After the initial inspection, several guards in front of the steel gate opened the connecting valve between the last carriage for the carriage of firearms and ammunition and the front compartment, and the Wehrmacht officer and Major Siggenke, who were standing at the rear of the carriage, watched all this calmly, presumably at the request of their superiors. After this, the small train, which had unloaded the third carriage, restarted, and carried the newcomers through the cave and into another cave. Although it is not like the docks, which have bright incandescent lights, but the guards set up on the heights sweep back and forth with searchlights, the naked eye can still see the general situation of the cave: it seems to be the residence of giants, it covers an area of six or seven football fields alone, and the top of the cave is also twenty meters high, since the dock is above sea level, the cave is obviously located at the bottom of the mountain. Based on what Siggenke had previously revealed, Lynn guessed that the Germans had at best expanded and renovated the spaces after they were discovered. It's hard to imagine that there is such an amazing underground world in the cold north. What is even more surprising is that there are dozens of brand-new Leopard tanks and hundreds of different types of armored vehicles parked in the well-repaired cavern, in addition to a large number of equally shiny anti-tank guns, howitzers, infantry guns, and piles of weapons and ammunition boxes - because they are relatively loosely parked, the weapons and equipment look like a lot, but if they are placed in smaller distances from each other, it is only enough to fill a corner of the cave, and if it is parked in layers, the amount of storage in this cave will be amazing!

Following the railroad tracks through the equipment warehouse, the train passed through a second porch-like opening, and the light around it quickly diminished, until at last only the lights at the front of the locomotive were still on. Known as the Night Soldier, Lynn's eyes don't have any special night vision, and can only follow the headlights to see what is going on. The scale of the cave seems to be smaller than the previous one, and the viewing platform with many seats on the left side of the tracks looks like a military training ground, and although it is empty at this time, it is covered with the flags and spears of the Third Reich with white circles on a red background, one can imagine the pomp and circumstance of its use. On the right side of the railroad tracks is a large open space, if it is a compact formation, it can stand tens of thousands of officers and soldiers plus some tanks and combat vehicles, will this be the total number of soldiers scheduled to be placed in the "Aryan Ark" project?

As Lynn pondered, the little train had entered the third hole. It's a walk of seven or eight kilometers from the pier to here, or an hour and a half on foot!

Thank you Watt, thank you Stephenson, and even more so to the people who built the tracks and transported the locomotives and the train cars here. Thinking of this, Lynn was amazed at the magnitude of the project. I had heard Ziggenke say that it had only been discovered two years ago, which meant that in just two years, the docks, tracks, electrical wiring, and so on would have to be completed - not counting what he had not yet seen. With the front-line troops stretched thin and the domestic productivity seriously lacking, where did the Germans get so much labor?

Like entering a subway tunnel, the train begins to move slowly in a long, deep and winding passage, and when it reaches a narrow place, the people in the carriage can reach out and almost touch the top, where there are chandeliers every ten meters, and most of them are on. Looking at the excellent configuration of these facilities, it does not seem that ordinary prisoners of war can do it, could it be that the German army still kept a large number of troops in Norway until the middle and late stages of the war, for the construction of this secret facility? However, this idea of taking precautions and reserving a way back is also too inconsistent with Adolf. Hitler's surname!

After about ten minutes, the train exited the tunnel and finally stopped at a platform similar to a large subway station. Everything is still located in a cave out of sight, lit by a large number of incandescent lamps, and the platform is comparable in size to the Fredericksbahnhof in Berlin, except that there are no parallel railroad tracks. When the train stopped, Ziggenke and the Wehrmacht officer were the first to get out of the car, and under their watchful eyes, the soldiers of the SS and Navy submarine units regrouped at the train. At the request of the officers, Motchig and Weister each counted the number of soldiers, and after making sure that they were correct, they marched on foot without carrying any weapons and equipment.

After leaving the platform, the procession passed through a wide passage large enough for two trucks to run side by side, then chose the rightmost one at a three-way intersection, and after about two hundred meters, the temperature and humidity in the air began to increase rapidly, and in front of an ordinary double-opening partition, the Wehrmacht officer who was walking next to Ziggenke stopped, turned to the crowd and said: "Soldiers, this will give you access to the first benefit of the 'refuge': hot baths!" Wash yourself clean, trim your hair, shave your beard, and put on clean new clothes! Don't worry about the time, there's unlimited hot water here! ”

Hearing the officer's words, the soldiers were all gearing up, and the wounded were worried about whether their wounds could touch the water. At this time, Lynn left her worries behind, and her head was full of doubts: the supply of hot water is unlimited, does that mean that there are geothermal resources such as hot springs? With both underground space and underground heat sources, it's no wonder that it's a wonderful place to hide, but are the elites of the Third Reich ready to hide here for the rest of their lives?

When the door opened, the warm water vapor came to the face, and the sound of rushing water was clearly audible. Towels, soap, hot tubs, showers, everything you can enjoy in a bath can be enjoyed here, except for the absence of beautiful women waiting for you to take a bath and change clothes. Unfortunately, under the reminder of his subordinates, Lynn finally realized that he was still in the stage of recuperation, so he had to follow Tanze and the other wounded to the nearby logistics hospital for an alternative cleaning. Here, dedicated medics help them clean their wounds with potions and change cotton gauze – two places not far apart, but the shouts come from different meanings.

More than an hour later, the soldiers gathered in the passage with red eyes, although Lynn also washed his hair, cut his hair, and changed into a brand new SS non-commissioned officer uniform, but a simple wipe of the body was not as comfortable as a hot bath, so he cursed the Russian who shot and wounded himself with great resentment, and said to Goebbels in his heart: These two shots are blocked by your family, and you can't forget us if they are good in the future!

When everyone had arrived, Ziggenke led the team back to the previous three-way crossing, where the Wehrmacht officers waited patiently and led them through the middle road. At the end of the walk is a huge steel door, where every soldier must be strictly checked by the guards, and not a pistol, a dagger, or even a bullet are allowed to enter. After all the reviews were correct, the guard picked up the phone and reported the situation to the control, which was probably located on the other side of the gate. After the other party verified, the heavy gate slowly rose from the bottom to the top. Before seeing the scene behind the door, the light under the door began to change the visual environment, and there was even a faint warm current gushing out of it, which aroused the curiosity of the soldiers. Finally, when the gate was fully opened, Lynn, who was at the end of the line, quietly moved a small position to the side, and the front was bright, and there seemed to be a neat row of buildings on the opposite side of the hole. Walking forward with the team, he soon heard the exclamations of the soldiers in the front row, and when he reached the entrance of the cave, Lynn had the illusion of being in a giant hive: this cave was larger than any of the submarine docks, weapons and equipment depots, and exercise grounds that he had seen before, and the stone walls directly opposite were thirty or forty meters high from the ground to the top, and those "buildings" did not rise abruptly, but were "inlaid" on the stone walls. These square rooms make the most of the overall space of the vertical walls, alternating between the previous row and the next, which look like hexagonal beehives from a distance. Here, the light source that provides bright light is not the opening to the outside world, but a large lamp directly above the cave, to be precise, an oversized crystal chandelier composed of many small lamps and crystals and mirrors. Looking up at the chandelier, which was even more dazzling than the sun's rays, Lynn was dumbfounded: the Germans had the intention to build such a complex lamp, so why not put more effort into the production of munitions?

It was not only surprising that the soldiers in front of him were looking to the left, and he turned his head, and a huge temple-like structure almost broke his mind. Obediently, they actually rebuilt an "Imperial Temple" here after the front outline of the Imperial Chancellery, the twenty-meter-high round doorposts are like the pillar stones of the Greek temple, they each hung a huge banner of swastikas, on the top of the porch stood a huge eagle stone sculpture, its sharp eyes overlooked the front, and the stone steps below the porch are each fifty or sixty meters wide, these elements are combined to form a shocking spectacle like a dream!

Lynn was not a tourist standing in front of the pyramid with infinite emotion at the moment, and as soon as his mind wandered slightly, Wolfrum, who was following behind, whispered to remind him to "pay attention". Following the team along the straight corridor carved out of the stone walls, they circled counterclockwise in the huge cavern, and the other two walls of the cavern had been carved with many holes, but most of them had not yet been constructed with enclosed room structures, so they looked more like real insect nests. Hundreds of people in gray uniforms were working on them, scaffolding, cranes, carts, and the like that resembled ordinary construction sites, could it be that hundreds of engineers were using these ordinary equipment to build these "hives" and "imperial temples"?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The team walked into the bottom floor of the "hive", and several female soldiers in uniforms and short skirts immediately took out documents and forms to register the soldiers. After leaving the cruel battlefield and experiencing a long and boring voyage, coupled with the hot bath just now, the young men in the team could not help but wink at each other and flatter each other, although they did not whistle like American GIs. Seeing this, Captain Motchig standing at the front of the team was nothing, Major Ziggenke had a stinky face, if it weren't for the fact that these soldiers were not his subordinates, I am afraid that he would have jumped up and cursed.

The process of registering information and arranging accommodation is like the admission of a freshman in college, but Lynn has no intention of revisiting it, and he has no time to pay attention to whether these young female soldiers are handsome, and his eyes and thoughts have always stayed outside the clear floor-to-ceiling window. The "Imperial Temple" stands not far away, and this is not an illusion or a virtual scene on a canvas, but a real grand building - think of Albert Brown. Speller completed the construction of the German Reich Chancellery in one year with 4,500 workers, and was hailed as a marvel of German architecture at the time, and it is not known whether such a jaw-dropping building was still the work of the famous imperial architect. Directly below the huge chandelier, a monument at least 30 meters high is under construction, and judging by the materials piled up around it, the engineers are only using concrete, steel and sand as raw materials, is this a simple answer to a complex question?

(To be continued)