Chapter 22 (I) The Strange Man

"Why are they doing this?"

"Why are they killing people?"

"Why do they look so happy when killing someone is so terrible?"

"Why did they hang people?"

"Why are they tying people to the back of a car and dragging them away?"

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After Quinn got back in the car, Barbero asked these questions along the way, constantly asking why. Neither Quinn nor Ruben knew how to answer the kid's question, yes, why?

More than a decade ago, when Quinn was an arms dealer, he had seen a lot of this happen on the African continent. He took the weapons to the small African countries to sell, but the weapons were exchanged for only three things, the first dollar, the second gold, and the third diamond, and apart from these three things, nothing else could buy a bullet in his hand.

Fearing that the rebels possessed new weapons from Europe and the United States, the rebels bought everything they had, and then turned around and took their weapons to capture the government-controlled cities, while the government was equally worried that the rebels had advanced weapons and spared no effort to bring gold and diamonds out of their mines in exchange.

The arms dealers just grasped their most basic psychology to do business, even if the other party scolded them in front of the arms dealers, but the arms dealers piled up behind them were still full of smiles, in their eyes, it doesn't matter how you scold me, as long as you take things to buy weapons, you are a good customer.

In order to sell weapons, Quinn has crossed various fronts more than once. I saw what the rebels were like when they took the city, just like Ismailia now, there were battles going on in the streets and alleys, and soon the rebels had the upper hand, for the simple reason that they claimed that as long as they joined them, after the city was captured, their soldiers could plunder and do whatever they wanted......

Everybody knows. It's easy to do bad things. It's hard to do good.

The bad thing is that when the government forces take the city, you are on the side of the rebels and plunder, and the good thing is that at that time. You are on the opposite side of the rebels. Stop them.

Fools know. Plundering is much easier than protecting, and as a result, there are more bad guys.

The car drove towards the dock. Quinn has to go to the dock to change some necessary food, and he also needs to change new documents, because the documents are about to expire, and the maximum period of temporary documents here is only three days, and they are changed every three days, if you don't change them, you will be killed by the warlord troops on duty that day when you walk on the street.

Yes, now they are all warlords, dictatorial warlords, and many of the leaders of the troops think that this term is an appreciation, an affirmation of their power and force, not a pejorative term, so when the remnants of the command accuse them of being an authoritarian warlord, they all have smiles on their faces.

The journey through the city to the docks is like driving around a slaughterhouse, and it is no exaggeration to say that there are corpses and blood on every street in the city, and you can see all kinds of bullet casings falling wherever you look.

Arriving at the control office of the docks, Quinn and Ruben carried the large box, followed by Pablo, the box contained the temporary documents of all the people in his army, he had come to change them for the third time, and had asked more than once whether the period of the documents should be extended, but all they got was ridicule, after all, he only had a few hundred men under him, and the people who made these rules were warlords with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops.

Walking into the office, Quinn put the box on the table on one side, and as soon as he put it on, the man wearing a green beret and sunglasses behind the desk stood up, slapped the box and said, "Throw this thing out, it's not working today!" ”

Ruben was about to get angry, but Quinn stopped him, and then smiled: "I'm sorry, you also know that the city is chasing the remnants today, so it took us a while to rush over, please be accommodating, it's hard work." ”

"That's your business, the time is clear, and you only work until three o'clock in the afternoon!" The man sat down and looked down at the small TV next to it with a DVD attached.

Ruben suppressed his anger, pointed to the clock hanging on it, and said, "There are still three minutes until three o'clock!" ”

"Really?" The man looked up at Zhong Dao, "That's because this bell is slow." ”

Then, the man got up, took off the clock, adjusted the time directly to a quarter past three, and hung it back again, without looking at Quinn and the others during the whole process: "It's a quarter past three, you're fifteen minutes late, come back tomorrow!" ”

"However, our documents expire at midnight today, and if we come out again tomorrow, we will be shot dead in the street." Quinn suppressed his anger, he knew that he had killed an officer today, fortunately no one saw it at the time, and it would be bad if something happened again.

The man didn't say a word, just watched the TV and pretended not to hear anything.

Ruben was about to go around the table and stepped forward, but was dragged by Quinn, and then Quinn took out his box containing military rechargeable batteries and quietly handed it over, the man didn't even look at it, touched the box, and skillfully received the box under the table, then turned around, opened the box and said: "Okay, for the sake of everyone being comrades-in-arms, for the sake of those who used to be the Global Resistance, I will make an exception today." ”

"Thank you." Quinn nodded slightly, Ruben was beside him with a blue face with anger, knowing that guy just wanted to take some bribes, now this kind of thing is an unwritten rule, no matter what you have to do here, it is simply difficult to move an inch without a bribe.

As the man expertly changed the time mark on his papers, Ruben looked at Quinn and then under the table, meaning: We don't have many rechargeable batteries in the first place.

Quinn shook his head slightly, indicating that there was no way to do it.

In fact, the purpose of their coming to this city is also to hope to meet Ah Yue and them, as long as they find Ah Yue, they will definitely be able to find Tang Shuxing, because Tang Shuxing said at the beginning that he will definitely return to Africa to take Ah Yue and them away and go to another place.

Quinn knew Tang Shuxing's character and temper, it was absolutely impossible for him to take the risk of changing the thinking of the top brass of the Resistance Army, it would be in vain, and it was impossible to launch the so-called mutiny, after all, there were too few people at the top who recognized Tang Shuxing, and most people thought that he was the demon of Shangdu.

Just as Quinn's documents were about to be completed, a man wearing a gas mask, a desert camouflage uniform, and a skeleton was drawn on the side of the gas mask, holding a box in his hand and dragging a box behind him.

The soldier who handled the documents looked up at him and subconsciously said, "The deadline is three o'clock, you are late." ”

"No, it's not too late." The visitor laughed, his voice muffled as it came from the gas mask, and then he unabashedly opened the box behind him, revealing the neatly stacked solar-rechargeable batteries inside, and they were of the highest military grade.

The soldier who handled the documents was dumbfounded, he knew what that meant, this box of batteries, changed in some places, could allow him to live a very rich life, that is, he only needed to complete this order, and he could retire immediately, or rather, he could also rely on this box of things to become the leader of an army.

Quinn and Ruben glanced at each other, and Pablo, who was playing by himself next to him, was also surprised, although he was young, but after following Quinn for so long, he also knew the value of that thing.

"How? I'll come tomorrow with my papers, and a lot of them, a little later. The visitor asked with a smile.

The officer who handled the documents coughed and signaled that there were other people here, don't discuss these things for the time being, the visitor understood, put the box directly next to the table, and then said: "The things will be given to you first, when I come tomorrow, I hope you can help me handle it a little faster, it's hard work." ”

So saying, the comer left.

Quinn and Reuben pretended not to hear anything, and when they had done their business, they turned and left, and as soon as they went out, they heard the sound of the officer who was handling the documents waiting to open the box, and then there was exclamation, and then there was a laugh of contentment.

Quinn shook his head and took Ruben and Barberrow back to the car, as soon as he got back to the car and raised his eyes, Quinn saw that the guy who had bribed him with a whole box of high-grade military batteries was actually standing in front of the front of the car, although he was wearing a gas mask, but Quinn couldn't feel it for some reason, he was laughing, and laughing maniacally.

"What are you doing?" Reuben frowned, and subconsciously felt for the pistol on his waist to load.

The man then turned, as if in the posture of the command—standing upright, turning, and walking in unison.

The three men in the car watched the man walk to the middle of the road, and the man stopped again, turned to look at Quinn, pointed into the distance, pointed hard, and then walked in the direction he was pointing.

Quinn glanced at Reuben, who didn't know what the man was trying to do, and he had never seen the emblem of that unit, with a skeleton on the side of the gas mask, what kind of unit was that? Never heard of it before.

"Forget it, let's go back first, and bring the documents back." Quinn started the car, and just as they started the car, they suddenly heard someone screaming in the room......

After the screams, Ruben and Quinn immediately took out their weapons, and when Quinn was about to open the door, he saw several people rushing out of the office room, all of them were officers in the house, and these officers rushed out frantically, banging their heads on the ground and walls, and then clawing all over their bodies.

In the process of their random grasping, it was obvious that blood was oozing out of the skin from the places where these people's faces, wrists and other clothes were not covered, but it quickly seeped into splatters, Quinn looked over and found that the skin of those people was cracked, and blood was sprayed out of the cracks, and in an instant, the entire office door became a pool of blood!

Quinn's first reaction when he saw this scene was to start the car, put on reverse gear, and then quickly leave.

Although he didn't know what was going on, he also knew that if he stayed in this place any longer, he would only end up with two people, either he would die a tragic death like the officers in the office, or he would be arrested and tortured by the troops who arrived later! (To be continued......)