Chapter 479: Juyoung Hong (6)

“What? Do you want to die like this? You want to survive, right? Who knows, you might be one of those lucky ones who manage to escape while I’m fighting other guys? So don’t give up your life easily,” I said to Reke.

I had no intention of chasing after the rebels to kill them one by one, so I spoke to him like that.

Then Reke’s eyes were filled with a strong desire to kill me. He immediately began to summon his subordinates, including not only those patrolling the outskirts, but also those who were supervising the miners who were mining rough diamonds. They were all armed.

Watching them, I let him go and join them.

As soon as he was out of my control, he shouted right away, “Kill him!”

His subordinates were not only startled by their boss’s order to come here, but also by my appearance, who had been holding their leader’s neck until a moment ago.

Then they pointed their guns at me once again, and started firing at me.

Since their firing was meaningless anyway, I just ignored them and opened my mouth.

“Thin Ice!”

Pasasasasasak!

I knew that if I used Ice Field, not only this mine but also the surrounding areas would obviously turn into an ice terrain, so I used the much weaker Thin Ice.

It was enough to freeze the entire rebel group, which had more than 700 men.

Those who were captured by the rebels from afar and worked to the bone witnessed the rebels being frozen before their eyes, and trembled uncontrollably.

Some of them even cried out to God.

Anyway, I got rid of them first, then moved to another place because I had only suppressed one of the three rebel groups that I planned on destroying today.

***

It was Debius that controlled literally all the diamonds on the planet by monopolizing and distributing more than 90% of the world’s rough diamonds.

Because of the global financial crisis of 2008, however, the company’s share of rough diamonds in the world dropped. But there was a secret behind it that only a few knew, namely, manipulation.

In other words, the management deliberately made the company almost go bankrupt during the global financial crisis. So much so that outsiders had no choice but to wonder if the company would really go bankrupt.

The management of the company was found guilty of plotting to maintain their monopoly of diamonds illegally and inflate the price of diamonds, and was sentenced to pay over 300 million dollars as a settlement.

So the management used the financial crisis as an opportunity, and reduced their share of diamonds by selling diamond mines and their existing market share in the name of raising money to pay the settlement urgently.

But the company that purchased the diamond mines and market shares was actually controlled by Debius behind the scenes. In other words, it seemed that Debius’s market share seemed to have shrunk, but there was no change in the company’s market share and their monopoly of the world diamond market.

Anyway, Sierra Leone was quite an important place for the company.

In Sierra Leone, they could produce quite a lot of rough diamonds, and it was also the best place for them to smuggle diamonds using rebels in such countries as Senegal, Guinea, and Liberia.

Even though they did not use the name Debius in Sierra Leone, they set up a fairly large branch office while maintaining direct contact with the three rebel forces by satellite phone.

-Tanba Rebels.

[….]

– Kabbalah rebels.

[….]

-Fortura rebels.

[….]

Even though he could not reveal to outsiders that he was affiliated with Debius, Derek, the director of the company’s field office as well as the member of the board could not help but be dumbfounded when the three rebels didn’t respond.

So he asked his subordinate, “Do you mean there were armed conflicts between the government forces and the rebels in the areas currently occupied by the Tanba, Kabbalah and Fortura rebels?”

“No, sir.”

“Then they fought among themselves?”

“You mean the three rebel forces? As you know, they don’t have good relations, but they don’t fight each other because they are not stupid enough to weaken themselves by fighting each other and let others take advamtage.”

“You’re right…”

Derek nodded slightly at his subordinate’s words.

But the problem was that he was not getting any response from the three rebel groups.

So Derek had no choice but to ask again, “What the hell is going on there?”

At the same time, he immediately contacted the company headquarters because this was not a light matter he could ignore even if he received reassurances it was fine.

***

In Sierra Leone.

“…”

“…”

“…”

The laborers here were forcibly dragged here by the rebels, then forced to mine diamonds.

In that respect, they had nothing to live for in this situation.

The presence of rebel forces meant that their counterpart, namely, government forces, were also there.

But nobody from Sierra Leone who was forcibly taken here by the rebels could pin their hopes on the government forces because they were as corrupt as the rebels.

In a stark contrast to the people here, there appeared a handsome youth dressed in a nice suit being led by the rebel patol team.

In their eyes, the man looked too young. So these people, who were forcibly taken here by the rebels, looked at him with sympathy because there was no chance that the greedy rebels would release him easily, especially as he gave off the smell of money.

Since they were forcibly dragged here, they were in the same position as that young man. In other words, they could do nothing to help him, so they just closed their eyes as if they didn’t see him.

A little later there was the sound of gunshots from the building where the rebel leader resided. Hearing the gunshots, they assumed that the youth was worthless as a ransom, even though he gave off the smell of money. Otherwise they would not have killed him quickly like that.

But after the gunshots were heard, they saw something thrown out of the building after smashing its entrance.

They thought it was the youth’s body, of course.

But at first glance, it looked like it was too big to be that youth’s body.

Besides, it seemed that the man kept wiggling for some time as if he didn’t die yet even after he was thrown out of the building, so they had no choice but to focus on that man.

A little later, they were shocked to learn what happened.

“Attack him! Kill him right now!”

Even though Reke was reeling from the shock of being thrown out, he still shouted at his subordinates. Actually, it was not just a shout, but his order as the leader of the rebels.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

At his order, more than 200 rebels opened fire at the youth who slowly emerged from the building. The firing was so intense that those watching wondered if his battered body would leave any trace behind.

Obviously, countless bullets were fired at the youth, but he suffered little damage even though the bullets touched, but never penetrated through his relatively small body.

The bullets just bounced off as if they hit something very hard.

Moreover, when the youth stretched his hands toward the rebels, chunks of ice were fired at them right away.

Pasasasasak!

“Kheeeeeeeek!”

‘Khuuuuuuuuuk!”

“Shit, I can’t believe this!”