1

Inside the dark sewer pipes, only the sound of running water, the occasional mouse cry, and the water vapor from countless city heating systems from time to time permeated the sewer pipes, which were the huge sewer pipe system of Petersburg.

Suddenly, a pillar of light flashed in the dark world, Han Jiang, who was walking in front, was startled, and looked back to see that it was Xu Renyu fiddling with the flashlight in his hand, and at this moment, the sudden pillar of light hit Xu Renyu's face, making his face look particularly terrifying.

"Where did you get the flashlight?" Han Jiang asked him.

"When we broke out, I took one of the guards', and I thought I might need it." Xu Renyu said a little proudly.

"You've thought it through."

"That's, if I hadn't taken a few more magazines on those guards, what would you have just used to fight with so many guards, hehe!" Xu Renyu was even more proud.

"Yes! You've thought about it, I'm just going to thank you, but did you think we're going to go down the sewer? Han Jiang asked, covering his nose.

"Well! I didn't expect that it wasn't just an impromptu response! Otherwise, they will be arrested by them now, and maybe we will be tortured! ”

Han Jiang let go of his nose and lowered his head to touch forward, suddenly, a large amount of water vapor spewed out of a cracked pipe, Han Jiang's whole person was wrapped in a heavy white mist, and when the fog dissipated, Han Jiang said angrily: "Lao Tzu has been everywhere in his life, but he has never stayed in this damn sewer pipe!" This is good, not only into the sewer pipe, but also into the foreign sewer pipe all at once. ”

"Who hasn't run to the sewer pipe for the first time, you think I've been here before? Oh, life! There must always be a first time, just like the first time you open your eyes, the first time you walk, the first time you eat......" Xu Renyu was relieved to Han Jiang.

"Shut up for me, don't mention eating, I'm hungry now!" Han Jiang didn't leave and stopped.

"Alas! Why don't you go? Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang suspiciously.

Han Jiang said angrily: "What are you going to go?" Where are we going? ”

Xu Renyu looked at Han Jiang's angry appearance, and said unhurriedly: "You don't know this, Petersburg, like Venice and Stockholm, is a water city, and the area of the river accounts for one-tenth of the entire urban area, and more than 80 large and small rivers led by the Neva River pass through the city, making the urban area of Petersburg form a criss-crossing river network layout, so some people say that Petersburg is a city composed of more than 100 small islands and more than 300 bridges, and call it the 'Venice of the North'." ”

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? I'm asking you where do we go, how do we get out of this damn sewer? Han Jiang asked impatiently.

"Didn't your clever brain understand what I meant?" Xu Renyu reminded Han Jiang.

Han Jiang calmed down and thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized: "You mean that these sewer pipes will eventually lead to so many rivers in Petersburg, so we can find the way out by taking any road." ”

"Yes, and it shouldn't go far."

"In that case, let's hurry up and try to get out before dawn, and we will be in trouble after dawn." After speaking, Han Jiang snatched the flashlight from Xu Renyu's hand and walked in front, Xu Renyu had no choice but to follow Han Jiang to continue to advance into the darkness.

2

Han Jiang and Xu Renyu didn't go far, there was a fork in the road in front of them, it seemed that the two pipes were about the same size, Han Jiang looked at Xu Renyu, Xu Renyu closed his eyes and judged the direction, he thought back to the road he took after getting down from them, and finally, he pointed to the sewer pipe on the right and said: "According to my judgment, the pipeline on the right should soon lead to the river outside, and it is likely to lead to the Neva River." ”

Han Jiang didn't say anything, plunged into the sewer pipe on the right, the two walked for half an hour, the sewer pipe, which was originally less than two meters high, suddenly opened up, they entered a huge sewer pipe, Xu Renyu said excitedly: "Look, I'm right, this pipe is getting wider and wider, and it's about to go out." ”

Han Jiang didn't make a sound, he quickly walked to the end of this huge sewer pipe, where three sewer pipes of the same size appeared, Han Jiang turned around and looked at Xu Renyu again: "You come and tell me now, which of these three is the pipe you said to get out quickly?" ”

Xu Renyu was immediately dumbfounded when he saw these three identical pipes, he originally thought that this wide sewer pipe would lead them to the Neva River, but he didn't expect three more pipelines to appear, "I'm not a pipeline expert, don't just listen to me, this time you said." ”

Han Jiang meditated for a while, and then pointed to the pipe on the left: "Go this!" Don't ask me why, I've always trusted my instincts. ”

The two then plunged into the pipe on the left, and half an hour later, the pipeline, which was more than three meters high, suddenly shrunk, and returned to the height of the pipeline where Han Jiang originally walked, in this arch-shaped pipeline of less than two meters, in order to avoid the water in the center of the pipe, as well as the water droplets above their heads, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu had to bend down and walk against the side wall, just like that, the two didn't know how long they walked, Xu Renyu finally couldn't help it, and complained to Han Jiang: "What road did you choose?" How long have you been walking and you haven't found an exit? ”

Han Jiang also sneered: "Don't forget, you chose this road at the beginning!" It was when you didn't dare to choose again that I reluctantly made it difficult. ”

"That's it! Come on! We don't have to shirk each other's responsibilities, I can't walk anymore, so let's rest for a while. After Xu Renyu finished speaking, he sat on the wet and dirty ground.

Han Jiang was already hungry, and he had walked such a long way in this dark and damp pipe, and now he was tired and hungry, so he also found a slightly clean ground and sat down against the wall.

The two rested for a while before Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang, "What should I do next?" ”

"Keep finding your way." Han Jiang replied neatly.

"But we seem to be stuck in a huge labyrinth." Xu Renyu stared at a pair of eyes full of fear and looked at both sides of the pipe, and his voice reflected layers of echoes in the pipe.

"A huge labyrinth? It seems that someone once said to me that every city has a huge labyrinth, this labyrinth is under every city, but also in everyone's heart, it is another world, as long as you enter, it is difficult to extricate yourself! Han Jiang muttered to himself.

Xu Renyu watched in surprise as Han Jiang came out of his mouth with such a series of words like a spell, Han Jiang also turned his head to look at Xu Renyu, shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "What we are in now is only the underground labyrinth of Petersburg, don't you think that we have entered a huge labyrinth from the beginning, and that labyrinth is thousands of times more complicated than this underground labyrinth in Petersburg." ”

"Yes! We are in the labyrinth all the time, even from the moment we were born. Xu Renyu also sighed.

"I found that we have been with Tang Feng for a long time, and we have learned to be sentimental." Han Jiang paused for a moment, and then said to Xu Renyu: "Let's get down to business, the reason why I agreed to your route at the beginning was that I thought that the Petersburg river network was vertical and horizontal, and along the sewer pipes, it should be able to get out soon, but I didn't expect that the underground pipelines in Petersburg were intertwined, far beyond our imagination." What to do next, you ask? To tell you the truth, I don't have any good options, take a break, or move forward. ”

Xu Renyu nodded: "But there is another question, I just wanted to ask you, what should we do after we go out?" Are all the people in Iryukin waiting for us up there? Moreover, there are our old rivals, who want to get rid of us and hurry up! ”

Xu Renyu's question made Han Jiang's heart tighten, yes! After going out, whether it is Ilyugin or the gang of men in black, black and white will not let them go, Petersburg, how can there be a place for him, let alone complete the tasks originally set.

3

Han Jiang thought for a long time, sighed, and said: "There is no other way, Stephen, Iryukin, Black and White will not let us go, and we have to complete the plan we originally made, we only have one way now." ”

"What's the solution?" A glimmer of hope flashed in Xu Renyu's eyes.

"Hmph, what else can be done? I can only go to Yelena! Han Jiang said helplessly.

Xu Renyu smiled, "You really don't treat Yelena as an outsider now, are you two the ......?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not Tang Feng, I'm disciplined. If you don't go to Yelena, you'll show me a way out? Han Jiang asked Xu Renyu rhetorically.

Xu Renyu also said helplessly: "Yes! I couldn't think of a better way, so I decided to go straight to Yelena when I went out. But ......"

"But what?"

"I'm worried that Ilyugin will have taken control of Yelena's residence? You remember that when Ilyugin was in charge of us, he said that he suspected that Yelena was in league with us, so I was worried that he would not catch us and would go to Yelena for trouble. ”

Han Jiang nodded, "What you said is very reasonable, it is completely possible, and not only Yelena, Iryujin will also go to Tang Feng's trouble." ”

"Yes, I forgot about Tang Feng, Iryujin can't catch me, I will definitely follow the vine and find Tang Feng, Tang Feng, a nerd, can he deal with Iryukin?" Xu Renyu exclaimed.

"Didn't you give Tang Feng a fake identity? I want to think about it...... You shouldn't have been exposed yet, Tang Feng entered the country with you, if Ilyugin believes that you are just a translator I invited, as long as Tang Feng does not show flaws, he should be able to cope with it for a while. ”

"It's not easy, would Ilyugin be stupid enough to believe that I was just a translator you hired?" Xu Renyu didn't believe it.

"Anyway, after we go out, we have to go to Tang Feng first, and then to Yelena. Of course, we all have to be prepared for Tang Feng and Yelena's accident, and we must prepare for the worst. ”

After Han Jiang finally summed up, he wanted to get up and continue to move forward, but Xu Renyu begged him to rest for a while, and Han Jiang had no choice but to lean against the damp wall again, closing his eyes and recuperating. But at the moment when Han Jiang was about to close his eyes, in front of him, a faint ghost light suddenly flashed in the pitch-black pipe, Xu Renyu also noticed this light, he just opened his mouth and asked: "What is that......" Before he finished speaking, he was gagged by Han Jiang, and at the same time, Han Jiang turned off their flashlight, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, only the faint ghost light was still flashing in the distance.

Han Jiang shook his head vigorously, no! This was not his hallucination, he found that the ghost light was moving this way, getting closer and closer, Han Jiang couldn't see the ghost light clearly, what was that? Torch? Or is it a ghost fire underground? …… Han Jiang vigilantly pulled out the "Viper" PK 9mm pistol and gently opened the safety in case of an emergency!

The ghostly light was less than a hundred meters away from Han Jiang and Xu Renyu, Han Jiang speculated that the ghostly light was emitted by a torch, but he still couldn't see the person holding the torch clearly, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu both stood up, and the two of them held guns against the damp wall, waiting for the terrifying scene to come.

Han Jiang and Xu Renyu didn't expect that what they were waiting for was the most terrifying scene in their lives, in this dark, damp and labyrinthine underground pipe, their eyes widened and they found ...... found the ...... who was walking towards them with torches That's not a man, it's a ghost! Han Jiang and Xu Renyu's pupils dilated sharply, and the two of them invariably thought of the ghosts of ancient legends.

A white thing accompanied by a ghostly light was slowly approaching them, Han Jiang took a lot of effort to turn his already stiff neck, and looked at Xu Renyu beside him, Xu Renyu's eyes widened at the moment, motionless, like a zombie sticking to the wall, even if it was the muddy water droplets dripping from the wall, flowing onto his face, Xu Renyu didn't move, Han Jiang turned his face again, staring at the ghostly light, he tried his best to stabilize his beating heart, "No! That's not a ghost! Even if he still has a gun in his hand. Thinking of this, Han Jiang raised the gun in his hand, plucked up the courage to face the approaching white ghost, and shouted loudly: "Stop!" Who are you? ”

Han Jiang's roar echoed horribly in the empty sewer pipe, the white ghost stopped, under the reflection of the torch, Han Jiang's hands holding the gun were magnified several times on the wall, the ghost stopped in place, Han Jiang was bold, holding the gun and walked out of the darkness step by step, but at this moment, the ghost suddenly seemed to go crazy, threw the torch at Han Jiang, and at the same time let out a terrifying howl, that howl was a sound that Han Jiang had never heard, it should not belong to human beings, It only belongs to this terrifying and bizarre underground world.

Han Jiang dodged the torch, but when he raised the gun again, the ghost was gone, the torch slowly went out, and the gloomy sewer pipe returned to calm and darkness.

4

Han Jiang turned on the flashlight and wanted to chase the ghost, but Xu Renyu, who had been sticking to the wall, finally relieved himself, he grabbed Han Jiang and asked tremblingly, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Go after that ghost!" Han Jiang's voice was not loud, but it was extremely firm.

"You're crazy! You lunatic! -" Xu Renyu's voice trembled more and more.

"Perhaps, that ghost can take us out." After Han Jiang finished speaking, he went straight forward, and Xu Renyu had no choice but to follow Han Jiang to continue forward.

Han Jiang didn't know where he got the guts, but in this dark and dark pipe, he was chasing a ghost, the dark and dark sewer pipe, the dirty sewage, the suffocating smell, the rats and unknown creatures that appeared at any time, and now, there are ghosts! Han Jiang didn't dare to think about it anymore, he held a flashlight in one hand, a gun in the other, stepped on the sewage, and after looking forward for about a kilometer, Han Jiang found that there was another fork in the road ahead, he stopped in front of the fork in the road, panting and looking back to ask Xu Renyu: "It's up to you this time?" ”

Xu Renyu looked at the two forks in the road, the left side was a tall pipe, but the amount of water was relatively large, and the narrow pipe on the right side, there was no water, and it looked in disrepair, as if it was abandoned. Xu Renyu pointed to the narrow and dilapidated pipe on the right side and said, "This time I will choose this road." ”

"We've finally figured it out together." After Han Jiang finished speaking, he plunged into the pipe on the right, this pipe was narrower than the pipe just now, and the highest point was no more than one meter five, and there were gravel stumbling on the soles of his feet from time to time, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu bent their waists and walked forward cautiously and hard, a quarter of an hour later, a little ghost light flashed in front of them again, the two raised their vigilance, and slowly approached that little bit of ghostly light, what is this little bit of ghostly light? Is it a ghost underground? Or is it an unquenchable ghost fire?

Han Jiang's heartbeat accelerated, he tried to control his breathing, turned a corner, and the ghostly light gradually became clear, it was a ghostly light emitted by a large white wax, but this ghostly light was blocked a lot by a low wall in front of him, Han Jiang walked to the front of the low wall, and used a flashlight to shine into the low wall, and he was surprised to find that this was a room separated by a low wall, an underground hut with a ghostly light.

Han Jiang and Xu Renyu knocked off some loose bricks on the low wall, and across the low wall, the space of the underground hut suddenly opened up, Han Jiang used a flashlight to shine on the top, and the same sewer pipe they saw, the arch-shaped top was more than three meters high, "This was obviously a large sewer pipe, but for some reason, it has been abandoned, so it has been converted into such a shelter." Who could it be? The scavengers who have wandered here, or the terrifying ghost just now? Han Jiang muttered softly.

"So, what kind of ghost is that, but a bum!" Xu Renyu had returned to normal at this time, and he had long forgotten that he was frightened by the ghost just now.

"Did you see the ghost just now?"

"It was so dark that I could see it clearly, and I saw that the ghost seemed to have a wide white robe, a bit like the robes worn by the patriarchs of the Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg, and it was strange that in such a place, wearing such a big white robe does not scare people to death!"

"I also saw that the ghost was wearing a white robe, and if he wasn't a ghost, he was a human, and it would be too strange to wear such a big robe." When Han Jiang said this, he used a flashlight to shine on the underground house, in fact, without a flashlight, he could see the situation inside the house through the dim candlelight. In this dark and damp hut, there was a small wooden bed in the corner of the house, Han Jiang couldn't believe that this could be a ghost house? The ghost, who looked tall, would actually sleep on such a small bed, next to the bed, there was a simple wooden table, on the wooden table, there were some moldy black bread and a bowl of black substance that could not be seen clearly, like caviar, but Han Jiang only sniffed the smell for a while, and felt a wave of nausea.

Look at the other side of the wall, is a huge bookshelf, it seems, this bookshelf is quite elegant, carved flowers, but very old, on the bookshelf, the upper and lower floors are empty, there are no books, only the middle layer neatly placed a row of hardcover books, of course, also very worn-out books.

Han Jiang pointed to the row of books on the bookshelf and asked Xu Renyu, "What kind of books do you look at?" ”

Xu Renyu read it roughly, and then said: "These are all good books, they are all hardcover masterpieces of Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, and they almost include all the works of these two great Russian writers." ”

Saying that, Xu Renyu took out a hardcover tome from the shelf, Xu Renyu looked through it, and then said to Han Jiang: "You see, this is Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", which is the 1957 edition. ”

"The 1957 version is old enough!" Han Jiang whispered.

Han Jiang moved his gaze to the table where the candles were placed, this was a desk, located in the middle of the whole room, the candles were placed here, obviously for reading, Han Jiang approached the desk, and saw that in addition to candles, there was a piece of paper and a pen on the table, and there was nothing else!

Han Jiang borrowed the candlelight and found that there was a line of beautiful words written on the paper in calligraphy in Russian, Han Jiang did not know it, and called Xu Renyu to identify it, and Xu Renyu translated the words on the paper word by word - "For God, we are all Nekhryudov; For life, we are all Duke Myshkin. ”

"What does that mean?" Han Jiang obviously didn't understand this sentence.

Xu Renyu explained solemnly: "Nekhlyudov is the protagonist of Leo Tolstoy's famous book "Resurrection", and Duke Myshkin is the protagonist of Dostoevsky's famous book "The Idiot", both of which are the most important works of the two great writers, and in "Resurrection", Nekhlyudov ......"

Xu Renyu hadn't finished explaining, suddenly, there was a crisp sound from outside the wall on the opposite side of the low wall, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu immediately ran to the wall, Han Jiang pushed, when pushed to the wall on the right, Han Jiang suddenly found that this was a wooden door disguised as a wall, the wooden door could not be pushed open, obviously blocked from the outside, Han Jiang took a few steps back, accelerated suddenly, and crashed into the wooden door, the wooden door opened, and outside the door, there was another tall abandoned pipe.

"Someone just tried to block the wooden door from outside." Han Jiang picked up a wooden board from the ground and said.

"Someone? Why not that ghost? It seems that this pipe is the passage for the ghost to enter and exit, and it is very likely that it can lead to the outside. Xu Renyu speculated.

Han Jiang nodded, glanced back at the underground hut again, and then walked towards the pipe in front of him without hesitation.

5

It was a waterless, dry sewer pipe, and Han Jiang and Xu Renyu scurried through this wide sewer pipe for more than two hundred meters, but they found no trace of the ghost. The dim light and the moisture in the pipes, Han Jiang could now clearly hear the sound of his own heart beating, and he was as frightened as everyone else, but the same great curiosity drove him to keep going, he wanted to see the ghost's face clearly, even if it was a devil's face.

Han Jiang and Xu Renyu walked forward quickly, and suddenly, two pipes, one left and one right, appeared in front of this wide sewer pipe, forming a huge "T" shape with the pipe they were walking, the two stopped, Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang out of breath: "Where should we go?" ”

"I don't know! But I want to find that ghost! ”

"Come on! What does that ghost have to do with us, besides, except for the ghost we met in the pipe at the beginning, we haven't found that ghost again, where do you find that ghost, I think it's better to forget it! ”

"Yes, the white ghost never showed up again, but I could feel that he was near us, even right next to us!"

As soon as Han Jiang's words fell, suddenly, from the pipe on the right, there was a crisp sound of metal impact. The sound of metal crashing produced a terrifying echo in the sewer pipe, and Han Jiang and Xu Renyu's hearts also seemed to be hit hard by something, Han Jiang looked at the dark and damp pipe in front of him, he didn't know what had just happened, what was waiting for him, but he still took two steps and turned to the pipe on the right side that was filled with white water vapor.

"What was the sound just now?" Xu Renyu followed up and asked tremblingly.

"I don't know, it's like the sound of metal colliding." Han Jiang replied in a low voice, at the same time, he began to move his steps cautiously forward, Xu Renyu watched from behind Han Jiang The whole person entered the white water vapor, he also followed, the two people were surrounded by water vapor, the light pillar emitted by the flashlight was in the pipe filled with water vapor, it did not work at all, Han Jiang held the gun, bent slightly, and his whole body maintained a posture of entering the battle at any time, and his heart was still calculating the steps under his feet.

Counting from the moment he turned to this pipeline, when Han Jiang walked fifty steps, he put down the gun in his hand, his body returned to normal, and he stood straight in the water vapor, Xu Renyu didn't know what Han Jiang saw, he walked over to check, and saw that in front of the two of them, a huge iron fence gate suddenly appeared.

"That's where that sound came from." Xu Renyu muttered.

"Yes, the ghost locked us inside." Han Jiang raised a rusty iron lock on the door with his left hand and said disappointedly.

"Try it with a gun!" Xu Renyu reminded Han Jiang.

"Bang!" Han Jiang fired a shot at the big iron lock, but after the bullet hit the big iron lock and flashed a bright spark, it bounced back, Han Jiang hurriedly retreated and dodged, fortunately he dodged in time, otherwise...... Han Jiang shook his head helplessly and said, "This is very dangerous, if you don't get it right, the bullet will bounce back." And the lock is so strong, I've never seen a lock so heavy. Han Jiang noticed that the water flow in this tall pipe was obviously more than the pipe just now, and there was a narrow sidewalk specially built next to the pipe for people to walk, they were standing on this sidewalk at the moment, the water flowed out from under the iron fence gate, all the way forward, but this iron fence gate blocked their way.

Xu Renyu analyzed: "If I am not wrong, these pipelines are all old, and some have even been abandoned, and few people will come here, even workers will rarely come to these pipelines, so in order to prevent someone from straying into the abandoned pipeline, the municipal department of Petersburg has built this iron fence gate here, and I think that after this iron fence gate, I may be able to get out soon." ”

"But how do we get out now, I tried it just now, the distance between these two iron railings is just to get people stuck, in addition, you look at the iron railings are thick enough, at least six or seven centimeters in diameter, although I have practiced some kung fu, but I can't get such a thick railing." Han Jiang complained.

Xu Renyu said unhurriedly: "At this time, my importance is revealed. ”

"What, you have a way?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"Hey, hey! I complained to you when I was in Ilyugin's 'Peter's Hut' that Ilyugin had seized my pipe and the box of matches, and you laughed at me, but I was able to get my treasure back from the table in the surveillance room during my escape. With that, Xu Renyu took out the box of matches from his pocket and said to Han Jiang, "Do you know what is in here?" ”

"What?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"My secret weapon. This box is a special matchbox, from the upper layer it contains ordinary matches, but the lower layer contains a string made of special materials, as long as I take the string out of the box, as soon as this string comes into contact with the air, within thirty seconds, it will spontaneously combust, and the temperature generated by the spontaneous combustion is enough to cut any metal. Xu Renyu said proudly.

"You mean tie this string to the iron railing, let it spontaneously combust, and cut the iron railing." Han Jiang said in surprise.

"That's right, but I don't know if this thing will work after all this toss."

"And this kind of thing? It turns out that our Dr. Xu has been tinkering with these gadgets all day long. Han Jiang said with a smile.

Xu Renyu retorted: "I have a lot of things to do, from all kinds of firearms to self-defense gadgets, I can't do anything, even airplanes and tanks, I can do it, but I haven't had this opportunity." ”

"That's it! Come on! You'll have this chance, get this door open first. Han Jiang urged.

Seeing that Xu Renyu carefully took out the seemingly ordinary string from the matchbox and tied it to an iron railing, Xu Renyu said: "When I came to Petersburg, I expected that we must be more than lucky, and it was useless to escape from prison, so don't you still use it!" ”

Han Jiang silently counted the numbers, when Xu Renyu tied the rope, twenty seconds had passed, and the last ten countdowns came, and when it was thirty seconds, the thin rope suddenly burst into a dazzling fire, and in an instant, the iron railing with a diameter of six or seven centimeters cut a hole in the middle.

After another ten seconds, when the fire was extinguished, Han Jiang suddenly raised his foot and kicked towards the iron railing, the iron railing immediately bent, and a large hole was exposed in the iron fence gate, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu successfully drilled out of the iron fence gate, and the two quickly ran out of this pipe, and entered another pipe, in this pipe, sewage flowed sideways, just when the two of them wondered where to pursue the ghost, Han Jiang was the first to see a faint light.

6

Following the direction of the sewage flowing, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu slowly walked to the place where the light was shining, this was the exit of a sewer pipe, they finally walked out, the sky was not bright outside, but there was already some rare light, Han Jiang noticed that in front of them was a wide river, there were many ice cubes and ice floes floating on the river, and on the river bank, the street lamps were faintly emitting yellow lights.

A cold wind blew, and the two of them were stained with too much moisture in the sewer pipe, and when the cold wind blew, the two couldn't help but tremble, Han Jiang asked Xu Renyu with a slight tremble: "Where is this?" ”

Xu Renyu looked at the surroundings, the river was filled with fog, and he couldn't see the situation on the other side of the river, but when he looked back, he saw the tall golden spire of Peter and Paul Cathedral, Xu Renyu couldn't help but exclaim: "We walked in the sewer pipe all night, and we actually came here?" ”

"Where the hell is this?"

"Peter and Paul Fortress! Have you ever heard such a saying? 'First there was the Peter and Paul Fortress, then there was St. Petersburg,' when Peter the Great defeated the Swedes, seized the Baltic Sea and moved the capital from Moscow here, and Peter the Great built this Peter and Paul Fortress at the confluence of the Neva and the Lesser Neva in order to prevent the Swedes from returning......

"Alright, it's useless for you to tell me so much, where should we go next?" Han Jiang interrupted Xu Renyu's words.

"It's not far from St. Petersburg University, let's go find Tang Feng quickly."

Han Jiang nodded, but as soon as the two of them turned around, Xu Renyu suddenly found that Han Jiang was stunned when he stared at a stone bridge above his head, and Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang puzzled: "What's wrong with you?" ”

Han Jiang didn't answer, but suddenly ran towards the stone bridge, Xu Renyu didn't understand what he meant, so he had to shake his head and pant to follow Han Jiang. Han Jiang ran up to the bridge, and at the end of the bridge was a green gate, Han Jiang quickened his pace and ran towards this green gate, but when the fog cleared, he came to the green gate, but there was nothing here!

Han Jiang pushed the huge green door hard, the heavy green gate did not move at all, Han Jiang looked up at the sculpture on the gate, panted and asked Xu Renyu, "What is the place inside this gate?" ”

"Don't push it, inside this gate is Peter and Paul Fortress."

"Peter and Paul Fortress?"

"That's right! Peter and Paul Fortress. What did you just see? ”

"I saw the ghost again. He's on this bridge! ”

"Nope! No way, why didn't I see it? You must have read it wrong, or you are hallucinating! ”

Hallucination? Han Jiang calmed down and thought about it carefully, he hadn't eaten or rested for a day and a night, escaped from Ilyugin's cell, and walked in this dark, damp and terrifying underground pipeline for so long, could it be ...... Did you really hallucinate? No! No way! "That's where that white ghost disappeared, did he go through the door?" Han Jiang shouted at Xu Renyu again.

Xu Renyu looked at the green gate, and when he heard Han Jiang's words, he shook his head vigorously and said, "Impossible!" No way! It's not dawn yet, it's not yet time for the Peter and Paul Fortress to open, how can that ghost get in? ”

"So it's a ghost, there's nothing a ghost can't do!" Han Jiang also became superstitious.

When Xu Renyu heard this, his eyes looked straight at the green door in front of him, and he thought for a long time before muttering to himself: "Is it really a ghost?" ”

Seeing Xu Renyu's appearance, Han Jiang asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Xu Renyu calmed down a little and asked Han Jiang rhetorically: "Do you know what Peter and Paul Fortress is for?" ”

"Fortress! It's for military defense! Han Jiang said.

"You only know one thing, you don't know the other, then Russia became stronger, Sweden did not pose a threat to Russia at all, the military role of the fortress was greatly reduced, after Peter the Great, this fortress became the most important national prison in Russia, which had imprisoned many important people, in the Tsarist era, as long as you entered this gate, it was difficult to come out again, so people often jokingly called this gate 'the door of death'!

"Death's door?" Han Jiang took a step back, gasped, and looked at the green gate in front of him again.

"You see, opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress is the Winter Palace, and when I was studying in St. Petersburg, I heard people claim to have seen ghosts or ghosts in the area of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Winter Palace at night, some say it is the ghost of the Tsar, others say it is the ghost of a prisoner who died of death." Xu Renyu said, pointing to the Winter Palace on the other side of the Neva River, which shone in the morning light.

"We just arrived in Petersburg and we ran into the legendary 'ghost', and our luck is great!" Han Jiang complained.

"Alright, it was a pure accident to bump into this damn ghost, it's almost dawn, we still have our business, Iryukin is probably searching for the two of us all over the city!"

Han Jiang nodded and walked under the bridge with Xu Renyu, but he still didn't forget to glance back at the green gate.

7

The fog gradually dissipated, the sky was already bright, there were not many pedestrians on the street, Han Jiang vigilantly observed everyone who walked by, he and Xu Renyu left the Peter and Paul Fortress, did not dare to take the main road, and went around into a remote street, Xu Renyu pointed ahead, and whispered to Han Jiang: "Walk from this street, and you will soon be able to go back to our dormitory." But we can't just go back to school, if there's someone from Iryukin, they'll recognize us at a glance. ”

"What do you mean?"

"If only I had a car now!" Xu Renyu sighed.

Han Jiang showed a smile on his face and said, "Isn't it just a car, this is easy to do!" ”

"What can you do?"

"Let's borrow one first."

"Borrow?" Xu Renyu was puzzled.

Han Jiang didn't explain, and walked straight towards a dilapidated Lada car on the side of the street, Xu Renyu seemed to understand what Han Jiang meant, and saw Han Jiang walking to the Lada car, and I don't know what he used, he drummed around the Lada car twice, and the door of the Lada car opened, Xu Renyu witnessed this scene, and stood in place in a daze, Han Jiang squeezed his eyes at him, Xu Renyu took a few steps and got into the Lada car.

"This is what you call 'borrowing'?" Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang rhetorically.

"Isn't this a special case? I'll definitely put him back in place when I'm done with it. Han Jiang said and started the Lada.

"Since it's such a borrowing, why don't you get a better car, get such an old-fashioned broken car, I see that there are several 'Mercedes-Benz' and 'BMW' parked on the street just now!" Xu Renyu complained instead.

"Come on, didn't you get a 'Volga' too? Do you think 'Mercedes-Benz' and 'BMW' are so easy to get? ”

"Alas! It seems that we only have the life of driving classic cars such as "Volga" and "Lada" in Petersburg! ”

"Hmph, you don't understand, now rich people drive classic cars." Han Jiang joked.

Xu Renyu didn't answer again, because they were already very close to the dormitory building where Tang Feng lived, and the two kept looking out of the car, observing every pedestrian on the road.

Han Jiang wanted to park the car at a flower bed not far from the dormitory building, where he could see the gate of the dormitory building, but he was still more than ten meters away from the flower bed, so he stopped the car suddenly, because he saw several strong men in leather trench coats coming out of the dormitory building.

Xu Renyu also saw it, and he exclaimed in the car: "It's broken, Tang Feng must have been discovered by them." ”

Han Jiang didn't speak, he stared at the strong men, and suddenly, he saw Ivanlov walking out of the building with two plainclothes and walking towards their car.

Han Jiang gave Xu Renyu a look, the two of them held their breath, and lay down under the seat, Han Jiang held the gun tightly in his hand, and he was prepared for the worst.

However, Ivanlov did not find Han Jiang and Xu Renyu, he walked directly through the Lada car with plain clothes, and after about ten minutes, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu got up from under the seat, Han Jiang looked at the door of the dormitory, there was a "Peugeot" car, and there were two plainclothes people sitting in it. "Why didn't you see Tang Feng?" Han Jiang muttered to himself after observing for more than ten minutes.

"Tang Feng may have been captured by them." Xu Renyu guessed.

Han Jiang shook his head and said, "Tang Feng waited until dark yesterday and didn't see us come back, with his cleverness, he will definitely detect something, if he deals with Iryujin with a false identity, Iryujin will not do anything to him!" ”

"But I'm worried that in that fake identity, that fake identity can only be bluffed for a while, once Iryujin comes back, Tang Feng is still in trouble." Xu Renyu said worriedly.

Han Jiang was also anxious in his heart, but on the surface he was still very calm, Han Jiang thought about it, and finally said to Xu Renyu: "No matter what, we won't be able to see Tang Feng now." Now it's up to him! ”

"Then we don't care about him?"

"It's not that we don't care, it's our own hard work, if we want to find out Tang Feng's whereabouts, it's useless to rely on the two of us now, we still have to go to Yelena, I believe in Tang Feng's ability, he should be able to persevere." After saying that, Han Jiang started the Lada car again and drove towards Yelena's residence.

8

Han Jiang didn't dare to go directly to Yelena's residence, so he drove the old Lada around the streets of Petersburg a few times before quietly parking the car under Yelena's apartment. He still didn't dare to get out of the car directly to knock on Yelena's door, he still had to observe, he had to make sure that he didn't have a tail behind him, and he also had to make sure that Yelena was still safe here!

In this way, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu starved and sat in the Lada car for most of the day, they watched everyone who appeared near the apartment, analyzed, and judged everyone's identity, until in the evening, Xu Renyu couldn't help it: "Let's just keep consuming?" ”

Han Jiang looked at the door of the apartment building and muttered to himself, "It's strange, why didn't I see Yelena come out all day today, isn't she there?" ”

"It's not normal for people to be in a bad mood and stay at home all day."

"She has to go to the hospital to see Makarov at this time of the day." After Han Jiang finished speaking, he looked at the fourth floor of the apartment again, the window of Yelena's apartment had not yet lit up, and Xu Renyu said impatiently: "Let's just go up and have a look!" ”

"Didn't see her come out? There is no light in the room? Could it be ......" Han Jiang didn't dare to think about it anymore, he waved his hand at Xu Renyu and whispered, "Wait!" ...... again"

Han Jiang suddenly lost his voice, because he found that the lights were on in Yelena's apartment, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, "But why didn't she go to the hospital today?" Didn't see her car either? Han Jiang muttered again.

"Come on, we've been observing here for a day, and we haven't found any suspicious people, and now the lights in her apartment are on, what are we waiting for?" Xu Renyu urged.

Han Jiang didn't want to wait any longer, he and Xu Renyu got out of the car and cautiously came to the fourth floor, Han Jiang made a silent gesture to Xu Renyu, he stood quietly outside the door, listening to the movement in the house, the house was very quiet, there was no sound, Han Jiang asked Xu Renyu to hide outside the door first, pulled out his pistol, opened the safe, and then gently rang the doorbell.

There was a sound of footsteps in the house, Han Jiang still didn't hear whose footsteps it was, he hid in the shadows outside the door, prepared for the worst, the door opened, and the lights in the house were scattered on the corridor outside, Han Jiang didn't move, he was still hiding in the shadows, the people in the house felt something, they also pulled out their guns, grabbed them with both hands, and slowly moved out of the door, Han Jiang saw the shadow projected on the ground, and his heart was shocked, he knew that there would be another fierce fight next.

Han Jiang jumped out of the shadows suddenly, raised his gun and pointed it at the man, the man reacted quickly, and also aimed the gun at Han Jiang, the two were deadlocked for two seconds, Han Jiang recognized that the person who was holding the gun with him was Yelena, he took a long breath, put down the gun in his hand, and Yelena also recognized Han Jiang, put away the gun, and said angrily: "Han Jiang, do we have to be like this every time we meet?" ”

"It's not my territory, I have to guard against it! By the way, aren't you suspended? Where did the guns come from? Han Jiang suddenly remembered.

"And where did you get your gun?" Yelena glared at Han Jiang and asked rhetorically.

"Hehe, my gun, look whose gun this is?" As he spoke, Han Jiang threw the gun in his hand to Yelena, who quickly recognized the gun and exclaimed: "'Pit Viper' PK 9mm pistol, how can you have this gun?" ”

"Hehe, how could I have it? Grab it! Han Jiang laughed.

"You snatched it from Iryugin!" Yelena asked.

"Okay, let me ask you, Ilyugin hasn't come to you, has he?"

"No, but Ivanlov called me several times, asking me if I saw you, and saying that if I saw you, report it to him!"

"That's good."

"Aren't you afraid that I will report to Ivanov?"

"I know you won't!" Han Jiang smiled at Yelena, who glared at Han Jiang helplessly. "Come, I'll introduce you to someone first." Speaking, Han Jiang summoned Xu Renyu into the house and introduced Yelena, Xu Renyu greeted Yelena in Russian, and Yelena said in Chinese: "Long admire Dr. Xu's name." ”

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Yelena said to Han Jiang: "I also want to introduce you to someone, of course, I think you should already be very familiar with it." With that, Yelena introduced Han Jiang and Xu Renyu into a bedroom, and Han Jiang found that it was Makarov who was lying on the bed in the bedroom.

9

When Makarov saw Han Jiang, he greeted warmly: "Han, oh! And Dr. Xu, it's such a pleasure to meet you! ”

"Me too, I didn't expect to see you so soon! Are you okay? Han Jiang asked with concern.

"Oh! My body is still very hard, and I can't die for a while! "Makarov is still optimistic. Yelena said to Han Jiang on the side: "Father heard that you came that night, and yesterday I was clamoring to be discharged from the hospital and come to see you, so I brought him here!" ”

"No wonder, I said I waited downstairs for most of the day, didn't I see you go to the hospital today?"

"What, you're spying on me?" Yelena said angrily again.

"It's not to spy on you, it's to guard against your Colonel Ilyugin!"

"Hmph, what's the matter, you didn't listen to my advice and broke down with Ilyugin, right? Do you remember the night before when you left, I used to say that you would definitely come to me again, but I didn't expect you to come so embarrassed so soon. Yelena sneered. At the same time, he found that Han Jiang and Xu Renyu were dirty, and asked, "What's wrong with you guys?" ”

"What's wrong? Hehe, drill the sewers! Han Jiang said.

"Drill into the sewers?" Yelena was puzzled.

"It's all thanks to your Colonel Ilyugin!" Han Jiang still has a hippie smile.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Grabbed a gun and drilled into the sewers? Yelena asked with concern.

"Ivanlov didn't tell you?" Han Jiang asked.

"He didn't say it, and I didn't dare to ask him!"

"Alas! It's hard to say, I'll wash it with you, you don't mind! Han Jiang asked with a big grin.

Yelena said helplessly: "I have harbored you, a fugitive, will I mind you washing?" Hurry up and wash it, it's all stinky! ”

Han Jiang had to inch in and said, "Do you still have anything to eat?" We're both starving! Also, do you have men's clothes here? ”

Yelena shook her head helplessly, and went to the kitchen to prepare food for the two of them, Xu Renyu laughed quietly: "I found you here, you really don't think of yourself as an outsider?" ”

"That's no way, as the old saying goes, rely on your parents at home and rely on your friends when you go out!" Han Jiang joked.

After Han Jiang and Xu Renyu washed, Yelena found two Makarov's clothes for them to change into, and then prepared a table full of caviar pancakes, pickled cucumbers, beetroot soup and other sumptuous dinners for them, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu were hungry, devoured for a while, and ate almost, Makarov also got out of bed, walked over, and asked them with concern why they were so down. So, Han Jiang briefly recounted how they went to find Iryukin, and then escaped through the sewer pipe, sneaked back to the dormitory, and found that Tang Feng was also very lucky. But Han Jiang omitted the part where he encountered the "ghost" in the sewer pipe, because he didn't think it had anything to do with their mission.

"You've made things bigger, and you're still on fire with our people! No wonder Ivanlov they want to arrest you! Yelena said worriedly.

"I don't want to do that either! It's all a misunderstanding! Han Jiang argued.

"I have long advised you not to go to Iryukin, now you have dragged me in, I can't tell the headquarters!" Yelena was really angry.

Han Jiang had to comfort Yelena: "It's okay, if it really doesn't work, I'll find Iryukin, or go to your headquarters to turn myself in, I will say that the whole thing has nothing to do with you." ”

"You think I'm a coward?" Yelena was even more angry when she heard Han Jiang say that.

"That's it! Let's stop fighting, now that the matter has come to this, it's useless to complain. Makarov finally spoke, and Han Jiang and Yelena stopped talking, waiting for Makarov to express his opinion.

Makarov said: "The primary problem now is not Ilyugin, it's useless for us to explain to Iryukin, as long as we seize the handle of our enemy and report it to the headquarters, we will naturally gain the trust of the headquarters, and at the same time, we can also recover the jade interstitial!" Therefore, there are three thorny problems for us now, one is to find Tang Feng as soon as possible; The second is to prevent the jade interstitial from leaving Petersburg, in my judgment, although the jade interstitial screen was stolen, it will not leave Petersburg so soon, Ilyugin will track it down, if necessary, we can also remind Ilyugin; Third, although Ilyugin is not the crux of the problem, we still have to guard against him coming to us for trouble. This guy isn't a fuel-efficient lamp either! ”

When Han Jiang heard Makarov say, he couldn't help but admire it in his heart: "Jiang is still old and spicy!" Makarov quickly grasped the essence of the problem from the complicated situation. ”

"You mean it's not safe here anymore?" Yelena quickly guessed what Makarov meant.

Makarov nodded and said: "Yes, no matter whether Han Jiang has a tail behind them or not, you are not safe here now, it is small for Ilyugin's people to come to you for trouble, if those men in black also come to us for trouble, it will be really annoying!" ”

"Since it's not safe anymore, where do we go now?" Han Jiang asked.

"Why don't you go there?" Yelena suggested.

Makarov pondered for a moment and said: "Yelena, you are not safe here, and I will not be safe there, I want to come and go, there is only one place to live temporarily." ”

"Where?" Everyone asked in unison.

"My son's apartment!" Makarov said firmly.

"What? Victor's apartment? Yelena's mind immediately conjured up the horrific image of Victor being killed in the bathtub.