On the night they arrived in the polar town of Tula, Wei Ran and others checked into a guest room on the third floor. To his expectation, the guest rooms of such an inconspicuous small hotel looked even more comfortable than some hotels in Kazan.
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Although the facilities are a bit outdated, every room here actually has a fireplace that can actually be lit and is also covered with furry animal skin carpets.
Forget it, even the big solid wood bed is bigger and more comfortable than most hotel beds that Weiran has stayed in. In addition, this room not only has a washing machine and dryer, but also a bathroom large enough for two people to sit side by side.
There is a bathtub with a massage function for lying down, and even a large-screen TV and supporting game console.
This is a remote town on the banks of the Lower Tunguska River. It is not a tourist attraction or city center in big European cities. There may not be any outsiders coming here at ordinary times, so naturally there will not be much demand for hotels. In this case
, is it necessary to prepare such luxury?
Fortunately, the answer to this question was found instantly when the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows were opened. Because from here, you can just see the lights of the helicopter landing pad in the center of the town that are lit up all night.
Obviously, these rooms are probably not prepared for miners or lumberjacks. This exactly explains why a letter of introduction is required to stay in such a humble tavern.
After closing the curtains again, Wei Ran walked into the spacious bathroom at Suisui's warm invitation, ready to experience the large and amazing bathtub together.
At the same time, in the room next to them, the Katenka sisters were also amazed at the speed of the Internet here and the various high-end skin care products found in the bathroom.
After resting one night in this elegant tavern, it was not until about ten o'clock the next morning that chatty Dmitry knocked on the door of Wei Ran and others' room and took them to the hotel parked at the door.
A van left the town along the snow-covered streets heading north.
It was still a slag road in the forest covered with snow and wrapped in coniferous forest. But after driving no more than four or five kilometers, an open space wrapped in barbed wire suddenly appeared in front of us.
Looking at it, this open space is at least two hundred meters square. Although the surrounding barbed wire fence is rusty and even covered with frost, it is a full three meters high, and there are still three or five placed on the inside of the barbed wire fence.
A container was erected about one meter high. Some of the containers even had debris such as used tires placed on them.
Not to mention that, far away, they heard the menacing low barking of dogs. The dog Beria, who was originally lying at Wei Ran's feet, also struggled to stand up, stuck out his butt, and pointed out the car door and let out a bark.
A childish roar.
It wasn't until Dmitri stepped on the brakes outside the barbed wire fence that Wei Ran looked at the wooden house and tin workshop inside the barbed wire fence and asked, "What is this place?"
"The vehicle maintenance plant in the Tunguska Coalfield, of course, also provides vehicle rental services. If you pay enough, even large mining trucks can be rented."
While explaining, Dmitri also pressed the car horn. Immediately afterwards, an old man holding a pipe leaned out of the wooden house.
"Old Peter, it's me!" Dmitri stuck his head out of the car window and shouted, "Lock up your children quickly."
"Wait a moment!"
The old man with the pipe in his mouth responded angrily, turned around and took out a large pot of bones and meat from the room, and while blowing the whistle, he led the dogs into a container.
"This picture looks a bit familiar." Wei Ran couldn't help but look at the dog at his feet who was still sticking out his butt and growling. This little thing's parents were also raised in a container.
"I was just thinking about where I had seen it before." As she spoke, Suisui had already picked up the two front legs of Beria, the dog, and swung it left and right to distract it.
Of course, compared to this little thing who doesn't know how to be afraid, the two big-eared foxes have been hiding in the arms of the Katenka sisters since they left the house. At most, their noses or ears poked out from their collars.
After waiting patiently for the old guy named Peter to come out of the container with the empty basin, close the container door and open the gate of the barbed wire fence, Dmitri stepped on the accelerator again and drove the car in.
When they were outside, they couldn't see clearly because of the obstruction of the containers, but after coming in, Wei Ran and others discovered that the open space turned out to be like a large parking lot, with various cars parked in rows.
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Even in the metal workshop where the noise was constantly coming from, there was a MAZ537 heavy-duty tractor truck that was changing tires.
"Don't you have a flight today?" Old Peter asked as he walked into the cabin after Dmitri opened the door.
"Sergey and Tasha will be on duty for the next week."
While replying, Dmitri handed the letter of introduction he had just received from Wei Ran to Old Peter, and warmly greeted everyone to follow them to the wooden house, explaining constantly, "I
I have reception work, and I came here today to take them to pick out some transportation."
"let me see"
After old Peter walked into the wooden house, he picked up a pair of reading glasses from the table and put them on. He went to the bedside and read the letter of introduction sent by Dmitri carefully by the light. Then he opened the locked drawer solemnly and opened the
He took out a seal, stamped it on the letter of introduction, then picked up a pen and signed his name and time.
After locking the seal again, the serious old guy got up and opened the iron cabinet against the wall, pulled out a folder, put the letter of introduction in and locked it. Then he picked up the intercom hanging on the wall and shouted, "
Old man, blow the snow away, and someone will pick up the car and blow it all away."
"Wait a moment." A simple and honest voice responded on the intercom and then there was no movement.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "You're welcome, just find a place to sit by yourself."
Old Peter motioned Wei Ran to sit down, slowly took out a few cups from the cabinet, and made Wei Ran and others a cup of cheap instant coffee each.
"Wait a minute, it will take some time."
Old Peter picked up the dog that was sniffing around the house and said, "This little guy looks good. What's his name?"
"Beria" Wei Ran responded with a smile. The picked up dog also struggled to run back to Wei Ran when he heard his name.
"This name is really scary"
Old Peter gently pinched the dog's mouth and pinched its thick paws, then let go and said in a sincere tone, "Take good care of it, this little guy will become a big man in the future."
Before Wei Ran could say anything, the roar of the engine could be heard outside the room. Even this roar easily drowned out the conversations in the room, as well as Beria's yelling at Old Peter with his fat ass raised.
Standing up and walking to the door, Wei Ran pushed the thick door open a gap, and then saw that a snow blower modified with MAZ535 was already at work.
Amidst the deafening roar, the wind provided by the extra aircraft turbofan engine carried by this behemoth easily blew away the snow on the ground and the body, leaving only a clean concrete road five meters wide behind it.
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After closing the door again, Wei Ran tried to say something, but found that even he could not hear his own voice clearly. Dmitri spread his hands, took out a bag of disposable earplugs from his pocket and distributed them to everyone.
After sitting in the wooden house and waiting for almost twenty minutes, the roar outside the room suddenly stopped. Old Peter also opened the door and walked out and said, "Okay, now you can choose a car."
"Let's go." Wei Ran took out the earplugs and put them in his pocket, and Suisui also let go of the dog ears that she had been covering tightly just now.
The group of people followed Old Peter out of the room and walked along the clean concrete floor to the parking lot. At the same time, they listened to his simple and direct explanation beside him, "You can borrow any car here. Since you have introduced it,
I have received a letter, so I won’t charge rent, but you need to refuel yourself. Of course, the gas here is not expensive, and if you have extra letters of introduction, it might be cheaper to refuel.”
"Dmitri, what do you recommend?" Wei Ran asked the question to the chatterbox who brought them here.
“Those with tires are not as good as those with tracks.”
Dmitri replied very simply, "The one with tracks is not as good as the one with propellers, but with the terrible weather here, taking a helicopter is really not a wise choice."
"Is it unsafe?" Suisui asked subconsciously.
"At least it's very bumpy," Dmitri replied bluntly, "and a letter of introduction is not enough to rent a helicopter."
"It's better to drive, at least it's safer."
Wei Ran made a decision decisively. It was a pity that although he learned a lot at Hongqi Forest Farm, he did not learn helicopter driving.
"If you guys want to drive something with tires, I recommend this car."
Old Peter led them to a row of cars that were almost a standard rectangular shape and stopped. "These cars were purchased last year. They are in relatively good condition and have really good performance."
"This is a tracker brand (Burlak) off-road vehicle. As old Peter said, it is indeed a new vehicle purchased last year. Many people I have received have rented this vehicle, including Mr. Jima who came yesterday."
At this point, Dmitri opened the door and explained, "This kind of car can not only accommodate four people, but also has a kitchen and bathroom. And you don't have to worry even if it falls into the water. There is even a propeller behind its butt to push it in."
, very suitable for running on the newly frozen Nizhny Tunguska River in this season.”
"That's it?" Suisui, who had climbed into the car on the ladder, stuck her head out and asked,
"This car is really nice, and the bed inside is also very big."
Weiran was not in a hurry to make a decision. He turned around and asked again, "What if it's a tracked vehicle?"
"there"
Old Peter pointed in the direction, led everyone a few steps, pointed at a row of bright red cars and said, "The small ones are DT-10, the big ones are DT-30. The medium-sized ones are DT-20
.They are also the best passing cars here, but I don’t recommend renting them.”
"I don't recommend it either," Dmitri followed.
"Why?" Wei Ran looked at the two people curiously.
"First of all, the river has just frozen this season. Even the smallest DT-10 is likely to crush the ice when driven onto the river. Although they can also float on the water, they are definitely not as agile as the car just now, and driving them requires more
Let’s learn how to drive first.”
Just as Peter finished speaking, Dmitri also expressed his opinion, "And if you rent this kind of car, you have to rent an additional tanker truck to follow it. This exaggerated big guy consumes too much fuel.
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"Forget it, let's just stick to the same car."
Wei Ran said decisively, as the saying goes, listen to others and eat enough. As long as your mind is clear at this time, you are right to listen to these two people.
"It would be great if the leaders who came to inspect the coalfields had brains and ears like these young people."
Old Peter murmured with satisfaction, turned around and walked back and asked, "Do you have any other special requests?"
"Please help me pack more supplies inside."
Wei Ran thought for a while and continued, "Can we install more searchlights on the roof of the car? In addition, we may also need some self-defense weapons."
"Except for weapons, everything else can be provided. Of course, you need to pay." Old Peter said bluntly, "And it will take some time."
"I'll think of ways to use self-defense weapons." Dmitri took the initiative and agreed. "Of course, this will also cost some money."
"About how long?" Wei Ran asked.
"How many cars do you need?"
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"After dark, let Dmitri take you over to pick up the car." Old Peter lit a cigarette, "I will help you prepare the dog food."
"Then I'll trouble you." Wei Ran's attitude became more and more polite, and the expression on Old Peter's face became more and more satisfied.
After bidding farewell to Old Peter, everyone took Dmitri's car back to the town and stopped directly in front of an inconspicuous grocery store.
"Can we get weapons here?" Wei Ran asked before getting out of the car.
"certainly"
Dmitri nodded matter-of-factly and led everyone into the grocery store. He walked through the counters and shelves in a familiar manner, opened an iron door and walked into the back room.
This room is not big, but the surrounding walls are covered with various common civilian shotguns and various models of AK series rifles.
"Where is your father?" Dmitri asked a little boy sitting in a wheelchair watching TV.
"He and Uncle Ivan went hunting." The little guy replied in a sweet voice, "We went out half an hour ago. Now my sister and I are the only ones looking after the store."
"I want to rent a gun, do you know the price?" Dmitri continued to ask.
"of course I know"
The little guy turned off the TV, took out a mobile phone from his pocket and turned on the camera function, "Your driver's license."
After hearing this, Dmitri took out his driver's license and handed it to the other party, allowing him to take a photo of the driver's license.
"You can choose whatever gun you want."
After putting away his documents, Dmitri said, "The quality of his weapons is the most reliable, and the rent is not expensive, only 700 rubles per day."
"I want that SVD." Before Dmitri could finish speaking, Anfisa had already raised her hand and pointed to the weapon hanging on the wall.
Hearing this, the little guy in the wheelchair actually stood up, walked to the side lively, stepped on a chair, took off the weapon and handed it to Anfisa, and at the same time said in a sweet voice, "
Sister, you are so beautiful."
I don't know if it was because of such an innocent compliment, both Anfiya and Suisui each chose a weapon, and by the way, they got what they wanted to hear from the little guy who knew how to do business.
Seeing Suisui happily playing with the pump-action civilian shotgun that Anfiya helped her choose, Wei Ran couldn't help but secretly asked, this girl who spends her whole day slaughtering fattened sheep for fun, has actually been slaughtered.
one day.
"Do you have a pistol?"
Wei Ran asked the sweet-talking little guy. Anfiya had just chosen an AK74 with a folding stock. For the sake of firepower matching, he subconsciously wanted to rent a pistol - even if he didn't lack weapons at all.
The little guy looked at Dmitri and when he nodded, he motioned Wei Ran to squat down and whispered in his ear, "The daily rent for a pistol is fifteen hundred rubles. If you rent it for a week, the gun will be enough."
It’s yours.”
"What kind of pistols do you have?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"There are only Makarov and TT33, which one do you want?" the little guy asked in a low voice.
"Makarov," Wei Ran said with a smile.
Hearing this, the little guy immediately opened the cabinet under the TV and pulled out a cardboard box, "You can choose it yourself!"
There was nothing wrong with this. Wei Ran, who was just showing off, took one from it at will, without even asking for a spare magazine.
After buying some extra bullets, Wei Ran paid off the one-week rent and paid an additional 50,000 rubles deposit. Then the little guy asked a little girl who was looking after the shop outside to help bring in a fishing gear bag.
After leaving the grocery store with the rented weapons, Dmitri waited until everyone got into the van and then asked, "Victor, where are you going next? Yukta is still the one five hundred kilometers away.
Coordinate points?"
"Let's go to Yukta"
Wei Ran replied without thinking. He knew better than anyone that there would be no clues in the camp that was originally used as the base camp of the exploration team.
After making an appointment to pick up the car together in the evening, Dmitri sent Wei Ran and others back to the small hotel.
After he drove away, Wei Ran immediately greeted Suisui and Katenka sisters and found a window seat on the first floor of the tavern to sit down.
"What's wrong?" Suisui asked subconsciously in a low voice after picking up the dog.
"Let's stay here for two more days."
Wei Ran said and raised his chin towards Maya and Jima, who were sitting with a middle-aged man not far away, "Suisui, do you want to help Maya? It can be seen that she does not know how to do business negotiations."
Good at.”
"Shall I help her?"
"It's like when I bought the workshop." Wei Ran pointedly glanced at Anfiya who was sitting opposite, "The network speed here is quite good, isn't it?"
Suisui's eyes lit up, and she immediately handed the dog in her arms to Wei Ran, stood up, clenched her little fists and greeted energetically, "Little Cam, take your notebook! Let's go help Maya!"
Hearing this, Anfiya, who had just pulled the little fox out of her arms, immediately handed the little guy who didn't know whether it was called Lucky or Treasure to her sister, reached out and took out the fancy notebook from the backpack she carried.
He turned on the computer and stuffed another lollipop into his mouth, then stood up and followed Suisui.
"Do you need me to do anything?" Anfisa, who was still sitting across from Weiran, asked with a smile.
"How about you go and bring Ji Ma over?" Anfisa nodded, handed the two big-eared foxes to Wei Ran, stood up and followed them.
After a while, Ji Ma came over with a plate of food, sat down and said happily, "Fortunately you brought Aurora with you, and fortunately you were willing to let her go and help."
"Is the owner of this tavern difficult to deal with?" Wei Ran looked at him with interest.
"It's not that difficult, he's just not ready to sell the place."
Jima ate a piece of fried fish in two bites and added vaguely, "He is a very stubborn old guy."
"Leave the negotiation to the girls." Wei Ran looked around and lowered his voice and said, "You have to do me a favor."
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"Help me ask people in this town who knows where this photo was taken."
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a color photo from his pocket and handed it to the other party. This photo was taken by him in the pet hospital. The content in the photo was taken from the hanging hanging in the auditorium of the abandoned mine.
The Soviet Union’s national emblem and Khrushchev’s portrait.
Of course, there are corn cobs hanging on the other side, and that sarcastic line from Beria - our potato politicians.
"I guess I want to hide it from Dmitri, right?" Jima asked in a low voice as he put away the photo.
"Hide it if you can." Wei Ran's nonchalant attitude immediately let Ji Ma, who was sitting opposite, know what to do next.
"I'm going to ask now." Jima took a big sip of cold beer, stood up and left the tavern.
At the same time, Wei Ran also put the two big-eared foxes into his arms, carried the fishing gear bag and took the dogs back to the room upstairs.
The reason why Jima was asked to investigate the location of the auditorium in the photo was actually just to "prepare a case" at the Hongqi Forest Farm. The reason for doing this was simply out of distrust of Kajik.
As for whether Ji Ma will disclose the photos to the teachers at Hongqi Forest Farm, and whether the shooting location can be found, it is not important at all.
After waiting leisurely until dark, Wei Ran and Anfisa met Dmitri who came to pick them up, and drove back to the free rental car in the parking lot outside the town.
After just one day of absence, the two cars already had a four-wheel tractor behind them.
Not only did the two trailers use the same large-sized low-pressure tires as the car, but one of them also had several uninflated spare tires on it. As for the other, it was completely empty and had nothing on it.
Under the leadership of Dmitri, Weiran and Anfisa drove two cars to the only gas station in this town. With a thin letter of introduction, they gave two cars at almost free price.
After the car's main and auxiliary fuel tanks were filled with fuel, the empty tow truck was loaded with 5 additional barrels of fuel and 6 liquefied natural gas bottles protected by tires, and then it slowly drove back to the entrance of the tavern.
's parking lot.
Watching Dmitri leave again, Wei Ran glanced at the tavern behind him and said to Anfisa in the other car through the car window, "Let's check the car."
Anfisa nodded, turned on the interior lighting system of the car she was driving, and took out something that looked like an electric mosquito swatter from her bag and began to scan it carefully.
In another car next to it, Weiran was doing the same thing. Fortunately, nothing dirty was found after this inspection. At the same time, Weiran also fully inspected this 6X6 with a square head and a square head.
Terrain off-road vehicles are becoming more and more satisfying.
Not to mention anything else, at least behind the driver's and passenger's seats, there is a square table that is large enough for four people to sit around and eat and rest together. There is also a two-burner gas stove next to it, and there is also a small stainless steel cabinet against the wall for washing.
Clean kitchen utensils and a variety of unopened seasonings.
Going back through a small sliding door from here, there is a storage room that is only half a meter wide from front to back. On the lowest level on both sides of the storage room, a gas tank with a tire is fixed on each side.
In the stainless steel cabinet, there are also consumables such as towels, bath towels and toilet paper placed in an orderly manner. Weiran even found two boxes of Damn Elf in sealed packaging inside.
After passing through a sliding door again, there is not only a large animal skin blanket under your feet, but also a fairly spacious bunk bed on the left and right sides.
Forget it, the two bunks below can be folded in the middle to form a large bed. Under the bed, there are wooden boxes containing various cans, drinks, and medical drugs.
Continuing back through a sliding door with a threshold, there is a fairly spacious bathroom at the rear of the car. Not only does it have a toilet and a sink, but there is also a shower head above the head that can produce hot water at any time.
Take a shower, and there are even complete toiletries provided.
Finally, I jumped out of the car and went around to check. Weiran was still near the main and auxiliary fuel tanks, and found a fuel heater and a fuel generator that could be removed and run independently.
On the top of the car, as he requested, a circle of searchlights was installed. Finally, after checking the two extra spare tires fixed on the front and rear bumpers, Weiran locked them with satisfaction.
car door.
"There is nothing to find in this car." Anfisa jumped out of another car almost at the same time.
"What's the progress of their negotiations?" Wei Ran asked as he locked the trailer lid at the rear of the car.
“It’s time to negotiate the price.”
Anfisa responded while checking the bottom of the car, "The final price should be negotiated at noon tomorrow at the latest."
"What did your sister find out again?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
“Not a big problem”
Anfisa stood up and said calmly, "This time it's all thanks to Aurora. She encouraged the owner of the tavern to go to Kazan to work for us."
"The tavern owner agreed?" Wei Ran's eyes widened.
"I guess you agree."
Anfisa spread her hands, "Aphroel seems to be planning to let the owner of this tavern run the five-story building of the Red Flag Forest Farm, and she also convinced Ms. Dalia."
"Is this okay?" Wei Ran looked in the direction of the pub in astonishment.
"Avole spent about an hour praising and analyzing the boss's business philosophy, and spent about ten minutes expressing regret that he only stayed in such a small place and wasted his life, and then the old man agreed.
What she said..."
Anfisa paused for a moment when she said this, and spoke a strange word in off-tune Chinese, "Be bigger and stronger?" It seems to be pronounced like this. This is what Aurora told us, she said
No businessman in his right mind can refuse these four words."
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Wei Ran swallowed, and out of nowhere he came up with a bold idea, whether he could let Suisui be Gorman's student for a few days and learn the brainwashing stuff from the old guy.
Suppressing this dangerous thought, Wei Ran changed the subject and said, "Go and take down the weapon."
Anfisa nodded, simply walked into the tavern and returned to the room on the third floor.
She opened the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling window and flashed the flashlight at Wei Ran. After the latter also turned on the flashlight, Anfisa immediately took out an action camera with a suction cup holder from the box she gave her sister and fixed it on the window.
, and then used a data cable to connect to the laptop on the table next to it to serve as a monitoring device.
After shaking the flashlight again, and after the firelight downstairs also extinguished the flashlight, Anfisa tapped on the laptop a few times. After confirming that the real-time monitoring screen appeared on the screen, she then adjusted the lens angle of the action camera.
After making some adjustments to ensure that the two vehicles and their surroundings could be clearly photographed, he picked up the fishing gear bag containing weapons and left the room.
Almost at the same time as she put the weapon into the car, Ji Ma also strolled back from the town.
"Have you also rented a car like this?"
"I heard from Dmitri that you also rented one, so we also rented two."
Wei Ran had already opened the car door as he spoke, "Come in and sit down?"
"Of course." Before Ji Ma could finish his words, he had already climbed up quickly.
When Anfisa, who was the last to get on the bus, closed the door, Jima immediately took out the photo that Weiran had given him in the morning and pushed it over, "I found six or seven people in this small town who have worked in the coal fields all their lives.
miners, but no one knows where the auditorium in this photo came from."
Taking the hot water from Anfisa, Jima held the cup in his hand and continued, "But someone told me that there is a small town called Needham more than 20 kilometers downstream.
The retired teacher might know something."
"retired teacher?"
"I heard from a bulldozer driver at the dock. He said that in Needham, there was a German prisoner of war who was sent to work in the Tunguska coalfield during World War II. He lived until the labor correction camp here was closed, but he later did not
Instead of returning to Germany, he married a local woman and had a child."
Jima put down the cup and continued, "The teacher I'm talking about is the son of this German prisoner of war. Even the dock worker I asked was a student of this teacher. He said that his teacher had been to the Nizhny Tunguska River near
He took photos of miners and loggers in many places, so he must know something."
"The son of a prisoner of war, this is quite interesting..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, took a sip of hot water and said, "I'll go there with you tomorrow to have a look."
"Maya's side..."
"We are already negotiating the price," Wei Ran said proudly, even though he was not of any help at all.
"In that case, Victor, what are you going to do next?" Ji Ma asked, putting down the cup.
"Help Maya's teacher Kajik find something." Wei Ran raised his head and glanced at Ji Ma, "You want to follow?"
"Of course I want to follow."
Jima looked shy and said in a silly voice, "Maybe this way I can return to Kirov a few days later, and maybe there is a chance to live in the same car with my Maya."
Wei Ran and Anfisa, who rolled their eyes and looked disgusted, looked at each other and nodded dumbfounded, "As long as Maya doesn't have any objections, I guess her teacher will definitely have no objections."
"Then it's settled!" Before Jima could finish his words, he had already stood up, pushed open the car door, and ran into the tavern in a flash.
