The Siberian wilderness is difficult to walk in this season, especially in Siberia, which is within the Arctic Circle. It's hard to imagine how bad things are if you don't see it with your own eyes.

To put it simply, in comparison, the Paris-Dakar Rally is driving in the Sahara desert like driving on a highway, there is no difference.

Li Huan changed from "Catastrophe" to "Tiger Style", and the only experience is that this Siberia with autumn and winter communication is simply a muddy swamp, not to mention the road, even if it is a hard piece of land, it is a luxury. It's better in winter, it's all frozen into a lump here, not to mention running cars, even if it's a tank. But just after the summer here, the temperature has not faded, the ice and snow have melted and not frozen, and this area will immediately be full of large and small puddles and lakes. Thankfully, there is still a permafrost beneath the melting snow and ice, and there are no large swamps here, and with this modified high-horsepower heavy off-road vehicle, it is possible to travel on the wilderness at an average speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, in this situation, Li Huan and the others could only search nearby, and they couldn't drive far.

It's better than nothing, Li Huan is so self-comforting.

Every time the convoy drove some distance forward, Li Huan would stand on the roof of the car and observe it with a telescope, but after a day of searching, Li Huan gave up. In fact, if you think about it, you can figure out that the situation in this area is not suitable for treasure hiding at all, in addition to the puddles are rivers and lakes, and there is a hard permafrost like stones underneath - and the reason for the relocation back then was because those things were not suitable for storage next to the strategic weapons base, if you relocate a few tens of kilometers nearby, what is the point?

After a day of wandering around Fort St. Hays, I didn't find any fart, but it took a lot of fuel. The fuel consumption of this modified heavy-duty off-road vehicle is as high as nearly 50 liters per 100 kilometers, and the fuel tank capable of holding 200 liters of diesel can support this kind of car for up to 400 kilometers. Fortunately, one of the "Catastrophes" was repaired the next day, and after the problem of the rectifier line being bitten off was ruled out, Li Huan and the others took off again and began to look for suspicious areas.

As for Leon's faulty one, after careful inspection, it will not be repaired until someone sends parts in the early spring.

Although there is only one helicopter, the more people can be seated in a helicopter, and the search will be faster. But it's a pity that in the next few days, Li Huan and the others went through all the remaining places with a sieve, but they still didn't find a suspicious depression. The continuous unsuccessful search not only exhausted everyone, but also greatly damaged everyone's morale - and most importantly, if it dragged on like this, the large army of the sunset notice would soon come.

On this morning, the snowstorm suddenly fell again, and the helicopter could not take off to continue the search, so everyone got a rare opportunity to rest, so they got together to discuss the next search plan. Although I searched for more than a week and found nothing, it has progressed to this point, and it would be a shame to give up. Therefore, the search must continue to be carried out.

The question is where to find it and how to find it.

"Li Huan, there seems to be a loophole in the search plan we made before. In the cabin where Li Huan and Shangguan Qing lived, Shangguan Qing frowned and said, "Did we think of a wrong direction, what if the re-site was not built underground?"

"I've been pondering this here for the past two days. Supposedly we searched all the places, but we searched all the places where there were depressions...... That's why I think so too. However, obviously, this area map cannot be fake, judging from the texture and paper of this drawing, as well as the color and oxidation degree, it must be something from that era, and no one will make a batch of fake site selection maps in that area, right? So I think this site selection map is real, and the new base of the special tactical forces must be in this range, but our idea is wrong. ”

After speaking, Li Huan rubbed the drawings with his fingers.

True, this drawing is a bit old. In fact, you can judge whether something is really from its texture. Especially something like paper. Paper will oxidize and oxidize over time, it will turn yellow, and the texture of the paper will become brittle, these things cannot be imitated. As for whether or not some fake drawings will be specially made to confuse people, Li Huan feels that although it is not completely impossible to say that with the degree of secrecy of the special tactical forces, this map is only a map of an area after all! If you want to talk about the detailed location map, Li Huan thinks that it may be deceitful, specially made to confuse the enemy, in order to let people with bad intentions get it, deliberately confuse them, and deliberately lead them to a more dangerous place......

But what kind of trouble is this site selection map for? Who has the ability to go through this 10,000-square-kilometer site map like a sieve? Isn't it funny to use this to confuse the enemy?

So Shangguan Qing also nodded: "You're right, so I also think that this K117 site map is true, but it was not marked on it at that time...... But after all, this map is so big, how can we narrow it down?"

"Actually, I've already thought that if we can take this factor into account, we should be able to narrow down the search area a lot...... Li Huan smiled faintly: "Do you remember the jeep we drove yesterday? After I came back yesterday, I wondered why there were such large-displacement off-road vehicles here? Obviously, it is very difficult to supply this base, so it is necessary to raise such oil tigers? You must know that this was the former station of strategic troops. It's impossible to have a supply force coming over very often, because too many of them will reveal the secrets here. So when I came back yesterday, I carefully checked the cars myself, and then I found out that there was a problem, and we were driving that jeep with the number K117 on the frame. What do you mean by that?"

"K117, isn't that the number of the special tactical force?" Shangguan Qing was stunned, and then suddenly realized and patted his leg: "By the way, fuel and cruising distance!"

Li Huan snapped his fingers with a smile, "Bingo! You're right, we've all ignored this thing." ”

"It's the cruising range of these cars with full fuel!" Shangguan Qing said excitedly: "By the way, this is a strategic duty base, even if they want to move, it is impossible to move with great fanfare." In those days, during the Cold War, Citi was eager to put all its satellites on top of the Soviet Union and to find out what was going on in a single car. If the special tactical forces move, it will be absolutely impossible to use large machinery, they can only be carried like ants moving...... That's why they moved in jeeps, and they left these jeeps behind!"

"That's right, moving in a jeep is a painful thing, and in order not to be detected by the satellites overhead, the speed of moving must be fast, so you have to load the most things in the car at one time, and you can't hold gas...... Therefore, it is impossible to exceed the extreme range of the Tiger armored car at one time. Li Huan nodded and drew a circle on the map with a pen: "Although I don't know which direction they are heading, east, west, north and south, according to the endurance range of the Tiger armored car, it will definitely not exceed one hundred and fifty kilometers...... One hundred and fifty kilometers, which corresponds to the range of the Tiger armored car at one time. ”

"But 150 kilometers is not enough for the security of a strategic force?" Shangguan Qing thought for a while and said, "The security alert distance of a strategic force is at least 200 kilometers or more. ”

"Let's analyze it like this, and slowly calculate from 150 kilometers. After speaking, Li Huan pointed to the circle on the map and said, "Then, there are only three thousand square meters left."

kilometers or so. ”

"It's definitely impossible to go north!" Shangguan Qing snatched Li Huan's pen: "In any case, they won't carry out the project in the mixed permafrost, because the amount of work there is too large, and if you want to build an underground military base, it will take at least a few years, or even more than ten years." They didn't have time to do that. ”

After speaking, Shangguan Qing reversed the circle drawn by Li Huan towards the north and erased a large piece. A few days ago, when Shangguan Qing and Li Huan were sitting at home, they could only study the map, but this time they went out to investigate the field and knew that the north was full of mixed permafrost, and it was impossible for any project to be carried out there. In this case, the area is further reduced.

Li Huan nodded and said, "Your analysis is very correct. Then there are only three directions left: east, west, south and west. ”

"It was impossible in the west, when the Cold War was raging, and the west was close to the European continent, so it was impossible for such a classified force to be placed in the first place. Shangguan Qing said: "Under the Ural Mountains, in fact, they were all the conflict circles demarcated during the Cold War, and what European countries were afraid of at that time was that the steel torrent of the Soviet Union was crushed from here, so the other side of the Ural Mountains was also armed, so the west was not suitable!"

"According to the map, although the east is close to Moscow, during the voyage of the Tiger armored vehicle, it is all swampy ......areas," Li Huan bit his pen and blacked out the map: "So it's impossible here." ”

"The only possibility is the southern ......," Shangguan Qing said, "but the southern ...... Oh, this is Irkutsk? yes, it's definitely Irkutsk!"

After searching the map, Shangguan Qing finally pointed to a small city.

Irkutsk is the capital of the Irkutsk region of Russia, with a history of more than 300 years, is the largest industrial city, transportation and commercial hub in Siberia, and the second largest city in Eastern Siberia, Irkutsk is located at the southern end of Lake Baikal, is the closest city to Lake Baikal, the confluence of the Angara River and the Irkut River, Russia's largest aircraft factory - Irkutsk Aircraft Factory is located in the city, producing Su-27, Su-30 fighters and bombers, transport aircraft, etc.

Irkutsk Oblast is located in the south of the Central Siberian Plateau, west of Lake Baikal, and adjacent to Mongolia in the south, with an area of 767,900 square kilometers.

In 1661-1669, Irkutsk became a fortress city in Siberia, and in 1764 it became the capital of Eastern Siberia. In the 19th century, it became an important transshipment point for trade between Imperial Russia and China. River ports, railways and international air terminals. It arose with the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the mining of nearby coal fields. The industry is mainly machinery manufacturing, machine repair, and light industry sectors such as building materials, mica processing and food. Shelikhov, 18 km southwest of the city, has a large aluminium smelter and cable factory. The city is the base for the development of the Angara region. It is also the gateway of Siberia to Transbaikalia and the southern Far East, as well as to Mongolia and China, and the junction of the Lena River basin. As an important cultural center of Eastern Siberia, there are several higher education institutions and the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The city is divided into four districts by three rivers: the city center on the right bank of the Anga River, the industrial zone on the left bank, the hydropower hub on the left bank of the Irkut River, and the heavy machinery plant area on the left bank of the Ushakov River.

In simple terms, this is a military factory.

Moreover, it is also a place where you can replenish fuel, and you are not afraid of tracking at all - this place is a military factory, and there are large machinery everywhere, how can this be tracked?

"Yes, I guess that's the case, if it radiates out of Irkutsk...... Irkutsk is full of swamps on the left and right, and the water system here is too developed, hundreds of kilometers are water systems and swamps...... If there must be a place to build or hide them......" Li Huan thought for a while, looked around, left and right, and finally pointed to a place.

Li Huan and Shangguan Qing said almost in unison: "Lake Baikal." ”

Lake Baikal, although it is called a "lake", is actually a diverse terrain of land, lakes, swamps, glaciers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most mysterious "deep water area" in the world.

Lake Baikal is located in the southern part of Eastern Siberia, Russia, and is the deepest and largest freshwater lake in the world. With an average depth of 730 meters and a maximum depth of 1,637 meters, the lake has been able to drink 5 billion people for half a century. The lake shape is long and narrow, like a crescent moon, so it is also called "Moon Lake".

It is 636 kilometers long, 48 kilometers wide on average, 79.4 kilometers wide at its widest, 31,500 square kilometers in area, 744 meters in average depth, 1,637 meters in depth at its deepest point, and 456 meters above sea level. The water of Lake Baikal is the second largest in the world because it is clear and transparent. With a total storage capacity of 23.6 trillion cubic meters, a total of 336 rivers of all sizes flow into Lake Baikal, the largest of which is the Selenga River, and only the Angara River flows out of the lake, with an average annual flow of only 1,870 cubic meters per second.

Where the lake flows into the Angara River, it is about 1,000 meters wide and white.

Lake Baikal is also flanked by cliffs of 1,000-2,000 meters, and tectonic fissures are surrounded by mountains, which reach a height of more than 2,500 meters. The thickness of the sediment at the bottom of the lake is more than 8 km. That is why the actual depth of the Baikal crevasse is 10-11 km. This depth is comparable to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans.

Lake Baikal is one of the oldest lakes in the world, located in the interior of the Eurasian plate, formed by the fracture and subsidence of the earth's crust, and most scientists believe that the remnants of animals endemic to the depths of Baikal were formed about 30 to 20 million years ago. Lake Baikal is said to have arisen because the Asian crust slowly pulled along a fault, and a trench appeared. At first, the trench was eight kilometers deep, but as the years went by, it was gradually filled with silt, and the microbial fossils in the silt can show the age of its formation.

Lake Baikal is typical of many oceans – unfathomable, huge reservoirs, undercurrents, tides, strong storms, large waves, ever-widening rifts, geomagnetic anomalies, and so on. The Baikal depression is asymmetrical, and the slopes in the west are steeper than in the east. Geologically, Lake Baikal is a recess of a faulted valley, a large fissure that goes 15-20 kilometers underground, and Baikal and its catchment area are a unique geological system in the world.

And Li Huan and Shangguan Qing set their sights on here, not only the mountains around Lake Baikal, but most importantly, there are dozens of "islands in the lake" in the world's largest lake.

That's right, it's an island in the lake.

There are 27 islands in the lake, and the largest island is Olihonda Island, with an area of more than 700 square kilometers, which is almost equal to the area of a small European country! The most important thing is that the entire territory of Lake Baikal is closely monitored by the Soviet Union because of its proximity to the former Soviet military-industrial cities, and outsiders have no room for interference.

This speculation made Li Huan and Shangguan Qing excited. It's been more than ten days since I've been here, and the evening note is still chasing after the buttocks, and their large army is coming soon. Originally, Li Huan thought that there would be results when he arrived at the place, and it should be a very easy thing to find this remains, but where did he think that in addition to a blizzard here, it is a blizzard, even if there is no blizzard, the area that needs to be searched is too huge, even if there is a cheating detection and observation mode of the submachine, it is far more difficult than imagined to find the base of the special tactical forces after the relocation in the vast Siberian wilderness, tens of thousands of square kilometers of land on the K117 map

Many.

If he couldn't find it if he searched like this, Li Huan might really have to give up.

After all, he is good to say alone, this time Li Huan is with a small team, and when the large army of the sunset note comes, if there is a head-on conflict, it is really dangerous. As for the other members of Li Huan's team, although they didn't say it, and they didn't know how long it would take for Sunset to follow behind their buttocks, everyone was actually worried in their hearts, although they fully believed that their boss had the ability to solve the problem, but it was not a matter to always move quickly when the bird didn't poop and pee, otherwise the urine would be frozen into a popsicle.

The previous itinerary is good to say, whether it is in Mexico, France or the Philippines, there is something new to do every day, and people are going crazy when they look at the ice and snow every day in the Siberian wilderness. When Li Huan found the second target, everyone cheered, no matter where they went, naturally everyone would follow, but they kept looking at the snow in one place, and everyone collapsed.

Of course, this is still secondary, the main thing is that Li Huan and so many of them are looking for it, which is too eye-catching - not to mention others, Li Huan always cites the professor from St. Petersburg, always sneaky. Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, Li Huan still decided on the itinerary, and drove the helicopter directly the next day - as for how the helicopter flew away, after Li Huan left enough money, the pilot naturally knew to go back and explain everything. After all, in the Great Siberian Wilderness, it is not uncommon to drop a helicopter - you have to ask where the wreckage is after the fall, the Siberian winter will swallow everything, and with a thick red envelope, the helicopter will disappear from the military's view.

In the end, the "Havoc" was loaded with oil and anchored in the village of Huzhir - Li Huan landed directly on the largest island in the middle of Lake Baikal, Olkhon Island. The village of Huzhr is the largest populous area of the island in the middle of the lake, located in the north of the middle of the island, and the famous shaman rock is located in the north of the village, which is also a must-stop on the way to Lake Baikal, where you can see fishing boats full of fishing boats if you are lucky.

The largest island close to the mainland is connected to the mainland by a bridge, and it is the most convenient trigger point to search for other islands in the lake. The main thing is that this is also one of several supply difficulties, and the "Havoc" stops here, which can also be prevaricated on the grounds of supply. And most importantly, Agata once served in this neighborhood, and through her connections, she was able to connect with military supplies here - that is, as long as Li Huan had money, as long as Li Huan didn't go too far, he could mobilize some small military units.

It's a real boost.

You must know that Li Huan has actually been worried about the pursuers behind, just because of this, after the helicopter broke down, every time he went out to look for the terrain, he would take everyone with him. That's why. If there is one person who is left alone, then the person from the sunset note will come to the door, and it is likely that that person will become the target. Of course, a place like Fort St. Heys' was originally a military base, and ordinary people didn't dare to go in to make a mistake, and Landau, who had a good relationship with Li Huan, could also help take care of it, but the people in the evening note were not ordinary people - Li Huan was sure that they wouldn't dare to ram into a large military station, but a small place like Fort St. Heis, where few people were stationed, couldn't stop them at all.

As long as the Sunset will send some guys who have practiced five or six layers of qi over, they can sweep Fort St. Heesburg to the ground, and then leave as fast as possible, and no one will be able to catch their traces.

So St. Haysburg was not enough to cause trouble for the people of the sunset.

But the place where Agata once served is different, next to Lake Baikal is Irkutsk, which is a large military-industrial city inherent in the former Soviet Union and the Russian era, and the garrisons here are all well-equipped garrisons, even if the people of the sunset note are bold, they will not dare to storm such a military forbidden place - even if they can escape, as long as they are caught a little clue, then Russia and Citigroup will tear up, and Citigroup will definitely push them out as a shield in the end.

After all, no one wants to provoke Russia, a polar bear that is drunk with vodka.

With the financial support of Li Huan, Agata contacted the station where he had served before, and in the name of "training", he pulled a reinforced company, armed to the teeth, to come over and serve as bodyguards for everyone. Not to mention, Li Ang really hired the two Agata and the two, although the soldiers of the reinforced company brought by the two of them are not as perverted as the special air service brigade, but looking at the world, in the ordinary army sequence, it is definitely the top existence - it was originally a heavy military industrial city, how can it be done without two brushes?

Since Li Huan and the others came here, except for Li Huan, who would inevitably go out to search with them, the others were rotated every day. It's like the people who came out with Li Huan today are Li Ang and Rodman. Shangguan Qing was not feeling well, and he didn't come out with him for the past few days, and was taken care of by Luo Weisha and Agata - mainly these soldiers hired by Agata also allowed Li Huan to go out alone with confidence and boldness.

This girl finally got sick in cold Siberia, no matter how good her physique was, she couldn't stand it if she followed Li Huan so much every day. Fortunately, Luo Weisha and Agata themselves have already adapted to such weather, and they have not yet died like Shangguan Qing - Shangguan often does not pay attention to keeping warm because he is a cultivator, according to Li Huan's words, this is his own doing.

Today, Li Huan took Li Ang and Rodman to search one by one for the islands in the middle of the lake.

Although there is no evidence that the special tactical forces moved their family here, Li Huan has this feeling - Baikal itself is a mysterious place, mysterious and sneaky, and it has always been the most compatible.

While flying, Li Huan used the two handsets to switch the detection mode to scan everything.

Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia, and it is also the deepest and largest lake in the world. Perhaps the Chinese people's knowledge of it is limited to this impression, but in fact, Baikal is still an unusual lake, and there are many very mysterious and unsolved mysteries. From ancient times to the present, no matter which local ethnic group does not call Baikal a lake, the Tunguska people call it "Lamu", which means the sea, and the Buryats or Mongols who live on the shore of the lake call it "Baikal Dayayi", which means "natural sea"; An ancient Chinese document from 119 B.C. refers to Lake Baikal as the "North Sea", which is probably the earliest record in history.

The water of Lake Baikal is not salty at all, but it is inhabited by authentic marine life: seals, conch sponges, lobsters, etc. All this is really puzzling: is Lake Baikal a lake or a sea, and why did the ancient Siberians call it the "Sea of Riddles"?

For example, at the bottom of Lake Baikal there is a 1 ~ 15 m high sponge that grows into a dense forest-like sponge, which is not found in any lake. Countless strange-looking lobsters are hiding in this forest. The famous Baikal shark, white without scales, with large and transparent fins like the wings of a dragonfly, eats small shrimp and does not spawn, but can directly lay small sharks. The average sturgeon lives along the coast, while the Baikal sturgeon has completely turned into a freshwater fish. In the spring, they travel up the river, go to the river to lay eggs, and then still return to the cold Baikal Lake. They never swim into the sea, and this wide body of water has taken its place.

The most striking are the freshwater seals. It is particularly numerous and likes to move in groups. Today, nearly 5,000 are still caught each year. However, how Baikal seals came to settle in the lake is a mystery.