The sun was high in the sky, and at about 11 o'clock in the morning in the Mali desert time, on the desert gravel road in the northeast of Gao City, which seemed desolate and scorching, a convoy of five civilian off-road and pickup trucks rolled up the old high sand and dust on the gravel road and moved towards Gao City without slowness.

In addition to an old Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle at the beginning, the rear cargo box of the four pickup trucks is covered with a waterproof canvas to highlight the height of the cargo box, and the modified chassis that originally appeared to be a little tall has become significantly shorter, it seems that the cargo box seems to be carrying a lot of goods, and the tire ruts of the pickup truck carrying the goods have become significantly wider, and the sand and dust rolled up after the car is in the relatively flat desert flat, even if it is far away, it can be seen by people from a very distance.

The members of the convoy were the mercenary detachments of the XXX military contracting company that had left the seasonal valley area on the west side of Kidal City and had terminated its mission and withdrew to Gao City.

Liang Li, who is a high-level employee of the xxx military mercenary company and the captain of the mercenary team, restores the desert training uniform and sits in a Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle with Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru at the head, driving the sturdy black mercenary Alfs, and the other members of the mercenary team are in the four pickup trucks behind him.

Yesterday morning, the extremist rebel armed detachment raided the village of Pingba in the river valley guarded by the Harixi ethnic armed detachment, but it was completely annihilated by the tribal armed detachment with Harisi as the commander, and only a few members were captured.

Because Harisi still had to deal with the aftermath of the battle and the low level of interrogation of the tribal warriors, he was unable to get useful information from the carefully trained Cristina in a short period of time, and entrusted the interrogation of these people to Liang Li, Song Xiaoshuang, and Sima Yuru.

After understanding that Song Xiaoshuang was a stranger similar to the alien agents of Pike Labs, Christina told a limited amount of information about the secret cooperation between Pike Lab and the extreme rebel forces for the purpose of self-preservation, focusing on the gold products of the Songhai Empire, which had been escorted away from the stone cave by the alien agents of the Pike Lab in wheeled armored vehicles, and the adjacent arsenal had also been placed with various powerful explosive devices, and the arsenal would be detonated after the armed members of the extreme rebel army evacuated one after another!

Song Xiaoshuang and the three of them, who got the detailed information, quickly brought in Harisi, the commander of the tribal armed detachment.

Harisi learned that even Song Xiaoshuang and the others were not optimistic about the possibility of using tribal armed detachments to intercept wheeled armored vehicles loaded with gold products marching to the northern desert region was too low, and those agents who escorted gold products with extraordinary human abilities were not at all able to compete with armed tribal warriors armed with weapons.

According to the detailed desert topographic map, after studying the speed of Harisi, he gave up the idea of using the tribal armed detachment to fight the gold products, and the desert border area to the north was already under the military control of the core military of the extreme rebel army, and his more than 100 people's tribal armed detachment would only be surrounded by several armed detachments of the extreme rebel army, and it was very likely that it would be completely annihilated!

Although gold is eye-catching, blindly sending people to death is not something that the cunning Harrisi can do.

Two hours later, less than 30 kilometers away, there was a large explosion at the Arsenal of the Extremist rebels in the Shishan Cave in the seasonal river valley, with a loud bang and a seismic wave caused by the violent explosion that could be heard and felt even in the village of Pingba.

As soon as dawn began in the morning, I drove hundreds of kilometers all the way, and I was already not far from the desert city of Gao on the banks of the Niger River.

Song Xiaoshuang, who has changed back to the desert digital camouflage training uniform, in the rhythmic roar of the engine and the singing of the black Alfs, an African tribal ballad from time to time while driving the car, Song Xiaoshuang's body swayed with the bumpy body, sitting on the second row of seats in the off-road vehicle and looking at the desolate and silent landscape of the desert outside the open window, he did not speak for a long time and was almost in a daze, and his somewhat cute squinting eyes no longer gave people a weird and inexplicable, sharp and murderous feeling, it seemed to be just the look that an ordinary ordinary Chinese man should have.

Liang Li, who was sitting next to Song Xiaoshuang, was in a trance for a moment, and Song Xiaoshuang's appearance reminded her of the first time the two met.

At that time, Song Xiaoshuang was an ancient martial arts practitioner who could smoke cheap cigarettes and seemed to be very clumsy and clumsy, and after a contest between the two intentionally or unintentionally, Liang Li was a little cute (the ugly thing is that his words and deeds are vulgar and his face is just an ordinary man who can get by), but he is actually a man with a black belly to the bones.

When did Le start to have a preliminary liking for him? Liang Li felt that both of them had no bad feelings towards the same kind of cigarettes that sold for a few yuan, which was the beginning of everything, but these were all memories of the past?

Looking at the cute expression on Song Xiaoshuang's face, Liang Li sighed secretly, this man who has a huge impact on the second half of her life and is extremely important from a certain point of view, may be making a painful choice about how to choose after returning to China, whether to return to the Institute of Human Sciences to continue to study various related research involving the abilities of people with abnormal abilities, or to be dug up by the "relevant departments" to do some special things, it seems that there is no right left for Song Xiaoshuang to choose independently, as a proper nationalist, it is almost Song Xiaoshuang's fate, And the initiator is herself.

Liang Li began to regret a little, feeling that she shouldn't have impulsively sent a special encrypted email to an email address in China after getting the news that he was still alive in Mali, and the news of Song Xiaoshuang's presence in the West African desert was leaked.

At first, Liang Li felt that it was a waste for Song Xiaoshuang to stay in the desert where birds don't, and wanted him to use resources to arrange for him to return to China as soon as possible after being taken seriously by the relevant departments.

Now Liang Li doesn't think like this, if Song Xiaoshuang returns to China soon, won't she be able to see her?

Liang Li, who was born in an ancient martial arts family and cultivated as a very good person, has a past experience as a first-line killer of the killer group, and is not treated by the domestic authorities.

At that time, Liang Li was only thinking about how to let Song Xiaoshuang help her with a difficult employment task before leaving Africa, and deliberately didn't think about how sad and regretful Song Xiaoshuang would be if she really left her, people are always very contradictory, and even rational and wise women sometimes only think with a perceptual way of thinking.

Liang Li knows Song Xiaoshuang's temperament well, knowing that Song Xiaoshuang must be thinking about something alone and not wanting to be disturbed, from leaving the Pingba village in the river valley guarded by the Hari Western Clan armed detachment, on the way back to Gao City, at first Song Xiaoshuang also chatted with her and Sima Yuru about some topics, after traveling hundreds of kilometers, Song Xiaoshuang sat in the car in a daze for more than an hour!

Now it is only a few dozen kilometers away from Gao City, Liang Li feels that it is better to let Song Xiaoshuang do anything, anyway, it is now past the desert oasis and small town area where extreme rebel forces are entrenched, and it is already within the effective control of the Malian government army and the French ** team, Song Xiaoshuang is a strange person, and he has an intuitive perception of unknown dangers, Song Xiaoshuang remained cute and showed that he did not feel any danger, Liang Li felt nervous but relaxed a little.

After Liang Li was only slightly stunned by Song Xiaoshuang's daze, she used the on-board communication system installed next to the seat to hold a microphone and shouted French to each car, asking each car to pay attention to the traffic and prevent a rocket raid in the desert near Gao City.

Although the desert area where several vehicles are now passing through is the area effectively controlled by the Malian government army and the French ** team, it is difficult to guarantee that the strategy has been significantly changed, and the extremist rebel forces who are trying to expand their territory will not disturb the convoys along the way, and Liang Li, as the leader of the mercenary squad, cannot slack off at all, although the mission was terminated halfway, the possibility of being accidentally targeted by the extremist rebel forces on the return trip cannot be ruled out.

After hearing the clear and crisp French replies of the mercenaries in several pickup trucks, Liang Li hung up the mark in her hand to turn off the communication, and gestured to Sima Yuru, who was sitting in the passenger seat, to turn on the radio and listen to the radio stations in Mali or West African countries.

Sima Yuru, who was dressed in a desert training uniform, had long felt no love for the African tribal ballads of the black Alfs like carbon strips, this black buddy was always humming a few tribal ballads in French over and over again, Sima Yuru was already numb to listening, and saw Liang Li in the back row in the rearview mirror of the car gesturing to her to listen to the radio station, Sima Yuru only then recovered from the attention of Song Xiaoshuang, who was a little strange, and tried to choose the station while debugging the megahertz on the radio on the center console, while looking sideways