Since the nomadic helpers joined the search team, it took two full days for the search area, which was about 15 kilometers wide, to reach the arc drawn on the map under the guidance and leadership of Wei Ran.
In the past two days, apart from not discovering the transport plane that Edward had longed for, the rest of their harvest was an eye-opener for Wei Ran.
These casual discoveries included an off-road motorcycle that was almost intact, except that the battery was dead and the fuel tank was out of fuel. There was also a Renault truck produced in the 1990s with a French license plate. The driver of that truck
There were even two corpses with bullet holes in their temples in the room. In addition, they even collected two wild camels that were shopping together in the desert.
"Pause"
On the afternoon of the third day, Soliman gave the signal again on the radio channel.
"What did you find this time?"
Wei Ran, who was sitting in the co-pilot, signaled the little guy next to him to step on the brakes and asked boredly. In the past two days, Wei Ran has thoroughly seen the "richness" of this desert. Even if Soliman tells him that he picked it up,
He wouldn't be surprised at all that two aliens were falling in love in a hot desert.
"From their description, it sounds like it's the wing of a plane," Soliman said uncertainly, "Wait a minute, I'm heading over there."
"Wings?"
Wei Ran was stunned, and quickly opened the satellite map to look at it. At this time, they were almost ten kilometers away from the closest of the two coordinate points provided by the metal book! The farthest one was even more
It's more than 20 kilometers.
"Abba, Abba, give up your seat." Wei Ran said in Chinese to the little guy sitting in the driver's seat.
Aba Aba is naturally the name Wei Ran randomly gave to the little guy who stayed in his car.
In the past two days, this Berber kid who had been pestering Wei Ran not only readily accepted this name that was so different from his real name, he even learned to "stop the car" from Wei Ran's repeated repetition.
"Turn left" and "turn right" are three crucial Chinese words, and he learned the corresponding driving skills. Similarly, he also learned the word "give up place" that he didn't like to hear, and the word he liked to hear the most.
"Give me gas!"
Aba Aba pouted and crawled to the back row. After fastening his seat belt deftly, he hugged a little fox that was taking a nap.
Wei Ran also quickly opened the door, changed from the co-pilot to the driver's seat, controlled the armored pickup truck, and followed the truck in the direction where the wing was found.
A moment later, the off-road vehicle driven by Saleh followed, carrying Mr. Edward and the Berber chief.
After struggling over or around one sandy bridge after another, when the truck at the front stopped, it was already half an hour later.
Before the smoke from the wheels of the three cars had cleared, Edward was the first to open the door and run over.
On the contrary, Wei Ran in the armored pickup truck took his time and wrapped a turban on himself, patiently waiting for the sand and dust outside the car window to calm down, then opened the heavy door and slowly sprayed on the exposed skin.
Apply a thick layer of sunscreen.
It wasn't until Edward impatiently urged him in the distance that he put an extra fisherman's hat on his head, took the cold Coke from the emperor's grandson Aba Aba, and shouted "Aba Aba"
"The little royal attendant" strolled over.
"Victor, why are you more troublesome than a woman?" Edward complained dissatisfied.
"Because I don't want to be tanned like a zebra"
Wei Ran touched the Coke in Aba Aba's hand seriously, then took a slow sip, and then looked at the discovery buried deep in the shadow of the sand beam, with only half of the outline of the engine exposed.
Just by looking at the remaining maroon paint, he had already determined that the wing most likely came from the Junkers 52 transport aircraft!
Could it be the wing that broke during the emergency landing?
Wei Ran muttered to himself and nodded towards Soliman who was standing next to him, completely ignoring the howling after the Berber prince borrowed the Coke from his son Aba Aba.
After receiving Wei Ran's signal, Soliman immediately greeted him, and several men in robes who came to help skillfully removed several adult big-eared foxes from the small baskets on the camel's back and placed them in the sand where the suspected aircraft wing debris was.
nearby.
These little foxes, who had been hungry all morning, had just landed on the ground. They each propped up two oversized ears and leaned against the sand, listening left and right. Soon after, one of them began to pave the sand crazily.
In no time, a large sand-colored scorpion was pulled aside by the little guy's claws.
Under the crowd's onlookers, the big-eared fox jumped around the poisonous scorpion, and would use its claws from time to time. Within five minutes, the scorpion lost its threat due to its broken tail, and turned around.
And turned into a crunchy snack.
Looking at the other big-eared foxes, they had already begun to move to other places to find food. Only then did the brothers in robes take out some meat pellets from their pockets and feed them to their pets, and then fed them to their pets.
Put it back in the bamboo basket hanging on the camel's back.
After eliminating the potential threat, these men in robes immediately took off their homemade slippers made of tires and began to dig up sand along the remains of the wing.
As the dry yellow sand slid away little by little, Mr. Edward's expression changed from excitement to disappointment. He thought that what was buried here was a complete airplane, but the fact was that as Weihan expected, it was just a connecting piece.
It's just the wing of the engine.
The nomadic helpers used their hands and feet to push the dug-out wings into the shadows under the sand dunes, and took two big-eared foxes to check carefully to make sure that there were no small animals that could kill people. Wei Ran said this
He threw the empty can away and slowly walked up to squat beside the engine.
"Congratulations, Mr. Edward." Weiyan said in a positive tone, "According to my judgment, this wing comes from a Junkers 52 transport aircraft."
"Are you sure?" Edward asked, "Where is the plane? Could it be in this pile of sand?"
"Of course I'm sure"
Wei Yan gently scratched the remaining maroon paint on the wing with his fingernail, "My business ability in the field of history is much more professional than my knowledge of geography.
And looking at the color of the paint, we can confirm that although this brown-red almost pink paint is not the standard paint color for Luftwaffe aircraft in North Africa, this color is more camouflaged in the desert."
Having said this, Wei Ran simply took off his fisherman's hat and put it on the head of his little follower Aba Aba, then took off his turban and used it as a rag, carefully wiped the remaining sand on the wing, and continued.
, "One more thing, Mr. Edward, I think you must have noticed that there is no German iconic iron cross on the wing of this aircraft. This just proves that it must be performing some secret mission."
"Indeed, I have indeed noticed it." Edward, who had been confused just now, immediately said, "But what does this mean?"
"Remember that telescope your grandfather left behind?"
Wei Ran, who was full of nonsense, put two unrelated clues together, "You must know better than me. There is no German eagle emblem on that telescope. Since there is no German emblem on the telescope,
Naturally, the plane they were traveling on at that time could not have been painted with the Iron Cross to indicate their identity."
At this point, Wei Ran cleared his throat. It wasn't until Edward, who had obviously been fooled by him, moved his eyes from the wing to his face that he said with great certainty, "Based on these little clues, I dare
It is certain that at least 80% of this wing comes from the plane that your grandfather Mr. Rolls Berger flew on. In other words, the main wreckage of that plane is likely to be nearby."
Without thinking at all, Edward opened his mouth and said in English to Saleh, who had come over to watch the excitement, "Mr. Saleh, please tell our patriarch friend if their people can find the plane before the sun sets tomorrow."
, I will send them an extra truck of flour and vegetables, and ten more camels."
You are so "generous"!
Wei Ran, who pretended not to understand, muttered to himself and watched with cold eyes as Saleh translated Edward's conditions to the old patriarch who was still sitting in the off-road vehicle and blowing on the air conditioner.
Compared to the overt and covert dislike of Wei Ran and Soliman, the old patriarch was extremely happy. By the way, based on the original conditions, he also added two additional sets of fuel pumps, ten canvas tents, and a
A truck that is used to pull flour and vegetables and has air conditioning is the only condition that has been negotiated.
"Shall we continue our search in the southeast direction?" Soliman asked Wei Ran.
The latter did not answer in a hurry, but slowly shook off the sand on his scarf and put it around his face. Then he took the fisherman's hat handed by the little attendant and put it on his head, and then pushed it.
Polarizer replied, "Since the wings have been found, I estimate that the plane should not be too far away. Soliman, let your people take our current position as the center of the circle and search within a radius of 15 to 20 kilometers.
area."
At this point, Wei Ran paused for a moment, thought for a while and continued, "In addition, focus on finding out if there are Gobi deserts or stone mountains nearby, where it is easy to accumulate all kinds of debris blown by the wind."
Maybe the main body of the plane was blown over."
"Is there anything else I should pay attention to?" Soliman continued to ask after he finished translating Wei Ran's proposal.
"Let the old patriarch find a place to rest at night as soon as possible."
Wei Ran took the dirty paws of the little follower and said while walking in the direction of the armored pickup truck, "By the way, ask them if they can have that tagine for dinner today, and get some flatbread and toast by the way."
Lamb, and their dipping sauce, I’ll freeze a few more bottles of beer later, and let’s have a good drink tonight to celebrate.”
"Just prepare the beer," Soliman agreed happily, and greeted the "Crown Prince" standing beside him to get into the cab of the truck.
