White Olive Tree

Chapter 55

Chapter 55
A few days later, Song Ran left Ale.
It was around nine o'clock in the morning when we set out, and we happened to see Pei Xiaonan across the way opening the door, and a tall Dongguo soldier came out of her room. Apparently spent the night.
"..." Song Ran saw this scene, looked into Pei Xiaonan's eyes, and smiled.
Pei Xiaonan held a cigarette in her hand and raised her hand: "Let me make it clear that I am not my boyfriend."
Song Ran smiled and didn't ask any more questions. She never judged other people's lives.
Pei Xiaonan thought to herself and sighed: "I would like to find a boyfriend. It's too lonely here alone."
Song Ran said: "Then we can slowly get along with each other."
Pei Xiaonan leaned her head against the door frame and looked at her sideways: "Song Ran, do I look good?"
"......looks good."
"But he doesn't like me." She turned her eyes to the sky and said, "Yes, he has a girlfriend... Shit. My ex-boyfriend was not so conscious. As soon as a woman came close, his waistband would automatically fall down. Trash! "
"..." Song Ran asked, "Who...are you talking about?"
"You don't know him." Pei Xiaonan waved the smoke in front of him and thought, "That's not right. You've seen him before, that's the Chinese mercenary."
Song Ran's eyes widened slightly: "How do you know he has a girlfriend?"
"He told it himself, and he is still wearing the red string given by his girlfriend. He is very precious." Speaking of this, Pei Xiaonan's tone became slightly gentle, "He is a very good man. He noticed that I was interested in him, so he hinted it in a very gentlemanly way. , and didn't even bother me."
Song Ran didn't say anything. It would be too embarrassing to point it out when things developed like this. Still thinking about it, Pei Xiaonan glanced at the various bags beside her and asked with a smile, "Are you leaving?"
"That's right. Are you a war correspondent? There is no war going on here."
"Going to the north?"
"Um."
"Perhaps we can meet again. I will also go to the north in the future." One week after the war, most of the injured were discharged from the hospital. Many doctors and nurses have been moved closer to the front lines.
"Well, see you by chance."
"Goodbye, Song Ran."
Pei Xiaonan smiled at her. The relationship between the two was not too deep, but because they were in a foreign battlefield, they felt a different kind of closeness. Pei Xiaonan took a step forward, hugged her and said, "Have a safe journey, my dear."
Song Ran said warmly: "You too."
After saying goodbye to Pei Xiaonan, Song Ran and Jose drove away.
In just one week, the population of Aara City doubled, the streets became lively, and the reconstruction project was in full swing. The car drove out of the city under the bright sun and headed towards Cangdi in the north.
The distance of more than 80 kilometers is not too far, but the road conditions are extremely poor and it is difficult to walk. The further north you go, the scarier the war's legacy. Large areas of farmland were burned to black charcoal, and new weeds grew wildly in the fields. Stripes of emerald green stood out among the black plant ash.
Song Ran leaned on the seat, blowing the wind, thinking about someone.
Just like this, we arrived at Cangdi after a bumpy ride.
Cangdi is the largest city in the northern part of the Eastern Kingdom and was originally the base camp of a terrorist organization. As the rebels were retreating steadily, they continued to move north. The two frequently fought for territory, and now the city is divided between the two sides.
The government troops pursuing victory have recently set up camp in the southern suburbs of Candi, preparing for a protracted war.
Song Ran and Jose settled down in a small hotel in the southern suburbs.
After she put down her luggage, she sent a text message to Li Zan: "A Zan, I'm here."
Added: "I happened to come to Cangdi too, what a coincidence."
He didn't reply immediately.
After she finished packing her luggage, her phone dinged.
Li Zan replied: "Yes, what a coincidence."
"..." Song Ran bit her lip gently, thinking that he must be laughing at her when he sent this message.
Just as I was organizing my words, another call came from the other side: "Have you settled in yet?"
"Yeah. Live in the south."
"I also live in the south."
She rolled over and lay on the bed: "Where are you? Can I go find you?"
He didn't answer, but asked: "Are you alone?"
"I'm with a government reporter. My name is Jose."
"That's good. Don't run around alone."
Song Ran was still thinking about the question just now, and he typed another line: "I have a mission at three o'clock in the afternoon. I will tell you the location then. If you are interested, you can go and have a look, but don't get too close."
"OK!"
"I still have something to do, I'll contact you later."
"Yeah. Go ahead, go ahead."
Song Ran ran to the next room and asked Jose if he wanted to go shoot.
Jose readily agreed.
Song Ran had lunch, woke up from a nap, and received the address from Li Zan at 2:50, without saying anything else.
Song Ran took the equipment and set off. Jose knew the local situation and jurisdiction very well. He avoided the territory of various forces from the suburbs and successfully went around to the northern suburbs and drove into the city.
The address Li Zan gave was Cangdi North City Middle School, and they got off the bus three blocks away. Jose led the way, approaching the middle school along Min Lane.
This area is controlled by extremist organizations and is deserted. The two sneaked to a block away from the middle school and found a high point, overlooking the middle school. There were people moving around inside, but the Cook soldiers lurking outside could not be seen.
Song Ran thought, they were all special forces, how could she easily find their traces.
But her arrival quickly attracted their attention. The two of them had just found an angle to lie down when someone stepped lightly on the floor behind them.
Song Ran and Jose turned around in surprise, and saw a white Cook soldier appearing in front of them, saying: "Don't run around until the operation is over."
They both nodded in unison.
The soldier left quickly.
The two looked at each other with lingering fear:
"When did he come?"
"have no idea."
Song Ran adjusted the camera and looked around. The streets were empty and motionless. In the middle school at the end of the road, several extremist patrols patrolled the small playground.
The middle school is not big, with two teaching buildings. The windows of one building were bright, and terrorists gathered inside to rest and play; the other building had been renovated, and all the windows were sealed, making it difficult to see what was going on inside.
Song Ran didn't know when the Cook soldiers started fighting, nor how a team of seven or eight people wiped out this not-so-small hideout.
But she soon discovered that the battle had already begun.
Because--a ray of sunlight suddenly reflected from behind the first teaching building, and the light flashed several times according to the frequency of Morse code. Just in the blind spot of the patrol's back. The figures of two Cook soldiers suddenly flew away from the teaching building like cheetahs and sneaked into the bushes nearby.
The shadow flashed past, but Song Ran immediately recognized that one of them was Li Zan.
She instantly understood that he had gone to plant a bomb.
The next second, the lurking point outside the school received the signal and was ready. With two blasts, the shell hit the teaching building, blowing away a corner of the building.
The teaching building suddenly looked like an ant's nest that had been overthrown, and the patrols immediately rushed to reinforce it. The number of troops on the small playground dropped sharply. Li Zan ran out along the bushes, climbed up the two- to three-meter-high courtyard wall and climbed down. The Raiders took cover behind him.
On the campus, there was an explosion, and the teaching building fell to the ground amid the billowing fire.
The nest capsized, causing heavy casualties.