Chapter 238: Sadly
In the end, the Pentagon withdrew 18,000 soldiers in this Middle Eastern version of the Dunkirk retreat, and of course the rest could not be withdrawn, together with the losses in the previous operations, nearly 20,000 American troops were buried in the yellow sand. If you count other places, the total number of US casualties so far has exceeded 50,000, and the vast majority of them are dead, and if they continue to fight, they will be close to the death toll of the Vietnam War, not counting those civilians who did not have time to escape, and how many US imperialist civilians have died in the Middle East war is still an unknown number.
The most tragic scene was in the aftermath of the great battle, when a total of five thousand captured American soldiers and civilians were dragged to the beach by those fanatical believers to play a decapitation contest in their favorite way, and five thousand heads piled up into a terrifying Kyoto Temple stood on the ruins of the city, making the whole world shudder.
The U.S. imperialists, who were bloodily slapped in the face, dispatched almost all the strategic bombers they could use to pour thousands of tons of bombs on the city that no longer belonged to them, even including cloud bursts, to avenge the slaughtered captives and turn the city into a memory.
At the same time as Kuwait fell, King Najd finally made a wrong decision, and under internal and external pressure, he chose to completely throw himself into the arms of God like his old rival, and under his orders, the Najd army, which had not yet participated in the war, also threw itself into the attack on Getif.
The city has become the last bastion of the US military on the coast of the Persian Gulf, and the US troops and civilians evacuated from Manama, Jubail and other places, and the US troops and civilians evacuated from Qatar, because the road to the south has been cut off, have to be concentrated in this city.
The reason is simple: there is currently invaluable fresh water.
As the war raged and most of the desalination plants that supported the oil cities were destroyed, fresh water was becoming an important factor in the war, and the coalition forces had to rely on the Persians and Babylonians to transport drinking water over long distances by sea and land. Their transport lines are also becoming the main targets of US strikes. The U.S. military relies on the ancient water source of the Saifuwa Oasis, but no one cares about the lives of those civilians, and a large number of civilians who cannot survive due to lack of water are fleeing from the bustling cities to those ancient natural oases.
But on the Arabian Peninsula, the limited water resources are simply not enough to meet the needs of the population of this land, and before the discovery of oil resources, the total population here was only a few million, and fresh water was actually very tight at that time, and it was normal for Arabs to have no rain or bath. But now Najd alone has a population of tens of millions, and there are not enough desalination plants. The freshwater resources in this land cannot feed so many people in any way. In particular, in the driest parts of the western part of the peninsula, there is no fresh water at all, except for a few limited oases, and the influx of refugees into these oases has left the already scarce fresh water, and the Arabs are fighting among themselves for the limited water resources.
Upon discovering this, the insidious little dark horse immediately shifted the focus of the air raid from the army to the remaining desalination plants, as more and more desalination plants were destroyed. This terrible drinking water disaster is quietly spreading.
Just like the wealthy families who starved to death in their arms during the Hou Jing Rebellion in ancient China, every day there are Arab tyrants with oil wealth who die of thirst, and the pain of death and the destruction of their homes is destroying their thousand-year-old faith little by little, except for those fanatical believers. More and more people are beginning to question their gods, and the gods are no longer holy in their hearts, only horror remains.
And outside the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Syria. Minibuses, countries that were not involved in the war, are beginning to calm down from the excitement of the Prophet's arrival and begin to consider whether the Prophet and the gods have brought them happiness or not. After all, no one is stupid. For the sake of a faith that can neither be eaten nor clothed, it is obviously a brainless thing to turn one's home into ruins and starve one's wife and children to death. Look at how rich these destroyed countries used to be, especially Kuwait, which can be said to be a pearl of the Persian Gulf, but now, only ruins remain, and half a century of wealth is gone.
No one wants their homeland to be like this, and even more so these countries have no vital interests there, so they can't afford to make trouble for themselves.
"God? No, I think you are mistaken, there is no god in this world, of course we are not gods, I have lived for tens of millions of years, I have never seen gods fall from the sky, but there are many aliens who like to come and go around without anything, but they are definitely not gods, the guys who were beaten by me and couldn't get up, I don't think they can be the masters of the universe, they want to dominate the earth depends on whether I agree or not! ”
At the dance party in the palace of Yongning Nandu, Qiong Xiao, who was holding Wang Yue's arm, said to a group of Chinese who knelt down to worship her in a funny way.
"Aliens? You say you've seen aliens? ”
A Chinese scholar said respectfully.
"Of course, what's so strange about this, I've seen aliens on several planets, the history of your human race is too short, the last time I came out, I saw your ancestors carrying knives and riding horses in the desert to grab territory, and I was so frightened that tens of thousands of people knelt down when they saw me falling from the sky! As a result, when I woke up, you were all able to fly into the sky, what can you know about your short history? ”
After Qiong Xiao finished speaking, he took Wang Yue's arm and walked away under the vigilant eyes of the queens.
His Majesty's Crystal Palace, which has been built by the three goddesses, is now at the bottom of the sea, and although it has not yet undergone its final renovations, the city built purely of glass has already amazed the invited guests.
The sun shines through the waves on the surface of the sea, and the rippling waves make the slightly darkened glass pipes look like a fairyland, and behind the pure and transparent walls, among the colorful corals, all kinds of tropical fish swim slowly, and even stop curiously to look at people. The glass street stretched more than ten meters wide under people's feet, and there was no end to the horizon, and on both sides of the street were glass houses of different shapes, large or small, and all kinds of algae danced gently with the water flow in the pure water outside the houses.
Walking down the street, in the heart of this underwater city, is a huge elongated glass pyramid that pierces the sea and points to the blue sky, and behind the pyramid is a shell-like building covering an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, which is the palace of His Majesty the King. Surrounded by a circular pipe, only the base gate of the pyramid is accessible. And outwards of this circular pipe, smaller pipes extend outward, and at the end of the pipes are buildings of different shapes. These buildings are not affordable for ordinary people, the Royal Assets Management Bureau announced that the price is 200 million yuan each, and this price is causing the rich people from all over the world to rush it, but without the approval of His Majesty the King, it is impossible to buy it with money.
Skirting the palace along the ring pipe, there is still a large road that runs forward, and the main road is lined with rooms or small streets that divide to both sides, and the streets are also glass rooms on both sides, and commercial houses open directly on both sides of the road. The guò pipe extends into the residential houses, and at the end of the small street there is usually a larger room, which is the viewing platform that will be opened to tourists in the future.
At the end of this main street is a huge disc with a diameter of two hundred meters, and outside the disc is the seabed that slopes downward, and in the middle of the circle a large road running north-south runs through it, and on the inner side of the road are the same houses and small streets that stretch backwards, but there are no rooms on the outside, only a few pipes that slope down along the seabed. Inside the pipe, there are steps leading to the deep water, and it looks as if it is dark and cold, and the road leads to the exit from the north to the south. There are special checkpoints there.
This crystal palace is not free to enter, except for the residents and staff inside, outsiders must pay to enter, although the ticket price is not much. But you have to pay for it, after all, the day-to-day management of this crystal palace is also a big expense, of course, the entrance fee is only a small thing. It is mainly from the management fees paid by the shops and wealthy residents.
"Miracles, this is a real miracle!"
The King of Jordan, who was invited, looked at the colorful coral world outside and couldn't help but let out a heartfelt exclamation, and Her Majesty the Queen next to him was even more fascinated. In fact, such coral reefs are certainly not uncommon to them, and it is not worth mentioning trivial things to see tropical fish in the underwater world, but in the underwater world outside, tropical fish, coral reefs and glass houses, glass pipes, and tourists walking around inside are unheard of.
In order to show his new toy to the world, His Majesty King Yongning invited almost all the heads of state of the countries with which he had diplomatic relations, of course, those who were in the war would definitely not come, but those who were not in the war basically came, including His Excellency the Chairman of the Jin State, who held his big belly and admired an eel that was hunting outside in the company of his wife!
"Your Majesty, I also think it's a miracle, but I can't help it if people don't admit that I'm a god." Wang Yue took Qiongxiao and walked to Abdullah II and said.
"How many times have I said it, I hate it when people say I'm a god!" Qiongxiao said dissatisfied, and then looked at Abdullah II and his wife with some surprise, who hurriedly bowed his head respectfully.
Abdullah II is a smart man, although he holds a holy title, but in fact he has always been angry in the Arabian Peninsula, the Persians do not like him, the Najd people robbed their family's territory, of course, they will not like him, there was originally a Babylonian royal family, but the Babylonian royal family was overthrown. He is next to the Canaanites, and every war is inevitably affected, but he is one of the few people in the Arab world who has no oil, and has been in a big country and local power since his ancestors for many years, and has struggled to maneuver between internal sectarian contradictions, and has actually managed a small country with no resources to a good time.
In this case, of course, he has no interest in getting involved in the outside, and his status as a saint is enough to keep those fanatical believers from bothering him, so he has always maintained restraint in the melee in the Arabian Peninsula, of course, not only him, but also Syria and Lebanon have not been involved, but only acquiesced to the volunteers of his own country to run to participate in the siege of the American army. Of course, Syria has lost its strength for a long time, the appearance of the prophet saved Assad, and the opposition suddenly became the enemy of the people, after all, they are also the lackeys of US imperialism, so of course no one will stand with them anymore.
Qiong Xiao looked at the two of them, and suddenly said a strange language, a bit like Arabic but very different, and with the taste of Canaanite pronunciation.
Mr. and Mrs. Abdullah II looked at her blankly.
"Aren't you an Arab?" Qiong Xiao asked in Chinese, and Wang Yue hurriedly translated it for her.
"Dear Goddess, I am an Arab."
"Then why don't you understand what I said about you?"
"Huh?!" Mr. and Mrs. Abdullah II were all stupid, although they didn't speak Arabic, but they certainly didn't understand Arabic, but they really didn't understand what that was just said.
"Ah, I see, when did the Arabs speak this language?" Wang Yue asked, and the interpreter he brought with him next to Abdullah II hurriedly whispered to him.
"I don't know, anyway, they still fight on horseback with scimitars, and they still treat me as a god, I have been with them for almost half a year, and then my sister and they also passed together, and they are also regarded as gods together, but they have a lot of gods, and even the sun, moon and stars can even treat stones as gods. These people are very cute to herd sheep and pick dates all day long, and sometimes I give them rain, and there seems to be a big empire to the north of them, called the Roman Empire. Qiong Xiao said with a reminiscent expression.
Next to him, Abdullah II listened to the words of the translator, and his legs were weak and he almost fell to his knees.
Wang Yue hurriedly helped him and asked, "What's the matter?" It's okay, it's normal that you can't understand her words, it is estimated that she must speak Arabic at least 2,000 years ago, just like our Chinese ancestors came to talk to me 2,000 years ago, maybe I can't understand it very well. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty, can you ask the esteemed goddess if she has ever been to Mecca?" Abdullah II calmed his mind for a moment, and then said to Wang Yue.
Wang Yue hurriedly asked him.
"Mecca? I've never heard the name. Qiong Xiao replied.
Wang Yue hurriedly took the notebook from the attendant's hand, opened the map, and then directly pointed out to her the location of Mecca.
"Ah, this place, I have been there, but it is not called Mecca, but it is called Maklama, it is just a small tribe, but it is very devout to us, and later it built a temple to worship us, and carved us round in stone, and it seems that there is no resemblance at all." Qiong Xiao looked at the location of Mecca on the map and said.
Her words rolled over Abdullah II's head like a bolt from the blue, and His Majesty's face turned green, and his lips trembled and he uttered one word: "Three goddesses." (To be continued......)