Chapter 5 (1/2)

Translated by: La Phong

Edited by: Not A Golden Turtle

Chapter 5: Attacked

The Prisoners team and the Cla.s.sical Exploration Company team moved forward during the evening, and finally reached the old professor's destination. Standing on the dunes, looking at the horizon, it was an endless sand sea, sand formed high dunes surrounded by sand valley, although there was only sand, the desert was not flat at all.

“Tomorrow, begin to search from the north dune, every 20 meters drill a hole and put a flag in.” at dinner that night, the old professor convened a meeting with the prisoners : “There is no need to put flags in the low point between two close dunes. Every group will be composed of three people. The groups will go forward, maintaining a distance of 50 meters between each other, report anything unusual to me.”

Cui Ming asked: “How far do you want us to go forward?”

Old professor replied: ”Thirty kilometers to the North. If nothing is found, we will return to this place, to locate the north direction and start again. Later we will no longer use the camel, just walk. Start at seven o’clock in the morning, camp to avoid the sun at eleven in the morning, restart at six in the afternoon and rest at ten in the evening.”

F*ck you. If we die, it means that the thing you need to find was in our dead area. If it was as simple as the old professor say, Cla.s.sical Exploration Company would have done it alone, and all the signs points that the Cla.s.sical Exploration Company failed in its first expedition. It's easy to conclude that the role of the prisoners was that of a mine detector, looking for the first ones to die and explore the place. Otherwise, in the vast Dawn Great Desert, how could that d.a.m.ned old man accurately locate a region, a direction?

But on the other hand would there be a need to hire prisoners if there was no risk? Cui Ming eyes looked at North Luna, sat on the edge of the fire, slowly eating food. Ding Ze was speaking by her side, North Luna rarely opened her mouth, mostly nodded or shook her head. Cui Ming whispered in Xiao Jiang's ear: “Believe me this once, if you meet any danger, do not stay, run, run back, remember, as fast as possible run towards North Luna and Ding Ze position.”

Xiao Jiang looked at Cui Ming, then looked at North Luna and Ding Ze, he did not speak, only nodded. After this ten-days contact, Xiao Jiang also had his own impression of Cui Ming. Cui Ming was a very humorous person, go with the flow, can sleep with a pillow, can sleep without a pillow. What to eat, where to sleep, Cui Ming had an indifferent att.i.tude. At the same time Cui Ming had a very good sense of people, if he seriously said one thing about someone, that matter was basically correct. Such as Cui Ming said the old professor’s female a.s.sistant’s panties color was pink … …

Knowing the female a.s.sistant’s panties color was pink, was not an easy task. The security here had guns, peeping was impossible. Then how did he do it?

The female a.s.sistant had lost her lipstick; while searching she pa.s.sed by a group of prisoners playing poker, inadvertently heard that they were gambling the owners.h.i.+p of a lipstick, she sneered in her heart, pretended to be interested in gamble, and joined them.

Cui Ming made a bet, if the female a.s.sistant won, then he would give the lipstick to her, if she lost, lipstick would also be given to her, but she must tell everyone her panties color.

How to gamble? Very simple, Cui Ming took out three playing cards, namely J, Q, K, the female a.s.sistants must chose one, if her card is higher than Cui Ming's, she wins. She had a total of three opportunities, as long as she win once, she will be declared the winner.

Cui Ming showed three cards, and then swapped their position, on the first try the female a.s.sistant ended up with a J, and lost. The second was also J, and lost, on her third try she also picked a J, to no one's surprise, she lost.

The female a.s.sistant was very generous, she not only told them that her panties was pink, but also deliberately pulled out a bit to show everyone, it won every prisoner’s cheers. Then the female a.s.sistant asked for the lipstick, Cui Ming pushed a prisoner out, and said: “Take it.”

“I want the lipstick.” Female a.s.sistant was quite angry.

“He's nicknamed lipstick, we are betting his tonight owners.h.i.+p.” The female a.s.sistant froze for a few seconds, she knew that they have been toying her ,she hid her face and ran away.

After this Xiao Jiang asked Cui Ming: “You played her, are you not afraid of her revenge? We can all be in need of her help.”

Cui Ming replied: “If we are in distress, she isn’t the one who can save us.”

The hardest work began,

Carrying a 50 kg metal detector, three people could be seen in the hot sun, one to control the detector, the other two to hold the fuselage, every 20 meters they would dig a hole and put a flag in. They also needed to carry tents, food and water. The most annoying thing was that the old professor, every ten minutes would take a walkie-talkie to ask what did they find. In the evening, because the distance was relatively far, the walkie-talkie lost its range, they could finally have some peace

Three security guards followed the three metal detector groups forward, escape was impossible, but slowing down was still possible. The security guards changed their s.h.i.+fts once per day and oversaw the prisoner's work. After a hard day, they would return to the camp and rest a day.

Among the prisoners, Cui Ming was the smallest, he was responsible for the operation of drilling holes, Xiao Jiang and Big Guy were responsible for holding the fuselage. After finis.h.i.+ng, Cui Ming saw the instrument and said: “Operation.”

It was a very convenient job, press the b.u.t.ton to drill, then press the b.u.t.ton to recover the drill bit, and it only needed to be charged twice a day.