Beda was utterly bewildered, unable to understand what was going on.
A group of soldiers from various factions was one thing, but why had Asians in construction worker uniforms and hard hats appeared?
Judging by the writing on the construction machinery and these people's appearance, they were... Huaguo people?
As a once-renowned journalist, Beda had studied Chinese characters to some extent. The clothes of one of them seemed to bear the words "China State Construction Third Engineering Bureau."
Just as Beda wondered what would happen inside the Oasis Hotel, those people had already strode into it.
Judging from the government soldiers' deferential behavior, these construction workers were clearly far more welcome.
That was only natural.
After all, builders were always more welcome than destroyers.
It was said that many projects in Iraq had been undertaken by these Easterners. Iraq was now rapidly shedding the flames and smoke of war, with cities reborn rising one after another...
Much like Beda's confusion, Chen Dongsheng, Huaguo's representative, was equally bewildered.
They had been doing perfectly well in Iraq as representatives of China State Construction, yet he had suddenly received orders to cross the border directly into Abu Kamal, where several diplomats from home were waiting to receive them.
His original duty had been to oversee the construction of relevant projects in Iraq. He truly could not understand why he had been summoned to this sort of diplomatic occasion.
Besides them, there were only four armed police officers from the embassy.
"Director Zhao, what exactly are we here for? These people might not dare do anything to us Huaguo people, but what if some lunatic rushes at us? Are we supposed to fight him with excavators?" Chen Dongsheng asked the operation leader beside him.
"Don't worry, Manager Chen. I only just received an emergency