The next day, when Hermione woke up, she found herself lying in Tom's arms. His breathing was steady and long, spraying on the back of Hermione's neck, which was warm and also brought warmth to her dry skin.
A touch of warmth came.
"Get up," Hermione turned over, facing Tom, first poked the soft flesh under his ribs, and then reached out and pinched his nose.
After being teased like this, Tom woke up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Hermione's smiling face. It was indeed a wonderful start to the day. The two looked at each other like this, and Tom noticed that Hermione's lips seemed to be in the desert sand.
Her lips were dry and cracked, so she moisturized her lips very considerately.
After moisturizing, both of them burst out laughing.
Others had also woken up. When Tom and Hermione came outside the house, Dr. Hunter was standing outside the house smoking with his student Alan.
Hearing the footsteps, both of them stopped talking and turned to look over.
Tom was shocked when he saw Dr. Hunter, because it was difficult to connect the depressed and depressed uncle in front of him with the high-spirited doctor before.
Will's death hit him hard. Will was his first disciple, and Hal Hunter didn't know how much effort he had put into him, but it ended up being lost in this ancient city. Putting aside the relationship between the two
Regardless of his personal emotions, Will's death also ruined Dr. Hunter's future.
Seeing that it was Tom coming over, Dr. Hunter cheered up and bowed to thank him. Apparently Alan had already told Dr. Hunter what happened yesterday. With Dr. Hunter's wisdom, he could naturally guess what happened before.
There must be some connection between the strange dog that saved him and the boy in front of him.
After Tom and Hermione wake up, the remaining members of the expedition can gather together and sit down for a meeting.
Their top priority is to count the supplies they brought with them when they fled yesterday. In the desert, it is impossible to live without supplies.
"All the camels have run away." The old man from Yoshadu told a very bad news. Without camels, it would be impossible for the remaining people to walk out of the desert in one piece.
"Call for rescue." Dr. Hunter took out his satellite phone, but found that the always reliable satellite phone failed here. He then remembered that Allen had told him before that all the electronic equipment here had failed.
Already.
"Electronic equipment malfunctioned..." Hermione felt something strange, a feature that reminded her of Hogwarts.
The seven people also discovered an even worse fact: they lost not only their transportation tools, but also the supplies on the camels' backs. When they fled yesterday, not everyone had a backpack. Currently, the seven people only have four backpacks in their hands.
, the bag also contains mostly clothes and the like.
The remnants of the expedition were in desperate need of fresh water and food.
Tom was also a bit big-headed. Yesterday he took Hermione to run away without taking his own backpack! However, Hermione smiled at Tom, walked to the four bags, and took out her own bag.
Then he took out Tom's small backpack from his bag.
She shook the backpack in her hand proudly and said happily: "I took your backpack with me when I ran out!"
Tom:Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
You can always trust Hermione Granger.
He took his backpack and took out a lot of supplies in front of everyone.
Mineral water, luncheon meat, brewed rice, dehydrated vegetables, solid fuel...
When he took out a large pack of toilet paper, Allen couldn't help it anymore, "Are you Doraemon?" He said what most people were thinking. [Note 1]
These supplies from Tom solved an urgent need. After some discussion, everyone decided to search for the remaining camels in the city, and then ventured to the place where they camped yesterday to see if they could retrieve some more supplies.
There was no dispute about the first half of the process, but there were slight differences after that. The main reason was that Alyosha and Jusha both felt that they should evacuate the ancient city immediately after finding the camels and supplies, but Allen was a little unwilling:
After finally finding this ruins, narrowly escaping from the pursuit of magical animals, only to return empty-handed?
Who knows if he will be able to come in next time? He has learned an ancient Eastern text called "The Peach Blossom Spring". The fisherman found a village hundreds of years ago, but he couldn't find it the next time he looked for it. This story
There was such a strong sense of déjà vu that when Alyosha said, "Anyway, the ancient city is here, we can find it next time we come", he mustered up the courage to firmly object.
Just when they were noisy and blushing, Sarah shouted something to attract their attention.
"What is that?" she shouted, pointing at the yellow sand.
Everyone was attracted to her and took out their binoculars to check.
The center of the ruins of this city is very strange. It is a large sandy land, about 3 kilometers wide. When they came here last night, the light was dim and they did not pay attention to what was in the sand. Today, the storm has stopped, the sun is shining brightly, and the visibility is good.
.This made Sara discover something unusual in the sand: there seemed to be something in it, but it was too far away for them to see clearly.
Through the telescope, they found a stone slab in the middle of the sand.
Allen squatted on the edge of the sand, grabbed a handful of sand, and let the sand slide down his hands.
"Very fine sand." He stood up, took a stone, and threw it on the sand. The stone sank in immediately.
"I can't get through it..." He muttered. If someone steps on this kind of sand, it will sink in immediately.
"Quicksand." The old man from Yoshadu knew what it was after just one look.
"But what happened to those slates?" Sarah asked, "Since it is quicksand, how can these slates float on it?"
Stone slabs can float on quicksand naturally because there is something underneath to support them, so the structure of the sand is probably like a big bowl. There is a pillar in the middle of the bowl, with stone slabs on the pillar and sand on the side of the pillar. Such a design
, it must be to protect those stone slabs so that others cannot approach easily.
"The stone slabs that have been protected with great effort..." The expedition team immediately became interested. You must know that this is not a protection by digging a hole and adding a lock, but by using three thousand meters of yellow sand as an isolation protection.
!
In ancient times, this was simply an unsolvable method.
"But people in the city want to get close to the stone slab, what should they do?" Sara thought of a very practical question.
"There must be a special route or mechanism." Dr. Hunter became more energetic and his brain was running rapidly. "Look for anything special nearby..."