"maybe"

Wei Ran said with a smile, "Let's put him back in the ice cellar first. After he's rested enough, how about you take me to the place where he was found to have a look?"

"No problem at all!"

Hearing that there was still hope, Saveli immediately agreed and welcomed Wei Ran into the already much warmer wooden house. After washing his hands, he sat at the dining table.

Accompanied by the couple, they drank some wine and ate something. After the stove in the sauna room next door was lit, Wei Ran, at Saveli's invitation, each went in with a small pine broom to have a good time.

Steamed. Steamed.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When he came out again, a folding bed had been set up by the fireplace, with a thick animal skin blanket spread on it, and on the bed

Underneath, lies the dog Beria.

"Just rest here for a while. This is the warmest place in the room."

Zoya said as she unpacked a sleeping bag that was still packed and placed it on the folding bed, "We bought this new in Arkhangelsk and haven't used it before."

"Thank you"

Wei Ran thanked her politely and waited for Zoya to get into the sauna room with a small basin. Then he opened his suitcase and took out a set of pajamas, put them on, turned off the light and got into his sleeping bag.

Before he fell asleep, Zoya and Saveli also got out of the sauna and went to another room with a fireplace also lit.

There was nothing to say all night. When he woke up again, although he could barely see a ray of rays of light on the distant skyline, outside the window it was still as groggy as at night.

After putting on the thick clothes he brought specially, when Wei Ran walked out of the wooden house, he found that Saveli and Zoya were already awake, and they were refueling two snowmobiles.

"You're awake," Saveli greeted, "We'll set off after we have something to eat."

"How far is it from here?" Wei Ran asked while stretching.

"It's very close, less than ten kilometers away." Zoya pointed in the direction and replied, "We have to go around to the other side of the lake, where few people usually go and there are more prey."

Hearing this, Wei Ran was not in a hurry to enter the house, but instead looked at these two snowmobiles that looked very old.

The motorcycle itself was nothing, but the plastic sled buckets dragged behind each contained a lot of food and drink, as well as a pump-action shotgun and an SKS semi-automatic rifle wrapped in cloth strips.

From just these small details, he could tell that these loving dogs were probably two experienced hunters.

After eating a surprisingly caloric breakfast by the fireplace and drinking a cup of coffee, the three of them each left the house carrying a metal thermos filled with hot coffee.

Whether it was for laziness or because they trusted Wei Ran enough, Saveli and Zoya rode the same snowmobile as if they had agreed upon it.

Seeing this, Wei Ran happily rode on another motorcycle, waited for Beria to jump into the plastic sled towed behind, immediately turned the accelerator, and was the first to drive out of the small yard.

After Saveli locked the courtyard gate, the snowmobile he drove also increased the speed, leading Wei Ran out of the village in the southwest direction, and circled around the edge of the lake to the other side.

The east bank of this lake, whose name I don't know yet, is far more desolate than the other side. As far as the eye can see, there are only sparse coniferous forests and a relatively spacious forest clearing under a high-voltage transmission line.

After driving northeast along this forest glade for an unknown amount of time, Saveli, who was leading the way, first honked the horn, then turned right and plunged into the depths of the coniferous forest.

When they got here, even without relying on their car to lead the way, Wei Ran noticed the unique marks left by the snowmobiles that were clearly visible within the scope of the headlights.

Following these two marks as he walked deeper into the forest, he also noticed that the terrain was gradually rising.

When the two snowmobiles finally reached the shady side of a hill, Saveli, who was walking in front, finally stopped, turned off the snowmobile and said, "The snowmobile can't go through now, so we have to walk."

It’s over.”

"About how far?" Wei Ran asked, turning off the engine.

“Less than 200 meters”

As she spoke, Zoya had jumped onto the tow truck of their car, sat on a box, and asked while putting on snowshoes, "Can you use a gun?"

"I don't need a gun." Wei Ran waved his hand, "Beria will protect me."

"Mind your Beria"

Saveli kindly reminded, "At this time, some early bears have already finished their hibernation, and they will eat everything now."

Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly took out the leash and hung it on Beria's collar.

After preparations, three people and one dog dragged two plastic sleds that were no bigger than a bathtub. They climbed up along the drag marks on the snow for half an hour, and finally ended up on a leeward side.

He stopped at the mountain col.

This place is located between two low mountains, halfway up the shady side of the southern mountain. It is an open space the size of a basketball court. On the open space, large and small stones are scattered randomly.

The big ones are about the size of a van, and the small ones are about the size of a stone roller. Among these gravels, there are some pine trees that look very old growing here and there.

In the middle of this open space, slightly north, there are two heavily weathered boulders that are as big as a van.

The angle between these two boulders, which are placed close to each other at almost 90 degrees, is just facing the mountain top in the south direction. As long as you stand here, you will not get any wind, let alone the direction south is less than 5 meters.

It's a huge pine tree.

"That's where the body was found."

Zoya pointed to the ground where the snow had been cleared away from the corner between the two boulders and said, "We originally wanted to set up a tent here, but we found the body after we worked hard to clear away the snow."

"Where's the airdrop box?"

Wei Ran asked, "Where was it found?"

"Right in the canopy of that tree"

Saveli tried the big tree not far away and said, "We were going to light a fire to melt the gravel ground, but after I cut down the dry branches, I saw the metal box."

First, he leaned under the big tree and looked up. Then he looked at the ground under the pine tree, and then at the clearly visible pits on the gravel between the two boulders, and thought.

After a moment, he asked, "When you found the airdrop box, was its lid open or closed?"

"It's closed," Zoya replied, "it's closed very tightly."

"I'm also worried that there might be something missing around me."

As Saveli spoke, he had already pulled out a canvas bag from his sled bucket, opened it, and said proudly, "So I specifically asked my friend to borrow a metal detector."

"This can be regarded as a guest appearance as a digger..."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and seeing that the other party had already begun to assemble the metal detector, he simply said, "In that case, I'll go around and see if there are any clues."

"Take this"

As Zoya said that, she had already picked up the shotgun and handed it to Wei Ran along with a headlamp. At the same time, she asked with concern, "Can you use it?"

"It's not a big problem. Alexey and I used to go hunting for wild ducks." Wei Ran answered as he took the shotgun and headlamp.

"I hope you can catch a good prey," Zoya said without forgetting to touch Beria's dog's head.

He took the dog for a walk around the rubble, but as expected, he didn't find anything of note here.

By the time he started walking back, Zoya had already chosen another rock of similar size, cleared the snow on the leeward side, and was setting up a tent alone.

Not far away, Saveli was also holding a metal detector and circling around the two boulders.

Seeing this, Wei Ran took the initiative to help Zoya set up the large inflatable tent that could accommodate all of them and the dog.

"I'll go get some firewood from the surroundings," Wei Ran said proactively.

"We brought a chainsaw." Zoya pointed to the plastic sled bucket not far away.

"give it to me"

As Wei Ran spoke, he tied the cleaned tow bucket to Beria's traction rope, then picked up the not-so-large electric saw, selected a nearby pine tree, and sawed off the dry branches at the bottom.

Come down and throw it into the tow truck.

While the three of them were busy, Saveli had already scanned the five-meter radius around the two boulders with a metal detector, and Zoya had also lit the wood stove.

As for Wei Ran, he has already sawed down almost a trailer full of firewood.

However, just when he was about to saw down a dead branch that was covered with attachments, he suddenly lifted it up and stopped when the saw chain was about to touch it.

After adjusting his headlamp, Wei Ran used his gloves to pull out the attachments accumulated on the dead branch, such as pine needles and dead branches.

When he saw the body of this "dead branch", he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

What kind of dead branch is this? This is clearly a hand drill issued by Germany to engineers and mountain hunters during World War II!

Nowadays, the drill bit and chuck of this hand drill have grown into the tree trunk. Although the hand wheel at the back is rusty, the red paint and black eagle emblem on it are still vaguely visible, but the three wooden handles have long been rusted.

I don’t know where he went.

I looked back at the two boulders where the body had been buried. The straight-line distance between them was only 20 meters, but there were many large and small stones in between.

"Saveli!"

Wei Ran shouted at the top of his lungs, "Come here with your metal detector! I made some small discoveries!"

Upon hearing this, Saveli immediately ran over with a metal detector, and Zoya, who was setting up the tent, also ran over.

"check it out"

Wei Ran tapped the hand drill fixed on the tree trunk with a tree branch. After a brief introduction, he said, "Use your metal detector to search around here!"

Hearing this, Saveli immediately excitedly turned on his metal detector. This time, almost as he put the detector plate on the snow under the tree, he immediately heard the rapid and almost continuous line of bees.

song!

The three of them looked at each other, and Zoya turned around and ran towards the tent. Saveli waited for Wei Ran to insert a stick at the location where he was detecting, and then immediately began to detect other places.
To be continued...