Chapter 172: Oblivion

Dill nodded, patted the old man on the shoulder, and said, "So, you are a traditional Arab, and you abide by the Arabic tradition and resolutely do not keep the oath you made with the enemy, but you want me to be a traditional Englishman, and abide by the British tradition and respect any oath, right?"

I'm sorry you're wrong, I'm an old-fashioned person, a strict self-disciplined person. For many years I have always liked the phrase 'tooth for tooth and blood for blood) -- oh forget, it seems to have originated in Arabia as well. ”

Saying this, Dill sighed: "I have committed the Hollywood common disease again, the dying person, why should I tell you so much?" ”

Dill waved his hand, and the bodyguard immediately pulled the trigger......

There is a time difference of several hours between Switzerland and Iraq, and by the time the Swiss put on their old-fashioned black suits and ties and go to work at the bank, it was already noon in Iraq. In the past few days, the law and order situation in Iraq has improved slightly, and the establishment of a new government has made Iraqis full of good expectations for the future, so the number of shootings in the city has decreased sharply with the naked eye, which has made the work of doctors in the field medical clinics easier.

At noon that day, An Feng finished the work at hand early and rested easily.

An Feng has two diplomas, one is a diploma in medical assistant and the other is a diploma in neurosurgery. The former is an undergraduate and the latter is a Ph.D. And he was recommended by Columbia University to participate in the field ambulance, so in the medical center, the main role is the Columbia University diploma.

But because he also has a diploma in medical assistantship, An Feng has always been a role between a doctor and a clinician assistant in the institute. He is a surgeon when his surgical skills are needed by the medical clinic; When the outside world was calmer and there were not many surgeries, he was the assistant supervisor - the nurse in charge of the nurses and other "clinicians, or nursing doctors in charge of the beds."

Today is more strange, the nurses and medical assistants have not come to look for trouble. He sat in the doctor's office with a few doctors, chatting idly, feeling that life was not bad like this, and if this calm continued, everyone's field care mission would be easily completed. After the completion of this battlefield ambulance, the public welfare task indicators within three years have also been completed.

The doctors chatted excitedly around the subject, expecting that this improvement in law and order would continue, but they did not know that at the end of the year, after the negotiations between the parties were inconclusive, the situation in Iraq took a sharp turn for the worse because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, and the new government broke out dog-eat-dog......

This kind of chat is not what An Feng is good at, this kind of chat An Feng generally only participates, but never speaks. Everyone was chatting hotly, and An Fengguan just hummed a few sentences appropriately as a echo - at this time, Dill had just finished his "work". He didn't tell An Feng that he had "dealt with" Salvi and the old man. An Feng doesn't like to talk about this kind of thing in the daytime, because in the daytime, An Feng is an upright person and a doctor who follows the rules.

is holding his chin and pretending to participate, but in fact, his mind is in a daze. Dr. Kevin, who was sitting next to him, pushed An Feng on his shoulder and asked gossipily, "Where are you going to go on vacation this weekend?" ”

An Feng shrugged his shoulders: "I don't have an idea...... Do you have any good suggestions? ”

Dr. Kevin immediately replied: "I heard that Baghdad's civil aviation system has been restored, and I plan to fly to the Mediterranean next week." Alas, it is better to find a random island in a daze than to stay in Iraq. Although it was much calmer, there was still tension in the air. I have been in this stressful environment for more than a month, and I need to find a lazy place to rest. ”

"The Mediterranean? Interesting", An Feng touched his chin and groaned.

Baghdad is located right in the middle of the narrowest part of the Arabian plate, and it is not much distance south to cross Kuwait into the Persian Gulf; To the north, it is also not much distance, through Syria and Lebanon, to reach the Mediterranean.

Compared with the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf is a pool of backwater, due to the frequent traffic of oil tankers at sea, the Persian Gulf is greatly polluted, the fish in the sea is almost inedible, and such a pool of backwater, even the Arabs do not want to vacation here.

"How's Cyprus?" An Feng groaned and said, "I heard that the island is half Turkish and half Greek. A small island with two styles, two cultures, where would I love to see? ”

"There is also the Order of Malta, Cyprus was once the headquarters of the Order of Malta, and it is said that the remnants of the Teutonic Order were also stationed there", Kevin listened to An Feng mention Cyprus, and couldn't help but feel his spirit: "The Order of Malta is the only remaining order of knights today. We can take a tour of his former regimental headquarters and perhaps get a knightly honor...... Do you have a way to do this? ”

The title of "Knight" of the Knights of Malta is no longer worth a few dollars, but in the social place, there is such a name, and it feels very noble and face-saving to be loudly notified by people when entering...... Of course, doctors are the easiest group of people to get this title. Because the Knights of Malta were formerly known as the Knights Hospitaller, they once owned territory, but later lost territory due to war. Now the Order of Malta is engaged in charitable activities, managing hospitals, caring for refugees and the disabled in the war.

The Knights of Malta today. The United Nations still recognizes its quasi-state status, calling it the "Knights of Malta". Although it has no territory, its knights are automatically granted observer status in the United Nations, and its state form is "located" in the Malta Palace, a 10,000-square-meter mansion at UR, Via Condogti in Rome. The Knights have only a few dozen inhabitants, but it has 12,000 "knights" from all over Europe and the United States, including King Juan Carlos of Spain, former Italian Prime Minister Francesco Cosiga, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and other celebrities.

An Feng automatically ignored Kevin's words, and said in a deep voice: "We need to get a yacht, we need to contact a small hotel......

"Ah, then hurry up, I haven't seen my family for a long time, you wait, I'll call my family and ask them to go on vacation to Cyprus together."

An Feng's face twitched, how much money did this guy make in Iraq? He summoned a family to Cyprus for a vacation. And Anfeng's way of vacationing ...... Did that guy provoke it?

However, foreigners pay more attention to people's "sociality", and finally come to Iraq to hang around, if you can't even make a few friends after you go back, then An Feng is too faceless. And the way to make friends, which includes establishing common interests with friends, as well as going on vacations together.

"Okay, let's put the matter of the Knights of Malta aside for a while, I want to contact the matter of the vacation......" An Feng wanted to say something, Kevin was already happily running to contact his family.

It doesn't take much time to make a holiday arrangement in Cyprus, but it's the other party's words...... Let An Feng think. After he arranged things, he couldn't help but be deeply touched when he heard Kevin still chatting with his family in the corridor, and grabbed the phone to call Sakura Villa.

The phone was connected, and no one came to answer the phone for a long time, An Feng thought about it, and then dialed Susanna's mobile phone, which ...... Actually disappeared.

After hanging up the phone, An Feng thought about it, and he called Zhang Shuting - it was actually late at night on Thursday in New York, and there were still a few hours before the dawn of Friday in New York.

After the phone rang a few times, An Feng was almost impatient, and Zhang Shuting picked up the phone dimly, and shouted in annoyance: "Who?" ”

An Feng reminded softly: "It's me, Kane Ahn, I'm in Iraq, are you okay?" ”

Zhang Shuting was stunned for a while, and then came back to her senses: "Okay, okay, it turned out to be you, ah, I'm about to suffocate, you don't know, the day after you left, Sister Suzanne moved to the police station, saying that she was going to perform a mission, and she might not come back for a few days, and now I am alone in the house, I am really suffocated." ”

An Feng asked in surprise: "Why didn't she notify me when she left?" ”

Zhang Shuting responded: "Sister Suzanne said that she was carrying out a secret mission, so I won't tell you first, maybe when you come back from Iraq, her mission will be completed, and everything will be normal at that time, so there is no need to worry about you." ”

After a pause, Zhang Shuting asked: "Brother Kane, how is the situation in Baghdad, tell me quickly, are you still fighting there, I often see explosions there on TV, I also want to remind you, Brother Kane, stay away from the temple, I found that there is a favorite explosion." ”

In fact, the most common explosions in Iraq are roadside bombs, and some people often put a remote-controlled mine on the side of the road in the coalition patrol area, and detonate the mine when the patrol convoy approaches.

Initially, when the coalition forces entered Baghdad, there was a roadside bomb explosion almost every day, when the new Iraqi government was sworn in, roadside bombs became less and less, and as the new government police announced that they would take over some areas of the city, roadside bombs began to become scarce, and this week, not counting the several exchanges of fire in which An Feng personally participated, the incidents of roadside bombs and bomb attacks launched by Iraqis alone have been reduced to one per day.

In such a large city, with a population of several millions, there is only one explosion per day, and the target of the explosion is still the coalition soldiers hiding in thick armored vehicles, and the casualties are already insignificant.

After a while, Dr. Kevin had finished chatting with his family, and he ran over and asked An Feng: "Have you made arrangements, I want to inform my family, how do we go to Cyprus and how do we go on vacation?" ”

Zhang Shuting heard the word vacation on the phone, and immediately shouted: "I'm going, I'm going." It's just suffocating me here, Brother Kane, I'm going there and talking to you, I'm crazy bored. ”

An Feng didn't put down the phone, he said to Dr. Kevin, but also to Zhang Shuting on the phone: "On the south coast of Cyprus, there is a medium-sized yacht, two small yachts are rented out all year round, if you want to rent a yacht, I don't think you need to make a hotel reservation on the shore, it is said that the owner of the yacht is very good at cooking." ”

An Feng quickly said the appointment number, Dr. Kevin took a sticky note and wrote down one of the phones, and said in a consultative tone: "Then, the two of us don't have to separate the yacht too far, Cyprus is a strange place for me, I hope to ......"

After a pause, Dr. Kevin suddenly remembered An Feng's unmarried status. Alas, unmarried young people have different ways of vacationing, for middle-class people like unmarried doctors, they have money and leisure, many beauties want to rely on them, and even famous international models say that they want to marry a doctor. Hence the way young doctors spend their vacations...... Maybe it's ridiculous, it's absurd.

"That place...... I hope that our two yachts are not too far apart, both sides are looking at the distance, and if there is something we can echo each other......", Dr. Kevin stammered as he explained.

"This ...... No problem. Anyway, I might ......, "I can't find Susanna, who will I ask to go on vacation with?" Fanny? No, now that this female reporter is in the limelight, it is better to stay away.

Juliana? No, foreigners' unions discourage office romances, and once two young people in the same unit are found to be in love, one of them needs to resign. This is said to be to protect the family - the risk of unemployment doubles when two people are employed in the same unit.

was groaning, Zhang Shuting immediately answered the stubble on the phone: "Brother Kane, let me go, let me go, we just didn't have classes this weekend, and I'm worried about how to spend this weekend...... I promise to be obedient after I go, I won't cause trouble for you, I just look at the scenery and don't be naughty. ”

An Feng sighed, and reluctantly told the other party the itinerary: "Okay, I'll ask the bodyguard to take you to the airport later, and there will be a plane at the airport to pick you up......"

After Zhang Shuting got on the plane, the high-speed business airliner took Zhang Shuting to Europe, and finally she took a seaplane and landed in the sea where the yacht was located......

Hanging up the phone, Zhang Shuting excitedly went to pack her luggage, An Feng pinched the phone and pondered for a moment, and greeted Dr. Kevin: "Hey, Kevin, you help me work for a while, and I'll go out to arrange the trip." ”

Dr. Kevin naturally agreed to him, An Feng returned to the villa sullenly, stayed alone and quietly for a while, and finally couldn't help but dial Dr. Tom's phone: "Doctor, I've been in Baghdad for two weeks, and I haven't received relevant instructions yet. ”

Dr. Tom replied quickly: "There are no instructions, and we have been reported on your general actions in Iraq." Starting next week, you'll travel to Fallujah as a military medic...... Well, in fact, our test of you is over, and the following should be the process of your self-growth. We want you to develop your on-the-spot reflexes on the battlefield. But as a medic, you're not well suited to patrol and search, so stay in Fallujah and do what the local commander asks you to do, maybe we'll use you, but maybe not, who can say. ”

An Feng pretended to be very casual and asked, "I heard that Suzanne has started a secret mission." ”

Dr. Tom was silent for a moment, then spoke, "Suzanne's jurisdiction has been transferred, and she no longer belongs to me...... My dear student, this subject never belonged to you, never to you, so don't ask where she went.

A message about her...... All I can say is that she needs to go on a secret mission, which may take a week, but maybe a month. Now her jurisdiction is not mine, and they're -- do you know who I'm talking about? They are under no obligation to inform me.

Mmmm, there's only so much I can say to you, you understand? You should understand that in this line of work, you may not have the opportunity to inform your family members before carrying out a mission. Even if she is your family, there are some things she can't say to you. ”

An Feng paused for a few seconds and said slowly: "I'm a little confused, what is the purpose of you asking me to come to Iraq."

Dr. Tom immediately replied, "I need to coat you with a military tinge." Your disguise is so perfect now, an impeccable doctor, but with your experience on the battlefield in Iraq, it's not surprising that you can get your hands on guns and occasionally show some military skill.

That's right, that's my purpose. In the future, you will carry out more missions, which are not enough to be a doctor, for example, you were afraid to touch guns in front of Susanna, you were afraid to show that you were familiar with guns, and you were afraid that it would make Suzanne suspicious.

And when you come back from Iraq, you don't have to worry about it. Baghdad is very chaotic, no one knows what you went through there, and since you have come back from there, people will take it for granted that you are familiar with all kinds of advanced weapons.

There are four months of summer vacation, you can exercise there, there is a new weapon testing ground, I hope you will get familiar with all kinds of new weapons as soon as possible, as well as the digital devices equipped by soldiers in the army...... Try not to let yourself be idle, learn a little more, and your new identity will appear more impeccable. ”

"I see."

An Feng was a little sad and disappointed when he hung up the phone, but he didn't regret taking this path. Since he has embarked on this road, the familiar people have not suddenly disappeared without even saying goodbye, this is the norm, and he has no time to be too sentimental.

Life has to go on.

As night fell, Dr. Kevin told An Feng that the vacation party had expanded again. I heard that there was a surplus of oil for rent in the local area, and three doctors assisted and two doctors decided to join An Feng's team. They began to call friends, filling the entire infirmary with an atmosphere of commotion.

At this time, Juliana was still asleep in An Feng's dormitory, and Gloria did not go to work. In Baghdad, where communication is poor, no one informs those who do not go to work. And An Feng completely forgot to inform them.

Such a large number of doctors going to the same place for a vacation are enough to qualify for the military to request a transport plane. It just so happened that the British military base in Cyprus was also one of the transport bases of the coalition forces, and the tourists boarded a helicopter directly in the "Green Zone" and then transferred to a military transport plane at the Baghdad airport, which flew the group directly to Cyprus. Immediately afterward, they transferred to a seaplane parked on a civilian runway, and it took only three hours before and after, and the seaplane pilot had reported that he had seen the landing signal from the yacht......