Omar yelled at him, "By God, even if you're on your deathbed, I won't let you go!"
"Get in the car with me, you sons of bitches!" The two assistants carried the unconscious doctor into the back of the police car, and Omar drove them to the police station.
As soon as they arrived, Omar ordered the doctor and his assistants to be put in a cell. He told the assistant to wash up and meet them in his office. As soon as they got out of the car, their appearance attracted everyone's attention, and some of the soldiers rushed to Pasha Omar, who ordered them to quickly call Pasha Adel. He said angrily, "Put that son of a bitch doctor in a cell!"
Whispers rose among the soldiers after they saw the soldier whose face and clothes were covered in blood. They wondered what had happened, especially since only this soldier was back; the other three were missing.
Omar heard the soldiers whispering about the missing soldiers and shouted at them, "You heard me! Take these guys to a cell!"
The soldiers carried the doctor and ordered the assistants to go with them. One of the soldier's friends helped him up. Realizing he was in shock, he said to him,
"Come with me. Why are you so disheveled? What's all this blood? Come on, let's see what's going on." The soldier got up and went with him, looking at his injured hand. "I can't feel my hand. It hurts so much. I think I twisted it or something."
Omar reached his office and called Adel. "Hello, Adel Pasha, where are you?"
Adel yawned. "Why? I'm awake and coming. Is something wrong?"
Omar looked out from his office. The atmosphere had changed outside. The doctor was being moved, and the soldiers were asking questions with intense curiosity. He was lost in thought for a moment, remembering what had happened, when he heard Adel on the phone. "Hello? Can you hear me?" Omar replied, "Yes, come quickly."
After he hung up, he wanted to ask about the dog, but only the soldier had seen it. He waited a few seconds, knowing that knowing details about the dog wouldn't help him now. The question should be about the dog's owner. How could Mahdi have described the dog's appearance before, saying it was already dead? Was this voodoo magic, or something else entirely? Secondly, more scientifically, and was the dog the cause, or was it the woman in the barn who started it?
Omar sat trying to gather his thoughts amidst the rapid images and sounds within him: the soldiers' screams calling for him as he fled to save his life, and his clinging to the hope of the ambulance and the key. He didn't notice the minutes passing until someone knocked on the door. It was one of his colleagues, Ryan.
He entered, asking Omar,
"What's happening? The world's turned upside down outside! Who's this doctor, and how?" Omar stopped him, saying, "Just give me a moment to piece together what's going on." He paused, as if remembering something more important.
"Yes." "All we need to do now is close this farm. I want you to order the units to announce that the farm area is off-limits. No one is to enter or leave."
Ryan didn't understand. "What farm?"
Omar looked at him and understood that his words had to be clear and measured because no one would believe him.
"The desert farm. Listen to me now, but no one is to enter or leave."
There was another knock at the door, and it was Pasha Adel.
Ryan said, looking at Adel, "Excuse me."
And he left.
Adel entered, saying,
"What's going on? I don't understand anything."
Omar replied, "Neither do I."
Adel sat down. "I heard, on my way up to the doctor, that I asked for his imprisonment and other strange things."
Omar looked at Adel, trying to think of what to say.
"Look, I'm going to say something unbelievable, but I want you to understand that it's really happening an hour away from here at the farm."
Adel looked at him, still puzzled.
Omar continued, "Look, I was between life and death." "Hey, listen up, I need you to pay attention.
I saw death walking on two legs, it was alive among us.
And he began to recount some of what happened. I feel there's a plague or magic in this farm. I saw people die right before my eyes, and then they moved as if they were just awake. And Hamed and his son died on the farm."