Chapter 222 Steam locomotives and bastards
The five Taitulas have been much more difficult since they left the road driven by the convoy of transport tanks.
The half-meter-deep snow and the potholes covered by the snow made the first car driven by Ivan stop from time to time. Sometimes, he even had to hang a tow hook to let Shizumi, who was ranked second, pull him out before he could continue to move.
"I was glad that I didn't encounter a blizzard this time, but now it seems that I'm still too naive." Da Yiwan opened the car door and tentatively stepped on the snow. But even though he was so careful, he finally "planted" himself in a waist-deep snow pit.
"After going back this time, let's find an Orthodox pastor to drive our car, right?" Elena gloated and came up with bad ideas on the channel.
"Or you can ask a mage who can use a wooden sword to grab a long jumper from your China." Da Ivan simply lay on the soft snow and teased at the table.
Recently, this guy has been fascinated by the zombie movies that were once popular in China. He even went to the coniferous forest to pick a piece of wood, and then used a decent wooden sword to hang it in the cab for two days.
"Don't mess with these useless things, check out the weather forecast before going out in the future."
Shi Quan pressed the hydraulic hoe with amusement and laughed and cried, then started the winch and pulled out the too-drawn front of the car into the snow pit.
"Asak, how long will it take for us to see that passenger plane?" Big Ivan struggled to pull himself out, waiting for the other party's response.
"We can see it at a distance of up to six or seven kilometers. We just need to continue walking forward in this direction. The passenger plane is very conspicuous."
"I took back what I said when I set off. At this speed, I guess it is all the blessings of Lenin's father to see the Poole River at night."
Da Ivan slapped the snow on his body and crawled into the cab while complaining. As a result, the car was trapped in the snow again after starting and driving out less than 20 meters.
Amid the angry curse of Ivan, the convoy took a short period of time to finally see the passenger plane Asak mentioned in a kowtower in an oil field.
This passenger plane is indeed conspicuous. It is still one kilometer away. You can see that the fuselage that fell into two parts is half buried in the snow. Most of the nose has been hit and completely disappeared. Only the fuselage with a wing is left wading in the snow as a signpost for people to determine the location.
Until here, I finally saw the ruts on the silver-covered wasteland again, and without exception, they turned west from the wreckage of the plane. Obviously, like Shiquan and the others, they were also heading across the Poole River.
The five cars turned right along the rut and went west, without any intention of stopping.
"Is this An24? The main aircraft of Siberian short-haul route."
Although Shi Quan was asking questions, he was extremely sure. This aircraft was so recognizable that even if it was broken into two pieces, it was easy to recognize it from the turboprops on the wings.
Da Yiwan glanced at the rearview mirror and pinched the hand table and added, "The An24 full passenger model is only such an aircraft with low demand for takeoff conditions to take off and land normally on the compacted snow."
"Asak, do you know when this plane fell down?" He Tianlei asked curiously, "How come a plane fell down here?"
Asa, who was slid down the window, replied, "I don't know this, but it has existed since the first time I came here. It was about 1995 years, and it was like this at that time."
"It was probably the commuter flight provided to Siberians at that time." Ivan made his own guess, "There is no international route in this damn place."
After all, it was just a wreckage of the plane. Everyone did not take it seriously and continued to rush towards the direction of the Pull River along the ruts left by their predecessors.
The closer they were to the Puer River, the traces of human activities gradually appeared around them. There was even a small town not far from the river. This was the first time they had approached these small towns along the Puer River in most of the half month since they landed in Ob Bay.
The only dozens of houses, whether made of wooden or concrete, are all made of hot suspended structures in the Arctic Circle or dilapidated buildings left by the Soviet era. Most of the trucks or engineering vehicles parked around them with the logos of various mining areas.
With the locals watching with strange and alert eyes, five cars crushed the frozen river and smoothly crossed the Pull River to the west bank.
After driving west along the ruts for less than 10 kilometers, everyone saw an abandoned railway station surrounded by barbed wire.
It is a bit exaggerating to say that the railway station is a bit of an exaggerated one. All you can see here is a wooden house that has collapsed and a long open space extending deep into the coniferous forest. If it weren't for the triangular warning signs that are still hanging on the barbed wire mesh, I'm afraid that anyone would have believed the duty room of the forest farm here.
"The information provided by Lujiankov said that as long as you follow this railway track to the northwest and end, you can find the correction battalion. The war criminals who transferred to the mine area freight train here also went to their destination for labor reform."
"War criminal?" Elena keenly found key information from Shiquan's words.
"This is a labor camp that detains war criminals after the end of World War II."
Shi Quan flipped through the notebook and took advantage of He Tianlei's time to cut the barbed wire and briefly introduced, "In the records provided by Lu Jiankov, this place was activated twice. The first was during World War II, and it was mainly responsible for detaining war criminals and prisoners for coal mining. The second brief opening was in the 1980s, but the purpose was not explained in detail."
"It's not a missile silo or something again, right?" Elena guessed randomly.
"You'll know when you go in and take a look." Shi Quan stepped on the accelerator and followed the Big Ivan, who was in charge of the road exploration, and drove onto the tracks buried in snow.
Because of the coniferous forests on both sides, the snow here is much less than outside, and even the ground under the snow is extremely flat. This undoubtedly accelerates their speed a lot.
After the five cars drove dozens of kilometers along the same track line into the depths of the forest, they could see a concrete fire whistle trench hidden in the forest from time to time on both sides, and collapsed barracks could be seen around some of the trenchles.
The more they walked in, the more they felt something was wrong. The firepower density here was too exaggerated. Even the contours of the remaining dual-mounted aviation machine guns could be seen on the tops of several other towers.
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, everyone continued to walk in patiently. After turning a corner, a large area of open space surrounded by collapsed log houses and covered with snow appeared in the forest.
There was also a black locomotive with mottled rust on the rails without any warning!
Everyone stepped on the brakes, and the five tycoons were arranged in a line and parked opposite the locomotive. The distance between them was less than 20 meters. However, the tycoons, which usually looked like a hideous giant beast, were completely a younger brother at this time. Even if the five tycoons were lined up together, they could not compare to the locomotive that had been forgotten for a long time.
"Ivan, do you know what type of locomotive this is?"
Shiquan jumped out of the cab, stepped on the knee-deep snow while gnawing at the Snickers and walked to the front of the locomotive.
"I don't know much about trains."
Da Yiwan spread his hands, he is not omnipotent, and it is impossible for anyone to dig a locomotive in normal times, so naturally he would not pay attention to such big iron lumps.
"This is the BR52 steam locomotive seized by the Soviet Union." Elena walked over in a thick and heavy bear skin.
"Seither seized?"
Elena nodded, "My college roommate is a train fan. She likes to take photos of old-fashioned trains very much, so I learned something from her. The locomotive in front of us was seized by the Soviet Union from the Germans during World War II."
"Tell me what else do you know?" Shi Quan asked curiously.
"During World War II, Germany built less than 7,000 of these steam locomotives, about one-third of which were seized by the Soviet Union and replaced them with wide rails and washed them with sickle hammers and drove them all over the country. I heard from my roommate that some of these steam trains have not yet retired."
"I wish I could get this big guy back." Shi Quan looked at the huge searchlight on the locomotive with greed.
"It's not easy to transport such a big guy back."
Ivan said with his fingers, "No more, just restoring the tracks between the abandoned train stations here and outside can ruin your entire bank."
"I just said it casually, even if I really shipped it back, there would be no place to place it,"
Shi Quan scattered the unrealistic things in his mind, "Tell me what is this place? An open-pit coal mine?"
"It seems, but I think it's more like a stockpile."
Da Ivan pointed to the remaining small mine cars around the open space, "The ones that can use this mine car are generally not open-pit mines, they should be underground mines. In other words, the real mine area should not be here."
"You'll know when you go over and take a look!" Shiquan picked up the table, "Lei Zi, Ono, you two are in charge."
The three of them went back to the car and took the submachine gun and carried it on their backs. Then they stepped off the rails and headed straight to the ruins of the nearest wooden house.
Unfortunately, these wooden houses that had been buried in snow for no reason could provide any valuable information. The three of them could only search through the dumped mine cart and eventually found an abandoned mine cave.
"There is no need to go in, it's too dangerous."
Shi Quan stopped these two companions who were overly curious, but his attention was attracted by the marks on a log at the entrance of the mine.
The mark is very thick, and it is even outlined with red pigment. He can even recognize the two traditional words "nothing" and "女" from this mark.
But the crawling earthworms in the corners behind these two words made him guess what kind of bastards who were locked up here were.
Chapter completed!