Although he was very doubtful about Ibrahim's identity, Qin Fei had to admire the ability of this bearded guy who looked like he was bragging about not paying taxes.
Ibrahim quickly found a truck for Qin Fei. According to Chen Yong, there were three friends with his uncle, which meant that one truck was enough to carry these people away.
If you're lucky, maybe you can return to the dock before noon tomorrow and take people out of this ghost place.
Due to being bombed by F-15C fighter jets, the port of Hodeidah now seems unsafe. The soldiers of the Youth Army unloaded the weapons and ammunition on the ship as quickly as possible, and the "Dolphin" left the port and sailed to the high seas
wait.
Qin Fei and others got into the truck together with Ibrahim and his two bodyguards. The truck was an old-fashioned Soviet-made Ural truck with an khaki tarpaulin covering the compartment.
The two bodyguards and Ibrahim got into the cab, and everyone else in the X mercenary group hid in the car.
In Ibrahim's words, this is for safety reasons. After all, whether it is government troops or rebel forces, they will intercept a group of fully armed mercenaries. Hiding can avoid trouble as much as possible. Once they encounter a checkpoint or an army
Like that, Ibrahim will take care of everything.
The entire rescue operation went very smoothly. The car headed east on Highway 3. Apart from the ragged road which made people feel like their butts were being cracked, they did not encounter any trouble.
From Hudaydah Port to Maitan, you have to pass through the two cities of Bajil and Manahai. However, Nomen is now in a war, and all the larger cities have become the focus of competition between the two sides.
Ibrahim chose to bypass the city and pass through the war zone through some more remote roads to avoid unnecessary trouble.
At four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, Qin Fei and others had already arrived in Maitan.
The Ural truck stopped behind a slope. Ibrahim got out of the truck and walked to the back of the truck to lift the tarp.
"Qin, I can only send you here."
Qin Fei and others jumped out of the car and looked around. There seemed to be sporadic lights in the distance, and there were gunshots and explosions.
"What is this place?"
"Outside the city of Maitan, there are still five kilometers away from the city..." Ibrahim pointed to a place with a little light in the distance and said: "That's where you want to go."
"Aren't you going in with us?" Qin Fei asked.
"No, no, no, I won't go in with you. It's a mess inside now. No matter how capable I am, bullets don't have eyes in the dark. I don't want to take your money and spend it with my life." Ibrahim's head
It shook into a rattle.
There is nothing wrong with Ibrahim's approach. Everyone is afraid of death. Although he is very popular in Yemen, he does not have his own name on his head, so he may easily be killed accidentally at night.
But if this guy doesn't follow me in, how will he find Chen Yong's uncle?
"Ibrahim, I'm not familiar with the situation in Maitan, and there's no way I can find the person I'm looking for." Qin Fei said, "Maybe you should find me a guide."
"Don't you have an address? You also have a GPS, right?" Ibrahim said.
Qin Fei knew that it was actually difficult to locate with these things. Although the GPS was accurate, once a war broke out in the city, ruins would be everywhere. Streets and house numbers might no longer exist, so how could he still find them?
"These things are of no use here."
"Don't worry, I have already considered this situation. I have contacted an armed force nearby. They will send a person to be your guide, but you have to pay him some money." Ibrahim said.
.
Qin Fei asked: "How much?"
"Not much, just a thousand dollars." Ibrahim said: "The money here is worthless now. For a thousand dollars, someone will sacrifice their life for you."
"Okay, I agree." Qin Fei had already prepared some cash for emergencies. He took out a stack of hundred-dollar bills from his pocket and counted ten of them.
"Where's the guide?"
Ibrahim looked at his watch and then looked toward the road.
"It should be here soon. I contacted them before getting off the bus."
Sure enough, after everyone had been waiting next to the slope for about ten minutes, the sound of a motor came from the road.
Soon, an armed pickup truck drove to the road next to the slope and slowly stopped.
Qin Fei, Lao Yu and others hid behind the slope, all their guns aimed at the truck.
"Armand!" Ibrahim squatted behind the slope and shouted towards the road: "Is it Armand?!"
"Yes, it's me!" the person in the car replied gruffly.
"I'm all right." Ibrahim heard a familiar voice and turned to Qin Fei and others: "The guide you want is here."
After saying that, after walking out of the slope, he hugged the person who jumped out of the car and greeted him as a greeting.
"These are the people you said you wanted to hire as guides?" Armand, who was wearing a khaki combat uniform and an Arab headscarf around his head, pointed at Qin Fei and others, his eyes involuntarily looking at the advanced weapons and equipment on the strangers in front of him.
"How does it look like a special forces force?" He couldn't help but muttered.
"Ah, these are Mr. Victor's friends." Ibrahim said: "He asked me to help him with this favor. Their friends are from country Z and came here to do business. They didn't expect to be trapped here by the war.
, they came to take people away.”
Hearing that he was a friend of Victor, Armand became less vigilant. After all, Victor was an arms dealer they were familiar with. Many rebel branches in Yemen had bought weapons from Victor, so they knew it was a European
Since he is a friend of the big arms dealer, it is not surprising that his equipment is better.
"People from Country Z?" Armand said: "People from Country Z have evacuated their nationals a few days ago. They have their warships in the ports of Hodeidah and Aden. Why don't their friends leave with the warships?"
"They had some private matters to deal with in Maitan. They didn't expect the war to spread so quickly." Ibrahim said: "They just rescued people and didn't want to get involved in any war. Brother Armand, they are willing to pay a thousand dollars to find a guide.
Go to the city to find people, you can help them."
"That's no problem, we don't hate people from country Z." Armand turned back to the car and shouted: "Ali! Come here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a short man jumped out of the car. His movements seemed quite agile, and he ran in front of everyone like a rabbit.
"This is Ali." Armand said as he took the thousand dollars from Qin Fei's hand, then took out two and stuffed them into the hands of the soldier named Ali.
"He will take you into the city. Do you have the address?"
Qin Fei handed over the address written by Uncle Chen Yong. Armand looked at it and saw that it was in English, so he handed it to Ibrahim. Ibrahim acted as a translator and told Armand the specific address in Arabic.
"There are government snipers operating in that neighborhood. There was a fierce battle there just today, and we haven't captured it yet." Armand looked at Ibrahim and said, "That is a dangerous place.
I think maybe their friend is dead."
Ibrahim told Qin Fei what Armand meant. Qin Fei shook his head and said: "If you want to see people alive, you want to see corpses if you die, you tell him that we must go in."
Ibrahim spread his hands and turned around to speak to Armand again, telling him that Qin Fei and others insisted on entering the city.
"It's up to you. Anyway, Ali is responsible for taking you in. As for whether they can find someone, it depends on their luck." Armand said to Ibrahim: "Do any of them understand Arabic? Ali doesn't know English."