At night, the canyon tent camp can see a little starry twinkle through the canyon, the night breeze blows the temperature drops quickly, several tents in the tent camp are relatively quiet in the twilight, most of the members of the scientific expedition team have fallen asleep, occasionally someone coughs softly in the tent, and there are also one or two low neighing sounds, which is the comfortable cry of the two camels lying in the corner of the tent.

"Uncle shouldn't have poured beer on the camels, which made the camels a little drunk!"

Song Xiaoshuang sat on the top of a two-meter-high limestone, his feet in sandals hung casually on the edge of the stone, gathered the stand-up collar robe on his body, and said to himself.

"These two camels are past their prime, and their children are overused to drive in the desert, and Uncle Issam gives the camels beer so that the camels can recover their strength better, otherwise the camels are likely to be wasted."

Isabel, dressed in an off-white expedition uniform, appeared next to the stone in fluent Chinese, wrapped around her shoulders with a thin square velvet blanket with two corners crossed into a bow at her chest.

The desert temperature at night is indeed very low, especially in this isthmus valley area, although it is not to zero degrees, it is only to a few degrees, Isabel is not a strong person like Song Xiaoshuang after all, and it feels much better with a velvet blanket wrapped around her shoulders.

Seeing that in the night, Song Xiaoshuang's somewhat vague figure sitting on the stone turned back because of her words, Isabel quickly untied a flat kettle from her waist, and threw it casually, Song Xiaoshuang immediately caught it.

Song Xiaoshuang hadn't unscrewed the lid of the flat kettle in his hand, adjusted his sitting posture towards Isabel, shook the flat kettle in his hand, and whispered in a somewhat strange tone: "White wine, have you finished drinking red wine?" No reactive power, let's say, what ideas do you have, if you are within the scope of your ability, I can consider helping you. ”

This guy loves to pretend, knowing that the red wine was finished two days ago, and he drank the last few sips, and how much wine can a military flat kettle hold if it is not a water tank? Forget it, he must have seen it, or it was better to say it directly.

Isabel secretly scolded herself, and the yellow-brown eyes behind the glasses tried hard to see the expression on Song Xiaoshuang's face in the night, and estimated whether he could agree to her own excessive request.

Seeing that Song Xiaoshuang did not unscrew the lid of the flat kettle in his hand, he waited for her to speak, there seemed to be a dazzling light in his eyes flashing in the dark night, Isabel was in a daze, and the words he thought of suddenly forgot to be clean, Isabel said in Chinese with some concern: "That, Uncle Issam ran to the desert on the top of the canyon to practice again?" ”

Song Xiaoshuang heard Isabel's words that he didn't care about the border, and he was directly happy, this woman is quite cute when she is stupid.

At dinner in the evening, the uncle was not drunk with the premeditated wine of the expedition team members, and the scientists went crazy like animals, and even found the anesthetic needle that Isabel used to anesthetize wild animals, and put a small amount of anesthetic in the beer.

Among the masterminds are Udai and Emina, they want to see Uncle Issam's face covered by the scarf, what it looks like after drinking a lot of wine, fortunately, everyone is very familiar with people, and the uncle is not angry when he understands that he has been rectified (the Berber veil is forcibly removed without his consent, and the consequences are very serious), and now the uncle is still sleeping in the tent, how can he leave the tent camp at night to practice in the wild as in the past!

It was for this reason that Song Xiaoshuang automatically took over the uncle's task, guarded the tent camp in the middle of the night without sleeping, and handed it over to the Berber guides, and the uncle was relieved that Song Xiaoshuang was not at ease.

Song Xiaoshuang shook his head and unscrewed the lid of the kettle, brought the kettle to his mouth and drank a few sips of white wine, the seemingly ordinary wine was of great use to Song Xiaoshuang, and a stream of heat began to surge from his body.

Song Xiaoshuang was a little surprised that this wine was more strange than the red grapes he had drunk, the effect on the human body could be clearly felt, the kind of heat on the body Song Xiaoshuang only experienced in drinking high liquor, the unit energy density contained in it is higher than imagined, the energy of a few sips of wine is more than the energy obtained by drinking a few bottles of dry beer, and the effect of cellar fermented wine is more than that of high liquor, Song Xiaoshuang This is the first time to experience that this wine has an extraordinary origin!

Song Xiaoshuang believes that even if ordinary people drink this wine, they can't understand any mystery in it, thinking that it is similar to the wine that accompanies the meal, because the wine itself is prepared for a few people with special physique and special abilities, Song Xiaoshuang has been haunting the hidden mysteries of wine for many days in his mind, and most of them have been solved, because he happens to be a person with special abilities and is one of the few audiences of this strange wine.

"When I return to China, will the reward you give for an oak barrel of wine achieve the effect of this wine?"

Song Xiaoshuang raised the flat kettle in his hand and said quickly.

His words made Isabel's face happy, knowing that Song Xiaoshuang was hinting that she had something to say, and she would definitely help if she could, and using oak barrel wine as a reward was an agreement in a Chinese restaurant, and the implication was that now she was the boss, and he was the one who was employed.

"There is no problem, the later manufacturing method of this wine is a little special, but what is said to be good must be counted and not regretted!"

Isabel spoke quickly, and then saw Song Xiaoshuang screw up the lid of the kettle and threw it back, the wine in the flat kettle is very important to Isabel personally, Song Xiaoshuang still knows this, and will not drink it all because the wine is delicious.

"I thought if I could ask you to go to the northern desert oasis, just the two of us, I thought about it in the tent at night, and felt that it was necessary to go to the northern desert oasis to investigate the situation, if it was possible to collect information and submit a report to the garrison of the desert military base, so that it might help the Tuareg tribe and drive away those desert robbers of unknown origin, and the two children also shouted for our help"

Isabel mustered up the courage to shake out the thoughts she had hidden in her heart.

"I knew that Isabel, our brilliant anthropologist, was a man of chivalry, but have you considered the consequences? Will the old virgin office director of the exclusive office find trouble with you in the first place, you are not an agent of the military intelligence bureau, armed robbers can occupy an oasis, can you be a good match? You are nothing in front of those robbers, just a thirty-year-old mature woman, and a woman who looks good, are you mentally prepared to face extreme situations? I know that the situation on the border of the northern desert has been unstable recently, and I still run to join in the fun, this is the rhythm of death, do you know? ”

Song Xiaoshuang's tone was very stern, he didn't want to say no, because he estimated that Isabel was ready, otherwise he wouldn't have gone outside in the middle of the night without sleep to come to him to "chat", of course, the wisdom of a scientist is high enough, Song Xiaoshuang said this to make Isabel think about it again, this is an extremely risky behavior!

The key is that if Song Xiaoshuang doesn't agree to her, most of the time Isabel will turn her head and go to Uncle Issam, as a desert guide, Uncle Issam is also a very capable person, and his force value is off the charts, and he can kill all sides with his sword skills, but the first person that the smart Isabel can find is him Song Xiaoshuang, not Uncle Issam.

Isabelle's inner thoughts, Song Xiaoshuang can still guess most of them.

That is, the uncle was born in the desert guide tribe, and the people in the tribe still need an uncle, if something happens because of Isabel's personal reasons, it will be difficult to explain in the tribe. And Song Xiaoshuangle, a mysterious person from China of unknown origin, rich in a warrior's sense of justice and strong skills, originally said that he would go back to China, but later he was hired by her without leaving, Isabel didn't look for him to find anyone!

In fact, when Song Xiaoshuang spoke sternly, he was secretly bitter in his heart, and his ability was less than half of the original before he postponed his plan to go back to China, he had too many enemies in Asia, who would have expected that he would have to do it in the African desert thousands of miles away, Song Xiaoshuang could only comfort himself, maybe this is a fucked life!

There are thousands of sinister things in the world, and the most sinister thing is the fight between people, those so-called strange insects and beasts can't be as cunning as humans who think they are of the highest level, once they encounter extreme situations, the bloody situation will appear again, whether they are righteous or not, they will always feel unhappy when they kill people, and Song Xiaoshuang has encountered too many such things.

Isabel didn't expect Song Xiaoshuang to speak so seriously, it had been more than ten days since she had known him, and it was the first time she had seen him remove the habits of a ruffian and speak in words with a much heavier tone, but between the lines she still put herself in her shoes and analyzed, Isabel was even more courageous.

Isabel turned her head to see that there was no movement in the tent camp, and then continued: "The project task of the expedition team has ended, according to the convention, all members will rest for three days to a week in the western city of Attar, it depends on how the exclusive office arranges the next various cultural expedition tasks, it is possible that those scientists who are selected will disperse, and it is possible that the next mission will be in the Americas, but the core members of my expedition team still exist, even if I am not in the team, Wu Dai and Emina will also coordinate the relationship with the private office, write a detailed inspection report and submit it, and if the office director asks about me, they will cover for me! ”

Song Xiaoshuang sighed secretly, Isabel seemed to have everything in mind, and the scientists from various countries who were temporarily dispatched to complete the task naturally returned to the base camp of the expedition team, Attar, and then went their separate ways, and Isabel didn't care where the team leader went.

Thinking of this, Song Xiaoshuang jumped down from the stone, walked two steps closer to Isabel and looked into her eyes, and said in a low voice that became softened: "Okay, I'll ask you again, when you encounter danger, I will do whatever I ask you to do, you can't raise objections, otherwise I won't go to the Northern Desert Oasis with you, sometimes I will become very scary and make people feel scared, you will know this later, but even so, you can't act without permission, you know?" ”

"Well, great, I won't hold you back, I'm a graduate of a small arms shooting club, of course I know how to deal with dangerous situations, Uncle Issam is responsible for inspecting the safety of the team members, and the members of the inspection team and a few guides withdraw to the city, tomorrow morning I will find a chance to explain the situation to the uncle, the uncle will not object, with you by your side to protect, the uncle will be very relieved"

Isabel looked excited and spoke quickly, ensuring that there would be no other problems, Song Xiaoshuang was directly speechless, and after a pause, he pretended to be serious and stood straight, and shouted in a low and heavy tone: "Scout Isabel, it's getting late, go back to the camp tent to rest!" ”

Isabel quickly saluted a scout, turned around and trotted back to the tent, Song Xiaoshuang watched Isabel enter the tent, his eyes swept near the other tent, a glimmer flashed in his eyes, and his footsteps jumped on the top of the big rock he was sitting on just now, sat down again, took out a piece of hard beef jerky from his robe and chewed it in his mouth, and continued his duty to guard the safety of the camp

After breakfast the next day, the team members got on three off-road vehicles and took the two camels to evacuate the north-south isthmus canyon.

Shortly after leaving the canyon, near a fairly flat desert depression, scientists from various countries who had already known in advance that the leader Isabel would act alone did not show particularly obvious objections, so Isabel and Song Xiaoshuang rode two camels together, and the group of people who turned back to the west went north separately, and one person took a Tuareg child and rushed to the northern desert oasis.

The camels carried the necessary drinking water and food, warm clothing, simple tents, maps of the desert terrain, satellite phones, daggers for self-defense, and other equipment and items on their saddle belts.

Uncle Issam still felt that the equipment was a little thin, and tried to let the two of them bring a radio station, the radio station is for the exclusive use of the inspection team, and if there is a problem, it is easy to contact, Isabel is proficient in radio operation and it is much better to bring the radio station.

After seeing the camel go away, Uncle Issam whistled, and the engines of the three off-road vehicles roared, rolling up sand and dust through the vast sea of sand, and no one noticed that in the carriage of the Unimog tool car, the young Yankee Gordon, on the face covered by a scarf, a pair of blue and gray eyes seemed to be inadvertently facing the direction of the desert in the north, and the strange light in his eyes flashed