With the help of the tall and fat captain Martin, two gasoline barrels with a capacity of 200 liters were lifted onto the sled.
By the way, the captain, who didn’t seem to like talking much, also put a few large crabs frozen into ice cubes, some fruits and vegetables, and even the four reindeer on their sleigh. , and each received some fodder, grains and beans.
While the reindeer buried most of their heads in the iron bucket to eat, Leo and Captain Martin each lit a cigarette and used an iron brush to clean the reindeer on the cold and windy pier. snow, while chatting in Norwegian. Wei Ran also made a peeing gesture and got into the warm cabin.
Seeing that Leo and Martin behind him had no intention of stopping him, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He got into the small bathroom to urinate, and took a look at the few cabins before he walked out slowly.
After the reindeer had finished eating the fodder in the iron bucket, Leo put a few more skis on the sleigh, and then the two of them shouted at the reindeer and pulled the overloaded sleigh to turn around. Running back. Behind them, the fat captain Martin spat disdainfully, turned around and got into the warm cabin.
Due to the heavy fuel on the sleigh, their speed was much slower on the way back. Every now and then, they even had to put four reindeer on one sled and wait until they were dragged out of the snow. Nest, only then can we continue to move forward slowly.
So, when they rushed back to the easternmost valley of Bear Island after walking more than 20 kilometers, more than three hours had passed since they set out.
Jonas, who had been standing next to the tent, waited until the three young men worked together to lift the two heavy oil drums off the sled, and then secretly put away a barrel in his pocket. Pistol, helping them set up tents, while looking for Wei Ran to ask about the situation on the fishing boat.
Wei Ran naturally knew what the old guy was worried about, and he happily briefly described the situation on the ship.
At this point, Professor Jonas breathed a sigh of relief. After the two tents were set up, he immediately led them to the rock wall that might hide the entrance to the warehouse. "If nothing else, this paragraph There will be a cave entrance buried by ice and snow at the foot of the mountain. All we have to do is find the entrance."
After listening to Professor Jonas, Eric picked it up without thinking. The snow shovel vigorously threw a large piece of snow behind him. With such an idiot taking the lead, this time even Professor Jonas followed suit and started wielding a snow shovel.
Under the busy work of the four people, the heavy snow was thrown behind them, and the foot of the mountain that was originally buried was also illuminated by the kerosene lamp behind the four people.
Puffing, Eric poked the shovel into the thick snow, sat down and complained, "If I had known this, we should have brought a small bulldozer over. How long will it take to dig?" ? I'm afraid I was already wrong when we found those meteorological dataIt's graduation ceremony. "
"Why didn't you say bring a snowplow? "
Professor Jonas, who was also sweating profusely, sat down next to him and joked while unbuttoning his heavy cold-proof clothes, "You can get precious polar meteorological data just by digging out some snow. Rick, it's time for you to be content. "
"Look at Victor"
Eric raised his finger and pointed at Wei Ran, "Isn't he tired? How come you have such good physical strength like my cousin? "
"It's because our physical strength is too weak." Professor Jonas shook his head helplessly, "Let Leo and Victor also take a rest. Later we will dig in groups in two directions, so to speak. Maybe it can be faster. "
When Eric heard this, he quickly shouted a few words to his cousin Leo in Norwegian, and then changed to German and shouted "Stop Weiran."
Wait this The two strongest men stopped, and Eric walked to the kerosene lamp, poured a cup of scalding coffee for everyone from the thermos, and told Professor Jonas's arrangement during the break. /p>
Leo naturally had no objections, and Wei Ran, who was already paddling, had no objections. Everyone finished a cup of coffee, and Eric took the initiative to share it with his cousin Leo. The group chose the left direction, chatting in Norwegian that only the two brothers could understand, and continued to dig.
Seeing this, Professor Jonas opened his mouth, but after all he didn't say anything. What? He asked Wei Ran to go in the other direction and continue digging close to the foot of the mountain.
After two or three hours of busy digging, even Wei Ran, who had been slacking off, was already tired. While sweat was pouring from their foreheads, an exclamation came from the direction of Eric and the others.
Wei Ran and Professor Jonas, who glanced behind each other from time to time, looked at each other and turned around to pick it up. The kerosene gas lamp ran in the direction where Eric and Leo were responsible.
"Have you found it? "Professor Jonas asked while running.
"Not found"
Eric said and kicked a black stone next to his feet, "But we dug We arrived at coking coal, and there seemed to be a lot of coking coal buried in the snow ahead. "
"Coking coal? "
Professor Jonas moved the kerosene gas lamp in his hand forward and said in surprise, "It seems that the entrance to the warehouse should be nearby. ”
Before anyone could say anything else, Leo, who had not stopped, suddenly pointed at the rock wall with the shovel in his hand and said something.
Everyone leaned over again and discovered casually. He found a rusty piton, but it was still firmly fixed on the mountain wall. There was even a small piece of wire left on the piton.
This small discovery is more important than anything else. The encouragement was helpful, and even Wei Ran stopped being lazy and continued to wield the snow shovel along with the exhausted people, quickly moving forward to clear the seemingly endless snow
Until halfway. More than an hour later, they dug out a pile of coking coal that was as tall as a person and piled up against the rock wall.Next to this pile of coking coal, about one meter above the ground, there is a hole that is tightly blocked by large pieces of coking coal and even covered with a thick layer of ice.
The diameter of this semicircular hole is only a little over one meter. Next to it, at about the height of the head, there is a small hole that is only the size of the mouth of a bowl. A rusty iron chimney comes from this small hole. The hole sticks out.
After successfully discovering the entrance to the cave, the four of them rested against the snowdrift not far away for half an hour. Until their physical strength recovered, Leo motioned for everyone to stay away, and then took out his The pistol that was always on his waist was aimed at the hole and he pulled the trigger repeatedly.
The .45-caliber bullet hit one of the coking coals with huge energy. Seeing this, Wei Yan simply took out the 1911 pistol he got on the ship and fired at the coking coal blocking the hole. He shot the ice cube, but it was Jonas who never took out the pistol he carried.
By the time Weiran and Leo had emptied two magazines each, the originally tightly blocked hole had been smashed by bullets into several pieces of coking coal, revealing a vaguely white hole at the back. Painted iron door.
Seeing this, Professor Jonas did not stop him. Instead, he waited until Wei Ran and Leo had emptied the last magazine before calling them slowly.
Leo glanced at the rusty padlock on the iron door, put away the pistol with some hesitation, then took out the ice ax that had been hanging on his belt, and smashed it open in two or two strokes.
Just now he deliberately emptied the magazine. Wei Ran, who was watching with cold eyes, saw Jonas quickly put the key he had just taken out back into his pocket. He quickly suppressed a smile and turned around without moving. He stood far away with a voice.
I don’t know whether Leo who knocked off the padlock was out of caution or out of professional ethics as a guide. Not only did he not push open the iron door with bullet holes, he even pulled his cousin Eli Ke stood aside. Seeing what he meant, he obviously planned to let Professor Jonas go in first to take a look.
Professor Jonas, on the other hand, didn't care. He pushed the iron door open, waited for a moment, and walked in with a kerosene lamp.
When Leo and Eric also walked into the iron gate, Wei Ran, who deliberately stayed at the end, picked up the kerosene gas lantern on the snowdrift next to him, slowly bent down and got into the low-rise building. of the hole.
Compared with the narrow entrance, the inside of this cave is spacious enough. Not only can you stand upright, but it is also two meters wide.
In addition, there are two continuous 90-degree bends inside the cave. Each bend is equipped with a wooden door nailed with animal skins. And above each door, there is a miner's lamp protected by a metal cover hanging.
After passing through the two wooden doors, the first thing Wei Ran saw was a cast iron stove. The smoke pipe of this stove goes all the way up, and after reaching the highest point, it bends 90 degrees and extends outside.
Unfortunately, perhaps the melting snow in the summer flowed in along the pipe. Not only did the astonishingly tall castThe bottom of the iron stove turned into a lump of ice, and even the rocky ground around it was covered with a layer of ice.
Beside the cast iron stove, there is a small gasoline generator covered with dust. Continuing to look inside, there are tables placed side by side.
These tables were all covered with a layer of canvas. After Jonas, who was walking at the front, lifted up the canvases one by one, Weiran discovered that in addition to two sets of different models on these tables, , in addition to the high-power radio stations used by Germany in World War II, there were also two sets of Enigma cipher machines in wooden boxes.
On other tables, office supplies such as pencils, pens, papers, typewriters, and brass slide rules are neatly placed.
In addition, opposite the row of wooden tables placed against the wall, there is a row of iron shelves, which are filled with folders one after another. At this time, Jonas and Eric were excitedly pulling out a folder from the shelf and quickly flipping through the contents.
As for Leo and Wei Ran, they focused on the drawers of the row of desks. These two people, no, perhaps more accurately, these four people were like thieves who sneaked into a rich man's house, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets looking for things that they were interested in.
"Oh ho ho!"
Leo suddenly let out a cheer, grinning and saying something in Norwegian, while showing everyone what he had just pulled out of the drawer. A thick stack of pornographic magazines was dug out, as well as a pair of black women's underwear and stockings.
"Professor, were there any women working here at that time?" Eric asked in surprise.
"Silly boy, if there were women here, what Leo would find wouldn't be pornographic magazines." Professor Jonas shook his head helplessly, lowered his voice slightly and muttered, "I hope it wasn't my father who left the "It's down."
"What should it be?" Eric asked in confusion.
"Rubber products and contraceptive pills, probably."
Wei Ran threw back a few World War II German marks he had just dug out of the drawer, "Maybe with other men." Things like dueling weapons when colleagues fight over female colleagues."
"Can you be more serious?" Eric reluctantly put the folder in his hand back to its original position.
"What Victor said is probably true," Professor Jonas agreed with a smile, walked a few steps inside with a kerosene lamp and greeted, "You two, come here quickly, We seem to have an unexpected harvest."
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Eric hurriedly took a few steps forward, and then saw that there was nothing but a locked iron at the innermost side of the cave. Outside the door, on the last table against the wall, there was actually a crate box similar in size to a later 24-inch suitcase.
What’s even more special is that there is a seal on this wooden box indicating that it is the property of the German Navy during World War II!