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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 with pale white mist, and at the same time, this small space, which was not too big, gradually became warmer.

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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 pimple soup.

Although the only seasoning they have is some salt, in this freezing cold weather, if you can drink hot soup and eat sizzling roast venison, what else can you not be satisfied with?

Sufficient protein and carbohydrates easily filled the stomachs of the two of them. After eating and drinking, Ji Ma directly took down the few animal skins hanging from the ceiling, picked up the ones that looked still usable, and spread them on the cement floor.

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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 with their clothes on.

When they woke up again, the sun outside the sentry tower was almost at its highest point. They added some fuel to the bonfire and got some food, and then picked out some burnt charcoal and ashes from the edge of the bonfire.

Together with the small stainless steel pot, they were all loaded into the sleigh.

After checking to make sure that 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 and seeing that there was still no movement outside, he looked towards the building.

Wei Ran, who was waiting on the first floor, shouted, "You can open the door now. There should be no wolves outside."

After receiving the news, Wei Ran moved the sleigh blocking the road, opened the rusty iron door, and walked out with an AK rifle. Ji Ma, who came down from upstairs, followed closely, pulling the refilled

The sleigh chased him.

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 and only half of their outlines were left, but one of them

The car was parked just under the pine tree, but you could already see it clearly.

Apart from these minecarts, the most conspicuous 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 crooked, but the remaining wires on them seem to be the most conspicuous.

Like a signpost, they successfully found 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.

These three buildings are without exception. The first floor is filled with more than a dozen concrete load-bearing columns that are half a meter square. Starting from the second floor, the windows on each floor are also pitifully small. However, these three buildings occupy an area of

The area of ​​​​the area is larger than the last, at least two thousand 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 would have been able to see them at a glance.

Carefully walking around behind these three buildings that were almost side by side, Wei Ran and Jima belatedly discovered that behind these three buildings, there were still a large number of buildings that had already collapsed or even been buried under the snow. Only half of them were left.

A silhouette of a wooden house. 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 of the building, "Including the one with only three floors, there are only four buildings here in total. Let's look for them one by one!"

"How about starting with the three-story one?"

Jima said without thinking. Obviously, his purpose was not to find the American flag that Dalia had hidden on the roof of the building in advance, but to see what kind of money he could get from here.

"Let's go!"

Wei Ran simply turned around and walked towards the building in the middle. He came all the way here because he also wanted to see if there were any valuable treasures left here.

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 of value in it.

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 he had seen enough for a long time ago.

Weiran, on the other hand, was still very interested. He even took out a Rolleiflex camera in a metal book and took a photo of the power generation equipment in the building and the Soviet-era slogans hanging above it.

"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 need 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 lucky you are."

"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 both stopped and frowned.

He frowned at the intricate footprints on the steps.

"It's a wolf," Ji Ma said with certainty.

"Have you brought the grenade?" Wei Ran had already opened the safety of the rifle as he spoke.

"I've got it," Jima responded, reaching for 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 started walking again and was the first to walk up the steps.

When they walked onto the second floor platform, they 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 there were cracks on a few pieces of glass, they were still old.

Stay in the original position honestly.

At Wei Ran's signal, Ji Ma pulled out the ax from his waist and easily broke open the padlock on the iron door that was as big as a cigarette box.

Walking into the door cautiously, in addition to the ice and snow accumulated next to the crack of the door, a large number of Comrade Stalin's faces and various Soviet-flavored propaganda slogans were hung in the dark corridor.

Even on the cement floor, there are a large number of magazines, newspapers, books and even worn-out military uniforms, boots and even bullets covered with rust!

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 of them

They 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, to their disappointment, they climbed from the first floor to the top floor and finally to the roof. Except for the side of the third floor facing the wooden houses, they found that the windows of many rooms had been transformed into shooting holes, and the floors

Apart from a large number of heavy machine gun bullet casings scattered on the ground, 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!"

Ji Ma, who was also looking forward to discovering something, naturally 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, the windows of several rooms have been replaced by shooting holes, and the floor

The thick layer of heavy machine gun bullet casings on the ground is enough to prove that long-lasting shooting activities have been carried out here.

"There is no American flag on the roof of this building either."

Jima climbed down on the steel ladder on the wall, "It seems we have to go through the group of wooden houses to look for the innermost building."

"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 conversation ended abruptly. The two of them silently pulled the sleigh through the ruins of wooden houses on the huge battlefield, and carefully walked up to the second floor platform of the building next to the mine entrance with guns in hand.

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To their surprise, the padlock used on the door of this building looked particularly young. Wei Ran could even tell from the familiar nameplate on the lock that the lock should be made in China.

After all, after studying at Hongqi Forest Farm for so long, this slight difference immediately caught the attention of the two of them. Ji Ma raised his finger and pointed behind him, and Wei Ran immediately leaned his back against the wall on the side of the gate, raising his gun and observing vigilantly.

The surrounding situation. The former raised his ax again and smashed open the lock.

As the rusty iron door was opened, a clear sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from inside at the same time. Then the two of them heard a deafening bang, and a person flashed past the half-open door.

The bright light instantly blinded them.

"grass!"

Wei Ran sat on the snow at the door. For a moment, his eyes were filled with white flowers, and his ears were buzzing.

"Shock bomb! It must be that lunatic Dalia!" Ji Ma yelled at the top of his lungs. Unfortunately, Wei Ran not only couldn't hear him, but couldn't even see his mouth shape for the time being. He only focused on picking out 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's name on the snow.

Ji Ma nodded fiercely, stood up unsteadily, stomped the name Wei Ran had just written, and then spat thick phlegm out of resentment.

When Wei Ranye got up, Ji Ma learned a lot this time and carefully put his head into the half-open iron door. Then he took a step back as if he was startled, and then put his head in again.

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 hearing. They also greeted Dalia's family and then cautiously entered 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 is also a wire hanging between the two roll-ups.

There is an A4 piece of paper hanging above, with several room numbers briefly written on it, and the sentence "Use blasting to open the door to the above room, and take photos before and after blasting. Detonating a smoke bomb is equivalent to mission failure."

"Fortunately, there are only four rooms in total." Ji Ma said happily, "One room per floor, it seems it shouldn't be too difficult."

“Don’t speak too early”

Wei Ran walked to the stairs leading to the second floor, pointed to the remaining grenade ring on it and said, "The shock bomb just now should have been hung here. Fortunately, it is far away, and fortunately we haven't gone in yet, otherwise this

It’s probably hard to stand up at that time.”

Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Jima's forehead, "Do you mean..."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wei Ran removed the metal wire connected to the pull ring and asked, "Do you think Dalia dared to play with us with shock bombs? She would mind doing a few more small ones."

A trap?”

Jima opened his mouth and asked in a low voice, "How about we just blow up this place?"
To be continued...