Chapter 55

Tick, tick...

The clock moved to 11:50 PM.

"Are you ready?"

In the military off-road vehicle, Asante looked at the Chinese girl opposite him with a solemn expression, "Time is running out; if we don't go in now, the hostages might be in danger."

Shi Yi was wearing her favorite white dress today, her hair tied in a neat ponytail, and she had even applied delicate light makeup... If nothing went wrong, today would be the last day of her life, and she wanted to leave with some dignity.

She took a deep breath, moved her gaze back from outside the car window, then took a thin envelope out of her pocket and handed it to Asante: "Mr. Minister, this is the voluntary hostage exchange letter I wrote, and also the disclaimer you wanted; please keep it safe."

Asante took the disclaimer from the girl's hand with both hands; he knew that in a sense, this was also the girl's farewell letter.

"Thank you, Miss Shi." Asante said respectfully, "I will remember you forever."

"Then I'm going."

After saying that, Shi Yi showed a sincere smile, then carried two large medical boxes with both hands and stepped out of the off-road vehicle.

The volume of 2,000 doses of medicine was actually not large, just enough to fit into two large medical boxes. In her left hand, she carried the antiviral serum, mainly used for emergency treatment after infection. In her right hand, she carried the Ebola vaccine, mainly used for advance prevention of infection and reducing the probability of severe illness.

These were all the medicines Kuba requested, and also the only life-saving straw for the entire Kabango army now.

However... in the two boxes of medicine, only the bottom layer of 100 doses each was real. The rest of the bottles were filled with "normal saline" that Asante had temporarily mobilized.

Kuba's military camp was stationed in a dense forest on the mountain; at this moment, the entire camp was heavily guarded and brightly lit.

"Heh, you really came."

Kuba was sitting on a high step with his legs crossed, exhaling a puff of blue smoke leisurely. He had been waiting for a long time, wondering whether to kill a hostage to threaten the government army outside, but he didn't expect that before 12 o'clock, someone would really come.

"Yo, it's you?"

Kuba recognized that the Chinese girl who came to deliver the medicine was the same girl from the camp two days ago. At that time, he felt that she had an aura of not fearing death, and it seemed his judgment of people was quite accurate.

"General Kuba, I am here to deliver medicine to you." Shi Yi carried the medical boxes with both hands and said in fluent English, neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Let her in."

Kuba gave an order, and two patrol soldiers with guns immediately walked up, the dark muzzles pressed against Shi Yi's lower back.

"Hands up!"

Shi Yi obediently raised her hands. The two soldiers searched Shi Yi's entire body carefully, and after confirming that she was not carrying anything, they let her into the military camp.

As soon as Shi Yi stepped into the camp, Kuba gave a look to the guard next to him, and the guard immediately walked up aggressively and snatched the two medical boxes from Shi Yi's hands without ceremony.

"General, there is a password."

The guard placed the two boxes on the ground, studied them for a while, and then turned to Kuba.

"What is the password?!"

Before Kuba finished speaking, a cold muzzle was immediately aimed at Shi Yi's temple.

Shi Yi raised her head and looked at Kuba's face, which was as gloomy and vicious as a poisonous snake; she didn't show the slightest fear, but stared straight into his dark green eyes.

"General, release the hostages first, and I will tell you the password."

Kuba tilted his head back and laughed loudly, his laughter eerie and terrifying.

"You ignorant little bitch! Are you negotiating with me? I can shoot you dead right now, and then force those two broken boxes open!"

"If you forcibly destroy the boxes, the gas inside the insulation layer will leak out, the temperature will rise, and the serum and vaccines inside will immediately become ineffective." Shi Yi said calmly, "General, you wouldn't want that to happen, would you."

Kuba's expression changed abruptly. His eyes instantly became fierce and terrifying, his teeth clenched, and his fingers turned white.

Then, he stood up, walked down from the high platform step by step, and came to Shi Yi.

The next moment, Kuba suddenly reached out his rough hand and grabbed Shi Yi's neck hard.

"Little bitch, you dare to threaten me... I'll ask you one more time... what exactly is the password?!"

Shi Yi's face was flushed from being choked, her chest heaving violently. She looked determined and spoke with difficulty, word for word:

"General, I said... release the hostages... and I will tell you... even if you choke me to death... it's useless..."

"Then let's try and see if I dare!"

Kuba's hand exerted force instantly; Shi Yi soon breathed rapidly, her lips turned blue and purple, and even the heaving of her chest became weak.

In a daze, Shi Yi realized that no matter what, she couldn't be choked to death by Kuba right now.

"Do you want to... kill me now, or keep me... as... a hostage..." Shi Yi gasped while struggling to spit out a few words.

Hearing this, Kuba suddenly let go of both hands.

The next moment, Shi Yi collapsed on the ground like a fish out of water, clutching her chest and gasping violently, but she still didn't forget her purpose: "Release... release... the hostages... and I will... tell you... the password... now."

Kuba gritted his teeth and was silent for a moment.

Then, he raised his head and looked not far away—a row of densely packed tents had been temporarily set up there, brightly lit, and groans of pain could be heard from time to time... That was the isolation ward where the soldiers infected with Ebola lived.

Now, in the army of more than 3,000 people, half were already infected with the virus. Kabango himself was also living in an isolation ward, and his condition was still further deteriorating.

Without medicine, he knew he wouldn't last many days.

These infected soldiers inside could mutiny at any time; at the very least, if they surrendered to the government army, they could get free treatment. And those soldiers who were not infected were also living in fear all day long, not knowing when they would run away!

Kuba gritted his teeth, threw the burning cigar in his hand onto the ground, and stepped on it to extinguish it.

Then, he squatted down, grabbed Shi Yi's jaw with his large hand, forcing her to raise her head, his green eyes revealing a fierce light:

"Little bitch, don't you dare play tricks on me. Are the things in the boxes really medicine?!"

Shi Yi's breathing had not yet recovered, and she said intermittently:

"I... won't lie to you, the things in the boxes... are really serum and vaccines... they are... they are urgently allocated by the Chinese government..."

Kuba pushed her to the ground and turned to order:

"Go, bring those kids out to me."