At the border crossing of Heitou Mountain in Erguna Mountain, the container truck full of oil paintings handed in the relevant documents and underwent the last inspection, and after bidding farewell to the members of the two off-road vehicles of the security company escorting him, he drove into Russian territory through the bridge over the Guna Border River.

The two security company vehicles in China turned around and left, and just 200 meters out of the port, two police cars with sirens whizzed past them, and the driver of the off-road vehicle subconsciously slowed down, stopped on the side of the road, and probed out.

The police car then braked sharply and stopped above the border crossing, and the border armed police immediately stepped forward to ask what had happened, and after several policemen who jumped out of the car took out their documents to identify themselves, the person in the lead handed over with a search warrant and asked: "Has this car been cleared?" ”

The platoon commander of the armed police who led the shift looked at the license plate number and the model on the search warrant, and nodded: "I just passed the customs not long ago." ”

"It's over, it's a step too late!" The leading policeman looked into the distance and frowned.

The platoon commander of the armed police subconsciously asked, "What happened?" There is no problem with all the documents of the car, before each car crosses the border here, the customs side needs to check and test several times, even if it passes here, the opposite Russia will strictly inspect it again, but the documents they have on hand are very complete, and there are the initial inspection documents of the Russian side, that is, after they cross the boundary river, they only need to submit the documents on the opposite side to leave, and they will be checked again after arriving at the customs at the other end, and go through the normal customs clearance procedures. ”

The leading policeman just shook his head and didn't say anything, then dialed the phone number, and after connecting, he said, "It's late, it's already passed." ”

At the same time, on the other side of the port, in Russia, the container truck was moving forward at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour.

The two main and co-drivers in the car are yawning, driving on this kind of flat road, it is too easy to get sleepy, in the country is okay, whether it is a national highway around the grassland, a high-speed or even a border road, every other distance, there will be woods on both sides, so that you can avoid the driver's visual fatigue, but in Russia it is completely different, if it is not for the highway in front of you, you will think that at a glance the front and back are exactly the same place.

"I think it's redundant for our company to hire any security company." The driver looked ahead, "I heard that you can make a lot of money just running with us like this?" ”

The co-pilot shook his head: "The things we pulled are valuable, what if something happens?" ”

"Worth the money? It's all a child's imitation! If it's really worth it, use the plane. The driver laughed, "That's safe!" ”

After the two talked and laughed and drove for a long time, the car finally drove past the first town, and at the same time, a KAMAZ truck came up from the side of the road, driving at a slow speed in front, the driver honked the horn, but the car just wouldn't let it, he pressed the horn desperately, but the other party just ignored it.

The co-pilot immediately said at this time: "It's okay, the road ahead will be wide, and then we will overtake, this is Russia, and it is difficult to do something wrong." ”

When the driver nodded patiently, there was a rushing horn from behind, and he saw in the mirror of the back room, I don't know when a Ural truck followed behind, honking its horn.

The driver was on fire and yelled there: "If you don't go ahead, what the can I do, are you Russians all wrong!" ”

Of course, the driver's roar could not be heard by the trucks in front and behind, nor could they be seen on the roof of the truck, which was much shorter than the vehicle they were driving, and two men with tool kits and ski masks were already standing on the roof.

Two men ran from the top of the Ural truck, slid onto the hood of the car, and then gave a thumbs up to the driver in the car, the driver immediately slightly increased the throttle, and put the front of the car close to the rear of the container truck, and then one of them jumped over first, took the pliers handed over by the person behind him, cut the outer chain above, squatted down and easily opened the lock on it, and then slowly opened the car door, fixed the slightly open car door with a support stick, and quickly climbed in.

As he climbed in, the driver of the KAMAZ truck at the front pressed the walkie-talkie and said in English with a thick Russian accent: "You only have five minutes!" After four and a half minutes, if you can't find it, you must leave! ”

"Understood!" Another masked man crouched in the last van pressed the timer and replied, "If Maffei's message is correct, then what we're looking for must be here!" ”

After speaking, the man raised his eyes and looked at the inside of the carriage, the man inside was looking for the wooden box number inside, and then squatted in front of a wooden box, opened it with a crowbar, pulled out a painting from it, looked at the number on it, and pulled out another one, at this time the man behind pressed the walkie-talkie and said: "First preliminary identification!" Hurry up! It's too late! ”

The man inside nodded, tore open the wrapper, carefully opened the upper end of the frame, then took it off, fumbled in it, and then pulled out a part of a painting from it, took out a flashlight and took a photo, and responded: "It's Levitan's "Late Spring"! ”

"Hurry up! Hand it to me! The time is almost up! The man on the hood said urgently.

"There are two other paintings that need to be identified!" The man in the carriage also said anxiously.

The man on the hood raised the timer: "No time!" Take them all! The front will become four lanes, and as soon as they overtake, we're screwed! ”

The man in the carriage had no choice but to hand out the paintings one by one, and after the man on the hood got it, he immediately put it upside down on the holder behind the backpack, and while placing the two paintings, the man handed him the third one, and then quickly removed the support stick, and while closing the compartment door, threw two smoke bombs inside, and then jumped back on the hood.

The car behind slowed down, and the truck in front also picked up, and when it reached the fork in the road, it headed to the right, and soon disappeared on the road.

When the two drivers of the container truck were breathing a sigh of relief, they suddenly saw smoke coming out of the car in the rearview mirror, and the driver stepped on the brakes, stopped on the side of the road, and then grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran to the back.

Just as the two of them were standing at the door of the car with fire extinguishers, and found that the chains were broken and the locks were opened, the truck that had followed them before whizzed past them and turned left at the intersection ahead, and at the same time, the two men sitting in the truck compartment, one of them was carefully identifying the remaining two paintings, while the other had already called the police: "Yes, on the road next to Shuva Town, a container truck, supposed to be from China, with white smoke coming from behind, as if there were explosives, yes, Go ahead, oh my God, it's horrible, my wife and kids are terrified, my name is Isaac, yes, yes, Isaac, okay. ”

After the man finished speaking, he hung up the phone, pulled up the mask and asked, "Are the other two real?" ”

The man wearing the mask was called Guan Shengjie, the man sitting opposite him was called Bai Boran, and the driver was Qi Feng. These three people are all members of Team A of the BM team of Cusco Company, which was pretended to be commissioned by Liu Zhigang a few months ago and was actually hired by Maffei, and they are all of Chinese descent.

Bai Boran put down the special 10x magnifying glass and said: "It's all true, it was indeed lost from the Russian State Museum of History and Art before, there are three here, a total of five were lost at that time, where are the rest?" ”

Guan Shengjie shook his head: "Ma Fei said that she only knows about three paintings here, and as for the others, she said that if we do a good job and successfully let the police discover the secret of the car, she will tell us the whereabouts of the other two paintings." ”

Bai Boran frowned and said: "That can only depend on whether the police on the Russian side are smart." ”

"It doesn't matter, Maffei said, the Chinese police have contacted the Russian side through Interpol, and there should be no problem!" Guan Shengjie stared at the paintings and said, "Now there are only two things we have to do, first, hide these three paintings, and second, tell Mafei that the operation has been successful and let her fulfill her promise." ”

While Bai Boran nodded, Guan Shengjie pressed the walkie-talkie and said, "Qi Feng, drive the car to the safe house." After finishing the order, Guan Shengjie took out his satellite phone and dialed it out.

When Guan Shengjie's phone was dialed, Ma Fei, who was in Harbin, was standing on the observation deck of the Dragon Tower, today was not a weekend, and there were very few people who came to visit, Ma Fei took the phone away from the crowd and walked to the side, and then said: "The task is complete?" ”

"It's done, according to your intelligence, the three paintings have been found, and the preliminary identification results are indeed Levitan's." Guan Shengjie said calmly over there, "Now, you should fulfill your promise." ”

"No problem." "But I still need a little bit of a small trick to return these three paintings to the Russian State Museum of History and Art before I can tell the whereabouts of the remaining two paintings." ”

Guan Shengjie squeezed the phone on the other end: "Ma Fei, what are you when we are?" Are you mercenaries? ”

Ma Fei just said lightly: "Team Leader Guan, are you really a thief?" What I told you to do is a good deed, you take the painting and return it to the museum, even if the people in this business know what you have done, they will not spit on you, you know, everyone hates thieves, right? ”

Guan Shengjie glanced at Bai Boran and stabilized his mood: "Isn't this an extra move?" You might as well change the way and let the Russian police find out directly, and they will naturally return the painting. ”

"No, it's a lot more complicated than you think." Ma Fei said, then looked out the window, staring at those high-rise buildings that were far less tall than the Dragon Tower she was in, "Team Leader Guan, what I hope is to maintain long-term cooperation, you can rest assured, the information I provide to you in the future, and the things I take you to find, are hundreds of times the value of these items now, my words are here, whether you believe it or not, it's all your business, pay attention to safety, goodbye." ”

……

Ground floor.

After climbing up from the roof passage of the mirror house, the three criminals found that the upper end was an underground cave, similar to a small mine cave, wide enough for one and a half adults, with an average height of one meter eight, but in many places they still need to bend over and lower their heads, otherwise they will bump their heads.

"What the hell is this place!? Who dug it up. Hu Sanqian walked slowly in front, and because of a good night's sleep, everyone's physical strength recovered well.

Torture touched the damp cave wall next to him: "Three thousand, I think we must be dozens of meters underground now." ”

"Maybe deeper." Hu Sanqian said that he found a weaker place, inserted one of his coffin nails into it, and then shook it vigorously to make the coffin nails fixed in it a little looser, and then slowly pulled it out.

The torture technique stepped forward to watch, Hu Sanqian looked at the soil brought out of the coffin nails and said, "It's very deep, at least 50 meters below." ”

"50 meters!?" He Chenxue was very surprised, "How can it be in such a deep place?" ”

Hu Sanqian still looked at the soil on the coffin nail: "This is not surprising, although the main urban area of Harbin City is located in a relatively stable area, the terrain is flat, and there are few regional geological disasters, but there is a problem that can never be solved, that is, seasonal permafrost." ”

Torture nodded, and touched the dirt on the coffin nail, the soil was soft and felt extremely heavy with moisture.

"Once it enters sub-zero here, the rock and soil mass within a certain depth range below the surface and the water in the space gap of the rock and soil body will freeze, but generally speaking, even if it reaches about minus 30 degrees, it is impossible to freeze to several meters, if I remember correctly, the depth of the frozen soil in Harbin is up to 200 centimeters, and the deepest depth of the frozen soil in China is under the Tianshan Mountains, and the highest record is close to 500 centimeters." Hu Sanqian threw the dirt off the coffin nail.

Xingshu shook his head: "Since it is frozen to a maximum of 200 centimeters here, how can you tell that we are now about 50 meters underground?" ”

"The quality of the soil, the water, and what's in the soil." Hu Sanqian looked at the small hole left by the coffin nail, "The bored piles are generally used in the foundation of houses in the north, and the foundation pit is basically about 7 to 15 meters, and the normal appearance is 7 or 8 meters, but it is necessary to take into account the civil air defense project and subway station under Harbin City, etc., the deepest foundation pit can reach 30 meters, if this cave is not deep, it has already been dug out, and I judge that it should be about 50 meters, and this cave should be considered semi-natural." ”

The torture technique touched the wall of the cave: "Semi-natural? ”

Hu Sanqian continued to walk forward, explaining as he went: "In other words, there were cracks in the ground or smaller connected caves here a long time ago due to earthquakes or other reasons, and the excavators expanded these caves and connected them together, which is actually quite common in the north, especially in the vicinity of the volcano. ”

Torture pulled out his hand-held GPS, there was no signal, and all the electronic devices were completely useless.

Hu Sanqian took out the compass to try to identify the direction, and found that the compass pointer was constantly turning, in short, it was very unstable.

Hu Sanqian stopped and looked at the cave that was bent forward and had no end in sight: "There seems to be a problem with the magnetic field here, and it is still far ahead." ”

"It's okay, this time I brought enough batteries, so I'm worried about what happened last time." Torture slapped his backpack.

Hu Sanqian shook his head: "You have to consider all the possibilities, but there is something I can't figure out now." ”

"What?" Torture asked.

Hu Sanqian stared ahead and said, "Where did Pan Feng go with Xiaobai?" With Xiaobai's skills, to be caught by Pan Feng, there can be no other way than to be sneak attacked, but the best place for Pan Feng to sneak attack Xiaobai is in the mirror house, the earliest small passage and even the position we are in now are not suitable for sneak attacks, because there is nowhere to hide, but after the sneak attack, Pan Feng has to go on like this with Xiaobai on his back, how long does it take to walk? ”

The torturer pondered for a moment and said, "You mean, the time is not compatible?" ”

"Yes, even if Pan Feng and Xiaobai are dozens of minutes ahead of us, and we have to count the time to crack the door and passage mechanism, etc., they can't run that far, you know, my physical strength can't withstand climbing for so long, walking for so long, let alone them." Hu Sanqian looked at the torture technique, and then made a definition, "So, Pan Feng shouldn't be in front of us." ”

He Chenxue also looked behind: "What do you mean, is there still a problem with that mirror house?" ”

Xingshu nodded: "It's possible, it's possible that there is another dark room in that mirror room or something, and Pan Feng and Xiao Bai who were sneak attacked are in that dark room, and we may be separated by a wall." ”

Hu Sanqian looked at the two: "Do you know what the biggest problem is now?" ”

Torture said: "Who is behind Pan Feng?" Whether this person has a direct connection with Pan Feng or not, whether he has a connection with that school, no matter who it is, this person must know the world below well, and even personally transformed the mechanism of the mirror house. ”

"Go to the front and you should have the answer!" Hu Sanqian turned around and continued to move forward, "Torture, after you break it, stare at the back." ”

Xingshu nodded, deliberately slowed down his pace, and after the three of them walked in the cave for a while, Hu Sanqian said with certainty: "Although there are footprints here, they are not left recently, which means that Pan Feng definitely did not come here yesterday, yesterday on the subway, I paid attention to his shoes, he was wearing a pair of sneakers, and here are the marks of leather boots, maybe they were left by him when he came before, or maybe it was the person who helped him, it would be easy to do it if there were footprints, follow the footprints." ”

The three of them didn't know that they had walked underground along the wide and narrow, high and low cave for almost two and a half hours without seeing the end, and the three of them were completely exhausted, so they had to lay on the ground with a tarp and rest against the cave wall, and this position was extremely humid and stuffy, which made people very uncomfortable.

"Hurry up, it should be almost there." Hu Sanqian squatted down and looked at the footprints.

He Chenxue drank water and asked, "How do you know?" You're amazing, aren't you? ”

Hu Sanqian turned his head and said: "I've been paying attention to the footprints, the previous relatively new set of shoe prints are different shades before and after, indicating that people are very tired of walking, and the footprints have been dragged out in some places, but here the footprints are basically the same depth, and the front end of the footprints is obviously heavier, this person must know that he is coming, so he sped up his pace and wanted to trot over in one breath, let's go, let's hurry up." ”

"Good!" The torture technique helped He Chenxue up, and followed behind Hu Sanqian and quickened his pace.

Hu Sanqian walked for a while, and saw a ninety-degree corner in front of him, and there was obviously a slight light on the other end of the corner, he walked over to take a look, and saw that there was a corner of the cave at the other end of the corner, and there was a stone lampstand on one side of the corner, and there was an oil lamp on the lampstand.

"Go on!" Hu Sanqian walked up, looked at the oil lamp, walked to the next corner, and then walked around, and saw a reinforced stone door appearing there, and there was obviously a firelight reflected outside the stone gate.

Hu Sanqian motioned for Xingshu and He Chenxue to stay, and he slowly walked towards the front with the coffin nail in hand, walked to the stone door, and looked outside, Hu Sanqian was stunned for a moment, and then turned his head and shouted to Xingshu: "Xingshu, come quickly, it looks like a prison in front!" ”

Jail? He Chenxue was stunned, and then quickened his steps forward, wondering why there was a prison fifty meters underground!

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