Rebel Demon King

Chapter 1024 Broken World (8)

The next day, Heller came over very early, almost as soon as the chanting of the morning ritual ended.Although Heller told him that Colonel Tamer invited him to have breakfast together, Cheng Mo also keenly felt the urgency of the Querds.

Medicine is an extremely important material, and its importance in wartime is second only to weapons, ammunition and food.Under the urgent situation, it is completely understandable that the Kuerde people can't wait for Cheng Mo, but Cheng Mo sensed deep anxiety from Heller's frowning brows and absent-minded expression.

Assuming that Heller didn't care too much about what happened to Cheng Mo's discussion with Athena last night, Cheng Mo might not feel that Heller's anxiety was due to lack of medicine.However, when he told Heller that they agreed to Colonel Tamer's proposal, Heller was not happy about it. Instead, he asked Cheng Mo several times worriedly, how the medicine would be transported, and when it would arrive at such places. question.

This made Cheng Mo have to suspect that the Kurds needed medicine, not just because they lacked medicine.There must be some other motive.

Cheng Mo was puzzled, so he deliberately said: "Since I have breakfast, I'll call Wendy up. Please wait a little longer until she washes her face and brushes her teeth." Mo turned and walked into the room before he finished speaking. She winked at the confused Athena, and pretended to say, "Go and wash your face and brush your teeth, and we'll go to Colonel Tamer's for breakfast together."

Athena's eyes were slightly puzzled. She washed her face and brushed her teeth with Cheng Mo in the morning, but she didn't ask any questions when she saw Cheng Mo's eyes. She moved directly to the edge of the foam tatami and began to put on her shoes.

"Hurry up." The restless Heller casually said "Hurry up" and walked to the door, standing in the corridor watching the female soldiers in camouflage uniforms doing their morning exercises.

When Athena got up, Cheng Mo took out the list of medicines and equipment that Colonel Tamer gave him yesterday from his trouser pocket, and said in a low voice, "Check this list in the bathroom to see if there is anything special about it."

Athena took the list folded into small cubes and nodded, and walked into the bathroom.

After a while, Athena came out of the bathroom, and Cheng Mo explained to Khaled that he would bring him something to eat, and walked out of the room with Athena.The preoccupied Heller and another female soldier walked in front, and two female soldiers followed Cheng Mo and Athena. The six of them still walked along the way Cheng Mo went to Tamer's office yesterday.

The morning sun will rise in the east, the sky in the morning is not as misty as in the evening, the sun shines on the minaret, like a bride wearing a loose veil, and the world is shrouded in a warm orange.The female soldiers on the playground were chanting slogans and jogging, and the crisp voice echoed over the lonely and empty town.

Amidst the noise, Cheng Mo deliberately slowed down his pace, put a little distance away from Heller, tilted his head and asked in French in Athena's ear, "Is there anything special about this list?"

"Most of them are conventional drugs, such as penicillin, painkillers, anesthetics, disinfectant, etc., but there are a few more expensive equipment that are not very conventional, such as bipolar coagulation, electric drill, suction device, cold light source, scalp clips, operating microscopes, and surgical microsupply, which accounted for a fifth of the value of the entire list, but there were very few places where they could be used”

"What is the main use of these equipment?" Cheng Mo asked.

"It is mainly used for craniotomy." Athena paused and said softly, "Nine out of ten it is a brain tumor, because there are some methotrexate, fluorouracil, sulphurine, and hydroxyurea in the medicine. for brain tumors"

Cheng Mo stared at Heller's back and thought: "Could it be that Dr. Azar, the leader of the Kurdish armed forces, didn't die, but got a brain tumor? Then why did he fake his death? Why didn't he find a way to get better conditions?" Healing? The information is so inadequate that it is impossible to find an answer. However, it is useless to know this information. If this hypothesis is true, then the Querds risk their reputation. It’s understandable to hold them hostage. It’s just that it will make negotiations more difficult if the conditions are not equal.”

Suddenly, Cheng Mo remembered that Athena was a famous doctor of the Black Death, and with the help of the "Seven Sins", perhaps no tools would be needed for the craniotomy.He turned his head to look at Athena, and said in his heart, "It's just that the profession of a doctor is separated by mountains. She may not know how to perform a craniotomy."

Athena noticed Cheng Mo's gaze, and glanced at him as if asking "what's the matter".

Cheng Mo lowered his voice and asked, "Can you perform brain tumor surgery?"

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Colonel Tamer's office is also his residence. It is located on the right side of the second floor of the temple. There are stairs in the office leading to the third floor.In this town of one-story bungalows, the third floor is almost the apex, and the window can be opened to have a panoramic view of the whole town.

Colonel Tamer met Cheng Mo on the second floor last night, and invited him and Athena to have breakfast today on the third floor.The decoration of the room is in a typical Saudi style, with complicated checkered patterns, thick heavy-colored Persian carpets, antique bronze chandeliers, and fuchsia velvet curtains. These elements form a ceremonial sofa. Udi court atmosphere.

Colonel Tamer changed into a military uniform and sat on the sofa smoking a hookah. White mist rose in the room and the aroma filled the air.The plump maid in traditional Saudi dress stood quietly at the long dining table, on which were placed black tea, desserts, and more than 20 plates containing marinated olives, meatballs, bacon, solid yogurt, Various unknown sauces and the indispensable traditional Saudi flatbread.The wooden glass window next to the dining table is open, and the early morning wind raises the gauze curtain. Outside is the khaki-colored town bathed in the morning sun and the endless Gobi. Although the buildings of the town are simple, they are full of desert style in such an environment.
Seeing Cheng Mo and Athena coming in, Tamer didn't exchange too many greetings. After asking Cheng Mo and Athena to sit down, before Cheng Mo and Athena had a bite to eat, he picked up the cup and drank the red tea. directly into the topic.

Colonel Tamer put down the bone china cup, leaned his elbows on the edge of the table, stared at Cheng Mo with a serious face, and said in a deep voice in his heavily accented English: "Mr. Only after discussing with your companions can you give an answer, and now I hope you can tell me exactly."

Cheng Mo also took a sip of the strong Saudi black tea, and said unhurriedly: "Miss Heller also asked me just now, and I have already told her that we can help get these medicines and equipment."

"Very good." Colonel Tamer nodded, his expression was still heavy, but his tone was a little more relaxed, "As for the amount of money, as I said yesterday, I will give you an IOU. You borrowed it. Although we can’t afford the money now, when peace is restored and the oil fields under our control can work normally, we will definitely be able to provide several million dollars.”

Even if Senior Colonel Tamer's words were very sincere, Cheng Mo did not believe this kind of nonsense. The millions of dollars must be meat buns and dogs, and there would be no return. You have to wait until the Year of the Monkey. The most important thing is that the war in Syria is not over yet. Who knows if the Kurds can persist.

Naturally, these words cannot be said, and he would not refuse Colonel Tamer's IOU, so he smiled and said, "But let me call my superior."

"No problem, my office has a satellite phone and the Internet." Colonel Tamer said quickly, "We can go downstairs and make a phone call before coming up for dinner."

Cheng Mo shook his head and said, "This must be our mobile phone." After finishing speaking, he took out Athena's Black Death mobile phone and charger from his pocket, and shook it at Colonel Tamer, "We have to charge it first." Power down."

Colonel Tamer waved his hand at the maid beside him and said something, and the maid walked up to Cheng Mo, picked up the phone and the charging cable, walked through the living room with a shaking skirt and went to the side of the sofa, and put the phone and The charging pad is connected.

Cheng Mo started to eat as if nothing had happened, but Athena by her side was not as unmanned as Cheng Mo imagined. Her movements were very elegant, and she ate in small mouthfuls, not like she usually did when she was with him. open.Because of wearing a mask, Cheng Mo didn't feel that Athena cared about his image, he guessed it was a subconscious habit, after all, Athena was born as a nobleman.

During the meal, Senior Colonel Tamer paid attention to Cheng Mo's accommodation in a hypocritical manner. When Cheng Mo slept in a place where there was no bed, and he could only use the public toilet, Senior Colonel Tamer immediately reprimanded him in a hypocritical manner. Heller, and said that he would arrange top treatment for Cheng Mo and Athena.

All of a sudden, the four of them were harmonious as if Cheng Mo and Athena were their invited guests, and the atmosphere was so sincere that even Cheng Mo had a slight illusion.Until the maid came over and whispered in Colonel Tamer's ear that the phone could not be charged, the smile on his face froze for a moment, and he immediately turned to look at Cheng Mo, "Mr. Reketska, maybe you have to Go look at your phone, it doesn't seem to be charging properly."

"Really?" Cheng Mo pretended to be surprised. He picked up the napkin and wiped his lips. He got up and walked to the side of the sofa. It's normal, how could it suddenly fail to charge?"

Colonel Tamer did not speak, but Heller walked over, snatched the Black Death mobile phone from Cheng Mo's hand unceremoniously, looked at it over and over for a long time, and then stroked the black titanium alloy back shell and asked in a cold voice. Said: "What brand of mobile phone is this, why have I never seen it before?"

"This is a very high-end satellite phone, which is really rare in the market." Cheng Mo said lightly.

Obviously, Heller is also a person who knows the goods, so he agrees with Cheng Mo's statement.She leaned over and pressed the lamp switch beside the sofa, and when the lamp was on, she asked suspiciously, "Is it because of the charger?"

Cheng Mo shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know about this either, maybe we should find someone who can repair mobile phones to help."

Colonel Tamer also came over, took the Black Death phone from Heller, confirmed that it was an Android phone Type-C data cable interface, and entered the room on the side. After a while, he came out and said with a sullen face: "It's not the charger's problem, it's the phone's problem."

"So what?" Heller asked.

"Can't you use other methods to contact your friends? Twitter? Wechat? Email?" Colonel Tamer asked in a low voice, staring into Cheng Mo's eyes.

Cheng Mo smiled bitterly, "This is a secret mobile phone we use internally, with multiple protection functions, I can only use it if I want to talk to my superior."

Colonel Tamer squinted his eyes and said coldly: "This doesn't sound reasonable."

Faced with Colonel Tamer's doubts, Cheng Mo said firmly: "Find someone to help repair it, and I will help you with the medicine and equipment right away."

Heller sneered and said, "We don't even have many electrical appliances here, so how could someone repair mobile phones?"

"If you don't have it here, it's impossible that you don't have it anywhere else!"

Senior Colonel Tamer held his mobile phone with a gloomy expression on his face.

Heller turned his head to look at Colonel Tamer, and said with some annoyance: "Uncle Tamer, I think there is something wrong with these two people, they are not like Interpol at all."

As the corners of Colonel Tamer's mouth collapsed, the air suddenly became tense, and the atmosphere that seemed to be a true friend just now disappeared instantly.Colonel Tamer stared at Cheng Mo with his hands behind his back, and said in a cold voice: "Mr. Reketska, we Querds are only warm to friends, and only torture liars and enemies. I hope you will be more sincere." After a short pause, He said earnestly, "We have a famous proverb in Saudi Arabia: A lie is a noose, and the more you tell it, the tighter it is."

Cheng Mo said calmly: "Mr. Tamer, I also know a Saudi proverb - a lie is a piece of driftwood, and sooner or later it will wash up on the shore. You have a lot of things you want, why don't you have some patience to verify it?" Woolen cloth?"

Colonel Tamer was lost in thought.

Heller on the side was not so stable. She was so anxious that she pulled out the pistol from her waist, pointed at Cheng Mo's forehead, and said angrily: "Don't talk so much nonsense, just tell me who you are? For what purpose?"

Cheng Mo raised his hand, lowered his eyes to look at the muzzle of the black hole, and said calmly: "Miss Heller, don't be impulsive. You have to figure out that I didn't want to come to your base, but you hijacked us here."

At this moment, Athena, who had been eating in a leisurely manner, suddenly stood up. She turned her head to look at Heller who was holding a gun, and said flatly, "Put down your gun."

Heller sneered, "Who do you think you are."

Before Heller finished speaking, Cheng Mo quickly shouted: "Don't kill her!"

Athena seemed to ignore Cheng Mo's shouting at all, and moved her slender hands on the table, but she didn't see any movement, and a silver light flashed in the scattered sunlight.Then there was a "duh", before Heller could react, the gun in her hand disappeared, was pierced through the barrel by a table knife, and was firmly nailed to the wall, turning into a piece of paper. decorations.

Tamer reacted much faster than Heller, and immediately took out a gun from his waist, pointed at Athena at the dining table, and shouted angrily: "Don't move! Put your hands up."

Tamer's voice sounded, and when Heller came back to her senses, she turned her head and glanced. At this time, the handle of the silver table knife had stopped shaking, and it was quietly inserted into the marble wall.Only then did she change her face in fear, the table knife was not only nailed into the marble wall, but even the barrel of the gun could easily penetrate it, it was too outrageous.If the knife had been aimed at her neck, she would be dead by now.

Athena watched Tamer pointing at her gun with a blank expression, without speaking or moving, but Tamer, who was standing on the side of the sofa, felt the supreme coercion. He had been born and died on the battlefield for many years, Being able to survive until now in the hail of bullets is due to luck, and secondly, he always has a strong premonition when encountering danger.

Once he was targeted by a well-known ISIS sniper. Without knowing it, because of the sudden fear and anxiety in his heart, he jumped into the ditch. That was the closest he was to death, and the bullet grazed his scalp Flying over, knocking away countless strands of his hair.He sat down in the ditch and looked up at the hair falling slowly, his whole body became weak, and then he laughed loudly.

At this moment, the strong premonition of danger invaded his whole body again, making him restless and breaking out in a cold sweat.

It was not Cheng Mo's plan to force it. Trapped on the Gobi, without navigation and local guidance, it was very difficult to get out of no-man's land.It is what he expects to pay a small price to let the Kurds safely send them to Damascus.

So Cheng Mo smiled and said softly: "Mr. Tamer, there is no need to be so nervous! We don't have any malicious intentions, otherwise we wouldn't have come back with you honestly, and we have seriously negotiated terms with you." Said Seeing Cheng Mo raised his hand and lightly pressed down the gun in Tamer's hand, "We really don't mean to lie to you, the supplies you need will definitely be given to you."

Although Tamer's hand hangs down, he still holds the gun firmly. He is staring at Athena with all his attention, as if he is ready to aim at her at any time.

Cheng Mo turned his head to look at Athena, and said softly, "You eat first, and I will handle it here."

Athena moved her chair, sat down again, picked up the only fork left, and began to eat without haste.Although she was wearing a mask, she couldn't see how delicate and beautiful she looked, but the perfect body line and long golden hair were not concealed. The sun shone on the dining table, on the porcelain, and on her body, Decorate her like a noble and quiet doll, and like a model with a good figure in the window.

In short, it gives people a feeling of beauty that is illusory, and this feeling of beauty that is illusory even reduces the hostility between each other, making the atmosphere in the living room less tense.

"Mr. Tamer, we have to sit down and have a good chat first." Cheng Mo took the lead in sitting on the sofa, clasped his hands together, and assumed a relaxed posture.

"There are guards outside, you can't escape." Heller said tremblingly.

Cheng Mo glanced at Heller, who was full of fear, and said calmly, "Since we are here, we have never planned to escape."

After all, Tamer was used to strong winds and waves, and realized that Cheng Mo was not hostile, not to mention that it was impossible for him to really kill the meat ticket, so he said a word of Syria to the maid who was scared to the side and shrank into the corner, and then put the gun Putting it back at the waist, patted Heller's shoulder, and said softly: "Heller, you should go and eat something first, and let me talk to Mr. Recketska."

The maid tremblingly stood up from the corner, twisted her fat body and ran out of the room.Cheng Mo guessed that she sent someone to go, and he wasn't too scared. Anyway, as long as he and Athena didn't make any real moves, their lives could still be guaranteed.

Heller tilted his head slightly, glanced cautiously at Athena who was eating alone at the dining table, and then at the "Desert Warrior" nailed to the wall, still wondering how the other party did it, if It wasn't that the gun was her, she must think she just witnessed a magic trick.She rolled her throat, clenched her fists, and walked slowly step by step to the dining table not far away. Her steps were heavy and her eyes wandered, as if sitting there was a monster that wanted to eat people.

Athena sat at the table without looking at Heller. For her, marinated olives and meatballs deserved more attention.

Heller was facing a formidable enemy, but she did not flinch after all, and chose to sit opposite Athena, even though her body was trembling slightly, just like when she first went to the battlefield and heard the whistle of bullets and the explosion of shells. nervous and scared.She remembered what her father taught: Fear is inevitable, the important thing is to learn how to adapt to it, and take it with you to charge towards victory.Because the moment you win is the moment you can beat it.

She slowly raised her hands, picked up the knife and fork, looked at the extremely ordinary tableware in her hand, and summoned up her courage to ask softly, "How did you do it?"

Holding a shiny silver fork, Athena knocked casually on the bone china plate containing the meatballs. The white bone china plate made a crisp sound and bounced on the table. The only meatball left inside was , jumped up as if gaining life, drew a parabola in the air, fell into Athena's bowl and spun down along the bowl wall, rolling out a vortex.

When the meatball rolled to the center of the bowl and turned into a spinning top, Athena inserted a fork into the center line of the spinning meatball precisely, and said calmly, "Learn calculus well."

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The episode between Athena and Heller did not affect the conversation between Cheng Mo and Colonel Tamer. After the two sat down on the sofa, Colonel Tamer asked directly: "Who are you two?"

"Mr. Tamer, I think who I and my companions are and where they come from are not important to you at all. The important thing is that you want supplies, and we want to leave Syria safely."

Tamer whispered: "I said the same thing to myself yesterday, so I didn't probe into your details too much, but you are not sincere."

"We have [-]% sincerity. I have promised to fix the phone, and I will be able to honor the supplies you need."

Colonel Tamer frowned and hesitated for a while, "But we really need this batch of supplies very urgently. If we send someone to Damascus to repair the mobile phone and then send it back, it will take at least a week to go back and forth. He put the phone on the coffee table, "And what if it can't be repaired?"

"It's easy to handle. You send people to Damascus with us. No matter whether the repair is good or not, I will find a way to help you get the supplies in Damascus. This will save a lot of time."

Colonel Tamer raised his eyebrows, shook his head and said, "It's impossible, we can't let you go without getting supplies."

Cheng Mo smiled, and asked lightly: "Can you delay it?"

"What do you mean?" Senior Colonel Tamer asked with a straight face.

"Someone has a brain tumor and needs surgical equipment and medicine, right? If it needs to be removed, of course the sooner the better." Cheng Mo didn't directly say Dr. Azar's name, otherwise it would sound like a blatant threat.In addition, since the other party deliberately spread the news of Dr. Azar's death, he didn't want Colonel Tamer to know that he had guessed so much.

When Colonel Tamer heard that Cheng Mo directly stated the key reason why they were so impatient, he was inevitably a little surprised, stunned, immediately tightened his body, and asked, "How do you know?"

Cheng Mo took out the receipt from his pocket and threw it on the coffee table, "It's clearly written on the list you gave."

Colonel Tamer's tense state relaxed a bit, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated and said in a deep voice: "That's true."

Cheng Mo pretended to be smart and said, "He's still a very important person, right?"

"If you feel that we have to agree to your conditions because of this, then it is even more impossible for me to let you go easily. I must get the supplies." Seeing what Chengmo wanted to say, he said coldly, " It is impossible to bargain, get the supplies, we will send you away, if we can’t get them, we will go to the German government to find a way, maybe the Europa League just lacks an excuse to intervene in Syria, so we can get more benefits "

Cheng Mo half-turned his body, pulled out the table knife and the pistol stuck in the wall, and pressed it on the receipt, "What if I can help you perform that brain tumor resection operation first?"

(End of this chapter)