Before night fell, goose-feather snowflakes fell in the sky, and a blizzard swept in from the north.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Fortunately, heavy snow can hide the traces left by the activities of the X-Doomsday troops in the camp. The bad thing is that if Talgat returns at night, it will be easy to find when tracking him, at least not in a high-altitude way.

Blizzards also caused temperatures to plummet.

By the time night fell, the temperature had dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius. If the snowstorm continues, it is likely to drop to minus 45 degrees Celsius in the middle of the night.

The bitter cold is indeed a nightmare for all invaders.

Whether it was Napoleon's French legions, or the German army in World War II, after setting foot on Russian soil, the number one enemy was not the Russian army, but the harsh climate, especially the cold winter. I am afraid that the only people who can live and reproduce here are Russians.

"Is it cold?"

Nichol shook his head, but curled up tighter in Chu Tianjiang's arms.

According to Chu Tianjiang's arrangement, except for Nichol who followed him, the other six people stayed together in two of them in order to keep each other warm after getting closer. The seven "flower butterflies" are different from Chu Tianjiang, although their cold-resistant ability is far above ordinary people, but there are also limitations. For the convenience of movement, they did not bring fur coats, but only wore the action clothes prepared for them by Zhang Xiaogang. Because it is not a complete Doomsday Warrior system, and especially does not have a central control unit, the straitjacket is just a garment with a good thermal insulation effect, and does not have the heating capacity based on the thermal circulation function. The temperature dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius, and the warmth provided by tights simply could not resist the bitter cold.

Chu Tianjiang hugged Nichol a little tighter.

In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, Chu Tianjiang and the others all stayed on the branches of trees more than ten meters above the ground. Because his body was covered with a thick layer of snow, Chu Tianjiang could only heat the parts that came into contact with Nichol and control the temperature of the rest of his body below zero degrees Celsius to prevent the snow from melting.

"Are you feeling better?"

Nichole nodded again, but still looked uncomfortable.

"I knew that the Tao would make you suffer and suffer, so I left you at home."

Nicol reached out and touched Chu Tianjiang's face, then shook his head, as if telling Chu Tianjiang that as long as she was with Chu Tianjiang, she was not afraid of suffering and sinning.

Of course, Chu Tianjiang understood what Nichol meant, but he thought that they were all suffering, and he couldn't wait to catch up with Zhang Xiaogang immediately.

Knowing that there was this snowstorm in Lu Dao, Chu Tianjiang would not have left the team. After knowing the purpose of this operation, especially after Zhang Xiaogang proposed that he should send someone to seduce the high-ranking officials of the Moscow authorities if necessary, and that the best candidates were Nicol and others dressed as "beast girls", Chu Tianjiang made up his mind that when that day came, it would be a big deal to turn Moscow upside down and kill Isaac and others. In Chu Tianjiang's view, if all the people in power in Moscow are sent to God, Russia will become a plate of scattered sand, and there is no need to make it so complicated.

There was a noise in the woods to the north, and Chu Tianjiang immediately patted Nichol's shoulder, and at the same time shook his head at Rachel and the others who were hiding in a few nearby trees, telling them not to act rashly. In order to avoid startling the snakes, Chu Tianjiang did not set up a cordon near the camp.

Judging by the sound, it should be several people.

A short time later, five special forces dressed in snow camouflage uniforms walked out of the forest and entered the camp.

They are indeed special forces, because they do not wear standard camouflage suits, but handmade camouflage suits, and only special forces will make their own camouflage suits. In addition, the five of them dispersed quickly, but they were within the range of each other's cover, and they were even more cautious when marching.

Chu Tianjiang is also a special soldier and knows very well the reconnaissance tactics of special forces.

The five men circled the camp and then retreated into the forest.

Did they find something out of the ordinary? Chu Tianjiang quickly thought about it and affirmed this judgment. Zhang Xiaogang took some fuel and food from the camp with the X Doomsday troops, which must have been discovered by Talgat, and the Russian army did not return, indicating that someone else took the supplies from the camp.

The fact that the Russian army did not return to the camp speaks for itself.

The five special forces did not rush to leave, but hid in the woods. After more than half an hour, the five special forces quietly left.

Chu Tianjiang waited patiently for almost half an hour before slipping down from the tree.

"Don't sit still, move your hands and feet to get your blood circulating." Chu Tianjiang was not idle, and while instructing Nichol and them to do exercises, he warmed their frozen limbs, especially their hands and feet, to speed up the flow of blood gathered at the distal end back to their hearts.

"Who are they?" Rachel shivered coldly.

"Special forces." Chu Tianjiang hugged Rachel and was rubbing her feet. Heating is not enough, the blood in the capillaries must also be moved to get the blood flowing. "It should be a special soldier of the special forces of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, very experienced, no worse than me before."

"Why are they leaving?"

"Obviously, they knew that someone had been there, and that the camp had been exposed. If it were me, I would have turned away silently. ”

"What now?"

Chu Tianjiang patted Rachel's calf, made her stand up and exercise, and then began to rub Maya's feet. "Wait a little longer, and we'll catch up after they don't think they're being followed. Without transportation, they won't be able to run far, and they may go back to Major General Julian. ”

After more than ten minutes, the seven "flower butterflies" all warmed up with the help of Chu Tianjiang.

Let them do more than ten minutes of warm-up exercises, and Chu Tianjiang led the team on the road.

Heavy snow can hide footprints, but it can't eliminate the ultraviolet rays produced by footprints. In addition, Chu Tianjiang was originally a special soldier and was very good at tracking.

After bypassing Tobolsk, the trail went all the way north.

Based on the intensity of ultraviolet light, it is possible to accurately determine the time of existence of the footprint.

In order to avoid startling the snakes, Chu Tianjiang disappeared and kept a distance of about five kilometers, that is, almost an hour's journey, with the five special forces.

At two o'clock, Chu Tianjiang followed his footprints to the vicinity of a frozen lake.

The footprints disappeared on the ice about a hundred meters from the shore.

After letting Nicol and the others hide, Chu Tianjiang reconnoitred around the lake and found that it was not a natural lake, but a reservoir upstream of a hydropower station. About five kilometres downstream, there is a gravity structure dam that was damaged during the catastrophe and has been repaired with cement.

The secret must be hidden under the ice!

After asking Nicol and the others to wait patiently, Chu Tianjiang came to a small inlet, cut through the ice, and dived underwater.

Sure enough, under the ice is a huge underwater base!

The place where the footprints disappeared was at the top of a lift passage that descended vertically for twenty meters and was connected to a cement pipe with a diameter of about five meters, which led to the vicinity of the dam. The main body of the site is next to the dam, or part of the dam, which is a reinforced concrete structure. Judging by the thickness of the silt that covers the bottom of the base, and the aquatic plants that grow on the surface, the base has been around for decades, and must have been built during the Soviet era, making it one of the secret military bases of the former Soviet Union.

Such secret military bases were by no means uncommon in the former Soviet Union.

Because it is extremely strong and attached to the gravity dam, the base is largely intact and has not been seriously damaged in the catastrophe.

Chu Tianjiang swam around the base, but did not find an entrance that could enter the interior of the base, not even a drainage outlet.

Obviously, the sewage outlet at the base should be on the other level of the dam, and the vent is likely to be inside the hydroelectric power station inside the dam. If properly designed, the outfall is likely to be in a spillway, or in the outlet of a generator set. Because the power station is constantly working and the water flow is very fast, it is impossible for the average person to enter the sewage pipe from the floodway or the outlet channel.

In this way, in addition to the location that the five special forces entered, in order to enter the base, you had to enter the hydroelectric power station.

If this is a "mill", whether it is a place where civilians are held or a secret scientific research base, the security measures must be extremely tight.

What to do?

Entering through the generator set's water inlet?

Chu Tianjiang can do it, but Nicol and the others definitely can't, the high-speed rotating hydro turbine can stir anything into pieces.

In addition, there should be several fences inside the intake to filter debris.

After thinking about it carefully, Chu Tianjiang decided to sneak into the base alone to investigate the situation first. If conditions allow, sneak into the base after dark with Nicol and the others.

After going back to find Nicol and the others and explaining the situation, Chu Tianjiang asked them to take them together.

Although the blizzard has abated and the temperature has risen during the day, it is still only minus 20 degrees Celsius, and there is no hot food. If they are scattered and hidden, they will soon freeze, so they can only stay together and keep each other warm as much as possible.

After settling Nicol and the others, Chu Tianjiang returned to the dam.

With stealth, it is not difficult to infiltrate the dam.

Four hydroelectric turbines are working, and the control system has been significantly improved, eliminating the need for personnel to perform duties, and the hydropower plant is empty.

It's just that there is absolutely no one in this dam and the underwater base.

The reason is that Chu Tianjiang did not find the wires that transmitted the electricity out of the river, that is, the electricity generated by the hydropower station, and all the electricity was provided to the underwater base.

The underwater base consumes so much electricity that it will certainly generate a lot of heat. By hiding the base underwater, the heat is dissipated through the water in the reservoir, and strong infrared radiation is not generated, and it cannot be detected by reconnaissance satellites. However, there must be vents in the underwater base, and the temperature of the turbid air emitted must be higher than that of the outside air, which will produce more obvious infrared radiation.

After a lot of effort, Chu Tianjiang found the exhaust outlet hidden in the water outlet channel.

It's a clever design. When the exhaust hot air mixes with the cold water in the outlet channel, the temperature drops rapidly and the infrared radiation is significantly reduced. In addition, the temperature of the cold water will increase after passing through the generator set, which will also cancel out the infrared radiation of the hot air.

These discoveries made Chu Tianjiang believe that this was definitely not an ordinary military base.