War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 79 Digging the Air Defense Bunker
Outside the city of Bonn, in the ruins of Qifengshan Castle, Wei Ran and Jima, who were wearing anti-biological and chemical suits, carefully cleaned up the earth bag that sealed the air defense bunker under the leadership and guidance of Karp.And not far away, on the small high ground that Hannah supported with a gun, Teacher Dalia was leaning against a thick plane tree, holding a telescope to observe the surrounding environment.Even at her feet, there was a sniper rifle with a suppressor screwed on.

Under Wei Ran and Ji Ma's diligent excavation, the soil mixed with a lot of gravel was dug up bit by bit, finally exposing the concrete layer under the soil.

"The burial is really tight," Wei Qi murmured pantingly. Wearing protective clothing and a gas mask to do such physical work is definitely not a comfortable experience.

"Mr. Culp, what the hell are we digging?"

Jima asked pitifully, he and Wei Ran had been busy for an hour to dig out the "robbed hole" in front of him that was less than two meters in diameter and less than one meter in depth, but look at the soil that was dug out, Gravel and brick accounted for at least [-]%.The remaining soil was also covered with weed roots, but from the beginning to the end, no one told him what was buried here.

Karp took an electric drill to drill a hole in the concrete layer, then replaced the extension rod to deepen the small hole, which was only as thick as a thumb, and finally replaced it with a hollow stainless steel pipe to extract the water from the deepest part. A small amount of soil.

Instructing Wei Ran to plug the small hole with a piece of plasticine, Karp grabbed a hamster from the cage he brought over, and stuffed the soil sample he had just taken into the hamster's mouth After waiting for about 5 minutes, seeing that the hamster was still crawling around on his hand, he threw it directly into the grass not far away, and deliberately lowered his voice and said to Jima, "There may be something buried in it." Treasures, like gold or something."

"Gold?! Really?!" Jima suddenly felt no pain in his waist, and picked up the shovel that he had thrown to his feet. "Shall we dig it up now?!"

"It's just a possibility." While Karp was speaking, he had dug out a mist diffuser and a plastic bucket the size of a rice cooker from the box.

"Gold! Victor, did you hear that? Gold is buried here!" Jima shouted excitedly.

"It's just a possibility," Wei Ran reminded with a suppressed smile, gold?There can be a fart of gold here!
"It's very possible!" Jima murmured nervously with self-confidence that he didn't know where to find, "When I have money, I want to buy a good car and raise a few Ukrainian girls! I also want to buy the best car." Shotguns and the best tents!"

"You have money and you plan to take hunting as a job?" Wei Ran asked dumbfounded.

"That's right." Ji Ma sighed, "But what else can I do besides hunting?"

"Stop dreaming"

Karp unscrewed the plastic bucket, poured the medicine powder inside into the medicine box of the mist machine, and explained while adding water into it, "Sarin's chemical name is isopropyl meflodronate, which belongs to the class G neurotoxin. Interfering with acetylcholinesterase to destroy the nervous system. Just understand this, now let's talk about how to solve these dangerous troubles.

What I am preparing is an alkaline solution. Sarin is easily soluble in water and will undergo hydrolysis when it interacts with alkali. The higher the alkalinity, the faster the hydrolysis rate, and its hydrolyzed products are non-toxic.However, the fluoride ions produced by hydrolysis will produce toxic sarin again under acidic conditions. "

Speaking of which, Karp has already screwed on the medicine box of the mist machine, started it and said, "So wait a minute, after I blast that concrete layer, I will continue to spray the alkali solution for you two, as long as You are safe within range of the caustic solution and without removing your protective gear."

"Will it blow up the gold?" Jima nervously asked the question he was most concerned about. As for the danger, under the temptation of gold and out of his trust in Karp, he had already thrown it back Kazan.

"Certainly not"

Karp replied affirmatively, and then looked at Wei Ran, "What about you? Do you have any questions?"

"No more." Wei Ran answered while bending down to pick up the shovel.

"Stand back a little bit"

After Karp finished speaking, he took out the plastic explosives and the detonator from the box, and used the stainless steel tube just now to poke them into the hole that was only as thick as a thumb.

Step back a few steps and press the detonation switch. Amidst the sound of the explosion, the concrete layer dug out not long ago was immediately blown into pieces. Karp also picked up the mist machine and moved towards the explosion. Thick mist sprayed out from the location.

There was no need to urge at all, Ji Ma was the first to rush up with the shovel, and together with Wei Ran, worked hard to clean up the blasted concrete and the gravel mixed inside.

Under the tireless busyness of the two, the concrete layer more than [-] centimeters thick was cleared aside, revealing the damp soil inside and a layer of nearly decayed plastic film.

Handing over the fog machine to Jima, Karp carefully smashed the stainless steel tube in with a hammer again to take some samples, stuffed it back into the mouth of a hamster and waited for a few minutes before waving his hand to signal the two to continue. dig.

After a whole morning of busy work, Wei Ran and Jima, who were almost half dead, finally opened a nearly three-meter-long tunnel, and under the guidance of Karp, they completed the reinforcement of the tunnel with the wooden boards and jacks they brought.And at the other end of this tunnel is the concrete gate of the air-raid bunker.

"Gold! I can already smell gold!" Jima, wearing a gas mask, muttered nervously, bent over and was about to climb in.

Karp grabbed Jima, "Jima, you stay outside."

"I stay outside?" Jima asked in disbelief.

"Did you ask me to leave Victor outside?" Karp said naturally, "I can't trust him."

"Uh..." Ji Ma looked at the hard-earned tunnel in embarrassment.

"Don't worry, if gold is found, it will be yours."

While talking, Karp took out two action cameras from his bag, turned on the camera, and handed one of them to Wei Ran.Then the medicine box of the fog machine was removed, and the medicine spray port was used as a blower, and it was stuck at the entrance of the tunnel.

"Okay, okay." Jima said helplessly, "If you really have gold, you must tell me as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, if there is gold, mine is yours too." Wei Ran said, clipping the action camera to the headlight belt, adjusted the angle, turned on the headlights, and followed Karp into the tunnel.

Bending over to pass through the concrete gate, Wei Ran couldn't help but widen his eyes when the air-raid bunker was illuminated by headlights.

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