In fact, the reason why the spies gasped in astonishment after having perceived Emily's marked map was because there seemed to be an ambiguous pattern. "This looks like an unfinished X," concluded Eliza as she traced the mountain-like pattern with her fingers. "But this is way too hard to predict the next location.....I mean, it could be here, here or here."
"Or, it could be a Chinese character for the word 'in'," suggested Claire.
"Or.....this may not be an unfinished X," responded Emily slowly in her pensive tone. "It could be a Lambda, a letter in the Greek alphabet."
"OMG OMG OMG!" exclaimed Claire in excitement.
"What's up? Has the caffeine in your morning coffee finally caught up with you?" enquired Eliza jokingly.
"Wait a minute......" mumbled Claire as she grabbed Emily's laptop and started to search on the web frantically. "D'you remember what the name of the Botanist, the one we went to her lecture, is?"
"I think it's Mandy Marlow? I'm not sure though..." said Eliza hesitantly, "To be frank, I was barely listening when Heather was talking about her. Why are you asking?"
"OMG, guys, take a look at this!" said Claire as she pointed at a web page introducing Dr Mandy Marlow.