Chapter 26 (1/2)

After the bullets passed through the two doors, they jingled the tools on the shelf, but Gao Yang had no way to stop the people outside from shooting.

When the gunfire stopped, someone outside was shouting. They spoke Arabic. Gao Yang couldn't understand it, but he listened to at least three or four people shouting outside.

Malik lowered his voice and said to Gao Yang, ”they let us open the door, or they'll set the house on fire.”

Malik's words are mainly English, but mixed with some Urdu words, but fortunately Gao Yang can probably understand them. He shook his head and whispered, ”don't believe their nonsense. They will only kill us when they come in. We protect ourselves now. Do you have a gun?”

”No guns, but what if they really set fire to the house?”

Bob whispered, ”believe him, don't open the door, or we'll be dead. They won't burn the house. Who do you think they are? A mob who takes advantage of the fire? Or a militant who just wants to kill?”

Malik hesitated and said, ”I don't think they want to rob. If they are thugs, they won't come out yet, but the militants don't need to target our store. Do they want to find you?”

Gao Yang shook his head and said, ”no, we're here today. We don't know anyone at all. You can ask them what they want to do.”

Malik strengthened his courage, and then shouted a few times in Arabic. After hearing Malik's words, the people outside the door reacted more fiercely, began to kick the door hard and kept shouting.

Malik said to Gao Yang, ”they said someone saw the mercenaries sent by Gaddafi here and asked me to hand you over. I think they said you. In addition, they asked me to hand over the money. I think they should be robbers.”

The foreigner faces of Gao Yang and Bob still caused them trouble. Gao Yang was helpless and sorry. He whispered to Malik, ”I'm sorry, they are really aimed at us. It seems that we have caused you trouble.”

Malik shook his head and said, ”we are friends. Friends shouldn't say this. I'll tell them they made a mistake.”

Malik began to speak again in Arabic, but after he said a few words, what responded to Malik was the sound of gunfire. Then Gao Yang smelled a strong smell of gasoline. Just when he felt that something bad was going on, there was a weak sound of gunfire outside the door, followed by the screams of several people outside the door.

Gao Yang didn't know what had happened, but after a few groans at the door, he soon became silent again, and there was a smell of blood in the smell of gasoline.

Gao Yang and Malik looked at each other and said in unison, ”they were killed.”

Just then, a voice came from the room and said, ”Malik, what's the matter?”

Gao Yang looked around in surprise, but he saw an old man at the stairway leading to the second floor in the shop. The old man walked down from the second floor with sparse silver hair, hunched back and trembling. It seems that the old man must be in his eighties at least, but the speed of going downstairs is not too slow. It's just that the old man looked at the store and was surprised.

Halfway down, the old man stood on the stairs, pointed to the messy shops and said, ”who are you? Malik, what's the matter?”

To Gao Yang's surprise, the old man was still a white man. He didn't know what to say. He just looked at the old hair, while Malik hurried to the stairs, helped the old man and said in a hurry: ”Go back quickly. It's too dangerous here. Remember what I told you? Yes, it's what I said. Now there's chaos outside. You have to go back upstairs. Ah, they came to the store to take refuge. They shot and killed a lot of people outside. Someone tried to rush in just now, but they are all dead now.”

Malik's words were urgent, fast and confused, but the old man understood them. After nodding, the old man said to Gao Yang and Bob, ”it seems that you have to stay here for a while. It won't be calm outside for a while. Please feel free.”

After saying hello to Gao Yang and Bob, the old man said to Malik, ”you're doing well. We can't let those bastards in. We have to keep our things. You have to be hard to deal with those bastards. Come with me. We'll take some things out.”

After that, the old man turned and began to walk back tremblingly. Malik made a gesture to Gao Yang, motioned them to be careful, and followed the old man up the second floor.

Gao Yang and Bob looked at each other. Finally Bob couldn't help saying, ”what does the old man want? Forget it, no matter what he is, we'll find a way, brother, we have to get out of here.”