On the day of the gathering, Chen Xing came to the outside of the school on time. The film crew sent by the TV station arrived in advance, and when Chen Xing came, he saw that they were stuffing suitcases, toolboxes and other things into the two vans, and one of the seniors came earlier than him, and after seeing Chen Xing, he said hello and said.

"Chen, come and put your luggage on, the car will start immediately." Chen Xing was as good as a stream, and put a change of clothes and the suitcase of the crossing plane in the back of one of the vans.

As for the camera and lenses, as well as a notebook, this is of course to be carried with you. Chen Xing liked the current Hasselblad very much, and he also signed an agreement that he would not let her out of his sight.

After Chen Xing put his things away and the tail box was closed, the two cars drove away. Chen Xing looked around.

There are also some private cars, which are supposed to take them to the airport in a moment. Look at the senior next to me.

This senior Chen Xing was impressed, his name is Ford, he should be the oldest in the photography department, he was admitted to the school at the threshold of 25 years old, and he is now in the fifth grade...... Yes, this one is thirty years old this year.

He used to be in the studio, but he really didn't like the atmosphere, and when he heard that Professor Nobel was going to make a documentary, he took the initiative to invite Ying.

Chen Xing knew him, but it was only a nodding acquaintance. His camera is also carried with him, and he straddles a large camera bag, which is estimated to contain a lot of lenses.

Chen Xing asked, "How many people are we going to go this time?" ”

"I don't know from the TV station, there are three people in our school, me and you, and Lefbode, do you know Lefbod?"

"I've heard of it." It's also a fifth-grader, and his mother is Professor Rikoda of the school, and this professor is also one of the several examiners who interviewed Chen Xing at the beginning, and he is the one who has a good impression of Chinese culture, teaching visual design and color composition.

Lefbold came out of school with the professor. The professor looked at the time and counted the number of people.

"It seems that everyone is on time, and the car where the equipment was put has left?"

"Just left."

"Alright, let's go too." Before Chen Xing got to know the film crew, he followed the professor into a car.

All three students sat in the back. Chen Xing's position is next to the window on the right, with Big Brother Ford in the middle and Lefbold on the left.

The two had never met before, and shook hands across Ford.

"Senior, it's the first time we meet, please take care of me."

"You're so polite, we often hear your name in the studio." He and Ford were both in the school's photography studio last year, mixing either art photography or commercial photography, and it was definitely not polite to say that he often heard Chen Xing's name.

Professional photography was originally a small circle, and something quickly spread all over the world. It's just that Lefbold is still a little unconvinced by Chen Xing.

The school is spreading Huaxia Chen's excellence, whether it is from appearance or grades, but is a Chinese person really so powerful?

Lefbold remains skeptical, believing that the school is attracting more applicants from China.

With different personal aesthetics, it is difficult to find an artist who can convince everyone. On the way, the professor kept watching things in the car, and when he was about to arrive at the airport, he said: "Don't run around when you go to make a documentary this time, Sudan is different from France, it is not a very safe country." Chen Xing rolled his eyes in his heart.

It's not much better.

"But don't be too nervous, our filming of "Exploring the Sultan" was a joint decision of the two governments. The two filming locations chosen are very safe, don't be too picky about the accommodation, and the film crew understands it, so I just remind you. The three of them said not very neatly: "No problem." The professor went to look at the materials again and said casually: "Now all the documentaries about Africa like to shoot animals, savannahs, the Great Rift Valley, and the human environment for a long time, and no one has filmed for a long time. "France is not far from Africa, across a strait is Algeria, and then a flight a while to Sudan.

As a powerhouse in the Age of Discovery, France has a lot of voice in Africa. But this voice does not affect Sudan for the time being.

After the plane landed, the airport was visibly dilapidated with the naked eye, and the yellow sand flying in the sky was exactly what Chen Xing should look like in Africa, and it was hot, and it felt very hot as soon as he got off the plane.

One of the crew members threw Chen Xing a sunscreen and said, "Wipe it a little, you guys." ”

"Thanks!" The TV station sent a total of six people, two photographers, a sound recorder, a lighting engineer, and a translator, and the remaining one also knew Arabic, but his job was mainly to deal with external matters, and he was kind of a guide.

For example, if he wants to shoot something tomorrow, he will communicate with people in advance and open up the joints. Together with director Cliff Nobel and his three small followers, the team reached ten people.

They were waiting outside the airport at the moment and had already contacted a car to pick them up. There is a lot of equipment, is one car enough?

Chen Xing was thinking. But when he saw the car, he felt that it was enough, it was not a pickup truck or a van, the car that came to pick them up was a serious truck, a big truck, and it was enough for another group of people.

Lefbold blurted out, "We're going to take this car?" How to sit? "Ten people in a truck, can they sit?

Do you want us to sit in the container? He had apparently not been to Africa yet, was unaware of human suffering, and that such behavior was forbidden in France...... He apparently took what Professor Nobel had said as a deaf ear, not realizing that it was no longer the same as France.

One of the photographers on the program team thought his words were a little funny, smiled and patted Lefbod's shoulder, then walked forward and said, "Come and move things, the lampstand is really heavy." "The video recording machine is very large, and the cameras brought by Chen Xing and the others are not of the same level at all, and after the three cameras are put up, there are microphones, light stands, and some other miscellaneous things, as well as everyone's luggage.

When everything was put on, all ten of them climbed into the van and looked for a place to sit.

Chen Xing sat on the edge of the car in order to see the scenery outside the car. The truck is taller and thicker, so sitting on it feels like sitting on a bench, so it's safe to keep your balance on, and a lot of people sit on it.

Lefbold sat in the compartment, on his suitcase.

"Won't you be arrested by the police?" He was a little worried. Professor Nobel laughed twice.

"Welcome to Africa, kids." What kind of place is Africa...... Chen Xing felt the tremor of the truck as it moved forward, and looked into the distance.

A vast expanse of sand. It looks like a desert, but you can occasionally see trees and greenery on the road, so it's more appropriate to say that this is a desert.

Because the soil and water on the ground have not been lost in large quantities, the water can knead the soil together. It's a bit of a Chinese Northwest feeling.

The terminus of their vehicle was a small town in northern Sudan. On the way, they saw a lot of houses that looked like no one was there, but suddenly they saw someone coming out of such a house, wearing colorful local clothes, and Chen Xing knew that there were actually people living in such houses.

But soon he was in no mood to pay attention to the scenery outside the car, and he and two or three people with motion sickness occupied the rear of the truck, vomiting gold stars.

I don't have any strength at all...... By this time, the vehicle had been on its way for four hours.

"How much longer?" Chen Xing asked weakly. Ford sat next to Chen Xing, shielded the dry air blowing from the front with his neckline, and said, "You only asked two minutes ago, and we are only halfway there." If you insist on it, you will get used to it. "The other person who got motion sickness next to him was about to cry.

It's no wonder that the TV station gives so many salaries and few people sign up. I knew I wouldn't be coming. Although Lefbold did not get motion sickness, he did not complain anymore, leaning against the edge of the cargo box without saying a word.

Professor Nobel sighed. Chen Xing and Ford's performance is quite normal, they belong to people who understand their situation and are prepared for this land in their hearts.

Lefbod, on the other hand, had been educated before he came, and had reminded him many times, but he still didn't seem to be ready.

Africa is not a good place, and it is a sin to make a documentary with the intention of going on vacation.

The truck drove crookedly on the potholed dirt road, and the heat made everyone in the car uncomfortable.

The weak Chen Xing kept wondering if he was wrong, if he stayed in Paris, he wouldn't have suffered like this.

I want to lie on my young lady's lap instead of this damn suitcase. Chen Xing fell asleep in a daze, and when he opened his eyes again, it was dark, and the car stopped, and the truck stopped in a russet-hued urban area.

No, it's not so much a city as a village. The houses here are almost wooden planks with no foundations, and dry grass is scattered in them.

The roads on the ground were unkept, and so were the Negroes who came to greet them, who were probably dressed in their best clothes, probably national costumes, but also very shabby.

This is a small village where you can see the bottom at a glance. Chen Xing was helped down by Ford. The only benefit of motion sickness to prostration is that you don't have to move things, but you don't need them to do it, and a group of local blacks rush up to help carry things.

At first, Chen Xing was worried that they would run away with the equipment, but they didn't, and they just put it in the house next to the truck.

"Chen, can you still stand up?"

"I slept well, is it okay, is there still water?" Lefbord, who was not far away, heard this, threw a bottle of mineral water over, and said, "Don't drink the water here, I heard that it is easy to drink your stomach...... Alas, the three of us were so miserable that there was no need to come. Professor Nobel came over to look at Chen Xing, and found that Chen Xing's spirit was better than before, and said with relief: "It's okay, but you have to get used to it, we will have to take a lot of transportation in the coming days, and you can see the road conditions here, that's it." Chen Xing smiled reluctantly and said, "Then can I graduate in half a year?" ”

"Come on, haha." Nobel watched everyone move their things and said to the three students: "This is the largest town in northern Sudan, and that natural child is the protagonist of the film we are going to follow in the past few days, 15-year-old Giotta." Lefbold looked at the black man with the device on his back with excitement on his face, and said in surprise: "This is a 15-year-old?" "A tall man of about 1.8 meters, although he looks a little thin, but he lifts things and lifts weights like light, saying that he believes in twenty-five or sixteen Chen Xing, but he didn't expect it to be 15.

"Yes, he's only 15." Chen Xing focused on another point, he looked at his surroundings again, and asked, "The biggest town?" ”

"Yes, their houses are not dense enough, they are actually quite large." On both sides of the road are mud grass houses, you can still hear the sound of cows, many locals are naked to come to help, such a scene is said to be the countryside without the slightest sense of disobedience, said that it is a town, a very big town, that really made Chen Xing a little surprised.

Well, the African buddy is poor, he recognized. Chen Xing got out of the car and stayed for a while, feeling much better, looking at the increasingly dark sky, and the town that had no light source except for the headlights, he asked, "Where are we staying tonight?" ”

"There's a hotel up ahead." Nobel said. As he was talking, the guide came over and said, "Everyone has worked hard, go to the hotel early to sleep and rest, will you start work tomorrow?" Director Nobel, why don't we give these lads a day off? Nobel thought about it and went to the black protagonist to understand the situation, and then came back and said, "Okay, you can rest tomorrow." Chen Xing, they all cheered.

Nearly eight hours of truck bumps, this is simply a hellish section of the road for Chen Xing, he is even willing to walk for a few days, rather than take such a car for a day.

The hotel is a three-story brick house, which is not bad compared to the surrounding grass houses, but it is still extremely shabby, and there is no air conditioning, and Chen Xing, who came on the first day, is very uncomfortable with such heat.

After lying in bed for more than an hour, it was too hot to sleep, so I moved the single bed downstairs and slept in the courtyard of the hotel.

Then hang up the mosquito nets. It's much more comfortable now. Temperatures in Sudan now exceed 35 degrees during the day, but it's cool outdoors at night.

The starry sky in the sky is breathtakingly beautiful. This is the only comfort that Chen Xing has received from his day in Africa.

Chen Xing had a good night's sleep, and the next day he was woken up by Lefbode, who shook Chen Xing's bed and said loudly, "Hey! How did you come up with this idea? It was so hot inside the room that I couldn't sleep all night, Chen! "You're so noisy!

Chen Xing felt that he hadn't woken up either, and when he saw that the time was less than eight o'clock. Ford looked incredulous and came down the stairs and said, "Can you believe it?" I don't have mosquitoes in my net, but I got bitten into seven or eight big bags, and these African mosquitoes are poisonous, right? It's itching me, which of you has medicine? ”