After Snow Leopard and the others solved the third stronghold, Omar couldn't sit still. He took the initiative to contact Canglong: "What exactly do you want to do, declare war with us?"
"No, I have already warned you, and my warnings are always accompanied by actions. If you don't want other al-Qaeda members in Basra Province to be massacred by my people, just get out of here." Canglong said unceremoniously. In the eyes of Americans, you are tough and hungry wolves, but in our eyes, you are just lambs waiting to be slaughtered."
On the other end of the phone, Omar fell silent. After an unknown amount of time, he finally softened his words: "I will order my brothers to withdraw from Basra Province, but don't go too far."
"As long as you don't block my steps, we won't interfere with the river. By the way, let your people leave something behind when they evacuate." Canglong said calmly, "Just say that this is the prophet's will."
"What do you want to do according to the prophet's will?" Omar suddenly became angry. "Are you blaspheming the prophet? I will not agree to it."
"No, I'm just asking you to find a reasonable excuse. Don't you guys do this often? It doesn't matter if you do it one more time, right?" Canglong said with a smile.
Omar hung up the phone angrily. Apparently he had kept his agreement with Canglong. After the Al Qaeda terrorists evacuated, they left some things behind, and these things happened to be discovered by local residents, so they spread the news. According to legend, a miracle occurred in Basra Province, and the prophet was about to arrive, and al-Qaeda took the initiative to leave Basra Province.
Before the founding of Islam, the emergence of the Prophet Muhammad successfully prevented wars, unified Arabia, and eliminated poverty and hunger for the Arabs, making them stronger.
On the next day, more people received the revelation from Allah. This revelation was of course just a dream. The content of the dream was exactly the same. The prophet was about to come and perform miracles to end the war in Iraq. Then some people will The evacuation of Al Qaeda was associated with this dream, so people in Basra became even more convinced that the prophet was about to come.
"What happened to these Iraqis?" A week later, in the safe house, members of Team B looked at the people of Basra who were all wearing halal clothes and were puzzled, "Is it just because of a dream?"
Within a week, more people had this dream. When they announced it to each other, they found that they all had the same dream. So the Islamic elders in Basra spontaneously organized to start praying at the mosque in the city center and commemorate the birth of the prophet. place for pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
In just an instant, a team of tens of thousands of people gathered, including Shias and Sunnis. In normal times, people from the two groups would despise each other when they saw each other, but now they actually live in peace and go to the mosque together. Even the conflicts between the security forces and the Badr Brigade stopped because of the pilgrimage of countless people.
The chaos that lasted for a week disappeared, and such worship activities took place in all the major mosques in Basra Province. People silently recited something and were very pious.
The safe house where Team B is located is not far from the mosque, and now the street under the safe house has been blocked and people cannot enter the mosque, so they start to worship in one direction around the mosque, so the members of Team B So surprised.
"Faith is really a terrible thing." Snow Leopard murmured to himself. In modern society, this is definitely a heroic spectacle. Although there are many such pilgrims in the holy cities of Islam, they are indeed the first They saw it for the first time, and they could feel the piety of these worshipers.
"This is not a strange thing in Arab countries. Americans always preach that Muslims are crazy, but in fact, the teachings of Islam do not promote violence. On the contrary, the teachings of Islam and other major religions They are all the same. What they preach is peace, truth, goodness and beauty. If we want to talk about piety, no believer of any sect is as pious as Islamists, at least until now, that is the case." Bai Wuchang was not surprised at all.
"Aren't those terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda all Muslims who believe in Islam?" At this moment, Tang Long asked in confusion, "The Americans are right, they are creating terrorist attacks everywhere."
"If your country continues to receive aggression and oppression, will you choose to be a silent lamb, or will you roar with anger at the world and become a ferocious lion?" Bai Wuchang stared at him coldly and asked. .
Tang Long did not answer, because his answer was the latter. Teacher Cang taught them, in one sentence, when you encounter unfair treatment, resist until the lamb turns into a lion.
"But because of a dream, it's too unrealistic." Su Su said with disdain, "Do they really believe that the so-called prophet will come? How old is this?"
"Muslims have the purest faith, so it is easy for them to believe in certain things. But" Bai Wuchang shook his head and was no longer watching this scene. Everyone looked at him strangely. A Russian actually made such a mistake in the room. and worshiped with the same piety as the people below.
"It's just taking advantage of the people behind this pure belief. It's very evil." Xiami, who had been sitting silently, suddenly said.
So they turned the question to who was taking advantage of the beliefs behind it. They looked at Xiami, and Xiami said in a general way: "Whoever becomes the prophet in the end is taking advantage of these beliefs."
"I'm afraid you won't even guess that this person is actually someone." Vivian suddenly thought of something.
But before he could finish speaking, Cang Long who walked out of the room suddenly interrupted her: "No matter who uses this faith, if he can really bring peace here, he is a true prophet, I said Is it right."
Only Tang Long nodded, and no one else spoke. Then Cang Long said: "Stop watching tricks here. Which of you is willing to go to Badr with me?"
No one agreed, even Hei Wuchang just continued to eat his own food. He seemed not interested in any so-called wonders other than eating.
Canglong originally wanted to drag Vivian along, but she didn't expect that Vivian ignored her at all. Instead, her face was full of sarcasm and ridicule, as if she was scolding him for his shamelessness. Then Xiami suddenly said: "I'll go with you."
"Okay." Canglong said and looked at Snow Leopard, "You move quickly to the Rumaila oil field in Zubair."
After the two people left the safe house, they didn't say anything along the way. Facing the devout Muslims, they did not rush forward. Because the traffic was completely blocked, they could only walk there. When they were halfway there, Xiami suddenly said: "You He’s the one who made the prophet, right?”
Canglong didn't have any strange reaction, he just smiled without denying or affirming, but Xiami got his answer and continued: "Can you tell me how you created this dream."
Hearing this, Cang Long said expressionlessly: "Because of war and desire, the dream appeared."
"Be specific."
"You should know that there was no such thing as God a long time ago, right?" Canglong said as he walked.
"Then what."
"God is just a kind of belief. When people who believe appear and then continue to increase, people will worship. The emergence of belief is often due to people's desire, perhaps because reality is not satisfied, or perhaps because of hunger. When suffering a disaster, even though many people know that God does not actually exist, in order to give people hope of survival, the rulers must create a God so that people can believe in it without any doubt." Canglong said with a smile.
Xiami nodded: "It turns out that the process of creating dreams is the same as the process of creating beliefs and gods. I'm so stupid that I only thought about it now. That woman Vivian seems to have seen through your tricks a long time ago."
"You are right, but the faith of the people of Basra has existed for a long time. It's just that they are too eager for peace now, too eager for the disappearance of war, and too eager for peace, so I just asked people to spread rumors, saying that someone had a dream, As for who this person is, it doesn’t matter. What’s important is that when people are desperate, a hope suddenly appears and resonance will appear. According to our Chinese understanding, dreams are what we think and expect in reality." Canglong said calmly. .
"So Vivian thinks you are shamelessly taking advantage of these people with pure beliefs, right?" Xiami said strangely, "But what I'm surprised about is, since they have such deep beliefs, who would spread blasphemy for you? What lies in their hearts about God?”
"Maybe not in peacetime, but in this city, you can easily catch a lot of them." Canglong didn't care.
"Are you going to be this prophet?" Xiami asked again.
Canglong stopped, glanced at him, smiled but said nothing, and walked straight to Badr's villa, but Xiami got the answer from Canglong's eyes.
When they saw Bader, Bader was pacing the villa very worriedly. Seeing Canglong arriving, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he still made a polite gesture to Canglong, and then said: "Although I I strongly disagree with your blasphemous behavior, but I still want to ask you what you want to do next."
"Show a miracle." Canglong smiled.
This made Xiami who was following behind a little puzzled. Canglong really thought he was a god.
Badr didn't understand even more: "You really think of yourself as a god."
"Before Prophet Muhammad became a prophet, wasn't he just an ordinary person? But after he became a prophet, everything he did was a miracle. Why is this?" Canglong asked.
Badr shook his head, and even Xiami was puzzled. Canglong smiled and said: "It's very simple, because he did things that people longed to achieve. Because of gratitude and faith, these things he did naturally became gods." has disappeared, so what we are about to do is also very simple: eliminate chaos, relieve hunger and poverty.”
Canglong said a lot. Although General Bader was very uncomfortable because Canglong explained what they believed in in such a vulgar way and used it, it would probably be uncomfortable for anyone else, but this is the fact, at least Canglong It has successfully prevented the conflict between Shias and Sunnis. Although it is only temporary now, in the long run, if Canglong really achieves what he said, it will no longer be temporary.
What's more, what surprised Badr the most was Canglong. In less than a week, Al Qaeda completely disappeared in Basra, and some so-called miracles were left behind. At that time, Badr really suspected Canglong.