"The supplies and followers have been evacuated, and there is no decent food in the station now, so if you don't dislike it, use this pad to pad your stomach first." Thomas, who had just been promoted to major general, handed over a package of battle rations to Jiang Yunfeng, and then said to Dr. Zhao, who had stayed behind to help treat the wounded, "Mr. Zhao, although I am grateful that you stayed to treat the wounded. But for your safety, I would like you to follow the supply convoy back to Aden. ”

Dr. Zhao frowned slightly, Thomas should have persuaded him more than once in the past few days. But he refused on the grounds that Jiang Yunfeng, who was injured and unconscious, was inconvenient to move, and left him to do his best to save his life. Now that Jiang Yunfeng has also woken up, he has no reason to stay in the war zone anymore, recalling that when he went abroad, he was instructed by his superiors not to intervene in the internal affairs of the institute, and Dr. Zhao finally nodded in agreement.

Dr. Zhao waved goodbye to the people who saw them off, and they didn't know if they would have a chance to meet again in the future, so everyone had tears in their eyes but smiles on their faces.

In the trailer behind the truck, Jiang Yunfeng, who had seen the natural scenery of the Republic of Evia, looked at the city where gunsmoke was rising everywhere and gradually moved away from him, stroking the gauze on his chest and muttering, "It turns out that war is such a terrible thing, and I have personally experienced the cruelty of war before I know how naïve I was at the beginning." ”

"We don't live in a peaceful world, we just live in a peaceful country." Dr. Zhao sat down in the carriage with his back against the wall of the warehouse, and the high-intensity rescue of the wounded for several days had made him embarrassed, rubbing his sparse eyes and falling asleep as he spoke.

Jiang Yunfeng found a blanket for him to cover, turned his head and looked around the carriage, although the road conditions were bumpy, but the haggard Erina Nagikiri leaned on the rucksack and pretended to sleep. Uncle Billy and Anatoly were counting their equipment and maintaining their weapons, and the rest of their luggage was reduced to a sea of fire with the Paramount Marauders, so there wasn't much left, but the group's identification and passports were concentrated in the rucksack that Erina Nagi leaned on.

Fu Hua, who had evacuated with his parents first, still felt that there was one less person, Jiang Yunfeng took a bite of the compressed biscuits in the battle rations, and while chewing, he exercised his brain, which had become a little numb after sleeping for many days, thinking about who was missing?

The sound of the biscuits breaking seemed to twist the switch of memory, and Jiang Yunfeng finally remembered who was missing, the less independent photographer of the "Discovery Channel" who met on the ship from Turkey to Egypt, and hurriedly asked, "Where is Brother Tom?" Why didn't you see others? ”

"Stayed at the station."

"What?! Didn't you tell him that we were going to evacuate the front line, uncle? ”

Uncle Billy dismantled his beloved HK416A5, cleaned up the gunpowder residue, put on the lubricating oil, reassembled it, pulled the bolt, and then loaded the magazine satisfactorily after hearing the crisp and smooth sound, and then said, "Yes, but he still chose to stay, I think you should know the specific reason." ”

Jiang Yunfeng sighed helplessly, "Yes, Brother Tom wants to become a war correspondent and tell the world the truth about the war." But there is little point in reporting on a civil war triggered by ethnic tensions such as Evia's. ”

"Meaningful! Do you think it's a purely inter-ethnic civil war? Not really! Anatoly loaded the full magazine back into his AK12, then stared at Uncle Billy beside him and said 'viciously', "It's all the fault of the West!!" ”

"Hey, hey! Damn polar bears! What kind of eyes are you? What's the matter with me? ”

"Yankee, it's your fault!!"

Looking at the two men who kept talking about each other, Jiang Yunfeng only felt confused, it seemed that something terrible must have happened in the past few days when he was in a coma.

It turned out to be a cross-fire rescue of the trapped Erina Nagikiri On the day Tom, who stayed at the station to control the drone to provide battlefield intelligence, had lost Jiang Yunfeng and them, and when searching for Jiang Yunfeng, he inadvertently flew near the rebels' forward command and captured that there were Europeans and Americans in the rebel forward command headquarters, which was all black. The camera was pulled to the limit, and as soon as the side face of the group leader was captured, the other party was alerted, so he immediately pulled up and fled the scene under the cover of buildings and smoke.

After Jiang Yunfeng and the others successfully rescued Erina Nagikiri and returned to the station, Tom also recovered his drone. But the man in the rebel headquarters struck him as familiar, and he always felt as if he had seen him somewhere.

In his memories of the past few days, Tom quickly grabbed some information about that person, ran back to his room, found his camera, connected it to the computer, and retrieved the photos of himself in the city, and compared them with the images captured by the drone just now.

The result completely confirmed Tom's inner suspicion, the man who appeared in the rebel headquarters had arrived in the capital of the central provinces a few days before the outbreak of the civil war, and happened to be captured by himself. The reporter's keen sense of news tells Tom that there must be some secret to the sudden outbreak of civil war in Evia, which has just ended the civil war and ushered in the long-awaited peace. So Tom rejects Uncle Billy's offer to evacuate and chooses to stay alone, and he wants to dig up the truth and tell the world.

In the face of the fait accompli, Jiang Yunfeng admired Tom's bravery on the one hand, and on the other hand, hoped that the brother who had talked with him would be safe and sound, and looked forward to meeting again. Jiang Yunfeng, who still felt that it was not enough after eating compressed biscuits and energy bars, tore open the last small packet in the battle rations of the Ivia Army, which contained fried husked grains.

Jiang Yunfeng pinched a grain and tasted it, the taste was crispy and salty, and it was obviously seasoned. The flavor of the cereals is very strong, and it is a very good snack, but unfortunately the portion is too small, and there are only two grabs of a full dozen.

Jiang Yunfeng, who was half-full, was thinking about how to make this limited amount of food provide him with the greatest sense of satiety, he thought of an emergency method invented by Tsinghua University, which was a top university at that time, in the sixties when China was in a three-year disaster difficult period, and Jiang Yunfeng, who had always wanted to try food in that difficult period, would not let go of this opportunity.

Finding a metal lunch box and a convenient stove, Jiang Yunfeng poured the fried grains in the packaging bag into the lunch box, but unfortunately the portion was too small and just spread all over the bottom of the lunch box. Jiang Yunfeng didn't care, but poured in a third more water than usual for cooking, and he didn't have much hope for the taste, he broke the jar and threw in a few candies, hoping to save it.

The lid is tight, and the lunch box is fixed on the lit convenient stove to prevent it from turning over and shaking, and Jiang Yunfeng fixes the convenient stove with both hands, waiting for the final product with peace of mind. I don't know how long it took, a violent bump in the truck woke up Erina Nagikiri from rest, and saw Jiang Yunfeng squatting in the corner of the carriage, mysteriously holding a steaming lunch box, so he asked: "You are not injured yet, why don't you lie down honestly and rest and squat there?" ”

"Ah~ Miss is awake, do you want to try my latest masterpiece?" Jiang Yunfeng said and stretched out the lunch box.

Erina Nagikiri got up and saw that the lunch box contained brown and fluffy rice, exuding a sweet aroma. However, as soon as the chopsticks came into contact with the rice, Erina Nagikiri noticed that this bowl of 'rice' was different from ordinary rice, and she picked up some of it and brought it to her mouth without chewing, but the slight pressure exerted by her mouth and tongue made the rice grains melt in her mouth, and her mouth was full of slightly sweet water, and she didn't feel like eating at all.

"What is this?" Erina Nagi just tasted a little bit and returned the chopsticks to Jiang Yunfeng in disgust.

"This is what I cooked with a small bag of fried grain from the battle rations, Miss, look at how such a small bag can get such a big bowl of rice." Jiang Yunfeng put the empty small packaging bag together with a full lunch box of rice, which was in stark contrast.

"The pre-fried grains are then steamed with water, and in the process, the spoiled carbohydrates inside the grains frantically absorb water, doubling or even several times the expansion of the grains themselves. This method is called 'double steaming', but the water content of the rice cooked in this way is particularly huge, and eating a large amount of rice is very heavy on the stomach and kidneys, and it is easy to cause edema, so it is better to eat less. Dr. Zhao, who was also awakened by the bump, broke the secret of Jiang Yunfeng's increase.