"Look, dolphins, there's dolphins!!" The group took a speedboat to the harbor of Hadib, and when they reached a bay, a water spirit suddenly jumped from the side, and Jinyu immediately shouted excitedly, it is not difficult to see dolphins in the aquarium, but it is still very new to see wild dolphins in the vast sea.

Chen Bo asked the helmsman to slow down and see if there were any other dolphins in the water, because dolphins are creatures that live in groups and generally do not fall alone.

"Dolphins love music and can draw them in with their songs." Abu's speedboat caught up and saw the dolphin jumping out of the sea just now, and walked side by side.

"Then I can only ask you." Chen Bo turned his head to face Haya and said, she has studied opera and can sing sopranos, if she can have a dolphin voice, it will be more perfect.

"I'll try it, remember to help me capture the most beautiful moments." Haya pointed to the SLR camera in his hand.

"Don't worry, I'm here to focus on you!" Chen Bo adjusted the camera to shutter priority, and the shutter speed of 1000th of a second is enough to capture all beautiful moments.

Haya straightened up and made a gesture, no matter what the singing voice was, this soprano was full of style. After a few attempts to adjust her voice to the best state, several children did not dare to look at her, hoping for a miracle.

Then a loud soprano sounded on the calm sea, although it was in Italian, Chen Bo couldn't hear the specific meaning, but he could still tell that this was an excerpt from the classic opera "La Traviata".

The singing is moving, but the sea is calm, and Haya is still immersed in her own singing, and despite the absence of band harmony or tenor, she still dedicates her singing to the mysterious and distant sea as if she were in a concert hall.

Just as the last note was finishing, Haya raised her arms for a final curtain call.

A few dolphins suddenly jumped in the sea behind her, and as soon as the children's excitement began, they chirped again and burrowed into the sea to return to calm, which disappointed several people, Chen Bo had already captured some shots in an instant.

Just when they thought the dolphins would not come again, a shadow suddenly slipped under the clear water, and more dolphins appeared! This time it wasn't one, not a few, not dozens, but hundreds of dolphins jumping out and in, jumping out and in, playing and frolicking like juggling.

"Oh my God, oh my God...... Baby dolphin ......"

"It's spectacular, it's beautiful!"

"Dad, it's fun." Qing Yu tugged at the corner of his clothes and pointed at the group of dolphins that were constantly churning and jumping, and said happily.

Chen Bo paused slightly, and then said loudly, "What did you say?" Say it again. ”

"Dad, it's fun here." Qing Yu looked up at her little face and said with bright big eyes.

Chen Bo picked her up high, kissed her on the little cheek, and said excitedly, "Good daughter, you are finally willing to call me Dad." ”

"Giggles, Daddy's beard stuck in me." Qing Yu's small hand pushed his face away, and the laughter of silver bells and the chirping of dolphins echoed each other.

"Haya, she finally called me Dad, she called me Dad." Chen Bo didn't forget the other woman beside him, and hugged him excitedly.

"This is the best recognition of you, I'm really happy for you, but shouldn't you let me go first, so that I can take some beautiful pictures of you father and daughter?"

"Good, good, good!" Chen Bo hurriedly let go and hugged Qingyu and posed for all kinds of poses to leave the most beautiful picture, and the other children were of course not willing to be lonely when they saw this, Jinyu was so old and rode on his neck naughtily, and the family had a lot of fun.

The dolphin's frolic lasted for more than ten minutes, and the sea returned to calm, this time it was really gone, but you can see the elves in the sea circling around the dinghy, and it seems that they don't want to leave, which is really a cute thing with a very human nature.

Escorted by dolphins, the two dinghys headed for Hadib on Socotra Island and docked at a modest dock.

"Holy, this is the biggest city?" Abu's mouth was wide open, and he couldn't believe what was in front of him, this was the city. Ma Dan, it is clearly a small village, and even the staff who came to check their passports and collect the capitation fee were in rags, not to mention the grizzled buildings.

And there is a big problem is the language barrier, although they belong to Yemeni jurisdiction, it is extremely difficult to speak Arabic, so that Haya, an authentic Arab, can not figure out the meaning.

In terms of physiognomy, it is not so much like an Arab, more like an African, but not so dark, but rather tan-skinned.

A group of people didn't even make a four, five or six comparisons, so anxious that everyone scratched their ears and cheeks.

At this moment, a little boy squeezed in and asked lamely, "Mud!" Flower man? Flower man? ”

"Flower man?" What the hell is this? Chen Bo thought about it carefully and understood that at this time, the "Chinese" in Chinese, his pronunciation was not standard, and he became a "flower man". So he nodded and admitted, could it be that there are still Chinese on this impoverished island?

The little boy didn't reply, and disappeared into the crowd, but when he turned back again, he was holding a Chinese girl with glasses in his hand, copying authentic Chinese and saying, "I'm Zeng Tian, a doctor from the Huaxia Aid Yemen Medical Team, who are you?" ”

"I'm Chen Bo, this is my friend Abramovich, and our family. Passing by here, I wanted to visit the island for a visit, but I didn't expect that I didn't understand the language at all. What I didn't expect was that there was actually an aid medical team from our country here, are you alone? ”

"I thought you were getting lost at sea, but it started when the medical team established diplomatic relations, and now it's almost 50 years old, and there are five doctors on the island besides me. It's normal that you don't understand, because the inhabitants here are only half Arabs, and their language is based on Arabic with many characteristic dialects, which may be more appropriate to call it Socotra. ”

"What do you mean by half an Arab?"

"Aborigines, plus Arabs, plus African immigrants. And this is a closed island, even Yemenis do not come here, and intermarriage is a common occurrence. So many of the genetic lineages of the island's inhabitants are unique in the world, and the unique haplotype group belongs to the very rare human Y-chromosome DNA haplotype group. ”

"Good professional, are you sure you're a doctor and not a biologist?"

"Medicine is my side hustle, and my major is biology. The Galapagos Islands in the Northern Hemisphere are unique to many species of creatures, so I applied to come here three years ago not only to help with medical treatment, but also to study biodiversity. ”

Zeng Tian pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, this point does have the demeanor of a scholar, generally women wearing glasses will adjust the glasses with their orchid fingers to adjust the comfort of the glasses, rather than this kind of gentleman pushing up.

"Since you know that well, can you be a guide for us?"

"If you can donate some medical equipment and medicines to the residents of the island, I will have no problem." Zeng Tian said slyly.

"How much do you need, and how do you get it?"

"I'll make a list, you just need to send it to the embassy in Yemen, and the medical team will bring it over."

"Isn't that troublesome? I'm going to Abu Dhabi and I'll buy it from there and let the ship bring it to you, and it will be faster if there's an airport. ”

"The airport? Of course. It's just one flight a week to the capital, Sana'a, and the airport is small. ”

"It's okay, I have a private jet." Chen Bo smiled, "Your goal has been achieved, then please start your work!" ”

It can also be seen from their clothes that they must not be bad for money, and it is natural to be cautious and ask for some benefits for the islanders.

Chen Bo is not stingy, he has never been careful about such trivial matters, and when he saw the children gathered around him, he even encouraged Jinyu to take out his snacks and share them with these children.

A few jeeps were rented from the local tribal chiefs, which were quite old-fashioned jeeps, rare even in the country, and still made of canvas, and the most modern means of transportation on the island.

There are roads on the island, near the northern coast, connecting several villages with a road up the mountain, which was built by the Soviets.

Socotra was originally part of the Republic of South Yemen, but after its union with North Yemen, the only socialist country in the Arab world, and the Soviet Union dissolved, the island was evacuated, and all that was left was the rusty tanks along the coast, except for the road and the old airport.

Zeng Tian is not only familiar with living things, but also has an overview of the island, which he remembers by heart.

The archipelago is a combination of the main island plus four small islands and two rocky islands, one of four major island groups in the Indian Ocean. The main island is also the largest island in the Arab world, with a total area of 3,634 square kilometers, equivalent to 3.5 Hong Kong islands and 6 Bahraini countries.

The name Socotra comes from the Sanskrit word meaning Elysium. The island was once connected to the mainland, and about 6 million years ago, the Indian Ocean was connected to the Arabian Sea where the earth's crust moved. The uplift of volcanic rocks, the separation of Socotra from the mainland, and the gradual formation of the Gulf of Aden.

That's why it's also called the "Lost Land" by scholars! ”

As early as ancient times, ancient Indians continued to visit this island to obtain precious medicines such as frankincense, gentian, dracaena, aloe vera, civet, ambergris, etc.

As the jeep drives into the eastern part of the mountain, the average altitude is about 600 meters, and the main peak reaches 1,370 meters, where the world's rare umbrella cover plant, the endemic Socotra dragon's blood tree, grows scattered.

More than a dozen meters high, the bare trunk is covered with a huge umbrella cover, and the thick bark of the tree can be seen flowing red sap.

In ancient times, people thought it was the slime of dragon's blood, hence the name, and was even used for witchcraft. The Socotra people would collect the juice and dry it to dry it to blood, then dye wool, glue porcelain and make lipstick.

On the edge of the cliff is also an endemic plant called the desert rose, which, unlike their close relatives on the mainland, has large, fleshy rhizomes with beautiful pink flowers and is unusually tough.

Not only are the plants peculiar, but even the listless Egyptian vultures are a bit of a contrast, and together with other endemic creatures, they make up this isolated virgin island.