When the mercenary black buddy Alfs opened the big iron door and let the off-road vehicle into the courtyard, on the second floor of the old-fashioned brick and concrete two-story building, a room with a mural of a desert sunset hanging on the wall, the light green curtains of the windows were lifted to the corner, the light in the room was a little dim, and the door was not closed to see the corridor outside.

Liang Li, who was dressed in the same training uniform as Alfs, stood by the window, staring at Alfus in the courtyard downstairs from the corner of the curtain that opened the iron door, did not look back at Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru, who were sitting at the table eating canned food, and spoke quickly and directly in Chinese: "Miscalculation, this time it is in the special office of the United Nations UNESCO agency in Gao, and the satellite phone called us directly, and our xxx military contracting company entered the Mali theater of operations under the concession of the United Nations agency, The special office of UNESCO sent two doctors to look for them, possibly to hire a team of mercenaries to escort the scholars to the nearby desert area to carry out rescue cultural research and research, otherwise there would be no need for mercenaries to study how to protect and restore the ancient city buildings destroyed by the extremist rebels in the city of Gao. That, Song Xiaoshuang, do you want to participate? ”

Sima Yuru, who was sitting at the table and stuffing canned beef into his mouth with a fork, looked at Song Xiaoshuang, who was sitting on the side, just eating the beef in the canned food with the lid on the table with a fork, and saw that one of the several canned beef on the table was an empty canned box, Sima Yuru shook his head imperceptibly and put down the silver alloy fork, and after a few squirms at the corner of his mouth, he quickly picked up the military flat kettle placed on the table, unscrewed the lid and poured a few sips of water, and said very quickly: "Liang Li, Why don't you have some canned beef? ”

"Don't ask her, didn't she tell the dozen or so mercenaries who went out to visit Gao City for a temporary holiday and rest for half a day, and brought some special snacks from Gao City when they came back, and Alfs and Eliza downstairs also shouted that they wanted to go out shopping, and the meeting with the UNIMA officers collapsed, the company's recent actions are basically equal to no profit in vain, and canned food is very difficult to eat anyway"

Song Xiaoshuang ate the remaining sauce beef in the can, and put the fork in the empty canned box casually, looking at Liang Li, who left the curtain and walked to the table to sit on the plastic chair under Sima Yuru's kind reminder, Song Xiaoshuang spoke in a low and powerful voice.

Song Xiaoshuang understands the pressure on Liang Li very well, and the "legal" mercenary team led by Liang Li under the XXX Military Contracting Company has been in the mission of escorting the passengers of Air France flights southbound to Dombutu, and several mercenaries have been injured and cannot participate in more intense missions in the future, and these mercenaries are bound to leave the company.

Although mercenaries are a realistic explanation of cannon fodder, if the xxx military contracting company does not want to be spurned by its employees, the severance expenses of these disabled mercenaries are a lot of money.

Unexpectedly, when he received the employment task of the United Nations Mission in the future, there would not be much profit at all, and the pressure on Liang Li, who was a high-level employee of XXX Military Contracting Company, was hard for ordinary people to imagine.

It turned out that Liang Li's mercenary team rushed back to the pre-arranged rest camp in Gao City, which was a slightly secluded two-story brick and concrete building with a walled courtyard, and the time was already a little bit in the afternoon!

From the beginning of leaving Pingba Village in the seasonal river valley area, the cargo in the back cargo box of the four pickup trucks in the convoy was full of various weapons and ammunition, a small part of which was captured from the armed detachment of the extremist rebels, and most of them were old weapons and ammunition stored in the village by the tribal armed detachment led by Harisi, all of which were handed over to Liang Li's mercenary team to take away.

As a high-level employee of a military contracting company, Liang Li has a lot of intelligence sources, and she is quite familiar with the information of various underground black market transactions in the Gao area, and when Liang Li did not leave the village, she had used a satellite phone to directly contact the underground arms dealers who had business dealings with the XXX military contracting company, and the two sides agreed in code to trade several truckloads of weapons and ammunition in the desert oasis near Gao City.

After leaving the desert oasis, several pickup trucks in the convoy under the flag of the United Nations, and the goods in the back box were not in the back box and rushed back to the Malian government army checkpoint to rest and recuperate. Liang Li quickly used electronic equipment to transfer part of the money due to the tribal armed detachment to the bank account given by Commander Harisi, and the remaining part of the small money was still left in the company's public account, which played a role in reducing the loss caused by the termination of the employment mission.

Because he already knew in advance that the talks with the high-ranking officers of the United Nations Mission in Malay were useless, and they would not pay for unfinished tasks at all, Liang Li considered all possibilities, so she gave more than a dozen male and female mercenaries a half-day off, and let them (her) take a walk around Gao City in casual clothes, and in addition to Song Xiaoshuang, Liang Li and Sima Yuru, there were only the black buddy Alfs who acted as a guard and the sniper white girl Eliza!

The high-ranking officers of the Mission, who arrived at the rest camp later, only repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of some information in Liang Li's detailed briefing, and refused to pay the remaining half of the employment fee.

Liang Li didn't particularly care about this, the two sides couldn't talk at all (in fact, there was nothing to say, the employer's task was not completed, and half of the employment fee was already very good without the loss of personnel), and the talks between the two sides ended quickly.

Almost at the same time as the military version of the Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle of the United Nations Mission in Malaysia drove out of the large iron gate of the courtyard, Eliza, who was carrying an AK74 modified assault rifle and carrying a satellite phone, walked quickly to a room on the second floor and reported to Liang Li that in the special office of the UNESCO institution in Gao, she had specially used a satellite phone not long ago to contact her, and two cultural studies scholars had been sent to discuss something.

XXX military contracting companies carry out various mercenary assignments in Mali, according to the official interpretation, operating within the limits of the permission of certain United Nations agencies, although in reality this is not the case at all.

However, the United Nations agencies and staff in Gao City are really not young and old, and the special office of UNESCO will clearly know the satellite phone number of the company's mercenary squad, and even find out where the temporary rest camp of the mercenary squad is, which does not make Liang Li feel so surprised.

Due to the habitual nature of the profession, Eliza's report will only make Liang Li guess that there is a new hiring task, and for the time being, I don't know what some cultural studies scholars want to do with mercenary guards, Liang Li asked Eliza to go downstairs to meet the two cultural studies scholars, Liang Li really has no appetite for eating canned beef, just sat at the table and kept silent and secretly thought about the problem.

After hearing the horn of the car outside the courtyard, Liang Li subconsciously got up and walked to the window and lifted the curtains to look out, after hearing Song Xiaoshuang say that she was worried about the folk snacks of Gao City, Liang Li walked back to the table and sat on the plastic chair, a pair of Danfeng eyes glared at Song Xiaoshuang fiercely, and whispered angrily: "Song Xiaoshuang, I don't blame you, if you don't mention how delicious the pancakes of the Tuareg tribe desert aborigines with date fruits and secret spices are, I won't let them bring me some pancakes from roadside stalls back!" ”

"Actually, Uncle Issam told me all the secret spice recipes for making pancakes, and told me not to pass on the recipe, but you can try to make pancakes, which are everywhere in the date palm fruit market, plus the common whole wheat flour, the authentic secret pancakes are also very easy to make."

Song Xiaoshuang's tone was soothing, and his voice was calm.

Song Xiaoshuang is a top foodie, although he has released his spiritual power outside his body to detect that Eliza is leading the way, and walking at the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor with the two cultural studies scholars who rushed over, he still talks about the baking skills of the Berber wizard Uncle Issam with a fascinated face.

Before Uncle Issam and Isabel, an anthropologist with a female temperament, rushed to the jungles of South America, he had already told Song Xiaoshuang the secret technique of making pancakes, and Song Xiaoshuang had tried to make similar pancakes twice, although it was not as high as Uncle Issam, but he thought that it was similar to the authentic pancakes opened by the Tuareg people in Gao City.

Of course, now Song Xiaoshuang can only use this to divert Liang Li's attention and enliven the atmosphere, Uncle Issam's secret spices are made of the stems and leaves of various shrubs and herbaceous plants in the deep desert to be dried and powdered, and the production process is extremely cumbersome, because the plants in the desert are scarce, and the uncle's spice recipe is a mixture of stems and leaves of many plants.

Sima Yuru, who was sitting next to her, was speechless at the words of Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang, and she focused her attention on the door that was not closed on one side, and with a series of strong footsteps, two middle-aged cultural research scholars from UNESCO had appeared in the corridor at the door.

Out of the necessary respect for scholars, Song Xiaoshuang, Liang Li, and Sima Yuru quickly stood up.

Eliza, who was carrying a gun, did not enter the house, in the corner of the corridor outside the room, the speed of the shoulder shook, the arm raised, the assault rifle on her back was already in her hand, and her eyes showed a murderous aura before leaving quickly.

For Eliza's sudden appearance of an iron-blooded warrior on the battlefield, two cultural studies scholars in light yellow lapel jackets and denim cargo pants stopped at the door of the room, and after looking obviously stunned, they walked into the room where there was only a desert sunset landscape mural hanging on the wall.

Seeing three obviously Asian Orientals standing at the table, there were several boxes of canned food that were obviously military supplies on the table, and the white European scholars with short brown hair and blue and gray eyes, after looking up and down on Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang's bodies, turned to look at Song Xiaoshuang alone, and said in Chinese unhurriedly: "I am Dr. Constantine, this person next to me is Dr. Fan Chaoran, you are Song Xiaoshuang, right?" Ever worked in a UNESCO office in France? Isabel is a big admirer of your abilities, and now we have some tough problems that we need your help with."