1

In the dark night, Makarov got dressed, walked out of the yurt alone, climbed over several sand dunes, he soon came to the water's edge, Makarov felt strange and wanted to shout Tang Feng, but there was no Tang Feng around, just when Makarov was surprised, he suddenly found that the water surface in front of him was changing somehow, and after a while, the water flooded his upper, Makarov secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly retreated, but the speed of the water rise surprised Makarov, he retreated step by step, the water surface chased closely, and the water soon flooded the originally dry sand……

Makarov suddenly stumbled and fell on the sand, why did the water level rise so fast? Makarov couldn't think about it, the water level was still rising rapidly, Makarov hurriedly stood up and continued to retreat to the sand dunes behind, dozens of steps later, Makarov looked back, only to find that he had retreated from the water's edge to the back of the dune, but the water level in front of him did not recede at all, and continued to force upward, Makarov stared at the frightened eyes, looking at the calm water in front of him, he didn't know what terrible things were stirring this spring under the water, He made the seemingly calm water surface swallow everything like a flood beast!

In the darkness of the night, Makarov couldn't see what was beneath the dunes behind him. Maybe you can get rid of this rushing spring by climbing over the sand dunes! But...... Makarov glanced behind him again, there was a shadow under the dark dunes, Makarov felt a little dizzy, but when he turned his gaze back, the water was still surging towards him at an astonishing height, Makarov was still hesitating, he stood on the back of the high dune, there was a feeling of being cold from a high place, there was already a spring water overflowing the back of the dune, and also overflowing the upper of Makarov's shoes, the calm water quickly became turbulent after overflowing the back of the dune, Makarov felt the sand dunes beneath his feet start to get wet and swayed, Makarov no longer hesitated, he wanted to flee from here, but just as he was about to flee backwards, the tall sand dunes under his feet suddenly collapsed......

Makarov trembled all over, woke up from his sleep, it turned out to be a nightmare just now, he breathed a long sigh of relief, slowly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and muttered softly in his mouth: "It's all caused by that Haizi!" ”

However, when Makarov's eyes adapted to the environment here, he suddenly found that he was not lying in the yurt, but lying on the cold concrete floor, and then looked around, it seemed to be a reinforced concrete building, and there was a lot of space, Makarov couldn't help but tremble, where did he come?

Makarov instinctively touched the wall, and soon, his hand touched something that looked like a switch, and with a light on it, Makarov saw that he was in a wide corridor, and there were several wall lamps on the wall of the corridor around him, where was this? Like ...... Makarov quickly thought of Bunker No. 21!

But Makarov is still not sure, the bunker has not been blown up? Makarov thought wildly and walked forward, he instinctively thought that there should be a wall lamp in front of the corridor, and there should also be a switch on the wall, so he took thirty steps forward and walked into the shadows, but he did not find a similar switch on the wall as just now, Makarov couldn't help but wonder, he opened his eyes wide, looked ahead, the wide dark corridor, I don't know where it leads?

Suddenly, Makarov felt a shadow appear on the ground behind him, a shadow that did not belong to him, and he turned his head sharply, but saw nothing! Behind him was a space illuminated by a wall lamp, and beyond that it was pitch black, Makarov took a few quick steps, through the bright space, and into another dark corridor, he slowed down, and as he cautiously walked forward, he reached out on the wall to find the switch, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty...... When Makarov took fifty steps, his hand finally touched the switch on the cold wall, Makarov stopped, pressed the switch, "click-" A crisp sound, the switch was pressed down, but no lights came on, and at this time, Makarov realized that he was too far away from the light world.

2

Makarov flicked the switch back and forth a few more times, but there was no response, Makarov looked at the pitch-black space around him, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, he looked back at the still bright space, perhaps...... Maybe it was the only light in this dark corridor, and Makarov wanted to go back and keep that light, but his great curiosity prompted him to go forward, to find the end of the corridor, and get out of here!

But...... But there may be a huge labyrinth ahead, and just as Makarov hesitated, he vaguely heard a slight voice coming from the corridor in front of him, Makarov held his breath and listened, the voice seemed to come from a distant place, "Pa-pa-pa--" hit Makarov's heart socket, and he keenly recognized that it was the sound of footsteps, and a person was coming towards him from the dark corridor!

Makarov's heart began to beat wildly, although he had been a great enemy for a long time, but at this moment he still couldn't control his heart that was beating wildly, great fear came to him, wrapping his whole body, Makarov instinctively began to retreat, but he could barely hear his own footsteps, only the footsteps of that person in the dark and dead corridor hit Makarov's fragile eardrums!

"One, two, three, four, five......" Makarov silently recited the footsteps, which was also the pace of his retreat, and when Makarov was silent until he was thirty, he found that the man had stopped, and the dark corridor suddenly became as silent as death!

Makarov also stopped, no footsteps, no sound, not even breathing, everything seemed to be still, and after five minutes of stalemate, Makarov suddenly realized that he was under a bright wall lamp, and if it was indeed a person coming from the depths of the corridor, then that person may be watching him in the dark at this time! Makarov could no longer stand this suffocating atmosphere, and he spoke first, "Anyone?" ”

His voice quickly disappeared into the endless corridors, and no one answered, as if no one was there. Makarov did not give up, and asked again: "Who are you?" ”

Still no one spoke, and when Makarov's short words were swallowed up by darkness, everything was as dead and silent as just now!

Makarov forcibly suppressed his heartbeat, pretended to be calm and said: "I know you are there, you are watching me!" ”

There was silence again, Makarov couldn't hold back, he wanted to shout, he wanted to scold, he wanted to rush out of the darkness, but at this moment, from the dark corridor, a slightly hoarse voice came, "Ivan, you don't seem to have changed much after many years!" ”

"What, you know me?" Makarov's heart moved.

"You're still so impulsive!" The man did not answer Makarov's question directly.

"Who the hell are you?" Makarov said angrily.

In the dark corridor, no sound came, so time passed minute by minute, Makarov couldn't hold his breath, and just wanted to speak, he suddenly heard the footsteps again, or the footsteps, coming from the dark corridor, but was this footstep far away, or was it approaching him?

3

With years of training as an agent, Makarov quickly heard that the footsteps did not turn back, but were approaching him, and Makarov instinctively continued to step back, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, five steps,...... When Makarov stepped back to the eighth step, the footsteps disappeared again, and Makarov quickly calculated that the man should have taken seven steps more than himself, which means that the man had taken a total of fifteen steps forward!

Everything was quiet again, and Makarov was determined to calm down this time. The corridor was so quiet that you could hear your own heartbeat, but Makarov couldn't hear another heartbeat, was he a human or a ghost? While Makarov was thinking nonsense, the voice spoke first, "I'm the one you're looking for!" ”

"Are you...... It's the general! Although Makarov tried his best to control it, there was still a complex component in his voice, whether it was excitement, ecstasy, horror, or unforgettable hatred!

The voice made a strange sound, as if it was laughing, but it was such a strange voice, "Ivan, although you have caused me so much trouble, but I also want to thank you for bringing us here, everything will be clear, after a long wait, we will see the last hole card, but between the two of us, only one person can stay until the end and see this hole card." ”

"So you admit you're a general, so who are you?" Makarov asked impatiently.

"I said there would only be one of us who would see the hole cards!" The voice was unhurried, and Makarov could not hear any change in mood from it.

"You're also a hole card?"

"Isn't it? I'm also part of the hole cards! ”

"Okay, then I won't ask you this!" Makarov froze, he wanted to talk to the voice as much as he could, looking for a flaw in it, "I wonder how it all started?" Is it because Victor discovered the basement of the Hermitage? ”

"That's just exposing something, a little bit of it to the sun!"

"Yes, I also thought that it was only the tip of the iceberg of your great conspiracy, your conspiracy began a long time ago, as early as 1964, the lost 1964!" Makarov said with some excitement.

"1964?" The voice paused, "Hmm, that's not where it all began!" ”

"Oh? So...... When did it all start? ”

"Fate!"

The voice said such a sentence in response, Makarov's heart trembled suddenly, he seemed to have heard this word somewhere, yes, Tang Feng and Han Jiang had mentioned to him that in the camp on the eve of the expedition team's accident, a dead poplar tree trunk was deeply engraved with this word!

"Fate?"

"Yes, all this is predestined, and it is destined that I will find the vanished ancient city!"

"What is your relationship with the Black Lama and Ma Yuan?"

"Hmph, they are just passers-by in the long river of history, and some people will be recorded in history forever!"

"Like Koznov discovered Blackwater?!"

The voice fell silent, and Makarov waited quietly for a while before the voice slowly said, "No! Koznov is nothing more than an upstart, an ungrateful villain and a thief! ”

"Aren't you doing the same thing as he did? Isn't it for the ethereal legends and the treasures of the Western Xia Dynasty? ”

"Nope! Not just for the treasure, but for love, hatred and the future! That voice seemed to contain great power, and Makarov finally keenly captured the slightest emotional swing in that voice.

4

There was a terrible silence in the bunker again, and Makarov, fearing that the voice would creep away, preemptively said: "I already know who you are, we must have met!" ”

"Of course, we've definitely met!" The voice replied in the affirmative.

"Well, well, my old friend, Yuri, I know it's you!" Makarov reported Burdenko's name.

The voice let out a sneer, "Ivan, the person you are talking about is already dead!" ”

"So you know Burtenko too? Who are you? The voice was silent, and Makarov couldn't hold his breath and asked: "Isakov?" ”

The voice was silent in the darkness.

"Brainin?"

The voice remained silent.

"Stykin? No, it won't be him! Makarov himself denied Stephkin.

There was still silence in the darkness on the other side of the hallway.

"Warren White......" Makarov himself asked, skeptically.

No sound came from the depths of the dark corridor!

After a brief silence, Makarov's eyes suddenly lit up, "You...... You're not going to be one of those students, are you? No, the cadets should all be dead......"

This time, the voice spoke again, "Ivan, don't guess!" ”

Makarov suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu in this voice, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it anyway, "No! I know you, I must know you! Makarov roared, causing a buzz in the dark and gloomy bunker.

"Well, I said at the beginning, only one of the two of us will be able to see the hole cards! If I show you my hole cards right now, then ......" the voice suddenly stopped.

"So what?" Makarov asked rhetorically.

The voice didn't answer, but footsteps came from the depths of the dark hallway, "Bang--Bang-" one, two, three, four...... The mechanical and dull sound of footsteps, which entered his body from Makarov's fragile eardrums, struck his heart, and Makarov instinctively stepped back at the same time, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps...... Not just because of nervousness, but also because of fear, when the footsteps had stopped, Makarov took two steps back, and then stopped, and then heard the voice say firmly and forcefully: "If I let you see my hole cards now, then your life will come to an end!" ”

Makarov shuddered when he heard this, and instinctively took a step back, he knew that the guy was very close to him, but he still buried himself in the shadows, refusing to show his true face, and he was exposed to the bright light, as long as the man had a gun, he could end his life at this moment!

Makarov, out of professional habits, wanted to dodge, but a thought suddenly appeared in his mind, why should he dodge? Compared to those lives that have passed away, I have lived long enough! Thinking of this, Makarov forced himself to calm down and fought back unhurriedly: "Oh! Are you so confident? Don't you want to look at my hole cards? ”

"Your hole cards?" The voice was clearly taken aback by Makarov's answer. But soon, the voice calmed down, "Ivan, don't bluff, since you want to see my hole cards so much, then I will fulfill you and say goodbye to my friend!" ”

After that voice finished speaking, the terrible footsteps in the dark corridor were remembered again, "Pa-pa-pa--" one, two, three, four...... Makarov felt that footsteps were getting closer and closer to him, and his heart was beating wildly, and he seemed to have seen that the man had a gun pointed at him, and the bullet was already loaded, perhaps...... Maybe just when I saw the real face of the man, the bullet in the gun would whistle through my chest!

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The mechanical and dull footsteps seemed to become a timer on the * at the moment, Makarov could no longer compose, he instinctively stepped back again, and just as he withdrew the first step, the guy's feet came out of the shadows, but Makarov still did not see the man's face; One more step, Makarov took another step back, and the guy's legs were revealed; Makarov felt like he was about to suffocate, he didn't know what was going to happen next, and he didn't know how amazing that hole card would be!

There was another terrifying footstep, the guy's upper body was already exposed in the light, Makarov remembered his gun, but he touched all over his body, but he didn't touch it, he leaned desperately against the cold and damp wall, gasping for breath, waiting for the moment when the hole cards were untied, and also waiting for the last moment of death!

But just as the guy raised his foot and was about to take another step forward, Makarov suddenly heard another footstep from behind him, deep in the dark and terrifying bunker. The footsteps were firm and powerful, coming from the depths of the distant bunker, and Makarov's heart was startled again, this ...... Who is this?

Looking at the guy who had already lifted his foot, apparently he also heard footsteps coming from the other end of the corridor, he hesitated for a moment, slowly lowered his foot, and the footsteps on the other end became more and more determined, step by step from the depths of the dark bunker, Makarov was overwhelmed and frightened, that ...... Who is the footsteps that are coming from the other end? It's so determined!

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Makarov opened his eyes suddenly, and found that he was covered in sweat, but he was still lying in the yurt, he sat up, and saw Tang Feng lying next to him, and Liang Yuan sleeping at the other end, it seemed that everything was normal, but ...... But I just ...... Makarov gasped, remembering everything that had just happened, he couldn't be sure for a moment that everything that had just happened was his dream, Makarov recalled vigorously, and at first it was...... That sea, the boundless sea suddenly rose! Then I woke up, no! I didn't wake up, but ...... It's a dream within a dream!

Immediately after that, I dreamed of the bunker again, bunker number 21! I met the general there! No, I still haven't seen the true face of the general, I have a conversation with the general, and there are quite a lot, Makarov tried his best to recall the content of the conversation, until the end, when the general was about to show his true face, there was another footstep from the other end of the bunker, what was going on? Who would that be?

Makarov thought about it and was puzzled, when he thought that the general was about to come out of the shadows at the last moment and that he would end his life, Makarov couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat again, he hurriedly went to touch his gun under the pillow, that hard guy was still there! Makarov was a little relieved at this time, but the endless dreams filled his chaotic brain, and when he thought of the general who was about to reveal his true face, Makarov felt a splitting headache!

6

Makarov felt a lot of tightness in his chest, so he walked out of the yurt, looked at the sky, the sky was full of stars, the east was already a little white, but the night still shrouded the whole earth, the yurt of the famous couple did not have a trace of movement, it seemed that they were still asleep, Makarov bypassed their yurt and walked to the small sea, the whole sea is really small, less than 20 square meters, can only be regarded as a small blister, this is the source of their water.

Makarov sat on the edge of the blister, looking at the silent sand dunes around him, and suddenly, someone from behind patted him on the shoulder, which was called in the past, Makarov's professional habits, he would definitely not let people get close, but now he was in a trance, until the man shook him, he came to his senses, and looked back, it was Tang Feng.

"Why are you up too? We're on our way today, so why don't we get some sleep? ”

Tang Feng smiled: "Haven't you woken up yet?" Just look at you, you have something on your mind! ”

"I had another dream!"

"Nightmares?"

"It's hard to say......" Makarov then told Tang Feng about his dream.

"What a strange dream!" Tang Feng muttered to himself after hearing this.

"It's strange, but this dream has given me new ideas...... Makarov said halfway through, and suddenly stopped, as if lost in thought.

Tang Feng didn't dare to disturb him, Makarov pondered for a long time, and when the east was flushed with a touch of fish belly white, he suddenly shouted: "I want to ...... I think my old friend Buldenko is most likely a general! ”

"Burtenko? Is that the general who has been hiding in the shadows? Although Tang Feng had also begun to suspect Buldenko because of the discovery of the bunker before, he was still a little surprised when Makarov said Buldenko's name so firmly!

"Yuri, I've seen your hole cards!" Makarov looked confident.

"But isn't he dead?" Tang Feng asked rhetorically.

"This is the most incredible part, I can't say yet, but my intuition tells me that Buldenko must be the insider, participant, and even mastermind of the whole conspiracy!" Makarov paused, and then said: "Let's not care about my dreams for a while, let's first look at the clues that we have already had, at first my suspicion of him was because of that mysterious pattern, the man in black had such a tattoo, and many students also had such tattoos back then, Bultenko gave me a plausible explanation at that time, so that I could not suspect a dead person because of that tattoo!" But I have overlooked one of the biggest doubts! ”

"The biggest doubt?"

"Yes, this suspicion actually began from the moment I knew him, the above sent me and him to Mongolia to carry out a mission, he has a higher rank than me, but he has to listen to my command, saying that he is guilty of meritorious service, and now we already know that he was punished precisely because of the major problems in the construction of bunker No. 21 during the thirteenth bureau; And this bunker No. 21 made me wonder even more, how could Burdenko, who was an extremely serious and conscientious person, make a major mistake in the course of such an important project? ”

"You mean he did it on purpose?!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

Makarov nodded, "I think this is very likely, as evidenced by what we found later in the bunker, so it begs the question, why did he deliberately make a mistake to make Bunker 21 not work properly?" ”

"To train the trainees...... No, it's impossible, when the bunker was built, there was no forward base! Tang Feng shook his head and said.

"No, it's very likely!"

"What? Is he not a prophet? ”

"Not a prophet! It's part of a huge conspiracy! Assuming that Burtenko made a deliberate mistake to make Bunker No. 21 unusable, then he must have had his purpose, and what was that purpose? I don't know what the specific reason for the bunker not working properly is now, but through your decipherment of the ancient map after the jade interstitial screen, and a series of recent encounters, I have thought of a reason, and this reason is related to the Hanhai Mi City that we are looking for. ”

"You mean the location of the bunker?"

"Yes, the bunker is too close to the border, too close to the Wolf Valley, and that's the problem. At the time when the bunkers were built, military technology developed rapidly, emphasizing large-depth operations, so large military fortifications were built in an area with a certain depth from the border, and it was unlikely that they would be built in an area so close to the border. If it is built close to the border, it will be destroyed quickly by the other side if it is attacked, and I think this is probably the main reason why Bunker 21 was abandoned, and of course there are other reasons such as the internal structure. Then, when you think of the distance from Wolf Valley here, it is even more suspicious! ”

"So Burtenko deliberately built a bunker near the border for the sake of Wolf Valley, causing the bunker to be abandoned?" Tang Feng thought for a while, and then said, "Even if you can make sense, how did Burtenko know the secret of Wild Wolf Valley?" You know, it took a lot of effort to get here! ”

"Of course, he couldn't have known that Hanhai Mi City was in the Wild Wolf Valley from the beginning, but he or his accomplices must have known that Hanhai Mi City was in this desert, and the Wild Wolf Valley was extremely mysterious, so it attracted their attention, how else could he explain it?"

But what is his purpose in doing so? Trainees? ”

"Training the cadets was later, and I think he wanted to make the abandoned Bunker No. 21 his forward base!"

"His forward base?"

"It's to enter this desert to find the forward base of Hanhai Mi City!"

"Oh? I see what you mean. ”

"I think this conspiracy was formed in 1964, it was the lost 1964, and the clues we have already know that the three people who were responsible for protecting Misha in 1964 were Brenin, Isakov and Stephkin! And we also linked these three people with Bultenko through the later rebellion of the base students, which can also explain your previous question, how did they know the secret of Hanhai Mi City and the Jade Interstitial, don't forget, Misha is the closest person to the answer to the mystery! At this point, Makarov seems to have completed a perfect inference.

7

Makarov's words made Tang Feng fall into deep thought, and after a while, Tang Feng slowly shook his head and said, "Old Ma, I think this inference of yours is not mature enough, there are still many loopholes, the first point, how could Misha easily reveal the secrets of the Jade Interlude and Hanhai Mi City to these agents?" ”

Makarov was also not sure whether Misha had revealed the secrets of the Jade Insertion and Hanhai Mi City to Stephkin and the others, so he pouted and said, "This is going to ask Misha!" But it is true that Stephkin and the other three who were involved in this incident were agents who had protected Misha around 1964, and I even suspect that there was another agent who protected Misha in 1964. ”

"You mean Burtenko?"

Makarov nodded, "Do you remember the two pages in the file that were torn off?" ”

"Of course I remember, what is missing is 1964!"

"Don't forget, Buldenko used to work in the KGB archives, and I think he still has some connections and means there!"

"In short, I still can't agree with you on this, with my judgment of Misha, it is impossible for him to easily reveal the secrets of the Jade Insert and Hanhai Mi City to Stechkin and the others! If your inference is true, then, besides Misha, they must have a more reliable source than Misha! ”

"A more reliable source? Who else will there be? No one will come closer to the answer than Misha! Makarov also couldn't figure it out.

Tang Feng continued: "The second point, the previous clues can only prove that Brynin, Stephkin and others were involved in the incident of the student riot, but Buldenko was already dead at that time, and it cannot be seen that they have a direct relationship with Buldenko, unless Buldenko is not dead and is still leading the students!" ”

"That's what worries me the most." Makarov's pale eyebrows were tangled together.

"What, you're worried that Burdenko didn't die? Back then, you went to collect his corpse! Tang Feng exclaimed.

"It's because I collected the corpse for him, so I'm more worried, right...... Did I make a big mistake decades ago?! Makarov looked worried.

"Well, even if Buldenko hadn't died, even if your previous inferences were true, how would you explain what happened later? Bultenko didn't have anything to die on purpose? The trainees have been training for so long, why don't they go into the desert to find Hanhai Mi City, but what kind of riot is they going to make? This brings me to the third point. ”

"I can't say this either, maybe their plan has changed......" Makarov was stopped by Tang Feng's three questions, he remembered that dream again, just a little bit, he could see the truth, thinking of this, Makarov suddenly came to his senses, "Tang Feng, but my dream just now is completely consistent with my inference, the general knows me, and through his words, I can hear that he is probably Buldenko!" ”

When Makarov said this, Tang Feng smiled, "Old Ma, you have been an agent all your life, why are you confused now, your dream is because you have begun to suspect Buldenko these days, so you take Buldenko as an imaginary target when you dream, how can you prove it with dreams!" ”

Makarov was speechless when Tang Feng said this, and Tang Feng continued to laugh again: "When we were in the bunker, we also suspected Bultenko, but you have always insisted that Buldenko is dead, why are you so adamant that Buldenko is involved in the conspiracy, and even the mastermind general?" I guess it's all your dream! ”

"Really?" Makarov also began to wonder if his judgment had produced an error? Which are the facts, which are your own imaginations, and which are the dreams?