This made Donnie, the blonde young man on the side, unhappy, and he had been excited for a month when Professor Morrill had chosen him to join the expedition a month before his departure, and it was too rare for him to suddenly get such an opportunity, which he had loved adventure since he was a child. However www.biquge.info when he set off, he found that the professor had hired Stern to be the guide into the mountain, and he was only asked to do some daily recording of the expedition from beginning to end, and he didn't even have to carry his luggage.

And now, such a good opportunity to discover the ruins was even given to the short and thin Khmer man! He felt that he had become non-existent in front of respected professors and beautiful women who worked hard.

Donnie tried his best to hide his dissatisfaction and said to the professor: "Professor, I think it is more appropriate to give me this task, after all, the Khmer people don't understand our archaeological work, and they don't even know how to use the advanced equipment of our country." ”

"Donnie, you don't have to worry, now it's just a matter of letting Kansa go down and explore the way first, after all, this kind of place is too primitive, and it is impossible to predict what dangers will arise below, especially now that Sergeant Stern is injured, it is even more important to ensure safety."

The professor could see through what the young and vigorous student in front of him was thinking at a glance, so he comforted him. The professor's words were self-evident that he didn't want him to take the risk, and Downey pursed his lips and stopped talking.

With a thudding sound, the Khmer guy over there had already pulled the safety rope and climbed down the hole where the sergeant had just fallen, and began to explore underwater.

"Sergeant Stern, I understood a little bit of your conversation with Kansa just now, it looks like there are any weapons in the waterproof bag?" It was the light-brown-skinned white girl who was bandaging him, and she asked as she expertly tended to his wounds.

For the first time, Stern took a closer look at the only woman on the expedition, a beautiful woman, her neatly combed chestnut hair in a small pony, revealing a smooth forehead, a clean face, a pair of light brown pupils under slender eyebrows, a straight nose with slight beads of sweat, and a slight pursed lips. Now she was looking down and seriously disinfecting his wounds, her long, curved eyelashes moving with those eyes......

If it weren't for the way she worked hard and her light brown skin after years of field work, Stern would have thought she would have been a good Hollywood actress. So he took the opportunity to talk to her.

"Oh? It seems that the beautiful Miss Anne is not only skilled in handling wounds, but also experienced in the outdoors, and seems to know a lot about other things. Or are you interested in what's inside my waterproof bag? ”

The beauty smiled lightly: "Fortunately, I have followed the professor to foreign field trips in the past few years, and as his assistant, I must have the corresponding ability." However, I am really interested in your military waterproof bag. Can you tell me what's inside? ”

"It's nothing, it's just some military supplies that you have to bring for self-defense in the field." When noticing that the Professor and Donnie had gone to guard the other side of the trench, the sergeant whispered to her.

"Is there any danger down there?" Anne's brow furrowed slightly.

"I'm not sure either, it was too dark down there, but I could feel that these guys were quite small."

"Ahh Wouldn't that be dangerous! The Khmer man looked so thin. Anne's face showed a look of concern.

"I think he'll be fine, Kansa was picked by me in Phnom Penh, he grew up in the Mekong River valley in the north, and his family used to hunt for a living. Because when I knew you were coming, I expected this dangerous situation to happen. ”

"I see, but although he is not bad at what you said, I still hope that nothing will happen."

This is the most conversation between the two in the past few days, everyone was tired and didn't have time to communicate in a hurry, so there was such an opportunity to chat for a while. The two immediately got a lot closer to each other.

So Stern took the opportunity to express some of the questions in his mind: "Miss Anne, I want to know what you are looking for, specifically what the professor has found that makes him want to come here so hard, knowing that this place is some distance from the ruins of the Angkor Dynasty." I guess this is not an easy expedition! ”

Anne looked at the man in front of her who was asking her questions with a sharp look in his calm eyes, and she wanted to say something: "Actually, what exactly am I looking for in the professor......"

Suddenly there was Donnie's exclamation and the accompanying sound of water splashing from the other side of the trench, and the two of them were in a bad mood, and one immediately stood up and prepared to limp along, while the other helped him to move towards the other side of the trench.

Anne saw that Donnie and the professor were nervously lying at the hole in the trench watching something, and there was a sound of water splashing from time to time, so she asked eagerly, "What is going on down there, is there any danger, why don't you call Kansa up?" ”

Donnie said excitedly: "Water monster! What a big water monster, he's fighting those water monsters! ”

Anne looked in the direction of the flashlight and saw Kansa standing naked in the muddy water below with a dagger, engrossed in the underwater movement. From time to time, the muddy water set off some waves, and at this time, a huge head suddenly appeared behind Kansa, opened a large mouth that could swallow the whole person, and quickly swam towards Kansa. Stern immediately told him to watch out behind him! But just as Kansa turned back, the head suddenly sank and disappeared! Leave only the swirling waves rolling out of the water! When it was too late, Kansa seemed to sense something moving in front of him on the left, and immediately stabbed into the water, and a pool of blood immediately floated out of the water! He stabbed! Just when everyone felt relieved, Kansa's hand holding the dagger was suddenly pulled away like an arrow from the string, and his body was immediately pulled out three or four meters away! When everyone was worried about him again, Kansa saw the opportunity to hold on to a tree vine hanging above, and relied on brute strength to mediate with the "water monster" in the water little by little.

After a few minutes or so, he felt the strength of the "water monster" being exhausted little by little, and let go of the vines. And quickly untied the safety rope around his waist, pulled the rope head with one hand to the position where he was still struggling under the "water monster" and groped for a while, then picked up the rope head and pulled it back, returning to the bottom of the hole. Raising his head, he excitedly uttered two English words: "Fish!" Food! ”

While everyone sweated for him, they also expressed their heartfelt admiration for his wonderful performance just now. After pulling him up, Stern told him to sit down and rest, and immediately asked him how it was going down there.

On one side, Donnie pulled the rope upward, and as the rope pulled up, the other end gradually revealed the huge flat mouth of the head of the "water monster", which was knotted by Kansa with a rope from its mouth to the gills, and its slippery body was still struggling in the muddy water. It turned out to be a huge catfish, a little over one and a half meters long, but the skull was smaller than what I had just seen underwater, not the one I had seen before.

Downey said disappointedly: "The one that was underwater just now is obviously much bigger than this one."

"This is the largest fish in the Mekong basin, the Mekong giant catfish, which can grow up to 3 metres long and weigh up to 300 kilograms," Stern said. Kansa told me that there were at least 6 giant catfish below, and the one we just saw was the largest, probably three meters long. However, it is more cunning, and at first it tried to attack Kansa, but it was unsuccessful. Only one of the big ones has been caught, and these Mekong catfish swim here during the rainy season to mate and reproduce, otherwise we would not have been able to see them in such shallow waters. It may have been Kansa encroaching on their territory, but fortunately they have always been one of the common foods of the local Khmer people. ”