Mercenary War
Chapter 24
It was early in the morning when he arrived in Benghazi. After Gao Yang got off the plane, he felt a little cold and couldn''t help fighting a cold war.
In January, the temperature in Benghazi was also more than ten degrees, but in the early morning, it was about ten degrees. He was used to the high temperature on the Sudanese grassland. The temperature of ten degrees was too low for him.
After staying in a real hotel with Morgan, Gao Yang could finally sleep in a real bed, but Gao Yang didn''t sleep too long. At noon, he was invited to Morgan''s room by Bob.
When he saw Morgan, Gao Yang felt that Morgan didn''t look like a man of nearly 60 years old. Morgan, like him, experienced a highly stressful escape, and then took a long plane to get here. But Gao Yang was still depressed at this time, while Morgan was energetic.
Gao Yang sat opposite Morgan. After Gao Yang sat down, Morgan took out a stack of banknotes, put them on the table, pushed them to Gao Yang and said with a smile: "This is 6000 dollars. I still owe you 94000. Sorry, I don''t have much cash on me. Obviously, you can''t accept checks and transfers, but please rest assured. After you return home, just give me a call, and I''ll transfer the rest of the money to your account. I''ll pay the handling fee."
Looking at a stack of banknotes on the table, Gao Yang was a little stunned. He looked at Morgan and said, "Mr. Morgan, I don''t understand what you mean."
Morgan opened his hand and said, "I said that as long as you send me to Malakal, I will pay you $100000. I am a man of my word. You did it, so now is the time for me to fulfill my promise."
Gao Yang remembered that Morgan did say such words at that time, but he didn''t take Morgan''s words seriously at that time, but he didn''t expect Morgan to really fulfill his promise.
Gao Yang thought for a moment, put the money on the table in his pocket, and then said sincerely: "That''s enough, Mr. Morgan. I didn''t intend to ask for your money. Well, now I really need money, so I take these, but I don''t need the rest. I didn''t do anything. If it weren''t for you, Professor Barker and I couldn''t get to Malakal, and you took me away from Sudan, so I think we''ll just be even."
Morgan shook his head and said: "I like your attitude towards money, Gao, but I don''t like your attitude towards business. Friendship is friendship. Business is business. I proposed employment, but you didn''t object. Finally, I escorted me to Malakal. In this case, our business has been completed, so it''s natural for me to pay. We have to have the spirit of contract. And maybe you think It''s nothing to save a stranger from a group of people''s guns, but for me, you saved Bob and me. From a point of view, 100000 dollars seems a little less. However, it''s still the same sentence. Friendship is friendship, business is business, you take the money, and then I owe you another favor. "
Hearing Morgan''s words, Gao Yang nodded and said, "well, Mr. Morgan, I can only thank you for your generosity."
Morgan waved his hand and laughed: "Well, young man, Benghazi is neither a big city nor a colorful world, but for a person who has been on the grassland for three years, you must want to go out for a walk, go, buy clothes, and have some fun. The most important thing is to find a good restaurant to have a big meal. I think you must be hungry. It''s a pity. I''d like to invite you to eat and return to civilization The first big meal in the world, but unfortunately, I have to go out right away. "
As Morgan spoke, Bob winked and said, "Hey, brother, now you have a lot of money. Don''t you want to invite me to have fun?"
Gao Yang smiled, stood up, shook hands with Morgan, turned to Bob and said, "come on, whatever you want to do, it''s my treat."
The lobby of the hotel provides currency exchange business. After exchanging US dollars for some dinars, Gao Yang and Bob walked out of the hotel and strolled in the downtown of Benghazi. Gao Yang felt like an alien for a moment. Looking at the street where people come and go, Gao Yang couldn''t help sighing: "I always thought I couldn''t come back."
Bob shrugged and said, "don''t think too much. What you should do now is to celebrate, but first of all, you change your clothes and shoes. Now you look funny."
Gao Yang also felt a little cold. He agreed with Bob. He found a mall and bought a suit of clothes from inside to outside. However, Gao Yang didn''t buy new shoes. Instead, he bought jeans to make the clothes match boots.
After taking on a new look, Gao Yang and Bob began to discuss where to go. They both agreed that they should go to dinner and have a drink, but it was a little difficult where to go.
Looking at the shops and restaurants on the street, neither of them knew where to go. At this time, Bob said, "I have a very good suggestion. How about we go to eat Chinese food?"
"Very good, but where is the Huaxia hotel? We haven''t seen it all the way."
Bob looked around, then looked at his watch and said, "this is my first time abroad. I want to walk around. It''s still early. Why don''t we look while walking?"
Gao Yang didn''t have any opinion, so he strolled along with Bob. Slowly they came to a small street. Pedestrians became very rare. Looking at the empty street, Gao Yang suddenly remembered something.
"Hi, Bob, your father said that the situation in Libya is not very stable now. Let''s not go too far."
Bob said carelessly, "you saw just now that it looks unstable here. Will you go shopping when you want to fight? Look at the people in the shopping mall, I know there''s nothing."
Just as Bob''s voice fell, a large number of people suddenly poured out of the empty street, and countless people gathered in the street from the houses facing the street in the small alley, then held up the flag and shouted slogans. They looked very angry and headed in the same direction.
Gao Yang and Bob were stunned, and then they said "Falk" together
"I take back what I said just now. Something big has happened here. We have to leave quickly."
Gao Yang pulled Bob back a few steps and whispered, "keep your voice down, wait for them to pass, and then we''ll go in the opposite direction. Don''t you want to go to a place where they meet? When we get to a place with few people, we''ll go back to the hotel quickly."
Bob nodded and whispered, "unfortunately, we have to wait until they pass us."
Gao Yang and Bob didn''t move either. They stood by the wall and didn''t move under the gaze of countless people. Gao Yang was afraid that he would be attacked by those obviously angry guys because he was a foreigner. He was better, but Bob''s blonde hair was too eye-catching. It looked like a westerner.
Fortunately, Gao Yang was just eye-catching, but no one came forward to say anything or do something. Finally, after the street became empty again, Gao Yang wiped a cold sweat and said, "hurry, hurry."
And Bob ran in the opposite direction of the crowd for a long time. Gao Yang met four crowd gatherings along the way. Fortunately, they all passed by the crowd in the wrong direction, but what makes Gao Yang depressed is that these gathered crowds don''t seem to go in the same direction, so Gao Yang doesn''t know where to go.
The most terrible thing is that Gao Yang and the two of them lost their way and walked around in the streets of Benghazi. They didn''t know where they were. They had been meeting a large-scale crowd all the time. It''s impossible for them to find a taxi.
Once again, he met a team of about 100 people. Gao Yang pulled Bob''s clothes and whispered, "follow them, or we won''t go out for a day."
Although Gao Yang''s proposal was risky, Bob had no other way, so Gao Yang and Bob followed them far behind and wanted to go back to the main street.
Gao Yang soon found that his proposal was not very clever. The team they followed was getting bigger and bigger. When Gao Yang looked behind him, he was even more frightened. More people poured out from behind him. Now Gao Yang and they have become part of a large group of people.
Gao Yang pulled Bob''s sleeve and Nuo mouth. The two people began to slowly lean towards the edge of the crowd. Just when they reached the edge of the crowd, they also walked out of the labyrinth alley. A wide road appeared in front of them, but the road was filled with angry people at this time.
Back on the road, Gao Yang pulled Bob, and then the two began to trot. At this time, they didn''t care about the southeast and northwest, just wanted to leave these angry people as soon as possible.
Gao Yang and Bob tried not to attract other people''s attention. They walked carefully close to the side of the road. They walked a long way. Seeing that they had reached the periphery of the crowd and could leave soon, Bob suddenly pulled Gao Yang and stood in place.
"What''s the matter? Don''t go quickly."
When Gao Yang asked, he saw Bob''s face was pale. He pulled Gao Yang hard, and then whispered, "look behind you, there''s a Huaxia hotel."
Gao Yang was angry and anxious, and whispered, "you don''t want to eat now?"
"Next to the gate of the hotel, two people took out their guns. What should I do?"
Gao Yang slowly turned around and looked down Bob''s eyes, but next to a door with lanterns and decorated with Chinese flavor, there were beautiful pruned shrubs, like evergreen common in China, but now behind the shrubs, with the flicker of human shadow, two Black Muzzles slowly stretched out.