Alita spoke for a long time, and after Xiao Mo struggled to finish listening, she pondered for quite a while, still finding many doubts...
"You want me to rescue you out of here?"
Alita nodded vigorously, "Putting aside how I feel about Balo, my professor is waiting for me to rescue him, I can't delay any longer."
"But, have you thought about it, if your professor really disappeared in an uninhabited desert, even if he survived by eating sand, how could his phone last a year?"
"Yes! I've thought about that too, but maybe there's another possibility, like he was rescued by natives of the desert, or he's currently being held captive, or he's under house arrest in a prison. He found an opportunity to charge his phone a bit, and sent me a text message..."
"Did you try calling him?"
"I did, but the phone is turned off."
"That's really strange, a phone unused for a year should be disconnected! If I don't pay the bill for a month, the service provider cuts it off." Xiao Mo commented.
