Hermione dumped the contents of the box onto the bed and turned to look at Tom: "So what should we take with us on the desert adventure?"
You can't blame Hermione, this really touched upon her knowledge blind spot. She had never been to the desert before, so she naturally knew nothing about what she needed to bring with her for a desert expedition.
Tom thought for a while, "Water..."
Hermione picked up a pack of tissues and hit Tom, "Please be more serious!"
"Why are you being so disrespectful! You must bring water with you when you go to the desert. If you don't bring water, what are you going to drink? By the way, not only do you need to bring water, but you also need to prepare some salt."
"Salt?" Hermione didn't quite understand. "Wouldn't eating salt make you thirsty? The water in the desert is so precious, so you must drink it sparingly, so why do you need to bring salt to increase water consumption?"
Tom did not answer her directly. It was midsummer in London, and although Hermione had the air conditioner turned on at home, the activities just now still caused a few strands of sweat to break out on her forehead. Tom stretched out his finger and touched Hermione's forehead.
Hermione's forehead felt soft and tender. After being touched by Tom, Hermione trembled slightly, but soon returned to normal, letting Tom collect the sweat beads on her forehead with his fingers.
Tom stroked back and forth twice, and then put his index finger to Hermione's mouth. The girl sitting opposite her face turned red, opened her mouth, and licked Tom's index finger.
The fingertips are covered with nerve endings, which are much more sensitive than other places, so when Hermione rolled the tip of her tongue, Tom couldn't help but feel very itchy, and goosebumps rose up.
"Cat." This magical creature flashed through Tom's mind, and Hermione's behavior just now was like being licked by a cat.
Seeing that Tom's reaction was more intense than hers, Hermione felt relieved, "Are there barbs on my tongue?"
Both of them covered their mouths and laughed.
After all the fun, Hermione suddenly understood why she needs to bring salt: sweating will take away the salt in the body, and if you don't replenish salt, it will most likely not work.
She took the opportunity to jump up from the bed and brought a piece of paper over. "Tell me what else you need. I'll write it down and go to the supermarket to buy it later."
Tom straightened his clothes a little and thought for a while: "We can buy some tea leaves and make tea in the desert to replenish the lost electrolytes. We can also bring some pickles and mustard."
Hermione nodded, but she seemed to have thought of a problem: fuel. From Hermione's perspective, she felt that there was a high probability of lack of fuel in the desert. In this case, how could there be excess fuel to make tea?
What? Although as wizards, they can use magic to light a fire - but this time with Muggles present, it is not so convenient to use magic to light a fire. You can't just add a few "forgotten things" every time you light a fire, right?
"Bring a solar electric stove so that you can use sunlight to boil water and make tea." Tom saw Hermione's doubts and directly gave the simplest way. Photovoltaic cells have been greatly developed in the 1990s, and
It has been used in the civilian field and has no shortcomings except that it is expensive and cumbersome.
"There are also clothes. The temperature there changes greatly during the day and night, and the sun will burn the skin, so short-sleeved clothes like this are definitely not acceptable. You need to bring sun protection and wind-proof clothes, and choose high-top shoes..."
Tom and Hermione discussed little by little and wrote down the equipment they needed on paper. During dinner in the evening, Mr. Granger announced the good news: Hal Hunter was willing to let Tom and Hermione join his expedition.
!
"I will take you to Sheffield the day after tomorrow," Mr. Granger said in a very good mood. "Hal is forming a team. You can also take a look when you go there and see how an expedition team is formed."
Hermione cheered, while Tom looked thoughtful.
"How is his archaeological team organized?" Tom asked.
"It's almost finished. I guess we still need a few bodyguards, right?" Mr. Granger replied casually, "I remember he mentioned it like this."
Tom said "hmm" and lowered his head to eat the steak on his plate.
Early the next morning, he left Granger's house and went to his old friend Yuri.
"How many reliable manpower do you need?" There have been no orders recently, and Yuri's life has become corrupt. He implements the principle of going to bed late and getting up late. When Tom found him, he had just gotten up from the bed.
Tom told Yuri their destination.
"The ruins of ancient Egypt? It's quite interesting..." Yuri rubbed his fat chin, "There are already a lot of good things in it."
It was obvious that this arms dealer was a little moved.
Not to mention the economic value of the remaining cultural relics in the ancient city, the ancient city itself has extremely high research value. Dr. Hunter who discovered it will definitely become famous.
Yuri was keenly aware of the meaning contained in this. For him, how much money could he make by stealing cultural relics from the ancient city? This is not the 19th century, when British "archaeologists" blatantly used camels as food from other countries.
Gone are the days when units carried cultural relics. In that crazy era, so-called "explorers" and "archaeologists" were like passing locusts, heading to countries with long histories and frantically plundering their cultural heritage.
The news that "Sir So-and-so brought back dozens of camels as cultural relics from such-and-such ancient country at one time" often happened in that era.
The British Museum is like passengers on the French subway in the 1920s: everyone is legally French, but there are not many truly native-born French.
For Yuri, money is a secondary factor. He pursues the "fame" brought behind him more. Although Yuri's business can be said to be a raging fire, he is already considering a retreat for himself. This company is about to be formed
The archaeological team is a great opportunity.
"I will help you find a reliable helper," Yuri promised Tom, "but I hope to get in touch with the doctor."
"Of course," Tom agreed. Due to the special nature of his work, Yuri has a very powerful armed force. They are no worse than the special forces. In other words, they are the special forces.
"By the way, can you customize bullets here?" Tom suddenly asked such a question. He wanted to add something special to the bullets. Tom had this idea a long time ago, but he never put it into action. Now he wants to
When venturing into unknown secrets in the desert, it would be nice to have a little more to rely on.
Yuri laughed, "Of course, my craftsmanship is superb! What bullets do you want for the gun?"
Bullets can be made by hand if there are ready-made accessories, and Yuri happens to know this craft. He wants to know what kind of gun Tom wants to use to make bullets.