The sound of the engine of the off-road vehicle sounded on a sand dune again, and two Land Rover Defenders and a Unimog tool truck parked on the top of the sand dune drove down the sand dune more than 100 meters high at a low speed and drove into a low-lying desert depression.

The desert depression covering a wide area has not fallen a drop of rain for a long time, the desert climate seems very dry, here is far away from the desert highway section through the desert, the off-road vehicle drives after stirring up the smoke and dust of the old elders, the climate in the desert depression is different from other desert wind direction is difficult to figure out, the wind direction is sometimes suddenly changed, these stirred up smoke and dust quickly blow back, and the people sitting in the car have suffered a lot, even if the gauze towel covers the face only to reveal two eyeballs, and the eyes around the eye socket are dark for half a day, It was a mixture of tears and dust.

Song Xiaoshuang sat in the back seat of the second Land Rover Defender, looking at the car with some boredom, there were fewer and fewer plants in the desert, and there were low flowing sand dunes everywhere, believing that the rut marks would be covered by sand particles in a short time, and the long yellow sand extended to the end of the sky, and the air that had been heated by the sun made the sand dunes in the distance look a little distorted.

Song Xiaoshuang covered his head with a white and thick scarf like everyone else, just revealing a pair of eyes, his nose was blocked by a scarf, he was a little unaccustomed to it at first, and he was used to it after sitting in the car and letting the car take him for a while, because there was a scarf to cover his face, which could partially block the scorching sun's rays, among the men and women in the inspection team, only one person wore glasses, that is, the team leader Isabel, she wore a pair of black-framed glasses, Song Xiaoshuang secretly observed that Isabel was actually not short-sighted at all, Her glasses are flat glasses.

Why does Isabel wear a pair of glasses for a long time, Song Xiaoshuang, who is a little bored, had a deducing around the campfire last night, this French girl with black hair and a pair of yellow-brown eyes, there must be a lot of stories about her, those experiences caused her to behave a little strangely, this employee of a UNESCO institution is not an anthropologist on the surface can be summed up by this kind of mark.

Although Song Xiaoshuang can't feel the fluctuation of the energy of the supernatural from her, it is certain that her experience is rich beyond that of ordinary scientific researchers, an anthropologist who studies ancient human religion and witchcraft culture, and a female man, which is a visible trait in Isabel, which is also one of the important reasons why Song Xiaoshuang agreed to stay in the team after consideration.

Song Xiaoshuang did not forget that he is still an exclusive analyst of the Institute of Human Sciences, and the primitive religious witchcraft wizard is a category he is interested in, to see how foreign researchers who study witchcraft carry out their work, and may be able to gain something, anyway, Isabel can speak Chinese and has no language communication barrier.

As for her wine, which is not allowed to be touched by others, Song Xiaoshuang thought of a way to try it last night and drank it successfully, as a stranger and the inheritor of the primitive religious witchcraft skills of the half-hanger, Song Xiaoshuang felt much more sensitive to some special things than ordinary people, and immediately knew that there was something strange in this wine, where was the weirdness Song Xiaoshuang had no clue for a while, I believe that even the world's top laboratory, taking the wine in the flat kettle for testing, will come to the conclusion that everything is normal, Maybe it has something to do with those tawny eyes, black-rimmed flat glasses, and witchcraft?

At that time, Song Xiaoshuang's mind suddenly appeared such an intuition, intuition is a fart for others, but for Song Xiaoshuang, who has experienced a lot of strange things, intuition is always very useful, during the time he stayed in the Institute of Human Sciences, he used the authority given by the Institute to consult a large number of materials, with the assistance of Anna on the side, the cognitive level of the whole person has improved a lot, to put it bluntly, the theoretical level has improved a lot, intuition seems to be very mysterious, from a large space and time scale, There are still traces to follow, and to put it simply, if he doesn't drink the wine in the flat kettle, there will be no intuition behind it!

"Squeak!"

The first off-road vehicle stopped in front of a flat-looking sand after a sudden brake, Song Xiaoshuang followed the second off-road vehicle, and the Unimog tool car behind the palace all braked and stopped, the roar of the idle engine made people feel irritated in the desert, Uncle Issam who covered his face with a scarf lifted the car door, jumped off the first off-road vehicle in sandals, walked to the second off-road vehicle unhurriedly, and beckoned Isabel to get out of the car.

Sitting in the second row, Isabel is consulting a desert topographic map on the seat, it seems that the topographic map is still hand-drawn, the material is a light yellow background of kraft paper for some years, seeing Uncle Issam beckoning, did not hesitate to take the topographic map and opened the car door to get out of the car, with Uncle Issam's whistle, the boring engine idling sound is gone, all three cars turned off, and then Isabel spread the topographic map on the hood, and Uncle Issam discussed in Arabic!

Everyone sitting in the three cars got out of the car, but instead of coming to the two people who were discussing, they spread out to breathe nearby, tearing off the sand and dust on the scarf that covered their heads and faces, and kicking off the sandals on their feet to stand in the sand, so the guide did not stop, as if there were no desert scorpions here, and several desert snakes, plants are rarely seen is rolling yellow sand, driving in the desert is tired, riding in the car is even more tired, planning the route if there are questions to be solved by the leader and guide, They are just researchers who are engaged in scientific research!

Yankees Gordon and Daisy look the most eye-catching, wearing sandals and holding SLR cameras in the sand, taking pictures of yellow sand, ruts, embellished desert plants, handsome women, dusty luggage racks and off-road vehicles with tarpaulins.

Seeing Song Xiaoshuang sitting on the sand pile wearing a robe, and she was not afraid that the temperature on the surface of the sand pile was not low, Daisy motioned to Song Xiaoshuang, she took a close-up, Song Xiaoshuang thought that there was no photo of him in the camera in her hand before, and now she was wrapped in a scarf on her head, showing only a pair of eyes, so she cooperated with Daisy's request and took two so-called close-up photos.

Song Xiaoshuang found out at the beginning that Daisy, who has short blond hair and looks pretty good, is pretending to be stupid, as a person who can fool the agents and make them lame, of course, the eyesight price is no worse than Isabel, and naturally there is speculation that Daisy may be on a mission to protect Gordon's safety, she should be a female bodyguard with some training, and she can't rise to the same high level as an agent, if she doesn't cooperate with her, she is not beautiful, this girl doesn't look for others to take pictures, looking for him to take pictures seems to be testing in her way, Song Xiaoshuang's good cooperation is actually a psychological hint to her, and he won't ask her to rest assured about Gordon.

The three off-road vehicles are driven by Berber guides, and now the desert guides are also advancing with the times, in addition to driving the traditional dromedary camel carrying equipment through the desert, modern vehicles and communication equipment are also used skillfully, but no matter how clever the tools and equipment are, people have to use them, sometimes the equipment is still very unreliable, especially in extreme environments, and now it is obvious that there is a problem, Song Xiaoshuang can't understand the conversation between Isabel and Uncle Issam, and it can be seen that the team is in trouble, After taking pictures with Daisy, Song Xiaoshuang sat back in the car and closed his eyes on the seat.

He knew Uncle Issam's strength, even if the mobile sand dunes in the desert caused the topographic map to mismatch the actual environment, and it was even likely that the space satellite did not have the scan data of this area to provide reference, that is to say, satellite navigation was useless, and Song Xiaoshuang did not doubt that Uncle Issam could take everyone out.

Next to the front of the SUV, Isabel pulled her fingers on the hair that lifted the scarf, looked at the hand-drawn topographic map on the hood that Uncle Issam pressed with sandals to avoid being blown away by the wind, and looked at Uncle Issam who was standing next to him who always covered his face with a scarf, and said in Arabic with a wrinkled forehead: "Civil satellite navigation does not have a navigation data link here, it belongs to a blank area, because no one enters this desert at all, and it is impossible to accumulate and expand navigation data. Now the question is the possibility of encountering robbers in the desert? Do we want to stop moving forward and end the team expedition? Or do you want to take a big detour to your destination? ”

"There are only a few low-lying places in the whole of the Hamra depression where there are stony faults with water sources, the last oasis disappeared a long time ago, no one would normally break into this place at all, and it is far from the desert road that crosses the desert, but there are clear traces of camel's hoofs on the sand piles not far ahead, at least no less than six-peaked camels, and the deep traces of camel's hoof prints indicate that they are carrying heavy loads, and it is suspected that they are Tuareg refugees from neighboring countries who have crossed the border, and they are living temporarily by plundering in difficulty, which is possible, Maybe the robbers encountered by the tour group on the desert highway a few days ago are hiding here, after all, no one is here at all! Although they just want supplies and will not hurt people, we will have to think carefully about sending them to the door ourselves. ”

Uncle Issam told the truth, saying that he was not optimistic about continuing to go deep into the depression desert, which put Isabel in a dilemma, although the desert tribe from which Uncle Issam was born was a Berber tribe, but for the Tuaregs who also belonged to the Berber branch, Uncle Issam knew more about their situation, since the uncle said so, it should not be taken lightly, but it was not appropriate to change the itinerary again, as the leader of the team, Isabel wanted to pull her hair to think of a proper way to come out, but she couldn't get it for a while.

While weighing the pros and cons, I heard a Berber guide blowing a sharp whistle, Isabel's face changed, and when she looked up, she saw that the desert in the distance was full of smoke and dust, and more than a dozen camels dodged out from behind a sand dune at a super fast speed, and the distance quickly narrowed to a few hundred meters.

Isabel said quickly, "Oops, there are really robbers, let's get out of here!" ”

"Isabel, it's too late, the cars are all off, there are at least a dozen camels on the other side, and they have already begun to charge and run over, I hope it's Tuareg!"

As Uncle Issam spoke in a cold tone, his right hand pulled out a short knife more than a foot long from the scabbard hanging from the scalp belt on the slanted shoulder, and with a wave of his arm holding the short knife, the rest of the Berber guides, who had already taken out their swords from the car, drew their swords and threw away the scabbards, and leaned on the three buggies, ready to wait for the camels to rush to the nearest place and slow down.

The sudden unexpected situation shocked the male and female scientists in the team, some hid in the car, some got under the car, and some were even more strange, climbing on the roof of the off-road vehicle, thinking that they could get closer to the height advantage of the camel!

"Made, if my pistol hadn't been destroyed, these robbers would have looked good!"

"Dadada"

Gordon and his girlfriend Daisy hid on the side of an off-road vehicle, Gordon just whispered a few words in English, when he heard a burst of machine gun fire, and then the sand pile next to the off-road vehicle splashed a lot of sand and dust in a straight line, and the hoarse sound of the "Qiuqiuqiu" warhead drilling into the sand made Gordon's legs and stomachs begin to twitch, and he felt that his back was numb, this is the rhythm of killing!

Song Xiaoshuang pushed open the door of the off-road vehicle and stood on the sand, looking at the robbers who gradually surrounded him and rode on the camel, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes