Chapter 18: Suicide Bombers
Hearing the young man's words, Cai Ruichen instinctively frowned.
In this world, he has nothing to worry about, and when he comes to this damn Baghdad, he doesn't know anyone.
The young man in front of him looked harmless, but he couldn't explain it.
In a situation where the intertwining of forces in Iraq is extremely complex, the people's hearts and minds have long since disappeared.
Not to mention kindness or anything, even if you are a person with a good nature, if you stay in such an environment for a long time, you may be imperceptible.
But I also have to say that in this world, there are still more good people, and here in Iraq it is similar.
The haze brought about by the war and the pressure of life are indeed easy to make people go to extremes, but there are still a considerable number of people who just want to live well.
And these are the people who make up the majority of life in Iraq today, and no one knows better than them the value of peace, even though they have suffered from war.
It's just that the cruelty of reality makes them numb, and they struggle for three meals a day every day.
But Cai Ruichen is absolutely sure that this guy who suddenly appeared and said that someone wanted to see him must represent a certain party.
"Who told you to come?" Cai Ruichen did not say whether he agreed, but asked.
"We really don't have any ill will, please follow me." Harlan continued amicably.
"I'm sorry, if you don't tell me who wants to see me, I can't go with you." Cai Ruichen said very calmly, ignoring this young man named Harun, he was about to enter the grocery store.
At this moment, at the intersection, which was only about one hundred and fifty meters away from them, a nervous shout suddenly sounded.
On the quiet street, as soon as the shouts came out, it naturally attracted everyone's attention.
An armed SUV, two armed pickup trucks, parked at this intersection, twelve armed men, three of them all standing on the armed vehicles, manipulating machine guns, aimed at a middle-aged man who was walking towards them.
The other nine armed men also stood in a fan shape, and their guns were also aimed at the middle-aged man.
The shouting came from the mouth of one of the armed men, and it was nothing more than telling the middle-aged man to stop and kneel.
And the middle-aged man's blank eyes continued to slowly approach them, and in his hand, there was a mobile phone.
What really alarmed these armed personnel was that although the middle-aged man was wearing a fairly straight suit, there was an irregular bulge on the outside of the suit.
This has to make everyone mention the spirit of twelve.
At the same time, the general beside Cai Ruichen showed his hideous fangs, staring at the middle-aged man, and the hair on his body stood up slightly.
This was a danger signal, Cai Ruichen immediately squatted down and untied the chain from the collar around the general's neck, and at the same time comforted the general and told him not to move.
"Don't be nervous, be quiet."
The general's attack posture obviously shows the danger of this middle-aged man, but no matter who this middle-aged man is, it has nothing to do with him.
With these armed men to deal with it, he is just a spectator in the end.
And those armed men, it seemed that someone recognized the middle-aged man, and kept telling him to stop, even if the middle-aged man was still slowly moving forward, they didn't shoot.
At this time, Harun had already taken refuge in the corner of the street, and Cai Ruichen, under the protection of Elleyesel, continued to stay away from the intersection for more than ten meters with the general.
At the intersection, the situation had reached a tense stage, and the middle-aged man had approached the armed men less than fifty meters, and his footsteps still had no intention of stopping.
At this time, all these armed men scattered at the first time, widening the distance between them and the middle-aged man.
Let this middle-aged man come to the crossroads, and one of the armed pickup trucks retreated not far from Cai Ruichen.
The Iraqis who were close to the intersection were also driven hundreds of meters away by the armed men at the intersection.
Soon only the middle-aged man was left at the entire intersection, and everyone, including the armed men, all retreated far away.
A hundred meters, with the power of most suicide bombers, is barely a safe distance.
At this moment, these armed men can already be sure that this middle-aged man has a bomb strapped to him, and whether it is the middle-aged man's own will, the fate will be the same.
The middle-aged man at the intersection, standing in the center of the intersection, did not move anymore.
Cai Ruichen saw such a scene for the first time, and he didn't know what the situation was.
At this time, when he retreated to the pickup truck not far from him, the megaphone sounded: "Alimu, what's going on?" ”
Hearing the sound of the horn, the middle-aged man at the intersection looked over with a desperate face, a few tears slipped down his face, and the vicissitudes of life wept slightly.
"Alimu, speak up and see if we can help you."
The horn on the pickup truck shouted again, but the middle-aged man named Alimu shook his head slightly, as if to say, you can't help me.
At this time, Cai Ruichen also heard these armed personnel and was asking for help from the bomb disposal unit of the Iraqi government army through the radio.
There is a railway station in the town of Marin, where government forces have set up a bomb disposal unit, which is part of the Iraqi armed police force, despite being controlled by armed men.
At the same time, this bomb disposal unit also pays attention to the highway from Mosul, an important city in the north, to Baghdad on a daily basis, and often sets up checkpoints on the highway to check vehicles entering Baghdad.
After receiving the notification from these armed men, Cai Ruichen heard the radio response that he would arrive as soon as possible.
Next, these armed men kept calming the emotions of the middle-aged Alimu, but Alimu stood quietly in the center of the intersection, holding tears of despair.
Ten minutes later, a Humvee bulletproof vehicle drove quickly, and four Iraqis wearing Iraqi police uniforms quickly got out of the car.
One of them started to put on body armor, and under the alert of other armed men and police, the bomb disposal policeman wearing body armor walked slowly towards the intersection.
Seeing the arrival of the bomb disposal personnel, the middle-aged man, who was already desperate, began to have a desire to survive in his eyes. Hope.
Under the persecution of death, he was about to collapse, and finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Help me, I don't want to die, I have a family, my wife and children need my job to support them, please, help me...... They forced me to come here, or they would kill my wife and son......"
Alimu, who was a little out of control, kept crying at the bomb disposal personnel.
On the pickup truck's side, the armed personnel also continued to calm Alimu's emotions, but where could he listen at the moment, he finally saw a glimmer of light in his despair, and he couldn't stop at all.
Just when the bomb disposal personnel approached to be fifty meters away from Alimu, Alimu, who was shouting frantically, looked at the time on his mobile phone, and the desire to survive just appeared on his face. Hope will be completely replaced by dead ashes.
Kneeling down with weak legs, the voice of crying was replaced with "It's too late, it's too late......"
The last tears flowed, and he slowly raised his head, fascinated his eyes, and prayed.
Seeing this scene, the bomb disposal police also seemed to understand something, and turned around and ran back directly.
But it was too late, a huge explosion broke out in an instant with a strong earthquake, and Cai Ruichen, who had already experienced heavy artillery in virtual reality, was very familiar with such a picture.
The dust and smoke of the explosion instantly dispersed with a powerful wave of air, and the few building glasses were completely shattered, and the powerful explosion made everyone feel their hearts beat hard.
Almost everything within 100 meters of the center of the explosion was swept up by the air waves, and the dust and smoke covered everything inside.
Such a powerful explosion was enough to kill everyone within a radius of a hundred meters, but fortunately, these armed men were very experienced and dispersed everyone around them.
This is the first time that Cai Ruichen has felt the power of gunpowder at close range in reality, more than 150 meters away from the center of the explosion, he only felt a tightness in his chest during the explosion, and he did not suffer any damage.
When the dust and smoke of the explosion slowly cleared, the bomb disposal police were blown up from more than 60 to a position of 80 meters.
Seeing the middle-aged man who had long since disappeared without a trace, and the bomb disposal policeman who fell to the ground, Cai Ruichen realized that in his eyes, two people had lost their lives.
Seeing the other three bomb disposal personnel hurriedly running forward, Cai Ruichen shook his head.
The middle-aged man must have been wiped out, and the bomb disposal police, who were only sixty meters away from the center of the explosion, had no chance of surviving, and the Kelarf bulletproof armor on his body could block the shrapnel, but at such a distance, the power of the explosion was enough to shock the people inside to death.
"Mr. Cai, you can't stay here for long, please come with me, it is our elder who wants to see you, and there is absolutely no malice."
After the explosion, Harlan immediately ran to Cai Ruichen's side and said very quietly.