"You actually planted a tree in the cab?!" Wei Ran exclaimed with a sincere expression while sitting in the passenger seat after entering the cab of the transport truck for the second time.
“It was just an accident”
Old Ivan explained with a smile, "It sprouted from a rotten apple more than 20 years ago. I just gave it some soil, but I didn't expect it to survive so tenaciously."
Wei Ran pretended to admire the leafy apple tree, and a series of compliments came out of his mouth.
"The fruit it bears is not delicious, it has no sweetness at all." As he spoke, Old Ivan reached out and pulled an apple from the tree and handed it to Wei Ran, "Young man, what on earth do you want to talk to me about?"
I took a bite of the mostly red apple and found that, as Old Ivan said, this fruit did not have the sour or sweet taste that an apple should have. The water-stained and slightly astringent taste was really unpalatable.
interest.
But even so, he still carefully ate the whole apple until he gnawed away the last trace of pulp on the core. Then he slowly took out a paper towel, wrapped it up and put it in his pocket.
From beginning to end, old Ivan sat patiently in the driver's seat and looked at Wei Ran with a smile.
After swallowing the last mouthful of pulp in his mouth, Wei Ran took out a tissue from Chapter 2 and wiped his mouth, then asked, "Old Ivan, how much damage did the two drivers suffer?"
“I’m afraid it will be very difficult in the next few years.”
Old Ivan frowned and said, "Their cars are all destroyed. Without the cars, they won't be able to make any money this winter, especially the one whose car fell into the water. He has to compensate for the loss of the goods according to the price. This is enough for him."
He's bankrupt."
"I want to help them," Wei Ran said thoughtfully.
"You want to help them?" Old Ivan saw Wei Ran nodding seriously and asked with a smile, "How do you plan to help?"
"There's nothing wrong with at least providing them each with a truck."
Wei Ran thought for a while and continued, "If necessary, I can buy even the truckload of goods that fell into the water."
"It's rare to find a young man as generous as you"
Old Ivan spread his hands and said, "But there is a price for these, right? And why don't you just talk to them directly?"
"I don't know much about them. I don't even know their names."
Wei Ran adjusted the seat to a comfortable angle with a familiarity, "So I can only come to you for this kind of thing. At least you can persist in this kind of ghost place for so long, which is enough to prove that you are a good person."
"Good man?" Old Ivan laughed dumbly, "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"
"Give them a guarantee and give me a guarantee, that's all."
Seeing that Old Ivan remained silent, Wei Ran simply continued to pick up nice things and said, "Even if they are willing, after they recover from their injuries, I might be able to provide them with a part-time job with a good income in the future, but
The premise of all this is mutual trust.
Obviously, I haven't been able to trust them, and I'm afraid they can't trust me either. But Mr. Ivan, you are different. They obviously trust you very much, and even entrusted their lives to you when they were in danger."
"But I can't trust you," Old Ivan said bluntly, "Since you don't trust them, why are you willing to help them?"
"Maybe it's compassion."
Weiran responded candidly, never mentioning any words related to the Tinder project, "I want to talk to you alone, just hoping you can give me some trust."
As for the conditions just offered, he would naturally not refuse to pay. Not to mention the GAZ 66 trucks that are almost everywhere, which can only cost tens of thousands of yuan at most when converted into RMB. Anyway, he has made up his mind, regardless of whether he buys it or not.
The car is still buying the goods that fell into the water. It must be cheap teacher Kajik to pay for it.
Even the promise to introduce jobs to the two drivers was not just a promise. If Suisui could really take tourists to drive in such a ghost place, someone would have to follow them, right?
"Give credit?"
Old Ivan stared at Wei Ran on the other side of the apple tree for a moment, and a smile appeared on his old face, "Of course, no problem. Since you need some trust, why not be more honest first and tell us what you are here for?"
of?"
"Come to the Agni Rescue Station or to Tunguska?" Wei Ran asked.
"All"
"I came here just to find a safer camp to rest for the night."
Wei Ran paused and added, "Of course, I'm also curious about how the people at the wilderness rescue station survived the long winter here."
"What's your purpose in coming to Tunguska?" Old Ivan continued to ask.
Finally let me wait until you ask this question!
Wei Ran moved his left hand slightly, which was resting on the edge of the box, "Looking for some missing heroes for my teacher."
"The missing hero?"
"Yes, hero"
Wei Ran once again complimented him in advance, looked into the other person's eyes casually and explained, "To be precise, it was an exploration team belonging to the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences that disappeared during the disintegration of the Soviet Union. They were around before and after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
They disappeared during that time and my teacher wants to find them."
"Who is your teacher?" Old Ivan asked, while his left hand had already reached to the back of the dashboard.
"A history teacher at Kazan University"
Wei Ran answered as if he didn't hear anything, but in fact almost every muscle in his body was ready to fight back before the opponent drew his gun.
"Kazan University? History Department Teacher?"
Old Ivan muttered to himself, and then asked abruptly, "How are you sure it's me?"
"I..."
"You'd better tell the truth"
Old Ivan narrowed his eyes and issued a warning. At the same time, he stretched out his hand to pull away the turf at the base of the apple tree, grabbed an inconspicuous ring and reminded, "I hid about five kilograms of TNT under the apple tree. The detonation delay is less than half."
seconds,"
grass!
Wei Ran's brows twitched, and he took a deep breath and replied, "Safe, before you came back, I saw the safe that was uniformly distributed by the Academy of Sciences during the Soviet period. My teacher said that its production quantity was not large.
"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Your teacher, does his wife run a Georgian restaurant?" Old Ivan asked with a smile.
Wei Ran hesitated for a moment and finally nodded. However, at this moment, Old Ivan actually pulled out the metal ring at the root of the apple tree!
"Fuck!"
Without thinking, Wei Ran opened the car door and jumped out, lying directly on the thick snow and hugging his head.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, the expected explosion did not appear. Instead, old Ivan's breathless laughter came from the cab!
"Your uncle!"
Wei Ran stood up with a curse. He had deliberately chosen the cab as the place to chat. He was thinking that the other party would be able to relax his vigilance in a familiar environment, so that he could ask about the other party's true attitude. Unfortunately, after all, it was Lao Jiang who was better.
Damn it, he was still fooled by the other party.
Cursing and getting into the cab, Old Ivan still held the metal pull ring in his hand, but what was connected under the pull ring was just a thermometer.
But at the same time, he already held a Makorov silent pistol in his other hand.
"I haven't met a fool like you for a long time." Old Ivan gently waved his gun, "Call your teacher."
After glancing at the weapon in the opponent's hand, Wei Ran closed the car door slowly, then reached out and grabbed the silencer of the weapon in the opponent's hand and pushed it aside!
Almost subconsciously, Old Ivan pulled the trigger.
However, the expected gunshot did not sound, and Wei Ran had already let go of his hand, and took out a Makorov pistol from his pocket slowly, and at the same time reached out with his other hand.
On the edge of the box with the apple tree planted, a firing pin was pinched out from under a small stone for landscaping and shook towards the opponent.
This firing pin was naturally removed when he came to this cab last time to look for tinder information, so that when he expressed his intention to old Ivan, the other party could sit down and talk to him calmly. Otherwise, even if
He didn't have the guts to ask the other party to come here to chat.
"It's not a good habit to rummage around in other people's homes without permission." As Old Ivan spoke, he handed Wei Ran the silent pistol that could not be fired at all.
"I'm sorry for touching your things."
Wei Ran apologized as sincerely as possible, took the opponent's weapon smoothly, quickly pulled out the magazine, and emptied the bullet in the chamber.
"Your apology is not sincere at all."
Before Old Ivan finished speaking, Wei Ran had already handed over the rented Makorov pistol in his hand, "Is this sincerity enough?"
After taking the pistol and taking out the magazine, Old Ivan threw it directly onto the dashboard. There was no bullet in the gun at all.
Wei Ran smiled and gently placed the non-threatening weapon on the dashboard. As for the bullets and firing pin, he naturally put them in his pocket.
"I don't see the sincerity, but you are very courageous."
There was a rare hint of appreciation in Old Ivan's tone, "What do you want to ask next?"
"Ask your attitude"
Wei Ran unexpectedly replied, "If you want to continue living like this, you have to find a way to help me lead the investigation clues to other places. If you are willing to meet with my employer, my teacher, I will
I’ll call him later.”
"Are you going to help me?" Old Ivan frowned.
"Help you?" Wei Ran waved his hand and corrected, "Old guy, I'm not helping you, I just respect your own choice."
"Why?" Old Ivan asked seriously.
"Why else?"
Of course, Wei Ran gave the explanation he had thought of in advance, "If there was no compelling reason, who would be willing to live in such a ghost place for so long? And I'm not sure what my teacher's attitude will be towards you, what if he
If I want to kill you, wouldn’t I be an accomplice?”
"Is that why?"
"if not?"
Wei Ran explained with a hint of complaint, "He didn't offer me a high commission. It's not worth the risk of me becoming an accomplice of a murderer for his sake. Besides, even if I can't find you, I
Nothing will be lost.”
"How did you find this place?" Old Ivan finally asked.
"Just an accident"
Wei Ran became more and more calm, "I originally planned to go to the No. 58 Forest Farm first, but I encountered a container placed by the Fire Rescue Station on the way, so I changed my itinerary and decided to first find this man who has been working in the wilderness for more than 20 years.
Ask the locals.”
"Then you found the safe?" Old Ivan asked, reaching out and grabbing a fruit and taking a bite.
"The targets I'm looking for include a 7-person scientific research and exploration team, a DT-30 transport vehicle and a rare safe."
Weiran also took a bite of the fruit and said, "I saw a DT-30 transport truck and a safe here. Aren't these enough?"
"Call your employer, the teacher." Old Ivan sighed suddenly, "Let him come here to see me."
"No problem, do you have any other requirements?"
Old Ivan thought for a while and added with a smile, "Ask him to bring the two trucks you just promised and the cash to buy the goods that fell into the water."
"Thanks"
Weiran thanked him inexplicably, and without leaving the cab of the transport truck, he took out his satellite phone and dialed Kajik.
"Victor, do you know what time it is?" As soon as the call was connected, Kajik on the other end complained angrily, "Is the earth going to explode? There is something you can't wait until tomorrow morning...
"
"I found it"
Wei Ran glanced at the smiling old Ivan, interrupted Kajik's complaint and said, "At least we found the transport truck and the safe, and there is also a survivor who is not in the information you gave me. I guess it is the transport truck.
driver."
"Are you kidding?!"
Kajik on the other end of the phone immediately lost the energy to get out of bed, "How is he doing now?"
Seeing old Ivan nodding towards him, Wei Ran continued, "That's great, he even wanted to shoot me just now, but he doesn't seem to want to communicate with you directly."
"It doesn't matter. Did he say anything?" Kajik added belatedly, "Well, you weren't hurt, were you?"
“He was seriously injured”
Wei Ran said angrily, "The medical expenses will be at least two million rubles. Also, let me finish first. The other party asked you to bring two GAZ 66 trucks or Ural 375 trucks that are in better condition.
You also need to bring enough cash to buy a load of deerskin and venison.”
"I'll leave now." Kajik hung up the phone before he finished speaking.
"Does he know the location?" Old Ivan asked subconsciously.
Wei Ran pointed to the off-road vehicle outside the window and replied, "Although there are no eavesdropping devices in those off-road vehicles, the number of positioning devices is definitely more than the number of tires, not to mention there is Dmitri."
"Want to see what's in the safe?" Old Ivan suddenly changed the subject.
"I don't want to." Wei Ran even opened the car door as he spoke, "I'm not very interested in the contents of the safe."
"Have you seen it?" Old Ivan asked almost certainly.
"I haven't seen it, I'm just afraid of death."
Weiran expressed his attitude very seriously, "I don't want to be killed by the grenade hidden inside. Compared with life, even if Khrushchev is in your safe with Brezhnetsov and Gorbachev,
Playing poker, I’m not even interested in going over there to take a look.”
"In this case, just wait for your employer to come over."
Old Ivan thought for a while and continued, "Young people, if you are not in a hurry to go back, how about helping at the rescue station first?"
"Are you getting paid?" Wei Ran asked before jumping out of the cab.
"No" Old Ivan spread his hands in confusion.
"That's no problem"
After saying that, Wei Ran gently placed the magazine and firing pin in his pocket on the grass under the apple tree, turned around and jumped out of the cab, closed the door, and walked not far away with the cold sweat on his back.
off-road vehicle.
In the warm cab of the transport truck, Old Ivan picked up the firing pin and magazine, slowly loaded them into the silenced pistol, and stuffed the pistol back into the back of the dashboard.
From the beginning to the end, Old Ivan was staring out the window at the off-road vehicle Weiran got into. Just like after Weiran got into the car, he was hiding in the dark through the window and staring at Old Ivan.
“What an interesting little guy”
“What an interesting old guy.”
At a certain moment, Old Ivan and Wei Ran made almost unanimous evaluations of each other at almost the same time.
"Victor, I need to go back urgently."
On the car radio channel, Dmitri said apologetically, "I just received a notice that I have to rush back to the airport immediately. It will take two days at the earliest before I can come back."
"It's okay," Weiran picked up the microphone of the car radio and responded, "Thank you for your help, we will wait for you here."
"You're welcome," Dmitri responded while starting the car, "If you run into trouble next time, you can contact me at any time."
“Be careful on the road”
Wei Ran gave a sincere blessing. Although he was still not sure about Dmitri's true identity, he could tell that the other party had been notified and rushed back at this time. Apparently someone didn't want him to have anything to do with "Tinder".
any contact.
only...
Wei Ran looked at the cab of the transport truck again. He had now begun to doubt whether the information related to Tinder was really still in the hands of old Ivan.
There is no doubt that just from the sentence "Does his wife run a Georgian restaurant?" it can be confirmed that Apoli and Kajik must know each other.
But if they know each other, why are there no connections between them?
If they know each other but don't contact him, is it because he can't trust him, or is it because Apolly, whose pseudonym is Ivan, still has the Tinder information?
If you can't believe it, why did you agree to meet so happily this time? If he really has the Tinder information, it seems equally unreasonable.
Could it be that Sha Geli, who had been here before, had taken away the Tinder project information?
Wei Ran secretly shook his head and denied his guess. If that was true, what was the reason why Apolly faked his death, changed his name, and lived in seclusion here for more than 20 years?
After thinking hard to no avail, he finally had no choice but to turn around and return to the rest cabin. In the blink of an eye, the next morning, the rescue channel became lively again.
After learning that she would probably have to stay here for two or three days to wait for Dmitri, Suisui politely asked for Old Ivan's consent, and then immediately took her three pets and three best friends to the place where they left last night.
The unfinished card game was moved to a more spacious and comfortable transport vehicle.
Ji Ma and Wei Ran were also unceremoniously recruited by old Ivan. One became the vanguard of the rescue, while the other stayed in the camp to take care of the girls around the card table with their faces covered with notes.
, and also took care of the two unlucky drivers who were recuperating in the off-road vehicle.
Of course, there are also the two big-eared foxes jumping up and down in the living cabin of the transport truck, and the dog Beria, who is lying comfortably by the stove and doesn't want to move.
I don’t know if it’s because of the conversation in the cab last night, but old Ivan didn’t close the thick curtains today. But maybe out of etiquette, this old man who is over fifty years old folded the cups neatly.
The bunk, which can only accommodate one person, has been tidied up and looks particularly clean.
In the living cabin of seven people again, Wei Ran brewed a large pot of strong tea using the hawthorn leaves and dried hawthorn stored in the food box, and poured it for everyone himself using the tea set he had found in the abandoned mine.
One cup.
At the same time, Suisui also dug out a large package of colorful packaging bags from her largest suitcase, filled it directly into a wooden box originally used to hold bullets, and greeted old Ivan warmly and generously.
Try one by one the various snacks that cost no more than 10 yuan each.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Compared with the grinning old Ivan, Jima turned into a wilderness radio anchor at this time, borrowing the military radio system to rescue the fire.
On the rescue channel of the station, he chatted all over the place with drivers he had never met before, and by the way, he also recommended movies starring "my friend" intentionally or unintentionally.
Wei Ran, on the other hand, seemed to be back in the winter of 1991, patiently cooking thick oatmeal porridge with the help of the stove and preparing lunch for everyone.
Near noon, an off-road vehicle that Dmitri once drove drove over along the ice with two Ural 375 trucks, separated by a distance of forty or fifty meters from each other.
However, what Wei Ran and Jima never expected was that when the doors of the two trucks were pushed open one after another, it was Culp and Gorman who jumped out from inside!
"Why is he here?" Jima muttered in a low voice.
"How do I know?" Wei Ran picked it clean without thinking.
Before the two people could take the initiative to say hello, Culp and Gorman turned around and got into the off-road vehicle. At the same time, Kajik also got off the off-road vehicle and walked step by step to old Ivan who was standing not far away.
in front of me.
Because of the rising cold wind, Wei Ran and Jima, who were standing at the door of the living cabin, did not hear clearly what the two of them said. They only saw that less than five minutes after the two stood face to face, Kajik turned toward them.
He waved his hand.
"It seems to be calling us over."
Before Ji Ma finished speaking, he trotted over. Wei Ran, on the other hand, was standing at the door, unwilling to move at all.
Soon, Jima ran over again, pointed his thumb behind him and said helplessly, "Mr. Kajik asked you to go over."
"Call me every half hour to make sure I'm still alive," Wei Ran said, half jokingly and half seriously.
"If I can remember"
Jima patted Wei Ran's shoulder lightly, bent down and picked up the dog who was squatting at the door of the cabin and didn't want to come out, and walked in, "Close the door for me, thank you."
"Scumbag"
Wei Ran reluctantly helped close the hatch, and reluctantly moved slowly to Kajik and Old Ivan's side.
"Do you have hemorrhoids? Why are you walking so slowly?"
Kajik, the cheap tutor, complained dissatisfiedly and urged, "You two, get in the car quickly" while walking towards the off-road vehicle behind him.
"Let's go"
Old Ivan greeted Wei Ran with a smile and followed Kajik into the warm off-road vehicle.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Wei Ran simply got into the car and said hello to Culp and Gorman who were waiting in the car in advance.
“Just find a place to sit”
Teacher Culp said with a smile, "On the way here, I heard Kajik say, you once said that I am no longer your opponent?"
"Nothing." Wei Ran quickly waved his hand.
Unfortunately, before he finished speaking, Kajik took out his mobile phone and played a recording, "Save it, Culp was no longer my opponent half a year ago. As for you, my boss, I will give you a
Hand, you are no match for me."
"that..."
Wei Ran looked at Kajik who was gloating about his misfortune with a sad face. The words in the recording just now were indeed what he said, but he didn't expect that this old guy Kajik actually recorded it!
"Kajik has been playing this recording over and over again since we met at the Irkutsk airport." A gloating Gorman reminded him kindly.
"Thank you so much"
Wei Ran glared at Kajik who was driving outside the camp, and already had the idea of opening the car door and jumping out.
"So, this little guy is yours..."
Before old Ivan finished speaking, Culp seized the right to speak and gave a negative answer, "No, he has nothing to do with us, so Comrade Apoli, are you sure you still want to take him with you?"
"Take it, take it." Old Ivan nodded with a smile, "This little guy is still young, there is no need to leave a seed of greed in his heart."
"Apolly?"
Wei Ran looked at old Ivan pretending to be confused, "You..."
"nothing"
Old Ivan waved his hand, but did not explain. He just bent over and moved to the passenger seat to sit down, giving directions to Kajik who was driving.
"Where are we going now?" Wei Ran simply changed the question and asked.
"Lower Tunguska Mine No. 119" Old Ivan nonchalantly gave an answer that Weiran had already guessed.
"There is..."
"The other six people you are looking for were all buried there." Old Ivan answered Wei Ran's question again.
"Apo...Ivan, Comrade Ivan" Kajik paused and continued, "Do you know why we came?"
"Tinder?" Old Ivan still looked nonchalant.
Kajik looked at Karp with the help of the rearview mirror, nodded slightly, and said, "Ivan, no, Apoli, Comrade Apoli, your mission is over. From today on, you don't have to
Stay here and protect the fire..."
Old Ivan smiled, took out a wine bottle from his arms and took a sip, "You actually want to say that there is no fire in my safe, right?"
"You know?!" The three people in the wilderness car, except Wei Ran and old Ivan, asked in surprise.
"Look at the road. Turn right behind the pine tree that was struck by lightning."
Old Ivan first corrected Kajik's mistake in driving direction, and then said with a normal expression, "I knew it a long time ago, I knew it in 1994."
Kajik hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Shagoli?"
Old Ivan nodded, "It was indeed Shagoli who told me. He brought his wife to the Tunguska Coalfield and found me. He told me that there was no information about Tinder in the safe, and he brought the password and opened the safe himself.
.As he said, apart from being filled with TNT, there is no information related to the Tinder project in the safe."
"Since you know, why do you..."
"Where else would I go?"
Old Ivan, or the anonymous Apoli asked in a calm tone, "The CIS? Russia? Ukraine or Kazakhstan? Or those idiots in Belarus who still call themselves KGB?"
"Feel sorry..."
Kajik said apologetically, "After that incident, Shagoli just reported to me that you disappeared with the exploration team. It wasn't until we accidentally discovered his relics some time ago that we knew you were still alive and that Barsukov
The gentleman did not put the ignition materials into the safe, but put enough explosives in it."
"Wait, you just said, relic? Shagoli is dead?" Apoli asked in surprise.
"you do not know?"
Kajik stepped on the brakes and waited for the car to stop. He took out a plastic notebook from his arms and handed it to Apolly in the passenger seat. "He died in 2013 in a fire caused by an accident."
, I found this in the mezzanine of the safe where he hid it."
"He and I just greet each other over the radio once a year at Christmas."
Apollinane said, "It's true that I haven't received any telegrams from him since Christmas 2014. I didn't expect that he died, and he died in a fire."
"It seems to be to save his son." Kajik controlled the car and started running again, "Let's not talk about him, Apolly..."
"Ivan"
The old man sitting in the passenger seat corrected, "The person sitting next to you now is Ivan Belov, a miner who grew up in the small town of Yukta."
"Okay, Comrade Ivan Belov, do you want to live somewhere warmer?"
"No need, it's just fine here."
Old Ivan refused while flipping through the plastic leather book that Kajik just handed over, "And there are many people in need of help here. Since the Soviet Union is no longer here, then this is my hometown."
"The Soviet Union is indeed gone"
Culp, who had been silent just now, suddenly joined the conversation, "But April..."
"Ivan, Ivan Belov" the old guy in the co-pilot corrected as he closed his plastic notebook.
"Comrade Apolly, we need your help." Culp stubbornly insisted on calling the co-pilot's peer by the name Apolly.
"No one can order me anymore." Old Ivan looked at Culp indifferently and stated his attitude firmly.
"As far as I know, you set off from the small town of Tula?" Gorman asked with a smile.
"Who are you?" Old Ivan asked with a frown.
Seeing this, Kajik stopped the car again, put his mouth to the former's ear, and while whispering, he kicked the accelerator hard, using the roar of the engine to cover up the whispers that he obviously didn't want Wei Ran to hear.
After the engine returned to its original rhythm, Old Ivan looked at Culp and Gorman through the rearview mirror, and finally said, "What do you need me to do?"
"How about being a publican?"
Gorman glanced at Wei Ran deliberately, and then continued, "It's at the tavern where you set out."
"That's all?" Old Ivan asked warily.
"We still have to take care of some girls and some children." The words that came out of Gorman's mouth made Wei Ran feel frightened, "train them well."
"How long?" Old Ivan simply turned around and asked.
"At least until the youngest one reaches adulthood," Gorman said, but raised his finger and pointed at Wei Ran, "this young man will provide you with the necessary help."
"Why me again?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"The trouble you created yourself, of course, you have to take care of those children and their too-young mothers." Gorman took a big green pot to Wei Ran as a matter of course, and then comforted him, "Of course, in the future,
If there is any profit from the HeLa organization, it is also yours."
"They can make a damn profit..."
"Otherwise, why do you think Anna gave you so many diamonds?" Culp asked quietly.
"So...the money for milk powder?" Wei Ran asked with an ugly face.
"Since you chose to be kind at that time, you should pay for your kindness."
Culp looked at the ruins and broken arms outside the window and said quietly, "Victor, even kindness comes with a price. This time you should thank Anna for helping you get enough alimony, and you should also thank Gorman.
Let those girls and children become normal people, but things may not be so good next time.
"Of course, if you find it troublesome, you can kill all those girls and children. There are enough wild beasts here to help you digest those young corpses." Gorman deliberately disgusted Wei Ran.
"I...I understand, thank you." Wei Ran said reluctantly. He did not expect that after watching the bustle for a long time, he finally realized that the bustle was actually him.
"Don't think it's unfair," Culp warned at the end, then changed the subject, raised his finger and pointed out the window and asked, "Is this right here?"
"right here"
Old Ivan, who had just been listening to get information, signaled Kajik to stop the car, pointed to the broken arm outside the car window and said, "In 1996, there was a magnitude 5.7 earthquake here, and all the buildings were there.
It was shattered by an earthquake."
"Where are their bodies?" Kajik asked.
"In 1994, he was cremated and taken away by Sha Geli."
Old Ivan took out a group photo of the exploration team from his arms, pointed at the six people on it and said, "Except for the body named Gennady, who was put into an oil drum and thrown into the mine, the remaining five have already
Buried together with Comrade Barsukov, the leader of the Tinder project."
"Ivan, what happened at that time?" Kajik couldn't help but ask.
"It's just a tragedy caused by greed and loss of faith."
Old Ivan sighed, took the cigarette from the former, lit it, and briefly recounted the past events that Wei Ran had personally experienced.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "In 1992, I faked my death with the help of the engineer riots at the 118th launch site, and returned here the next year, hiding with a false identity prepared in advance.
.”
Having said this, Old Ivan lit up a cigarette again, "In 1994, Shagoli, the only person I had any contact with, came here with his wife and unborn child.
He told me that according to Barsukov's wife, he did not actually transport the information of the Tinder Project here at that time. Everything he did at that time was actually just to attract the attention of those traitors here.
Those data never left the Academy of Sciences, but no clues were found about where they were hidden until Shagoli immigrated to Australia.
Since then, I simply changed my current job, took out the transport truck that was hidden at the time, repainted it, and even replaced it with a more powerful engine a few years ago."
Having said this, Old Ivan raised his finger and pointed to the collapsed mine not far away, "There is still a transport truck with a replaced identity buried there. Of course, there is also the TNT explosive that was moved out of the safe at that time.
"
"Has anyone come here looking for fire in these years?" Kajik asked.
"Before I faked my death, there were indeed many people who had been looking for the missing Tinder."
Old Ivan smiled mockingly to himself, "But since I took the clues to the launch site and then faked my death, no one has been here again. I'm afraid only Comrade Barsukov himself knows where the original data is.
"
Having said this, Old Ivan looked at the silent Wei Ran, "Yesterday I almost thought he was here to steal fire. Until he said the two key words Kazan University and history teacher, I immediately guessed it.
It should be you.
It's a pity to say that, I have been looking forward to someone digging out the collapsed mine. According to my calculations, if there is an explosion here, it should just be able to reach my rescue station camp."
"I really appreciate your eight generations of ancestors..."
Wei Ran put his hand in his pocket and secretly pointed his middle finger at old Ivan. At the same time, his eyes could not help but look out the window.
I don't know whether it was due to the lack of cover from the coniferous forest or the change in the sky. In less than an hour, a cold wind was blowing outside the car window, and large flakes of snow began to fly in the sky.
Although this scene is extremely familiar to both Wei Ran and the current old Ivan. But when he returned to his old place, the scene outside the window was extremely strange.
Time has passed by only twenty or thirty years, and now there are no complete man-made buildings in this abandoned mine. Regardless of the abandoned building where the auditorium and broadcast station were originally located, or the workshop that was large enough to park the transport truck, all of them have been destroyed.
It turned into rubble all over the ground, covered tightly by thick snow.
Even the entrance to the collapsed mine had been completely filled with ice and snow, with no trace of a ravine visible. But only, a rusty bulldozer was still parked near the collapsed and dangerous mine entrance.
On the large bulldozer propped up by the mine car, the last words welded with steel bars are still clearly legible - the Lower Tunguska Mine No. 119 was closed on Christmas Eve in 1962 due to exhaustion of resource extraction.
