Du, the policemen did not find
anything but some daily necessities and tools. There were no diamonds!
The police also searched the rest of his group and their bags, but still found nothing.
Sophie was the last who had not gone through a body check. The young man named
Scotty stretched out his hands in her direction, smiling sinisterly. With a kick, Brother
Wolf threw Scotty down to the ground and shoved the gun muzzle into his mouth.
The policemen were enraged, but Li Du was even angrier. He pointed at them and
yelled, ”Whoever dares to try, go ahead! I goddamn swear that I will throw you all in jail!
And your family! Your children, too! My men will definitely treat them very well!”
The atmosphere tensed up. The tall policeman wore a ferocious look as he glared at Li
Du. Li Du refused to budge and glared back at him with an equally murderous stare.
After a few seconds, the tall cop took a step back and hollered, ”Recruits retreat, let's
go!”
Seeing the police leave, the natives by Buick's side cheered, ”All hail the Gibra God!”
Smiling, Buick started in Li Du's direction. He was just about to say something when Li
Du cut him off. ”Pack your things, we have to hurry! Let's leave this place before we talk
further.”
He was worried that the policemen would return to stir up trouble again.
After Buick gave his command, everyone followed his directions. Pushing the
wheelbarrows and carrying the sacks and their wallets, the diamond-seekers began to
leave the abandoned mine.
As they were walking away, Buick said to Li Du, ”You have done us a huge favor, Mr. Li.
Please give our tribe the honor of being our guest. We want to thank you.”
Li Du asked, ”You guys are a tribe?”
Buick smiled. ”That's right, we are the Gibra tribe. The word Gibra means 'snake' in
English.
After some hesitation, Li Du acceded the invitation. He wanted to find someone who
could help him learn more about the situation of the crater in that region, and he thought
Buick and his tribe might be able to help him.
It was no wonder that Buick held so much authority among these natives. They all
belonged to one tribe and Buick was the chief. The rest of them were his people.
When the police first appeared, the people of Gibra tribe had gathered behind Buick to
confront the cops. Those who had escaped to the other riverbank were not from Gibra
tribe.
They had suffered a great loss this time. Their loot of a few months had been snatched
from them.
At this point, Buick thanked Li Du again, and Li Du waved his hand. ”This is nothing, I
just happened to be around to help. How is it that the policemen are so unscrupulous?”
Buick sighed. ”They just are. Every once in a while, they would come to the mining site
and extort us. We have no way to fight them. We can only pray to the Gibra God to
protect us from bumping into them.”
He explained further to Li Du that such situations were common.
After the diamond mine had gone bankrupt and was abandoned, the poor people from
neighboring villages and tribes would often head there to try their luck.
The chances of finding diamonds were low. Often, they had to put in a lot of effort and
would only find a small diamond after a month or two. Then, they would sell the
diamonds to support their families.
After the police found out about these people's hard-earned profits, they started to
engage in a lawless act. Every once in a while, the cops would go over to conduct raids
and come up with a random reason to drive the diamond-hunters away, making them
leave their diamonds behind.
At times, like this time, the police warned them about potential landslides after a heavy
rain. Those words sounded good and reasonable, but in fact, they only wanted an
excuse to drive the people away and take the diamonds for themselves.
As the number of raids increased, fewer people went there to search for diamonds.