Bogota was more beautiful than Gao Guang imagined, but also much colder than he expected. Although it was a highland city in the tropics, after a light rain, it was still chilly.
Gao Guang's luggage was just a backpack, with no guns or any weapons, because they didn't have the ability to bring weapons to Colombia.
Just walking on the streets of Bogota, Gao Guang felt a bit nervous. Although the security in Bogota has improved a lot compared to previous years, it is still one of the cities with the highest murder rates in the world. As for robbery, it's better not to have too much.
In Bogota, as long as you dare to show off your good phone, it could be snatched away in minutes, so Gao Guang dared not take out his new phone to take pictures or anything.
But Frank and John were fearless, walking wherever they went with a swagger. They just weren't interested in taking pictures with their phones.
"We're here." Frank stopped and looked around at the buildings. He nodded and said, "Be careful later, don't get robbed here. It's okay to lose some money, but it's too embarrassing if it gets out."
John said nonchalantly, "Even if we get robbed, you don't say anything, I don't say anything, and the kid won't say anything. Who else would know?"
That's the theory, but it feels strange to say it out loud.
Gao Guang whispered, "What are we doing here?"
"Shopping."
Gao Guang looked around. This place was not a slum, but it was definitely not a shopping area. There were no nearby malls, not even a convenience store. He really didn't know what they could buy here.
"There's nothing here. Why come here to shop?"
Frank smiled and said, "There's Colombia's largest underground mall here. Let's go, don't be like a curious baby."
He couldn't help but be curious. Gao Guang saw no place to buy things around and no entrance to any underground passage. He didn't know how there could be the largest underground mall here.
Especially when they entered a bungalow area and saw several people who looked like gangsters standing at the entrance of an alley. No matter how you looked at it, it felt dangerous, but Frank walked quickly towards the alley.
Gao Guang was nervous, but still followed Frank.
There were six people at the entrance of the alley, and one person's gun handle was exposed. The only person sitting on a chair was a burly man. After Frank walked to the entrance of the alley, the man didn't rush to rob Gao Guang and them, but raised his head to look at Frank and said kindly, "What do you want?"
He spoke in Spanish. This was where Gao Guang came in handy. He immediately whispered, "What did he ask?"
"Just say shopping."
Gao Guang was still a bit surprised, but he calmly said, "Shopping."
The burly man waved his hand. Before he could say anything, Frank began to walk in.
Don't ask, you won't get any answers, and it will make you look too naive. Gao Guang made up his mind that he wouldn't ask anything even if he saw any strange scenes.
After walking more than a hundred meters in the alley and passing more than a dozen houses, Frank stopped in front of a corrugated iron house with two people standing at the entrance. The person guarding the door looked at them and said sternly, "Foreigners?"Gao Guang was about to translate, but Frank spoke directly, "Tell him we're here to buy things and that we have an appointment with the boss."
"We're here to buy things and we have an appointment with your boss."
The guard looked Gao Guang up and down again, but still reached out and knocked twice on the rolling shutter. Then a small hole in the iron door opened from the inside, and the person inside looked out before the rolling shutter slowly lifted.
The rolling shutter only lifted a third of the way, and John couldn't wait to bend down and crawl under it. But Gao Guang and Frank waited until there was enough height before calmly walking in.
Behind the door was a corridor, and at the end of the corridor was an iron door. There were two people in the corridor, and he pressed a button. The outside rolling shutter began to come down, and after waiting for it to completely come down, one of the guards in the corridor said, "Hands up, search."
Frank impatiently said, "They're really careful, let's hurry up."
Gao Guang was a little nervous and a little excited because he felt like a door to a new world had opened up to him. However, it was more accurate to say that the door to the underground world had opened up.
After obediently being searched, the person in the corridor loudly said, "Open the door!"
The iron door inside opened, and Frank was the first to walk in. After Gao Guang followed him in, he found that it really was a place to buy things.
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There were shelves everywhere, high and low, new and old, iron and wooden. The variety of shelves was so complex, and the goods on the shelves were even more diverse. Gao Guang looked at the shelf closest to him, which was filled with mobile phones. Then the vending machines were filled with a three-story, at least ten-meter-long shelf, and each mobile phone had a label on it.
Frank walked forward along the passage between the shelves, but Gao Guang couldn't help but look at those mobile phones. Then he was stunned to find a nearly new iPhone 8 with a label of two hundred dollars.
Two hundred dollars for an iPhone 8? The new iPhone 8 costs over eight hundred dollars, and they're selling it for two hundred here?
Gao Guang felt like his iPhone 8 in his pocket wasn't as good as he thought. It was the first mobile phone he bought after he had money, and he felt like he had been taken advantage of.
With a complex and heavy heart, Gao Guang walked through the shelves and, when he suddenly reached an open space in the middle of the supermarket, saw a middle-aged man looking at them.
"Hey, Sebastian, my friend."
Frank waved and greeted the middle-aged man warmly, then opened his arms and gave him a warm hug.
"Long time no see, your business is even better after moving."
After Frank finished speaking with a smile on his face, he looked at Gao Guang and said, "Translate."
Gao Guang thought this Sebastian would speak English, so his translation was a bit slow.
Sebastian looked to be in his fifties, with a small beard that South Americans love. He was skinny, but his left hand only had two fingers, and there was a long scar on his right arm that went all the way to his hand, and there was even a knife scar on the corner of his mouth. With just a rough glance, you could tell that this person had been through a lot.However, Sebastian seemed like a very enthusiastic person. After shaking hands with John and Gao Guang, he waved his hand and said with a smile, "Come on, the things you wanted just arrived yesterday as new goods. Come and take a look."