Chapter 10: Prayer in the Desert
The robbers on the camels quickly disappeared behind the sand dunes, leaving only the wails of the members of the expedition team who had been shot and wounded, and the camels that were dying on the sand with a low neigh, several dead robbers and several camels lying in the sand, the blood of people and camels was terrible in the sand, and the breeze blew through the pungent smell of blood, with a breath of death!
Uncle Issam, who was standing on the sand next to the off-road vehicle, glanced at the sand dunes in the distance again, turned his head and said a few short words of Arabic loudly to a guide, and instructed the uninjured guide to help deal with the gunshot wounds of others, insert the short knife into the scabbard at his left waist, and strode to Song Xiaoshuang, who was carrying a gun belt and holding a machine gun with one hand dozens of meters away.
After all, Isabel is the leader of the entire inspection team, and she has to first deal with the injuries on the team members, as well as check the damage to the equipment on the car, and assess the condition of the entire team.
When Uncle Issam walked over, Song Xiaoshuang was bending down next to the dead camel of a peak, checking the backpack hanging on the camel's saddle belt, there were a lot of blood stains on the surface of the desert yellow backpack with a capacity of more than 30 liters, and it smelled like a camel's bloodstains, although he already knew that the backpack was some food, ammunition and two flat water bottles, but there was no second person here who knew his ability, he could know what was inside through the backpack, and he could see the desert outside through the tent, Song Xiaoshuang hopes that he will try to look as normal as possible, although Uncle Issam who came over is not an ordinary person, but the ordinary people of the entire investigation team account for the majority, and Song Xiaoshuang does not want to cause some unexpected trouble.
The reason why those robbers were able to escape was actually Song Xiaoshuang's some water-releasing ingredients, the general-purpose machine gun cartridge chain box in his hand was loaded with 100 rounds, before Song Xiaoshuang got it in his hand, the robbers had already fired more than half of the bullets for deterrent shooting, he used his strong energy to penetrate the shock sand outside the body, and after "shooting" his body like a cannonball (Isabel felt obvious on the side, as if it was blown by a strong wind), and flew over a distance of dozens of meters, Quickly grabbed the camel and knocked the robber directly from the camel into the sand, hit the robber's head and upper body with a fist and buried it in the sand and hung it up directly, and then several short shots together with the camel and the robber were knocked down, and two robbers were lucky enough to fall to the ground unharmed!
Song Xiaoshuang was not annoyed at all, his gun sense was very poor, he once exchanged fire with mercenaries and shot a magazine in a short time, and the distance of less than a hundred meters was only injured a mercenary, it was not as strong as the force value of using a martial arts cultivation with his bare hands, as long as someone approached within a few dozen meters, Song Xiaoshuang used an invisible mutated energy energy, and the mutated energy energy can kill people in the air. The gun in Song Xiao's hands looks like a proper burning stick, there was an impressive woman who commented that his use of a gun is idiotic behavior, Song Xiaoshuang accepted her opinion very seriously, rarely touched a firearm, he has no talent in firearms, and he can solve problems without guns as much as possible.
But the reality is that this is not China, but the great desert of Africa, in order not to attract the attention of others as much as possible, some means can not be used now, Song Xiaoshuang only relied on short shots and strafing to barely kill a few robbers, because of the problem of poor accuracy, even with the camel was swept down, so that dozens of bullets can not last long even if they are shot in short bursts, with the ability to detect with mental power, Song Xiaoshuang is clear about the remaining bullets in the bullet chain box, and insists until the leader of the robbers estimates that something is wrong and takes the lead in escaping, In fact, there is not a single bullet in it, and since the robbers know that Song Xiaoshuang is going to kill again, there is no point in killing nonsensically.
The first thing Uncle Issam did when he came over was to find a dagger from the robber who had hung up on the sand, and after throwing it away, the dagger cut the throat of the dying and neighing camel, relieving it of its pain, and then quickly examined the robbers and their belongings and collected what could be used.
When the robber who buried his upper body in the sand was pulled out, Uncle Issam was surprised to find that the robber's neck bone had been broken to ninety degrees, and as soon as he pulled him out, his head was drooping on his back, and the sand particles were rolling down on the sand everywhere in the veil, and the eyes covered with sand were still open, the uncle shook his head and sighed, and whispered the secret mantra that Song Xiaoshuang couldn't understand at all, and closed his eyes with his palm brushing the robber's eyelids.
Uncle Issam and Song Xiaoshuang collected five desert yellow backpacks together, in addition to food (mostly military compressed dry food cans and the like) drinking water bottles, a total of nearly 1,000 rounds of AK74 assault rifle small-caliber bullets, several magazines, three intact AK74 assault rifles, two pistols with holsters, two daggers, three grenades, and the general-purpose machine gun in Song Xiao's hands, after counting the items, they were all temporarily placed on the sand, guarded by Song Xiaoshuang alone, Uncle Issam returned to the car to help deal with the mess, and the supplies had to wait for Isabel to discuss what to do with the emergency treatment of the wounded
Although the robbers who came suddenly were frightened away, the desert expedition team led by Isabel suffered great losses, the engine of a Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle was damaged and could not start, many precision instruments in the toolbox were damaged, two plastic water bottles filled with hundreds of liters of spare drinking water were perforated, clean drinking water leaked into the sand, two guides were shot in the shoulder and leg, and five scientists in various fields were injured by gunshot wounds to varying degrees, one person was shot in the abdomen and bleeding more than once, and urgently needed emergency surgery to remove the warhead, Thankfully, it's all taken care of.
The task of this expedition team was already a bit arduous, all kinds of equipment was complete, not only people who were familiar with field rescue, but also people with surgeon's licenses, after emergency treatment of the scientist who was shot in the abdomen, the warhead was taken out by the doctor with surgical instruments, the wound was sutured and injected to prevent wound infection, because the effect of the anesthetic was put in the back of the off-road vehicle put in the seat of the coma, someone took care of the blood transfusion brought to him with a portable blood transfusion, and the blood came from the same blood type in the expedition team.
Other people who were wounded by gunshot wounds were also treated by doctors and first-aid companions who knew how to ambulance, took out the bullet on their bodies, sutured the wound and wrapped it in a self-adhesive dressing and wrapped it in a bandage, to everyone's surprise, the American Yankee Gordon and his female companion Daisy, who seemed to be purely the son of the rich second generation, have learned to rescue in the wilderness and helped a lot, so that the original negative image of the two has faded a lot, Isabel ignored the bloody hands and shook Gordon's hand hard, and the dagger was returned to Gordon, Isabel believes that Gordon will not be stupid again and go to trouble Song Xiaoshuang, who is guarding the camel.
The matter of the wounded was almost dealt with, two hours had passed, the sun had turned west, Isabel rubbed the blood on her hands with sand, whispered a few words to Uncle Issam, and asked Uncle Issa to lead the people who could move freely to camp on the spot, and set up a few tents, and after seeing the uncle nodding in agreement, Isabel walked towards the dead camel.
Before I got closer, I saw Song Xiaoshuang wearing a gray-white robe, with a veil covering his face and sitting on the sand at his neck, eating something, not caring about a few bloody camels and human corpses around him, and when he got closer, he was holding a rectangular canned meat box with an open lid in his hand, his fingers were reaching into the canned box and pinching out some pieces of meat and constantly stuffing them into his mouth after chewing a few times and swallowing them, his mouth was full of red foam stars, his face and eyes had a sense of satisfaction with food, and a strange smell wafted through the breeze, Song Xiaoshuang accompanied the corpse to eat the canned meat with the sauce like blood, which made Isabel feel very weird, and couldn't help but wrinkle her forehead and push the glasses on the bridge of her nose.
Isabel hadn't seen what kind of canned food it was, but she saw Song Xiaoshuang throw over a thing, and after reaching out to catch it, she saw that it was the same box of cans as Song Xiaoshuang's hands, and she heard Song Xiaoshuang say in Chinese in a low voice: "Very good sauce chicken, sauce made of Burmese mountain red snails, it smells and looks a little bad, but it is nutritious and chewy, and people can't forget it!" ”
Isabel looked back at the uninjured people who were busy setting up tents, then turned her head and shook the cans in her hand, and whispered in Chinese: "This is a can from Myanmar, I don't know much Burmese, that, I have been to Asia less, I have been there many years ago, you don't know foreign languages, how do you know this, are you a mercenary?" ”
"Of course I'm not a mercenary, but I've dealt with mercenaries before, and those robbers just now are not mercenaries, they should be armed with guerrillas or something, it's okay to fight a good fight, but it's not enough to see mercenaries when you meet them."
"Uncle Issam said that the robbers are not Tuaregs living in the desert, they are probably terrorists who crossed the border, and they want us to die of thirst in the desert, otherwise Uncle will not kill people easily, after all, we are an expedition team of UNESCO, we can't"
Song Xiaoshuang said with a light smile on his face, although the face that matched him looked silly and a little cute, but in Isabel's eyes, it was all a disguise, and he retorted eagerly, Song Xiaoshuang's appearance looked a little stupid, and some ruffian habits.
Her feeling is that this Song Xiaoshuang doesn't take killing seriously at all, four of the five robbers were killed by him, and he can still talk to her with a light smile while eating canned food, it can be said that he is calm and terrible, Isabel can't figure out why he said this for a while.
"Thank you for making it so clear, it's so dangerous in the desert, it's a desert robber and a terrorist or something, that's why you let me stay on the team, right?"
Song Xiaoshuang stuffed the little remaining canned chicken meat into his mouth, and after drinking it with the sauce, he slapped the metal canned box with both hands and became a flat piece, and after throwing it into the sand, he looked at Isabel with a strange expression, and stood up after saying a few words very "seriously", and began to walk towards the robber who hung up.
When Isabel heard what Song Xiaoshuang said, her face covered by the scarf couldn't help but blush slightly, but she didn't refute, but followed Song Xiaoshuang and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do?" ”
"What else can you do, bury the camels and the carcasses of these people! Go to the car and find some shovels, it's better to call a few people, put things in the tent first, it's getting dark"
Song Xiaoshuang didn't look back, dragging a robber's legs to a sunken sand, while speaking in a cold tone, Isabel thought about it after hearing it clearly, and turned around and left, there were shovels, and it was really inappropriate to have a few corpses next to the tent, and I panicked when I thought about it
At dusk, Uncle Issam, Isabel, Wu Dai, Emina, as well as Song Xiaoshuang, Gordon, Daisy, stood next to the sunken sand that had been filled with yellow sand and could not be seen to be sunken sand, several light alloy shovels with foldable handles were inserted in the sand, Uncle Issam, who always covered his face with a gauze scarf, and Song Xiaoshuang each whispered a strange language that others could not understand at all, gesturing with various unbelievable gestures in their hands, and the two of them did their own things and did not seem to affect each other.
Isabelle, whose main research direction is witchcraft culture, of course knows that Uncle Issam and Song Xiaoshuang are using Arabic style and Chinese-style mystical witchcraft language spells to do prayer rituals to appease the souls of the dead, and the secret mantra recited by Song Xiaoshuang's mouth is not Chinese that can be understood at all!
Daisy and Gordon next to him were a little surprised that the man from the East had regained his ability to speak, but they couldn't tell which country he was from in Asia, because none of the people present could understand the words that came out of his mouth, and it sounded like a rhyme that made people want to laugh, but the two also knew that they couldn't show a smile at this time, otherwise they would be despised by the people around them.
After the prayer ceremony, which seemed to be a little strange, Song Xiaoshuang, who had finished the prayer ceremony a little later than Uncle Issam, picked up a shovel and was the first to turn around and leave.
Originally, he didn't have the idea of reciting mantras and praying for the robbers, but seeing that Uncle Issam just killed a robber, but he seemed to be very "serious" about the prayer ceremony, Song Xiaoshuang thought about it, the big head was here (killed the four robbers), Uncle Issame's ritual effect may not be very good, so he simply joined the prayer ceremony, each doing his own thing, whatever others think.
After everyone left, a strong wind blew in the desert, rolling up the sand and dust and blowing it far away, and a huge red sun fell on the horizon