1208 Refresh Oneself (1/2)
Last time, Zhang Zian had taken the arc route of Cairo-Alexandria-Matruh-Siwa Oasis. In order to go sightseeing in Alexandria and Matruh, he'd chosen the route from Cairo along the highway westward and through Faiyum Oasis to Siwa Oasis.
If one went south rather than west at the fork in the road, it led to a famous scenic spot in Egypt, the Black and White Desert.
The Black and White Desert was made up of two adjacent deserts. One was the Black Desert, and the other was the White Desert. Many visitors to Egypt would visit it and spend the night in the desert, lighting bonfires, living in tents, eating barbecue, drinking beer, and enjoying the desert sunrise and sunset as well as the pure and pollution-free starry sky, which brought new experiences to people who lived in big cities.
Recently, the situation in Egypt had been unstable. Tourists were not allowed to stay alone in the Black and White Desert for the night. However, Zhang Zian had no intention of visiting the Black and White Desert in the south. He would turn westward at the fork in the road. The Black and White Desert was just the edge of the Sahara Desert. When they entered the Great Western Desert, some people spent the night in the desert. Even if they wanted to leave early it was probably impossible.
The scenery on this road was extremely monotonous and boring. There were boundless deserts on both sides. On a road that was so long the end of it could be seen, he would come across a bus carrying tourists once in a while. After all, it was the off-season now.
The elfins had slept late last night and gotten up early again today, and they soon fell asleep because of boredom. Fina in particular, seated in the front passenger seat, could hardly stop yawning, and Zhang Zian began to feel sleepy.
Feeling sleepy while driving was a big taboo. Zhang Zian didn't want to get into an accident on a road in another country. Moreover, the place was so desolate that if an accident really happened, he would not be able to get help for a very long time.
To wake himself up, he could not help but use a miraculous weapon—Pinduoduo cooling ointment!
He had given out quite a lot of the cooling ointment, and he only had a few stored up in his hands. He'd been planning to give everything out before leaving Egypt. If he really could not give it away, he would have to throw it out. Anyway, he couldn't bring it back to the country.
When he opened the cap of the small container of cooling ointment, a strong smell started to spread throughout the car.
He dipped his fingertips in a little and applied it to his temples on both sides. He was immediately refreshed and felt that the sticky paste absorbed the heat of the skin like a bottomless hole.
”What is that?”
Fina was the closest to him and instantly smelled it.
”Cooling ointment. Do you want a bit? You won't be sleepy anymore after you put it on,” Zhang Zian courteously said, but he couldn't read the first word, so he had to replace the pronunciation of the word with the word 'cool'.
Fina looked at him like he was an idiot. ”Are you dumb? Why would I need to put that on? Can't I just sleep if I'm tired?”
”I'm driving, so I can't sleep. Besides, it contains mint. It's a close relative to your favorite catnip,” he said.
Although mint and catnip both had the words ”mint” in them, and they looked quite similar, they were not closely related. Catnip was not even a type of mint plant.
Fina pulled a long face and instantly denied it. ”Who said I like catnip? Don't group me in with those ordinary cats!”
Well, catnip didn't work for all cats either. About 50% of cats responded to catnip. It seemed that Fina belonged to the other 50% of cats.
Some cats also reacted to ingredients containing peppermint, but as for the box of cooling ointment in his hands... Who knew what its ingredients were? Anyway, if it didn't eat it, it shouldn't kill anyone.