Chapter 20: The Shadow of the Camel in the Camp
"Wait for me, Song Xiaoshuang, damn bastard, just leave me here alone, ah! How is there a crack in the stone here, my leg is stuck"
On the edge of the highland desert on the left side of the canyon where the ruins cave is located, Isabel in an off-white uniform looks very capable walking in the sand, turning her head to see the sunset scenery on the horizon, turning her head to see Uncle Isam and Song Xiaoshuang in gray and white robes in front of her, have walked out at least more than 100 meters away, Isabel shouted and said Chinese while chasing up, unexpectedly did not take a few steps The rolling yellow sand under her feet suddenly sank, Isabel stepped into the air, Later, when she realizes that one of her legs is stuck in a crevice in the rock covered by sand grains, Isabel immediately tries to save herself, but it gets worse and worse.
Song Xiaoshuang, who had already walked a long way, heard Isabel shouting behind her, frowning and thinking: No matter how bold a woman is, there are also times when the horse stumbles, no, they are all old wild surgical examination workers, and the boat overturned in the gutter and was stopped by a stone crack, so she shouldn't have been brought up, and she said at the beginning that there are many dark ditches and stone crevices under the desert sand piles above the canyon, but she doesn't believe it, now she knows the hardship, right?
"Boy, don't go and save her legs, be careful not to pay her salary."
Uncle Issam, who always covers his face with a veil next to him, only shows two pupils on his face, and reminds Song Xiaoshuang with a strange Chinese "kindness" that Isabel is still a woman no matter how she says, and a woman's temper is unreasonable for a tyrannosaurus.
Song Xiaoshuang rolled his eyes directly at the words of Uncle Issam of the old fritters, the look of watching the show in the uncle's eyes Song Xiaoshuang is clear, the uncle can speak some spoken Chinese in just a few days of contact with Song Xiaoshuang, Song Xiaoshuang has admired the five bodies, he even thinks that if the uncle is thirty years younger, maybe he will do the job of a translator.
"Save her, of course, the female boss can't be provoked!"
Song Xiaoshuang turned around and walked back, saying Chinese words and sentences as clearly as possible in his mouth, saying to Uncle Issam to deepen his impression, Song Xiaoshuang's Mandarin is already very bad, often speaking with dialect sounds and not spitting words clearly, Uncle Issam is not good to learn, so I found that Uncle Issam made a mistake when learning Chinese, Song Xiaoshuang couldn't help but emphasize the sentence, which has been a habit developed in the past few days.
Uncle Issam followed Song Xiaoshuang back, his mouth whispered the Chinese sentence that Song Xiaoshuang just said, the two soon walked to Isabel whose legs were stuck in the stone crack with an unhappy face, hearing that Uncle Issam was still repeating the Chinese sentence, Isabel had some surprise in her eyes, and quickly said two words in Arabic, and Uncle Issam was silent.
"Isabel, I don't understand what you just said, say it again in Chinese, otherwise you can continue to stay!"
Song Xiaoshuang said with a somewhat joking expression, walking around Isabel to the edge of the canyon, isn't it just that his leg is stuck, Uncle Issam is here, he doesn't have to make a move.
"Don't, I told the uncle that if you want to learn Chinese, follow me, your Chinese dialect pronunciation is more obvious, not pure Mandarin, don't say anything else, really you have to believe me!"
Seeing Song Xiaoshuang walking around her side, Isabel panicked and quickly confessed that she was unintentional, the entire investigation team members recognized that Song Xiaoshuang was the strongest in the team, even more powerful than Uncle Issam, Uncle Issam stood next to him and had no intention of making a move, who else could Isabel find if she didn't look for Song Xiaoshuang?
"So that's what happened, I said it earlier, the uncle will ask you to learn Chinese, anyway, it's almost a week to stay in the canyon, and the investigation activity is over, before returning to the exclusive office to submit the report, you have time to communicate well with the uncle, well, you close your eyes or I won't help you, open your eyes and be scared at your own risk!"
Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam glanced at each other, the eyes of the two old fritters flashed with a playful look, Song Xiaoshuang walked to Isabel and looked at her, with a faint smile on his face and said a few words at the same time, the two sentences at the end emphasized the tone, and the implication was that Isabel didn't listen to him, so he didn't care.
Isabel hurriedly closed her eyes, and then felt Song Xiaoshuang's arm rubbing against her pants-wearing calf, and then she clearly felt some broken stones in the crack of the stone smashing on the instep of her sandal, and it was only about half a minute before she heard Song Xiaoshuang's voice in her ears.
"Okay, open your eyes, the stone stuck in your calf has been removed."
Isabel opened her eyes and was pleasantly surprised to find that the hard rock that was stuck in her leg had really fallen off a lot, so she lifted her leg up when she raised her foot, and saw Song Xiaoshuang beside her grasping a handful of sand grains, watching the sand particles fall down between her fingers.
Isabel sighed secretly, unless it was a coincidence, it was difficult to know that Song Xiaoshuang used ancient Chinese martial arts kung fu, and Song Xiaoshuang was always mysterious.
When she began to leave the camp, Song Xiaoshuang also asked her to close her eyes, or she would not take her up to the canyon cliff desert nearly three hundred meters high to watch the sunset, Isabel used her father's reputation to promise that she would never open her eyes until she reached the ground, Song Xiaoshuang let her lie on her back, listening to the "woo" wind blowing in the middle of the canyon in her ears, and it was only a few minutes, Isabel opened her eyes and found that the steep canyon cliff that only wild goats can climb has been "conquered" by her. Looking into the canyon from the height of the canyon, the tent camp is the size of a square scarf.
Isabelle, who hadn't come back to her senses, saw Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam, who had left her, walked a long way, so she was in a hurry to catch up and accidentally got stuck in her leg by a stone crack.
Isabel was still thinking about the situation just now, and saw Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam walking towards the sand on one side, where there were fixed sand dunes, which was the highest point in the vicinity, Isabel instantly understood that it should be the best lookout place, not only the beautiful scenery of the sunset, but also the entrance of the gorge a few kilometers away, Isabel did not speak and followed the two up to dozens of meters high sand dunes.
The three of them sat on the top of the sand dunes and watched the sunset at the end of the sky, surrounded by a vast sea of sand, and the breeze blew the sand particles of the desert depression to raise sand dust.
The reason why I ran to the desert at the top of the canyon was because I was at the bottom of the canyon in a north-south direction, and it was impossible to see the sunset, Isabel hummed a song that only she could understand the semantics, and her expression was a little relaxed, and the satisfaction of not seeing the sunset for nearly a week finally achieved her wish.
Tomorrow morning the team will withdraw from the isthmus canyon, and in the afternoon everyone is lazy to stay in the camp tent area to rest and wander freely, three off-road vehicles fixed on the stone slope with alloy chains and vehicle-mounted winches have also been put on the gravel ground at the bottom of the canyon, the team members of the investigation team will not encounter the rainstorm weather that is rare in a century, and there is no need to worry about the rising water to drown the car. Some equipment that is not very important has also been loaded into the car in advance, so that it can be efficient to go out of camp tomorrow.
During the few days of investigation and research activities, it was not all smooth sailing, and the Yankee Gordon, who was acting with the group, somehow moved the paleontologist in the team, as well as the female geologist, brought various equipment such as thermal biological detectors, brought Daisy and white bodyguards, and a group of five people went deep into the underground cave on the right side of the cave hall of the ruins.
Isabel didn't know anything about this beforehand, she was busy studying the survey data, and when half a day passed, she came out of the tent, only to find that there were five people missing in the camp, Isabel immediately knew what a few people were doing, and found Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle who were resting in the tent, and was a little annoyed why the two didn't stop it, and later found out that the two were wrong.
When Gordon and the others went deep into the cave, Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam were in a cave on the high part of the platform, helping several scientists clean up a cave with ancient people's living materials, which was full of fragmentary clay pots and utensils.
Paleontologists and geologists have completed the relevant investigation and research work of the relic cave, and have not participated in the cleaning and research of the cave, Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam of course do not know what Gordon and the others are doing, and Isabel found that when Gordon and the others were missing, Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam had just returned to the tent camp.
What happened later was really angry and funny, and at dusk, Gordon and his group of five returned to the camp dejectedly.
After a brief inquiry, it was similar to what Isabel had imagined, Gordon wanted to find underground cave creatures to satisfy his curiosity, paleontologists wanted to find underground lakes or rivers to catch a fish to make a specimen, and female geologists certainly wanted to delve into the geological formations deep in the caves.
But after some hard work, a few people just saw a half-dry quagmire at the end of the rugged passage that winds down several hundred meters high, the yellow-brown tidal mud is mixed with the powder of metal minerals, and some of the dry and hard tidal mud is difficult to break with a mineral hammer.
As for where the quagmire leads, where the nests of the great earthworms are, and where the underground lakes are, there is no hope of knowing.
Seeing that the people and equipment were intact and back, Isabel beat Gordon who took the lead into a panda eye without saying a few words, and Isabelle, who had practiced women's self-defense and was proficient in small arms, became furious, which could scare some people, she was using Gordon to warn the careful scientists in the team, she was the leader who was disobedient and stood up.
Many people, including Udai and Emina, snickered at Gordon's bad experience, and they had warned Gordon not to ignore Isabel's authority in the team, Isabel was a truly outstanding anthropologist, and no one would speak for Gordon.
Gordon also knew that he was at a loss, Isabel had repeatedly reminded the members of the expedition team that they could not act alone without the consent of all members of the meeting, and that the underground cave was not within the scope of this special research project, and everyone had to be unlucky if something happened. After Uncle Issam provided Gordon with a secret poultice, making Gordon's panda eyes disappear the next morning, the turmoil was over.
"Isabel, that Gordon kid has been honest for the past two days, but you're not going to pay him another barrel of wine, are you?"
Isabel was still watching the gradually setting sunset in a daze, when she heard Song Xiaoshuang next to her say two words in a relaxed tone.
He said this for a reason, the veterans of the investigation team all know that the last time a person who acted with the group was beaten into a panda eye by Isabel because he secretly drank the wine in Isabel's flat kettle, and afterwards this person went to the office to complain, and Isabel's father consigned an oak barrel of wine from France to this person, which was a storm.
"Hmph, Gordon, this kid doesn't dare at all, he calls my dad uncle and uncle, I'm teaching him a lesson for my dad, let him have a longer memory, to put it bluntly, I'm a sister, help Gordon's dad in the United States watch it, if his dad knows that he doesn't obey the command in the expedition team, it won't be me who will clean him up!"
Isabel is also more familiar with Song Xiaoshuang, and now her mood is also very relaxed, for the first time she said that Gordon still has some relationship with her family, Song Xiaoshuang had a sudden look on her face, secretly thinking that Gordon, the Yankee, has nowhere to find a place to reason!
"Desert, camels and people!"
Uncle Issam, who was sitting next to him and did not speak, suddenly said a few Chinese words and sentences, although it sounded strange, but Shangsong Xiaoshuang immediately understood, quickly looked around at the desert in the distance, and immediately found with Isabel that at the entrance of the isthmus canyon a few kilometers away, sand and dust were everywhere, and two larger black dots continued to move to the depths of the canyon, and when you looked closely, you found that it was two camels!
As the camel trotted closer and closer, the three people on the sand dune all found that the figure on the camel was relatively short, although they covered their faces with a scarf, but it was obviously a child who had not grown up.
"Back to the tent camp, I think we have something to do!"
As Song Xiaoshuang spoke, he turned around and ran under the dune, and Isabel and Uncle Issam followed closely and trotted out of the dune