Zhang Cheng ate a cactus fruit, and his mouth was full of sweetness, not only sweet and greasy, but also sweet. The sweetness of ordinary candies will not be so high.

In the afternoon, Catherine continued to search on the road, Catherine found a crater with a diameter of more than ten meters, and after parking, Catherine got out of the car and looked at the crater for a while and then expressed her professional opinion: "This is an old crater, not a new one." We can now see that the crater benefited from the prolonged drought in the vicinity and that there were no meteorites at the bottom. ”

Zhang Cheng asked, "Has anyone found it?" ”

Catherine shook her head: "Not necessarily, meteorites are not good children, and it is not uncommon for a meteorite to fall on the ground and bounce off two or three craters." Even finding meteorites with a metal detector is not an easy task. ”

Zhang Cheng thought about it for a while and understood that the meteorite did not hit the ground directly at 90 degrees, but was similar to the way a tennis ball landed.

Stephanie: "But it should be around here, let's spread out and see if there are any other craters." ”

"Here." Zhang Cheng shouted after a while. This time, Zhang Cheng found a small crater from the direction he was responsible for, and if he didn't pay attention, it would be a small crater in the wasteland.

Catherine and Stephanie rushed over, and Catherine looked at it and said, "The bottom of the pit, 25 centimeters." ”

Zhang Cheng waved the folding shovel and began to dig, and after digging more than a dozen times, the shovel hit a hard object. Zhang Cheng dug it out by hand and showed it to everyone, and it was a yellow-brown irregular metal block that weighed about five or six pounds. If no one says it, it's hard to imagine that this is a meteorite.

After pouring some water to wash the meteorite, Stephanie observed: "It should be an iron meteorite, look at the appearance and weight." It's not a big problem to sell for two or three thousand dollars. ”

Catherine: "This one is the largest one in the meteorite family." Many of the meteorites we found were less than half the size of this one. ”

In this way, Zhang Cheng's psychology is also a lot more balanced.

The value is really not high, but the commemorative significance is significant, Zhang Cheng said: "I used to read novels, and people often used extraterrestrial meteorite to cast divine weapons, you see, how about I buy this and cast a sword?" ”

Stephanie: "No problem, in-house price. Two thousand. ”

I thought that I would also have a weapon of extraterrestrial meteorite in the future. The more Zhang Cheng thought about it, the more excited he became: "I have thought of the name of this sword." It's called: Woman's Sword of Salvation. ”

The woman salvation sword in these five words Zhang Cheng is said in Chinese, Catherine asked: "What does it mean?" ”

Zhang Cheng explained in English: "Literally, it means the sword of a woman to save the world. ”

Catherine: "I like the name. ”

The good fortune of this day was almost used on this meteorite, and the crater was more or less seen in the search that day, and two meteorites were also found. But only the size of a thumb belly. Catherine said. Such miniature meteorites are actually the most numerous. Many meteorites will fall apart before or after landing, which undoubtedly greatly affects the value of meteorites.

As the car drove through the desert, in addition to admiring the drought-tolerant plants that grew on rainy days after Nevada had money, it was planted by airplane. There are also often small animals such as pikas and lizards that are frightened and flee. If it weren't for Nevada's lavish spending in the desert, it would have been a bit more desolate.

Suddenly, a white wild goat also joined the frightened fleeing group, and Zhang Cheng's eyes lit up: "Dinner is here." ”

Without waiting for Stephanie to stop the car, Zhang Cheng opened the door and jumped out of the door to chase the goat, chasing a hundred and ten meters, because the terrain here is more suitable for goat activities, and the distance has not been shortened much. Zhang Cheng took out the largest meteorite he found during the day, used all his strength, and slapped the head of the goat in the distance.

The meteorite drew an arc in the air and flew more than 100 meters to hit the head of the goat. The goat was seriously injured in the head by a meteorite, but still stubbornly ran for several hundred meters before falling to the ground. This made Zhang Cheng, who wanted to skip class when he was a little injured before, awe-inspired. However, it is too wasteful not to eat all the kills.

Zhang Cheng dragged the goat back, and Stephanie and Catherine parked and decided to camp here for the night. The first is to clean up the nearby snakes, insects, rats and ants with sulfur powder, these small things, especially rattlesnakes, can sometimes kill people.

Zhang Cheng went to the neighborhood to find some dried camel grass and trunk branches of Joshua trees to use as fuel for the campfire at night.

In the evening, Zhang Cheng lit a bonfire with the trunk of a withered Joshua tree and withered camel grass, and then skinned the wild goat for a roast feast around the campfire.

Because the seasoning carried by the three of them is simple, although it is an original goat, the barbecue taste is average, far less delicious than the roast goat made by the chef of the five-star hotel in Las Vegas, and some burnt goat meat is inevitably wasted in the barbecue process of the three people.

Nibbling on a roast leg of lamb, Catherine said, "Tomorrow we will continue to look north, and when we get to the road, we will go straight back to Reno." Recently, there have been a few fattened sheep in Las Vegas. ”

Stephanie also chewed mutton and asked Zhang Cheng: "Zhang, I haven't seen it, what gambling projects do you like?" ”

Zhang Cheng thought for a while: "Mahjong." ”

Stephanie Catherine nodded: "Sure enough, it's traditional Chinese." ”

In fact, the mahjong that Zhang Cheng thinks of is not the kind of Chinese mahjong they think, but a branch of Chinese mahjong that evolved after it was transmitted to Japan, referred to as stripper.

A long time ago, one of the adult games that Zhang Cheng played was a Japanese strip mahjong on the red and white machine. Although the cassette was later borrowed by a classmate, it was twisted and borrowed countless times, and it was never returned.

Americans also play mahjong, the first group of American mahjong friends were American soldiers who came to China to support the war of resistance during World War II, and after World War II, they brought mahjong culture to the United States and took root. Mahjong culture itself has no borders, and now there are mahjong tiles and mahjong textbooks for sale on all continents in the world, and the names of eating bumper bars and listening to Hu Cake Strips Wanfeng are also original.

Catherine: "Thank you, thank you, come to Las Vegas to play cards, and in return, when you get to town, I'll play mahjong with you." ”

However, in the United States, except for Nevada, mahjong is only played as a chess and card game with bridge and so on, but as long as you get to Nevada, mahjong halls abound in the streets and alleys. One of Nevada's sights is that there are no people on the streets because people are either at home or in casinos.

Compared to Nevada's casinos, there are very few schools and factories (although there are many American companies registered in Nevada, but there are quite few factories due to the lack of water).

The real small casino in Nevada is the mahjong parlor, which has only a few slot machines and mahjong tables for gamblers to play. Each game of mahjong parlor only draws some tea fees, California, especially San Francisco and Los Angeles mahjong friends do not like the scoring method, often to the holiday to meet to drive to Nevada mahjong parlor to play mahjong.

Zhang Cheng added some dry firewood to the bonfire and said, "Okay, I'll find a rule book for you to memorize first." ”

Although Chinese mahjong also has a set of uniform rules for customizing good things, Zhang Cheng estimates that when everyone plays, they use local rules, and no one really pays attention to that set. The rules of the American Mahjong Association are known to change every year, and a new mahjong rule book is published every other year to make money with this. On the contrary, the rules of Japanese mahjong have rarely changed since they were formulated. This is probably a matter of national conditions. (To be continued......)