On the frozen tundra that everyone has forgotten, a DT-30 transport truck with all its lights on moved its stiff body slowly against the heavy snow.
It was already the early morning of December 27, 1991, and a snowstorm that had blown from the Soviet era to the Russian era finally came to an end.
Now, although the wind has stopped, the snow is still falling. At the same time, Wei Ran, who is responsible for driving the transport truck, has to turn the windshield wipers to the maximum speed.
Amidst the roar of the engine, the abandoned buildings in the copper mine outside the window became clearer and clearer. Gradually, everyone realized that there was one less building than before the snowstorm.
Wei Ran even remembered that there used to be a room belonging to a child in that collapsed building, and there were still a lot of childish graffiti on the walls of that room.
But this blizzard that raged for almost a week caused the building that had existed since the Khrushchev era to collapse under the erosion of the wind and snow along with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, leaving only the building buried by the snow.
ruins.
Fortunately, at least the mine tunnel is still visible - even if the slope leading underground is about to be filled with snow.
It was through this mine that Wei Ran was able to reluctantly confirm that the round protrusion on the snow should be the materials originally buried.
"Victor, we need to move the bulldozer and crawler tractor first."
From the small speaker above his head, Agravan commanded calmly, "Even the materials we buried must be moved away, and then aim the tail of the transport truck at the hole."
"Sharip and I will go down and help you," Gennady added loudly through the small speaker.
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately adjusted the angle and then stepped on the brakes. A moment later, two figures surrounding him appeared in the rearview mirror.
After the two men ran over slightly clumsily on snowshoes, they immediately waved the snow shovels in their hands and dug hard at the front or rear of the crawler tractor and bulldozer.
Immediately afterwards, Apolly also ran over, helped Wei Ran remove the trailer cable from the front of the vehicle, and hung the other end on the front of the tractor that had just been dug out.
"Where are the two of them?" Wei Ran asked while working.
"I'm unpacking the safe in the living cabin," April responded.
"Tear down the safe?" Wei Ran was stunned, "Put the safe down together?"
"Otherwise?" April asked matter-of-factly.
"As if I didn't ask"
Weiran decisively ended the topic. Under the command of the other party, he controlled the transport vehicle, moved the tractor that had been pulled over to one side, and then moved the landmark bulldozer to the other side.
After cleaning up these two big guys, the four people moved the materials buried in the snow one box after another to the distance, clearing the way to the cave entrance.
"What to do next?" Weiyan opened the car door and shouted at Apolly.
"Wait for my signal." Before he could finish his words, Apoli had already run to the living cabin at the rear of the car. Gennady, on the other hand, pushed Sharip into the cab.
Soon, Agravan's command came again from the small speaker above his head, "Victor, now go backwards and approach the mine, and go slower."
Hearing this, Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head and motioned to Sharip and Gennady to help him look at the rear of the car. Then he gently stepped on the accelerator and controlled the transport truck to slowly adjust its angle. With the help of the two people on the roof,
Then, he struggled to align the living cabin at the rear of the car with the mine's slope, crushing the ice and snow accumulated inside, and getting closer to the cave entrance little by little.
"Okay! Stop the car!"
From the small speaker above his head, Taras took over Agravan's command, "Then come over and help. This safe is too heavy and requires everyone to work together to lift it."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately opened the car door and walked along the gap between the edge of the car body and the wall at the edge of the ramp, stepping on the soft snow one step at a time.
It wasn't until he stepped into the living cabin that he saw at a glance that the safe, which was the size of a washing machine, had been lifted out from under the iron cabinet. At this time, Apolly was tying a knot around the safe with a rope.
Before he could say anything, Agravan pointed to the entrance of the mine directly opposite the hatch and said, "According to Teacher Pavel, there is a flatbed mine car prepared in advance. We just need to lift the safe up.
You can just rely on that minecart to send it inside."
"Did Mr. Pavel ever say what the combination is to the safe?"
Outside the living cabin, Gennadi suddenly asked. When everyone turned their heads to look over, they noticed that the other person was actually holding an AK rifle in his hand that should have been placed in the cab!
"Gennady! What are you going to do?" Sharip asked in disbelief.
"You'd better not move!" Gennady warned with a hint of trembling, "I don't mind shooting you all!"
Hearing this, Sharip, who had just wanted to leave the living cabin, immediately stopped.
"Very well, everyone raise your hands now."
Seeing that everyone was indifferent, Gennady immediately pulled the trigger, pointed it at the wooden door of the bathroom, fired a bullet, and said, "Hands up!"
After a moment's hesitation, Apolly was the first to raise his hands amid the smell of gunpowder smoke.
Someone took the lead, and the remaining few also raised their hands. Until this time, Gennady immediately shook the muzzle of his gun and said slightly nervously, "Everyone, get out of the living cabin! Sharip, you use the rope to
Everyone’s hands are tied behind their backs! Otherwise, I’ll kill you first!”
“Do as he says”
Apolly reminded the panicked Sharip in his ear, and then he was the first to leave the living cabin with his hands raised.
Under his leadership, everyone lined up to leave the living cabin one by one, and allowed the pale-faced Sharip to tie everyone's hands behind their backs with the rope originally intended to tie the safe.
Even after he tied them up, Gennadi checked them one by one. Whenever one of them was not tied tightly enough, he forced Sharip to take off a piece of clothing, and by the way, he would give him a hard blow.
Gun butt.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It took almost half an hour, and when Sharip finally tied everyone's hands in compliance with Gennady's requirements, he was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen.
Sharip had already taken off his upper body, leaving only his sweater.
Finally, after tying Sharip's hands himself, Gennadi breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the steps leading to the living cabin. "Taras, Agravan, help me open the safe, and I will give it to you."
Leave some supplies that are enough for you to survive. Otherwise, I don't mind killing all of you."
"Gennady, are you crazy?" Taras asked angrily, "Do you know what you are doing?"
"Of course I know!"
A look of undisguised greed appeared on Gennady's face, "My father always believed that I could live a prosperous life relying on bacteria, so I joined the Tinder project. Originally, as long as this project continued, I would definitely be able to
I have the life I want, but you idiots want to leave these precious research materials in this damn place!
So I don’t mind taking them away and selling them for a good price, and maybe I will even have the opportunity to send fire to space myself.”
"Gennady, are you an idiot?" Taras shouted and asked, "The Soviet Union has collapsed! This project is impossible..."
"Yes, the Soviet Union did disintegrate, but isn't there still the CIS and Russia?"
Gennady mocked with a louder voice, "Also, the Soviet Union has collapsed, but the United States has not. They will definitely be happy to spend a sum of money to buy these materials."
Before anyone could say anything else, Gennady had already raised his gun again, "I've explained everything that needs to be explained, and now it's your turn.
I knew when we set off that Dr. Murat had the key to the safe and Dr. Pavel had the password to the safe.
So Taras and Agravan, you have each spent a long time alone with the corpses of the teachers. You must have found the key and password, right? Now give me the key and password, and you can live."
"How could I know the password!" Agravan yelled angrily, "Gennady, where is your conscience!"
"Gennady, let us go."
Taras was relatively more rational and said calmly, "I have never looked for the key to the safe. If we knew the password, we wouldn't have to carry the safe together..."
"boom!"
A crisp gunshot suppressed the second half of what Taras was about to say, and immediately after, a stream of blood splashed onto the faces of Taras and Agravan.
"Plop!"
Sharip, who was shot in the neck, fell uncontrollably onto the soft snow. The blood spurting from his neck instantly dyed the surrounding snow red and even evaporated a cloud of mist.
"boom!"
Gennady shot his former good friend Sharip in the chest and warned sinisterly, "My patience is limited, give me the password and key to the safe quickly!"
"You traitor! You killed Sharip!"
With half of his face stained red, Agravan subconsciously rushed towards Gennady, but before he could take two steps, the former pulled the trigger again and was ready to hit him in the thigh.
Ignoring Agrawan's screams, Gennadi moved his gun and pointed it at Wei Ran, then at Apolly, and finally after weighing it, he aimed at Taras, "Agrawan, you
I know the password, so I won't kill you just yet. I'll ask you again what the password is, and if you still aren't going to tell me, I'll kill Taras. So, Agravan, what's the password to the safe?
"
"How could I possibly know!"
Before Agrawan, who was shot in the thigh, could finish his words, another gunshot was heard in his ears. Then, everyone watched helplessly as Taras, who was shot in the chest, fell on his back on Sharip's body.
.
"Apolly is next"
Gennadi pointed his gun at Apolly, "Victor can also drive a transport truck, and his cooking skills are good, so Agravan, if you don't mind leaving all the actions to Victor, you can still
Keep telling me that you don't know the password."
"Wait a moment"
Apolly, who had been watching indifferently just now, took a few steps forward until he was less than two meters away from the gun's muzzle, and then said, "I can open that safe even without the key."
"Soldier, I am not a person who likes to joke." Gennady had already raised the rifle in his hand as he spoke.
"You can shoot"
Apolly simply turned around and walked back, and at the same time kept saying, "If nothing else happens, within a radius of several hundred kilometers, I'm afraid I'm the only one who can help you open the safe. If you still insist that a person who is planning to commit suicide will die before
If you leave the combination of the safe in front of me, then let’s shoot.”
"Since you can open it, now..."
"No, no, no, I have conditions."
Apolly interrupted the other party's unfinished words and looked around slowly, "First of all, I need to stop Agwan's bleeding first. Secondly, there is no way to open the safe in this environment. The inside of the safe has something similar to
The level's anti-movement device. But obviously, this is a ramp, so we have to move the transport truck to level ground to have a chance to unlock it."
"How come I didn't know you could pick locks?" Gennadi looked at Apoli suspiciously.
"Believe it or not is your business"
Apoli said nonchalantly, "I am a Soviet soldier. I originally planned to commit suicide after completing this mission, but I also have the responsibility to protect the safety of the Soviet people, so..."
"wrong!"
Gennadi said vigilantly, "If you really think so, you should have just...before I killed Taras or even Sharip..."
"Who would have thought you could shoot so easily?"
Apolly glanced at Agrawan who was still screaming and the other two corpses, "I never saw a scum like you when I was fighting in Afghanistan, otherwise you would have no chance of getting a gun."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You'd better be polite to me," Gennady reminded with a cold face.
"polite?"
Apolly snorted coldly, "That's the etiquette that needs to be observed when civilization and law are still there. Okay, Gennady, stop talking nonsense. If you want to open the safe, help Agwan stop the bleeding now, and then
Let me drive the car to level ground."
"I'm not an idiot like Sharip"
As he spoke, Gennady had already picked up the ladder at the door of the living cabin, then closed the door of the living cabin, and put the ladder at the door of the cargo cabin. "I will drive the car to the flat ground.
Before that, you three go to the cargo hold and stay there, I don’t want you to hide in the mine."
"Agrawan, can you still walk?" Apolly asked in a calm tone, and even kicked Agrawan's butt with his toes, "If you can, stand up."
"Yes, I can!" Agrawan said through gritted teeth.
"Calm down, don't conflict with Gennady again." Wei Ran also came over to remind him, standing on either side of Agrawan with Apolly, helping him stand up with difficulty.
Deliberately poking the wound on Agrawan's leg with the muzzle of his gun, Gennadi took a few steps back and reminded, "You'd better hurry up, Apoli, when will you open the safe, and when will I help Agrawan?"
wrap the wound."
"You are such a smart man"
Apolly taunted Gennady, then quickened his pace slightly, using his body to support the limping Agavan to climb into the cargo hold that was filled with the noise of the fuel generator.
Almost at the same time that Wei Ran walked into the cargo hold, Gennadi, who was following behind, immediately gave each of them a rifle butt. After knocking the three of them down, he tied the three of them with ropes in the cargo hold to separate them.
Chain link fence in the cargo space.
With a muffled sound of "clang", Gennadi closed the door of the cargo compartment from the outside. After a while, the transport truck also started to move slowly.
Only then did Wei Ran ask, "Apolly, what are you going to do?"
"If he wants me to open the safe, he has to untie the rope from my hand," April said calmly, "Just wait in the cargo hold and I will deal with him."
“What a pity Murat and Sharip”
While Wei Ran was speaking, he actually freed himself from the shackles of his hands. Seeing Apolly and Agwan looking at him with wide eyes, he shook a rusty razor he took out from his sleeve and said, "In that abandoned building
I found it in the building and originally wanted to keep it as a souvenir.”
While he was talking, Wei Ran had already helped Apolly and Agwan cut the rope that bound their hands.
"Agwan, unbuckle your belt and take off your pants."
Apolly had already picked up a rope while he was talking, and Wei Ran had already unbuckled Agrawan's belt and pulled off his cold-proof pants before he could react.
"You have to do..."
Before Agrawan finished speaking, Apolly had already wrapped a circle around the wound with the rope in his hand, and then tied the button with force.
As soon as he let go, Wei Ran helped Agrawan lift up his pants again. The two of them cooperated with each other and didn't even use up a minute.
"Tie the belt yourself. This will temporarily stop the bleeding. We will bandage your wounds after we deal with Gennady." Wei Ran took a step back as he spoke.
"I feel more and more that you have a very familiar smell on you." As Apolly spoke, he bent down to pick up the razor that Wei Ran had thrown on the floor.
"There's something wrong with your nose," Wei Ran said perfunctorily, and then asked, "Apolly, do you have a gun on you?"
"My gun is in the cab." Apolly weighed the razor in his hand. "This knife is enough. It can also kill Gennady."
"I have a gun"
Agravan said abruptly, then raised his finger and pointed at Pavel's body, "To be precise, Dr. Pavel had a gun on his body, and I personally put it in his arms."
“What great news”
Apolly ran to Pavel's body and pulled out a Nagant revolver from his arms.
Although the lights in the cargo hold were slightly dim, Wei Ran could still clearly see that the pistol's grip patch was exactly the birthday gift Agwan was going to give to Pavel.
"Which one do you want?" April asked Wei Ran with a gun in one hand and a razor in the other.
"It doesn't matter, you make your choice." Wei Ran responded with extra confidence.
"Give me the pistol"
Agrawan returned the razor to Wei Ran, then threw the rope on the ground into the gap between the oil drums, and said from the position where he was just restrained, "He will definitely untie the rope for me later.
How about you cooperate with me when the time comes?"
"No problem." Wei Ran grabbed the razor and sat in the same position where he had just been tied up.
"What about me?" Agrawan asked, sitting in the same position as before. He also followed Wei Ran and Apolly's example and hid his hands behind his back.
"You don't have to do anything," April replied softly.
Before Agravan could say anything else, the slowly moving transport truck suddenly stopped, and a moment later, the hatch was opened by Gennady from the outside.
After waiting for a moment, Gennady first put the muzzle of the AK rifle in, and then took a quick look. Only after he was sure that the three people were still leaning on the chain link fence, he took back the rifle and walked in cautiously.
However, contrary to the expectations of the three of them, although the AK rifle was slung on Gennady's shoulder, he was also holding a Nagan revolver in his hand!
What made everyone even more unexpected was that he squatted down next to Agrawan and stretched a hand behind him. Not to mention, the gun in his hand was pointed at Wei Ran and Apolly.
direction!
This sudden operation disrupted the original plan. At the same time, Gennady was still minding his own business and said, "Agravan, before you die, I decided to give you one last chance to tell me what the password is, otherwise I will
I’ll strip you naked and throw you into the snow!”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Agrawan glanced at Wei Ran and Apolly, and slammed his big bald head into Genna who had touched one of his surroundings.
Ji, at the same time, the other hand directly grabbed Gennadi's neck collar, yanked him forward and threw him in the direction of Wei Ran.
If there is a slow-motion footage, you can see that at almost the same moment, Apolly pulled his hand out from behind, pointed it at Gennady and pulled the trigger. The razor in Wei Ran's hand had also cut the roots.
Nadi's eyelids, eyeballs, nose, lips and chin were then cut open, and then the back of the hand holding the pistol was opened.
But it was at this time that Gennady subconsciously pulled the trigger!
"Bang!" After two gunshots that almost overlapped, Apoli's bullet accurately hit Gennady's temple.
With a "pop", Gennady's body fell to Wei Ran's feet.
There was another "pop", and Agrawan also fell down, clutching his stomach.
"Have you been shot?" April and Wei Ran asked in unison.
Agrawan looked at his abdomen with great effort, but a smile appeared on his face. He lay on the cold floor and looked at Apolly and asked, "A...Apolly, can you really...can open the safe?"
?"
Apolly and Wei Ran, who was helping Agrawan check his wounds, looked at each other. The latter sighed, "There is nothing we can do."
With a subtle nod, April finally suppressed the sadness in his heart and replied with a normal expression, "I'm not sure."
"That's good"
Agrawan obviously breathed a sigh of relief, "Help... help put the safe... into... into the mine. There is explosives at the entrance of the hole, which can blow up... blow up the mine tunnel."
"I will help you get it in," April solemnly promised.
"Give me... teacher Pavel's gun." Agravan stretched out his blood-stained hand tremblingly, "Let me... let me also... be a... coward...
.”
Apolly opened his mouth, and finally put the revolver he was holding tightly in Agrawan's hand.
After taking the gun, Agwan, with the help of the other party, put the muzzle of the gun against his chin and said with tears streaming down his face, "Please put me...in the auditorium too."
Hearing this, Apolly stood up slowly, straightened his body, lowered his head and gave a military salute, and said in a hoarse voice, "Farewell, comrade."
"Farewell, comrade." The tearful Agravan forced out a smile, used up his remaining strength, and decisively pulled the trigger.
In the cargo hold where the last gunshot echoed, Apolly did not put down his arms for a long time, but he could no longer hold back the tears that were filled with sadness. One after another fell from the corner of his eyes, and fell on the cold and dirty face.