Chapter 54: Rushing to the Venue
Katyusha then took out the portable 3D card printer in her backpack, transferred the pictures from the tablet to the printer via Bluetooth, activated the print button, and ten minutes later, two plastic press cards with laser anti-counterfeiting were born from the printer.
Hugh took out two cards and looked at the name on his press card: one was Catherine. Kashmir. Ivanovich, the other Nikolai. Alexander. Tukhachevsky.
"Uh... I mean, can you not use the name of a Russian on your American press card? Besides, the name is too long to remember. Hugh looked at the name on his press card and read it with a twisted mouth.
"The name of my motherland is good, if the military personnel ask, they will say that they immigrated to the United States from Russia and became a journalist, as for the length of the name, it must have this effect, it is long and difficult to remember, so that they can't remember who we are." Katyusha explained.
"It makes sense to say this, it's quite thoughtful, but our car should really be changed, two reporters are driving a car delivering milk, and the soldiers of the military are not idiots." Hugh put away his press card.
Hugh walked to the closet next to the bedroom and took out a white collared shirt and a pair of light blue jeans: "Since you're dressed as a reporter, you have to be a reporter." He changed his clothes and put a small notepad with a pen in the pocket of his jeans.
"I still like to wear something slim and be flexible." Katyusha pulled out a gray modal sweatshirt engraved with colorful petals from her closet and put on a pair of black Adidas sweatpants.
"Let's go, go to the Motor City and see what good cars are available." Katyusha fastened the belt with nine small throwing knives to the inside of her clothes, loaded the Israeli automatic rifle into a weapon bag, lifted it and walked out of the presidential suite with Hugh, went out into the street, braved the scorching afternoon sun, and hailed a taxi.
"Capital Motor City." Hugh said his destination, then handed out a stack of Serranian dollars.
The driver took the banknote: "You don't need so much, it's enough to run back and forth." "As he spoke, he was going to return a part of it to Hugh.
"Take it, the extra is a tip. Seeing that you are running around the streets every day, guns are coming and going, and it is not easy to make some money. Hugh waved his hand and shoved him back again.
"There aren't many good people like you, and the government army and gangsters never give money for their rides. The Overlord car is used to it. I'll say a little more and complain. They raised their guns and threatened to kill me, a bunch of inhuman guys. The taxi driver sighed.
"May peace come soon." Katyusha said, and then everyone fell silent, and the taxi drove in the direction of the Motor City.
More than half an hour later, Hugh and Katyusha drove out of the Motor City in a brand-new 2031 white Jeep Liberty Light, with a pair of handmade fabric African dolls hanging from the front driver's seat.
"I thought there would be no modern cars in this city, and it was a feeling of standing out from the crowd to drive around the capital full of old cars in the Jeep Liberty Light." Hugh looked at Katyusha as he drove.
"This free light is all over the streets of our country, and only the rich second generation can afford to drive it here, and the common people are so poor that they can only drive antique cars from the last century, and they can make do with it. We bought this car, but the boss was so happy that we finally caught a big customer. Katyusha shook two African rag dolls, who soon repeated the childish and sweet children's voice: "Welcome to Africa!" Welcome to Africa! ”
Hugh looked at the doll in front of him and smiled helplessly.
Katyusha turned on the military tablet and checked the location of the capital's seaside hotel on the electronic map, which showed that it was located along the coastline thirty kilometers west of the capital, while a flashing red dot was moving on the map nearby, which was the location of the nano ladybug in the rich second-generation Kasarati sports car, Katyusha tracked his movement, and saw that he seemed to be driving in the direction of the sea.
"Keep up with him." Katyusha pointed out to Hugh what was on the tablet.
"No problem." The other man turned the steering wheel and moved towards the direction of the target, and it didn't take long for him to appear behind him.
I saw the military chief of general logistics driving a Maserati, leading the way in front, followed by a construction excavator, a bulldozer and two military trucks, one of which had an empty shed and the other carrying a dozen soldiers. Due to the large size of the excavators and bulldozers of the project, coupled with the limitation of the speed of movement, the entire convoy was helplessly slowed down by it and slowly crawled on the ground.
"What does that mean?" Hugh asked curiously, "Look at this posture, is it to go over and rectify the nail households that hinder the start of real estate?" ”
"I always felt that this was not right, and two boxes of big rocks were definitely not used for good deeds." Katyusha said suspiciously.
"These guys have a lot of ideas, let's go ahead and take a look." Hugh adjusted his seat and continued to follow the convoy in front of him.
I don't know how long it took, the convoy finally entered the Ring Sea Highway, the waves of the waves, the sun on the beach, the seagulls flying in the air, the palm trees on both sides of the road, entered their field of vision, this scene seems familiar, but it appeared in a war-torn African country, missing the leisurely and comfortable sense of belonging.
Hugh drove the new Jeep Liberty Light, kept a safe distance, followed the front convoy, only to see them stop at a beach reef, more than a dozen soldiers jumped out of the military truck, with sapper pickaxes and jackhammers, came to a truck-sized reef in front, clanging chiseled, with the unremitting efforts of the soldiers, the reef was covered with large and small holes, the soldiers took out engineering explosives from the card, inserted into these holes, And the fuses like spider webs on it gathered together, pulled out dozens of meters away, and all the personnel on the scene evacuated to the rear to find a place to cover to avoid being accidentally injured in the blasting.
When everything was ready, a soldier lit the fuse, and a spark slowly climbed over the fuse, and after more than half a minute, with a deafening loud noise, the whole beach shook, and Hugh and Katyusha seemed to feel the slight shaking of the jeep underneath them. The reef exploded into a pile of rocks of various sizes and threw them onto a nearby beach, at which point bulldozers were dispatched, working with excavators, to move the large boulders of moderate size to two empty military trucks, the whole process lasted more than an hour.
Hugh and Katyusha waited patiently on the coastal highway for them to finish their work, only to see Kasharati leading two military trucks into the Ring Sea Highway again, while the two construction vehicles seemed to have completed their mission and drove in opposite directions, breaking away from the convoy.
Hugh followed the convoy ahead and drove in the direction of the Capital Waterfront Hotel.
A temporary inspection checkpoint set up by the military appeared in front of them, and seeing the car of the chief of general logistics carrying a convoy in the rear coming, dozens of soldiers who were carrying out the inspection task quickly gave them a new standard military salute, gave them a new military salute, and then blocked the checkpoint.
Hugh waited for a while and drove the free light to the checkpoint, where a soldier came forward with a rifle: "Please show your ID!" ”