War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 692
"You actually planted a tree in the cab?!" Wei Ran exclaimed sincerely while sitting on the co-pilot after entering the cab of the transport vehicle for the second time.

“Just an accident”

Old Ivan explained with a smile, "It sprouted from rotten apples more than [-] years ago. I just made some soil for it, but I didn't expect it to survive so tenaciously."

Wei Ran pretended to admire this luxuriant apple tree, and a series of praises came out of his mouth.

"The fruit it bears is not delicious, it has no sweet taste at all." While talking, old Ivan reached out and grabbed an apple from the tree and handed it to Wei Ran, "Young man, what do you want to talk to me about?"

He took a bite of the half-red apple, and sure enough, as the old Ivan said, the fruit did not have the sour or sweet taste that apples should have, and the slightly astringent taste of the water stains was really unimpressive. interest.

But even so, he still ate the whole apple earnestly, until the last bit of pulp on the core was eaten up, and then he slowly took out a tissue to wrap it up and put it in his pocket.

From the beginning to the end, old Ivan sat patiently in the driver's seat, looking at Wei Ran with a smile.

Swallowing the last bite of pulp in his mouth, Wei Ran took out the Chapter 2 tissue and wiped his mouth, then asked, "Old Ivan, how much did the two drivers lose?"

"I'm afraid the next few years will be difficult"

Old Ivan frowned and said, "Their cars are all ruined. Without their 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 goods according to the price. He's broke."

"I want to help them," Wei Ran said in deliberation.

"Do you want to help them?" Seeing Wei Ran nodding seriously, old Ivan asked with a smile, "How do you plan to help?"

"At least there's nothing wrong with giving them each a truck"

Wei Ran thought for a while, and continued, "If necessary, I can buy even the truck that fell into the water."

"It's rare to have a young man as generous as you"

Old Ivan spread his hands, "But there is always a price for these, right? And why don't you just talk to them?"

"I don't know much about them, I don't even know their names."

Wei Ran adjusted the seat to a comfortable angle familiarly, "So I can only look for you for this kind of thing. At least you can persist in this ghost place for so long, which is enough to prove that you are a good person."

"Good guy?" Old Ivan laughed dumbly, "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"

"Give them a guarantee, and give me a guarantee, that's enough."

Seeing that old Ivan was silent, Wei Ran simply continued to pick up the nice words and said, "Even if they are willing, after their injuries are healed, maybe I can provide them with a part-time job with a good salary in the future, but The premise of all this is mutual trust.

Obviously, I can't trust them yet, and they probably can't trust me either.But Mr. Ivan, you are different. They obviously trust you very much, even entrusting their lives to you when they are 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?"

"Perhaps sympathy"

Wei Ran responded frankly, never mentioning any words related to the Tinder project, "I want to chat with you alone, and I hope you can give me some trust."

As for the conditions just offered, he would naturally not renege on his debts.Not to mention that the GAZ 66 trucks that are almost everywhere are converted into RMB at most tens of thousands of dollars per truck.Anyway, he has already made up his mind, no matter buying a car or buying goods that fell into the water, it must be the cheap teacher Kajik who will pay the bill.

Even the promise to introduce jobs to those two drivers is not just talk, if Sui Sui can really bring tourists to such a ghost place for self-driving, someone must follow by then, 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 it's okay, since you need some trust, why don't you be honest and tell me what you are here for?" of?"

"Come to the Fire Rescue Station or come to Tunguska?" Wei Ran asked back.

"all"

"Come here just to find a safe camp to rest for the night."

Wei Ran paused, and added, "Of course, I'm also curious about how the people in the field rescue station survived the long winter here."

"What is your purpose of coming to Tunguska?" Old Ivan continued to ask.

Finally let me wait until you ask this sentence!

Wei Ran slightly moved his left hand resting on the edge of the box, "Look for some missing heroes for my teacher."

"The missing hero?"

"Yes, hero"

Wei Ran invisibly praised him again in advance, looked at the other party's eyes casually and explained, "To be precise, it was an exploration team that disappeared when the Soviet Union disintegrated and belonged to the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Some of them were missing during that time, and my teacher wanted to find them."

"Who is your teacher?" Old Ivan asked at the same time, his left hand had reached the back of the dashboard.

"A teacher of history at Kazan University"

Wei Ran gave an answer as if he didn't hear anything, but in fact, almost every muscle in his whole body was ready to fight back before the opponent drew his gun.

"Kazan University? History teacher?"

Old Ivan muttered to himself, then asked abruptly, "How are you sure it's me?"

"I"

"You better tell the truth"

Old Ivan squinted his eyes and issued a warning. At the same time, he reached out to pull the turf at the root of the apple tree, grabbed an inconspicuous pull ring and reminded, "I hid about five kilograms of TNT under the apple tree, and the detonation delay is less than half. seconds,"

Hey!
Wei Ran frowned, took a deep breath and replied, "Safety box, before you came back, I saw the safe box issued by the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. My teacher said that its production quantity is not large. "

"Your teacher, does his wife run a Georgian restaurant?" Old Ivan asked with a smile.

Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.However, at this moment, old Ivan pulled out the metal ring at the root of the apple tree!

"Fuck!"

Without thinking, Wei Ran pushed open the car door and jumped out, laying down on the thick snow and hugging his head.

One second, two seconds, three seconds, the expected explosion did not appear, but old Ivan's breathless laughter came from the cab!

"Your uncle!"

Wei Ran stood up cursing. He deliberately chose the cab for the chat at the beginning, just thinking that the other party could relax his vigilance somewhat in the familiar environment, so that he could ask the other party's true attitude.It's a pity, after all, Lao Jiang is hotter, and he was still played by the other party.

Swearing and getting into the cab, old Ivan was still holding the metal ring in his hand, but what was connected under the ring was just a thermometer.

But at the same time, he was already holding a Makorov micro-sound pistol in his other hand.

"I haven't met such an idiot as you for a long time." Old Ivan waved his gun lightly, "Call your teacher."

Glancing at the weapon in the opponent's hand, Wei Ran closed the car door unhurriedly, 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 ring out, and Wei Ran had already let go of his hand, and unhurriedly took out a Makorov pistol from his pocket, and at the same time stretched out his other hand. On the edge of the box with apple trees, a firing pin was squeezed out from under a small stone for landscaping and shook towards the other side.

The firing pin was naturally removed last time when he came to the cab to look for fire materials, so that when he explained his intentions to the old Ivan, the other party could sit down and talk to him calmly.Otherwise, even if he was given a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to ask the other party to chat here.

"It's not a good habit to rummage around in other people's homes without permission." Old Ivan handed Wei Ran the silent pistol in his hand that couldn't be fired at all.

"Sorry for touching your stuff"

Wei Ran apologized as sincerely as possible, took the opponent's weapon, quickly pulled out the magazine, and emptied the bullet in the chamber.

"Your apology is not sincere at all"

Old Ivan hadn't finished speaking, but Wei Ran had already handed over the rented Makorov pistol in his hand, "Is this sincerity enough?"

After taking the pistol and taking a look at the magazine, old Ivan threw it directly on the dashboard. There was no bullet in the gun at all.

Wei Ran smiled, and also lightly placed the non-threatening weapon in his hand on the dashboard. As for the bullets and firing pins, he naturally put them in his pocket.

"I didn't see the sincerity, but you are very courageous."

Old Ivan's tone was rarely more appreciative, "What do you want to ask next?"

"Ask your attitude"

Wei Ran replied unexpectedly, "If you want to continue living like this, you must find a way to help me index the investigation line to other places. If you are willing to meet with my employer, that is, my teacher, I will Give him a call 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?"

Wei Ran naturally gave an explanation that he had thought about in advance, "If there is no compelling reason, who would be willing to live in such a ghostly place for so long? And I'm not sure what my teacher's attitude will be to you, in case he If I want to kill you, am I an accomplice?"

"For this reason?"

"if not?"

Wei Ran explained with a hint of complaint, "He didn't offer me a high commission, it's not worth my risk of becoming an accomplice of a murderer to think about him, besides, even if I can't find you, I will Nothing to lose."

"How did you find this place?" Old Ivan finally asked.

"just by accident"

Wei Ran became more calm, "I originally planned to go to the No. 58 forest farm first, but on the way, I encountered a container placed by the Fire Rescue Station, so I changed my itinerary and decided to find this man who has worked in the wilderness for more than [-] years. Ask the locals."

"Then you found that safe?" Old Ivan asked while reaching out to grab a fruit and took a bite.

"The targets I'm looking for include a 7-person scientific expedition team, a DT-30 transport vehicle, and a rare safe."

Wei Ran also grabbed a fruit and took a bite, "As a result, I saw a DT-30 transport vehicle and a safe here, aren't these enough?"

"Call your employer teacher." Old Ivan sighed abruptly, "Let him come here to see me."

"No problem, any more requests?"

Old Ivan thought for a while and added with a smile, "Let him bring the two trucks you just promised and the cash for buying the goods that fell into the water."

"Thank you"

Wei Ran expressed his thanks inexplicably, and without leaving the cab of the transport vehicle, 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? You can't wait until tomorrow morning for something."

"I found it"

Wei Ran glanced at the smiling old Ivan, interrupted Kajik's complaint directly and said, "At least we found the transport vehicle and the safe, and there is a survivor who is not in the information you gave me, I guess it should be the transport vehicle driver."

"Are you kidding me?!"

Kajik on the other end of the phone lost his breath immediately, "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's okay, did he say anything?" Kajik added belatedly, "Well, you're not injured, are you?"

"Badly hurt"

Wei Ran said angrily, "Medical expenses are at least 2 million rubles. In addition, please let me finish first. The other party asked you to bring two GAZ 66 trucks or Ural 375 trucks in better condition. Just bring enough cash to buy a load of buckskin and venison."

"I'm leaving now." Kajik hung up the phone before he finished speaking.

"He knows the location?" Old Ivan asked subconsciously.

Wei Ran pointed to the off-road vehicle outside the car window and replied, "Although there are no bugging devices in those off-road vehicles, the number of positioning devices is definitely more than the number of tires, let alone Dmitry."

"Want to see what's in the safe?" Old Ivan changed the subject abruptly.

"I don't want to," Wei Ran even pushed open the car door, "I don't have much interest in the things in the safe."

"Have you seen it?" Old Ivan asked almost certainly.

"I haven't seen it, I'm just afraid of death."

Wei Ran 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 Brezhnezov and Gorbachev Playing poker, I'm not even interested in going to see it."

"In this case, just wait for your employer to come over."

Old Ivan thought for a while and continued, "Young man, if you are not in a hurry to go back, how about helping out at the rescue station first?"

"Is there a salary?" Wei Ran asked before jumping out of the cab.

"No." Old Ivan spread his hands dumbfounded.

"That's fine"

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran gently placed the magazine and firing pin in his pocket on the turf under the apple tree, turned around and jumped out of the cab, closed the car door, and walked not far away with his back covered in cold sweat SUV.

In the warm cab of the transport vehicle, old Ivan picked up the firing pin and the magazine, slowly reloaded them into the suppressed pistol, and put the pistol back on the back of the dashboard.

From the beginning to the end, old Ivan was staring at the off-road vehicle that Wei Ran got into through the window.It's like after Wei Ran got into the car, he hid in the dark through the car window and stared at old Ivan.

“What a fun little guy”

“What a fun old guy”

At a certain moment, Old Ivan and Wei Ran gave each other almost unanimous evaluations almost at the same time.

"Victor, I have to go back urgently."

On the car radio channel, Dmitry said apologetically, "I just received a notice to rush back to the airport immediately, and I won't be back until two days at the earliest."

"It's okay." Wei Ran picked up the microphone of the car radio and responded, "Thank you for your help, we will wait for you here."

"You're welcome." Dmitry responded and started the car at the same time, "If you encounter trouble next time, you can contact me at any time."

"Be careful on the road"

Wei Ran sincerely blessed him. Although he was still not sure what Dmitry's real identity was, he could tell that the other party had been notified to rush back at this time. Obviously, someone didn't want him to have any relationship with "Tinder". any contact.

only.
Wei Ran looked at the cab of the transport vehicle again, and now he began to doubt whether the information related to the fire 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 knew each other, why was there no connection between them?
If you know each other but don’t contact me, is it because you can’t believe it, or because Apoli, whose alias 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 doesn't seem to make sense either.

Could it be that Shagoli, who had been here before, had already taken away the Tinder project information?

Wei Ran shook his head secretly and denied his guess. If that was the case, Apoli faked his death and changed his name, and what is the reason for living in seclusion here for more than [-] years?
After a lot of hard thinking to no avail, he could only 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 might have to stay here for two or three days to wait for Dmitri, Sui Sui first politely asked old Ivan for his consent, and then immediately took three pets and three girlfriends to send them away last night. The unfinished game was moved to a more spacious and comfortable transport vehicle.

And Jima and Wei Ran were unceremoniously requisitioned 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 whose faces were covered with notes. , and also took care of the two unlucky drivers 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 vehicle, and the dog Beria who is lying comfortably by the fire and doesn't want to move his nest at all.

I don't know if it was because of the conversation in the cab last night, but old Ivan didn't draw the heavy curtains today.But perhaps out of etiquette, this old man over fifty years old stacked the cups neatly, and the bunk that only accommodated one person was tidied up and looked extraordinarily clean.

In the living cabin of seven people again, Wei Ran boiled a large pot of strong tea with hawthorn leaves and dried hawthorn preserved in the food box, and personally poured it for everyone with the tea set found in the abandoned mine. a cup.

At the same time, Sui Sui also dug out a large pack of colorful packaging bags from her largest suitcase, filled a wooden box that was originally used to hold bullets, and greeted old Ivan warmly and generously. Taste all kinds of snacks one by one with a unit price of no more than 10 yuan.

Compared to the grinning old Ivan, Jima turned into a wilderness radio anchor at this time, borrowing the military radio system, chatting with drivers he had never met on the rescue channel of the fire rescue station. Chatting all over the world, and by the way, I didn't forget to recommend the movies of "my friend" intentionally or unintentionally.

Wei Ran, on the other hand, seems to have returned to the winter of 1991, patiently cooking thick oatmeal with the help of the stove, and preparing lunch for everyone by the way.

Near noon, an off-road vehicle that Dmitry used to drive drove two Ural 375 trucks along the ice, with a distance of 50 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, Karp and Gorman jumped out of them respectively!

"Why is he here?" Jima muttered in a low voice.

"How do I know?" Wei Ran plucked himself clean without even thinking about it.

Before the two of them took the initiative to say hello, Karp and Gorman turned around and got into the off-road vehicle. At the same time, Kajik got off the off-road vehicle and walked step by step to the old Ivan who was standing not far away. in front of you.

Because of the rising cold wind, Wei Ran and Jima standing at the door of the living cabin did not hear what the two of them said clearly. After seeing the two standing face to face for less than 5 minutes, Kajik turned towards them. waved.

"It seems to be calling us over"

Before Ji Ma finished speaking, he trotted over, but it was Wei Ran, who was standing at the door dawdling, unwilling to move at all.

Soon, Ji Ma ran over again, pointing his thumb behind him and said helplessly, "Mr. Kajik let you pass"

"Call me every half an hour to make sure I'm still alive." Wei Ran said half jokingly and half seriously.

"If only I could remember"

Ji Ma patted Wei Ran's shoulder lightly, bent over and picked up the dog who was squatting at the cabin door and didn't want to come out, and walked in, "Close the door for me, thank you."

"Scum"

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?"

The cheap mentor Kajik complained dissatisfiedly, and urged the off-road vehicle behind him, "Hurry up and get in the car, both of you."

"Go, go."

Old Ivan greeted Wei Ran with a smile, and got into the warm off-road vehicle behind Kajik.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Wei Ran decided to bite the bullet and got into the car, and said hello to Karp and Gorman who were waiting in the car in advance.

“Anywhere to sit”

Teacher Karp said with a smile, "On the way here, I heard from Kajik that you once said that I am no longer your opponent?"

"Nothing." Wei Ran quickly waved his hand.

It's a pity that before his words fell, Kajik took out his mobile phone and played a recording, "Forget it, Karp was no longer my opponent half a year ago. As for you, my boss, I will let you Hand, you are not my opponent."

"that."

Wei Ran looked at the schadenfreude Kajik with a mournful face, he was indeed the one who said the words in the recording just now, but he never expected that this old thing Kajik would actually record it!
"Kajik has been playing this recording over and over again since we met at Irkutsk Airport." Gorman, who was gloating at his misfortune, kindly reminded him.

"I really appreciate you"

Wei Ran glared at Kajik who was driving out of the camp, and already had the idea of ​​opening the car door and jumping off.

"So, this little guy belongs to you"

Before the old Ivan could finish his sentence, Karp took the right to speak and gave a negative answer, "No, he has nothing to do with us, so Comrade Apolly, are you sure you 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 puzzled, "You"

"nothing"

Old Ivan waved his hand, but he didn't explain. He just bent over and moved to the co-pilot's seat and sat down, guiding Kajik who was driving.

"Where are we going now?" Wei Ran simply changed the question and asked.

"Mine No. 119 in Lower Tunguska," old Ivan nonchalantly gave an answer that Wei Ran 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, then continued, "Do you know why we came here?"

"Tinder?" Old Ivan still looked nonchalant.

Kajik glanced at Karp with the help of the rearview mirror, nodded slightly, and said, "Ivan, no, Apoly, Comrade Apoly, your mission is over. From today onwards, you don't have to Stay here to protect the fire"

Old Ivan smiled, took out a flagon from his arms and took a sip, "Actually, you want to say that there is no kindling in my safe, right?"

"You know?!" The three people in the field car asked in surprise except Wei Ran and old Iwan.

"Look at the road, turn right behind the lightning-struck pine tree ahead."

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 94."

Kajik hesitated for a moment, then asked tentatively, "Shagory?"

Old Ivan nodded, "It was indeed Shagoli who told me that he brought his wife to the Tunguska Coalfield to find me, told me that there was no information about Tinder in the safe, and brought the password, and opened the safe himself .Like he said, the safe has nothing to do with the Tinder project other than it's full of TNT."

"Now that you know, why do you?"

"Otherwise where would I go?"

Old Ivan, or the incognito Apolly, asked flatly, "The Commonwealth of Independent States? Russia? Ukeran or Hasa? Or those idiots in Belarus who still call themselves KGB?"

"Feel sorry."

Kajik said apologetically, "After that incident, Shagoli only reported to me that you disappeared with the exploration team. It wasn't until we accidentally discovered his relics a while ago that we knew that you were still alive and that Barsukov Mr. did not put the tinder materials in the safe, but put enough explosives in it."

"Wait, you just said, the relic? Shagoli is dead?" Apolly asked in surprise.

"You do not know?"

Kajik stepped on the brake, and after the car stopped, he took out a plastic book from his arms and handed it to Apoli, who was in the co-pilot seat, "He died in 2013, due to a fire caused by an accident. , which I found in the mezzanine of the safe he hid."

"He and I just greet each other over the radio once a year at Christmas"

Apollin said in a low voice, "It's true that I haven't received his telegram since Christmas in 2014. I didn't expect him to die, and he died of a fire."

"It seems to be to save his son." Kajik steered the car again and ran, "Let's not talk about him, Apoli."

"Ivan"

The old man sitting in the co-pilot corrected, "Sitting next to you now is Ivan Belov, a miner who grew up in the small town of Yuketa."

"Okay, Comrade Ivan Belov, do you want to live in a warmer place?"

"No need, it's fine here."

Old Ivan refused while flipping through the plastic-covered book that Kajik handed over just now, "And there are many people who need help here. Since the Soviet Union is no longer here, this is my hometown."

"Soviet Union is gone"

Karp, who hadn't spoken just now, abruptly joined the topic, "But Apolly"

"Ivan, Ivan Belov," the old co-pilot corrected, closing the plastic notebook.

"Comrade Apolly, we need your help." Karp stubbornly insisted on calling the co-pilot's peers by the name Apolly.

"No one can order me anymore." Old Ivan looked at Karp indifferently, and expressed his attitude firmly.

"As far as I know, you set off from the small town of Tula at that time?" Gorman asked with a smile.

"Who are you?" Old Ivan asked, frowning.

Seeing this, Kajik stopped the car again, put his mouth close to the former's ear, and while speaking in a low voice, he slammed the accelerator heavily, using the roar of the engine to cover the whisper that he obviously didn't want Wei Ran to hear.

After the engine resumed its original rhythm, old Ivan glanced at Karp and Gorman through the rearview mirror, and finally said, "What do I need to do?"

"How about being a tavernkeeper?"

Gorman deliberately glanced at Wei Ran, and then continued, "It's in the tavern where you set off."

"That's all?" Old Ivan asked warily.

"I still need to take care of some girls and some children." The words that came out of Gorman's mouth made Wei Ran feel terrified, "Train them well."

"How long?" Old Ivan simply turned around and asked.

"At least until the youngest one becomes an adult," Gorman said, pointing at Wei Ran, "this young man will provide you with the necessary help."

"Why me again?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.

"For the trouble you created yourself, of course you have to take care of those children and their mothers who are too young." Gorman took a big green pot for Wei Ran as a matter of course, and then comforted him, "Of course, in the future If the Hela organization has any benefits, it is yours."

"They can have a fart profit"

"Otherwise, why do you think Anna gave you so many diamonds?" Karp asked quietly.

"So...milk powder money?" Wei Ran asked with an ugly face.

"Since you chose to be kind back then, you should pay for your kindness."

Karp looked at the ruins outside the window and said quietly, "Victor, even kindness has a price. This time you should thank Anna for helping you get enough child support, and you should also thank Gorman Let those girls and children become normal people, but there may not be such a good thing next time.

"Of course, if you find it troublesome, you can kill all those girls and children. There are enough beasts here to help you digest those young corpses." Gorman deliberately disgusted Wei Ran.

"I see, thank you." Wei Ran said reluctantly, he didn't expect that after watching the excitement for a long time, he finally found out that the excitement was actually him.

"Don't think it's unfair," Garp reminded at the end, then changed the subject, raised his finger and asked outside the window, "Is this right here?"

"right here"

Old Ivan, who had been listening to get information just now, signaled Kajik to stop the car, pointed to the ruined arm outside the car window and said, "In 96, there was a 5.7-magnitude earthquake here, and all the buildings were there. It collapsed in an earthquake."

"Where are their bodies?" Kajik asked.

"In 94, he was cremated and taken away by Shagoli"

Old Ivan took out a group photo of the exploration team from his arms, pointed to the six people on it and said, "Except for the corpse named Gennady who was put in an oil drum and thrown into the mine, the remaining five have all died. He was buried with Comrade Barsukov, the head of the Tinder project."

"Ivan, what happened at that time?" Kajik couldn't help asking.

"A tragedy caused by greed and loss of faith"

Old Ivan sighed, took the cigarette handed by the former, lit it, and briefly narrated the past that Wei Ran had personally experienced.

"In 92, I used the help of engineers from the 118th launch site to feign my death, and returned here in the second year, hiding with a fake identity prepared in advance."

Speaking of this, the old Ivan lit a cigarette again, "In 94, the only person who had contact with me, Shagoli, came here with his wife and unborn child.

He told me that, according to Barsukov's wife, he didn't actually bring the information about the Tinder project here at that time. All he did at that time was actually just to attract the attention of those traitors here.

Those data materials never left the Academy of Sciences at all, but where they were hidden, no clues were found until Sagoli immigrated to Australia.

Since then, I simply changed my current job, took out the transport truck that was hidden at the time and repainted it, and even replaced it with a more powerful engine a few years ago. "

Having said that, old Ivan pointed to the collapsed mine not far away, "There is still a transport vehicle 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 to look 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 laughed at himself, "But since I sent the clues to the launch site and then suspended animation, no one has been here again, and where the original materials are now, I am afraid that only Comrade Barsukov himself knows. "

Having said that, old Ivan looked at the silent Wei Ran, "Yesterday I almost thought he was here to steal fire. I guessed it immediately after he said the key words Kazan University and history teacher." It should be you.

It's a pity to say that, I've been looking forward to someone digging up that collapsed mine. According to my calculations, if there is an explosion here, it should just reach my rescue station camp. "

"I really thank you eight generations of ancestors."

Wei Ran put his hands in his pockets, secretly pointed out a middle finger to old Ivan, and at the same time his eyes looked out of the window involuntarily.

I don't know if it's because of the lack of shelter from the coniferous forest or the change in the weather. In less than an hour, the wind has blown outside the car window, and large flakes of snowflakes have begun to fly in the sky.

Although this scene is extremely familiar to both Wei Ran and the old Ivan today.But revisiting the old place, the scene outside the window is extremely strange.

Time flies but 30 years, and now there is no complete man-made building in this abandoned mine, no matter the abandoned building where the auditorium and broadcasting station were located, or the workshop that was large enough to stop the transport truck, all have been transformed There are rubble everywhere, covered tightly by thick snow.

Even the mouth of the collapsed mine had already been completely filled by ice and snow, with no gullies visible.But there is still a rusty bulldozer parked near the entrance of the collapsed and hidden dangerous mine.

On the large bulldozing shovel supported by the mine cart, the last words welded with steel bars are still clearly discernible - the No. 119 lower Tunguska mine was closed on Christmas Eve in 1962 due to the exhaustion of resources.

(End of this chapter)