Chapter 293 - Chewing Gum On The Bamiyan Buddha (2/2)

The journey afterwards was htfall

“The Bamiyan Buddhas are ahead” Kabir’s voice came from over the communications device “Let’s rest there Our vehicles need petrol and we need to eat”

“All right We’ll take a break of half an hour,” Tang Yu-Yan replied

The convoy stopped at a patch of ehted with the sniper rifle; it was not leaving his hands now He also had a big box of bullets with him in his rucksack at all times This was the only way he would have a sense of security in this land

The Bae, sacred Buddha statues any longer - they had been turned into piles of rubble One could still make out the outlines of the buddha statues froht

The White Rock tribesot busy They refuelled the vehicles and filled the water container; soents did not sit idle either - some checked the cars, weapons and equipment and some handed out dry rations and liquids

Xia Lei received a share too - a packet of high-calorie beef jerky and a bottle of mineral water He walked to the base of the Ba his food The wound on his buttock was not better and his gait was off when he walked

“What are you going there for?” Tang Yu-Yan looked curiously at Xia Lei

Xia Lei looked back at her “To relieveYu-Yan set bitten by a snake or soet relief”

Xia Lei was speechless

The degree of joking between them had increased with familiarity

Xia Lei relieved himself behind a rock, then continued on his way to the Bamiyan Buddhas He was not a devout Buddhist but its ancient air and the great change which had been wrought upon it piqued his curiosity This was a miracle over 1,500 years old and he had to have a look at it since he’d come all this way

The two statues were 400 metres apart from each other, one in the east and one in the west The one in the east had been completely obliterated and the one in the west had been blasted too but the torso remained and he could see the body of the Buddha statue

Xia Lei walked towards the Buddha statue in the west He came to its feet and looked at the headless torso as his heart filled onder People 1,500 years ago had created this miracle and built it with their oo hands, but the Islamic militants had used explosives to destroy it Why could one religion not let another be?

He looked at it quietly for a while and then looked away, prepared to return to the convoy Just as he was about to leave, a s white and shapeless stuck on the Buddha’s foot caught his attention

It was a piece of chewed chewing gu so uncultured?

The piece of chewing guhtly at it and, as expected, found a roll of soum He pulled it apart to find the rolled up paper inside

Lines of fa met his eyes when he unrolled the paper: Why didn’t you heed hanistan? You’ve been marked by the CIA and they will not let you off Your destination is the White Hun Tribe I know I can’t stop you froet here I’ll get Yelena to meet you

Xia Lei activated his left eye and checked his surroundings The darkness was no hindrance at all to his vision; he could currently see the insects crawling on the rock a thousand metres away However, he did not see his father nor the blonde-haired Russian wo Yu-Yan’s voice, “We should get going!”

“I’ll be right there!” replied Xia Lei, and he turned and started walking to the convoy

This tium He just casually threw it into a crack in the rocks

The White Hun Tribe - what sort of place was it?