On December 17, as the sky grew brighter, news from the All-Soviet Radio Station began to be played from the loudspeakers inside and outside the building.
According to the original time plan, today was the day they had to return to the base camp for resupply. Of course, the plan was ultimately just a plan. After the last resupply, they had already decided not to go back before completing the sampling mission.
Of course, it was originally scheduled yesterday, and today we all decided together whether to leave or stay, but due to Dr. Pavel's suicide, it was postponed as expected.
In the cab of the transport truck, Wei Ran, who was woken up by the alarm clock and the radio at the same time, yawned. During the long night yesterday, Taras never left the living cabin from beginning to end, and Wei Ran even quietly visited a few times during the journey.
But the other party didn't even move his position.
If it weren't for the cigarette he held up from time to time, Wei Ran would have thought that Taras had also committed suicide.
Compared to this young man who was obviously worried, Wei Ran also gained some new insights after seeing the document in the iron cabinet.
There is no doubt that the data that this scientific research team wants to transfer is in that large safe. In fact, he is 80% sure that it is precisely because of the existence of these secretly transferred original data that Apoli will use
The identity of the driver appears in this team.
But the question is, why do they have to transfer the data here? Since the main purpose is to transfer the data, what is the meaning of the sampling work they were doing before?
After sorting out these doubts for the last time, Wei Ran scratched his scalp irritably, then opened the car door, almost forced Taras to leave the workshop, and walked into the abandoned building again.
Fortunately, although these people all looked depressed, they were still willing to open their mouths to eat. However, during the dinner, everyone had a tacit understanding and did not talk about whether they should leave or stay.
Such a silent and depressing atmosphere lasted until December 19th, when the wind and snow outside the window began to intensify, and even the broadcast signal was affected.
After trying to switch to the local radio station and hearing the forecast of an imminent severe snowstorm, the depressing atmosphere of the past few days has eased a lot.
"We have to get out of this building"
Apolly, who has been hiding in the radio station these days, said categorically, "And we must move the materials in the workshop to another location as soon as possible. Once a snowstorm comes, only the transport vehicle is the safest."
"I want to take Teacher Pavel with me," Agavan said in an extremely serious tone.
"Get moving!"
Apolly glanced at Agravan and issued an order directly, "Agravan, send Dr. Pavel downstairs immediately. Victor, go and drive the transport truck over to pick up Agravan and Dr. Pavel."
.The rest of the people immediately go to the workshop to transfer materials, let’s start now!”
Hearing this, Agrawan immediately ran to the auditorium. Wei Ran and the others immediately went downstairs and ran into the workshop against the intensifying wind. Apolly, on the other hand, returned to the radio station and picked up the radio and the recent
The spy radio station that has been hidden here for several days.
By the time Weiyan drove the transport truck and parked downstairs, Agravan had been waiting for a long time with Dr. Pavel's body on his back, and Apolly had already put the package in before Weiyan could open the cab door.
The wooden box containing the spy radio was locked into the tool shed, and then he handed the large radio to Wei Ran.
The two men helped Agravan put Dr. Pavel's body into the cargo hold and put it away. After Weiran waited for them to get in the car, he immediately drove the car to the entrance of the workshop.
"Apoli, will this workshop really be blown down by the snowstorm?" Seeing Apoli jump out of the cab, Gennady immediately asked loudly in the strong wind.
"Do you dare to bet?" April asked loudly.
"Pretend I didn't say it!" Gennady immediately changed his tone, pushed a large bucket full of fuel out of the workshop, and headed straight for the landmark bulldozer not far away.
While everyone was busy, barrels of fuel surrounded a small space on the side of the bulldozer, and various supplies that had been moved before were pushed inside.
The outer circle of oil drums was reinforced with steel wire ropes. Under the command of Apoli, the Weifang also used a transport vehicle to forcefully pull the crawler-type artillery tractor over.
Finally, the transport vehicle itself formed a triangular area that circled all the materials. Under the command of April, everyone worked together to fill the fuel tank of the transport vehicle with fuel, and then started the fuel generator in the cargo hold.
Together we lifted a large barrel of coking coal into the living cabin.
When the hatch was closed, the howling of the wind and snow was blocked out. But Apolly, who came in last, said while loading coke into the iron bucket, "There needs to be someone on duty in the cab to prevent the heavy snow from burying our car."
, what do you have next..."
"I'll go ahead." Wei Ran had already snatched the iron bucket from the other party's hand as he spoke, "Just leave this kind of thing to me."
Apolly thought for a moment, picked up another iron bucket, and while transferring the charcoal fire out of the stove, he gave additional instructions, "Victor, always pay attention to the situation outside. Every four to five hours, the engine must be started for at least half an hour.
time."
"Don't worry." Wei Ran took the iron bucket handed to him, turned around, left the living cabin and got into the cab.
He used the small half bucket of charcoal to ignite the cast iron stove in the cab. With the help of Apolly and the enthusiastic Sharip, Wei Yan stocked two additional large wooden boxes of coke and various food and drinks in the space behind the seat.
Then he sent them off and closed the car door.
Because of Apolly's command, the front and rear carriages of this transport vehicle maintained a minimum angle.
In this way, both the sanitary ignition in the cab and everyone in the living cabin can see the materials protected in the middle through the car window.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Of course, if the visibility is high enough, they can barely see each other, and April in the living cabin can easily see the location of the tool warehouse.
.And Wei Ran was willing to take the initiative to be on duty in the cab, obviously because he wanted to find out what was in the wooden box that Apolly had just sent into the tool shed.
However, at the moment, both parties can still greet each other through the car glass, so it is naturally not a good time to peek into secrets.
With nothing to do, Wei Ran simply filled the enamel kettle with snow and put it on the stove to boil water and make tea to pass the time.
Perhaps he was also worried that Wei Ran would be bored alone in the cab. Before the pot of snow turned into water, a noisy broadcast came from the small speaker above his head, as well as various voices from the people in the living cabin.
kind of movement.
Subconsciously, he touched the silent pistol under the dashboard. After confirming that it was still in place, Wei Ran tried to turn the switch next to the small speaker above his head. After seeing that it could successfully control the speaker's switch, Wei Ran
Keep it open. I slowly took off my thick polar winter boots, sat cross-legged on the seat, and patiently lit the fire while waiting for the snowstorm to come.
In less than two hours, the howling of the cold wind outside the car window has become more and more frightening, and even Wei Ran can feel the cab slowly shaking with the strong wind.
In addition to the wind, the flying snowflakes outside were getting thicker and thicker, so much so that Wei Ran couldn't tell for a while whether the snowflakes that almost covered the windshield were blown up by the wind or falling from the sky.
Reaching out to turn on the wiper and window heating functions, Wei Ran found a comfortable position and quietly listened to the various sounds coming from the speakers above his head from the living cabin.
It was obvious that as the wind and snow outside the car became heavier and heavier, the atmosphere in the living cabin became better and better. When the sky outside completely darkened, April reminded him on the loudspeaker to turn on all the searchlights in the car.
By that time, Dr. Murat in the living cabin had even begun to teach Gennady how to play the violin.
However, the sound like sawing wood inevitably attracted a series of boos, and Wei Ran couldn't help but think of the art courses at Hongqi Forest Farm.
However, it is not difficult to understand the completely different pleasant atmosphere from before. After all, this snowstorm came at just the right time. Precisely because of its existence, everyone can temporarily not have to think about whether to leave or not.
The questions that remain, not to mention the unavoidable thought of Dr. Pavel who committed suicide because he heard them discussing this issue in private.
While they were enjoying the snowstorm here, the camp they had no plans to return to for the time being fell into a bit of chaos because of this transport truck codenamed Cross Pickaxe.
About a week ago, the logistics officer named Shagoli never came back since he left with the transport truck that allocates supplies every day. Even just two days ago, several other exploration teams or scientific research teams also terminated their operations one after another.
tasks were evacuated one after another.
It was also at this time that the Pickaxe transport vehicle that was supposed to come back has not returned. Even the communications soldier who had been secretly bribed by Dr. Murat and Pavel told the person in charge when asked
He just lost the car's radio signal.
After waiting for two full days, the person in charge of this camp finally couldn't sit still anymore and sent out all the few transport vehicles he had, trying his best to find the transport vehicle codenamed Cross Pickaxe.
Unfortunately, from beginning to end, the range of these few crawler transport vehicles did not exceed a distance of 50 kilometers from the camp.
Almost at the same time, the logistics officer named Shagoli also left the carriage of a coal train that had just stopped at Tashet Station, quietly walked out of the busy freight station in the night, and blended in.
On the edge of the city, in a hotel next to the telegraph office.
This city, built at the intersection of the Siberian Railway, the South Siberian Railway and the BKA Railway, can be said to be the most important railway hub in Siberia. So even though the news of the Soviet Union’s existence in name only caused panic, everyone was not idle, but instead made this place
Becoming even busier.
Perhaps it was for this reason that Shagoli, who was dressed as a railway worker, got into the corner room on the top floor of this small hotel without attracting anyone's attention.
Without turning on the light at all, Shagoli took out a palm-sized flashlight from his pocket and turned it on to roughly inspect the room. Then he immediately opened the bed board and pulled out an earthy yellow metal box from underneath.
Carrying the box and walking to the table by the window, Shagoli quickly glanced at the time on the 24-hour watch, then opened the box as quickly as possible and set up a Swift KM spy radio.
Amidst the ticking sound of the code, Shagoli sent a message as quickly as possible. However, the message seemed to be lost in the sea, and there was no response at all.
Unwilling to give up, he sent the message again. After a moment of waiting, Shagoli immediately packed the radio into his suitcase and returned to the station again in the night. As a railway worker, he successfully boarded a train passing through Irkut.
