In the abandoned ward where the aroma of food wafted, Wei Ran and others gathered around the table, eating hot meals while discussing how to open up the collapsed No. 4 mine.
Mikita's idea was full of Soviet-style simplicity and crudeness - it couldn't be exploded because the yield was not enough, so he believed that more explosives were needed for each blast, and if that didn't work, he would also use mines from unknown origins.
It was Paulide who thought he should find a bulldozer - even though he didn't know where to find one.
"Victor, what do you think?" Seeing that Wei Ran had not expressed his thoughts, Mikita took the initiative and asked.
"I have no opinion"
Wei Ran stuffed a piece of bread filled with thick soup into his mouth, and said with a slurred mouth while chewing, "First of all, our explosives are not enough at all, even including those mines. Secondly,
We have no idea where we can get a bulldozer. So instead of wasting time on these two unrealistic ideas, we should think about other solutions."
"Have you thought of it?" Paulide asked, holding the wine glass.
"No, I'm still thinking about it."
Wei Ran responded in a stern manner, and at the same time, he poked the second piece of bread filled with soup with his fork and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Forget it, let's drink first." Mikita shook his head helplessly, raised his cup and clinked it with Paulide, and then clinked it with Wei Ran who hurriedly picked up the cup.
After eating and drinking while chatting, the three of them got into their sleeping bags next to the fireplace and began to rest. Before the three of them started to eat, Selsi, who had had dinner in advance, had already climbed up to the third floor.
He lit a small stove that was not too big next to the observation post selected by Wei Ran, and carefully observed the direction of the river through the window - even though the heavy snow prevented him from seeing the situation 20 meters away.
In the dim but still warm room, the radio on the window sill replayed the news from Moscow.
Although Sersi, who was in charge of sentry duty, was not interested in the economic reform news coming from the loudspeaker, it was the only entertainment during the long night.
Just as he lay his upper body on the window sill and fell asleep, a faint sound of gunfire suddenly shocked him.
Standing up with a sudden movement, Sersi picked up the AKM assault rifle placed against the wall, and then immediately picked up the flower pot next to the stove and placed it on top of the stove.
When the room was completely dark, Selsi immediately leaned against the wall to find another window, and smashed open the third-floor window with the butt of his gun.
When the cold wind outside blew in through the broken windows, he heard no other movements, nor saw any unusual sights.
"Did you hear wrongly?"
After thinking for a moment, young Sersi stooped back to her original position, turned off the radio on the window sill, and after a moment's hesitation, took off the kettle from her waist and directly doused the charcoal fire in the stove.
Before he had time to hang the kettle back on the belt, he had already rushed to the stairs and climbed to the second floor by climbing the rope.
However, when he re-entered the room, he found that Wei Ran and the other three were already awake, and even the fireplace had been doused and the chimney had been blocked.
"I just heard gunshots," Sersi said, suppressing excitement and a trace of nervousness.
"Well done, we heard it too."
As Mikita spoke, he had completely extinguished the kerosene lamp, but even without the help of the light, either he, Wei Ran or Paulide skillfully pulled the trigger and loaded the bullet.
"Let's go, let's go see who is the guest." As Mikita spoke, he was the first to walk out of the room.
"I didn't expect it to come so soon," Paulide said happily, "I thought it would take a long time."
"It seems our problem has been solved," Wei Ran said in a confused voice, and immediately after, the three of them showed the same smile.
After passing through the sliding security door, the three walked to a room on the opposite side facing the river. They each hid in the shadow of the window, smashed the window with a gun butt or barrel, and quietly waited for the visitors.
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However, this time the wait was extraordinarily long. As the second hand of the pocket watch in Selsi's hand ticked, the whole night passed, until the short day came, until the snow weakened and finally stopped completely.
When they came down, they still didn't find anything unusual.
"Should I go out and take a look?" Paulide asked first.
"Need not"
Wei Ran and Mikita refused in unison. Yesterday's snow was the best disguise, but it was also the easiest way to expose their obstacles. If they go out at this time, once they leave traces on the snow, no matter how carefully they clean it up,
There is still a risk of exposure.
"Sersi, go get something to eat." Mikita said while staring outside. "Heat it with our kerosene stove."
"I know." Before Sersi could finish her words, she had already ducked and ran out of the room.
"You trained him well," Wei Ran said abruptly.
"My neighbor is a retired sniper"
Mikita explained with a smile, "Every time he goes to my place, he will ask my neighbor for advice on how to be a sniper."
"You learned well," Wei Ran praised again.
"It's a pity that he has a filial piety." There was no regret in Mikita's tone, but a lot of happiness mixed with it, "So he can only hunt."
"That's not bad," Paulide said on the side, "It's a good thing that we don't have to go to the battlefield."
"He always feels sorry for himself," Mikita said with a smile.
While chatting about children, time went by a lot faster. However, until Selsi brought them scalding pots of braised beef and sliced big ribs, the expected enemy never appeared.
"Did we hear wrong last night?" Paulide couldn't help but said as he put food into his mouth with a spoon.
"One person may hear it wrong, but it is impossible for four people to hear it wrong together." Mikita glanced at Sersi who was watching by the window, frowned and expressed his thoughts, "Could it be a hunter or a forest ranger?
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "They will not come to such a ghost place during this season," Paulide subconsciously retorted.
"Could our guests have visited an abandoned military base?"
Mikita paused and continued, "It was abandoned just this fall, and living here is definitely much more comfortable than what we have here."
"If the identity of our guests is what we suspect, even if they live there, they will eventually come here."
Wei Ran pointed in the direction of the trench, "That's their destination, so as long as we wait here, they will definitely come."
"Will they go directly to the mine?" Selsi, who was hiding by the window, asked without looking back.
"probably not"
Wei Ran continued, "I checked the other four mines yesterday and there were no traces of life inside. Even if they decide to live in an abandoned military base, they will find a building here as a base."
"Demon Town Museum"
“A little patient”
Mikita said while eating potatoes and beef in his mouth, "They will always come here if necessary. Before that, we can just take a rest and cover the windows of this room with wolf skins, so that
We can at least turn up the stove and warm ourselves up."
"I'll be responsible for blocking the windows later." Paulide was the first to accept the job.
After filling his stomach as quickly as possible, Paulide found wolf skins and canvas to seal the windows of this room. Weiyan and Mikita also rekindled the cast iron stove that they had brought down from the third floor. By the way, they also
Everyone's sleeping bags were temporarily moved to this room with a good view.
As the temperature in the room rose little by little, the sky outside the window gradually darkened. However, less than ten minutes after Wei Ran took over the sentry duty, two bright cars also lit up on the river in the distance.
lamp!
"Here we come!" As Wei Ran spoke, he had already picked up the weapon leaning against the wall.
Before he could finish his words, Mikita, who had just laid down, was the first to get up and get to the side of the observation hole as quickly as possible. He opened the animal skin that was only as big as a palm and looked through the broken glass window.
He headed outside. A little later than him, Paulide and Selsi also came up.
At the focus of the four people's eyes, an old-looking Gas truck drove with two beams of headlights along the frozen river covered with thick snow to the edge of the pier with difficulty.
"Their car doesn't seem to be powerful enough to climb up," Paulide was the first to say. "Although it's a bit far away, the car should be GAZ 51. Logically speaking, it should be able to climb up easily."
"Unless there is something very heavy inside." Weiyan, Mikita and even Sersi all said the same answer at the same time.
Before Paulide could say anything, figures jumped out of the back of the truck one after another. At the same time, Sersi and Weiyan immediately started counting.
"18" The two of them gave the same number in unison.
"There are more than we expected," Mikita said with a frown, "I wonder if they have weapons."
"They don't look like they are carrying weapons," Wei Ran said in a low voice, holding up his binoculars. "The cars are coming. Let's see where they go next."
"Kacha" Mikita silently opened the safety, and at the same time stretched the muzzle of the gun out of the observation hole.
Seeing this, Selsi and Paulide also stretched out their guns.
While they were waiting, the GAZ truck finally climbed onto the pier smoothly, and the figures who were originally helping push the truck at the back of the truck also got into the tarpaulin-wrapped cargo hold amidst the blatant sound of the horn.
"Come here at this time, they probably won't leave tonight." Wei Ran said this and turned to look at Mikita and others, "When will we take action?"
"The alarm clock always rings when you sleep most soundly."
Mikita grinned sinisterly and said, "So wait for our guests to settle down, and then we can go talk to them."
