Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen Kola Peninsula

They arrived in Moscow that afternoon. After a short rest, they took a flight to a city near Murmansk, the capital of the Murmansk region, then transferred to the urban area of ​​Murmansk, and stayed in an ordinary local hotel at night. Before setting off, Dr. Tian had told them that Murmansk was closed to the outside world due to military reasons, and it would be easy to get into trouble if you entered rashly, but it was also a transit point that you had to pass through to go to the Kola Peninsula.In order to avoid trouble, Dr. Tian has arranged for a local person with background in Murmansk Oblast to pick them up. When they arrive in the urban area, that person will take the initiative to find them.

It was the first time for the five members of the expedition team to go abroad. Although the task was arduous and the pressure was high, they still couldn't help but want to come out and feel the exotic atmosphere when they arrived in a city like Murmansk. Although Murmansk is the state capital, it is a small mountain city with a total population of less than 500,000. The city spreads out from the hillside of the Kola Bay, and you can see water and boats wherever you go.The girl from the mountain city has long legs and blue eyes, and has a charming smile. Ai Kailamu was fascinated all the way.

The population of the mountain city is very limited, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets.It was already early spring at this time, and many places in Xinjiang were still frozen by heavy snow. The temperature in Murmansk was much higher due to the influence of thermal currents. Walking on the street felt warm, and the wind blowing from the bay was also refreshing. The streets of Shancheng are old, and the houses seem to be covered with a layer of gray. Looking up and looking around, you can see the mottled mud walls on the high-rise buildings. The old city has a very strong atmosphere.In the bay not far away, ships sail into the port from time to time, and their sirens blare.

Yuan Sen walked around a few streets and suddenly said, "Why do I feel that someone has been following us?" Ai Kaila said: "Nonsense, this big city is like a small county in China, there are only five of us Chinese, foreign girls and foreign wives who have never seen the world must be surprised, you see Seeing that the girls passing by are all smiling at Master Ai, don’t you see that—” Ekailam yelled and pointed at a Russian girl who passed by him.The girl was wearing a floral dress, she smiled shyly, and ran over quickly. Yuan Sendao: "No, this feeling is completely different from passers-by looking at us curiously." He asked Wang Huidao, "Assistant Wang, have you noticed?"

Wang Hui looked around and found nothing unusual, so she said, "This is a military port and a nuclear base. There will be military convenience clothes on the street. Let's all be careful." Ai Kaila didn't bother to say: "Everyone is godlike, making himself uncomfortable, Master Ai feels very good." He suddenly exclaimed: "There is a situation—" Yuan Sen hurried to him and covered his mouth, and said angrily, "Hush your voice, do you want us to be taken away by the military and police for interrogation?" Yuan Sen let go of Ai Kailam, Ai Kailam took a breath, and handed Yuan Sen something, a piece of paper, on which was written a line in Chinese: Go straight ahead, turn left, Go into an alley and go all the way to the end, someone is waiting for you.

Ai Kaila said awkwardly: "I just remembered, the note was stuffed into Grandpa Ai's hand by that little girl with twisting buttocks. Such a beautiful girl is also a **** agent?" The five hurriedly walked to the end according to the statement on the note, and entered a dark alley. The alley was very narrow, there were no street lights, and the buildings on both sides were also pitch-black.In a foreign country, although everyone had experienced many battles, they were also extremely nervous. They did not carry weapons with them, so they could only clenched their fists tightly to prevent emergencies.

When they walked to the end, they found a tall man waiting for them there. Before Yuan Sen could speak, the man asked them in fluent Chinese if there were people named Yuan Sen and Wang Hui. Yuan Sen agreed, and the man said: "I am the person in charge of meeting you in Murmansk. My name is Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov. You can call me Ivan. Come with me, gentlemen." .” Ivan led them through the dark complex and emerged on another street where two vintage Toyota SUVs were parked. Ivan said to the crowd: "Is there any gentleman who can drive?" Yuan Sen said, "We all know it."

Ivan nodded with a smile, and said, "Very good, gentlemen!" He pointed to Yuan Sen and Wang Hui and said, "You are the person in charge, follow me, and you!" shoulders. He said to Kambasa again: "Sir, you can get in the next car with the rest of the beautiful girls. Remember to follow my car closely, no one will trouble you." Kangbasa agreed, and got into the Toyota SUV behind with Bahargul. Ivan started the car and drove slowly out of the deserted long street.They drove the car onto the coastal road and galloped along Kola Bay.There were very few vehicles on the road, and the port was full of large and small warships. The lights on the warships were brightly lit, and the mechanical arms kept moving wooden boxes to the ships.

Ivan said: "Gentlemen, this is a port city. There are more people working on the ships in the port than walking on the streets of Murmansk. Don't be surprised." Ekira said: "Russian brothers are too polite, we are always full of goodwill towards brother countries. Whether your city is small or not has nothing to do with us, the girl is quite beautiful, but a little bit, this is very important The problem should be improved step by step.” Ivan laughed loudly and said, "This gentleman has a great sense of humor, I like it very much." Immediately, he pointed to the outside of the car and said, "Remember the way, I'm not taking you out to play with you, but to let you know the way. At this time tomorrow night, you drive to the designated place by yourself, and I will take you to Kola The peninsula is a very mysterious place."

Ivan drove them along the road into the mountains, passed a bare beach, and passed through several valleys to the other corner of the city. Ivan jumped out of the car, and here was a dark cliff. The sound of waves hitting the stones echoed below the cliff, and the brilliant lights on the other side of the city seemed to be far away all of a sudden. Ivan said: "Remember, gather here at this time tomorrow, and walk along the way we came here. I will prepare helicopters, weapons and a series of other things for you here, and let you fly To the Kola Peninsula, the damn place. Got it?"

Yuan Sen thanked him, and Ivan waved his hand and said, "You don't need to thank me, but thank you for your money!" He smiled and said: "You guys are really generous, just to go to that deserted island where there are ruins except for the warship. It's incredible." After all, he jumped into the car, and when the others got up, he started the engine and went back the same way, sending them all the way to the hotel entrance. When getting out of the car, Iwan said to Yuan Sen who was in the co-driver: "My people found someone following you on the street, and they have already been dealt with. This is a gift, no money is charged." Yuan Sen thanked him, Ivan waved his hand, the Toyota SUV quickly disappeared at the end of the street, and he left another car for Yuan Sen and the others. When everyone returned to the hotel, they all became nervous.Yuan Sen's intuition was correct, someone was indeed following them, and judging from Ivan's performance, the person following them should not be military convenience clothes, otherwise Iwan should be able to recognize them.If it wasn't a lurking military figure, who could it be? Could it be that mysterious organization that follows like a shadow again? Yuan Sendao: "The mysterious organization will know about all the major operations we carry out immediately, and even act earlier than us. I have been aware of this problem for a long time, and I have never figured it out. This time the mysterious organization reappeared, only two Possibility: first, they also found Shi Jing in the secret path of the black lama; second, there are traitors among us. Except for the five of us, only Dr. Tian knew about this operation." The other four felt that what Yuan Sen said was very reasonable. The few people in front of them had been born and died together, and everyone was worthy of their lives, so how could there be a traitor? Bahar Guli said: "Brother, I am your junior sister, you know me, the traitor is definitely not me." Ai Kaila said awkwardly: "Brother, Mr. Ai is a bit greedy for money, but he has always put loyalty first, so he will not betray himself for a little money." Kang Basa said: "Assistant Wang and I were carefully screened by the organization and passed strict political examinations before entering the army. We have participated in the anti-torture test and are absolutely trustworthy." Yuan Sendao: "So, things are strange. In the last few operations, the mysterious organization has become more and more generous. Whether it is equipment or people, it is a bit unbelievable. I think they have a much deeper understanding of the whole incident than us, but why do they keep asking Follow us?" They discussed until very late, but they couldn't make any point, so they went back to their rooms to rest.For the sake of safety, they stayed in the hotel the next day to avoid ostentatiously attracting the attention of the military or being tricked by a mysterious organization. The expedition team had dinner early in the evening, and when the scheduled time came, they checked out and drove the SUV left by Ivan to the seaside cliff. They arrived early and waited for an hour before they heard the roar of helicopters in the sky.Murmansk is a military port city. Helicopters often fly over the city. Residents and the military don’t take it seriously. Ships going out of the port have to undergo strict inspections, so Ivan decided to use a helicopter to send them to the Kola Peninsula. The helicopter stopped in mid-air, Ivan lowered the rope ladder, and the five climbed up one after another.Yiwan finally pulled Yuan Sen up and closed the cabin.Yuan Sen found that apart from them, there was only Ivan and a pilot in the plane. Ivan chatted with them on the plane, and Yuan Sen knew that he was a school officer in the army, lived in Murmansk, served in the Kola Peninsula, and was later transferred from the headquarters to the military port to do inspection work.His military rank is considered very high in the military port, so he was able to call the wind and rain in Murmansk. Dr. Tian found him and sent the expedition team to the Kola Peninsula, paying a considerable price.In Ivan's capacity, there is not enough price to invite him, and he rarely does this kind of thing. In order to avoid the military inspection facilities along the way, the helicopter took a long detour, flew for about two hours, and dropped them in a virgin forest area on the Kola Peninsula.Ivan prepared a large backpack for each expedition member, and they did not check the contents of the backpack.Ivan said that they have prepared all the things that can be used on the island to ensure nothing goes wrong. When parting, Ivan whispered to Yuan Sen: "I know that you are here for the Kola ultra-deep drilling. I have served in the Kola Peninsula for ten years and the Murmansk military port for ten years. You are the third one I sent. The first two groups did not leave the island, I have inquired, and the military did not find their bodies." Yuan Sen was taken aback, and Ivan patted him on the shoulder, saying: "Man, I wish you good luck, I hope I can pick you up and leave this damn deserted island." He waved to everyone, climbed up the rope ladder and quickly got into the cabin. The helicopter climbed at an extremely fast speed, and after a while it turned into a small dot and disappeared into the depths of the blue sky. The helicopter has been gone for a long time, and Yuan Sen has not calmed down from Ivan's warning. This operation is very dangerous, and he has already made mental preparations. Ivan's inexplicable words made him understand the secret of the stone mirror map of Civilization X. more fearful. The blurred location on Shijing's map is where the geocentric telescope factory is located. Through map comparison, they confirmed that the area of ​​the factory is much larger than the blurred one, that is to say, the secret location is somewhere in the factory.They have no more clues and can only go deep into the factory. Yuan Sen found the positioning device Ivan had prepared for them in his backpack, and took out the map he carried with him.The geocentric telescope factory is located at the junction of the Kola Peninsula and Norway. Yuan Sen discussed with other team members for a while, chose a short and hidden route, and set off. The total area of ​​the Kola Peninsula is 100,000 square kilometers, which is one-ninety-sixth of the area of ​​China. It is not big on the mainland, but it is a rather large island.The island has forests, lakes, rivers, plains, and several local Aboriginal living areas.The peninsula is an important military base of Russia. At the same time, a large amount of nuclear waste produced during the "Cold War" is also stored here. It is said that once the nuclear waste depot on the Kola Peninsula explodes, nuclear pollution will sweep across Northern Europe and cover the entire UK. The place where Ivan dropped the expedition team was already deep into the military restricted zone. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the military, the expedition team traveled at night and camped during the day to rest. After walking for three nights, they arrived near the geocentric telescope factory. They waited until dark before slowly approaching the mysterious factory. A roll of four-meter-high barbed wire surrounded the outside of the factory. Yuan Sen took a rough look and found that the area surrounded by the barbed wire reached two kilometers.They didn't dare to leave traces, so they dug a hole under the barbed wire with a folding shovel, leading to the back of the barbed wire, and after five people passed, Yuan Sen filled the hole again. After crossing the barbed wire fence, the expedition team walked for about one kilometer, and a huge building complex stretching from north to south appeared on the boundless plain. Behind the building complex was an unnamed mountain.Wang Hui looked at the positioning device, pointed to the buildings and said, "That should be the Geocentric Telescope Factory." Wang Hui scanned the building complex with a flashlight, and could see that the building was covered with a layer of corroded iron. Everyone was very excited, just wondering why such an important place didn't even have a searchlight at night, and there wasn't even a garrison for several kilometers around it. No matter how abandoned it was, it wouldn't be like this. Ai Kailam said: "Such a big factory needs to have an old janitor anyway. You see, no matter how small or abandoned a factory in China is, there is also an old janitor. Otherwise, there will always be something missing. Look at that. The factory is uncomfortable and always wants to get something to go when there is time." Nervously, they walked to the base of the geocentric telescope factory. The factory building is tens of meters high. Standing below, they feel extremely small and awe-inspiring. They walked under the factory building for more than 100 meters, and found an unlocked iron door. Ai Kailam opened the door, and everyone went in one after another. After they entered, they found that there was a huge warehouse inside the door, which was filled with pipes tens of meters long, made of different materials, including concrete and steel, and some pipes whose materials could not be identified.The diameters of the pipes are also different, ranging from eight and a half meters to four or five meters. The piles are more than ten meters high, and only the narrow aisle is exposed. Yuan Sen held up the flashlight and looked back and forth. There were so many tubes everywhere that he couldn't see the end at a glance.The warehouse floor was covered with thick dust, which proved that no one had visited this warehouse for a long time. Everyone walked straight forward from the horizontal direction, and after walking a long distance, they saw an exit iron gate, which was locked.Fortunately, Ivan prepared steel tongs for them. They clamped off the rusted iron lock and opened the iron gate. Behind them was a wasteland.Opposite the warehouse building is another row of buildings. The distance between the two rows of buildings is a few hundred meters. It is a wasteland. Weeds are overgrown on the wasteland. The expedition team had to pass through the weeds to see that there were dozens of high-rise buildings on the opposite side. Because the distance between each other was very small, they seemed to be large buildings connected together from a distance. Some of these white buildings have five floors and some have six floors. They are very old, the white walls have turned dark yellow, and there are mottled and large water marks in many places. Yuan Sen and the others came to the square downstairs in the first row. The concrete square used to be a basketball court. A basketball hoop had fallen down, the basket was thrown upside down, and the concrete base was up.The other basketball hoop baffle and the ball basket are gone, only a bare iron frame is left standing. In the middle of the square, there are many messy things, including wooden shelves with rotten pieces of cloth wrapped around them, as well as stainless steel lunch boxes, knives and forks, kettles, etc., occupying half of the square. Yuan Sen and the others went up to the building facing the basketball court. There was a bed board lying on the stairs, and there were two suitcases beside the bed board.Yuan Sen opened it and saw that there were clothes, books and other things inside, which had been eroded by the rainwater that drifted in, and more than half of them were rotten, and what was not rotten turned into a pile of paper lumps stuck to the box. They set up the bed boards to make way for the road, and several of them went up to the second floor.The iron doors of most of the rooms on the second floor are half-open, and the floor is full of living utensils, suitcases, lunch boxes, clothes, even half-rotten guitars and accordions, and the inside of the door is also a mess. all over the place. Yuan Sen said: "It seems that they were in a hurry when they evacuated." Ai Kaila said woodenly: "It's such a mess, it's not rushing, it's running for life." Bahargul pouted, and said, "Is it as scary as you said? The geocentric telescope project was officially canceled in 1994, and those expert technicians are still alive." Wang Huidao: "It was indeed an emergency evacuation. So many things were thrown away temporarily, and even the suitcases were thrown away later." Bahar Guli said: "Sister Hui, is it as scary as you said?" Wang Huidao: "It seems that they were indeed in a hurry when they withdrew." They looked at them room by room. These rooms were all single rooms, with a single bed in them, and a separate kitchen and bathroom.There were still half of the unfinished meat on the dining table in the kitchen of two houses, which shows that it was meal time when the evacuation took place. When they walked to the sixth room, suddenly there was a "bang" sound from downstairs. Yuan Sen was startled, and then rushed down with a flashlight. Ai Kailam and Kang Basa followed behind him, and quickly went down to the first floor.Yuan Sen took a flashlight to shine a light on the front of the room, and found that the iron door of a locked room was wide open.Yuan Sen was startled and hurried over.