"Good morning, my friend. ”

Across from O'Connor, Benny's heartless greeting rang out. Even if he looked down on Benny, a villain who was accustomed to superficial politeness, O'Connor smiled and nodded in response with a gentlemanly demeanor.

On one side are O'Connor, Evelyn, Jonathan and the warden of the prison, and on the other side is Benny at the head, followed by three American cowboys, an Egyptian archaeologist, and a group of local Egyptian workers. The two teams walked in front of each other and stopped under the rocky sand dunes.

Glancing at the other man's men, O'Connor turned his back to the rocky dunes, looking into the distance, ignoring them.

"What are we doing here?" asked the man in deep clothes.

In his field of vision, the desert in the distance was flat and there was nothing. As the words fell, many people in the team looked at Benny with a question mark on their faces, and they also couldn't understand the reason why Benny, the guide, had stopped here.

"Be patient, my good partner. Benny replied casually.

At this time, he, like O'Connor, looked at the plain in the distance, as if waiting for something.

"Remember the bet we made?" said the blond man toward O'Connor, "whoever gets into the city wins five hundred dollars." As he spoke, he was still chewing on something in his mouth - they had come all the way, and even breakfast was settled on the way.

To this day, when he saw O'Connor, he was still thinking about the little profit in front of him, and he had forgotten everything that had happened on the steamer, and he had not mentioned the slightest vigilance, and he was blindly optimistic, completely ignoring the dangers of the trip. Glancing at the gang of outlaws who wanted money and didn't want to die, O'Connor shook his head with a wordless smile. For him, ensuring the safe return of his group is a severe test. These stray cowboys really don't know the situation.

"If you help us win, we'll give you a hundred dollars. The man in deep clothes said to Benny.

There were two teams, four people and four camels on O'Connor's side, and Benny's own camels alone, and everyone else on horses. In front of the severely weathered desert, the geology is soft, and the hooves of horses suitable for hard ground cannot be strengthened, and they cannot exert the speed that horses should have. On the other hand, the broad soles of the feet are like camels born for the desert, but they can walk like flying here. In this case, it is faster for camels to run in this desert.

At this time, after listening to Benny's explanation, the smart ones knew that they were not far from their destination. And O'Connor, who bet on it before, is obviously not half a point slower than them. The treasure was close at hand, and the three cowboys began to be enthusiastic, and threw all the things about how O'Connor and his party could find the right direction out of the clouds. However, now, they also realize that Benny alone is no longer one step ahead of O'Connor and them. Next, it's up to who's riding faster.

The man in deep clothes, who knew all this, immediately decided to promise Benny a part of his chips. Then, Benny said "happy to serve", and he, who made the same fortune as Jonathan, unsurprisingly responded.

O'Connor smiled again and shook his head, his expression changing from speechless to contemptuous. He saw that the cowboy was cautious, and he temporarily changed his mind and sought the help of Benny, who was outside the gambling game, which was equivalent to cheating, but he didn't bother to break it at all. He looks down on these guys who are embarrassed for the sake of profit.

"Hey, O'Connor. Benny glanced up and down, "Camels are good!"

A casual sentence with a hidden edge, the implication is that the camel is good, but I don't know how the person riding it is capable of, O'Connor heard it very clearly, but he was unmoved. He only smiled and patted the camel's head twice under his crotch, although he didn't take this gamble seriously, but compared to him, he was very confident in his riding skills, and he was not afraid at all.

"Ready. ”

As he spoke, a pair of eyes were already on the horizon, where the sun was already showing its head.

"Prepare what?"

Evelyn, beside her, followed his gaze to look into the empty distance, and then looked back at him, full of puzzlement.

"The destination is just around the corner. ”

He explained, his eyes still lingering for a moment, where the heat was rising, the light was distorted, and a sparkling river appeared on the desert—it was a common and not surprising phenomenon of refraction of air called a mirage on heat-soaked flat ground such as the asphalt road in summer.

Therefore, the crowd was not surprised to see this, and they still looked into the distance with anticipation. Then, in the next second, their eyes straightened.

Between the flow of light and shadow, as if emerging from the surface of the water, a mausoleum as huge as an ancient city suddenly appeared from top to bottom, from the layers of heat waves.

"Look. ”

The blonde man looked at it from afar, his expression amazed, it was the first time in his life that he had seen such a strange scene, and his eyes had already been deeply attracted to it.

"Can you believe it?"

The man in deep clothes said a word, his eyes lit up, and as an ordinary person, he was shocked, no weaker than the blonde man.

"Hamnata!"

The eyed man pronounced the name almost in a low voice, he knew the destination of his trip, and looked at the giant city, as if he saw that this magical place had endless treasures beckoning to him, and his face was full of longing smiles.

The crowd was stunned, not to mention Evelyn, who was already obsessed with ancient Egyptian history. At this time, O'Connor was full of helplessness.

"Here we go again. He said in frustration.

He really didn't have a good impression of this place. Coming back here, for him, it was nothing more than another sin, and it was really inspiring.

But others don't think so.

In the middle of the giant city, at the entrance of the Tower of Hamna, there seemed to be a dazzling flash of light.

This flash was like the sound of a starting gun, and Benny and O'Connor, one whip and the other slap, "drove" almost in no particular order, urging the camels under their crotches to run quickly. The former is for the hundred yuan, and the latter, although he doesn't care about this small profit, he is not happy to ask someone to win the money for no reason.

After all, no matter what, he did make that bet, and he was not the kind of person who did not keep his word.

Immediately followed by Evelyn, who had lived in a Bedouin settlement for the night, seemed to have a different understanding of the way of riding a camel, different from the "driving" sound of the previous two, she babbled, although the camel under her crotch started a little slower, but on the road, the speed became faster and faster, and gradually began to close the distance with the previous two.

When she fled from the steamer, she did not bother to pick up the coat that had fallen on the ground and put it on a hanger, so that when she fled to the shore, she was not only deprived of tools, but also had no animal power, and no decent clothes to wear, leaving only a close-fitting dress to wear as pajamas. Fortunately, at the Bedouin girls, some coats were bought, that is, the wisps of black tulle that struck O'Connor at first glance.

At the same time, she is proficient in various languages, good and beautiful, and she also had a good conversation with the Bedouin girls, and after saying that she needs animal power, she also learned how to ride camels - this is the valuable experience of the Bedouins, a nomadic people who live in the Sahara Desert and have raised and sold camels for generations.

Benny and O'Connor came first, and then her. The contest between the men also made Evelyn, who was excited after seeing the strange giant city, be very interested. She is an outsider, and she is happy to participate in it.

In the flying dust, others are not far behind. On O'Connor's side, Jonathan and the warden also followed the camel and sped up. On Benny's side, the three cowboys shouted "Ride", urging the horses to gallop out at a fast starting speed.

The ancient Egyptian archaeologist wearing a small square hat and riding a foal, holding a small parasol in his hand, pointed from back to front, and under the shout, the group of local Egyptian workers at the back of the team also shook the reins and urged the horses to run.

For a time, the two camps fell into a fierce rivalry. And O'Connor and Benny, who were in the lead, fought fiercely.

Benny, who was in the position of O'Connor, saw the former slowly catching up and paralleling him. He swung his whip with all his might, slapping the camel under his crotch, but he did not see the situation turned, and in his desperation, he swung the whip at O'Connor in turn.

After several hard whippings, O'Connor, who was hit in the face for the first time, and then resisted with his arm, and still screamed in pain, finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and reached out to Benny with a hideous face. In less than two moments, he grabbed Benny by the collar and gritted his teeth with a "Goodbye, Benny", and dragged him off his camel and let him fall to the ground.

Evelyn, who followed her, passed by Benny, who was rolling on the ground, and she saw everything in her eyes just now, happily shook off "You deserve it", and then left the dust, leaving Benny who stole the chicken and ate the ashes in the same place.

A babbling sound came from behind him, and O'Connor, who was in the lead, turned around and saw Evelyn catching up, and couldn't help but look stupid. Evelyn looked at O'Connor, smiling proudly and heroically, and O'Connor laughed crookedly, his smile far-fetched, his eyes full of disbelief. This is the first ...... of this beauty I don't know how many times it shocked him.

At this moment, when the two of them were not paying attention, it seemed that Evelyn was urging too quickly, and the speed of the camel under her crotch suddenly increased, and she left with a scream. O'Connor's smile became even more awkward. Behind them, Jonathan, who saw this scene, shouted "Come on, Eve, come on" with great excitement. He was both proud of his sister and excited about the bet he was about to make—the one who put O'Connor into the game in the first place.

Amid a triumphant cheer from Jonathan, Evelyn, with joy on her face, rode her camel and ran first into the tomb of Pharaoh Setti, the legendary city of the dead and the city of treasures, the Tower of Hamna.

And at the starting point of everyone, the rock-topped sand dunes where the flying dust gradually settled, the young man stood up, stroked his palms and smiled.

"Wonderful, wonderful. He smiled, shook his head and sighed, and said to himself, "Next, we have to watch the movie in a different location." ”

As the words fell, the rattan chairs, a number of new things that were out of step with the surrounding environment, disappeared along with them.