War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 674 Enjoying the Blizzard

On December 12, as the sky brightened, the news from the All-Soviet Radio Station began to be played on the loudspeakers inside and outside the building.

According to the original time plan, today is the day they must return to the base camp for resupply.Of course, the plan is ultimately just a plan. After the last replenishment, they have decided not to go back until the sampling task is completed.

Of course, it was originally scheduled yesterday, and today everyone made a decision whether to leave or stay, and because of Dr. Pavel's suicide, it was postponed without accident.

In the cab of the transport vehicle, Wei Ran, who was woken up by the alarm clock and the radio at the same time, yawned. In the long night yesterday, Taras never left the living cabin from the beginning to the end. But the opponent didn't even move his position.

If it weren't for the cigarettes that he raised from time to time, Wei Ran would have even thought that Taras had committed suicide.

Compared with this obviously worried young man, Wei Ran also had some new gains after seeing the document in the tin cabinet.

There is no doubt that the data that the scientific research team wants to transfer is in that large safe.Even, he is [-]% sure that it is precisely because of the existence of these secretly transferred original data that Apolly will appear in this team as a driver.

But the question is, why do they have to transfer the data here? Since the main purpose is to transfer the data, what is the point of the sampling work they were doing before?
After sorting out these doubts for the last time, Wei Ran scratched his scalp irritably, then pushed open the car door, almost forced Talas to leave the workshop, and walked into the abandoned building again.

Fortunately, although these people looked depressed, they were finally willing to open their mouths to eat.It's just that during the dinner, everyone tacitly didn't talk about the topic of whether to leave or stay.

Such a silent and depressing atmosphere lasted until December 12th, but the snowstorm outside the window began to intensify, and even the broadcast signal was affected.

After trying to switch to the local radio station and hearing the forecast of an impending heavy snowstorm, the depressive atmosphere of the past few days has eased a lot.

'We have to leave this building'

Apoli, who has been hiding in the radio station these days, said categorically, "And we must change the materials in the workshop as soon as possible. Once the snowstorm comes, only the transport vehicle is the safest."

"I want to bring Teacher Pavel with me," Agwan said seriously.

"Get moving!"

Apolly glanced at Agwan, and issued an order directly, "Agwan, you send Dr. Pavel downstairs immediately, Victor, you go and drive the transport vehicle to pick up Agwan and Dr. Pavel." The rest of the people immediately go to the workshop to transfer materials, let's start now!"

Hearing this, Agwan immediately ran to the auditorium, Wei Ran and the others immediately went downstairs, and ran into the workshop against the intensifying wind, while Apoli returned to the radio station, took the radio, and the recent The spy radio that has been hiding here for days.

When Wei Ran parked the transport vehicle downstairs, Agwan had been waiting for a long time with Dr. Pavel's body on his back, and Apoli, even before Wei Ran pushed open the door of the driver's cab, had already put the transport vehicle on his back. The wooden box with the spy radio was locked into the tool storage, and then he handed over the large radio in his hand to Wei Ran.

The two helped Agwan to put Dr. Pavel's body into the cargo compartment and put it away. After waiting for them to get in the car, Wei Ran immediately drove the car to the door of the workshop.

"Apolly, will this workshop really be blown down by a snowstorm?" Gennady asked aloud in the gust of wind when he saw Apolly jumped out of the cab.

"Do you dare to bet?" Apolly asked loudly.

"Just pretend I didn't say it!" Gennady immediately changed his tone, and left the workshop with a large bucket full of fuel, heading straight for the landmark-like bulldozer not far away.

While everyone was busy, barrels of fuel surrounded a small space on one side of the bulldozer, and various materials that had been moved down before were pushed inside.

The outer ring of oil drums was reinforced with steel wire ropes, and Wei Ran was also under the command of Apoli, and used the transport vehicle to forcefully drag the crawler-type artillery tractor over.

Finally, the transport vehicle itself formed a triangular area enclosing all the supplies. Under the command of Apolly, everyone worked together to fill up the fuel tank of the transport vehicle, and then started the fuel generator in the cargo compartment. He Li lifted a large barrel of coking coal into the living cabin.

When the hatch was closed, the howling of the wind and snow was also blocked outside.But Apoli, who came in last, said while filling the tin bucket with coke, "Someone needs to be on duty in the cab, lest Blizzard bury our car, and we have nothing to do next."

"Let me go." Wei Ran snatched the tin bucket from the opponent's hand while speaking, "Leave this kind of thing to me."

Apoli thought for a moment, picked up another tin bucket, and while transferring the charcoal fire from the stove, he said additionally, "Victor, always pay attention to the situation outside, every four to five hours, you must start the engine for at least half an hour time."

"Don't worry." Wei Ran took the tin bucket handed over by the other party, turned around and left the living cabin and got into the driver's cab.

He ignited the cast-iron stove in the cab with the small half-barrel of charcoal fire. With the help of Apoli and the enthusiastic Shalip, Wei Ran stockpiled two additional wooden boxes of coke and various food and drink in the space behind the seat. They sent them away and closed the car door.

Because of Apoli's command, the front and rear compartments of this transport vehicle maintained a minimum angle.

In this way, whether it is Wei Ran in the cab or everyone in the living cabin, they can see the materials protected in the middle through the window.

Of course, if the visibility is high enough, they can barely see each other. Apoli in the living cabin can easily see the location of the tool storage.And Wei Ran was willing to take the initiative to be on duty in the cab, apparently because he wanted to find out what was in the wooden box that Apoli had sent into the tool warehouse just now.

However, right now, both parties can still greet each other through the car window, so it is naturally not a good time to peek at secrets.

With nothing to do, Wei Ran simply filled the enamel kettle with snow and set it on the stove to boil water and make tea to pass the time.

Perhaps it was because Wei Ran was also worried that Wei Ran would be bored alone in the cab. Before the pot of snow melted into water, the broadcast content with noise came from the small speaker above his head, as well as the various voices from everyone in the living cabin. kind of movement.

Subconsciously, he touched the micro-sound pistol under the dashboard, and after confirming that it was still in place, Wei Ran tried to flip the switch next to the small horn above his head. Leave it open.Slowly took off the heavy polar winter boots, sat cross-legged on the seat, patiently roasting the fire while waiting for the snowstorm to come.

In less than two hours, the howling of the cold wind outside the car window became more and more frightening, and even Wei Ran could feel the cab shaking slowly with the strong wind.

In addition to the wind, the snowflakes flying outside became thicker and thicker, so that Wei Ran couldn't tell whether the snowflakes that almost covered the windshield were blown up by the wind or fell from the sky.

Reaching out his hand to turn on the heating function of the wiper and the window, Wei Ran found a comfortable position and quietly listened to various sounds from the speaker above his head from the living cabin.

Obviously, as the wind and snow outside the car got bigger and bigger, the atmosphere in the living cabin got better and better. When the sky outside completely darkened, Apolly reminded him to turn on all the searchlights in the car through the loudspeaker. At that time, Dr. Murat in the living cabin even started to teach Gennady how to play the violin.

It's just that the sound of sawing wood inevitably aroused a series of booing, and Wei Ran couldn't help but think of the art courses at Hongqi Forest Farm.

However, it is not difficult to understand the pleasant atmosphere that is completely different from before.After all, this blizzard came at just the right time.It is precisely because of its existence that everyone can temporarily not have to think about whether to leave or stay.Not to mention the unavoidable association of Dr. Pavel who committed suicide because he heard them discussing this issue in private.

While they were enjoying the blizzard here, the camp they didn't plan to return to for the time being fell into a little chaos because of this transport vehicle code-named pickaxe.

About a week ago, since the logistics officer named Sha Geli left with the transport vehicle that allocated supplies every day, he never came back. Even just two days ago, the remaining exploration teams or scientific research teams also terminated all operations one after another. The tasks have been evacuated.

It was also at this time that the pickaxe transport vehicle that was supposed to come back did not come back for a long time. Even the communication soldier who was secretly bought by Murat and Dr. Pavel told the person in charge when he was inquiring. He just lost the radio signal to this car.

After waiting for two full days in a row, the person in charge of this camp finally couldn't sit still, and sent out all the few transport vehicles in his hand, trying his best to find the transport vehicle code-named pickaxe.

It's a pity that from the beginning to the end, the range of activities of the few crawler transport vehicles did not exceed the distance of 50 kilometers from the camp.

Almost at the same time, the logistics officer named Sha Geli also left from the carriage of a coal train that had just stopped at Taishet Station, quietly walked out of the busy freight station in the night, and mixed into the On the edge of the city, in a hotel next to the telegraph office.

The city, built at the intersection of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the South-Siberian Railway and the Bei-Amur Railway, is the most important railway hub in Siberia.So even though the news of the existence of the Soviet Union in name only made people panic, but everyone was not idle, which made the place even busier.

Perhaps it was also for this reason that Shagoli, who was dressed as a railway worker, got into the corner room on the top floor of this small hotel without attracting anyone's attention.

Without turning on the light at all, Shagoli took out a palm-sized flashlight from his pocket and turned it on to roughly check the room, then immediately lifted the bed board, and pulled out a khaki metal box from underneath.

Holding the box and walking to the table by the window, Shagoli glanced at the time on the 24-hour watch, then opened the box as quickly as possible, and set up a Swift KM spy radio.

Amidst the sound of ticking codes, Shagoli sent out a message at the fastest speed, however, this message seemed to have disappeared without any response at all.

Unwilling to give up, he sent the message again. After waiting for a while, Shagoli immediately packed the radio into the suitcase, returned to the station again in the dark, and successfully boarded a train passing through Irku as a railway worker. Freight train in Tsk.

(End of this chapter)