Chapter 36: Departure
There are many taxis at the international airport, but there are very few in the city, Li Feng can't speak Arabic, and he can't understand it, but after using his ability, he understands Arabic and writes it, while holding the map of the city that he picked up from the consulate, he strides forward according to the location of the address, Li Feng also paid attention to the car, and after walking about three kilometers, Li Feng stopped the taxi, and after showing the address, the driver was not very willing to go, because the address was close to the northern suburbs, where there was a street fight, Li Feng gave fifty dollars to the driver before he was willing to go, But more than 20 minutes later, when approaching the address, a burst of gunfire frightened the driver and did not dare to go any further, Li Feng was not difficult to be the driver, and went straight to the destination, Li Feng almost looked at the street sign and went straight ahead, after turning over dozens of houses and ruins where no one could be seen, listening to the sound of gunfire less than a kilometer away Li Feng compared the address again and turned into a yard, without looking to know that there was no one in the house, but Li Feng already had experience, after glancing around the yard, he walked to a wooden board in the corner, Lifting the planks revealed a rudimentary staircase that stretched downward.
Quietly dived down, walked to the bottom of the stairs, turned a short passage and a small basement appeared in front of him, a man was kneeling on the ground praying, his back to him didn't see him, the two women saw themselves one after another, including a few children, but although the two women were frightened, they were more just dazed and numb, they hugged a few children tightly, covered the children's mouths and didn't make any sound, Li Feng glanced at it, and coughed lightly after seeing that the man was not carrying a weapon.
The man straightened up and was stunned before slowly turning his head, seeing Li Feng and also seeing that Li Feng was not holding a weapon, he was obviously relieved, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and then asked in English: "Are you Chinese?" Coming for a hostage incident? Why didn't someone I know come? ”
Li Feng looked at the bearded and burly contact person and said in English: "I am from China, and not long after I arrived, I have taken over the hostage matter now, and the person you know is only a civilian officer, so he did not come in order to avoid unnecessary casualties." ”
"I see, you're an agent sent from China, are you the only one?"
"It's not something you worry about, I'm here to know if you've contacted the Tado Jihadist and what's going on with the hostages?"
"Of course I contacted them, but they were not willing to change the conditions or relax the deadline, unless I took your men to Bura to negotiate, but that was no longer possible, Bra is about one hundred and twenty kilometers north of Damascus, and now less than two kilometers north of us is the battlefield, tens of thousands of rebels and government troops are fighting fiercely, and those militants are not all Tado jihadist people, it is a coalition of rebels and a dozen groups of different sizes, This hostage incident was planned and initiated by the Tado Jihadist organization in order to expand its influence and rescue one of their leaders who was imprisoned in Israel, although other organizations are temporarily on the same front as the Tado Jihadist organization, but they are not without contradictions, and it is not necessary that other organizations are willing to watch the Tado Jihadist successfully expand its influence, so to speak, at present, we have no chance to cross this 120-kilometer distance, and we will be killed on the way, as I said before, If you have to let me take you there, then I don't mind letting the breeze of heaven blow my soul. ”
Li Feng hesitated for a moment and said: "I want to make sure that the hostages are still alive, in addition, I hope you use all your connections to help me determine the approximate location of the hostages, and you don't have to worry about the rest, I can't help you achieve the conditions you want, but I can give you some remuneration as your reward." ”
"You're going to forcibly free the hostages!? Trust me, that's not a great idea, and it's just crazy! ”
"Is there any other way now?" Li Feng asked rhetorically.
The man looked at Li Feng strangely and said, "Okay, I need some money to buy some people in the city who have some connections with the rebels." ”
"How much do you need?"
"The more the merrier, but I can't guarantee anything."
After thinking about it, Li Feng took out almost all the dollars and handed them to the man, and the man didn't say anything, so Li Feng waited here, and hurriedly walked out of the cave after comforting his wife and children a little, Li Feng didn't wait in the hole, went out of the hole, went to the second floor of the house and looked around, until more than an hour later, Li Feng saw the man running back bent over and sweating profusely, Li Feng went downstairs and waited for him in the yard.
"It has been determined, the hostage is at least alive now, what is not certain is that the hostage is not necessarily in Bra, but I also inquired about a news, not long ago from the direction of Adili came a reinforcement that seems to be the Tado Jihadist organization, there are more than a dozen vehicles, I don't know if the hostage you are looking for is in this convoy, but I have reason to be suspicious, because Adili City has the only airport in that area, and there was more accurate information before that the hijacker landed at Adili Airport, And the headquarters of the Tado Jihadist has long been transferred to the town of Bra, although you can't be sure of anything, but you'd better go to the town of Bula to find it first, if there is no there, then you have to go to Adili City, I'm afraid you should also pay attention to inquire along the way. ”
"Thank you." After hearing the news, Li Feng planned to leave immediately, but the contact person still stopped Li Feng.
"Young man, I'm afraid I'm going to have bad news for you, and you better know what you're going to do with it."
"What is it?"
"The town of Bula has long been occupied by the rebels, and it is not the front line of the war now, and there are not many rebels stationed there, but because of the hostage incident, it is also possible that the hostages were really transferred to the town of Bula, so according to the information I just inquired, the Tado jihadist group has gathered some troops in the town of Bula, and now they have about 1,000 people in the town, which may be in case the always tough Israeli special forces want to forcibly rescue the hostages, Or maybe it's for this reason that they transferred the hostages out of Adili, because there is no airport in the town of Bula, and it is impossible for the Israelis not to use the airport if they come, so after hearing the news again, do you or you still plan to go? ”
"Yes."
After saying this time, Li Feng nodded slightly to the contact person and left immediately, he didn't have much time to delay.
Li Feng went back to the consulate first, he still needed some money and cars, guns and silencers, it would be better to have a crossbow arrow, he didn't tell the glasses man these things, only said that he persuaded the contact person to try to make formal contact with the Tado Jihadist organization, and after staying for a while, the glasses man could only say that Li Feng had gone crazy, which could not succeed at all! And Li Feng didn't have everything he needed!
The guns and military attaches were all consigned when they returned home, not to mention the crossbow arrows, there was a pair of toy bows and arrows, Li Fengjue's useful words were taken away, and the cars were also driven away and parked at the international airport, Li Feng didn't have the keys even if he went, as for the money, there was still some money but it was useless for Li Feng, one was that there was a famine in the area occupied by the rebels, and the money could not be used as food, and the other was that there was nowhere to use it, as for the three, no one in the rebel-occupied area dared to collect money except for armed men, and if anyone had dollars in their hands, the rebels would snatch it, As for the consequences of the robbed family, not to mention.
Li Feng felt bottomless and tricky in his heart for the first time, and after pondering for a while, he asked the man with glasses what he could prepare for himself, and the man with glasses thought about it and said: "Three live chickens that didn't come to slaughter and eat, some dough cakes and a bucket of water, and the rest you can take whatever you see useful, as long as there is something here, in addition, the dough is more effective than coins in the occupied area, Syria has fought for so many years, I don't know how many weapons are left outside, you can try to exchange food for weapons, many people have weapons in their collections, but generally they don't dare to use them themselves." ”
Li Feng couldn't believe this, but what else did he say at this time? Li Feng asked the man with glasses to prepare a detailed map of Syria for himself and hurried out of the consulate, about ten minutes later, Li Feng drove a half-new car, but the car was ignited without the car key, the car was not very good, and the only reason Li Feng liked it was that there was a navigator in the car.
The man with glasses had already prepared things, and he also prepared more than a dozen eggs and a kitchen knife for Li Feng, Li Feng thanked him, most of the things were thrown into the trunk, and the kitchen knife and eggs were placed in the front seat passenger seat, and he drove with one hand and knocked the raw eggs in the other hand When eating, the car had already driven at high speed to the west of Damascus, and the north was the main battlefield Li Feng didn't want to find trouble, and judging by the sound of artillery that came, Li Feng thought that the western suburbs of Damascus were the calmest, and he planned to detour from the western suburbs to the north.
All the way to the west of the city is nothing, at most some sections of the car can not pass Li Feng looked at the map compared to the navigator to detour, out of the city and then to the west not far away sporadic gunshots came, some of the government soldiers who were sitting and resting in the hidden place on the side of the road looked at the fast car with some curiosity, but no one had much to do, and after driving west for more than ten minutes, there were more and more ruins, fewer and fewer people, but the soldiers were obviously more and more Li Feng's car had to stop, there was a roadblock ahead, A team of government soldiers with guns and bazookas stopped Li Feng, Li Feng stopped the car with a slight frown, the navigator and the map showed that there were two paths to bypass this level, but could the path still be open to traffic? Li Feng is not sure if there are also roadblocks on the small road, so he can only take the big road for fear of wasting time.
It's a pity that Li Feng couldn't understand what the soldiers were saying, and Li Feng couldn't understand the soldiers who spoke English.
Wasted some time, Li Feng also let the soldiers see their documents, which made the soldiers believe that they were international mediators, and they went to the rebels to mediate the hostage incident, the soldiers looked at the documents, and they didn't know if they understood it, but in the end they didn't make it difficult for Li Feng, let him go, and a soldier also smiled and wrote a line to Li Feng: You'd better hang a white flag on your car.
This reminded Li Feng, found a white short-sleeved shirt of his own, picked up a steel bar that was not too thin in the ruins, and then tied his shirt and inserted the steel bar into the gap between the front cover of the car and the car body, and after completely inserting it and turning out his two shoelaces and tying them up and down, Li Feng thanked the soldiers for the reminder and drove to the west, and there was a road to the northwest after more than ten kilometers to the west.
But before driving on the northwest road, Li Feng had to delay twice again, still the roadcard and the inquiry and explanation, when the third roadblock was reached, the soldiers of the government army did not look much at Li Feng's written explanation, Li Feng said a rough and immediately an officer waved his hand to let him go, but their eyes like dead people made Li Feng a little uncomfortable.
After the last road card of the government army, the situation is much better to the west, there are not many vehicles on the road, only a few vehicles and car wreckage are thrown on the road, which cannot constitute an effective cover, so Li Feng has seen several exchanges of fire are carried out in the fields on both sides of the road or in the village woods, including some tanks and tank wreckage are also on the side of the road and did not go on the road, Li Feng realized that the road may have been buried with anti-tank mines, although he did not realize that his car had enough weight to detonate the anti-tank mines, But Li Feng still put more energy into the observation of the road, and the car with a white flag on the road at a speed attracted some attention and suspicion from the soldiers on both sides, but they didn't have time to stop Li Feng, and Li Feng didn't give them time to react and played drifting all the way to dodge and dodge, which made the people who wanted to stop Li Feng almost have no chance to shoot, let alone warn or something.
But Li Feng's good fortune was still exhausted when he finally drove the road to the northwest, and before he could go far was a village on both sides of the road, where the rebels had set up simple barricades, and the fire point of two heavy machine guns and some soldiers and some snipers hiding in the village Li Feng could observe formed a blockade line.
Because Li Feng's car was under a white flag, the blockade line was not immediately shot, but someone hid behind the sandbag and signaled Li Feng to stop for inspection, otherwise there is no need to say, the rebels are not as reasonable as the government army.
Li Feng slowed down the speed of the car, and it looked like he was going to stop in front of the rudimentary barricade, which made the rebel soldiers on the blockade line relax a little, because it was only a civilian car, and there was only one person in the car, and it seemed that it was not Arab or Jewish, and he was not carrying weapons.
The car finally stopped, but it didn't turn off, and when the four rebel soldiers stood up with submachine guns to get close to the car and motioned for Li Feng to get out of the car, Li Feng slammed on the accelerator.