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Smoke curls above the wasteland, and bonfires are like a falling morning light in the dim pre-dawn skylight. Gradually, at the end of the flat field, the sun peeked out, and the clouds hidden behind the night gradually rose to the sky, cascading like white sails out to sea.

Cheng Mo sat in front of the homemade "slate stove", like a blogger who was engaged in wild food broadcasting, and went all out to show his cooking skills. Athena and Khalid took the iron skewers of lamb skewers as forks, and feasted around the slate stove, no one thought that ordinary lamb skewers and roasted naan would be so delicious when heated by the slate.

Khalid chewed on mutton and roasted naan in his mouth, like a squirrel wrapped in pine nuts, and in the cold air he exhaled white air, and said with a happy face: "Mr. Rekcka, where did you learn how to cook, it's amazing! I have never eaten such fragrant lamb skewers and grilled naan......

Khalid's voice was slightly muffled because he still had unswallowed lamb in his mouth, and with the Saudi accent of his big tongue, it sounded like he was out of focus.

Cheng Mo had to ask, "What are you talking about?"

Khalid swallowed the lamb in his mouth, rolled his throat in satisfaction, and said, "I am complimenting you on your cooking skills, which is incredible! I never thought that such delicious food could be made out of stones......

"Thank you. ”

Khalid looked down at the charred slate, picked up a piece of mutton and a piece of roasted naan with an iron pick, and asked curiously, "Where did you learn this way?"

"Inspired by teppanyaki. The earliest of these cooking methods originated in Spain, when seafarers invented the method of pan-frying seafood on an iron plate in order to cook freshly caught fish. Later, this method was passed on to the Nichita, and they not only improved the teppanyaki, but also added chef juggling performances, making teppanyaki a fashionable and high-end dish. ”

"Chef..... Performing acrobatics?" Khalid was amazed.

"Yes, for example, use a spatula to pick up the egg repeatedly, like a clown throwing a ball, throw it several times, and then put the spatula upright, so that the egg falls right on the upward blade, and is split in half, but the shell will not break completely, and will be stuck on the spatula, only the egg liquid will flow down the sides of the spatula to the iron plate, and the chef will draw a beautiful figure with the egg wash to fry a seemingly artistic egg ......"

Khalid was dumbfounded, "In the future, I must try the real teppanyaki and see the chef's performance." Khalid took a bite of the oily lamb and the small pieces of charred dough on the iron skewers, and shook his head with his eyes closed, "Take my grandfather, my mother, and my sister and sister ......with me."

"There will definitely be a chance. Cheng Mo said as he put the fried mutton cubes and scones on Athena's side with an iron skewer so that she could eat them.

Athena, who was standing next to Cheng Mo, handed the iron pick to Cheng Mo and whispered, "I'm full." ”

"Good. Cheng Mo, who was sitting on the stone to make slate burning, took the iron stick, took it with another hand, took out a tissue from his pocket, and naturally held it to Athena.

Athena took the tissue and wiped her mouth.

Cheng Mo took out a plastic bottle from the bag at his feet and shook it, he raised his hand and gave the plastic bottle to Athena, "There is no coke, only cactus juice, which is also very greasy....."

Athena stared at the plastic bottle in Cheng Mo's hand, the green juice rippled in it, and the bright and unusual natural colors in the morning sun were really good-looking, if you take a photo with your mobile phone, the wasteland, the morning glow, the bonfire and this bottle of juice, with a small and fresh copy, it is definitely a poster that can detonate social networks, but unfortunately Athena is not a literary girl.

She took the plastic bottle, and immediately felt a chill, it was obvious that Cheng Mo had chilled it with skills, she unscrewed the cap, and drank two large sips, a bit like the fresh taste of mint is not worse than the impact of soda, plus the sweet and sour taste greatly relieves the oiliness of the mutton, when the cold and sticky juice slid into her mouth, she felt that the cells in her body trembled slightly, which felt like drinking ice in summer, as if every hair mouth was opened, and a comfortable pleasure spread throughout the body......

"Why do you feel happy?" Athena was puzzled, she raised the bottle and looked at it, yesterday she ate cactus fruit and thought it tasted average, how could she drink the juice of the water today and give her such a deep sense of satisfaction?

"I mean, you asked yesterday if you had honey and lemons, and you asked me to buy so many cactus fruits. So you're squeezing juice for Lady Wendy!" Khalid laughed, "Mr. Rekçka, are German men as gentle as you? I thought German men were serious and old-fashioned steel hunks......

Cheng Mo angrily denied: "I just want to give you a chance to make more money." ”

Khalid scratched his hair in disbelief that he was literally literal, "Yes? Thank you so much." ”

Cheng Mo said "You're welcome" casually, but Athena remembered that she asked Cheng Mo yesterday if he could buy Coke, he went down and asked Khalid, and after going upstairs, he told himself that he had to endure it, and he would go to Damascus, and then he went downstairs again, and only returned to the room after a long time. Athena's mind couldn't help but think of what Khalid had said, and she remembered the noon when she said goodbye to her mother, and she always wanted to know what her mother had felt when she made her dessert for the first time......

Athena was holding the cactus juice in a daze, and suddenly, she was a little curious about what Cheng Mo was thinking when she was cooking for her.

Do food and love really have anything to do with each other?

She felt that next time she needed to sneak a peek into Cheng Mo's heart.

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When the sun showed half a red face in the sky, Cheng Mo had also finished his breakfast, and he was just about to remove the stone slab placed on the stone block and put out the bonfire, when he heard Khalid hurriedly shouting: "Mr. Rektka, don't move.... Let me come, let me ......"

"What's wrong?" Cheng Mo asked.

Khalid smiled shyly and said, "I think there must be some magic in this slate, I have to take it with me, and when I get home, I can use it to make slate for my sister." ”

Cheng Mo thought that Khalid really loved his sister, but also, Afif is indeed a cute little cutie, and even Cheng Mo, who doesn't like children, will think that Alphaf is super cute. He could understand Khaled's feelings, but he still looked at the black slate and said honestly: "This is an ordinary slate." ”

"How is it possible, I have never seen such a flat natural stone slab, which is a miracle in itself......"

"Okay!" Cheng Mo couldn't tell Khalid that this slate was sharpened by him with the "Seven Sins Sect", so he could only shrug his shoulders and say, "I think you think it's particularly delicious, because the smoke of the firewood can add a unique smoky taste to the meat, and it has little to do with the slate, maybe the slate has a weaker temperature conduction than the iron plate or directly roasted, which is more conducive to locking in grease and moisture." ”

"I don't know much about that, I don't know anything about cooking. Khalid picked up a piece of wood and extinguished the campfire, "But it's incredible to find such a stone slab in such a wilderness, maybe it's some kind of artifact that will become an heirloom for our family in the future! ”

"You don't have to remember the reason, remember to use firewood when the time comes, and if you can, you can use cedar branches, which are rich in fat and will bring a more unique flavor to the barbecue....."

Khalid looked surprised, "Mr. Ryktka, you know so much, even we have cedars in Syria!"

"I just happen to be more interested in trees. Cheng Mo felt that he had talked a little too much, paused for a moment, and immediately changed the topic, "It seems that you attach great importance to your family." ”

"Of course, when my father dies and my grandfather and mother are old, I am the head of the family, and the Hadith teaches us that men should accompany and love their families and lead them to a good life.....

Cheng Mo knew that the Saint Laurent Church attached great importance to the family and emphasized the maintenance of family stability, and for Saint Laurent converts, the idea of prioritizing family over oneself was a virtue, and this concept was deeply rooted in the believers of this religion.

Of course, the extreme idea that everything can be sacrificed, including life, for the sake of the "Creator" is also deeply rooted in the hearts of believers, like a steel seal of thought. (Thought Seal: A concept in science fiction writer Liu Cixin's science fiction work "The Three-Body Problem", invented by wall-facing Bill Hines.) Make people religiously committed to a certain belief. ）

Cheng Mo had always had a negative view of "religion", so he had no intention of discussing it with Khalid, so he went to another bonfire to put out the fire, and waited for Khalid to put away the slate and prepare for the road.

At this time, the sun was about to completely leap out of the horizon, and a misty mist spread across the horizon, blurring the orange light and making the sun seem to be blurred.

Suddenly, there was a faint roar in his ears, and the earth trembled slightly. Cheng Mo stood on the side of the co-pilot, looking into the distance.

The view of the moor is wide, the horizon is like a half-arc, and the weedy piles and undulating low hills have been set with a flowing golden border by the morning sun. A veil-like mist rose below the sun, like rolling waves, and below the waves he fixed his eyes on a convoy of more than twenty jeeps with machine guns and pickup trucks with rapid-fire guns.

The speed of the convoy was extremely fast, and it instantly rushed out of the blurred halo of the morning sun, as if it suddenly jumped out of the center of the sun, and from a line of black shadows became extremely clear.

Cheng Mo condensed his energy in his eyes, and judged that the convoy was completely coming in their direction, and suddenly knew that something was wrong, and the opponent's target was most likely them, not the sentry behind them.

"Khalid, drive away immediately. Cheng Mo shouted in a low voice, but when he turned to open the car door, he saw Khalid standing on the side of the cab just raising his hands, and the stone slab that he regarded as a future heirloom fell on the wasteland with a shattering sound.

"It seems that I can't go!" said Khalid, in a trembling voice.

Cheng Mo looked at it, and it turned out that the machine guns in the outpost at the edge of the checkpoint were also aimed in their direction. Although no one in the outpost jumped out and said that you were not allowed to run, you didn't have to think about it to know what was going on. originally thought that it was the Zhengfu army that could protect them, and it happened to be the party that sold the news. Cheng Mo was accustomed to strong winds and waves, and he was not too surprised that the situation of Syria would be so erosive that there would be a free army on the main road, or colluded with the authorities......

Now is not the time to think about this, and the last thing that is lacking in war-torn places is the unexpected. In fact, he also considered whether to find a security team, but when there was no one to trust, it was more dangerous to do so, so it was better to keep a low profile and go on the road.

At this time, Athena also noticed the abnormality, pressed the window, and stared in the direction of the dust and smoke.

Cheng Mo raised his hand to push his glasses, only to remember that his flat glasses had fallen into the Mediterranean Sea two years ago, he put down his hand, did not look at Athena beside him, and said in French: "The situation has occurred before it has gone a hundred kilometers, which is really bad." ”

Athena's face did not have a trace of emotional fluctuations, but said coldly: "Kill them all?"

"Kill them all?" More or less Cheng Mo still had a grudge against Athena for throwing away his Uroboros, he rolled his eyes, "You are not the god blocking and killing the god now, the Buddha blocking and killing the Buddha The number one Athena on the heavenly list, you are now just a Tianlong man who is a little stronger than ordinary people, and you are 100% sure of killing them in the face of an army of hundreds of people?" Maybe they will get hurt, but since they come to the door, they will have to try. Saying that, Athena turned around, as if picking up something, and then pushed the car door and got out of the car, she stood by the car door and said, "Wait a minute, protect yourself....."

Cheng Mo lowered his head, and saw Athena hiding a few iron sticks in his sleeve, he looked at the approaching convoy and blanked his eyes, all kinds of thoughts flashed in his mind, thought for a while and said, "Don't do it yet." ”

"If you don't do it now, it's even harder to deal with it when you get in the car......"

"Killing them won't solve the problem, and maybe it will cause more and bigger trouble. Cheng Mo shook his head and said, "Anyway, they didn't want to kill us, most likely they received a tip-off that two foolish Germans had come, so they rushed over to kidnap us, so as to extort a sum .....of money from the German government."

"It's a nuisance. ”

"The more concise the mathematically solved problem, the more wisdom is needed, and the simpler the solution in reality, the more strength is needed, and in the case of insufficient strength, you can only carefully review the problem first, use the known conditions, and find the best solution to the problem, which is ......the same as doing math problems."

"So what?"

"So, we have to look at the group of people first, see what their purpose is, maybe killing them is not the best choice, besides, even if we want to kill them, we can't be in such a conspicuous place. ”

"Then I'll see how you solve the problem. Athena gave her hand, and the iron sticks slipped from their sleeves and fell into the low grass at her feet.

Cheng Mo thought to himself: "I don't mean to tell you to leave nothing behind!" But at this time, he didn't want to admit it, so he stopped discussing it with Athena. The two men stood side by side against the side of the pickup truck calmly, watching the convoy approach with the churning dust.

But suddenly, with the roar of the engine, the jeeps and pickups, which seemed to have been painted with a layer of dirty yellow paint, stopped not far from Cheng Mo and Athena in the shape of a half-moon, and the motorcycle team behind the car rushed up, and the knights wearing sunglasses and covering their faces with scarves twisted the handle vigorously, and the engine roared and kicked up a large cloud of dust, surrounding them in the center.

Those knights look like bandits robbing houses in the punk wasteland, but unfortunately their mounts are not sci-fi, they are all tattered things, which makes people very funny.

This kind of scene is countless notches worse than Cheng Mo being besieged by a group of cyborgs driving modified cars in Denmark, so he didn't feel scary at all, but felt a little middle two and funny, he calmly glanced at the "red, white, green" tricolor flag inserted on the motorcycle, and said in his heart: "It turned out to be a queer German ....."

In the middle, a man dressed in the traditional costume of a queer DePeshmeg warrior with a woollen bolero shirt over his shirt and trousers with a 45-caliber automatic pistol on the right side of the wide belt and a combat dagger on the left. His hair is relatively thin, messy in front of his forehead, his eyes are not large, still standard size eyes, probably caused by long-term use of sniper rifles, and his shallow beard is about to cover his cheeks, and he looks a bit like Saddam, the former commander of Irak.

The man who looked like Saddam Hussein stood in front of the Humvee and shouted a few words, and Khalid on the other side ran over with a roll, he obviously recognized the side of the Free Army by the banner, walked over to the man with his hands raised, and stammered: "Is Dr. Hazard here? My father is an acquaintance of Dr. Hazard.......

The man looked Khalid, who was sweating profusely, up and down, and said with a blank face: "Doctor Hazard was killed in the battle with the Jihadist Brigade last year. ”

Khalid tilted his head in pain, "I'm sorry, I ......"

The man didn't wait for Khalid to finish, then looked at Cheng Mo and Athena standing behind him and asked, "Who are they?"

"They're not lighthouse people, really, they have passports in the car. Khalid hurriedly said, he waved his hand, and said earnestly, "I am sorry for the doctor's death, he also treated me when I was a child......

The man said coldly, "I ask you who they are, meaning what they do, not what country they are!"

"They're just ordinary tourists!" Khalid pointed to Cheng Mo and Athena, "I wanted to go to Lebanon, but I just strayed into Syria." I'm sending them to Damascus for Lebanon now......" Khalid raised his hand, "They are not lighthouse people, and they have no ill will towards us in Syria!"

"Tourist who strayed?" the man sneered, "whatever the reason, as long as you are a heretic, you are guilty......"

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The motorcyclists who were spinning around had stopped, surrounded them, and raised their guns on alert. The noisy wasteland was calm, and Cheng Mo was able to hear the conversation between Khalid and the man very clearly. However, Syriya and Saudi are obviously the same language, but there are quite a few differences in grammar and pronunciation, roughly the difference between Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese, which are obviously the same language, but it is difficult to understand, and can only be guessed by pronunciation.

Combined with the expressions and movements of the two people and the actions of the moment, Cheng Mo listened to the content of the conversation between the two people, so when Khalid walked back dejectedly, Cheng Mo asked directly: "What do they need? money or weapons?"

Khalid paused, hesitated, and said, "They need medicine." He lowered his head to avoid Cheng Mo's gaze, and said in a difficult tone, "Say that as long as you cooperate with the pressure on the German government and ask the German government or charity to donate a batch of medicines, it will not be ..... to you."

Cheng Mo nodded and said in a low voice: "Khalid, there's no need to feel guilty, it's none of your business, you tell them, as long as you let you drive back, we will cooperate." ”

Khalid rolled his throat, still hanging his head and whispering, "They didn't mean to embarrass me. ”

Cheng Mo smiled, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, he opened the car door, picked up his backpack, took out a stack of euros wrapped in a plastic bag from it, walked over and stuffed them into Khalid's arms, "Then you can get paid and leave quickly!"

Khalid didn't answer, he looked up at Cheng Mo, and said with a look of shame: "Mr. Ryktka, I said that I would send you to Damascus, but I ......"

Cheng Mo put the money in Khalid's jacket pocket, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, just do your best." ”

Khalid's eyes were red, "Mr. Rekcka....."

Cheng Mo didn't like such a mother-in-law, so he walked over to "Saddam" with his hands raised and asked word by word in English: "Can you understand English?" I need to talk to your leader. ”

The man didn't speak immediately, he stared at Cheng Mo and glanced up and down, those eyes were as cold and ruthless as a goshawk looking down on his prey, and the two broom eyebrows added a bit of fierceness, as if he could take out the battle dagger inserted in his waist at any time and cut his throat, Cheng Mo also saw the same temperament in Mohammed Alvis, the ruthless temperament that had been refined in the war for many years.

When Cheng Mo was about to approach, a young man wearing a woolen hat stepped forward to stop him, groped around him, and took out two pistols before allowing Cheng Mo to continue walking.

When Cheng Mo calmly walked in front of the man, the man opened his eyes and said in a deep voice in English with a thick accent: "You are not a passenger who entered by mistake." ”

"Yes, definitely. Cheng Mo said without hesitation, "But the specific situation is more complicated, and our identity is indeed special." ”

"No matter how special it is, it doesn't work. We have to get what we want....."

"My companion and I are Interpol. Cheng Mo lowered his voice, "In order to track down the drug trafficking case, I mistakenly boarded a ship transporting arms, so I could only disembark in Latakia." ”

"Interpol?" This answer was very unexpected by the man, and a little surprise appeared on his grim dark face full of vicissitudes, and even his empty eyes widened a little.

As soon as Cheng Mo saw the banner of queer Germans, he knew the identity of "Interpol", which not only won him a lot of things, but also greatly relieved his existential crisis, after all, except for extremist organizations such as ISIS, other organizations will more or less do too outrageous things in order to win international sympathy. In particular, queer organizations are internationally reputable.

"Yes, I also have an Interpol certificate on me, assuming there is an Internet, you can also call to check ....."

"I'm not trying to extort money, it's just that the lighthouse man betrayed us and cut off not only our supply of supplies, but also the supply of medicines, and we urgently need medicine now......" The man's voice softened, "For the sake of our brothers and sisters, I have no choice...."

"Understandable. Cheng Mo shrugged his shoulders, "If you just need medicine, we are willing to help you get what you need." ”

"Thank you. The man said, and then he extended his hand to Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo also put down his hand and shook it with the other party's hand, it was a strong and extremely rough hand, so that Cheng Mo could clearly feel a kind of strength, he used a little force, and said seriously: "We also need to be treated reasonably." ”

"We're queer people and we've always been warm and generous with our friends. The man also squeezed Cheng Mo's hand hard, "My name is Tamer Haji Muhammad. ”

"My name is Leon Requetzka, you can call me Requetzka, because there are so many people who call Leon. ”

Tamer made a gesture of please, "Mr. Ryktka, then I'm very sorry, please come with you and your companion to our base and sit down, and when you successfully get the medicine we need, I will personally send you to Damascus." ”

Cheng Mo threw out the identity of "Interpol" not in the hope that the other party would let him go, but in the hope of gaining proper respect, as for the matter of drugs, he believed that as long as Athena could be called to contact the "Black Death", it would definitely not be a big problem. The important thing is to make the other party feel that he is not an ordinary person who can be manipulated at will, or a fat sheep who can blackmail without a bottom line.

"Wendy!" Cheng Mo turned around and waved his hand to Athena, and waited by the pickup for a while, and Athena, who was gradually getting impatient, walked over with a cold face.

Tamer turned his head and said a word in Syria, and jumped out of the car a heroic female soldier, she was tied with a headscarf, two willow eyebrows were picturesque, the bridge of the nose was high and small, and the face was small. In terms of appearance, of course, it can't be compared with Athena, but in Syria, she is definitely a great beauty.

It's clear she's popular in the queer army, and someone whistles. The female soldier gave her middle finger to the whistling man, held her M10 submachine gun, walked quickly in front of Athena, stopped Athena, and signaled for a search, but as soon as she raised her hand, Athena fell to the ground with lightning speed.

No one around reacted, and no one even saw how the female soldier had fallen to the ground. Only Cheng Mo saw Athena's movements clearly, but he didn't have time to stop it at all, so he could only turn his head and say with a wry smile to Tamer: "Mr. Tamer, I'm sorry, my companion's temper is not very good, I asked her to hand over the gun herself, there are so many of you, there is really no need to be afraid of a woman....."

Tamer didn't figure out what was going on, and hurriedly said something to the female soldier who fell to the ground with Syria, but he couldn't stop the beautiful female soldier from jumping up and attacking Athena again, and there was no accident, she fell into the dust again.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Cheng Mo hurriedly walked over, stopped in front of Athena, and said apologetically to the angry female soldier in Saudi: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, she doesn't like others to touch her very much, I asked her to hand over the gun herself." Then he turned to Athena and whispered to Athena in French, "Didn't you say that you would see me solve the problem?

"Then she can't touch me. ”

"Good, good. Cheng Mo nodded, "If you say you won't let me, give me the gun, I won't let her touch you." ”

Athena took out a pistol from the inside of the padded suit and handed it to Cheng Mo, who took the gun and handed it to the female soldier who was still angry, surrounded by coaxing sounds, as if encouraging the beautiful female soldier and Athena to continue fighting. Cheng Mo's head was as big as a fight, and he didn't care whether the other party understood it or not, he smiled and said: "Your leader said, we are friends and guests, is this how you queer people treat friends and guests?"

The beautiful female soldier gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, as if she was not going to give up, Tamer spoke, and she didn't know what she said, and the beautiful female soldier snatched the gun from Cheng Mo's hand and left angrily.

Zimmer pulled Athena towards Tamer's Humvee. The soldiers, who had been watching the excitement from the car, also returned to the car, and the motorcycle team that had turned off the fire also restarted, and the tractor-like engine roared through the sky, and the motorteam was ready to leave at any time.

As Cheng Mo and Athena walked to the Humvee, Tamer waved the two soldiers sitting in the back seat out of the way, and the two soldiers got out of the car and climbed onto the pickup trailer with rapid-fire guns on the side.

Cheng Mo grabbed the doorknob and was about to get into the car, but Khalid rushed over, he panted and said: "Mr. Rektka, let me go with you! I can still play a little role more or less....."

Cheng Mo turned his head to look at Khalid, "Isn't it good for you to take the money back now, the money given to you is enough for you to go to Europa......"

"I know, I know, that's why I'm with you all the more. Khalid said excitedly, "Otherwise, I will have a bad conscience." ”

"You'd better think about what you're doing. Cheng Mo said solemnly.

"My father taught me that a favor is not just a favor, it's a test," Khalid replied sincerely.

Cheng Mo looked at Tamer who was standing next to the passenger door, Tamer nodded and said, "He knows Dr. Hazard, as long as he doesn't do anything to be sorry for us queer people, we won't do anything to him." ”

Cheng Mo smiled and said, "Then my companion and I should continue to ride in Khalid's car." ”

"No problem. Tamel paused for a moment and said coldly, "But don't have any thoughts that you shouldn't have." ”

Cheng Mo ignored Tamer's threat, he pulled Athena back and walked towards Khalid's pickup, and the sweaty Khalid also followed Cheng Mo and Athena's footsteps.

Moments later, a normal pickup truck was sandwiched between the heavily armed convoy and headed deep into the wasteland.