"That's five years away. I'll take you to think about it too. But.. These five people are not familiar to you. In terms of ability, it may also be a little worse than the previous five. "Paul.

"So why did you recommend them here? I'm going to go to that damn place for a month, a month, and I won't take people with me if they can't, I'd rather have fewer people, and you know it's not a simple one-plus-one problem. I said.

Paul nodded, "First of all, these five people are the most powerful people I have at the moment. The other is that two of them are Turkmenistan, and these two speak some Afghan Pashto, and the other three are better at training here. “

"And what about these two Turkmenistans? How is their training? The key is the physical and mental condition. I asked.

"It's all good. I've done all of this. These two guys should be said to be more adaptable to Afghanistan than you can do. "Paul.

"Did the other three fight?"

"Nope. They just served as soldiers. "Paul.

"That companion of Salim ... Do I know each other? The people he brought before? I asked.

"It's not. But this person also fought in Chechnya, you may have seen it, at least that person has seen you. His former companion has already gone to recruit others, and there is one who was injured last time is still raising, by the way, your Serbian named Kristovich is almost healed, but he can't participate in such an operation yet. "Paul.

"Let him rest. Even if he wants to continue doing this in the future, he will have to practice here again after he recovers. I said, "Then these seven people." I don't want anyone else. I didn't have time to get acquainted with them. “

"Okay. But can the old guy say yes? “

"If you don't agree, you have to say yes. We're not going to war, and besides, can we fight more people in the war now? No matter how many of us there are, there are few. Just hide from people and achieve your goal. I said.

"Okay. Since you insist ... I'm okay with that. Paul said as he crossed out three people on the list, "Seven." Do you want to meet them now? “

"Of course! I want to meet them. Get to know each other with them and explain to them how difficult it is this time. I said.

After a few moments, everyone was gathered together. Lukovich, the gardener, and Salim knew each other, and after greeting each other, Salim introduced me to his companion, a man named Ramzan, short hair but beard, not very tall, a bit like two Turkmen standing next to him. Salim told me that Ramzan and I had almost finished fighting the second Chechen war, and that experience was not a problem.

Paul introduced me to two Turkmenistans, one named Bilamov and the other Bediefu. The two men also had some beards and felt like Kazakhs. Both men said that entering Afghanistan would have no problem doing some simple communication with the locals.

I sat everyone down and told them about the difficulties and dangers we were going to face this time. In the description, I also deliberately increased the estimation of difficulties and dangers, and I hope that they can be mentally prepared, otherwise it will not be them who will harm themselves, but even more harm us.

However, the performance of these people was better than I expected, and they all said that they were fully prepared and did not back down.

After making sure there was nothing wrong with the gang, I immediately contacted the old guy Eunice. He doesn't have a problem with the people I've chosen, as long as I think it's okay.

Since the old fellow had no opinion, and everything listened to me, I gathered Saeed's gang again, and they plus Saeed were eleven people, and I had eight people here, and together there were nineteen people. The nineteen of us first got to know each other, and then Saeed and I reintroduced the purpose of the mission

The time it will take will also be difficult and dangerous. It also emphasizes that the danger is not only from the war, but also from the threat of eating and sleeping in the open to the body, after all, we may avoid densely populated places, and should walk on the road of the wilderness, if there is a physical problem, it is likely that a small problem will also appear a big danger.

Two days later, the old guy came to the camp, took a total of nineteen of us to the airport, and boarded the plane with us to Turkmenistan. After crossing half of Central Asia, we reached Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, near Iran.

We didn't get out of the airport, someone had already made arrangements for us, and soon we got on another plane to Tashkepri, and after a much shorter flight than before, we got there, according to the old guy, it was close to the Afghan border, but it wasn't our destination yet. After leaving the airport, we stepped into the car that had come to meet us, and the car took us all the way to a place called Takhta Bazar, and when we got out of the car, the old guy pointed to the guide and said, "That's Afghanistan over there." “

I looked in the direction he was pointing, and the first thing I felt was desolation, and the poor mountains and bad waters were not enough to explain the problem, just like Paul said, you can see mountains here, but the mountains are all light-colored, that is to say, they are generally bald. Of course, the place where we are standing now is not very good, not much different from there, but the living situation should be much better, and the best building here is the temple, compared to the surrounding earthen houses, the temple seems very grand and tall.

In addition to these, what you see is the military police with weapons that appear here from time to time. The weapons held by these military and police officers are all common Soviet goods, and there is nothing special, these people seem to be quite vigilant, especially when they see our strange faces, they seem to be more concerned, but fortunately, the people who brought us over should know each other, so after greeting each other, they didn't ask anything and walked past us.

The first feeling I feel when I see these is that I am insecure and insecure. But in fact, there is no problem here, but the neighbor's house is already in the dark, and it is also necessary to be careful yourself.

After arriving here, we were sent to a local military camp and settled, and the old guy said that our guide was still on his way here, and that he would probably be here tomorrow.

In that case, we can each take a break. Actually, we didn't have nothing to do here, for example, more than half of the MSL in the team went to the temple to pray after they got nothing to do for a while. The old fellow was busy arranging his intrigues and plans, while Lukovich and I, along with the gardener, chatted and smoked cigarettes, and enjoyed the rare leisure time.