Chapter Twenty-Five on the Causes of War
Faced with Hawke's questioning, Ji Kefeng had the impulse to drag him into the river and drowned. When no one answered, Andrew took the lead in expressing his opinion that he could not agree.
"I refuse." Andrew's expression was firm, "Mr. Hawke, you should understand that I am different from them. I am a United Nations staff member. If I promise to be 'friends' with people from the CIA, once things are exposed, they will not only violate the code of confidentiality, but will also cause unnecessary international disputes!"
Hawke nodded, expressing his understanding, and then looked at the others, although he also wanted to understand why a certain unit of the United Nations was so interested in what happened in Astaya?
"I agree..." Gu Huaiyi looked at Hawke and patted his palm, "But just me, I can't represent anyone else."
Tang Shuxing raised his hand: "I agree too." Can they get out of here if they don't agree? No.
When Ji Kefeng and Tian Yehan saw Tang Shuxing agree, they had to nod. They understood that Tang Shuxing was a person who knew how to do business and would be cost-effective. As long as he dared to nod, he meant that he was confident and knew how to deal with it.
"Thank you very much, but I have to say in advance that I will not command you to act, I just get information from you. In addition, if there is any military operation or arrest operation, I will inform you in advance." Hawke said and turned around and went into the water. "You are just helping me, not threatened by me, and I hope you all understand."
OK! You bastard who took advantage of the situation and said he was good-willed! Tang Shuxing smiled at him, and then began to cross the river with others.
Ji Kefeng was in the water as if he had returned to his territory. Before the others agreed, he took Andrew to swim to the other side, and then took Hawk with him. Except for Gu Huaiyi, he took everyone to the other side, and it took only a few minutes, and Gu Huaiyi also swam quickly across the river.
Hawke looked at Ji Kefeng, who was swimming faster than dolphins in the water. In fact, when Tang Shuxing jumped out of the helicopter and rushed towards the armed pickup truck, and finally dealt with the four people, Hawke knew that this group of people was not simple, and the internal affairs of Shangdu were far more complicated than he thought.
"Some things will be told you after we arrive in Somalia safely. That is very precious information." Gu Huaiyi patted Hawk's shoulder and looked up at the war-torn Alanya in the distance, "Let's go, we have to travel through the death trap everywhere."
On the way towards Alanya, people can see the shots from time to time. They can see seven or eight corpses almost a hundred meters, but they are rarely soldiers or militants. Almost all are civilians, most of them are women and children. Most of them have been humiliated by the attackers, and they are naked and corpses in the wilderness.
Clothes and other worthless and useless objects were scattered around these corpses. The attackers took away what they needed and could not tell what faction was doing, because in war-torn areas, most of them would end up like this if they did not follow the large number of refugees to escape.
Andrew, Hawke, Tian Yehan and Gu Huaiyi have long been used to this kind of scene, but Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng are still very uncomfortable when they see it, because the killing methods of these attackers are too cruel, almost all of them are torture and killing, and even two or three-year-old children are not spared. Just looking at them, you can hear the screams and howlings of these people before their deaths and the murderers' crazy laughter.
"Humans are born fighting animals." Tian Yehan looked around and said, "In a country that enjoys peace, there are a large number of people who advocate war and look forward to going to the battlefield with guns in the next second."
"That's because they've never experienced a real war." Andrew said coldly, "Even if you let them witness the war with your own eyes, they won't feel cruel, they just think it's cool. They think the best way to get something is to kill the other party and then snatch it away, because it's not them who are hurt."
"Have you ever seen it with your own eyes?" Hawke looked at the others, "Many people have studied for their whole lives why there are wars, different ethnic groups, different skin colors, and different beliefs? Or as Tian Yehan said, humans are fighting animals in the final analysis... There were two small warlords in Somalia at that time, and they were originally allies, because the colors they chose on their respective banners were hated by the other party, and they quarreled about it and eventually turned into armed conflict."
The two warlords each found high-sounding reasons to start a war. One side said that the other side was not really thinking about the people in their territory, and the other side said that the other side bullied the people and forced heavy taxes, so they fought. The winner finally won after paying a huge price and captured many soldiers from the other side. After sending some healthy prisoners to the mine as hard work, the remaining group was blindfolded and caught up with the pedals of the crusher at the end.
"Do you know what a crusher is? It's the kind of stone crushing in the mine." Hawk stopped, looked at the body of a child in front of him, leaned over and covered the child with a white cloth, and then squatted there and continued, "The prisoners were thrown into the crusher one by one, except for the sound of crushing flesh and blood, and didn't even scream, because when you didn't have time to shout out, your head was crushed, but strangely, after crushing about 40 people, the crusher actually broke. Is it weird? The crusher that can crush hundreds of tons of stones will be damaged by crushing people's bodies."
It was 1993, when the situation in Somalia was at its most turbulent. After learning about this, the United Nations sent peacekeeping troops to investigate, and Hawke was also among them. When they saw the machine and the flesh and blood everywhere outside the machine, they were so shocked that they could not say a word. After understanding the whole story, the arrested worker who used the crusher claimed that he did not understand why the machine broke? Otherwise, they could kill all the remaining prisoners in a short period of time.
"I was also puzzled at the time why the machine broke." Hawke stood up and continued to walk forward. "After returning home, I told my wife about this. My wife replied that the machine could smash **, but there was no way to completely crush human souls. The 40 people used their souls to stop the machine from operating."
As he said that, Hawke smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's so ridiculous to start a war because he hates the color of the other party's flag."
"Absurd?" Gu Huaiyi smiled and followed Hawke. "I have never found that any war is not absurd, but while commemorating the war and praying for peace, people always whitewash their reasons for starting a war, making the war with hundreds of dead people seem helpless and necessary in the eyes of everyone."
The others were silent, and everyone walked silently for more than an hour. Finally, when they approached the road in Ailanya City, Gu Huaiyi suddenly walked around everyone, watching everyone backwards and said, "I ask you, do you know how to stop killing each other and maintain a unity?"
Maybe it was because I was tired, or maybe everything I saw along the way had already made everyone speechless and no one talked to me.
Tang Shuxing walked to Gu Huaiyi and whispered: "Stop talking nonsense. We have officially entered the war zone. Now we have to do it step by step."
As if he hadn't heard what he said, Gu Huaiyi turned around and jumped onto the top of a burnt car wreck, spreading his arms and looking at the people around him like a speech: "There is only one way, that is, to end the war between countries, regions and regions with a total war!"
"Madman—" Ji Kefeng frowned and continued to walk forward. Tian Yehan also shook his head and followed him away.
Andrew, Hawke and Tang Shuxing stood beside the wreckage of the car, looked at Gu Huaiyi above and signaled him to come down and continue moving forward.
"You think I'm ridiculous? Do you think it's absurd to end conflict wars or wars?" Gu Huaiyi nodded, "Yes, but those who initiated this comprehensive war will regard all mankind as enemies. He has no conflicts with others. He just wants to kill everyone in this world. By that time, the whole world is in crisis, and people who are hostile to each other in the world suddenly have a common enemy. The situation will end. There will be no conflict between nations and religions. Everyone will join hands to fight against the only enemy together!"
Andrew raised his eyebrows, raised his foot and left. Hawke just smiled and said, "It's interesting." Then he left.
"Hey, what you mean is that aliens appear, and they want to destroy the earthlings, and then the world joins forces to fight them." Tang Shuxing shook his head with the Dragon Lin Blade, "But have you ever thought about what would happen if countries and regions work together to defeat this enemy? Do you think humans will maintain permanent peace because of this? No, no, after the common enemy is repelled or eliminated, the previous war will continue."
"No—" Gu Huaiyi's face changed, "They cannot defeat that enemy. He will maintain eternal victory until mankind learns how to truly be peaceful."
"Are you sick?" Tang Shuxing pointed at the surroundings, "Look at this area, this land has been fighting wars since there were humans. Who has learned it over the years? In another hundred years, this ghost place will still be the same! There will always be people starting a war for some absurd reason. Don't get angry, go!"
Gu Huaiyi squatted down with a smile, looking at the two sides of the road where he was located, telephone poles full of gun holes, and charred bodies were sitting among the wreckage of the car. Behind the tow truck was a woman with gun holes and holding babies. This was not a purgatory on earth, but a real hell.
Although Gu Huaiyi has seen so many such hell, the beating thing in his chest will still hurt slightly.
Chapter completed!