Chapter 51 Everyone has their own agenda

In the scope of the sniper rifle, Ji Ma, holding a flashlight, slowly approached the old building left over from the Soviet era step by step.

When he stood at the door of the building, two men with guns opened the door and faced Jima. Wei Ran, who was two hundred meters away, immediately put a scope on him. one of them on the chest.

It was natural that the communication between the two parties could not be heard from such a long distance, but in less than five minutes, the three of them entered the building one after another and completely disappeared from the dim sight of the scope.

"I hope there won't be any accidents..." Wei Ran muttered to himself, patiently waiting for the signal from the other party.

It wasn’t until half an hour later that the smoking room on the second floor suddenly lit up with frequently flashing lights. Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. After pondering for a moment, he wrapped Jima's sniper rifle and his backpack in a canvas tent and buried them in the snow. He only used the sledge to pull the leftover venison and deer heads. Along with Deerskin, he walked out of the dense forest along the footprints left by Ji Ma and walked towards the building in the center of the forest clearing.

Before he could get closer, Jima and a man carrying a high-pressure kerosene lamp walked out of the building and greeted him.

Seeing that Wei Ran was only using a sledge to pull the gifts he got yesterday, Ji Ma didn’t say anything, but introduced him with a natural expression, "Victor, this is my friend Victor. This is Akeem, a hunter from across the Kosiyu River. They are also hunting reindeer. "You are lucky to have caught such a big prey," said Akeem, who was carrying a kerosene lamp. Looking at the venison on the sledge, "We have been waiting here for almost a week before we only hunted two wolves."

"Let's go! Let's go back and eat venison together!" Ji Ma took Wei Ran over With the rope in his hand, he personally pulled the sledge and walked in front.

Following the two of them into the building, Wei Ran discovered that there were more than a dozen lively huskies running around in the corridor on the first floor, and in the rooms on both sides of the corridor, from time to time there were still huskies. The unpleasant roar of the reindeer can be heard.

Following to the second floor, two wild wolves that had been skinned were hanging upside down on the ceiling of the room facing the stairs. And in a large room next to the stairs, there was a bonfire with half a gasoline barrel by the window, and four men playing cards were sitting around it.

After introducing the two parties to each other again, Ji Ma put the venison he had carried on a clean table, took off the ax from his waist, and cut off the remaining ribs with a few clicks. The platoon and two front legs were all chopped off. And that Akeem also brought several bottles of vodka with remaining snow from the next room.

The gurgling cold wine was poured into the old enamel jar. Akeem was the first to pick up the wine glass and said, "Cheers to our meeting on this snowy night!"

When the cup was refilled, Akeem picked it up again and said, "For the second cup, thank you to our new friends Jima and Victor for bringing it to us.Delicious venison! ”

This time, Wei Ran and Jima both kept their eyes open, and they both took a small sip.

Akeem didn’t care and filled the cup again. Then he said enthusiastically, “Third cup, I hope we can catch enough reindeer this year! ”

After three glasses of wine, Akeem and his four other companions were all very energetic. They each took out their knives and cut a small strip directly from the frozen venison with natural expressions. He stuffed it into his mouth. On the other hand, Ji Ma drank all the vodka in the cup happily after the other party ate the venison.

Wei Ran could not eat the venison raw, let alone eat it. After getting drunk, he simply picked up the cup and took another sip.

Akeem and others didn't care. After swallowing the raw meat in their mouths, they were busy cutting the venison into racks. On the bonfire.

The constantly beating flames licked the frozen venison. Whenever the outermost layer was cooked, everyone used small blades to cut it off and put it on with a little salt. Put it in your mouth.

Such a rough way of eating it is definitely not delicious, but I have to admit that it retains all the deliciousness of the venison, and it is also very drinkable, even Wei Ran is satisfied. I couldn't help but drink up the second glass of vodka.

After nearly two hours of eating in the wilderness, everyone stopped and replaced the vodka in their glasses with cheap ones. Instant coffee.

“Jima, you can sleep here tonight, or you can go to the third floor. There are two rooms with intact windows upstairs. "Akeem put down the cup and pointed to the floor at his feet, "There is firewood in the hall on the first floor. You can make a fire yourself. ”

“We may set off very early tomorrow to chase reindeer”

Except for the first three glasses of wine, Ji Ma, who almost didn’t drink at all during the rest of the journey, stood up with a smile. , “So let’s go to the third floor so as not to wake you up. "

Akeem stood up to see him off, and handed an unlit kerosene lamp to Ji Ma, "Good night, maybe we can go hunting together tomorrow. ”

Taking the other party’s kerosene lamp, Wei Ran followed Jima to the third floor, found a room farthest from the stairs, went in and put away a few luggage, then brought firewood from the first floor, and placed it on the third floor. A bonfire was lit in the corner by the window

"Be alert at night"

While Jima was talking, he picked up several rusty tin cans from the corner of the room every now and then. were placed in the corridor.

“Akeem and the others have a problem? "Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"Even if there is no problem, be careful. Remember to turn on the safety of the gun and keep it handy. "

As Jima said, he lit the kerosene lamp and hung it on the door frame, and then spread out the sleeping bag in the dark corner farthest from the kerosene lamp and the bonfire.

It was still a rotation. The night guard was on duty, but this time, Wei Ran was on duty in the first half of the night, and Ji Ma himself was on duty in the second half of the night, when accidents were more likely.

Soon after, Ji Ma’s loud grunts were heard in the room., and the sound of playing cards coming from downstairs continued until midnight.

Wei Ran, who was guarding the bonfire, was holding a shotgun. From time to time, he opened the window to look at the forest where snowflakes were starting to fall again. From time to time, he stuck his head out to look at the corridor illuminated by kerosene lamps. He tried his best to Fighting against the overwhelming sleepiness after drinking too much alcohol.

After holding on until three in the morning, Wei Ran shook Jima awake, then got into his sleeping bag and started snoring.

Just as Wei Ran fell asleep, in the room on the second floor, one of Akeem's companions had gently placed the canvas tent and backpack that Wei Ran had buried on the table, and then lowered his head. He said in a loud voice, "I just searched around, it should be just the two of them."

Akeem nodded when he heard this, spit out the toothpick in his mouth, picked up Jima's sniper rifle and looked at it Look, and then handed it to his companion, "Put it back first. If those two young people leave early tomorrow morning, we won't cause trouble to them."

"Boss, should we... "

Before the companion who took the gun finished speaking, Akeem shook his head, "There will be more and more hunters in this forest. Should we catch them all?"

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"What if they don't leave tomorrow?" asked another companion who was obviously drunk.

"What if you don't leave?"

Akeem smiled and said, "Early tomorrow morning, we will hide over there in the mine and see what they are going to do."

While Akeem made his decision, Ji Ma, who had no idea that he had escaped, was worrying about the bonfire. According to Principal Nicholas, the safe was in a certain room on the first floor, but now he had no idea how to find the mezzanine and open the safe under the noses of Akeem and others.

Looking down at the shotgun on his lap, Jima shook his head. With the weapons he and Wei Ran had, it was impossible to drive each other away from here.

"It seems that we can only see if there is a chance when they go out hunting tomorrow." Ji Ma sighed and secretly made a similar decision to Akeem.

In the blink of an eye, early the next morning, the coniferous forest where the wind stopped and the snow fell was once again illuminated by the temperatureless sunshine. It's great hunting weather.

After breakfast in a hurry, Akeem saw that Jima and Wei Ran had no intention of leaving, so he immediately stood up and said, "Today is a good weather for hunting. Jima, Victor, where are you going?" "Direction?"

"We plan to go to the west," Jima burped, "Maybe there will be reindeer crossing the Kosiyo River, and we plan to go there later."

"In that case, let's go to the north." Akeem said, picked up the gun, greeted everyone and walked out, "Jima, Victor, I wish you good luck."

"I also wish you a prosperous harvest." Ji Ma secretly breathed a sigh of relief and generously sent his free blessings.

Watching Akeem and others driving the reindeer away from the building and pulling the sledge out of sight, Jima immediately said, "VicDuo, you go to the top floor and use the binoculars to keep an eye on their movements while I look for the safe. "

"No problem"

Wei Ran took the telescope from the other party, climbed up the stairs to the top floor, chose a room with a good view, and stared at it for a moment.

Ji Ma was also not idle. According to Nikolai's instructions before arriving, he found an office full of garbage based on the remaining house numbers on the wall.

Holding the handle with both hands and pushing upward, a square piece weighing dozens of kilograms was revealed amidst the squeaking noise. The steel plate was lifted out, revealing a small safe lying flat underneath.

Perhaps it has been left here for too long, but the safe is already covered with rust. Fortunately. The keyhole and the combination plate are all thickly coated with paint as Nicholas said, and they don't look completely rusted.

"Could it be gold?" ”

Ji Ma raised his head and looked out the window, then took out the sandpaper prepared in advance from his pocket and sanded off the protective layer of paint, then unscrewed the oil storage tank of the kerosene lamp and poured some kerosene on it. , then he pulled out a shiny key from his neck and inserted it into the keyhole smoothly, and then carefully turned the slightly sour code disk.

Waiting for him to turn the last code, that key. Finally, I was able to twist it smoothly with the help of a pair of pliers.

Finally, I used an ax to hold the cabinet door handle and pulled it upwards. With a soft click, the safe that had been covered in dust for an unknown period of time was finally released. It was completely opened.

Looking inside, Jima was disappointed. There was no gold at all in the safe, which could hold up to two bricks. There were only two things vacuum-sealed with thick transparent plastic. .

One of them is a plastic-covered photo album, and the other is a metal box that is almost the same size as the photo album.

I weighed the sealed metal box lightly. It didn't feel like gold at all, and even when it was shaking, I didn't hear any movement at all.

Resisting the curiosity to open it and take a look, Ji Ma stuffed the two things into his backpack, and then put them away. The safe and the floor tiles were restored to their original state, and the garbage was moved to the top again, and then he shouted at Wei Ran to come downstairs quickly.

“They’re not back, are they? "Jima asked nervously.

"No"

Weiran returned the telescope to the other party and said, "But they walked around in the forest and came out from other places. , hid in the mine, did you find anything? "

"Found it, let's leave quickly." Ji Ma patted his backpack, "Maybe they are really gold diggers. I don't want to deal with those lunatics." ”

Almost as soon as the two of them enteredWhile entering the forest, Akeem, who was hiding near the mine, also put down his telescope. After pondering for a moment, he said to an old man over fifty with a beard next to him, "Follow them and leave marks along the way."< /p>

The bearded man nodded silently, picked up an SVD sniper rifle wrapped in white fur next to him, and ducked into the coniferous forest not far away.

“Let’s go back and see what those two young men are doing.” Before he could finish his words, Akeem was already calling the reindeer and running towards the building a few hundred meters away on the sledge.

When they returned to the building, one of their companions immediately took out an action camera from the radiator in the corridor.

Easily found the room Jima had been to and the content of his conversation with Wei Ran. Akeem and others also found the safe hidden under the floor tiles.

"Boss, gold! It must be gold!"

The strong man who was about to attack Wei Ran and the two yesterday shouted excitedly, "We all know that this place used to be a Gold mine, those two little bugs must have stolen our gold!"

"Follow us!" Akeem ordered without thinking, "Inform dad to stop them if necessary! It doesn’t matter if you kill them!”

As he said this, Akeem had already waved the other two companions to run out. The distance to the left and right was only a few hundred meters, and with the reindeer sledge, he didn’t want to do anything. Worried that Wei Ran and Ji Ma could escape from his hands.

However, just as they ran out of the building, Ji Ma, who had already set up his gun and stared at the place, immediately put the scope on the belly of a reindeer.

After a while, seeing that Akeem was indeed shouting at the reindeer to chase them in the direction of the two of them, Jima immediately pulled the trigger without hesitation!

"Bang!"

A clear gunshot rang out, and the reindeer helping Akeem pull the sledge was shot and fell to the ground, and the people on the sledge were also in chaos. He fell hard on the snow.

"Victor, it seems we are in trouble." As Jima spoke, he pushed the charging handle to put the second bullet, and pulled the trigger again against the reindeer connected to the other sledge. .