Chapter 9: On the Way Home
"Are you sure you want to go to the embassy?"
The truck kept jolting, and Tang Yi, who was driving a bulky truck, grabbed the steering wheel with both hands.
This kind of car does not have power steering, and in addition, it has been around for many years, and playing the steering wheel is definitely a hard job.
Shen Mengyao's car was scrapped, and this car was originally owned by the group of mercenaries who were chasing her.
"Of course, I can only return to China legally through there, is the embassy safer than smuggling?"
Shen Mengyao was drenched in sweat, this kind of broken car had no air conditioning, and the weather was hot now, after saying goodbye to Lisa in a hurry, she was also ready to embark on the way home.
Although she had only been here for three days, she had really had enough, and now that she thought back on the three days, she would still be afraid.
"I think smuggling is safer, because Westerners are not trustworthy."
Tang Yi smiled, he didn't have a good impression of Western politicians.
"I'm also a Westerner, so please don't wear colored glasses, okay? We have also made a lot of efforts to bring peace back to the land. ”
Shen Mengyao is an American citizen, she admires her civilization very much, wiped the sweat on her forehead, she was a little dissatisfied.
"Forget it, if it weren't for these hypocritical guys, this place wouldn't be so chaotic, who do you think those rebels are supported by, and it's not those arms dealers in the West who secretly support it, without them, how can this place be turned into a scorched earth, and the people here will not be displaced."
Tang Yi was dismissive of Shen Mengyao's words, he knew too well what was happening in this land.
The civil war has left the fishermen as pirates and the innocent people displaced, and the culprits are not behind the arms dealers.
"You are talking nonsense, this is just your prejudice against the West, for the sake of peace to stop the war, our soldiers shed blood and sweat on this land, isn't it just to let the people here live a truly peaceful and free life?"
Shen Mengyao is stubborn by nature, she doesn't agree with Tang Yi's words, sometimes, the purpose of war is permanent peace, she firmly believes this.
"Well, the slogan of true freedom and peace was uttered by a country that has enough weapons to destroy the planet hundreds of times, and that's the biggest joke, so you'd better read more books."
Tang Yi didn't want to argue with her, she didn't belong to the battlefield, so she wouldn't see the essence through disguise.
"It's hard work to talk to you!"
After more than half a sentence, Shen Mengyao simply closed her mouth and stopped talking.
Looking outside, the land is full of desolation, and villages that have been reduced to ruins by air raids can be seen everywhere, and the broken walls silently record the horrific and tragic events.
The car drove all the way, Tang Yi knew that he couldn't change this Shen Mengyao, who was not deeply involved in the world, anyway, as long as he sent her back to China, he would have an explanation for Su Su.
But just when the car was still moving, suddenly a burst of gunshots came, Tang Yi hurriedly stepped on the brakes, and the truck stopped immediately.
"It's a rebel unit, I'm afraid we can't drive!"
The dense gunfire was not far from here, and the target of the truck was too obvious, but fortunately it was not too far from the city.
Tang Yi hurriedly pushed the car door and jumped out of the car, waving his hand at Shen Mengyao, the gunfire made Shen Mengyao feel scared, and hurriedly followed Tang Yi towards the woods on the side.
"How do you know it's a rebel?"
only heard the sound of gunshots, but Tang Yi concluded that it was from the rebels, which made Shen Mengyao very strange.
"Because only the rebels have American-made weapons, the gunfire just now came from the M16 automatic rifle, which is a serious American-made 800."
Drilling into the dense forest, Tang Yi said without looking back, just by the sound of gunfire, he can not only judge the weapon fired, but also determine the number and location of the other party.
"But I've heard in China that the rebels aren't freedom fighters, so we shouldn't be afraid of them, right?"
Although she said so, Shen Mengyao has been following Tang Yi closely, according to the reports she heard in China, the rebels are a group of righteous soldiers who fight for freedom.
"The group chasing you is also made in the United States, so you explain to me, why did the good people arrest you?"
Tang Yi stopped, pulled Shen Mengyao to squat in a tuft of grass, and asked in a low voice.
This sentence immediately made Shen Mengyao speechless, and she could only comfort herself psychologically, that group of people was not a real rebel.
He made a forbidden gesture to Shen Mengyao, because Tang Yi's ears heard the roar of a motorcycle, accompanied by screams and footsteps.
Judging by the sound, the other party was driving the scattered fleeing people towards the middle, and they were not far from the encirclement.
The gunshots kept rang out, and the crowd was from far to near, Shen Mengyao was squatting there, but he could see the group of people not far away through the grass.
I originally thought that it should be the soldiers of the government army who were being pursued, but I didn't think that it was some local people in front of me.
There were fifty or sixty people in the group, dressed in tattered and dark-skinned clothes, with thin yellow faces, men and women, and babies in swaddling clothes.
They hurriedly ran first, but the surrounding group of soldiers on motorcycles kept shooting at them.
Bullets hit them all around them, causing them to scream incessantly, and some of them were directly hit by bullets and fell in pools of blood.
"What are they doing? Why kill ordinary people! ”
The group of people who didn't even have shoes looked like ordinary people, but this group of soldiers was still driving, forcing them to have no way out.
"They are catching the strong men to mine the mines, they are either exhausted to death in the mines, or they are killed by this group of so-called righteous soldiers of you, if it were you, would you choose to fight?"
Tang Yi squatted there and said indifferently, he had seen too much in the past three years in war-torn countries.
"Then save them! There are still children there! ”
Listening to Tang Yi's words, the kind-hearted Shen Mengyao felt as if her heart was pierced, and it was more than enough to deal with these dozen soldiers with Tang Yi's skills.
"I'm not a savior, and I don't like to kill, okay, while they're here, let's go that way."
It's not indifference, it's powerlessness, and the turmoil in this country is not something he alone can change.
Taking advantage of the fact that the other party didn't notice them, Tang Yi was about to leave from the other side, but he didn't want him to take just a few steps, but Shen Mengyao, who had been following him, rushed in the opposite direction.
"Damn, what are you doing!"
Seeing that it was not good, Tang Yi hurriedly wanted to stop Shen Mengyao, but it was too late.
Shen Mengyao suddenly rushed forward desperately, and the moment her arms were opened, she threw down a child, and followed by a motorcycle speeding past her.
If she hadn't pushed the child away on the line between life and death, the three- and four-year-old would have been hit and killed by a soldier driving a motorcycle.