In an abandoned scientific research station on the edge of the Antarctic continent, Britta and several of her men sealed the windows with everything they could find to ensure that the light inside would not leak out.

Amid the howling wind, a wind turbine continued to provide sufficient power. Next to it, there were two backup fuel-fired generators ready to take over the work.

The oil tanks shipped in advance and several containers filled with various supplies completely surrounded this hidden scientific research station. As long as the people in the house could endure the extreme night and loneliness, these

There's enough stuff to last them here for several months.

Inside the warm scientific research station, Britta occupied a separate small room and a powerful electric heater. On this heater, she also warmed a few slices of bread and a small piece of ham.

At the table not far away, Britta was carefully applying frostbite ointment on her face under a lamp, but her attention was all on the screen of the laptop on the table.

It was a satellite map of the Antarctic continent. There was also a slow-moving red anchor on the map, which was the icebreaker that was originally responsible for picking them up from this continent.

Ever since another group of people boarded the ship, she had been staring at this real-time trajectory map. Seeing that the ship was about to reach the southernmost tip of Argentina, the signal on the computer screen suddenly disappeared.

Britta breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, picked up the toasted crispy bread slices, put some jam on it and took a bite. Then she controlled the computer to disconnect from the extremely slow network, found the TV series she had downloaded in advance, and watched it while eating.

In the next few months, she and her men could only sit in this small scientific research station and wait for dawn. These boring TV series naturally became a good helper to pass the time.

Compared to her relaxation and comfort, hundreds of kilometers away in the depths of the Antarctic continent, Miriam, who had followed the track for a long time, finally found a tracked expedition vehicle that had been abandoned by Britta because it broke down before she ran out of energy.

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Struggling to get into the cold car, Miriam, whose hands, feet, and face were blue with cold, closed the car door tremblingly, then rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and finally found some usable equipment and body-odor-smelling equipment from the abandoned materials.

warm clothes.

Compared with the embarrassment and uneasiness of these people in the southernmost part of the earth, Shi Quan and others on the edge of the Bering Sea, as well as the tourists on the Husky cruise ship, are much more comfortable.

After two days of enjoying hot springs and huge and scary king crabs in Kamchatka, the two boats continued north and officially entered the Bering Sea.

"Yuri, Attu Island is nearby. Do you want to go up there and have a look?" Big Ivan asked from the bridge of the icebreaker, holding up a telescope.

"What's so interesting about that kind of ghost place?" Shi Quan looked at the cruise ship directly in front of the icebreaker and abruptly changed the subject, "Captain Miao, is it okay to let the Husky run ahead?"

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Captain Miao said with great certainty, "That ship was originally running sightseeing routes in the polar regions. As long as the captain of the ship controls the speed, there will be no problems."

"The problem is that the captain of that ship came from the tropics"

Shi Quan muttered to himself, but he still didn't say it out loud after all. He was considered the shipowner after all. If he didn't believe in the captain and sailors that Huo Heng lent to him, others might have even less confidence.

Fortunately, Huo Heng was the most experienced captain after all, and the Husky was exceptionally stable under the careful control of the "Captain Tropical". Even when it was necessary to break through the ice a few days later, apart from asking Captain Miao for advice every now and then at the beginning,

Apart from a few questions that Shi Quan and others did not understand, the rest of the way until they safely crossed the Bering Strait, there were no accidents.

This made Shi Quan look at the "Captain Tropical" and the Husky he commanded with admiration. Although the speed of the man and the ship was not very high, even though they almost kept close to the Russian coastline throughout the whole journey.

But no matter what, they did take the icebreaker Pingtouge behind them safely through the white-capped Bering Sea and the ice-wrapped Bering Strait and officially entered the Arctic Ocean.

The two ships moved forward slowly on the relatively calm icy ocean. Compared to the bustle inside the cabin, the wind and snow outside the cabin had already accumulated a thick layer of frost on the deck.

In the Husky cruise ship restaurant where the aroma of hot pot wafted, dozens of people raised their glasses around the copper pot in the center of the dining table, lively celebrating the joy of successfully crossing the Bering Strait.

Turning her head to drink the cold vodka, Elena exhaled a breath of hot breath, and then asked while eating, "Yuri, where is our next stop? If I remember correctly, it is about 50 meters away from Tiksi

There are still more than 2,000 kilometers left.”

"The next stop is Valikume," Shiquan and Big Ivan said in no particular order.

"Where is that place?" Nasha looked up and asked.

Big Ivan pointed out the window with greasy chopsticks, "It's in a small bay port town about seven or eight hundred kilometers away from us."

"What's there?" Liu Xiaoye, whose cheeks were bulging like a hamster's, asked vaguely, "Isn't it another king crab or something? I can't eat it anymore."

Zhang Chuqing couldn't help but joked, "You are a foodie who ate king crab as a meal every time in Kamchatka. You secretly ate it late at night and asked me for stomach and digestive tablets. It would be weird if you didn't eat it and got hurt."

"It's rare to have the opportunity to eat something so big, so of course I have to eat it all at once."

Liu Xiaoye swallowed the food in his mouth, and then looked eagerly at the boss sitting opposite, eager to know what delicious food he could eat in Valikume.

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you this time," Big Ivan grinned, "Valikume has nothing."

"Abandoned?" He Tianlei was the first to guess the answer.

Big Ivan picked up the wine glass again and drank it down, then nodded slowly, "In 1941, rich tin deposits were discovered there, and before World War II ended, a power plant, school, and...

An industrial and mining city with clinics, hotels, post offices and shops, and of course, correctional camps and military bases.

However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been fewer and fewer people here. Until around 2002, Valikume completely stopped functioning. If there are still people alive in the abandoned city, it is estimated that there will definitely be no more than 10 people.

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"Sounds interesting." Liu Xiaoye became interested, "But what are we going to do there?"

“Adventure and hunting of course”

Shi Quan didn't take up the topic until this moment, "It's an abandoned city, and all the equipment is still there. Think about it, what could be more suitable for adventure than here?"

"Not to mention there seems to be a lot of good stuff in the military base there."

Big Ivan played with the glass cup and encouraged, "Yuri, should we go there and have a look? Maybe we can find something interesting."

“Go and have a look if you have time.”

Shi Quanhun made a decision nonchalantly. Completely abandoned cities are not uncommon in Russia, not to mention the Far East, even in Europe. Even Petersburg and even Moscow are not immune.

But in comparison, this industrial and mining city hidden in the Far East Arctic Circle is obviously more suitable for them to take their guests around.

After a day and night of sailing, the two ships docked at an abandoned pier in the Chukotka Bay. They didn't know if they had reached their own territory. Not long after they stopped the ship, the cold wind that had been raging for the past two days was extremely cold.

Giving face to Big Ivan temporarily stopped.

As the two ships set up the gangplank one after another, dozens of people carrying weapons prepared in advance boarded the pier that was blown by the wind and was exceptionally clean.

Ignoring Big Ivan who took the initiative to act as a tour guide, Shi Quan lit up a cigarette and rubbed the cracked concrete floor under his feet with the soles of his shoes, as well as the dead grass emerging from the cracks.

Looking at it, this abandoned town can be called a sparrow. Although it is small, it has all the internal organs. All the buildings that can be seen on the pier include bakeries, shops and even clinics, post offices and bars.

Although this place has been abandoned for nearly 20 years, these buildings are extremely well-preserved. Not only are the narrow windows still there, but even the red-bottom Lenin portraits on the walls and the propaganda posters with images of workers are extremely well-preserved.

Shi Quan and Elena looked at each other, each inspected the Delir silenced carbine they found in the North African desert, and then they walked towards the locked post office in unison.

Deng Shuxiang, who was accompanying him, slowly used hydraulic pliers to cut the door lock. Before he could put the hydraulic pliers back into the bucket bag behind him, Asak had already completely pushed open the heavy iron door.

The cold sunlight passed through the door frame, illuminating the small post office that still hung the Soviet flag and portraits of various leaders.

The thick wooden counter is 1.23 meters high, and there is even a solid iron railing above the counter.

Everyone looked around, as if this place had been sealed by time. There was a coffee cup on the counter inside the railing. The dried coffee inside was covered with dust, but the small bag of sugar next to it was still intact.

But looking around, whether inside or outside the counter, the floor is littered with various opened or unopened letters. On the reading board against the wall, the information about fishing boat recruitment is still clearly visible, but there are people using it next to it.

The paint scrawled a string of words - Goodbye, Valikoume, I'll send you a postcard from Moscow.

Elena murmured to herself, "I hope he arrived in Moscow successfully and lived happily there."

"I'm lucky to be out of here."

Shi Quan sighed, and couldn't help but think of Jiksi, which he had visited before. That abandoned city that could not be abandoned was far from being so lucky. In addition to alcohol, the people living there might not even have the money and reasons to leave there.
Chapter completed!