Dazzling landing thunder and lightning fell from the canyon one after another, the piercing thunder resounded through everyone's eardrums, the earth was shaking, this is not an illusion, although the light in the tent is very dim, but it can still be seen from the wind-blown canvas tent door and part of the light yellow tent top, see the violent thunderstorm weather conditions over the canyon, the rainstorm began to show its majesty by the ravages of lightning, the tent is like being rooted in the stream, the tent canvas on the upper side of the slope is partially rolled up by the water at the bottom, The pungent water of the turbid earth reached the ankles of the people in the tents, and some of the insects in the desert did not withstand the torrential rain, and struggled along the mountains and rivers flowing through the tents.

Everyone wearing pants in the tent rolled up their trouser legs, but Uncle Issam and Song Xiaoshuang ended up relaxed, because the hem of their gray-white robes was only half of their calves, and they didn't have any worries about being wet with water for the time being.

"Made, I don't understand why we didn't enter this damn canyon after a rainstorm? Endure this extreme thunderstorm! ”

Seeing several palm-sized black scorpions being swept away by the current from not far from his feet, the young Yankee Gordon, with short brown hair, could no longer hold his breath, a pair of feet in sandals were soaked in water, staring at a pair of blue-gray eyes watching the scorpion appear from the tent to disappear, and exhaling a long breath of turbid air stuffed in his chest cavity (being stung by a scorpion is a very uncomfortable thing), Gordon roared in his American accent English with some annoyance, causing everyone in the tent to look sideways.

Gordon's female companion, a beautiful Daisy with short blond hair and light blue eyes, pulled Gordon's wide blue-gray denim sleeves with an embarrassed expression, and his eyes signaled him not to look foreign here.

Isabel's supervisor is the exclusive office of UNESCO, and the members of the expedition team are all front-line scientific researchers in the world, especially Isabel, who is the leader of the team, is a top wise anthropologist with rich knowledge and experience in field surgery.

Gordon then realized that he seemed to have fallen into a fallacy, and thought to himself: yes, Isabel with black-rimmed glasses is not a simple character, she won't wear small shoes for herself, right?

Gordon's expression was a little stupid, seeing that Isabel sitting in the chair didn't seem to be a little annoyed, her eyes didn't look at herself at all, but stared at a person, it was the weirdo Song from China, Gordon was secretly glad that Isabel didn't pay attention to himself at this time, turned his head and gave Daisy a look to signal her palm not to grab the sleeve anymore, as for the fierce white bodyguard sitting like a tree stump in a desert yellow training uniform, Gordon didn't bother to pay attention, After all, he is not a mountain with his back or a beautiful woman.

Song Xiaoshuang after Wu Dai's translation, but also know the concerns of the Yankee Gordon, Gordon can be said to be a son who is not learned and unskilled, and the action with the group is actually his father's idea, and he is forced into the inspection team, just thinking of this, he felt a consciousness cast on him, Song Xiaoshuang understood that Isabel was looking at him, and quickly raised his head and showed a smile to make a serious listen, which caused Isabel to snort slightly, and Wu Dai next to him felt speechless, Uncle Issam, who covered his face with a scarf, showed you a very funny look, but Uncle did it very secretly, and no one noticed.

Song Xiaoshuang, this guy is a ruffian, no matter what he is, Gordon's father is the owner of the money after all, if something happens to Gordon, the old virgin director of the office will go to the house and smash the wine cellar, or explain it again so that Gordon doesn't know the severity.

Thinking of this, Isabel pushed her fingers to push the frame of the glasses on her nose, coughed softly and continued to say in the thunderous noise: "The stony platform outside the canyon, I believe everyone has seen what the terrain is like, it is not wrong to say that it is a platform, the relative height is slightly higher than the surrounding desert, there are many large gravel pits in the platform with a sinking range of tens of hundreds of meters, and when it is dry, you can barely drive, once it rains, it becomes a small lake filled with water, if we exit and go to it for a short time, we will not be able to enter, At least a week after the rain has evaporated before we can come in, the off-road vehicle we use is not a submarine, the platform is a normal place to enter the canyon, some people may say that there is no such trouble, you can directly use a large engineering helicopter to airdrop the car and supplies into the canyon with a vertical height of 300 meters, if anyone goes to the office to find the director to say this, she will definitely return the slap! ”

Isabel paused for a moment and continued: "The scientific research and investigation work is very rigorous, not to mention whether we have so much funds to use, it is very difficult for helicopters to relay fuel supply in the desert, and it requires great cooperation from all sides, relying solely on helicopter airdrop airborne is an unreliable thing, here the geomagnetic anomaly canyon blows shear wind all year round, which will seriously interfere with the normal use of various conventional instruments and equipment, and the helicopter can't go when it comes, okay, I'll just explain it here, and when the rainstorm stops, the water recedes, and the whole team will enter the ruins cave."

Hearing what Isabel said, Gordon realized how "white" he was, and then Gordon began to really pay attention to Isabel's orders, listening to what she said, it is likely that there is really some danger in entering the ruins cave, Gordon cherishes his own life very much

The torrential rain mixed with thunderstorm weather fell for two hours, close to four o'clock in the afternoon when the rain passed and the sky was clear, all the members of the expedition team were like dormant weasels, ran out of the tent and stood on the slope, and saw a pool of yellowish and turbid water flowing slowly at the bottom of the canyon, many people couldn't help but exclaim, the depth of the water was at least six meters or more, if the tent was set up at the bottom of the canyon, it would have been roofless, and three off-road vehicles had to be soaked in the water.

The reason why the expedition team escaped the catastrophe was due to the various rumors of the canyon, and the expedition log of the last century, which was locked in the safe, also provided many clues that could be referred to.

Song Xiaoshuang stood in the crowd and raised his head to look at the sky above the side of the canyon, a blood-red rainbow loomed, and secretly thought that it was really a strange place, and the rainbows were like this!

The water at the bottom of the canyon receded slowly, and it was not until the next morning when it was dark that most of the expedition team members were still enjoying a comfortable early morning sleep in their tents. After praying in uniform with a prayer blanket at the corner of the slope in the direction of the holy city (the last time I encountered desert robbers, the few Muslims in the expedition team unfortunately suffered gunshot wounds and were admitted to the hospital in Attar for treatment, and only two devout believers remained in the team, Udai and Emina), and finally the remaining water more than a meter deep quickly receded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing that the stagnant water quickly disappeared to reveal the original canyon gravel bottom, Udai and Emina were pleasantly surprised and walked into the tent quickly with a prayer blanket, and saw Isabel sitting on the rope hammock hanging from the tent's alloy skeleton, who had already put on the off-white uniform of the expedition team and was about to go out, the two quickly grabbed her and said Arabic without speaking, Isabel's expression changed speed and said Arabic: "The water has subsided?" ”

"Of course, maybe this is Allah's prompt, Isabel, let's hurry up and get breakfast, I can't wait to enter the long-rumored ruins cave."

Amina said with excitement in her tone, hearing what Emina, Isabel was not in a hurry, because every morning there are always two less people in the team, and it is unimaginable to enter the ruins without the two of them, that is, Uncle Issam, the leader of the Berber guides, and the Chinese Song Xiaoshuang.

These two people always can't find anyone in the camp tent early in the morning, Isabel once asked Song Xiaoshuang, this guy said quite seriously, he, like Uncle Issam, must self-cultivate every day to improve his personal ability, otherwise his ability will decline, of course, he has to find a clean place, and he can also learn from the uncle, those Berber guides snore loudly when they sleep at night, and so on, Isabel is not stupid, these are Song Xiaoshuang's excuses, it should be that he doesn't want to expose more secrets to be discovered!

Isabel tends to Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam to avoid everyone, practicing some kind of skill with amazing effects, both of them have the characteristics of wizards, and their ability to act mysteriously is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, of course, there are two people with superior abilities hiding nearby, and they are also guarded and investigated teams in disguise, which Isabel still knows. Although Isabel is an anthropologist who studies ancient religion and witchcraft culture, she suspects that Uncle Issam and Song Xiaoshuang are the kind of legendary supernatural beings, which are obviously different from ordinary people, but she has never been confirmed by the two of them.

"It's not that you don't know that Uncle Issam and Song Qingchen are not in the camp at all, let's wait for them to come back, save some gas stoves, boil some water, put some canned bread and meat, and stew dehydrated vegetables in a pot, we will stay in the canyon for many days, there are no plants here to use as fuel!"

As soon as Isabel finished speaking, she lifted the canvas tent door and bowed out, just walked outside the tent and looked stunned, it turned out that Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam had returned to the tent camp, and the two of them pulled the hem of the gray and white robe to their waists and tied them up, revealing the muscles of Chiguoguo's thighs and walking in front of her with sandals.

What made Isabel stunned was not the funny "performance art" of Uncle and Song Xiaoshuang, but a huge fish in Song Xiaoshuang's arms in the morning light, at least one meter long, the slender body of the fish scales were translucent like crystals, shining with a shimmer, the size of the fish tail was a strange light blue, the light gray color of the fish eyes was still turning, the fish mouth was wide open and trying in vain to breathe the oxygen in the air, this guy actually got a fish weighing no less than a dozen catties in the desert!

"Improve the food this morning, this fish is cut into thin slices and put in the batter, it is a delicious fish soup, don't look at me like this, be content, I finally grabbed one, the water receded too fast, and other fish didn't have a chance to catch it!"

Uncle Issam, who was empty-handed, saw Isabel's shocked expression, shrugged his shoulders slightly and spoke Arabic at a speed, the uncle's words came far away in the tent camp in the early morning, and the people who were still resting in the tent were not dressed in their clothes and pants, so they ran out together to see what was going on, and the next rainstorm in the dry desert valley could catch fish, and those who heard the uncle spoke thought that they had not woken up and had some auditory hallucinations.

When he really saw the Chinese Song (Song Xiaoshuang), handed a one-meter-long fish to a Berber guide, gestured to the guide to make the fish into edible fish soup as soon as possible, the paleontologist in the expedition team was gone, anxious to stop the guide from killing the fish, spoke Arabic very quickly, said that he could not eat it, he could make it a specimen for preservation, he could provide the canned meat allocated to him in exchange for the fish, supported the paleontologists and those who were in favor of eating the fish, and formed two factions in the team, Each has its own opinion

As a result, after getting it, the sad fish was still made into fish soup and sent into everyone's stomachs, because Isabel was very sure that this must be a fish in the underground river deep in the cave of the ruins, and the fish are swarmed creatures, and they want to catch fish as specimens, so they set off to the cave to catch them after eating.

Her deceptive language temporarily deceived the paleontologist, which led to the paleontologist beating his chest and regretting that he should not have eaten the fish.