Xixia dead book

Chapter 218 The Finale of Death (8)
"Oh? So... when did it all start?"

"Fate!"

That voice said something out of the question, and Makarov's heart trembled suddenly. He seemed to have heard this word somewhere. Yes, Tang Feng and Han Jiang once mentioned to him that an accident occurred in the scientific expedition team. In the campsite the night before, this word was deeply engraved on the trunk of a dead Populus euphratica tree!

"Fate?"

"Yes, all of this is predestined by fate, and I am destined to find the lost ancient city!"

"What is your relationship with the black lama and Ma Yuan?"

"Hmph, they are just passers-by in the long river of history, and some people will be recorded in the annals of history forever!"

"For example, Koznov discovered Blackwater City?!"

The voice fell silent, and Makarov waited quietly for a while before the voice said slowly: "No! Koznov is just an upstart, an ungrateful villain and a thief!"

"Isn't everything you do the same as him? Isn't it for the illusory legends and the treasures of the Xixia Dynasty?"

"No! Not only for the treasure, but also for love, hatred and the future!" That voice seemed to contain enormous power, and Makarov finally keenly captured the slightest emotional fluctuation in that voice.

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A terrible silence fell into the bunker again, and Makarov was afraid that the voice would quietly go away, so he said first: "I already know who you are, we must have met!"

"Of course, we must have met!" The voice gave an affirmative answer.

"Well, well, my old friend, Yuri, I know it's you!" Makarov announced Buldenko's name.

The voice sneered, "Ivan, the person you mentioned has long since died!"

"So you also know Buldenko? Who are you?" The voice was silent, Makarov couldn't hold back, and asked again: "Isakov?"

The voice remained silent in the darkness.

"Brenning?"

The voice remained silent.

"Stechkin? No, it won't be him!" Makarov himself denied Stechkin.

There was still silence in the darkness at the other end of the corridor.

"Warren White..." Makarov himself asked suspiciously.

No sound came from the depths of the dark corridor!

After a short period of silence, Makarov's eyes suddenly lit up, "You...you can't be one of those students, right? No, the students should all be dead..."

This time, the voice spoke again, "Ivan, stop guessing!"

Makarov suddenly felt that this voice had a feeling of deja vu, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this voice before, "No! I know you, I must know you!" Makarov roared loudly. , shaking the dark and gloomy bunker buzzing.

"Okay, as I said at the beginning, only one of us can see the hole cards! If I let you see my hole cards now, then..." The voice suddenly stopped.

"Then what?" Makarov asked back.

The voice did not answer, but footsteps came from the depths of the dark corridor, "Pa-pa-pa-" One step, two steps, three steps, four steps... The sound of mechanical and dull footsteps, this The sound of footsteps passed from Makarov's fragile eardrums to his body, beating his heart, Makarov instinctively stepped back at the same time, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps... not just because of nervousness , or because of fear, when the footsteps had already stopped, Makarov took two steps back, and then stopped. At this time, he heard the voice say firmly and forcefully: "If I let you see now My hole card, then your life will come to an end!"

Makarov heard his body tremble, and instinctively took another step back. He knew that guy was very close to him, but he still buried himself in the shadows, refusing to show his true colors, while he was exposed In the bright light, as long as the man has a gun, he can end his life at this moment!

Makarov wanted to dodge out of his professional habit, but a thought suddenly appeared in his mind, why did he dodge?Compared with those lives that have passed away, I have lived long enough!Thinking of this, Makarov forced himself to calm down, and counterattacked calmly: "Oh! Are you so confident? Don't you want to see my cards?"

"Your hole card?" The voice was obviously surprised by Makarov's answer.But soon, the voice calmed down, "Ivan, don't bluff, since you want to see my hole cards so much, then I will grant you, and farewell to my friend!"

After that voice finished speaking, the horrible sound of footsteps came back in the dark corridor, "Pa-pa-pa-" One step, two steps, three steps, four steps... Makarov felt that those steps had left He was getting closer and closer, his heart was beating wildly, he seemed to have seen that the man was pointing a gun at him, the bullet had been loaded, maybe... maybe when he saw the man's true face , the bullets in the gun will roar through his chest!
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The mechanical and dull footsteps seemed to be the timer on the time bomb at this moment. Makarov could no longer calm down, and he instinctively stepped back again. Just as he retreated from the first step, the guy's feet fell from the He stepped out from the shadows, but Makarov still couldn't see the man's face clearly; another step, Makarov took another step back, and the guy's legs were exposed; Makarov felt that he was about to suffocate , he didn't know what would happen next, and he didn't know how amazing that hole card would be!

There was another terrifying sound of footsteps, and the guy's upper body was exposed under the light. Makarov remembered his gun, but he couldn't find it after touching his whole body. He leaned against the cold and damp wall in despair, gasping for air. With a heavy breath, he waited for the moment when the hole cards were unlocked, and also for the final moment of death!
But just when the guy raised his foot and was about to take another step forward, Makarov suddenly heard another footstep from behind him, deep in the dark and terrifying bunker.The sound of footsteps was firm and powerful, coming from the depths of the bunker, Makarov was startled again, this... who is this?

Looking at the guy who had raised his feet, he obviously heard footsteps coming from the other end of the corridor. He hesitated for a while, then slowly lowered his feet. Walking from the depths, Makarov was at a loss and terrified. Then... who was the footsteps walking over from the other end?It was so firm!

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Makarov opened his eyes suddenly, and found that he was covered in sweat, but he was still lying in the yurt. He sat up and saw Tang Feng lying beside him, and Liang Yuan sleeping on the other side. Everything seemed to be in order. It's normal, but...but just now... Makarov panted heavily, recalling what happened just now. For a moment, he couldn't be sure that everything that happened just now was his dream. It's... that Haizi, the boundless Haizi suddenly flooded!Then he woke up, no!I didn't wake up, but... it was a dream within a dream!

Immediately afterwards, I dreamed of the bunker again, Bunker No. 21!Met the General there!No, I still haven't seen the true face of the general. I had a lot of conversations with the general. Makarov tried his best to recall the content of the conversations. Until finally, when the general was about to reveal his true face, another voice came from the other side of the bunker. There was a footstep, what's going on?Who would it be?

Makarov thought over and over again, unable to figure it out. When he thought that the general was about to come out of the shadows at the last moment, and that he himself would end his life, Makarov couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. He hurriedly touched his gun under the pillow, That hard guy is still there!Only then did Makarov feel a little relieved, but the endless dreams filled his confused brain, and when he thought of the general who was about to reveal his true face, Makarov felt a splitting headache!

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Makarov felt severe chest tightness, so he walked out of the yurt, looked at the sky, the sky was full of stars, the east was already a little white, but the night was still covering the whole earth, there was no movement in the yurt of the Weiming couple, it seemed that they were still alive Sleeping soundly, Makarov bypassed their yurt and walked to the small lake. The whole lake is really small, less than [-] square meters, so it can only be regarded as a small water bubble. This is their water source.

Makarov was sitting on the edge of the water bubble, looking at the surrounding silent sand dunes in a daze. Suddenly, someone behind him patted his shoulder. This was called Makarov's professional habits in the past. He was close, but now he was out of his mind, until the man shook him, and he was relieved. Looking back, it was Tang Feng.

"Why are you up too? We have to hurry today, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Tang Feng smiled: "Didn't you wake me up? I can see that you have something on your mind!"

"I had another dream!"

"Nightmare?"

"It's hard to say..." Makarov then told Tang Feng about his dream.

"What a strange dream!" Tang Feng murmured after listening.

"It's very strange, but this dream gave me a new idea..." Makarov said halfway, then suddenly stopped, as if he was lost in thought.

Tang Feng didn't dare to disturb him. Makarov pondered for a long time. When the east was pale, he suddenly shouted: "I think... I think my old friend Bultenko is probably the general !"

"Burtenko? Is that the general who has been hiding in the shadows?" Although Tang Feng had begun to doubt Buldenko because of the discovery of the bunker, when Makarov said Buldenko's name so firmly, He was still a little surprised!
"Yuri, I've seen your cards!" Makarov looked confident.

"But isn't he already dead?" Tang Feng asked back.

"This is the most incredible part. I can't say it right now, but my intuition tells me that Burdenko must be an insider, participant, and even the mastermind of the whole conspiracy!" Makarov paused , and said again: "Leave my dreams aside, let's look at the clues we have already grasped. At first, my suspicion of him was because of the mysterious pattern. The man in black had such tattoos on his body, and many students back then had tattoos like this. For such a tattoo, Bultenko gave me a plausible explanation at the time, so that I couldn't suspect a dead person because of that tattoo! But I ignored the biggest doubt!"

"The biggest doubt?"

"Yes, this question actually started from the moment I met him. The higher-ups sent me and him to Mongolia to carry out missions. He had a higher rank than me, but he wanted to follow my command. He said that he committed crimes and meritorious deeds. Now we know that he is I was punished because there was a major problem in the construction of the No. 21 bunker during the Thirteenth Bureau; and this No. 21 bunker made me even more doubtful. Burdenko is a very rigorous and serious person. A major mistake in taking charge of such an important project?"

"You mean he did it on purpose?!" Tang Feng said in surprise.

Makarov nodded, "I think this possibility is very high, which can be corroborated by our later discovery in the bunker. Then, this raises a question, why did he deliberately make a mistake to make the No. 21 bunker not function normally?" use?"

"In order to train the students... No, it's impossible. When the bunker was built, they hadn't advanced to the base yet!" Tang Feng said, shaking his head.

"No, it's very possible!"

"What? Could he be a prophet?"

"It's not a prophet! It's part of a huge conspiracy! Assuming that Buldenko made a deliberate mistake to make bunker 21 unusable, then he must have his purpose. What is this purpose? I don't know what the bunker is not working normally now." The specific reason, but through your deciphering the ancient map behind the jade screen, and a series of recent encounters, I thought of a reason, and this reason is related to the Hanhaimi City we are looking for."

"You mean the location of the bunker?"

"Yes, the bunker is too close to the border, and it is also too close to the Wild Wolf Valley. This is the problem. In the era when the bunker was built, military technology developed rapidly, emphasizing large-scale operations, so large military fortifications were built far away. The border has a certain depth, and it is unlikely to be built so close to the border. If it is built close to the border, once it encounters an attack from the opponent, it will soon be destroyed by the opponent. I think this is probably why bunker No. 21 was destroyed. The main reason for the abandonment is, of course, other reasons such as the internal structure. Then, considering the distance from the Wild Wolf Valley, it is even more suspicious!"

"That is to say, Buldenko deliberately built a bunker near the border for the purpose of the Wild Wolf Valley, causing the bunker to be abandoned?" Tang Feng thought for a while, and then said: "Even if you can make sense, but Bultenko is How do you know the secret of Wild Wolf Valley? You know, it took us a lot of effort to find it here!"

"Of course it is impossible for him to know from the beginning that Hanhaimi City is within Wild Wolf Valley, but he or his accomplice must know that Hanhaimi City is in this desert, and Wild Wolf Valley is particularly mysterious, so it has attracted their attention , how else to explain it?"

"But what is his purpose in doing this? To train students?"

"Training cadets came later. I think he originally wanted to build the abandoned No. 21 bunker into his forward base!"

"His forward base?"

"It is to enter this desert to find the advance base of Hanhai Micheng!"

"Oh? I see what you mean."

"I think this conspiracy was formed in 1964, that is, the lost 1964. The clues we have already know that the three people responsible for protecting Misha in 1964 are Breining, Isakov and Stechkin! And we These three people were also connected to Bourtenko through the student riots at the base. This can also explain your previous question, how did they know the secrets of Hanhai Micheng and Yuchaping? Don’t forget, Misha is The person closest to the answer!" Makarov seemed to have completed a perfect deduction when he said this.

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Makarov's words made Tang Feng fall into deep thought. After a while, Tang Feng slowly shook his head and said: "Old Ma, I think your inference is not mature enough, and there are still many loopholes. The first point How could Misha easily reveal the secrets of Yuchaping and Hanhai Micheng to these agents?"

Makarov was also not sure whether Misha had revealed the secrets of Yuchaping and Hanhaimi City to Stechkin and the others. He curled his lips and said, "I'll ask Misha! But getting involved in this matter The three people who came here, Stechkin and others, were all agents who had protected Misha around 1964, this is a fact, and I even doubt that there was another agent who protected Misha in 1964."

"You mean Buldenko?"

Makarov nodded, "Do you still remember those two pages in the file that were torn out?"

"Of course I remember, what is missing is 1964!"

"Don't forget that Buldenko once worked in the KGB archives, I think he still has some contacts and means there!"

"In short, I still can't agree with you on this point. Based on my judgment of Misha, he can't easily reveal the secrets of Yuchaping and Hanhai Micheng to Stechkin and others! If your inference is true, then, Besides Misha, they must have a more reliable source than Misha!"

"A more reliable source? Who else? No one is closer to the answer than Misha!" Makarov couldn't understand this question either.

Tang Feng went on to say: "Second point, the previous clues can only prove that Brening, Stechkin and others were involved in the incident of student riots, but Buldenko had already died at that time, and it was not clear that they and Buldenko were involved in the student riot. Tenko is directly related, unless Bultenko is alive and still leading the trainees!"

"That's what I'm most worried about." Makarov's white eyebrows were tangled together.

(End of this chapter)