On the second floor of the sentry tower, the flickering bonfire patiently licked the bottom of the stainless steel pot. The melted snow water in the pot gradually filled up with pale white mist. At the same time, this small space that was not too big also It gradually warmed up.
While Ji Ma was cutting the venison with a not-so-sharp axe, Wei Ran took out some flour, briefly stirred it with water, poured it into a small pot, and made a large pot of thick flour. Thick pimple soup.
Although the only seasoning they have is some salt, in this freezing weather, what else can you do if you can drink hot soup and eat sizzling roast venison? Enough?
Sufficient protein and carbohydrates easily filled the stomachs of the two of them. After eating and drinking, Ji Ma directly took down the several animal skins hanging from the ceiling and picked them up. Used on the cement floor.
The two of them each took a piece of parachute cloth and spread it on the already rotten animal skin. Then they covered themselves with the canvas tent and then lay down in their clothes.
When they woke up again, the sun outside the sentry tower was almost at its highest point. He added some fuel to the campfire and got some food. Then he picked out some burnt charcoal and ashes from the edge of the campfire, and put them all into the sleigh together with the small stainless steel pot.
After checking to make sure nothing was missing, Ji Ma climbed up to the roof and threw a piece of deer leg with a lot of meat out far away. After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was still nothing outside. When there was any movement, Wei Ran shouted to Wei Ran who was waiting on the first floor, "You can open the door now. There should be no wolves outside."
After receiving the news, Wei Ran moved the sleigh blocking the road and pulled the sleigh out of the way. The rusty iron door opened and he walked out with an AK rifle. Ji Ma, who came down from upstairs, followed closely behind, pulling the reloaded sled cart to catch up.
Under Ji Ma’s guidance, soon after Wei Ran walked into the forest, he saw a series of more than a dozen overturned mine carts. Most of these mine carts had been buried under the snow. The outline is half small, but one of the cars parked just under the pine tree can already be seen clearly.
Besides these minecarts, the most eye-catching thing is the black wooden telephone poles coated with anti-corrosion paint. Under the ravages of time, most of these telephone poles have been broken or tilted, but the remaining The wires were like the most conspicuous signposts, guiding the two of them to two well-hidden four-story concrete buildings deep in the dense coniferous forest, as well as a three-story small building a little further away. building.
Without exception, these three buildings have a dozen concrete load-bearing columns that are half a meter square on the first floor. Starting from the second floor, the windows on each floor are also very small. However, the area of these three buildings is larger than the last, at least 2,000 square meters. If the pine trees around them were not too tall, and if it were not too far away from the sentry tower where they lived last night, Wei Ran might have been there. You can see it at a glance.
After carefully walking around the three buildings that were almost side by side, Wei Ran and Ji Ma realized belatedly that behind these three buildingsBehind the building, there are still a large number of wooden houses that have collapsed or even been buried in the snow. Only half of the outline is left. At the other end of this group of wooden houses, in addition to the same four-story building, there is also an extremely conspicuous huge mine.
“What was this place used to do?” Jima couldn’t help but asked curiously, “Could it be another gold mine?”
“Are you crazy about gold? "
Wei Ran looked up at the roof, "Including the one with only three floors, there are only four buildings here. Let's look for them one by one!"
"How about starting with the three-story one first?"
Jima said without thinking. Obviously, his purpose was not to find the American flag that Dalia had hidden on the roof in advance, but to Let's see what we can get out of here.
"Let's go!"
Wei Ran simply turned around and walked towards the building in the middle. He came all the way here, and he also wanted to see if there was still a building here. What valuable treasure is he carrying?
However, what disappointed them was that this three-story building was just a thermal power plant. Apart from an outdated small thermal power plant and some remaining coking coal, there was nothing that looked like it. Valuable stuff.
But at the same time, they also learned from a slogan posted on the wall that the name here was "No. 27 Coking Coal Mine."
After learning that this place was just a coal mine, Jima’s interest immediately evaporated. Looking at the two hundred kilometers around Inta, the most common ones are coal mines and natural gas mines, which we have seen enough for a long time.
On the other hand, Weiran was still very interested. He even took out his Rolleiflex camera in a metal book and took a photo of the power generation equipment in the building and the Soviet-era slogans hanging on it. photo.
"Why are you still carrying a camera? Isn't it too heavy?" Jima said in disgust.
"It's just a camera. Besides, you don't have to carry it on your back." As Wei Ran spoke, he put the camera into his backpack as a cover and put it back into the metal book.
"Which building should we go to next?" Ji Ma stood on the steps at the door and pointed to the left and right, "Choose one of the two and see how your luck is."
"The one on the left!" Wei Ran said casually.
Ji Ma naturally had no objection. The two of them each carried rifles and walked towards the building on the left. However, before they could step onto the steps leading to the second floor, Wei Ran and Ji Ma came together. He stopped and frowned at the intricate footprints on the steps.
"It's a wolf" Ji Ma said with certainty.
"Did you bring the grenade?" Wei Ran had already opened the safety of the rifle while speaking.
"Bring it," Ji Ma responded, reaching out and taking out a grenade from his chest pocket and weighing it, "Now I just hope there aren't too many wolves in this building."
"Let's go" Wei Ran took another step and was the first to walk up the steps.
Wait until they walked onto the second floorWhen I stepped onto the platform, I immediately saw a large number of animal bones and piles of feces scattered on the snow that was almost flattened by claw marks.
What made them somewhat relieved was that the iron door of this building was still tightly locked, and most of the glass on the windows on both sides of the door was intact, even if a few pieces of glass were damaged. Even if there are cracks, they will remain in their original positions.
At Wei Ran's signal, Ji Ma took out the ax from his waist and easily broke open the padlock on the iron door that was as big as a cigarette box.
I carefully walked into the door. Apart from the ice and snow accumulated near the crack of the door, a large number of Comrade Stalin's faces and various Soviet-flavored propaganda slogans were hung in the dim corridor.
Even on the cement floor, there are a large number of magazines, newspapers, books and even worn military uniforms, boots and even rusty bullets scattered!
Wei Ran gently pushed open a wooden door that was ajar. There were more than a dozen iron frame beds in this room. The green iron cabinet near the door had been pushed over, and some worthless sundries were scattered. All over the floor. The two looked at each other, and with a tacit understanding, they each took charge of one side of the corridor and began to search for interesting things from room to room.
However, what disappointed them was that from the first floor to the top floor and even finally they climbed to the top of the building. Except for the side of the third floor facing the wooden houses, they found that the windows of many rooms had been modified. Apart from the large number of heavy machine gun bullet casings scattered on the floor, there was no valuable harvest at all.
Looking meaningfully at the collapsed wooden houses downstairs, Wei Ran took the initiative and said, "Go and have a look in the building next to it!"
We also look forward to discovering something. Of course Ji Ma would not refuse. He was the first to turn around and walk downstairs, heading straight for the second building which was only a few dozen meters away.
It is almost the same as the previous building. Although there is no damage on the outside and the door is locked tightly, the inside is still in a mess. Even on the third floor, there are still several windows in the rooms. It was replaced by a shooting hole, and the thick layer of heavy machine gun bullet casings on the floor was enough to prove that a long-lasting shooting activity had been carried out here.
"There is no American flag on the roof of this building."
Ji Ma climbed down the steel ladder on the wall, "It seems that we have to go through the group of wooden houses. We went to the innermost building to search."
"Jima, who do you think those people who shot on the third floor of these two buildings were targeting?"
Faced with Wei Ran’s knowing question, Ji Ma blurted out without thinking, “Who else could it be? It can’t be the wolves, right?”
The topic came to an abrupt halt at this point. Stopping, the two of them silently pulled the sleigh through the huge group of ruins of wooden houses on the battlefield, and carefully walked up to the second-floor platform of the building next to the entrance of the mine with guns in hand.
Contrary to their expectations, the padlock used on the door of this building looked particularly young. Weiran even recognized it through the familiar nameplate on the lock.It can be determined that this lock should be made in China.
After studying at Hongqi Forest Farm for so long, this slight difference immediately caught their attention. Ji Ma raised his hand and pointed behind him, and Wei Ran immediately leaned against the wall on one side of the gate, raising his gun and observing the surrounding situation vigilantly. The former raised his ax again and smashed the lock open.
As the rusty iron door was opened, a crisp sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from inside. Then the two of them heard a deafening bang and half-opened the door. The bright light flashing at the door of the building instantly blinded them.
“Fuck!”
Wei Ran sat on the snow at the door. For a moment, all he could see was white flowers in front of his eyes, and there was a buzzing in his ears.
"Shock bomb! It must be that lunatic Dalia!" Jima yelled at the top of his lungs. It's a pity that Wei Ran not only couldn't hear, but couldn't even see the shape of his mouth for the time being, so he only focused on picking his ears.
The two of them waited for a long time, and then their sight gradually recovered. Wei Ran cursed at the top of his lungs. Seeing Jima next to him with a confused look on his face, he stretched out his hand and wrote "Teacher Dalia" on the snow. name.
Ji Ma nodded fiercely, stood up unsteadily, stamped the name Wei Ran had just written, and then spat out thick phlegm in anger.
When Wei Ranye got up, Jima learned a lot better this time. He carefully put his head into the half-open iron door, and then took a step back as if he was startled. , then poked his head in again, and carefully unhooked a smoke bomb.
"It seems that the American flag we are looking for should be in this building." Wei Ran waited for Ji Ma to push the door open completely before shouting at the top of his lungs.
"But that lunatic Dalia obviously doesn't want us to get that flag so easily." Jima responded in the same voice.
The two of them communicated hoarsely like old men with poor ears. They also greeted Dalia's family again, and then cautiously walked into the door.
The scene in this building is not much different from the previous two buildings. The only thing that is different is the two particularly uncoordinated roll-ups in the lobby on the first floor.
The photos on these two roll-ups are precisely the high-definition photos taken when Weiran and Jima were deceived in Ulyanovsk. There was also a piece of A4 paper hanging between the two roll-up banners, with several room numbers briefly written on it, and the sentence "Use blasting to open the door to the above room and take photos." Below are the photos before and after the explosion. Detonating the smoke bomb is equivalent to mission failure. "Fortunately, there are only four rooms in total." "It's difficult."
"Don't say it too early."
Wei Ran walked to the stairs leading to the second floor, pointed to the remaining grenade ring on it, and said, "Just now. The shock bomb should be hung here. Fortunately, the distance is shorter thanIt's far away, but fortunately we haven't gone in yet, otherwise it would be difficult to stand up at this time. "
Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Ji Ma's forehead, "Do you mean..."
Wei Ran removed the metal wire connecting the pull ring and asked , "Do you think Dalia dares to use shock to fool us, would she mind setting up a few more little traps? "
Jima opened his mouth and asked in a low voice, "How about we just blow up this place? "
"Follow the rules of the game," Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "Go and pull the sleigh in." "
When Ji Ma heard this, he immediately ran out of the hall and pulled the sleigh full of supplies in.
"The first is room 109 on the first floor. "Wei Ran looked around, then walked cautiously towards the corridor on the left.
With the reminder of the previous shock bomb, he walked extra carefully, and occasionally encountered a pile of old clothes. , would avoid it vigilantly, and remind Ji Ma behind him to pay attention.
And his caution soon paid off. Just at the door of Room 109 on the first floor, there was a guardrail. He found a tight fishing line under the dusty wool blanket.
He followed the fishing line and finally found a can of high-pressure anti-wolf in the gap between a collapsed cabinet and the wall. Spray and a big firecracker wrapped around the anti-wolf spray with tape
This big firecracker is almost as big as the anti-wolf spray, and there are several matches fixed at the twist of the gun. The fishing line is connected to the friction piece tightly wrapped around the match head.
There is no doubt that if you accidentally step on that inconspicuous fishing line, this scary big firecracker will be destroyed in an instant. It ignited, and the power of its explosion was enough to explode the can of high-pressure anti-wolf spray.
Just imagining the consequences of the can of anti-wolf spray, Wei Yan and Ji Ma couldn't help but fight. Shivering.
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran untied his belt without saying a word and peed on the cannon of the big firecracker, easily solving this potential danger in an eye-catching way. .
“Victor, what do you think is under that wool blanket? Jima asked curiously, "Isn't there also a can of anti-wolf spray and a big firecracker there?" "
Wei Ran buckled his belt, walked to the wool blanket and squatted down. After hesitating for a moment, he finally did not lift it. "No matter what is underneath, go and prepare explosives. It's just a wooden door, so it doesn't have any power." Too big. ”
“Let me do it!” "Ji Ma took over the job without hesitation.
Of course Wei Ran would not fight with Ji Ma about this kind of thing. The two of them followed the footsteps back to the lobby on the first floor. Ji Ma immediately untied the deerskin quilt. After taking out some common small things from the wrapped sleigh, he put a square explosive bag on the randomly picked up newspaper.
The explosive bag was hung on the door of Room 109. Holding the handle, Ji Ma waited for Wei Ran to take the photo and hide, then immediately pointed at the paper bag and pulled the trigger.
With the crisp sound of gunfire.Immediately afterwards there was a dull explosion and a large amount of smoke and dust. Even the wool blanket at the door was lifted by the shock wave, revealing a mousetrap the size of a bowl.
The two covered their noses with their sleeves. When they walked to the door of Room 109 again, the wooden door produced in the Soviet era had been turned into pieces in the explosion, revealing that the items inside were neatly arranged. tables and chairs.
What surprised them both was that behind the desk farthest from the door, there was a bottle of whiskey and two large strong flashlights on the solid wood bookshelf. Next to these three things, there is a conspicuous handwritten card with only a simple word "prize" on it.
“Fortunately, we have just controlled the dose,” Ji Ma said proudly, “If we put in more ingredients, maybe this bottle of wine would be gone.”
“You should be the best before going in. Be careful." Wei Ran pulled Jima and pointed at the dusty room, "There might be a smoke bomb hidden in here." Hearing this, Jima hurried. She took back the feet she had just raised, lay down on the ground with her butt stuck out, held up her headlight and observed carefully, and then said with lingering fear, "There really is one. It's between the desk and the chair behind her. There seems to be one." A thin thread. Victor, how about you let me do it this time?"
"Be careful," Wei Ran whispered.
Ji Ma did not get up. He almost knelt down to the edge where he was doing his work. He carefully looked in and after some observation, he carefully opened a drawer of the desk and took it out. A smoke bomb and a large bottle of kerosene were found.
After eliminating this danger, Ji Ma slowly stood up, took the two bright flashlights from the bookshelf, and then picked up the bottle of whiskey that looked expensive. He unscrewed the lid and took a deep drink. Then he walked back and asked, "Victor, do you want a sip?"
"Let's wait for a while to drink."
p>Wei Ran took the flashlight handed by the other party and said, "Let us finish the other rooms and then find a place to take a few sips."
"Then let me take one last sip. !"
Ji Ma couldn't help but raise the bottle again, took a big sip, and then reluctantly tightened the bottle cap, "The rest will wait until dinner time, now. Let's see what rewards there are in the room upstairs!"
"Let's go!" Wei Ran picked up the large bottle of kerosene on the table and followed Ji Ma out of the room.
The two of them carefully climbed up the stairs to the second floor. After searching for a while, they finally found the target room at the end of the corridor. They also picked up two smoke bombs hidden in various garbage along the way. And a MON50 anti-infantry directional mine!
This amazing Willy directional mine is placed in the drawer of a small cabinet in the corridor, and its mixing line is at the corner of the corridor and the stairwell, and even the mixing line is far away from the floor The height is only less than five centimeters.
However, after Weiran and Jima worked together to eliminate this deadly anti-infantry directional mine, they discovered that although this directional mine that scared them into cold sweat had a detonator, it was light and heavy. The ones I touched at Hongqi Forest Farm were a lot worse.
Prying open the back cover carefully, they discovered that there was no explosive inside at all. Instead, there was a pack of spicy strips and a pack of chicken feet with pickled peppers. No need to guess, it must be Dali. That crazy woman Ya borrowed it from Wei Ran's bag in advance.
"There is wine and appetizers. Teacher Dalia is really an angel!"
While Jima was speaking, he had already picked up these two packages of precious snacks and stuffed them with quick eyes and hands. Putting it in his pocket, "I'll eat it after I'm done with my work. It's a waste to eat it now."
"It would be nice if it was a real directional mine."
Wei Ran felt quite regretful. Remove the detonator from the directional mine, and then throw away the plastic case in your hand. This type of directional mine contains a full 700 grams of high explosives. As long as it is used properly, it is enough to attack the building under your feet. One exploded.
"I would rather it be a fake"
Jima stood up and looked at the door next to him, lowering his voice and encouraging, "Room 216, this is it, should we blow it up?" Go in first and see what prizes there are?"
"Do you think Teacher Dalia will forget to guard against us?" Wei Ran said angrily, "Stop wasting time and do it quickly. Let's go!"
When Ji Ma heard this, he immediately took out a paper bag from his bag and hung it on the door handle in the same trick. After Wei Ran took the photo, he immediately hid in the stairwell and pointed it at Paperbag pulled the trigger again.
However, after the first dull explosion, there was another deafening bang in room 216!
Wei Ran and Ji Mahou, who had blocked their ears with their fingers in advance, looked at each other in fear. There was no doubt that what had just exploded was another shock bomb!
"That fat woman is simply crazy!" Jima cursed and stood up, and was the first to go to the room shrouded in smoke and dust.
When they entered the room, they immediately found that it was empty, except for a grenade ring that was still hanging on the window handle with a wire and a bombed-out TV set near the door. There is nothing.
"Let's go to the third floor." Wei Ran decisively turned around and returned to the stairwell. With the help of a bright flashlight, he carefully climbed up to the third floor.
Different from the previous two floors, the windows at both ends of the corridor on the third floor are all tightly sealed, and the 20 or so rooms on both sides of the corridor are all locked. Even the corridor itself is cleaned extremely clean. , and there was an A4 paper posted directly opposite the stairwell, which clearly stated that they were required to use explosions to open the doors of all rooms, and then they could get the reward of Room 301.
Wei Ran shook his head, "Don't think about it, prepare for the dust explosion!"
"Use it all?" asked Jima who was following behind.
"Use it all. Pass me the ax and you go get the flour."
Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately turned around and went downstairs, while Wei Ran picked up the ax. , smashing a hole as big as a bowl in the boarded-up corridor window.
Stepping to the other end of the corridor, he swung the ax again and removed all the wooden boards sealing the windows.
After a simple test of the wind direction, when he was sure that the wind was indeed blowing from the other end, he immediately went downstairs to move some wooden tables and chairs, poured some kerosene obtained on the first floor, and poured some kerosene on the bottom. A bonfire was lit near the window.
Before he could finish his work, Jima had already taken out all the flour.
"Go upstairs first." Wei Ran stopped Ji Ma who was about to tear open the flour bag, "Let's see what the requirements are upstairs first."
Of course Ji Ma had no objection. , happily put down the flour bag, and followed Wei Ran to the fourth floor. The windows on this floor are not blocked. There is even a large hall directly opposite the stairs, and the rooms on both sides are larger than the other. But without exception, these rooms all have iron doors, and the corridors are also extremely clean like the third floor, with only a layer of dust.
"Room 5, this is it."
Jima walked to the door of the room farthest from the stairwell and gently knocked on the dusty wood with the muzzle of his gun. "It looks like a utility room."
"Don't worry about what it is, just blow it up!" Wei Ran urged, "After blowing this up, let's go to the third floor to take a look."< /p>
Jima nodded, took out a paper bag from the bag and hung it on the door handle.
However, the explosion was far beyond their expectations. Just after the explosive package made by Jima was detonated, although the door of the room was blown open, people jumped out of it immediately. A fire snake sprayed directly onto the opposite wall!
Jima poked out half of his head from the stairwell and said dully, "The Emperor testifies that I did not put much fertilizer into that paper bag..."
"With you It doesn't matter, come downstairs! We have to blow up this building before the fire starts!" Wei Ran was the first to come to his senses and ran downstairs.
Where is this place? This is deep in the virgin forest close to the Arctic Circle, and there is a coal mine next to it. Although the probability is not necessarily high, if the fire really spreads from inside the building to the outside, Not to mention shooting them, cutting them into pieces wouldn't be enough to compensate them! And the most important thing is, look at the almost constant explosions in the utility room. How many flammable and explosive things are there that are not kept intact!
"The American flag, we have to take that flag back!" Jima reminded as he followed.
"Give me the grenade. Go get the flag from the roof!"
"Okay!"
When Ji Ma heard this, he immediately took out the flag he had been carrying. He handed the grenade in his pocket to Wei Ran, and then with the help of the former, he grabbed the ladder leading to the roof on the wall of the stairwell and climbed up quickly.Go up.
Seeing that Ji Ma had entered the roof, Wei Ran immediately ran to the third floor. After confirming that the bonfire at one end of the corridor was still burning, he hurriedly took a photo with his camera, and then immediately used the A pair of trousers blocked the hole that had just been cut in the windward window at the other end. Finally, he tore open the bag of flour and quickly sprinkled it on the corridor.
"I hope it can explode"
Wei Ran, who hid back in the stairwell, muttered to himself, pulled out the grenade ring, and threw it in the direction of the upwind with all his strength. Then, before the grenade exploded, he rolled and crawled down the stairwell to the second floor.