At the post office in the abandoned city of Valikume, Shi Quan took Elena and two strong men to rummage through the boxes and found a box of various postmarks belonging to this post office.

"Clean up the letters scattered here and put them away again. These are the rarest souvenirs that tourists who come here can buy in the future." Shi Quan put the postmarks into his backpack and ordered.

"The hobbies of rich people are simply incomprehensible," Deng Shuxiang muttered, and honestly began to pick up letters scattered on the floor around him.

"You are also a rich man, you should have some hobbies of your own." Asak reminded while helping.

"But the most I have is only 1,000 US dollars." Deng Shuxiang smiled honestly, "I asked my dad to save the rest of the money."

"When you work in the club for a few more years, you will find that money is the least valuable thing." Asak glanced at Shi Quan and Elena who were leaving together, made a look on his face as someone who had come before, and spoke in a low voice.

Benben Kankan shared his experience in Chinese, "The money I have saved now is enough to support our entire tribe for more than ten years if we follow the previous living standards."

"Then why do you still follow your boss all over the world?" Deng Shuxiang couldn't help but ask.

"Otherwise? Buy a high-end apartment in Irkutsk and live there until you die? Or go back to the Nenets Autonomous Region in Yamal and continue to herd more reindeer?"

Asak patted Deng Shuxiang on the shoulder with his dirty hands, "I still have two sons to support. When they grow up, they will go to the best schools and find the most beautiful girlfriends. As long as they transfer enough

More money can always be easily solved. But such an interesting life is not something that just any boss can provide."

"I don't even have a girlfriend, so there's no need to think about this." Deng Shuxiang said slowly, "But you are right, this life is indeed much more interesting than before."

"Don't worry, there will always be a girlfriend. Even if you can't find it yourself, the boss will help you find a way." Asak may not look at a big guy, but his thoughts are extremely delicate. He can barely be considered an old employee of the club.

, many things can naturally be seen clearly.

While these two strong men were chatting in the abandoned post office, the others dispersed and looked for check-in points that they were interested in. Lao Zhang, who came with him, was leading his two employees, each holding a can of bright red.

The spray paint carefully inspects each house.

From time to time, the walls of some buildings that they assessed as dilapidated buildings would be spray-painted with the Chinese character "Demolish" in a circle. At the same time, the wife of the contractor, Lao Zhang, also used a camera to

Take a posthumous photo of this building that will never appreciate in value even if it has the word "demolished" written on it.

Once this city is decided by Shiquan and Big Ivan as a tourist spot on future routes, these dangerous buildings will be demolished as soon as possible to prevent them from suddenly collapsing and injuring guests. And all of this will be done in Big Ivan's

This was done with the consent of my father, Comrade Vasily, the senior official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of economy.

Compared with these things to do, Shi Quan and Elena had already gathered with Big Ivan and others under the statue of Lenin in the central square of the small town.

"This is the map I found"

Big Ivan shook the map book in his hand proudly, "I found it at the Valikume Police Station. There are some outdated individual weapons discarded by the police. I just dismantled the key parts."

"Are there any other discoveries?" Shi Quan asked as he took the atlas and flipped through it. What made him feel a little disappointed was that the atlas did not provide any colored arrows for the map field of view.

"Nothing of value was found except for the half-gnawed body of a man whose bones were left in one of the offices."

After Da Yiwanhun finished speaking nonchalantly, he pointed at the map in Shi Quan's hand and reminded, "There is an abandoned military base about 15 kilometers east of Valikume. Do you want to go and take a look?"

"Don't rush to the military base yet"

He Tianlei came over with Liu Xiaoye and joined in the conversation, "I found that the bank's vault is still locked. Would you like to go and have a look?"

"Sounds more interesting than a military base," Shi Quan decided immediately, "Go to the bank first."

Big Ivan spread his hands noncommittally, "Even if it is filled with rubles, it is just waste paper from the Soviet era."

"Do you still expect it to be difficult to find gold bricks in a bank in a place like this?" Shi Quan urged He Tianlei to lead the way, and he had completely assumed the role of a tourist coming here for the first time.

A group of people strolled along the dilapidated streets towards the bank not far away. From time to time, Big Ivan would take out his pistol and point it at the sky and pull the trigger once or twice to prevent the wild animals hiding nearby from running out and attacking them.

They fight and both lose.

After walking for more than ten minutes in this not-so-large city, their destination was a three-story building that looked unusually thick.

Who knows what happened to this bank in the past. The glass windows facing the street had been smashed to pieces. Even the bulletproof glass on the counter inside was covered with spider webs. The careful Elena even found a severely deformed bullet on it.

of lead bullets.

Instead of rushing to the vault, Big Ivan opened the security door on the side of the counter. After rummaging inside, he walked out holding two rusty iron boxes.

“Find something interesting”

Big Ivan placed one of the tin boxes on the cracked marble counter, then took out a few unfamiliar banknotes and coins from the other tin box and distributed them to everyone.

"What the hell is this?"

Shi Quan took the banknotes and coins distributed by Ivan the Great and looked at them over and over. These banknotes were somewhat similar to the rubles that the Soviet Union wore during World War II. The patterns and patterns on them were all vertical.

But apart from the amount of money, what is drawn on the banknotes is the image of miners and furnaces. On the back, there are also pictures such as reindeer pulling a sleigh speeding across the snowfield, a galloping train, and a furnace already flowing with molten steel.

Wait, it’s a pretty beautiful pattern.

Passing the banknotes in his hand to Elena, Shi Quan rubbed the dirty coins hard on his pocket. These coins were also obviously different from the various rubles he had seen in his collection. The front side only had simple

The denomination has a relief of a reindeer or bear on the back.

Except for Big Ivan and the thoughtful Nasha who were waiting for everyone to ask for advice, the rest of them had no clue at all except that they were sure that this thing was definitely not a ruble or even a counterfeit currency.

"Boss Ivan, stop being so pretentious, what on earth is this?" Liu Xiaoye couldn't help but asked first.

"If Asak or his tribe were here, I'm afraid they would be able to recognize this thing at a glance." Big Ivan slowly stuffed the banknotes and coins in his hand into his wallet, and then revealed the truth in one sentence, "This

They are tokens issued by mining towns in the Far East. In a special era, their currency value is exactly the same as the ruble, but they can only be used in these wasteland cities."

"Population control?" Shi Quan was the first to guess the correct answer.

Big Ivan nodded approvingly, "The history of this token is almost the same as that of the correction camp. It was even originally used by the soldiers who guarded the correction camp."

"But why bother with this?" Liu Xiaoye asked confusedly, "Can't we just use rubles?"

"As Yuri said, their only role is to control population loss."

Big Ivan motioned to He Tianlei to lead the way to the vault, and at the same time kept explaining, "This place is too far from Moscow, so far that everyone wants to escape here, but no matter how much money they make, as long as the bank controls the agent

The exchange rate between coins and rubles, even if the miners or others working here earn millions of rubles worth of tokens, they cannot afford a ship or air ticket from here to Europe."

"Can the people who worked here at that time agree?" He Tianlei said with some disbelief in his tone.

"What can I do if I don't agree?"

Shi Quan took over the topic, "Those who can be sent to work and live here are either prisoners with stains on their political backgrounds or people with absolutely reliable political backgrounds. Coupled with the absolute force of the local rulers, their only choice is to completely accept their fate.

"

“You’re right”

Big Ivan took out his headlamp and put it on. As the dim corridor was illuminated by the light, everyone listened quietly to his explanation. "This approach has prevented the loss of local population from the source. At the same time, it has also allowed the mining here to almost

Zero labor costs continue to provide various raw materials for the European part."

"But with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the ruble turned into waste paper in a very short period of time, and these tokens completely lost their original role. They can no longer restrain local residents from wanting to return to Europe."

Nasha took over the topic and continued, "In the Far East, the reason why many cities like Valikume were abandoned is of course directly related to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but the loss of their own binding role by tokens like this is also an important catalyst.

one.

Anyway, the tokens and rubles in everyone's hands are just like waste paper. As long as they collect supplies worth about the same as the travel expenses, those transport ship captains who are eager to exchange for some real money don't care what the people who boarded the ship have done."

"Compared with that tragic history, there is a more ironic good news."

Big Ivan looked at the treasury door at the end of the corridor and was embedded in the wall, and said in a calm tone, "These tokens, which were reduced to waste paper along with the rubles, are now worth much more than the coins that are still waste paper."

ruble.

Even if we can find brand-new coins with serial numbers in this vault, they will definitely be treasures that currency collectors are eager for. After all, these beautifully printed coins are still products of the Soviet mint, but their

The circulation is much smaller than the ruble, and the ones that survive are even rarer."

"This is really ironic good news." Shi Quan sighed, "Leizi, think of a way to see if you can open this vault as gently as possible."

"I don't have anything gentler than thermite in my hand." He Tianlei pulled off the handstand hanging on his shoulder, "Maybe Haining can do something about it."
Chapter completed!