Rebel Demon King

Chapter 1019 Broken World (3)

At four o'clock in the morning, Cheng Mo was woken up by the sound of proclaiming like an air defense siren. When he opened his eyes, the sky outside the window was only slightly white, and the dark blue sky seemed to have been washed by water, and the color changed. It became a little lighter, and the densely packed stars last night flowed into the sea with the Milky Way, and were hidden in the melodious and long sound.

To be honest, Zeng Chengmo had disdain for the Saint Laurent Church, but when he was in such an environment, he felt that such an atmosphere could indeed give people a sense of stability.He lifted the quilt and sat up from the bed. The windows were closed all night, the cold wind was blowing, and the slightly cool air was strangely fresh, as refreshing as breathing oxygen.

After practicing the "Book of the Law", Cheng Mo's need for sleep is not so high, three or four hours is enough, plus he went to bed early yesterday, Cheng Mo simply got up directly and began to exercise the snake pose yoga.Although the progress is slow and the expectations are not high, Cheng Mo is still tireless.

When the sky turned white, there was a lot of noise in the courtyard downstairs. Apart from the voices, there was also the friction sound of "sand, sand, sand". Cheng Mo looked down and saw Khalid's mother sitting on a short table. The front of the stool was covered with messy wool. She held two brushes full of steel thorns in her hands, and repeatedly scraped the wool hanging on the brushes in the middle until the wool became velvet before she put the brushes on. The thin cashmere was torn off, rolled into a ball and put into the bamboo basket at the feet.

Then she grabbed a handful of unprocessed wool and started scratching it over and over again.Khalid's two older sisters wove the cashmere into thread using ancient wooden pendants and spindles.

It is difficult to witness such an ancient way in the modern industrialized world, so Cheng Mo observed it with fascination.

In the twilight of the morning, countless fine fluffs float in the air, like colorful fine snow.The towering minaret pierces the sky in the distance, and the melodious Sanskrit singing floats in the air.Ancient buildings, ruined city-states, and foreign women wearing traditional Saudi veils form a picture scroll that makes people want to stay for a long time.

Cheng Mo thought that such a picture would definitely become an excellent advertisement for handmade carpets, attracting rich people to it.But such beauty is cruel.Because behind the handmade woolen blankets is an incurable pneumoconiosis, he wanted to remind them to wear masks, but he felt that they might not even be able to buy masks in Latakia, let alone 3M masks.

Cheng Mo was thinking whether he should go downstairs to look for Khalid now, when he saw Khaled walking out of the house with the sleepy Afaf.Khaled greeted his mother and sisters, went to the wall and picked up two large bamboo baskets on the ground, hung them on both sides of the back seat of the bicycle, and prepared to go out with Alfaf.

"Wait, Khalid." Cheng Mo shouted.

Khalid raised his head, and said loudly to Cheng Mo who was standing by the window in surprise: "Morning! Mr. Reketska, what do you have to say?"

"I have something to tell you, you wait."

Cheng Mo turned around and went downstairs quickly. When he reached the yard, the two women who had been weaving in the yard just now had disappeared. Only Khalid's mother was still polishing the wool.Cheng Mo didn't find it strange either. Women who believe in Saint Laurent can't talk to outsiders casually. After marriage, the rules will be a little looser, but before marriage, except for their own father and brothers, they can't even show their faces to others, so When going out, they must wear a veil and only show their eyes. For them, this is a symbol of chastity.

In martial arts novels, there will also be heroes who lift the veil of beauties, and the plot that beauties have to marry heroes is not entirely fabricated.It's kind of romantic to read something like this at a young age, but it's actually a total objectification of women.

In some enlightened areas, people are not so extreme. Women not only don’t need to wear veils in the streets, but can also learn to drive, enter the stadium to watch games and open bank accounts for themselves (Saudi women must have their husband’s permission to own their own. bank account).
Cheng Mo looked down at the spun pendant and wool that were placed on the blanket, and thought: I heard Khalid say that Latakia was originally a relatively enlightened port city, but now it seems that this is far from Khaled The kind of enlightenment described.Probably because of the war, conservative ideas have come back. It seems that the war not only destroyed the buildings of the city, but also destroyed the original more civilized way of life.

He glanced at Khalid's mother again. She was wearing a black robe and a black headscarf and was sitting on a cushion with a blank expression on her face. Silent film "Modern Times".

modern times.

Times are changing, the world is changing, only pain remains unchanged.

Cheng Mo feels very pessimistic for no reason, even though he has realized all this long ago, and knows that the world is like this, but he has witnessed the world split into countless fragments again, and everyone has become a small boat, unable to survive alone in the torrent , but powerless, sinking or floating can only be left to fate.He closed his eyes, and walked through the courtyard with flying catkins. Khalid, who was standing at the gate of the courtyard, held his bicycle and asked, "Mr. Reketska, what do you want?" My sister smiled and said in Syriac, "Afaf, please say hello to Mr. Reketska, in English."

There was a blush on Afafe's round apple muscles, she grabbed her brother's trousers tightly with her little hands, hid a little, looked at Cheng Mo cautiously, and said timidly: "Mr. Reketska, good morning. "

"Good morning, Alfafe." He couldn't put on a poker face in the face of such a cute little girl, so he tried to respond in a low voice with a friendly look. He wanted to raise his hand and rub Alfaf's fluffy and thick skin His hair showed kindness, but he held back in the end, just raised his head and asked, "What are you doing out so early?"

"Alfaf and I went to pick cactus fruits. Not only can we eat them by ourselves, but we can also make juice and sell them for some money." After a pause, Khalid said as if he remembered something, "My mother will serve you for breakfast. Ready, if you are hungry, I will tell her now."

Cheng Mo shook his head and said, "There is no rush for breakfast, I just want to trouble you to wait at the pharmacy, I need 'escitalopram oxalate tablets'."

"Wait, this word is a bit long. Can you just tell me how to spell it?"

"Why don't you go get a pen and paper, and I'll write it for you."

Khalid shook his head, and said proudly: "No, Mr. Reketska, I have a very good memory, as long as you say it once, I will definitely remember it."

"Escitalopram" Cheng Mo told Khaled "Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets" letter by letter, and asked him to repeat it again, and said, "This is a medicine for depression."

Khalid nodded to show that he remembered, "I will go to the pharmacy to see if they are sold after I finish picking the cactus fruit."

"By the way, buy some masks and come back."

"A mask? No problem." Khaled opened the wooden door with the rusty bicycle faucet. "If there is nothing else, I will leave."

Cheng Mo nodded.

Khaled cleared the bike out of the yard, and petite Afaf jumped over the low threshold, clutching the back of the bike.Cheng Mo watched as Khalid helped his sister to the back seat and sat sideways, put his two slender legs in the bamboo basket, then he pushed the bicycle for two steps and jumped onto the tall bicycle with great effort. The bicycle "bang, bang" slammed several times, and Afaf raised his small hand and clenched his brother's clothes tightly, followed by the crisp sound of tires running over stones.

In the gray sky, there were no lights on the long street, only shadowy black figures moving around the street, occasionally dim candles could be seen flickering in the cold wind, and the frail figures of Khalid and Afaf quickly disappeared into the street. the end.

It seems that the sun is still far away.

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At about nine o'clock, Khaled and Alfaf came back with half-baskets of green, half-ripe prickly pears.So his two sisters put away their knitting work and began to deal with the prickly prickly pears.Afafu also moved a small bench and sat in the yard, wearing gloves and holding scissors, cutting off the thorns on the cactus fruit one by one.

Khalid went upstairs, knocked on the door, handed a bag of masks to Cheng Mo and said, "Mr. Rektska, the pharmacy doesn't have the medicine you need now, only masks, but Dr. Mohammed said that if you really need it urgently He can go to the black market to look for those medicines, but the price will be much higher.” After a pause, Khalid explained, “The medicines are very expensive now, and the medicines you want are controlled substances, and the demand is not large, so The price is higher, at least thirty thousand lire."

"Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets" is not a very special drug, and the price in China is not expensive, 60 yuan a box.According to Cheng Mo's estimated exchange rate of one hundred lire to one Huaxia currency, a box of ordinary "Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets" has at least five times the price in Syria. The prices in Syria are so expensive that ordinary people cannot afford them.

Of course, this amount of money is small money for Cheng Mo, but it is undoubtedly a sky-high price for the people of Syria.

"It doesn't matter if the price is high." Cheng Mo took the mask and looked at it. This bag of poorly packaged masks is not even a medical mask, it can only be regarded as an ordinary mask, but it is better than nothing. He handed the pack of masks back to Khalid , "This one is for your mother and sister."

"To them?" Khaled was surprised.

"I saw them sifting wool in the morning. This process will cause people to inhale a lot of fibers. Don't underestimate these fibers. Long-term inhalation can cause pneumoconiosis. Don't underestimate pneumoconiosis. To a certain extent, this disease is also a terminal illness. , there is no way to cure it at present, if you get it, you will definitely die, it’s just a matter of time. And it will be very painful after you get it. I have met patients with pneumoconiosis in the hospital. In the middle and late stages, they can only Kneeling on the bed, because if they lie flat, their lungs can’t breathe. It’s a little better during the day, and when they go to bed at night, they can only kneel on the bed and get tired. They just lean on the pillow and sleep slowly for a while, and then kneel again. After a short sleep, you have to get up and kneel. Kneeling is the most comfortable way they can find." Cheng Mo looked serious, "If you don't want your mother and sister to be tortured like this, let them Wear a mask when making carpets. If you don’t have a mask, you can do it yourself with gauze. It’s better than no protection at all.”

Hearing Cheng Mo's narration, Khalid was stunned. After a while, he asked tremblingly, "Is it so serious?"

"Sister Wendy and I are both doctors." Cheng Mo said calmly: "There is no need to be so nervous. This kind of disease takes a long time to accumulate before it enters an irreversible state. I see that your mother and your sister used to It should not have been made of carpets, and it is too late to do protection now."

Khalid breathed a sigh of relief, took the mask from Cheng Mo, forgot to say "thank you", and rushed downstairs, without looking back, he shouted: "I'll tell them right away, let them wear it "

Cheng Mo told Khalid's back: "Remember to buy the medicine."

Khalid didn't answer. At this time, he had already run to the living room, and the sound of his hurried footsteps could be heard all over the room.Cheng Mo closed the door again and walked into the room.Sitting on the edge of the lower bunk bed and looking out the window, Athena turned her head to look at Cheng Mo and asked, "What medicine did you buy?"

"Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets"

"Escitalopram oxalate tablets?" Athena pondered for a while, "I think duloxetine hydrochloride is more suitable. Escitalopram oxalate tablets have a great effect on stimulating the secretion of serotonin, but duloxetine hydrochloride It can also increase the secretion of neurotransmitters, in addition to serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine will also enhance the secretion under the action of drugs.”

"Escitalopram oxalate tablets are safer, right?" Cheng Mo shrugged his shoulders, "I didn't expect to become addicted to drugs."

"My own body is clear in my heart. I have never been sick since I was born. After the full-level enhancement, I did a test for myself. Although there is a big gap between the data in various aspects and the carrier, it is far from Extraordinary human beings have stronger resistance in all aspects, and their tolerance to drugs has also become stronger, so there is a high probability that escitalopram oxalate tablets will not have any effect." Athena said, "I They are already considering the combination of drug combination, or even injecting drugs directly.”

Cheng Mo frowned. He walked to the table and thought for a long time before he said seriously: "Injecting drugs is really crazy. I don't think you need to do such crazy experiments. The damage of drugs to the nervous system and brain is very difficult. Repair, even if it is a last resort, we do not have other options”

"Other options?" Athena looked at Cheng Mo and said calmly, "You mean ML? Then I would rather inject drugs."

Cheng Mo scratched his hair, and said helplessly: "Let's try to see if the escitalopram oxalate tablets are useful first!"

Athena did not respond, silently acquiescing.

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The lunch was much richer than yesterday's dinner, but the richness was limited, with more pilaf and barbecue.There are no vegetables, so I can only use cactus fruit instead. The frozen cactus fruit is more delicious than Cheng Mo imagined.Cheng Mo didn't eat too much pilaf and barbecue, but ate a lot of iced cactus fruit.Athena ate a lot of barbecue, but there was still a lot left, which was enough for four or five people.

When the leftovers were brought back, Cheng Mo heard Alfafu's happy cheers, followed by slaps and mother's scolding, and then Alfafu's soft sobs.

Khalid opened his mouth to argue with his mother for a few words, but he didn't know what he said. Soon Khalid ran to the second floor and asked Cheng Mo if he wanted to save the leftovers for dinner. Cheng Mo said "no" as a matter of course.

Khalid clenched his fists with a nervous face, and asked with a blushing face, "Then can we eat those leftovers?"

"of course."

Khalid couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and said happily: "Our family hasn't eaten barbecue for a long time. The last time I ate barbecue. I remember it was in 2013, when my father had not passed away. Afaf was only one year old at the time. "

Speaking of his father's death, Khaled didn't feel any sadness. Cheng Mo thought that his grandfather was still lame and basically lost his labor power. Sighing, he said in a low voice, "Then let's have another meal that night."

"Thank you, Monsieur Ryketska."

Khalid's voice was a little choked up, and his expression was normal when he talked about his father's death, but Cheng Mo just said that he would have another barbecue in the evening, and the eyes of this strong boy were a little moist.

"No, you don't need to thank me, I didn't do anything." Cheng Mo said.

Khalid hesitated and didn't know what to say, Cheng Mo said: "Go down!"

Khalid turned around and went downstairs. When Cheng Mo was about to close the door, he turned back while holding the wooden stairs and said, "I will get the medicine back as soon as possible. As for the chartered car, my grandpa will ask after dinner. "

Cheng Mo replied: "OK."

Khalid smiled again, "You are a good person. I wanted to earn an extra day of your accommodation and food expenses yesterday. I was too greedy. I hope the creator can forgive me."

Being issued a "good person card" again, Cheng Mo felt a little strange. He closed the door and listened carefully. The downstairs kitchen became quiet, only the sound of sobbing and chewing.

After a while, the sobbing disappeared, replaced by cheerful and contented laughter.

Cheng Mo thought: Human happiness is sometimes so cheap.

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In the afternoon, Khalid took back a board of "Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets". The medicine, 24 pills, is much more expensive than what Cheng Mo initially calculated. The outrageous price of Syriya has already exceeded Cheng Mo's expectation.

He guessed that maybe Khalid should get a share of it, Khalid seemed to read something from his slightly surprised expression, and immediately explained with a nervous expression: "In Latakia, this medicine is really very good. It is hard to find, there is no black market. Uncle Mohammed bought it from the Ennos, so the price is more expensive. In fact, if you need it, you can buy more, but Uncle Mohammed said that you will go to Damascus It's easier to get, and it's not as expensive, so I'm going to play it safe and not buy too many"

Cheng Mo nodded noncommittally, he didn't mind Khaled making money from it.

"Mr. Reketska, don't worry, I will help you buy this medicine when you arrive in Damascus, and it will definitely be much cheaper." Khaled said confidently.

"Are you going to Damascus too?" Cheng Mo turned his eyes from the pills to Khaled, and asked with some doubts.

"My grandpa went to inquire. There are no chartered cars in the city, not to mention chartered cars, and there are not even many cars. If you can't wait to take the bus, you can only find a solution with your neighbor, Uncle Ashkar. He turned out to be the car company. Yes, the back also manages the pickup truck for transporting corpses. My grandfather talked to him in the morning, and he said he didn't want to go, but he was willing to lend me the car for a day, just "

Seeing that Khalid was a bit hesitant, Cheng Mo immediately guessed that it was probably at noon that Khalid sent him a "good person card", and he was a little embarrassed when he mentioned the "expensive price", so he said bluntly: "You will pay for it." Say as much as you want, don’t exaggerate too much.”

Khalid blushed, "It's not that Uncle Ashkar is asking for money. He has a good relationship with our family and is an enthusiastic person, but he doesn't have the key to the pickup truck, let alone we need gasoline. You have to find the people below him."

"It doesn't matter, just say how much you want."

"70 liras," Khalid replied in frustration. He obviously felt that the price was too much. He paused and said, "The bus to Damascus only costs [-] lires, or you'll have to wait."

70 lire is equivalent to the maximum of 7000 yuan in Huaxia currency, let alone 7000. If it were not for safety reasons, [-] yuan would not even blink an eye, let alone [-] yuan for a chartered car, which is not too absurd. accepted price.From Cheng Mo's point of view, the price of the medicine is really scary. It's not that he can't afford it, but he can imagine the cost of seeing a doctor in Syria. The price of such expensive medicine is so expensive that people in Syria can't even eat enough. unable to afford.

Cheng Mo was not a compassionate Virgin like Xie Minyun. He sighed in his heart, pretended to think for a while, and then said in a deep voice, "It's a bit expensive, but I'm really in a hurry, so I can only accept it."

"70!" Khalid asked in astonishment, "Are you sure?".

"Sure." Cheng Mo nodded, "When will the car come?"

"It's going to be later, and I have to ask Uncle Mohammad to issue a maintenance certificate, and then fill up the gas"

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Cheng Mo closed the door and went back to the room. Athena was still sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze with nothing to do. He waved the silver plastic plate in his hand and said, "Here comes the medicine, do you want to try it now?"

Athena turned her head to look at Cheng Mo, then at the tablet of pills in Cheng Mo's hand, and said expressionlessly, "It doesn't matter."

"Then try it." Cheng Mo knew that Athena was not a particularly planned person, so he took the initiative to help her make a decision.He went to the table and poured Athena a glass of water.The teapot is a high-waisted Saudi Arabian teapot made of porcelain. It is very elegant in shape. Unfortunately, there are many cracks on the surface of the teapot, and there are gaps at the spout. The teacup is a bit funny. Syria is back to life.

Cheng Mo walked to the bedside with the cup in hand, and handed the medicine to Athena first.

Athena didn't even look at it, hesitated for a moment, broke off three tablets and put them in the palm of her hand, opened her mouth lightly, took the enamel jar from Cheng Mo's hand, and swallowed the white pills with warm water.

Athena handed the water glass back to Cheng Mo very naturally, and when receiving the water glass back, Cheng Mo felt like an old father who urged his daughter to take medicine, "Practice with the 'snake yoga' and see if you can Can't intercept energy"

Athena nodded.

"Do you need me to avoid it?" Cheng Mo felt a little regretful when he asked the question. Athena didn't allow him to watch her practice when he was on the boat. Now he should go out directly instead of asking more, so Cheng Mo finished his sentence Yin added, "I'd better go out for a while."

Athena didn't make a sound, and her eyes didn't focus on Cheng Mo, but stared at the clear sky outside the window as if in a daze.

Putting the enamel cup back on the table, Cheng Mo turned and walked out of the room. The moment he closed the door, he remembered the glimpse on the boat again. He couldn't help but take another look at Athena who was sitting on the bed. Athena, who hadn't looked at him until just now, was actually watching him leave.

So the eyes of the two people met in the shadow of the bed frame. This sudden collision made Cheng Mo's heart tremble. Those messy memory fragments were like flower petals encountering the breeze. The dew deposited on the petals scattered, and the memory also changed. Get blank.His brain lost consciousness, but the muscles of his body continued to operate, and he closed the door gently.

Cheng Mo stood at the door for a long time before he walked down the narrow stone stairs lightly. He entered the living room and saw Khaled's family started weaving woolen carpets again. Light dust that came down.

In the dust of light, Khalid's mother and sister both put on masks.Afaf couldn’t fit those adult masks, but she also put on several layers of gauze masks. Now she is sitting on a small bench, waving her thin, scratched hands and turning the stick, kneading cashmere into Wire.

Cheng Mo felt relieved at first, but his interest faded after thinking about it. He retreated to the stairs, walked up the corner, and sat on the cold and hard steps, not wanting to disturb the life he shouldn't disturb.

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I don't know how long it took, but the roar of the engine came from outside. Cheng Mo guessed that Khalid came back with the car. He got up and patted his numb buttocks, then walked upstairs and stood at the door knocking He opened the door, and waited for Athena to say "come in" before pushing the door and entering.

Seeing that Athena had stopped practicing "snake pose yoga", she was sitting on the edge of the bed and staring out of the window as if wandering into the sky.

Cheng Mo asked, "What? Is it useless?"

"It's useless." Athena shook her head. "I took a few more tablets later, but I still couldn't find the feeling I had that day. Maybe it's just as I guessed, the effect of 'Escitalopram Oxalate Tablets' is still not enough." Strong, have to try other drugs."

"No effect at all?" Cheng Mo asked unwillingly.

"No, no sweating, no shortness of breath, not even a quick heartbeat."

Cheng Mo wanted to ask Athena how she felt on the ship that day, in the engine room, under the main crankshaft, but she didn't ask.He said helplessly, "We can only wait until Damascus. Fortunately, Syria is not that big, and Damascus is not far away."

Athena let out an emotional "hmm".

Khalid's voice sounded downstairs, Cheng Mo looked back out of the window and said, "We'll set off later."

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After dinner, Cheng Mo and Athena got into a bruised Mitsubishi pickup truck. The body of this pickup truck had been dented in several places, and the bumper was barely fixed on the front of the car by transparent glue.Even though it had only been washed in the afternoon, it still looked shabby and dirty, and the facilities in the carriage were also a bit dirty, and there was a strange faint smell, a faint smell of decay.

Cheng Mo never disliked sitting in his uncle's Wuling bun without air conditioning, but when he got in this car, he felt very uncomfortable.He frowned and sniffed his nose several times.On the contrary, Athena sat in the back seat with a cold expression and didn't care.

At this time, Khalid hadn’t gotten into the car, and he was coaxing Alfaf who insisted on going with him outside the car. The red sunset stretched the shadows of the two of them very long. Take you with you, riding in a car is different from riding a bicycle, and riding in a car is dangerous! In case of a car accident, it will hurt, and your tears will dry up. We can’t let Uncle Rektska and Aunt Wendy laugh "

The thin and thin Afaf tugged on Khalid's sleeve and pouted, "I won't cry! I won't cry even if I'm pricked by a cactus, I'm strong!"

"Then who was the one who cried out immediately after being beaten by mother at noon?"

"That's not because I'm afraid of pain, but because I'm afraid that my mother will be angry."

After finishing speaking, Alfaf ran to the side of the car to grab the door. Khalid had no choice but to turn around and shout: "Mom, take Alfaf back!"

Afafe's eyes were moist immediately, and when her mother came to hold her hand, the big tears rolled down her round cheeks like broken beads, and the afterglow of the setting sun passed through the clear water. The transparent teardrops shine out a crystal rainbow.

"Afaff, go back with mom and don't interfere with brother's work."

Sitting in the carriage, Cheng Mo turned his head to look at Afafu, her little face was already wrinkled with tears, she still stubbornly grabbed the door handle and cried, "Driving a car is so dangerous, How can I let my brother go alone? Without me, my brother can't even pick cactus fruit well."

Perhaps because she noticed Cheng Mo's gaze, Khalid's mother mercilessly opened Afafu's little hand and said sharply, "Be obedient!"

Afaf cried even harder, but Khalid teased: "Aren't you very strong? You said you wouldn't cry, how can I take you with you!"

Afaf, whose face was full of tears, became angry again, and said fiercely to Khaled: "You are not allowed to laugh, come here."

Khalid, who was ordered by his sister in public, was stunned for a moment, looked at Cheng Mo and Athena in the carriage, walked up to Afaf with an embarrassed face, and said angrily, "What are you doing?"

Afafu sobbed and said, "You have to come back properly! Don't leave like your father and never come back!"

I don't know if it was because of embarrassment or the setting sun, but Khalid's handsome face turned bright red, as if it had been roasted.He restrained his smile and embarrassment, knelt down and pinched his sister's cheek, and said softly: "No, my brother brought you delicious pastries from Damascus, as well as a beautiful hair rope."

The tearful Afaf pushed away his brother's hand and said angrily, "I don't want it, I just want you to come back soon."

Khalid smiled softly: "Soon, it will only be three days."

"Three days!"

"Just three days." Khalid raised his right hand, "I promise to the Creator."

"Don't waste my brother's time." Khalid's mother took Afaf's little hand and walked towards the door. She turned her head three times and said, "Come back in three days!"

Khaled waved his hand and said, "Okay, Alfaf, you stay at home and listen to your mother."

Afaf raised her little hand and rubbed her tear-filled eyes, then nodded.

Khalid turned around and got into the car in a hurry, the corners of his eyes were also a little red, and the sunset at the end of the long street was also very red.Khalid turned the key, and the pickup truck, whose odometer had already exploded, let out a hoarse roar.

He put into gear and stepped on the accelerator very skillfully, which reassured Cheng Mo a lot.

The pickup slowly drove away from the long street, and Khalid turned his head to look at Cheng Mo and said with a smile: "Sorry, my sister grew up behind my butt, she does whatever I do, and has never seen me go out. "

Although Cheng Mo, who was sitting in the co-pilot, couldn't quite understand what Khalid and his sister said just now, he could roughly guess it.He doesn't really understand such feelings, but he also understands why there are fans like "sister control". The younger sister is really cute, especially the younger sister like Afafe. He twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled and said : "Such feelings are quite enviable."

Khalid's response was bitter: "What is there to envy?"

Cheng Mo could feel Khaled's melancholy, but he didn't ask why, he was not, and he didn't want to be the savior.Cheng Mo closed his mouth and stopped talking.The cold wind came in through the window, making him a little chilly. He looked up at the rearview mirror. Athena sat in the back seat and closed her eyes to rest. Her face was calm. Maybe everything in the world would not disturb her.

The pickup is heading towards the setting sun, the coastline and distant mountains are gradually blurred in the sky, like a blurred landscape painting.Not far from the city of Latakia, a gust of wind suddenly came, full of breathless smell, like the smell of dead mice, almost exactly the same smell as Cheng Mo smelled when he first got into the car, except that the smell in the car was far away. Not as thick as this.

Cheng Mo frowned and rolled up the window, "It smells so bad."

Athena also opened her eyes and said, "The smell of dead bodies."

Khaled pointed to the foot of the hill on the left and said, "That's the cemetery. All the people who died in the war in Latakia are buried here, and so is my father. Because there are too many corpses, the coffin cannot There is not enough labor, and there is no way to dig a deep hole, so they just dig a shallow hole and bury it."

Cheng Mo's sight skipped over a small piece of light between the hill and the road. The bare khaki hill covered the sun, and in the long shadow of its stretching body, there were densely packed wooden signs all over it, which could not be seen at a glance. It is like a huge forest that has disappeared due to artificial logging.

The forests all over the mountains have disappeared, and now there are only lonely wooden posts with annual rings painted on them.

At this moment, even the cold-blooded Ru Chengmo felt shocked and desolate, but Khaled said indifferently: "It will be fine soon, the road is only four or five kilometers away."

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After passing the long and difficult cemetery, we officially entered the road between Latakia and Damascus. There were more cars, and they were all big trucks.This makes the pickup truck not run fast on the two-lane road at all, and can barely maintain a speed of [-] to [-] kilometers per hour. If it encounters a slow-moving truck, it will be even more aggrieved, and it will take a long time to find an overtaking vehicle. Opportunity.

Only then did Cheng Mo understand why Khalid said that it is impossible to reach Damascus in one day. According to the current situation, it is not surprising to run 350 kilometers for two days.

Sure enough, the car stopped soon, and the already narrow road was crowded with cars produced in the 90s, mainly European cars and Japanese cars.By comparison, Cheng Mo's Mitsubishi pickup is still new.

"There is a checkpoint ahead." Khalid held the steering wheel and followed the large truck in front and moved forward slowly. In the night, the front of the pickup truck was so close that it would be stuffed under the buttocks of the large truck without taillights. Khalid warned again Said, "Don't talk, just let me talk."

"Okay." Cheng Mo said.

After a long wait, the Syrian soldiers in military uniforms and carrying guns finally ushered in. One of them waved a flashlight towards the car. When he saw Cheng Mo's white face, his eyes suddenly turned cold.

Cheng Mo stared at him calmly through the windshield.Khalid rolled down the window of the car, talked loudly with the Syrian soldier, and quietly gave the soldier money, but the soldier ordered Khalid to drive off the road even though he received the money. A flat wilderness with nothing but darkness and weeds covering the land.

Not long after, a little black beard in a camouflage uniform and a beret came over from the checkpoint. The soldier said something to Khalid, and Khalid got out of the car with the passports of Cheng Mo and Athena.

Athena looked at the Syrian soldiers surrounded by the car with live ammunition, and asked, "What's going on?"

Cheng Mo thought that he and Athena still had a layer of "Interpol" status, and they could still use it if they had to, and said, "There will be nothing wrong."

Athena didn't ask any more questions, and continued to rest with her eyes closed.

Cheng Mo stared at Khaled who was standing not far away and was negotiating with a little black beard wearing a beret. He took out money from his pocket again, this time it was not just a few bills, but thick A thick stack.

The little black beard wearing a beret counted grandly, stuffed the money into his jacket, and then waved to the soldiers surrounding the pickup.

When the group of soldiers left, Cheng Mo saw their indifferent and hateful eyes, staring at their prey like a wolf baring its teeth in the dark night.

Cheng Mo had a premonition in his heart that the journey to Damascus might not be so smooth.

(End of this chapter)