"Oh, what are you two doing here, cooing like a couple?" Agabai, who came in, pinned them, and the old men, Baraz and his Firuz-Mirzo giggled behind him.
"What do you think, young? Can they betroth them?" three old foxes began to make fun of Barno and Dara.
Barno, embarrassed, fled to another room, and Dara was frankly not so important now, these conversations, he was thinking not about dates, but about big money. There will be money, he will be able to arrange his own life!
Barno thought, these old men, Dara is certainly an interesting fellow, but he has a catastrophic flaw - he is poor. He doesn't even have a car, his own car, and he is dressed like a factory worker and not like the general's grandson.
With him, you can hang out, travel, look for treasures, to get married she would like to be an American and stay to live in a rich country like the USA. She was not interested in catching anything in Small Ahn. Here, technology is one century behind the United States. It was boring, not interesting. But she didn't want to live a wretched life, go to work, get $ 200 a month, not go to the sea, but for the whole year, all her life, to hang around in one city. Barno wanted a free relationship until the age of 36 and then, you can think about a wedding.
Why should she build a family now, she has not walked up yet!
And Dara thought that for the windy person, she does not love her country, she is not a patriot, she does not respect the elders and traditions. And she walks so quietly that she cannot be heard. Why do weave a wife? Yes, and there is no money, but you can find someone from your environment artisans or scientists. Dara did not plan to leave her country.
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The next day, Dara had on hand two permits, one from the university indicating the name of his future master's project and the second from the Ministry of Culture, including permission from the Ministry of Homeland Security, Dara had to test a new drone with an employee of Aghabay. Moreover, the company was joint with a Chinese company from Chengdu. The representative of which was Uncle Bro Fang.
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A small expedition in two-car jeeps left the capital of Small Ann early in the morning at 5 o'clock. In the first jeep, she was driving Barno, in the front seat of Dara, and behind Fang.
In the second all-terrain vehicle, the old men Baraz, Firuz-Mirzo, Agabay and Uncle Fang, Li-Ban, in the back were two drones that needed to be tested.
The old men immediately realized that Dara was looking for a treasure. How can you fool veterans of the secret police? This is just a laugh.
The gift in the car had three types of metal detectors, search magnets and pings. A tent, a shovel, a camera that was mounted on his hat.
The road in good cars took three and a half hours, on the right and left side of the road, agricultural fields were visible. There was water on them, the farmer washed the ground with fertilizers and salt. From this, a thick fog spread over the road up to the horizon.
On the horizon barely visible small dark silhouet trees.
Occasionally one could see incompletely cleaned fields, leaves of fodder white beets sticking out and the remnants of industrial culture - American cotton.
In some places, the asphalt roads were in terrible condition, even good cars shook pretty much.
Soon the hills crossed into the steppe, mountains settled on the south or on the left side of the road, it was the Golden Ridge, on the right side of the road there was a plain in places turning into a stone desert. And somewhere on the horizon in the north was a small blue stripe. It was a big lake.
In places on the plain, small remnant mountains rose, remaining after the last glacier left in the ancient Holocene. That is, oklo 27-35 thousand years ago.
And during the Quaternary period, Dara remembered that on this plain were the remains of Tethys in the form of a large sewage lake with sea water. Depth of 100 meters and an area of 200,000 square meters. km Sharks-caraharadons swam in it. From the great lake in the recent period of history there was only one small salt lake 15 meters deep and petrified black teeth of sharks on the western spurs of the mountains of Light and the adjacent sandy desert. They were 15-20 centimeters long and 8-10 cm wide.
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The camp was set up in a mountain valley called Zar Rabat.