"It's because I don't want your father to drive that I don't want you to know too many things!" Pang Jindong replied with a smile.

"Now that I know, what do you say, you have to keep me safe!"

"So, you don't think it's over?"

Jin Lingling stopped, looked at Pang Jindong, and asked, "Do you want this matter to end?"

"Thompson has been a burden on my heart since I left the jungle, and I always thought that only his death could completely free me. But now, the burden is even heavier. ”

Jin Lingling asked, "Because of what he said to you before he died?"

"From what I know about Thompson, he's a very scheming person, but he definitely doesn't talk nonsense in order to survive!"

"That is, you think the death of your parents ......"

"I don't know! I'm so tired right now, I need to think about it!"

"I wonder if there is anything about North Africa in your common experience?"

Pang Jindong raised his head and looked at the blue sky, pondered for a long time, and then slowly replied, "Yes!"

"Can you tell me about it?"

Pang Jindong's donkey lips did not answer to the horse's mouth: "We Chinese always talk about being a big country and being tolerant and rational, but Country M, as the most developed and powerful country in the world, is a must-try!"

Jin Lingling asked strangely: "Has Country M taken revenge on you because of the incident on the No. 3 Heights?"

"Where is it so simple!" Pang Jindong shook his head, smiled again, and asked: "There is a movie called "Black Hawk Down", you should have seen it, right?"

Jin Lingling also smiled and asked rhetorically, "You can't shoot down the Black Eagle, right?"

"I didn't shoot down the Black Hawk, but I avenged the Black Hawk!"

Following Pang Jindong's story, Jin Lingling's thoughts returned to the desert ten years ago with Pang Jindong......

The sun hung high in the sky, casting harsh rays and scorching heat onto the ground. The outskirts of Mogadishu in August are like a furnace, baking the people in it, squeezing the moisture out of their bodies little by little.

Pang Jindong and his comrades-in-arms lay quietly on the ground, cleverly camouflaged to make them one with their surroundings, and also made them have to endure painful suffering.

The hot ground bakes the mercenaries' bodies through the camouflage uniforms, and if they take off their clothes at this point, they will find themselves like ripe lobsters.

Despite this, they remained motionless and lurked, without eating for six hours. Only when you really can't bear it anymore, moisten your thirsty throat with water, and that's already the greatest enjoyment.

However, such a simple action often takes more than ten minutes to complete, because they have to reduce the range of the movement as much as possible, move the arm to the waist like a slowly crawling snake, take off the kettle, and then use the same slow motion to bring the kettle to their mouth.

This qiē is all to prevent the people in the opposite house from discovering their cunzài, where the mercenaries are going to assassinate. Although I received information that the target would appear here today, it seemed to be in a meeting, and a large number of armed men came in and out, and they never found a chance to attack.

"Damn, when do you have to wait?" Pang Jindong cursed secretly in his heart.

In 1993, he sent troops to intervene in the Somali civil war and decided to capture the local warlord Aideed, but was defeated. A month later, the then president of country M ordered the withdrawal of troops from Somalia.

But the people of M did not forget the shame of Somalia, and three years later, in 1996, after careful planning and deployment, they decided to get rid of Aideed. However, it is no longer the army of country M itself that carries out this task, but the mercenaries who are secretly recruited.

"Country M really has money, and it is willing to spend money for the war!" When Pang Jindong learned that his name was on the employment list, he smiled and said to the intermediary: "But they can't tolerate the sacrifice of their own soldiers!"

"We mercenaries are different!" Miria said with a hint of emotion. She is Pang Jindong's best comrade-in-arms and partner, and the two have been fighting side by side since the first day Pang Jindong threw himself into the jungle.

"In any case, this operation must be kept in the highest degree of secrecy! You can die, but you cannot be captured! That is to say, no matter what the circumstances, you cannot say who you were hired by!" The intermediary ignored Pang Jindong and Miria's complaints, and said in a routine tone: "You must understand that country M does not send its own troops, not only because of fear of sacrifice, but also because of fear of being condemned by the international community after the mission fails. The defeat in 1993 led many of M's allies to question M's approach. ”

"Got it! The most important rule of mercenary rules is to always keep it secret for the employer, but ask about the rights and wrongs of the mission!" Pang Jindong shrugged his shoulders and continued: "There is no need to trouble you to repeat it again and again!"

Although his tone was slightly disdainful, Pang Jindong still respected the middleman in front of him, because mercenaries are inseparable from middlemen.

The so-called intermediary is the link between the mercenary and the employer, and in some way, plays the role of a labor intermediary.

The intermediaries themselves are not involved in the war, but simply hide behind the scenes, relying on their extensive network of contacts to find employers for mercenaries and suitable mercenaries for employers. Intelligence agencies, armed forces, and even terrorist organizations of various countries are linked to them. Because of this, they are people who wander on the edge of a dangerous game, at the center of competing interests, and can be killed at any moment because they know too much.

In order to save their lives, the middlemen who are always faced with all kinds of unexpected dangers slowly develop their own rules of conduct, the most important of which is to try to detach themselves from all events, and never ask anything except what is necessary to complete the task.

But despite this, because of the wealth that can be obtained as an intermediary, there is still a variety of people who flock to this status, including former KGB officers, agents of former Eastern European countries, various double agents, defected intelligence agents from various countries, retired mercenaries, and so on.

Generally speaking, if someone needs to hire a group of people to complete a certain task for them, they will first find an intermediary they know, and then put forward requirements for the number of personnel, equipment and combat capabilities, etc., and sometimes according to the particularity of the task, they will also ask to hire mercenaries with professional skills.

The middleman will offer a price code based on the employer's request, and if the employer accepts, the middleman will look for a mercenary who is suitable for the task. If it is not accepted, the two sides will need to renegotiate.

The difficulty of the mission is naturally one of the bases for pricing, and the equipment required for the mission can be provided by the employer, but if the mercenaries need to bring their own, they must be priced separately. In addition, mercenaries are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the prices of mercenaries of different levels are also different.

After the First World War on the Third Heights, Pang Jindong's price immediately increased, and before that he was only the cheapest mercenary.

After determining the mission, the mercenary sometimes comes into direct contact with the employer, and sometimes does not even know the identity of the employer.

Employers generally pay intermediaries, and mercenaries take money from intermediaries. One might wonder if the middleman would conceal his true income, which is in fact rare, because no one dares to embezzle this kind of money.

Employers usually pay a deposit as an upfront investment for the task, which is passed on to the mercenary in full. When the task is completed, the employer pays the full amount, and the middleman takes a percentage of the commission as his own commission, and the transaction is completed.

Each mercenary usually has contact with several intermediaries, but one is a permanent and long-term cooperation, and this intermediary is given priority when receiving assignments.

Mercenaries sometimes fight as skirmishers, and then form temporary teams with other mercenaries while performing different tasks. Others are a group of mercenaries who set up a steady group of mercenaries, usually on large-scale and high-risk missions.

Pang Jindong and his brothers belong to the latter situation. Their middleman is a hand-eyed figure who often gets incredible tasks and makes a lot of money out of them.

It's just that this time, the task taken by the intermediary made Pang Jindong cry and laugh a little: "Not long ago, we met with the Delta soldiers, and we were going to avenge them in the blink of an eye!"

"It's a political policy!" said Miria.

"You don't have to take this task!" the middleman shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, "But the reward for this task is indeed too rich!

The mercenaries who can be found by the intermediary are not only Pang Jindong, although Pang Jindong is not the oldest and most experienced among them, but I don't know why, he always thinks that Pang Jindong is the most promising, and he likes this young man from the East from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, when there is a fat gap, he always gives priority to Pang Jindong.

Pang Jindong knew that the middleman took care of him, and he was very grateful in his heart, because he needed money too much.

Not long ago, a ceasefire agreement was reached between the opposition forces and government forces, and the two sides sat down to negotiate, and the mercenaries were put on leave. It is said to be a holiday, but in fact, it is a temporary termination of the employment relationship. If the opposition and the government reconcile and hold general elections in the country, it means that the war is over and mercenaries no longer have any value in the country.

A lucrative and steady income, coupled with a not-so-difficult battle, made Pang Jindong hope to return to the side of the opposition forces. Therefore, although the war is a destruction of human nature, Pang Jindong still hopes that the war can continue.

But in any case, at present, Pang Jindong has to consider accepting other tasks to make money and pay off the debts of the mafia.

Regarding this loan shark, Miria once said: "Let's just go and destroy the mafia, and you won't have to pay back! The brothers won't take your commission!"