After breakfast, when the members of the investigation team were sorting out the various equipment that they had to carry, Uncle Issam and Song Xiaoshuang stood expressionless in the tent, listening to Isabelle's annoyed whispered reprimand, she was in Arabic in a hurry, and subconsciously thought that Uncle Issam tricked Song Xiaoshuang into going to the ruins cave, it didn't matter if Song Xiaoshuang didn't understand, all she needed was an attitude problem, and it was taboo to act alone without permission.

"I won't pursue you if you ran into the ruins cave without permission, I don't understand, Udai and Emina didn't see anyone in the canyon when they prayed, how did you run into the ruins cave? There are steep cliffs all around, and there is at least one person high before the water recedes, and the more you get closer to the cave, the steeper the cliff wall becomes, and I don't believe that I caught fish when the canyon receded! ”

Isabel crackled and found that whether it was Uncle Issam or Song Xiaoshuang, neither of them felt much touched, and Isabel felt that she had really lost to the two.

She was about to count a few more words to end the conversation of this communication, when she saw Song Xiaoshuang's eyes shining with an inexplicable light, and said in a calm tone: "Isabel, your speculation is only partially correct, my uncle and I did go to the ruins cave to explore the way, but we simply turned around near the entrance of the cave and did not go deeper, because there was stagnant water blocking it, and the fish was really caught when the water receded on the way back, don't you believe it?" ”

Hearing Song Xiaoshuang speaking in Chinese, Isabel was not good at continuing to say anything, Song Xiaoshuang was not her subordinate after all, but asked in Chinese with a puzzled face: "How did you go and how did you come back?" The tent camp is several hundred meters from the entrance of the ruins, and it is so quick to come back, Udai and Emina have just entered the tent and the two of you are back. ”

As soon as Isabel finished speaking, she sat down in a folding chair and replaced the sandals on her feet with a pair of lightweight hiking boots.

"Have you ever watched a martial arts movie?"

Song Xiaoshuang said with a playful expression, kindly inspired Isabel, in the eyes of ordinary people, the steep rocky cliffs on both sides of the canyon, and the deep water at the bottom of the valley, it was not a problem for him and Uncle Issam at all, if the stone wall stopped the two, there was no need to mix.

"You mean light gong, the magical part of oriental martial arts?"

As an outstanding anthropologist, Isabel is of course involved in oriental culture, and she was slightly stunned when she was putting her shoes on her feet, and immediately blurted out and shouted.

"Of course not, light skills are difficult to practice, you have to start cultivating from a young age, practice for twenty or thirty years with deep internal qi to achieve a small success, I haven't practiced this in depth, but I will point to light and deep leaping techniques, in short, it is similar to the current fashionable parkour, and the uncle is also in a similar situation."

Song Xiaoshuang has one thing to say, he really has not systematically practiced the light body exercises, he specializes in the inner boxing method extended from the ancient battlefield fighting technique, the kind of top light skill that stands at the end of the bamboo and has nothing to do with him, but he will not win the escape method of escaping quickly, and it has not yet risen to the level of light power.

"So, have you found anything in the ruins cave?"

Hearing the voices of everyone outside the tent, it should be almost ready, Isabel did not continue to ask her about the Chinese martial arts she didn't understand, and quickly asked Song Xiaoshuang if he had seen anything in the cave, and the implication was that there would be abnormal phenomena after the rainstorm, abnormal creatures and the like, and whether there was any danger.

"The situation is unknown, it's hard to say now, I just saw some ancient petroglyphs in higher places, and if you want to approach them, you have to bring ropes, but it's certain that there are no bats in them."

Song Xiaoshuang said a few words and glanced at Uncle Issam, the two turned around and walked out of the tent, Isabel also quickly picked up a woven belt on the box in the corner of the tent and tied it around her waist, took a military flat water bottle with wine, and hung it on the wide woven belt around her waist with a buckle and left the tent.

This is a habit that Isabel has long developed, and every time she officially conducts a field research activity, she can leave anything else with her, but she must bring an old flat kettle with wine with her.

As for Uncle Issam and Song Xiaoshuang, they still have a pair of sandals on their feet, and they are unwilling to wear the hiking shoes issued to the two, Isabel has no way, she can only think about the benefits, both of them are masters of the arts, and they are not afraid of snakes and insects at all, and they don't need to wear hiking shoes, but the two of them are wearing robes instead of two-piece suits, which is also part of the reason, right?

When Song Xiaoshuang and the three of them left the tent, the expedition team left four Berber guides to guard the tent camp, and the others had their own division of labor and were ready to go.

Several male and female scientists are carrying a small backpack of different colors on their backs, belts and trouser pockets on their bodies, with some gadgets that others do not use or are difficult to use, and the feet are unified as allotment hiking shoes, and the "gold-plated" Gordon and Daisy in the expedition team are not excluded, and the two people wearing denim suits are obviously different from the expedition uniforms on the scientists, and the backpacks are not small backpacks, but backpacks with relatively large volumes, and the backpacks are half-deflated but I don't know how many things can be used in it?

The most eye-catching thing is the white bodyguard with a sturdy figure next to Gordon, the backpack on his back is bulging, the desert yellow training uniform is tied to a braided belt around his waist like Isabel, a shock taser is hung with a buckle on one side, a ** with a leather scabbard on one side, and a bundle of carbon alloy ropes that looks thin are hanging from the left butt.

Such equipment made Isabel's eyes light up, and secretly thought that this bodyguard really had a heart, and he had put a lot of effort into protecting Gordon's Yankee, and it was best to be prepared.

Isabel took the backpack that Wu Dai handed over and put it on her back, and when her eyes turned to see Uncle Issam coming out of the tent where they were resting, Uncle also brought his only weapon, a short knife with a horn handle that was carried diagonally on the waist of the robe with a leather belt, and the only one who was empty-handed was Song Xiaoshuang.

With a wave of her arm, Isabel set off with a bold Arabic shout, and the group left the tent camp on the slope and carefully walked on the gravel at the bottom of the canyon to the depths of the canyon, because the water had just receded, and there was still a lot of water in some low-lying places, and it was not good to slip into the puddle in hiking shoes.

The ruins cave is located at a bend in the depths of the canyon, and the entrance to the cave cannot be directly seen in the tent camp, in fact, the distance is only a few hundred meters, and after turning a bend in the canyon, you will come to the side of the legendary ancient relics cave.

The entrance of the cave is similar to the size of a train culvert, the width and height are less than ten meters, roughly like a bridge and a cave, it belongs to the natural geological structure development structure, there is no trace of artificial knife and axe repair, after the water recedes, a wave of moisture floats out of the cave, the terrain here is relatively flat and there is no puddle, looking up can see that there are many natural rock crevices scattered and distributed, the rock crevices look very deep, maybe you can penetrate part of the sunlight? Further up is a gray-white rock cliff with an overall height of 300 meters, and a few grains of sand are blown down from the desert above.

When I arrived here, the scientists of all kinds in the expedition team began to use the equipment they carried with them to get busy, and it was indispensable to make relevant records, watching all the scientists, including the team leader Isabel, were busy making research records from different fields and angles, Gordon was a living treasure, and asked his female companion Daisy to cooperate with him to stand at the entrance of the cave and pose in different shapes, and then used the digital camera taken out of the backpack to crackle a burst of fierce photos, needless to say that Gordon's old mistake of visiting here has been committed again.

Because Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam are not scientific researchers, Isabel gave the two of them the task of protecting the safety of the expedition team members.

"Buying cakes, what's the matter, why can't the digital camera save photos!"

As expected, Gordon soon noticed that there was something wrong with the camera, and he was talking to himself in English with a frustrated expression, holding the camera and looking left and right, not understanding what was going on.

"This is an anomaly area of the geomagnetic field, and common equipment will be significantly disturbed!"

The white bodyguard next to him took out a black palm-sized instrument from the small bag on the side of the backpack, and after pressing a button, the pointer similar to an old-fashioned multimeter swayed violently from side to side, and the alarm sound of "Dididi" sounded, and the bodyguard turned off the instrument and put it back in the backpack, which was like a mechanical throwing down two sentences of English, and walked into the ruins cave alone with the backpack, leaving Gordon, who heard his words messy in the wind.

Daisy, who looked like a vase beauty, flashed a ray of light in her eyes, and inadvertently turned her head sideways to find that Song Xiaoshuang was looking at her intentionally or unintentionally, Daisy barely smiled, knowing that her actions were seen by this Chinese, but she believed that Song Xiaoshuang would not do anything to her, nor would she move some "simple" Gordon, the two sides belong to different levels of people, which Daisy has long understood.

Gordon's bodyguard is indeed bold and careful, he has noticed that the scientist has basically completed the preliminary record of the entrance to the cave, and will soon enter the cave, as Gordon's bodyguard guard, he has the obligation to protect Gordon's safety, the situation in the cave is unknown, he can go first to see.

Then the people who entered the cave found that, as everyone guessed, the natural cracks in the rocks could penetrate the little light above the canyon into the cave, and after walking dozens of meters away from the mouth of the cave was a stone cave hall of thousands of square meters, the top of the cave was at least thirty meters high from the ground, and there was a cave on the right side with a height of more than one person and a width of two meters. Half a meter above the rock wall there is a clearly layered waterline that looks a little damp.

The left side of the cave hall is facing the light shining from the gap, there is a stone platform with a vertical stone wall height of about ten meters, the preliminary appearance is relatively flat from the part that can be seen, the area is not less than 500 square meters, and some red petroglyphs of the same size as adults can be seen on the stone wall at the end of the field of vision, which depicts the survival activities of various animals and human beings with similar lines in sketches, because the petroglyphs have been mottled for too long, and many figures are in a blurry and unclear appearance.

Seeing that the petroglyphs that urgently needed to be studied were on the stone wall on the platform, the scientists in the expedition team cheered, Isabel understood that this was the same place that Song Xiaoshuang said in the tent, Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam may not have continued to go deeper when they arrived here, she remembered that Song Xiaoshuang said that at that time, the cave on the right side was more than one person high and was partially immersed in water.

Thinking of this, Isabel instructed one of the scientists to take out his climbing gear, dress up, and prepare to use the rope to pick up the crowd after he had climbed the nearly 10-meter-high platform with pitons and ropes (the rock walls of the platform were smooth and difficult to climb with bare hands).

The climbing equipment had just been put on, and the scientist with good athletic talent was just about to hit the first pitons on the stone wall with a small hammer on his waist, and the white bodyguard, who was intentionally or unintentionally forgotten by most people, ran out of the black cave on the right at a very fast speed, carrying a pocket flashlight with the light turned on in his hand, and shouted in English with a stiff expression: "Get out of this cave, there are many, there are many strange insects that look like earthworms with red colors, they are as long as rattlesnakes, and they are very fast, and there are thousands of them."

"It's too late, we won't be caught up if we can't run to the entrance of the ruins cave, hurry up to the side of the platform, let the bodyguard take out the projectile claws in the backpack, Uncle Issam and I will deal with the bugs!"

Song Xiaoshuang's face changed slightly, and he yelled quickly in Chinese, ordering Isabel to do so, as soon as the words fell, a pale reddish thing had poured out of the cave on the right, everyone looked at it carefully, and some people couldn't help but scream, it was a strange "earthworm" that thousands of arms had never seen before!