"Come on, come on, dry this wine, I can still drink it!"

The sunset outside the window has set, the table in the corner of the window of the Chinese restaurant is full of cups and plates, dozens of empty wine bottles are crooked on the ground next to the dining table, the drunken Isabel has a crimson red face and somewhat scattered hair, carrying a beer bottle with half a bottle of wine left, staggering up and Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam with a wine bottle, full of wine and speaking authentic Chinese in her mouth, the so-called drunken spit out the truth, at this time Isabel's hidden inner disposition is revealed.

Uncle Issam has already taken off the veil covering his face from his head, showing the true face of an Arab uncle who has been weathered and resolute, the uncle has short dark and messy hair, his mouth is full of oil, and his face is redder than Isabel, and his black pupils glanced at Song Xiaoshuang who was standing at the table on the side, and found that this guy was the most obvious drunk among the three, and even his neck was red after being drunk, but his eyes were not much drunk, and he seemed very clear, Uncle Issam knew that there was no one who was really drunk among the three. It's just that now it's so easy to talk and communicate to enhance friendship, but it's getting late, and I can't drink anymore to go back to the station of the inspection team, so the uncle gestured to Song Xiaoshuang with his eyes and asked him to remind Isabel that it was time to withdraw.

"Isabel, let's go back after drinking this!"

Song Xiaoshuang's seemingly drunk expression became cold, carrying the beer bottle and touching Uncle Issam and Isabelle, saying calm words in his mouth, the wine bottle was put to his mouth, but his eyes looked at Isabel, an invisible momentum arose, Isabel knew in her heart that she couldn't pretend anymore, nodded and tilted her neck to pour the beer in the bottle, stretched out her hand and snapped her fingers, and greeted the waiter in Arabic in a heroic tone to come forward to settle the bill, not at all drunk.

Uncle Issam next to him patted Song Xiaoshuang's shoulder, and after the two of them drank the beer, they walked out of the Chinese restaurant with Isabel who had settled the bill, it was getting late, and the streets in the desert city were sparsely lit up

The expedition team led by Isabel continued to stay in the desert city of Attar for another day and a half, waiting for scientists from all over the world to join the expedition team from all over the country from the exclusive office of France.

On the morning of the third day, Song Xiaoshuang, who was measuring the desert city with Uncle Issam's footsteps, received a call from Isabel, saying that the two of them should hurry back to the expedition station, and the manpower was almost ready to go.

Song Xiaoshuang and Uncle Issam, who returned to the expedition team at a speed, saw that on the Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle with the entire engine replaced, there were three faces wearing the beige uniform of the expedition, two men and one woman were European white people in their thirties, Isabel sat in the same car, nodded slightly and motioned for Song Xiaoshuang to get into the car.

After seeing Uncle Issam get into the first car, Song Xiaoshuang opened the car door expressionlessly, sat down and closed the car door, Isabel stretched out the window and waved, and the engines of three off-road vehicles full of supplies roared out of the station compound.

Song Xiaoshuang's habit of being cautious and cautious every time he goes to a place has never forgotten that he has not yet approached the earth-walled compound where the expedition is located, and the spiritual power released outside his body has already made it clear that the situation in the compound has been explored, although the radius of the range of spiritual power scanning is still only more than forty meters, which is only about half of the peak period, but it is enough to explore the situation in the courtyard through the earthen wall.

Song Xiaoshuang found that this time Isabel's work supervisor was in the exclusive office in France, and only three scientists engaged in related research were added to Isabel, two fewer than the five people she expected (there were five male and female scientists who were injured by robbers in the desert last time, and one of them was seriously injured in the abdomen), plus two Berber guides from the desert tribe were also injured and hospitalized for recuperation, counting Gordon and Daisy who followed the group and Song Xiaoshuang himself, there were a total of seventeen people, according to Song Xiaoshuang's thoughts, there should be sixteen people, But there was a short-haired white man in a desert yellow training uniform and sunglasses, sitting in the driver's seat of a black-painted Unimog tool cart, and next to the white man was Gordon and Daisy, who were still in denim suits and covered their faces with scarves, needless to say, this sturdy white man was the bodyguard found by Yankee Gordon's father in the United States.

After the sand and dust rolled on the sandy road in the desert, Song Xiaoshuang, who did not cover his face with a gauze scarf, sat in the car and watched the stony desert and desertification desert landscape reappear outside the car window, and there were not many desert shrubs and plants dotted in between, except for the occasional date palm tree, there were few African gum trees with few leaves and thorns on the branches.

Song Xiaoshuang looked at Isabel, who was sitting in the second row and took out the hand-drawn topographic map, ignoring the curious gaze of the European female scientist who covered her face with a veil next to her, and said in a cold voice: "The Yankee driving the tool cart is Gordon's bodyguard?" This time we don't go down the same path as last time, what are your plans, Isabel? ”

After the "drunk" in the restaurant, based on practical considerations, Isabel and Song Xiaoshuang decided to disclose Song Xiaoshuang's Chinese affairs to all members of the inspection team after frank communication, so now everyone knows that Song Xiaoshuang was born in China, but Isabel fabricated a fake name to use on Song Xiaoshuang, and only Isabelle, Udai, Emina and Uncle Issam knew Song Xiaoshuang's complete real name.

For the leader Isabel stubbornly left Song Xiaoshuang in the inspection team, everyone in the inspection team did not have the slightest objection, last time it was not Song Xiaoshuang, a Chinese, everyone had to finish playing, with him and the group The safety of the operation is greatly guaranteed, the current desert is not very peaceful, it is because Song Xiaoshuang can speak Chinese without scruples.

"Song, you don't remember what you went through before, how did you end up in the desert?"

Isabel has not yet spoken, the female scientist next to Song Xiaoshuang preemptively asked in awkward Chinese, Song Xiaoshuang turned his head to look at her with a somewhat playful expression and whispered: "I don't remember, anyway, when I was awake, I remembered that there was an anesthetic needle on my thigh, and Isabel was holding a narcotic gun in her hand and wanted to eat me!" ”

"Well, the one who bought the cake, is that really it?"

The female scientist exclaimed, when she arrived at the expedition site in the morning, someone told her that there were some people in the team, not to mention Gordon and Daisy, the sponsors of the rich second generation, but only emphasized the personal taboo of the team leader Isabel (rumors about the military flat kettle for wine), and the strange Chinese Song, at first she would not believe that a man with red fruit would suddenly appear in the desert tent camp, and now Song Xiaoshuang coincidentally confirmed the strange stories circulating in the expedition team, The female scientist was really stunned.

Wu Dai, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, heard the exclamation, she turned her head with a scarf covering her face, and glared at Song Xiaoshuang fiercely with her eyes, knowing that Song Xiaoshuang this guy is demagogic again, the person who looks honest and cute is actually black, although Wu Dai and Emina are not as proficient in Chinese as Isabel, but simple sentences can still be understood and spoken.

"It's true, Song is sometimes a god chattering, don't mess with him, he's a wizard!"

Wu Dai used fluent Arabic to "warn" the female scientist in the back seat, and Song Xiaoshuang had better keep their distance, otherwise the consequences would be very serious, as soon as she finished speaking, Wu Dai turned her head and whispered to the Berber guide to drive more attention, don't always let a car of people eat the dust rolled up by the off-road vehicle in front, the Berber guide driving the off-road vehicle argued in a low voice in Berber, although there is sand and gravel paving, but do not follow the rut marks in front, the car is easy to fall into the sand, a man and a woman argued, looking at the topographic map Isabel shook her head, Too lazy to care about the two people in the front row, such a situation will always occur.

Isabel gathered the gauze towel that covered her face to cover the sand and dust that fell into the car, put away the topographic map and put it in her jacket pocket, no matter how Wu Dai and the guide argued, turned to look at Song Xiaoshuang sitting in the back row, and said in pure Chinese: "Song, you can see, we don't take the old road last time, Uncle Issam and I have determined the route straight into the desert platform after research, saving time to avoid possible dangers (referring to desert robbers), and soon before we will get off the gravel road and cross several ancient river faults, Those places are rocky desert wastelands, although the car will be very bumpy but there is no risk of falling into quicksand, Gordon's bodyguard will not only protect Gordon, but also a first-class mechanical engineer, with him, even if the car is broken axle, it can be repaired, that's why I let him drive the tool car, why do you think he has a problem? ”

When Isabel spoke, the female scientist in the back row was simultaneously translating in Arabic to the two scientists in the same car, who could not understand Chinese in order to avoid embarrassment.

Song Xiaoshuang didn't say anything and shook his head slightly, Isabel paused and looked at the car being over a tall and bulging sand dune, and said quickly in Arabic: "Sit down, hold on to the handrails beside you, behind the dunes is an ancient river channel, all hard stones will be very bumpy"

Later, the screams of men and women were heard on the three off-road vehicles, because after turning over the sand dunes, what caught my eye was a dry river in the desert for an unknown amount of time, and the vertical slope from the high sand dunes to the river was very steep, and there were various huge rocks of gray, black and white on both sides.

Finally, the three off-road vehicles drove smoothly to the dry ancient river channel full of gravel and sand, Isabel spoke Arabic on the walkie-talkie, instructed all cars to pay attention to safety and keep a distance and continue along the ancient river channel, and after the cars replied that they understood, Isabel turned off the walkie-talkie and did not look back and spoke in Chinese: "The terrain of that desert platform is more complex and changeable than here, if they can't stand it now, they don't have to go!" ”

Song Xiaoshuang understood that this was meant for herself, and Isabel was reminding Song Xiaoshuang that if there was any problem at that time, Song Xiaoshuang would have to help her solve it. Song Xiaoshuang thought for a while, and said with a puzzled expression: "Isabel, this is your backup plan?" If I wasn't on the team with the bodyguard who was driving the tool cart, would you use the original plan? ”

"No, I will still take this road to save time, the exclusive office sent a message, someone threatened to destroy all kinds of cultural relics there, this is the reason why we continue to go to the desert platform after the setback of our expedition team, we must rush to the platform before them, use equipment to make all kinds of records, do some related research, otherwise it will be a loss to the cultural cause of all mankind!"

I am afraid that the loss of the cultural cause of all mankind is not so simple!

Song Xiaoshuang's body swayed with the bumpy body, and he secretly slandered in his heart, but he didn't say this, but replied very cooperatively: "Now that you are the boss, what do you say I do!" ”