Chapter 256: The People's Security Army of Afghanistan
I remember someone once said with emotion: "A person's life is like walking on a road with countless forks in the road, it may be just a small choice, and in the end, life will be completely different." The old Red Army who said this had personal experience, when he and his brother were so poor that they happened to pass the soldiers at the door, so they decided to go to the army to eat food. It just so happened that my brother had a stomachache, so he told my younger brother to go first, and catch up with him as soon as it was convenient for him.
The younger brother joined the first team, which was called the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; And the elder brother participated in the second passing army, whose name was the Kuomintang Army. Since then, the two brothers have embarked on completely different paths, and their life experiences are very different. It was not until decades later that the elder brother, who had returned to the Celestial Empire from Taiwan, met his brother. During the banquet, he summed up his life experience, "In fact, it was just one time to go to the toilet."
And Xu Ping, who was frustrated in love just now, decided to become a civil servant in his first feeling, because although he was in the township this time, the serious government was more reliable than the previous public institutions. After a fall, he has grown up, and he will not make jokes again in the civil service of the Celestial Empire. Since then, Mr. Xu has become a township cadre, and then he will be transferred to the county industrial and commercial bureau because of his economic acumen and excellent writing, and because he is sleek and does not lose his sense of justice, he will continue to climb in the officialdom.
Because he did not have a prominent background, and at the same time married an ordinary wife, he mixed a small position in the city bureau unit. At the same time, she gave birth to an ordinary son, bought two houses at internal prices, and bought two ordinary family cars. Gangsters at work, playing ball with colleagues after work. Have a meal from time to time, and the whole family goes abroad to play during the children's holidays.
This is the ordinary life that most people dream of, Xu Ping is smart but not ambitious, otherwise he would not have a hobby of reading online literature, but would have read petty bourgeois books such as "Currency Wars" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
After making the initial choice, he bought a ticket online and planned to go home first, and then report to the county and town. An urgent notice arrives before he hits the road, and his fate is reversed.
"Son, your father has leukemia. We're going to go to the Imperial Capital Military General Hospital to have a look. Mom"
Xu Ping's eyes straightened. I didn't care about going to that county again, so I quickly changed my ticket to the imperial capital. After that, I accompanied my parents to several hospitals, and the conclusions I came to were not optimistic.
The hesitation of losing his lover and about to lose his father affected his mood. Under the pressure, the psychological hyun is likely to collapse. The guy named Tom called. Is it asking why there is no choice?
After learning about the specifics. Tom hesitated for a moment and told a secret: "I set up you to go to MIX Chemical Industries, which is part of the TDU Group. And there is a very well-known pharmaceutical company under the TDU Group. Testing of anti-cancer drugs is now underway. Although it has not been formally used in clinical practice, the effect of past drug use experience on testers is quite good.
And once you go to this company and become a regular employee, you can enjoy the internal benefits of this group, and your family members can use the drugs of the group's pharmaceutical companies for free! β
Faced with hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in treatment costs, my father's medical insurance can be said to be a drop in the bucket. After learning this, Xu Ping applied to join MIX Industrial Company.
After that, it's training, and then it's onboarding. Xu Ping's performance is excellent, and after some tests and investigations, the level in the TDU system is getting higher and higher. Because Xu Ping's second foreign language is Arabic, it is for this reason that he was quickly transferred to the external liaison department of TDU's headquarters.
The series of anti-cancer drugs developed by Landpis Pharmaceutical Company are the technological development functions brought by the party for the people from other worlds. Think about it, whether it's the Fallout world, the Command & Conquer world, or the DOOM world, humanity has long been successful in cloning technology and human genetic modification technology. The so-called cancer is just a malformed cell produced by the abnormal division of human cells.
This mutational state is both manageable and metallurgical for researchers at Landpis Pharmaceuticals. To this end, there are four new anti-cancer drugs in the first batch, corresponding to breast cancer, lymphoma, cervical cancer and blood cancer. Among them, breast cancer and cervical cancer, which are considered to be the easiest to treat by human beings, have an early cure rate of nearly 100% in the current level of human medicine! However, the drugs provided by the party for the people are not the effect of thorough treatment, and the level of drug treatment has been artificially reduced. The effect is that the cancer that was previously cured early and controlled in the middle can achieve a medium-term cure and a controllable effect in the late stage.
The therapeutic effect of these diseases is that you can be cured within one or two years in the middle and early stages, and you can successfully live for ten or twenty years by taking medicine regularly in the middle and late stages. This is undoubtedly an epoch-making step forward, and the world's top medical award will definitely be awarded to the researchers of Landpis.
Xu Ping didn't know these secrets, and he couldn't reach this level at his level. But seeing that my father's health improved greatly after taking the medicine, there was no problem at all with general light work and family work.
Judging from the company's internal materials, Xu Ping knew that these drugs were sold in the market. A bottle of medicine per quarter will cost at least 50,000 RMB! So he is very grateful to this company, and in the 21st century, there is still such a conscientious enterprise!
The TDU Group is swelling quite fast, and many of the employees, including their families, are taking various drugs and medical treatments under the Randpis pharmaceutical company. Even though the salaries of the companies in the group are not the highest compared to other companies, the centripetal force is far superior to that of other companies.
When he heard that there was a new project in Afghanistan that required him to make a trip, Xu Ping came to the country without any words. First he entered the country from Pakistan and then came to Kabul on a battered airliner. The local company directly arranged for a man named Ibrahim to take him to the western highlands.
"Bang bang bang", Xu Ping woke up from his memories, only to find that the man handed over a kettle and motioned for him to drink a little. The man thought he wasn't feeling well.
Ibrahim and the others returned to the pickup, laughing and talking. One of them sat in the back seat. The other two threw the pockets into the carriage and curled up in the back compartment with their guns in their hands.
The pickup truck started up and continued to drive towards the deep mountains, gradually connecting the radio signal to become intermittent. At this time, Xu Ping realized that although the person in the back was wrapped in a local robe, there was a sign on the arm of the uniform that read "APS".
Isn't APS an abbreviation for power supply? Xu Ping didn't understand it for a while, so he stared at it a few more times. Ibrahim glanced at it and replied, "That's Afghanistan's PeopleSecurity." β
This seems to be a direct translation of Chinese English, right? Security for the people of Afghanistan? Why is it so weird?
"Ibrasin, your English is really good. Where did you learn? Xu Ping decided to find a topic. He had always wanted to ask if this person could speak English fluently. Could it be that he studied abroad?
A sharp glint flashed in Ibrasin's eyes, and then vanished. "I used to learn some in the camp of the British army, and then I got through the training with the help of the company. β
Does the company also take care of English training? Xu Ping nodded, in various departments of the company. The lingua franca is English. If the language is not good, it is really affected. I heard about the company's English training. I didn't expect it to work pretty well.
"What did you do in the British Army? Is it considered an engineering maintenance worker? Xu Ping was embarrassed to ask if this colleague had been a traitor, so he had to turn around and ask.
"Hahaha, you guessed wrong." Ibrahim laughed. He spoke to the person in the back seat in the local language, and the person in the back laughed as well.
Xu Ping didn't understand a little, what was so ridiculous about his words? "And who are?"
"Me and the next few are all original Taban members, and they are the periphery of al-Qaeda!" Ibrahim held the steering wheel and stared at the road outside.
What the? Taban militants and al-Qaeda members? Depend on! Rely on! What kind of car did I get in? Xu Ping was shocked, the muscles in his body collapsed, and he subconsciously looked out the window, wondering if he had jumped out of the car.
The one in the back laughed louder and chatted happily with the driver. The driver smacked the steering wheel and made a big turn before he said, "That was before, and now I'm a Christian like you." We are brothers. β
Then he hugged Xu Ping, and then drove away, "If you had seen me three years ago, I would have arrested you and cut off your head little by little with a knife."
Xu Ping was terrified, this colleague could actually tell such a terrible message in a relaxed tone.
"What about the next three?"
Xu Ping repeatedly looked at the bearded man with the AKM rifle on his knee behind him, and only felt that he looked a bit like some uncle who turned off the lights.
"They are MSLs, but they are Ba'bists". Ibrahim replied, relighting a cigarette, "But the BΓ‘bis also recognize the scriptures of our Christians, so we can say that we are one." β
Fortunately! Fortunately, he said that he was a Christian, Xu Ping secretly wiped a handful of sweat, but in fact, he just participated in the youth fellowship out of curiosity in college. Someone on the Internet has said that sometimes it is somewhat useful to play the religious card when entering a foreign company, but I can't say that it is Buddhism or anything like that.
I finally figured out that these former Taban members are now local security personnel that TDU Group helped set up, at least that's what was written in the application. However, from the actions and demeanors of these people, Xu Ping could feel that they were all a group of veterans who had fought for several years, and all of them had a hint of bloodthirstiness.
"Beep" a few times, Ibrahim took out the satellite phone, began to answer, uh-huh a few times. He said a few words to the man behind him, then turned the car down a small road, and ten minutes later stopped at the foot of a certain hill.
At the foot of the hill were three cars parked, a Toyota cruiser, two Toyota pickup trucks. One of the rear buckets was equipped with a large-caliber DPK 12.7 mm heavy machine gun.
"Xu, take this." Ibrahim took an M16 rifle from the box in the back bucket and handed it to Xu Ping, "We're going to have a fight soon." (To be continued......)