By the tent, the woman wearing glasses was about to end the call, when she heard the voice of a man with a sense of vicissitudes sounding in the speaker of the satellite phone, and the words were no longer the French that had been talked before, but changed to Arabic, which made the woman with the satellite phone in her hand very surprised, and her eyes turned and she left the tent with the satellite phone, and quickly walked past the busy Berber guide wearing a veil, and walked to the sand pile on the side, and the Arabic voice continued to come out of the speaker.

"Amir, are you listening? My darling, you have always been my pride, becoming a top anthropologist at the age of thirty, studying esoteric religion and witchcraft cultures. I have rushed to the exclusive office in France, the situation in West Africa has not been very good recently, it is dangerous for you to stay there, it is better to change your mind and go back to France as soon as possible, you just scolded well, some agencies of the United Nations are bureaucratic and prevalent, I have seen that your chief of staff, this old-fashioned woman, is not allowed to change the itinerary of the expedition team slightly, you must know that it is a desert! ”

Hearing this, the woman shook her head directly and felt speechless, her fingers supported the frame of her glasses on the bridge of her nose, and she secretly wondered why the old man ran to the office again? He is about to become a regular visitor there, although he has donated a lot of money to UNESCO, but it is not a matter of all, and then his face was very serious and he said into the phone in Arabic: "Dad, it is better to call my French name Isabel, you are French, how can you be more Arabized than my mother, a real Arab descendant?" Don't talk about Emile every time, is there a princess who wears glasses to study the traces of the ancients? Is there a princess who shoots a tranquilizer gun at a hippopotamus? ”

"Haha, it's really my pride, I won't be easily intimidated by difficulties, your office director has already agreed in principle to you to change your travel plans, Isabel, do a good job, well, the old-fashioned woman sitting behind the desk is prompting me to use their satellite phone, I won't say more, bye"

Isabel's father, who was far away in France, finally said a few words in French and quickly ended the call.

Isabel put away the satellite phone antenna, carried the phone and walked in the direction of the tent, the activity of reinforcing the anchor point of the tent has ended, some of the Berber guides with scarves and masked heads have gotten into the tent, and some are still checking the situation of the three off-road vehicles near the tent, the wind and sand will not stop for a while and a half, if something is blown away, the windows are not closed tightly and a cart of sand is a troublesome thing.

Isabel lifted the canvas door of the tent and walked inside, the tent was covered with an insulated velvet blanket, and the light could partially penetrate the tent during the day, although it looked a little dim, but there was no need to light the lamp.

There are several toolboxes for various research purposes in the tent, one of which is a toolbox with two dark green painted mottled military flat kettles, a corner of the tent, two young Arab women with black hair and black eyes, and a typical Mediterranean white woman, although the appearance is relatively ordinary, but the Arab temperament is obvious, sitting barefoot on the velvet blanket and whispering, one of them sitting cross-legged on the lap of a woman, and an open thin notebook, a cable is plugged into the notebook, and the other end of the cable, connected to a book-sized flat instrument with flashing indicator lights on the velvet carpet next to it, there is a separate cable on the instrument connected to the top of the corner of the tent, it seems that this is a device that transmits communication signals through satellites, although it does not look professional like a suitcase-type satellite ground station, but it should be no problem to connect to the civilian network signal in the depths of the desert, and it is necessary to do research in this special landform in the desert, and pay attention to the miniaturization and generalization of various instruments.

Like Isabel, the two Arab women, dressed in off-white cotton uniforms for field expeditions, but they have thicker scarves on their heads, but they have not put them down to cover their faces. In the tent she was exempt, she considered herself not a pure Arab, and had a different faith.

Seeing Isabel walking in barefoot, the young Arab woman with a notebook on her lap stopped talking to her companions, looked at Isabelle's indifferent expression, and had a tacit understanding with her for a long time, and said in fluent French: "Isabel, the matter is done, and the exclusive office director in charge of this project agrees with us to change the itinerary appropriately?" ”

"It's a must, Ude, did you and Emina find anything on the computer? The guide said that it will be windy today, and there may be a big sandstorm! ”

While speaking fluent French, Isabel only emphasized the syllables on the Arabic names of Ude and Emina, and unscrewed the lid of a military flat kettle on the toolbox, picked up the kettle and poured it into her mouth, and after two small sips, Isabel quickly closed the lid of the kettle and put the kettle back on the toolbox.

Her action is not strange in the eyes of Udai and Emina, the kettle is not filled with drinking water, but the red wine with ruddy color, which is Isabel's own cellared wine, and the other flat kettle is white wine, wine and two military flat kettles containing wine are necessary for Isabel's field expeditions, as Isabel's work partner, over time, I can recognize at a glance which kettle is filled with red wine, which is white wine, Isabel is used to solving one thing, Carefully take two small sips as a reward for yourself, even the work partners around you don't have much chance to drink.

It's not that the wine in the flat kettle is really precious, but everyone knows that this is a quirk of hers, the last field expedition, a handsome Spanish guy who "gilded" his presence in the expedition team (such a thing is always inevitable for the team engaged in scientific research in the field, otherwise where to get sponsorship?) Although it is a professional scientific research team under the United Nations, there are relatively normal funding channels, but the boring field surgery team, sometimes the funding gap is very large, and there may not be direct benefits for tens or hundreds of years in this industry), with curiosity to secretly drink her wine in two flat jugs, it was discovered by Isabelle, who seemed to be a four-eyed boy, and his anger exploded, and he beat him into panda eyes, and afterwards the office also received a fax and phone call of protest, which almost made things bigger, fortunately, this handsome guy is also a good drinker, After Isabel's father had shipped an oak barrel of cellared wine, the matter was truly over, and no one could figure out how she had developed such a habit.

Hearing Isabel's inquiry, Udai quickly said in French: "Berber guides regard the desert as their home, and generally don't mistake the weather conditions, I connected to the Internet to check the weather forecast just released by the Mauritanian government department, they rented the French Eye of God series of satellites, and some of the commercial data permissions obtained by crossing the sky over Africa, the cyclone over the desert has begun to form, and there will be sandstorms, how big it is unknown!" You have fine skin and tender meat, but you can't tan no matter how you tan it, you are a big beauty, don't run around in sandstorm weather, if you are blown away by the wind, we can't find it. ”

Isabel was noncommittal about the jokes of her work companion Wu Dai, and secretly slandered herself: I think I think I am barely pleasing to the eye when I remove my glasses, and I am far from the definition of beauty in my mind. The original white complexion has become close to bronze, but there is still some distance from tanning.

Isabel sat on the velvet carpet, laughing at herself, when she suddenly heard a commotion outside the tent, the Berber guide spoke in Berber, his voice was short and seemed to be a little frightened, and then the chaotic conversation in the Arabic Hassan, English, and French voices came and went, including the screams of women, Isabel's face changed, what could make the Berber guide feel panicked, could it be the legendary desert monster that could burrow into the ground and feed on humans and beasts?

Isabel quickly rolled over and stood up, carrying a composite box that was two feet long and a palm-wide in the corner, and put sandals on her feet, and dodged out of the tent.

Udai and Emina glanced at each other, knowing that Isabel's box contained a tranquilizer gun for anesthetizing wild animals and some specially designed anesthetic needles, because the work was of a field surgery, Isabel brought a anesthetic gun with a pneumatic anesthetic needle, which was allowed by the work guidelines, to deal with possible encounters with the unexpected situation of a beast attack, the two women ran out of the tent barefoot, and just got out of the tent before they could figure out what was going on, they heard the special sound of Isabel's tranquilizer gun.

After a while, the two women covered their eyes and screamed, more than ten meters away, under the shade of two date palm trees, a man covered in red fruit looked like a human being, with Isabel's anesthetic needle inserted in his left thigh, his figure swayed and walked towards the tent, and he had a circle around his neck that seemed to be roasted snake meat? The drooping shoulder should be the roast meat of the desert lizard, only half of it is left, these are nothing, the main thing is that there are black-brown spots everywhere on his head, face and body, and a very strong smell of blood wafting in the wind is very smoky!

Udai and Emina's screams were not caused by his naked fruits, but by several factors.

Several Berber guides wore swords for self-defense, and threw them everywhere, several guides all fell into the sand near the date palm trees, constantly screaming and unable to move, the gauze on the head was scattered, and the white rich second-generation son brother from the United States, holding a muffler pistol in his hand, stood at the door of the tent near in a daze, and began to hear the screams of the woman, which was shouted from the throat of the blonde woman who followed him, God knows how this guy could hide a firearm and follow the group?

But now there is no need to worry about the pistol in his hand, because the pistol in his hand is only half of the left, and half of the firearm parts, such as half of the silencer, barrel and sleeve fell mysteriously in the yellow sand around him, although there is a faint smell of gunpowder smoke from the firing bullets, and you can see golden bullet casings nearby, but now it seems that it is useless to the strange people who are shaking over, and the adjacent tents are purely men and women engaged in scientific research, seeing such a strange scene, At this time, they were already frightened and ran to the sand dunes on the side of the tent, stirring up a lot of smoke and dust.

Isabel's face was bloodless, holding a tranquilizer gun in her hand, her arms trembled a little and kept stepping back, the composite box, alone in the sand, Isabel didn't have the courage to load a special anesthetic needle, in her opinion, it was already possible to anesthetize a rhinoceros anesthetic needle, but it couldn't overturn a person, it seemed that it had staggered but not fallen to the ground, which was beyond her imagination too much.

Isabel even began to imagine in her mind whether the strange man's skin would suddenly crack open, stretching out grotesque tentacles with mucus, and saw the strange man standing a few meters away, and after making a gesture with some stiffness, he knelt in the sand in vain, his chest rose and fell violently, his fingers supported the ground, and his face was very ugly.

Seeing this, Isabel's face softened, and she walked to an adjacent tent with a tranquilizer gun, and quickly returned, holding a clean gray-white robe in her hand, handing the gun to Wu Dai behind her, and walking to the stranger who was kneeling in the sand with the gray-white robe, and fell to the ground before she could get to the stranger, Isabel was secretly proud, and the enhanced anesthetic needle that could anesthetize a rhinoceros was very good after practical testing!

"Call the person who ran out back, it's all right, he's just a man lost in the desert!"

Isabel crouched beside the fallen stranger, turned her head and shouted in Arabic to Udai and Emina.