Apocalypse Cemetery

Chapter 33 Gifts
ps: Please comment, the subway is very lonely.Just watching the collection increase, but no one comes to the book review area to chat, which makes me have the illusion that no one has seen this book.

This is a war that has been going on for more than two years. I don't know when it started. Rwanda and Burundi have forgotten that they once had a unified ancestor with the same civilization and history.

Since the river was cut off, the Rwandans have gone crazy and attacked the local defenders.People in Burundi didn't want to dismantle the dam because they couldn't bear the bread and banknotes given by James, but in fact they knew that they couldn't resist Rwanda's attack if they continued like this.

One side is fighting for orders, while the other side is fighting for survival.

This war has been fought for too long, and the garrison officers have spoken to the President many times, demanding that James's dam be removed.But God knows how much that chubby bureaucrat took from James, and their suggestions were rejected again and again.However, they could not resist, because the president is the biggest warlord in this country, with tens of thousands of troops.

"Give Rwanda a way to live! Give us a way to live too!"

Their commander often groans like this, but two years have passed, and none of this has changed in the slightest.

To this day, they themselves can't remember how many Rwandans they killed on this battlefield, and how many of their own people were killed by Rwandans.Here is a huge meat grinder, devouring innocent lives.The Rwandans don't want to kill, but if they can't beat the Burundians, they will die of thirst.The same goes for the Burundians, they don't want to fight these neighbors, but if they don't fight they will be killed.

Long ago, this region fell into the most complete madness.

His name is Yadhaha, a very common name in the local area, and he is an ordinary Burundian.Today, their position is about to fall, and Rwanda's attack is too fierce for them to resist.To the whole war, this position is just an insignificant local war, but to him it is everything.Because if defeated, he will die, brutally killed by the enemy.

Yadhaha didn't want to die, and neither did all the other soldiers.

Just as they fell into despair, there was a rumbling sound in the distance.It was as if ten thousand camels were trampling the earth at once, as if it were wildebeest herds migrating in summer, as if it were an earthquake, as if it were a landslide.

They are very familiar with that sound. In the past, they could hear this sound every year during the rainy season.

There was no verbal exchange, but everyone reached a tacit understanding.

They put down their guns one after another, raised their heads, and stared into the distance.Many Rwandans were moved to tears. They stood silently on both sides of the dry riverbed, waiting for the long-awaited gift.

River of Gifts, what an apt name.

Finally, the sound got closer and closer, and the raging river came following the sound.The waves crossed the border, the dry river was covered by raging water, and the hot land also cooled down at this moment. I don't know who made the first cheer, and then thousands of people started to cheer.

They rushed into the eternal river, poured the water on their faces, and laughed loudly.

Even soldiers in Burundi, a rare sight in central Africa where water is scarce.In the great joy, all people forgot their hatred, they kissed the river, hugged and cheered together, just like that statue.

In the remote western desert, the statue that symbolizes the friendship between the two countries is still embracing as before.It's just that they have collapsed now, with their broken upper bodies stuck in the sand, watching the big river silently, smiling at those playing in the water.The only difference is that now there is a dead body nailed to it. That dead body is a potbellied white American man with his mouth open, waiting for the scorching sun to dehydrate him and turn him into a mummified corpse.

(End of this chapter)