"Hmm?"
Momo groggily poked her head out in the early morning, looking at the phone that had woken her up. Without checking the caller ID, she simply reached out from under the covers to drag the phone into the bed and answer it.
"Hello? Who's this? It's barely dawn..."
"Boo hoo hoo... Sis, I just got off the plane and called you to let you know I'm safe." Mo Shengjie's voice came through the other end of the phone, with a sob catching in his throat as he spoke:
"It was really tough. If it weren't for Sister Reina risking her life to save me, I'd have been gunned down by a machine gun."
Mo Shengjie talked about his difficult escape. Initially, when fleeing from the town, he didn't encounter the pursuit of the rebels until he was almost out of the country. Then, the rebels chased them, driving SUVs.
Machine gun fire blazed in the night, drawing fierce arcs.
