Chapter 95 Several soldiers of the military and Zahid in the basement of the southward continued to quarrel, and the time dragged on until about one o'clock in the morning, and the military's tough attitude finally eased.

Because of the latest and accurate information, the European virologist wearing a white cotton uniform has collected David's blood samples, and after strict screening and comparison, the cause of David's visceral bleeding has been found, which is a rare regression virus in West Africa, this virus only exists in the bottom fish of a river in West Africa, the virus is very ancient and the transmission route is very limited, and there is only a small possibility of infection with this virus when eating raw fish fillets.

According to the circumstantial evidence obtained from Air France and David's own account, the last time he and the captain who hung up on vacation, that is, a few days ago, fished for two days in a beautiful resort stream, and harvested a lot of local freshwater fish, almost all of which were made into sashimi and eaten!

After figuring out whether the virus on David's body was not a virulent infectious virus Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the biggest point of controversy was naturally eliminated, the military's attitude eased, and the big hat on Zahid's head was removed.

The follow-up conversations all involved the tribal armed forces receiving supplies and continuing to cooperate with the military, Song Xiaoshuang, Sima Yuru, Ihassan, Andre, Mary, and Sara did not participate, leaving the basement early, and Song Xiaoshuang and others did not know what kind of cooperation the tribal armed forces and the military had.

Feeling very depressed, David was finally released from a separate basement, and soon received good news from the satellite phone on the abandoned salt pan, Air France has promoted David to captain from now on, and when everything is properly returned to France, David will start his career as a captain, after all, when the captain had an accident, David took over the flight operation of the cockpit and did not let the plane fall for a certain period of time, this kind of merit and ability is completely suitable for a captain.

After dawn, after Zahid and Song Xiaoshuang, Sima Yuru, Ihassan, and Andre hugged goodbye, several people left the dilapidated village in the desert salt pans in a military vehicle from the Malian government army base, and the government army will use the method of relay escort from the military base to make a detour to let Air France passengers leave the desert war zone in northern Mali and rush to Air France's backup airport under the control of the Malian government to take a flight to Paris, France. They were, of course, all the passengers on Air France flights, as well as the cabin crew stewardess and the new captain, David.

Air France was going to repair the airliner and use a bulldozer to flatten the uneven salt crust to make an improvised runway, and send pilots to fly the airliner back to France, but this would take a lot of time and could not be done in a short period of time.

Two days have passed, and Song Xiaoshuang and the others have left the desert of northern Mali for nearly 1,000 kilometers, stopping at a desert oasis a few hundred kilometers north of the historic city of Timbuktu.

The soldiers of a certain base of the government army who were responsible for escorting clearly told the passengers of more than 100 Air France that in the hundreds of kilometers north of the roadmap, the government army, the ** tribal armed forces, and the extreme rebel armed forces have been repeatedly exchanging fire recently, among which the most powerful is the extreme rebel armed forces, and the government army has temporarily united with several ** tribal armed forces to jointly deal with the increasingly powerful extreme rebel forces, but the results are not obvious.

The government military base is only partially capable of self-protection, and cannot be divided into personnel to escort Air France passengers through the chaotic war zone, nor can it be expected that the French Foreign Legion troops stationed in Mali are not on the Foreign Legion mission list compared to the cities and transportation node towns of great value.

This is very frustrating news, after spending half a day in the desert oasis, the Air France passengers received another unreliable-sounding news that a private military contractor has taken over the task of Air France, and will quickly send a capable team to the desert oasis to escort more than 100 Air France passengers through the messy war zone to Timbuktu.

After the war broke out in Mali, France, which regards Mali as Africa's backyard, signed contracts with many private military contractors, and it seems that "legitimate" mercenaries take on various tasks, filling the shortcomings of France's lack of troops in Africa.

Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru, who got the news, naturally understood what a private military contractor was, and they were not optimistic about the mercenary team that was preparing to rush to the oasis, just because among the more than 100 Air France passengers, there were also more than 10 male and female attachés who were transferred back to China by the embassy or consulate, and Song Xiaoshuang's idea of leaving the team of more than 100 people on his own to try to get to Tongbu was denied by Sima Yuru!

Sima Yuru is nothing more than using an official passport that Song Xiaoshuang carries in his trouser pocket as a reason why Song Xiaoshuang must serve the country, and Song Xiaoshuang also has a weakness that was caught by Sima Yuru, Song Xiaoshuang can't speak any foreign language, if she doesn't go with Song Xiaoshuang, Song Xiaoshuang will have a headache when he leaves alone and communicates with locals, how can ordinary people know all kinds of sign language!

At four o'clock in the afternoon Mali desert time, a convoy descended from the desert road to the desert oasis, and a team of mercenaries sent by private military contractors had arrived at the oasis.

There are more than 20 members of the mercenary squad, both men and women, and the basic equipment on each of them is a modified AK74 assault rifle, a tactical vest desert digital camouflage as a training uniform, as well as lightweight training shoes and a personal communicator!

The men and women who served as fire support and snipers carried general-purpose machine guns, hand-held automatic grenade launchers, and high-precision sniper rifles, and the snipers were also equipped with daggers, none of them had bulletproof vests that were inconvenient to carry and reduced flexibility, no one wore helmets and various military caps, and there were no obvious identification marks on their clothes.

The mercenary squad brought more than a dozen pickup trucks with modified chassis, as well as more than 100 Air France passengers to change into clothes and trinkets.

An hour later, a ragged convoy of refugees set off from the oasis and soon boarded the desert gravel road through the desert, Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru were already wearing real tattered robes, and Sima Yuru covered her face with a scarf like Song Xiaoshuang.

In some of the desert indigenous tribes of Mali, the women of the tribe are required to cover their faces with a veil in strict observance of certain teachings of the Arab culture, while other tribes do not necessarily require women from the tribe to do so.

Therefore, the female passengers of Air France sitting in the back boxes of a dozen pickup trucks, some of whom covered their faces with scarves, and some of whom showed their real faces with plain faces, were so painstakingly dressed up in order to conform to the complex settings that the members of the refugee convoy must have, and try not to attract the attention of the extremist rebels.

More than 20 male and female mercenaries, sitting in the seats of several pickup trucks, hid in the entire refugee convoy, did not swagger to show their intention to be mercenaries, although this seems shameless, not acting as the first and last cars of the convoy, there is a risk of causing heavy casualties after the Air France passengers dressed as refugees encounter a surprise attack, but this low-key approach Song Xiaoshuang is very optimistic.

Because in order to hide themselves and try not to reveal their true intentions, more than a dozen pickup trucks even changed their license plates once, in the Sahara Desert region, all kinds of pickup trucks are very common, even if the extremist armed members suspect that the pickup trucks that pass by more than ten pickup trucks that do not have much goods in the back cargo box are a little weird, maybe what they do, but on the return trip, these pickup trucks contain a lot of refugees in the back cargo box, and it is difficult for the armed members of the extreme rebel army to link the two convoys together, because the difference is very large, There are so many convoys of refugees passing by the desert road that it's hard to tell.

More than a dozen pickup trucks dressed as refugee convoys are running all the way on the desert gravel road, and all kinds of vehicles that have been destroyed and cannot be used can be seen everywhere in the desert sand beside the road, military vehicles, trucks, pickup trucks and even armored vehicles, but the most are all kinds of pickup trucks, and some pickup trucks can also see the human corpses that have been dead for a long time in the dry desert!

Many desert tribe refugees wearing sandals or even barefoot clothes and carrying luggage, standing on the side of the gravel road and watching the pickup truck team pass by, there was an obvious hope in their eyes, knowing that the convoy must want to drive to Timbuktu, although this is purely the rhythm of big luck, it is likely to meet members of the extreme rebel army, but when they arrive in Timbuktu and then turn to the capital, it is the real idea of these desert tribal refugees, the war is cruel and unreasonable, there is no exception!

As it gets dark, the pickup truck team arrives in a war-torn desert town, and the mercenary squad decides to stay in the town for one night to make the refugee convoy look normal.

The desert town is the confluence of several gravel roads nearby, connecting the surrounding desert tribes that were originally very prosperous, but after several years of war, especially from last year to this year, most of the town's residents have left, and only a few continue to stay in the town.

When the convoy arrived in the town, a shop specializing in Arabic pancakes in the town had been lit with candles, and it was obviously still open, and an Arab uncle in the shop who was a little fat and wearing a long robe saw more than 100 ragged tribal refugees jumping off the pickup truck, among which two refugees wearing long robes and scarves to cover their faces did not go anywhere else, but walked straight to their pancake shop. After the uncle was stunned for a moment, he quickly put a smile on his face, stood behind the wooden counter, and said in Arabic in a hoarse voice: "Our pancakes are an ancestral skill and delicious and mellow, you can use US dollars, West African CFA francs, pounds, euros and several currencies, without these valuable things can be exchanged for a large bag of pancakes!" ”

"How many pancakes can I get for this?"

Two refugees standing outside the counter took out a box of canned food from the pocket of their robes and placed it on the counter, and one of them, a female refugee who was still quite tall enough to cover her face with a scarf, asked skillfully in Arabic