Under the night of the desert, the fire of the bonfire continued to shine, Uncle Issam's rhythmic folk songs echoed in the tent camp, the dead branches swayed and swayed up dozens of meters high after the dead branches burned, full of the smell of grass and wood ash, Isabel shook her nose quickly a few times and then helped the black glasses frame on her nose, waking up from the artistic conception of "the desert lonely smoke straight to the long river and the sunset", she felt that only ancient Chinese poetry could well express her state of mind at this time.

Isabel sat on the sand beside the fire with her legs curled and barefoot like everyone else, the temperature of the tea in the enamel cup in her hand had dropped almost, Isabel picked up the enamel cup and put it to her mouth, while drinking the strange taste of tea with hot mint leaves and sugar, while paying attention to the expressions of everyone around the campfire, after looking around, no abnormalities were found, and everyone's mood had been relieved from the slightly chaotic things in the morning, at least on the surface, The relationship between people is quite harmonious.

In particular, the relationship with the Berber guides seemed to be quite good, and when Uncle Issam sang a ballad and took a break in the middle of the conversation, everyone whispered and laughed in Arabic, which was common to the team, and when Uncle Issam was in a mood and began to hum the ballad, the conversation stopped.

The only thing that seems a little discordant is to see Gordon, an American kid who asked to join the group as a sponsor of the rich second generation, from time to time with body language and eyes, trying to provoke the weird Song Xiaoshuang, but was ignored by Song Xiaoshuang, who was drinking snake soup, and Gordon's blonde girlfriend Daisy looked relatively better, and when she looked at Song Xiaoshuang sideways, she could still nod and smile.

Isabel's impression of Daisy is much better than before, maybe this woman who usually looks like a vase is not so unbearable, and she drove the tool car and didn't run far, and was quickly caught up by the guide and her because the car was not good to drive, which Isabel felt suspicious, the handling of the Unimog off-road tool vehicle belongs to the first-class level, this woman may be the female bodyguard of Gordon's kid? Hiding behind Gordon in the morning, shivering, it looks like she is acting in hindsight, and of course her abilities and true intentions, Gordon seems to know nothing

Isabel put these thoughts behind her, and quickly focused on the strange Song Xiaoshuang, Isabel was still a little proud, drinking a strangely tasting tea with sugar and dried mint leaves, and eating Uncle Isam's freshly baked bread, while glad that he was temporarily allowed to stay in the investigation team.

When this matter was announced in the afternoon in the temporary meeting of the ten-person inspection team, it also caused a lot of people to oppose, Isabel "argued", saying that although there is a semi-fixed road through the desert in the desert, it is too far away, and it is difficult for a person to go to the oasis without supplies or encounter various convoys across the desert.

Song Xiaoshuang is from China, and there is such a thing as knowing his name, only Isabel, Wu Dai, and Emina, in the tent, Song Xiaoshuang knew that he was now staying in the West African desert in March 2014, and at first decided to go southwest as soon as the sandstorm was over, and find a way to rush to the capital of Mauritania by the sea, find the Chinese embassy, and should be able to go back to China.

Isabel was stunned when she heard this, Song Xiaoshuang had nothing on her body (even the robe was given by the guide), and she had to go through hundreds of kilometers of desert and rocky desert areas to the capital located by the sea, and she could not find any documents to find the embassy and go back to China, who did he think he was?

At that time, Isabel was stupid, this guy couldn't be wandering around in the desert all day long, his brain was dizzy from the sun, and he was talking nonsense about unreliable things!

However, after thinking about it, Isabel felt that what seemed unreliable might really work! The Chinese culture in the East has a long history, and there are countless strange things throughout the ages, maybe this Song Xiaoshuang in front of him is presumptuous, although the tone of his speech looks a little hanging, and he is full of habits when he is a ruffian, but when he thinks about it, he is a little naturally stupid, who knows if it is a habitual cover-up?

Isabel thought of what Uncle Issam said before leaving the tent, and decided to try to make Song Xiaoshuang change his mind, temporarily stay in the investigation team to follow the group, and said with a cheeky face that he was a UNESCO employee, and he still had some connections in Mauritania, so he could help Song Xiaoshuang make some efforts at the embassy, and besides, he didn't understand the language, and it was much more difficult for him to cross the desert alone than he imagined. Isabel didn't know what Song Xiaoshuang really thought, anyway, in the end, he agreed to stay in the expedition team temporarily, and Isabel's little plan was realized.

In fact, as the timing is not very good, the leader of the team to travel deep into the hinterland of the desert, to be the leader of the scientific expedition team for investigation and research in a specific location, Isabel actually still has a lot of pressure, in addition to the guide, there are only ten people who are really engaged in research projects, including her, but they belong to the staff of three or four research units under UNESCO, there are young archaeologists, paleontological research scholars, botanists, and Udai and Emina are proficient in Arab culture, folklore, geology, Udai also studied regional meteorology, and as a team leader, she studied ancient religions and witchcraft cultures, and the team members spoke French, English, Arabic, Spanish, and of course, Berber for Berber guides. As the leader of the team, Isabel is proficient in these languages (otherwise the team leader would not be able to be the leader), of course, Isabel also has to know the Moorish (one of the main ethnic groups in Mauritania) to speak the Arabic dialect Hassan, how to integrate the ability of scholars from various countries who use several languages, Isabel is painstaking, especially the mental state of the people must be mastered at any time, in this regard, Udai and Emina have made a lot of efforts.

"Starting tomorrow, we will go deep into the desert where there is a shortage of water, where there is not only a lack of water, but also in recent years there has never been rain, lack of vegetation, no pancakes, instead eat stored baguettes, who doesn't want to gnaw dry and hard baguettes in the desert, remember to put pancakes in your pocket!"

Uncle Issam stopped humming the ballad, said a few words of Arabic to bring Isabel back to her senses, and watched everyone swarm from a small piece of flannel spread on the sand, "grabbing" the layers of baked dough that overlapped together, and stuffed them into their respective pockets and trousers, Isabel had no chance to do it, Uncle Issam, who was covering his face with a gauze scarf, tore a small piece of dough with his fingers and stuffed it into his mouth from under the gauze towel to chew, seeing Isabel's inquiring gaze, the uncle shrugged his shoulders slightly and spread his hands, Isabel knew that Uncle Issam really wouldn't make any more pancakes, and she secretly regretted that she was in a daze, and she didn't catch the pancakes.

This kind of flour baked on the fire does not contain invasive grease, will not stain the clothes and fabrics, and can also be stored for a long time without deterioration, it tastes great, Uncle Issam not only added date palm fruit to the dough, but also the tribe's exclusive secret recipe, which is a mixture of many kinds of desert plants dried and ground into powder, similar to curry powder, only the tribal people who have lived in the desert for a long time will make such a thing out, and the difference between ordinary flour is not a little bit.

Isabel was a little annoyed, her nose smelled the fragrance of the pancakes and quickly fanned a few times, only then did she notice that Song Xiaoshuang, who was wearing a gray and white robe, had already walked to her side, leaning over and placing a few baked dough cakes in her palms that overlapped each other.

There was a light smile in his eyes, and he shook his palm slightly to signal Isabel to take the dough away, and gestured with the other hand, but did not speak, but Isabel still quickly understood, this guy was too thief, he wanted to drink red wine in the military flat kettle, no more than two sips, and the flat kettle was placed on the sand beside her.

After thinking about it for a while, Isabel still couldn't stop the desire for the dough cake, reached out and took the dough from Song Xiao's hands, and quickly stuffed it into the pocket of the cotton uniform on her body (one of the characteristics of this kind of field general uniform is that there are a lot of cloth pockets), so that the clothes pocket was bulging, and then handed the flat kettle containing wine to Song Xiaoshuang, Song Xiaoshuang unscrewed the lid of the kettle and drank two small sips, staring at her with a strange look in his eyes, and then covered the lid and handed the flat kettle over and turned to leave, which made Isabel feel a little weak, Could it be that this guy has noticed something, it can't be, the secret in the wine is the secret, he can't know it

Isabel and everyone in the investigation team said that Song Xiaoshuang temporarily lost his language ability because of stimulation, and everyone was skeptical about this, but seeing that he never said a word, he went, but seeing that he was able to successfully drink the wine in the flat kettle, everyone around the campfire was very surprised, and they couldn't figure out what was going on?

Team leader Isabel "good wine" and not allow others to enjoy the wine in the two flat kettles, it is already an open secret in the team, Gordon just arrived at the team to experience the cultural tour of the desert expedition, was repeatedly warned by everyone not to move the two old looking flat kettle minds, otherwise it will be miserable, how miserable there are specific examples.

Gordon scoffed at this, he was not interested in it, but seeing that Song Xiaoshuang actually drank the wine in the kettle so easily, Gordon began to feel that there was something different in this team than before, he was not really stupid and incorrigible, when Song Xiaoshuang returned to sit on the sand by the campfire, Gordon no longer tried to provoke Song Xiaoshuang, and focused on Daisy, this blonde girl always belongs to him, and others can't take it away

After the dinner by the campfire, Song Xiaoshuang was stuffed into the tent where Uncle Isam and the others rested, and he couldn't stay in the tent of her, Wu Dai and Emina. This was a decision made by Isabel after weighing the pros and cons, and Uncle Issam, who was the leader of the Berber guides, agreed without any hesitation, and Isabel did not understand the reason, and she began to suspect that what Uncle said in the tent was probably premeditated.

In the middle of the night, in the thick of the desert, the temperature has plummeted to about freezing, Song Xiaoshuang, who was wearing a gray-white robe, wore a pair of sandals, followed the masked Uncle Issam out of the tent camp, and quickly walked around the tall sand dunes before stopping.

Uncle Issam turned around and looked at Song Xiaoshuang without speaking, but pulled out a foot-long short knife hanging on the left side of his waist, snorted lightly and silently recited the words that Song Xiaoshuang didn't understand at all, while the short knife swung and slashed towards the desert on one side, a snowy knife light arced from the blade, cutting through the night sky and slashing into the sand pile of the desert more than ten meters away, the sand pile was like being hit by a large-caliber machine gun, it exploded in strips, and the sand and dust splashed everywhere to develop a dull sound, Uncle Issam then put the short knife into the sheath, The chest hidden in the robe rose and fell slightly, and the dark eyes shone in the night, signaling that Song Xiaoshuang would look at it next.

Song Xiaoshuang's eyes lit up, and he was really lucky, he could meet a wizard who could use a strange spell in the African desert to drive the energy of nature for his own use in the form of energy resonance, this Uncle Issam was very interesting, but Song Xiaoshuang was still in the sequelae period of casting forbidden skills at this time, and it was not advisable to cast a secret spell to show its power, and his expression moved, and five arcs of lightning shining with blue and white light suddenly appeared on the fingertips of the five fingers of one hand, and the arc light that was nearly one meter long pierced the night sky, but there was no sound, Just like the five serpentine swords, Song Xiaoshuang's entire face shone in this blue-white light, looking a somewhat strange atmosphere, and the arc lasted for a few seconds before disappearing.

Uncle Issam walked over and patted Song Xiaoshuang's shoulder, although he always covered his face with a scarf, but his eyes obviously showed a satisfied look, and he walked back to the tent camp behind the dunes, Song Xiaoshuang shook his head slightly, looked at the few stars in the sky and walked towards the camp