In the depths of the desert with long yellow sand, near a sand pile on the anticline of a sand dune dozens of meters high, two camels are meekly lying on the sand, their huge lips gnawing on the stems and leaves of the few small shrubs and plants around them, and occasionally the nose makes a low spurt and emits a white gas that exudes heat, which is because of the low temperature in the desert morning.

At this time, two large and two small figures were lying prone on the top of the sand dune, looking at an oasis nearly two kilometers away, the two larger figures did not cover their faces with scarves, while the smaller two covered their faces with scarves, barely revealing a pair of eyes.

"Give me the binoculars!"

Song Xiaoshuang, who was lying prone in the sand in a robe, did not turn his head to look at Isabel and the two Tuareg children, despite the fact that his hair was full of fine sand, and spoke in a very low voice.

Soon Isabel stretched out the sleeves of her arms stained with yellow sand, and handed a small binoculars to Song Xiaoshuang in her hand, although the magnification of the telescope is not very high, it is better than a small one, and it can still be seen clearly within a range of several kilometers.

"This damn weather, how did we come across the fog in the desert, I looked through my binoculars, because the fog did not dissipate and did not notice any outstanding details in the oasis, but this is impossible, the robbers who occupy the oasis will not send people to guard everywhere! How's it going, what's the finding? ”

Hearing Isabel talking with some confusion in her ears, Song Xiaoshuang didn't squeak, propped her elbows on the sand, and repeatedly adjusted the magnification of the telescope slightly, the oasis was shrouded in thin fog, and it was not easy to see all kinds of things in front of the camera with a fixed magnification, this is a field observation skill that Song Xiaoshuang has mastered for a long time, but there are really not many people who know how to do it.

"The oasis that develops horizontally from east to west covers a small area, but the desert vegetation is very rich, there are at least hundreds of flat-roofed houses built of sand, wisps of cooking smoke, and people who can vaguely see activities in the oasis look normal, but there are still flaws, and there are small remote control monitors between the branches and leaves of the top of two date palms nearly seven hundred meters ahead, and the aborigines of the desert will not do this!"

Song Xiaoshuang lowered his voice and recounted what he saw in the telescope, as soon as he finished speaking, he covered the protective cover of his glasses and handed it to Isabel, crawled down to the sand dunes for a while, stood up and walked to the camel, reached out and took out a flat kettle for water in a desert yellow backpack on the camel saddle belt, and then took out some canned biscuits or something from the backpack, and spread a one-meter-wide velvet blanket on the sand, and put food and water bottles on the velvet blanket.

Looking at Isabel and the two Tuareg children who were approaching, Song Xiaoshuang waved his hand and made a gesture to eat, then sat on the sand, comfortably tore the seal of a can of meat directly with the palm of his hand, and put his fingers into the can to take out the reddish sauce chicken, stuff it into his mouth and chew.

Seeing that Isabel, who was wearing glasses and did not cover her head and face with a scarf, shook her head angrily, and the two Tuareg sisters and brothers who covered their faces with scarves showed a look of longing in their small eyes, Song Xiaoshuang showed a sudden look, smiled and handed the can of chicken with sauce in his hand to his sister, who was only ten years old, and wiped his fingers with sauce in the sand casually.

Seeing the two sisters and brothers sitting on the sand next to Song Xiaoshuang in a little excitement as they wished, the two sisters and brothers lifted the scarf covering their heads and faces, stretched their fingers into the can, and ate the weird-tasting mountain red snail sauce chicken, making their mouths full of red sauce, and a strange taste drifted away with the wind.

Isabel also sat down, but she couldn't figure it out, why did the two sisters and brothers set their eyes on Song Xiaoshuang's private canned chicken with snail sauce? It's really a special taste.

It was seized from the robbers last time, and the members of the investigation team, including Uncle Issam, were not interested in this strange canned food, so Song Xiaoshuang hid the few cans and enjoyed them by himself.

Song Xiaoshuang and Isabel stared at a palm-sized package of air-dried lamb on the velvet blanket at the same time, and their arms touched together, Isabel was a little annoyed, and immediately shouted directly in Chinese: "Song Xiaoshuang, don't you know that ladies are first?" Isn't there a compressed biscuit, why don't you eat it? ”

Priority, priority fart, but still let her order so as not to pull my hind legs when she gets it, and fight with me every time, compressed biscuits and don't want to eat them! Hey, the canned chicken is also for the two sisters and brothers, it's the last can, think about the taste is wonderful, it's wonderful, people who can't eat it will dislike its weird taste!

Song Xiaoshuang secretly slandered in his heart, but he still showed a generous look on his face, signaling Isabel to enjoy the air-dried mutton at will, Isabel showed a light smile on her face, tore open the mutton plastic seal three or two times, tore the mutton pieces and sent them into her mouth to chew a little proudly, her plan succeeded.

Then she saw Song Xiaoshuang put the plastic bag in the palm of his hand, and after a burst of blue-white arc fire appeared, the plastic bag was sintered into a small black ball under the high temperature, and was thrown into the sand pile in the distance by Song Xiaoshuang and was invisible.

Whenever Song Xiaoshuang handled the packaging of food in this way, the sister and brother, who had been together for nearly three days, widened their eyes and looked closely, and their strength to eat canned chicken was much slower, and they couldn't understand that people's hands would emit something similar to the lightning on the sky.

Isabel is accustomed to Song Xiaoshuang's weird abilities, he is a wizard similar to Uncle Issam, when facing those strange insects from the depths of the underground cave in the canyon ruins, Song Xiaoshuang showed the great lethality of this jumping arc, but she didn't understand what the principle was, so she couldn't say it to the two sisters and brothers.

Song Xiaoshuang wanted to laugh when he looked at Isabel eating air-dried mutton, secretly thinking that this woman was still easy to find her weakness, and then put this idea behind, picked up the rectangular metal box containing compressed biscuits, took the lid of the box and put it on the velvet blanket, and didn't look at how many biscuits were left in the biscuit box, holding the biscuit box and began to stuff the hard-to-swallow biscuits into his mouth.

Isabel glared at the somewhat funny Song Xiaoshuang fiercely, and couldn't understand how Song Xiaoshuang ate dry compressed biscuits so happily, how did she know that Song Xiaoshuang, who was on the verge of death several times and had a lot of experience, was also very good to be able to have biscuits to eat, after all, although this thing is difficult to swallow, the calories contained in it are very large, and some people can't care so much about eating.

"Why do we set out before dawn, or do we walk instead of riding camels?"

Isabel swallowed a piece of lamb in her mouth, took the flat kettle containing water from Song Xiao's hands, raised her neck and drank a few sips of water, and said Chinese with some doubts after smoothing her breath.

"Well, that, it wasn't very cold last night, it was not dawn to set off on foot, it was exercise, and after exercising, the body was warm and not cold."

Song Xiaoshuang stuffed biscuits in his mouth, and spoke intermittently with indistinct words, Isabel shook her head and thought that it would be better to wait until she had eaten to fill her stomach. Although it is not far from the desert oasis, there are sand dunes blocking it, and the robbers entrenched in the oasis will not easily run to the sand dunes to check, so it is relatively safe for the time being.

It turned out that since they were separated from the members of the expedition team, Song Xiaoshuang and Isabel took two Tuareg tribesmen and rode two camels to the northern desert oasis for an overnight stay.

The foot strength of the camel can be compared with the off-road vehicle, the off-road vehicle can arrive at the oasis in a day at most without failure, the camel walked for three days, this is the morning of the fourth day, and the hard work during it does not need to be detailed, anyway, Isabel is what kind of lizard, scorpion, desert jerboa have eaten (after roasting, of course), this is according to the familiar memory of the tribal children and the supporting desert topographic map, to find the specific location of the oasis, because the day is not dawn on the road, has not had time to eat breakfast, Only then did the scene of a dinner party by the oasis appeared on the ground.

Soon the dinner party of the four was over, and after packing up and disposing of the canned food box (Song Xiaoshuang was accustomed to pinching his hands into a small piece of metal and burying it with sand), and filling the camel with a little salted drinking water with a skin bag filled with water, Isabel asked if she would like to use a high-powered radio or satellite phone to contact the base camp of the expedition team returning to Attar before entering the oasis to investigate?

In the past few days, Isabel has been using her satellite phone to contact Udai and Emina, knowing that they have returned safely to the desert city of Attar to the west.

Song Xiaoshuang told Isabel in a very serious tone that from now on everything must be listened to him, and the use of satellite phones and radio stations is likely to expose himself to the sight of the oasis robbers in advance, which robbers do not rule out radio listening equipment, Song Xiaoshuang's reason is that the robbers have installed battery-powered remote control monitors on the two date palms.

Isabel was a little surprised, this Song Xiaoshuang is more and more like having experience as a special civil servant, that is, the experience of being an agent before, Song Xiaoshuang had some obvious speculative expressions for Isabel, and directly denied that he was not an agent who did black work, but he had just been in contact with some people with special identities before, and knew a lot of knowledge that ordinary people did not know.

Later, Song Xiaoshuang said that he would not ride a camel close to the oasis because he had to consider that the robbers occupying the oasis might arrange vibration sensors in hidden corners around the oasis, if they had such awareness and a large amount of money to use, the vibration of the camel's hoof prints when running was enough to attract the attention of the oasis robbers, Isabel already had the feeling of reacquainting Song Xiaoshuang, this guy was so deeply hidden, why didn't he find out before?

With such a level of professional knowledge, only those prospecting geological exploration teams use more (they often use artificial blasting to create small seismic waves to survey the underground structure to find various resources and minerals), Isabel became more and more curious about Song Xiaoshuang's origin, but she knew that Song Xiaoshuang would never say it, so she dispelled the idea of finding out the truth from his mouth, and her attention quickly turned to the urgent matter of how to stealthily approach the oasis to find out the information of the oasis robbers

When Song Xiaoshuang and Isabel were planning how to approach the desert oasis in concealment, the east and west were horizontally across the corner of the desert oasis, in a yellow-brown bungalow made of sand, the light from the window was very poor, and two people wearing long robes with scarves and scarves sat at a simple broken wooden table, on which was a map of the desert terrain, and it was obvious from the figure that it was a man and a woman, and the two were talking and discussing something in Tuareg in a low voice.

While the two were still discussing, a big man holding an AK47 assault rifle scarf to cover his face and body covered his body with a long robe, opened the wooden door that was not closed tightly, walked in, saluted a crooked military salute, and quickly reported in Tuareg: "Report to the two leaders, the team that carried out the plan to lure the snake out of the hole has returned early in the morning, but there is bad news, that is"

Seeing that her subordinates were talking and spitting, the woman who couldn't cover her beautiful figure with a scarf covering her face and robe, her apricot eyes widened and reprimanded in a low voice: "What's the matter, our little boy scouts didn't complete their mission?" Didn't bring in the members of the expedition team, or something else, let's talk about it, it's really urgent! ”

"The two Boy Scouts of the tribe have done a good job, and both siblings are very resourceful, but the members of the expedition who came back with them, according to the observation of the returning team at the predetermined location, confirmed that there is only one white Western and one Asian, and our plan may fail!"

When Dahan heard the leader's reprimand, he immediately said the true reason, which made the faces of the two leaders change, and the three of them quickly walked out of the bungalow.