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Chapter 17 The theft of the Peace Mine

For two whole days, several gunshots could be heard from the dense mountain forest behind the radar station.

After there was no arrow stock in the map field of view, Shi Quan's shooting level once again returned to the rookie level at the Katyn Shooting Range.

To put it more intuitively, he can also hit stationary targets. He is still far from the level of shooting moving targets. However, the important thing in hunting is participation, and he has the "lucky" shot before.

At the end of the day, Shi Quan's results are still impressive.

Near noon the next day, the three brothers returned to the radar station halfway up the mountain with a full harvest.]

On the way back, He Tianlei and Shi Quan worked together to carry a half-grown wild boar and several wolf skins still stained with blood on a long wooden pole.

As for Big Iwan, he was carrying the head of the second senior brother who was shot down by Shi Quan. According to him, it would definitely be a face-saving thing to make a specimen and hang it on the wall.

Of course, the harvest of the three people is far more than this, but the mountain road is difficult to walk, and they cannot bring back more, and even if they bring it back, they will not be able to eat it all. Instead, it is better to leave it in the mountains for those carnivores, so that at least it will not be wasted.

Following the rugged mountain animal trail back to the radar station, two groups of people had already been waiting for a long time.

Of course, the first group of people came to deliver the car. Whether it was the maz537 or He Tianlei's car hauled from Smolensk, they arrived as early as yesterday. However, the three brothers were all in the mountains at that time, so they simply delayed it.

one day.

The other group of people was the construction team brought by Zhang Shoucheng. Shi Quan had already negotiated the price with him via satellite phone. They came to join in the fun today because they wanted to transport the materials in advance and prepare to start construction early tomorrow morning.

It took some time to receive the two vehicles and park them aside. On the other side, the workers brought by Zhang Shoucheng had also begun to select a site and begin unloading various construction materials.

The scene was handed over to He Tianlei, Shi Quan went back to the RV to take a shower, put on the only formal clothes he had, and was about to return to the city with Big Ivan. This was not because he was frugal, but mainly because his profession really didn't require a suit.

"Ivan, who exactly is Andre going to introduce this time?"

"I don't know, but I heard Nasha tell me that she has a good background. She seems to be my father's superior."

Ivan's father's superior?

Ivan's father is an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Although he is told that he is not in charge of a key department, his position is definitely not low. It seems that his father's leader is from Moscow.

Shi Quan just had a rough guess in his mind, but he heard Big Ivan say apologetically. "Yuri, I'm sorry, Andre bought 4.5% of the club's equity from me. He is Nasha's father, I"

"It doesn't matter, it's not a bad thing for the club."

Shi Quan patted Da Iwan on the shoulder nonchalantly, and at the same time silently added in his heart, "I knew it a long time ago."

He doesn't care how much equity Andre has acquired from Big Ivan. It means nothing to him. But in comparison, what matters most to him is that Big Ivan can take the initiative to be honest about this transaction.

After following Big Iwan back home, Big Iwan left Shi Quan behind and ran off to who knows where holding the smelly second senior brother's head in his arms.

After resting one night at Big Ivan's house, the brothers rushed to their private house in the National University early the next morning.

This time Big Ivan still didn't follow, and Shi Quan didn't care too much. He walked into the study room filled with cigar smoke in a familiar way.

"Yuri, we meet again."

Without getting up, Andre took out a cigar in a metal tube from the Faberge gold cigar box on the table and threw it to Shi Quan.

"It's been a long time since I saw Mr. Andre, but I'd better smoke. I can't enjoy this high-end product."

Although Shi Quan said this, he had no intention of returning the cigar to Andre. Instead, he put it into his pocket while sitting down and took out the crumpled cigarette case.

"Young man, you have to learn to enjoy life."

Andrei's usually serious face had a rare smile, "Ludenkov, this is Yuri, I believe you must have seen it on TV."

Turning his head, Andre nodded towards Shi Quan, "This is Ludenkov, a policeman."

Police? Shi Quanxin said that I believed your lies.

"Hello Yuri, Andrei said that your club can accept treasure hunting commissions?" Ludenkov asked straight to the point.

"I can pick up, but I can't pick up everything." Shi Quan's kind tone revealed confidence.

Hearing this, Andre was a little surprised at first, but then the smile on his face became more and more satisfied.

Ludenkov turned his head and said to Andre, "It seems you are right, this young man is dating your partner."

"Tell me about you" Andre said with a warning in his tone.

"Young man, do you know the Peace Mine?"

"Of course, the town of Peace, where the Peace Mine is located, the largest diamond mine in Siberia and the second largest diamond mine in the world, is still the poorest place in Russia."

Shi Quan said without hesitation, this place is so famous, how could he not know. This diamond mine named "Peace" was once one of the top secrets of the Soviet Union.

Even after the Soviet Union cooled down the mine, the mine did not cool down. Instead, it persisted until 2004, when the world's largest diamond mine, which had been in operation for 46 years, shut down.

"On the day before Christmas in 1992, an Il-76 carrying 500 kilograms of industrial diamonds and 20 kilograms of jewelry-grade diamonds exploded less than an hour after taking off from the dedicated airport at Heping Mine.

The custodian responsible for escorting the diamonds used mining explosives to blow open the cabin at an altitude of 4,000 meters, and then parachuted into the desolate Siberia with a full 20 kilograms of jewelry-grade diamonds."

"How come I haven't heard of this?" Shi Quan put down his phone. He couldn't find any relevant information on the Internet.

"Considering the huge value of those diamonds, this matter was not made public, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not catch the diamond custodian until 1994. However, the jewelry-grade diamonds recovered were less than 300 grams, and the remaining ones are still there today.

None were found.”

Ludenkov pushed a stack of yellowed files on the table to Shi Quan, "This guy is simply a genius. After escaping by parachuting, he purposefully landed on the edge of a forest on the upper reaches of the Lena River, and then in that forest

He patiently hid for half a year.

It was not until the summer of 1992 that he found an opportunity to escape to Yakutsk along the Lena River, and then returned to Europe after hiding in Yakutsk for two years with some diamonds."

"He escaped a winter in the Siberian wilderness? Is it true?"

Shi Quan said in shock: "The coldest winter in Siberia can be minus 50 degrees, right? This custodian didn't freeze to death?"

"It's not like he didn't pay the price. When the Ministry of Internal Affairs caught him, two of his soles had already been removed due to frostbite."

A smile suddenly appeared on Ludenkov's face, "You would never have imagined that although he survived the extreme cold in Siberia, he was seriously injured by two high school students in Saratov who blocked the road and robbed him."

"And then you were caught?"

Not only Shi Quan, but also Andre was a little stunned. It's really not as good as God. This person's luck seems to be too bad?

Ludenkov nodded and said seriously: "The police only found a dozen diamonds on his body. Although they later found about one kilogram of rough diamonds in the place where he once stayed in Kurtsk, the rest

A large part of it has still not been found."

"Mr. Ludenkov"

Shi Quan raised his head and asked, "First of all, I need to know one thing. Whether your source of information is legal or not is related to whether we can complete the treasure hunting commission."

"You and I are just looking for treasures in historical archives."

Ludenkov pointed to the information on the table that Shi Quan had never touched, "I was fully responsible for this case at the beginning. Of course, I am still responsible for it today. What you see on the table are about this matter.

All records."

Shi Quan continued to ask, "What about the clue? Just the story just now?"

"of course not."

Ludenkov opened the documents on the table, pointed to one of the document bags and said, "This map is the map he carried with him when he parachuted. It also has the lines he drew himself. This is the map that people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs kept in the library.

One of the exhibits found by Ercik. The other map is a remarked trajectory based on the results of the interrogation. If you are willing to accept this commission, you can trace the route he took back then and walk it again, and you may be able to discover something.

.”

"This commission can be accepted. Do you have any time limits or additional requirements?"

"Just finish it before I retire, otherwise I may not be able to help you eliminate the trouble left by then."

"Excluding the time for data collection and analysis, you will need to pay a basic fee of US$10,000 per week from the time you officially start looking for the diamond you commissioned. The maximum time for a single commission will not exceed one month. If there is no result after one month, Dragon and Bear will

The Adventure Club does not refund any fees. If the diamond you entrusted to find is found, the club needs to take 40% of all finds or the equivalent value in US dollars."

"It seems that your club is very profitable?" Ludenkov asked with interest.

"Then we have to be able to find it."

Shi Quan obviously didn't want to talk in depth. He had roughly determined from the conversation just now that this Ludenkov was probably a senior official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. No matter what reason such a person approached him, Shi Quan believed that he needed to be vigilant enough.

"Okay Yuri"

Andre, who had been watching the excitement, was finally willing to speak, "Leave your time to us two old guys."

"Then I'll take my leave first, and you guys can talk first." Shi Quan picked up the files on the table and left the study neatly.

"What do you think of this young man?" Andre looked up and asked.

"Crudent and hiding a lot of secrets, but as you said, this young man knows the rules of the game very well."

"This is one of the reasons why I am optimistic about him."

Andre opened the window of the study, and the cigar smoke lingering in the room was blown away by the fresh air, and even the view became much better.

Sitting back on the sofa, Andre still asked without giving up, "How about it? Do you want to join this club? At present, it seems that this is a very potential and neutral platform, although it is still in its infancy."

"Don't worry"

Ludenkov smiled and patted his old friend on the shoulder, "This world is for capable people. If you want me to join this club, I have to wait for him to make some achievements. At least he has to find those diamonds."
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