At five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Wen Bing and I set off to rush to Yang Xu's, during which I exchanged all the 500,000 yuan given to me by Shao Shuai into US dollars and took it with me, and met Yang Xu at 12 noon the next day, and the three of us flew together at half past two in the afternoon to rush to the battlefield where Yang Xu worked.

Due to Wen Bing's serious violent tendencies, even if he can communicate with people normally, I must not take him lightly, I did something in his drink, mixed a small amount of tranquilizers, but basically harmless.

When I was on the plane, Yang Xu and I sat in a row, Wen Bing sat behind us, I greeted the flight crew on the plane in advance, someone was responsible for taking care of Wen Bing, I could be a little more relaxed. After everyone was settled, Yang Xu secretly asked me, "What is your situation?" What do I think of the murderous look on the face of the man you brought with him, like a murderer? ”

I laughed and said, "You're serious, old classmate, he's just a lost little lamb, I'll take him to see the world, so that he can get lost." ”

Yang Xu pouted and said: "Big brother, you don't have to go to me if you let him see the world, that's not a joke, I almost lost my life several times, so let's tell you, we are actually the same as soldiers, the only difference is that I don't have a gun." ”

I was actually a little scared in my heart, but now it's too late to regret it, and the feeling of excitement seems to have a natural attraction to young people, all the exciting games in the playground are basically played by young people, but in order to ensure our safety, I still said to Yang Xu: "Do you have any bodyguards or anything like that, I can spend money to invite." ”

Yang Xu said with a smile: "Go to the battlefield to find bodyguards, your proposal is really fresh, but you can try it for the local people, money is still very attractive to them." ”

I asked, "I should be able to buy a gun there, right?" I'm trying to figure out how to defend myself. ”

Yang Xu said: "You can buy it, but I don't recommend you to buy it, people see you with a gun, people on both sides think you are one of them, and people on both sides kill you." You might as well buy a video camera like I did, and in general, those people don't kill war correspondents. ”

Although Yang Xu said this, I still made up my mind to buy a gun for self-defense, and I didn't take it out until it was a big deal.

In the second half of the night, everyone on the plane was drowsy, and I gradually became sleepy, and soon fell asleep. After a while, I suddenly heard a few strange laughs, and at first I thought that Wen Bing was in a hurry, so I quickly woke up.

I glanced back at Wen Bing, who was sleeping soundly, and then I heard the strange laugh just now, and since I was staring at Wen Bing, I could be sure that this laughter was not from him.

I hurriedly sat back in place, and then I suddenly found that Yang Xu next to me was smiling in his sleep, so I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to myself, as long as it wasn't Wen Bing, it didn't matter who laughed.

Yang Xu then suddenly said in his dream: "Kill, kill you all, hahaha......"

Then I laughed a few more weirdly, I saw that his face was a little hideous, and I was a little worried about him, but the war correspondent was under a lot of pressure, and it was normal for him to have such a reaction, so I stopped thinking about it and soon fell asleep again.

At three o'clock in the morning, we arrived in the closest city to the battlefield, and as soon as I got off the plane, I turned my watch to the local time zone. Yang Xu said that the city is still nearly 200 kilometers away from its final destination, and this distance is completely by car.

Yang Xu was familiar with the set, Wen Bing and I kept following him, and he soon found a medium-sized truck, which looked like it was transporting supplies. Yang Xu said something to the driver that we didn't understand, and then gave us gestures to let us get into the car.

After getting in the car, the three of us sat in the back row, and I said to Yang Xu: "When did you learn this language, it looks so amazing." ”

Yang Xu smiled: "Throw you in this kind of place, and you will basically be able to do it in a month." ”

We dangled in the truck for almost 6 hours before we reached our destination. A few of us got off the bus in a residential area. The moment I stepped out of the truck, I was so sore and numb that I almost couldn't stand up, and I fell to the ground, and when I recovered, I noticed that the residential area in front of me was full of devastation and embarrassment, and it looked like I was often baptized by war.

Yang Xu said to me, if you want to find a bodyguard, just look for it in this residential area, if I am not mistaken, the approximate price should be 500 US dollars to protect you for half a month, and the words of the two of you are 1000 US dollars.

I said directly: "Find three, help you find one, and I'll pay for it." ”

Yang Xu smiled: "No need, you two just protect yourself, I'm not used to it." ”

With the help of Yang Xu, Wen Bing and I found two local male residents, who were slightly older than me, and I paid them a one-time payment of $500 each, planning to stay here for half a month, and I also gave each of the three of us a set of body armor, this time Yang Xu did not refuse. In addition to this, I secretly bought a pistol and two boxes of ammunition.

A makeshift detachment of five of us began to move back and forth on the battlefield. In the first few days we were here, there were no large-scale confrontations, and we could hear a few gunshots occasionally, all of which were far from where we were.

Yang Xu said that the soldiers here are basically fighting guerrilla warfare, so it is difficult to capture valuable footage, and the more dense places are about 20 kilometers away from residential areas, but Yang Xu strongly recommends that we go there, because the mortality rate of both soldiers and war correspondents there is super high.

The five of us lived in an abandoned house, whose owner had died in the war. Every day, a 7 or 8-year-old boy would come and bring us food, and the child was the son of one of the bodyguards. I've been paying attention to Wen Bing's changes in the past few days, Wen Bing is obviously very interested in this place, and his eyes are starting to change a little, and I secretly rejoice in my heart that my method has begun to work.

On the ninth day after we came here, the gunfire began to get more and more intense, and Yang Xu said that the fighting had gradually spread here, and advised me and Wen Bing to leave. But before I could speak, Wen Bing flatly refused, saying that he loved this place and that he wanted to take some photos to document the story of what happened here.

Yang Xu helped him buy a SLR locally. In this barren land, many things are scarce, but there is no shortage of guns and cameras.

One day at noon, we were sleeping in the house, but suddenly heard a thick gunshot, which seemed to sound above our heads, Yang Xu immediately rushed out with a camera, Wen Bing and I and two bodyguards also ran out, we pushed open the door, and found that there were two teams of soldiers in a fierce battle, about 10 people on both sides.

Yang Xu said that this was the best time to shoot, so he wanted to get close to them, Wen Bing also wanted to follow, but suddenly found that he was in a hurry to come out and forgot to bring body armor, Yang Xu said to our bodyguards, let them go back to get it, one of them heard it, and immediately ran to the place where we lived, but he only ran a few steps, and suddenly heard a few gunshots, and the person immediately fell in a pool of blood.

The sudden movement of the bodyguard caused panic among the soldiers, and both sides thought he was an enemy, and both teams opened fire on him, and when the man fell, we found a little boy standing opposite us with a meal in his hand.

The man who fell was none other than the boy's father. It occurred to me that it was lunchtime, and that every day at this time, the little boy would come and bring us food.

I thought he was frightened when he saw that his father had been shot dead and did not move, but I saw that he immediately threw his food on the ground and cried and threw himself at his father, but he was soon shot and fell down, and the scene was extremely worrying.

Yang Xu had previously said that in this battlefield, the most ruthless thing is bullets, followed by soldiers.

A few of us hid under a bunker, and neither of us moved, and the soldiers fought for a while, killing a few others, and then both of us retreated.

When we felt that we were absolutely safe, we found a place to bury the father and son, who had just died, and at the same time found his home and left a sum of money for the child's mother.

For the safety of all of us, we evacuated to a relatively safe place, and on the way to evacuate, we saw a group of local people gathered around, feeling excited, as if something terrible had happened.

Yang Xu ran over to inquire about the situation, and when he came back, he said that a person who came to support here from outside the city was killed. For the common people, everyone who comes here from other places to provide supplies is a savior, and these supplies are mainly food and medicine. If it weren't for these people, the inhabitants would have starved to death or died of disease.

That night, we found and found a relatively spacious abandoned house to settle in, and there was no little boy to bring us food, so we had to ask the bodyguard to buy us food, but the bodyguard took the money and went out and never came back. Yang Xu felt that something was wrong, so he went out to look for it, and about half an hour later, Yang Xu came back with food, and Wen Bing immediately asked, "What about the bodyguard?" ”

Yang Xu said: "He died, he was killed not long after he went out, and the money was robbed, which is a common occurrence, and people here can kill people for a dozen dollars." ”

After dinner, Yang Xu quickly fell asleep, but Wen Bing and I didn't sleep for a long time. I told Wen Bing some stories, basically some warm stories, to calm Wen Bing's heart, in fact, also to calm my own heart, what we have experienced in these few days is really shocking, I am glad from the bottom of my heart that I am still alive.

Wen Bing listened to me tell the story, his eyes turned red when he listened to it, and tears flowed down, he cried for a long time before he squeezed out a few words from his mouth: "Tian Xin, thank you." ”

I knew that the time had come, so I hurriedly said, "Don't thank me, I just want you to understand that only when you see the real demon will you understand that you are not a demon." ”

The next morning, as soon as I Yang Xu woke up, I went up to discuss with him and asked him to help us find a car, because Wen Bing's state had recovered, and we didn't need to risk staying here anymore.

Yang Xu said no problem, I'll help you find it after eating, he was just about to go out to buy food, and suddenly rushed in a person, about ten years old, skinny and severely malnourished. He was holding a gun in his hand, and he kept saying things I didn't understand, I was frightened, and hurriedly asked Yang Xu what he was going to do?

Yang Xu was very calm and said, "It's nothing, I just want to grab some money to spend." ”

I hurriedly took out a few 100 yuan denomination dollars from my pocket, the man's eyes lit up, and he threw the gun to the ground when he missed, and then I saw Yang Xu quickly pick up the gun from the ground, and fired several shots at the person in succession, and the man died, and his eyes were still staring at the money in my hand.

At this time, I heard Yang Xu say: "Kill, kill all of you, hahaha......"