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Pepper was still here alone, feeling the cold wind, leaning against the wall and looking out, with a somewhat lonely look on her face.
Lemu came here specifically to help Pepper out. She and Stark were a good match, and if there was a chance, Lemu wouldn't mind giving them a push.
The man is in love and the woman is willing to be together. It would be a happy thing if they could get together.
There is more or less a bit of CP-supporting mentality here.
Lai Mu walked forward and stood beside her, "Tony asked me to tell you that he left first because of something. You don't need to wait for him."
Pepper was a little surprised, but just nodded and asked, "Are you having fun? I didn't even have time to check on you just now."
"Very happy, but I have something to do now and I have to go back first. I will ask Happy to pick me up. The party is not over yet, you should still be busy."
The reason why Lai Mu was in a hurry to leave was that if he was not mistaken, Stark would go to Afghanistan to do evil... and be a hero.
If you run faster, maybe you can catch up.
Keep an eye on Stark and don't let him die, that's just a side issue. Mainly, who can resist driving an armored car and fighting the enemy with real weapons?
This is one of the two battlefields that a man cares about most in his life.
When Lai Mu returned to Stark Villa.
Tony Stark was sitting on the sofa in the basement watching the news. The room was very quiet. Apart from the not-so-loud sound of the TV, the only sound that could be heard was Stark's heavy breathing.
On the big screen in front of me was a report on the small town of Comilla in Afghanistan, with countless refugees and gunfire everywhere.
Ruins, broken walls, smoke, flames, unknown forces shooting at each other with guns, and bullets ricocheting off the wall in front of the camera, creating fleeting sparks.
It is not difficult to imagine how the cameramen risked their lives to capture these scenes, and how desperate the people living there are.
The scene changed, and Stark actually saw the leader of the Ten Rings who had once captured him. The guy was smoking a cigarette, holding a rifle, and was leisurely in the ruins.
Lai Mu stood quietly behind Stark, watched him silently for a while, and asked softly, "Are you going?"
Lai Mu was behind him and couldn't see his expression clearly. After a long time, a dull voice was heard.
"Of course...I have to go."
There are some things that people must do; there are some things that people must protect.
Maybe everyone cares about different things, but their intentions are certainly the same.
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It was already 1 o'clock in the morning when Alice returned to the dormitory.
Her dormitory is a double room with only one roommate.
In the quiet dormitory, my best friend Nicole Nasr was still staying up late reading and doing homework. She was sitting on a chair in a thin nightgown, with nothing underneath.
Hearing the door open, Nicole waved vigorously and quacked like a duck that had been saved from drowning.
"Alice! Alice! Come here quickly, I don't understand this question! Tell me what to do!"
Alice changed her shoes and sighed...she knew this would happen.
I've been busy with my part-time job for a long day, and when I get home there's a lot of paperwork making a fuss, so I can't have a good rest at all - today is the weekend!
Walking to Nicole's side, Alice sighed loudly again, deliberately for Nicole to hear.
"Go to bed early and talk about it tomorrow."
Nicole grabbed Alice's hand and hugged it, shaking it and acting coquettishly, "No~~ Alice, please help me take a look, I can't sleep if I don't understand~~ The tuition here is super expensive! Wasting every minute and every second is like losing money!"
"Okay, okay, let me see."
Alice pushed Nicole away and sat down on the chair reluctantly, concentrating on the question, which was a problem of advanced mathematics.
Nicole, who was standing nearby, noticed that Alice was holding a bag in her hand, which seemed to contain some snacks.
She casually took out a small piece of chocolate, opened the package and bit off half of it.
As I was chewing, I realized that something seemed a little strange about the packaging bag... It looked a little familiar, as if I had seen it on a web page before.
Nicole took out her phone to check... Edible gold packaging, black truffle, a single chocolate bar is only priced at $2.6.
Oh, there is a difference of one K in the middle, 2.6k USD.
What the hell!
She was stunned for a second, then burst into tears out of heartache.
Nicole stretched out her hand tremblingly with tears in her eyes and handed the half-bitten chocolate to Alice, her voice sobbing.
"Alice! I'm sorry! I'll return the remaining half to you. Can you give me a discount..."
Tears hung from the corners of her eyes, and she was still chewing. She was reluctant to stop, and reluctant to swallow, 1,300 US dollars a mouthful...
Woohoo…Eat a cell phone in one bite…
Alice looked up in confusion. What happened? Is it so delicious? She cried.
……
That night, Alice lay in bed.
She hugged the quilt with Mickey Mouse printed on it and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
I could never imagine that the total price of a few snacks given by others would be in the tens of thousands.
Bags are luxury items. Such a small bag is more expensive than a year's tuition.
It just feels hot in my hand.
She stared at the ceiling in a daze...How could she go back?
There was no contact information, no address, not even a name, all we knew was that she seemed to know the famous Tony Stark.
You can only wait for the other party to contact you.
Ugh……
I don’t know when I can pay it back?
Her... light blue hair color is very rare... so cute... I really want to...
Thinking of this, Alice unconsciously tightened the quilt.
As the night deepened, I gradually became sleepy.
Outside the window, two white streaks of light streaked across the distant sky.
Every night when you fall asleep peacefully, there is always someone silently guarding you.
Chapter 30. Plastic flowers blooming on the bloody land
The night is charming and dotted with stars.
Especially when flying above the clouds, you will find that the stars here are really very bright, so bright that it seems unreal.
There were two mech-like machines flying high in the sky, like two missiles. The powerful power of the reactor pushed them to break the speed of sound, making a huge noise and leaving behind two cone-shaped sonic boom clouds.
The one painted blue and white is Lai Mu’s Guishen No. 1.
The other one is red and gold, and it is Stark's Mark III.
With a cruising speed of Mach 2.3, it takes about five hours one way to reach Afghanistan, which is a long journey.
It was around three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived.
Lai Mu's visit to Afghanistan can be considered a revisit to an old place.
He looked at the yellow sand passing quickly beneath him and felt a little bit of familiarity in his heart. It was here that he returned to Earth.
But this feeling soon disappeared without a trace as more and more ragged refugees came into view.
In some places, there were only three or five people, while in other places, there were long lines. The adults and children were all pale and thin, with faces that were either terrified or numb, struggling to get on the road under the scorching sun.
Soon, some other people dressed relatively neatly and cleanly were seen running in the wilderness. Not far behind them, the town was filled with smoke, gunshots and explosions.
This is the small town of Comilla, which has been occupied by terrorists from the Ten Rings Gang for the past few days.
Those townspeople who escaped...if nothing unexpected happens, they will eventually become refugees.
The Ten Rings thugs are kidnapping women and children, taking whatever they can.
They transported women and children in trucks and sold them for money.
These people will be sent to the black market and become playthings of certain people, or flow into places like red-light districts, or become living organ warehouses.
Men either became their cannon fodder or were shot on the spot.
Human life here is both valuable and worthless.
There are ruins everywhere, bullet holes and corpses everywhere. This is a place in troubled times.
Looking at the scenes in front of him, Lai Mu's simulated heart suddenly tightened, as if it was held by an invisible hand.
A faint murderous intent filled his mind.
It is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in chaos.
In fact, in this chaotic world, where are the people? They are all ants, even worse than dogs!
Stark cursed angrily from the Mark III next to him, "Fuck!"
The next second, the furious Stark dived down from the sky in the Mark armor.
He first stepped on the head of a terrorist from the Ten Rings Gang, killing him; then, he raised his hand and fired two hand cannons, knocking the other two terrorists away.
Surprised by the sudden attack, the Ten Commandments gang members were unable to organize an effective resistance. They just fired at Mark in vain in fear and panic.
The bullets caused sparks to fly, but they could only scratch Mark's surface armor and couldn't even hinder Stark's movements.
Lai Mu followed closely behind. He snapped off the two-handed sword from behind and swooped down at the crowd of gunmen on the ground from a high position.
The ghost flew by close to the ground, bringing with it the sound of whistling wind. He faced the bullets head-on, wielding his sword like a fan to clear away all obstacles in front of him. Three bodies flew into the air, wailing and screaming.
Then the ghost rose from the ground under Lai Mu's control, completed another dive, and knocked the other two away.
After completing the maneuver, the ghost stopped right next to the Ten Rings Gang's truck.